I hate sleepless nights!

It's 5 a.m. Sunday morning and I'm still awake, not sure why sleep didn't come for me tonight.  I just got up and cleaned out my closet and drawers of clothes I don't need.  I left Mat a note and told him to come get me during Sunday School so I could get to church for the third hour.  He tried, but I have no recollection of it.  I hate having my sleep schedule so whacked out.

We've had a super week, made lots of progress toward finishing up the sheetrock and mudding so we can paint.  There was so much mudding to do to try do cover up the damage done by removing wall paper.  So.  Much. Wallpaper!  I'm hoping that by the end of the week we have most of the electrical taken care of and we are priming and painting.  After that, the dominoes will fall pretty quickly.

A random Aspen in the Teton Valley, Idaho

I've been amazed at the help we've received from so many people!  Our friends just show up and ask what they can do to help.  Yesterday our bishop stopped by to see what we had for the dump because he was going anyway.  Another couple showed up and said they had 45 minutes and asked what they could do.  Mat put them on sanding the mud.  I removed many of the doors and took them downstairs to get them out of the way and get them ready to be painted.  These kind gestures make all the difference in a project like this.  There are so many moving parts, and they all seem to get the attention they need.  I'm grateful for people who have the skills and ambition, and use it for good.  I'm also grateful for the food that has been brought for us!  I find that I have energy to do things for about 2 hours a day, then I'm wiped out and have to stop.  I'm still doing my treatments regularly, I'm still dealing with side effects.  Even though I look "normal" and I'm cheerful most of the time, I struggle.  

My heart has been hyper-focused on a situation we have with one of the kids.  I've spent so much of my parenting life worrying about this child.  I could see pretty early on that he would have challenges to face that would be difficult to understand, for him and us.  Despite all of that, we know LOVE is the only answer to get us through the hard times ahead.  We started going to counseling which I think will be the best way to help us work through our different opinions and ideas.  I'm praying we come out stronger on the other end.