I got nothing.

Ever go to work, school, extracurricular activities, heck, even visits with friends and think, yep, I am just a giant blob of unproductive exhaustion.

Military spouses tend to fly through their days at 150 miles per hour, tending to house, kids, husband, school, job and all the little tasks each of those items requires. Eventually, you try to slow down but a body in motion, well, it stays in motion. And when it stops, everything flying at warp speed behind it, keeps going.

Until it crashes into you. Leaving you in a heap of to do lists, unfinished class projects, piles of summer camp laundry, school supplies to label and boxes that still have not been unpacked from your PCS – last year.

You know it is all sitting there. You know it isn’t going away. But still, you just can’t.

Motivation and even any care you had to finish it, is gone.

Ya got nothing.

It’s ok. We get it. It’s that time of year, when summer boredom kicks in for the kids, summer frustration sets in for you as you try to entertain them and still get things done, PCS is either over or dragging out just too long and the start of school is right around the corner. Hooray for school! Only after all the shopping, labeling, arguing over dress codes and paying for books, labs and sports gear has faded into memory.

It’s ok. Take a day. Collapse onto the couch and watch a day’s worth of mindless, recorded television while the kids scream and make a giant mess.

Then tomorrow, get back up and tackle it all, piece by piece. Because, you got something.

You’re talented, smart and ready to take on the world. You just needed a moment to mourn how little you thought you had in order to see how much you are.

You’ve got everything. Now, make the most of it.