This past week was an incredibly long one. The kind of week where you begin to wonder what is going to happen next... We started the week with sickness. The kids had not been sick since they first came to visit us six months ago. I think that's a pretty good record. And, they got over their illnesses pretty quickly, so I shouldn't complain too much... but, still it made for a miserable three days.
The day they were finally feeling better I learned about some big issues Lynnae has already had in school. Yes, school had only been in session for two weeks. Overall, this was one of Lynnae's most difficult weeks here. She really has a lot that she is dealing with right now, and she's starting to realize that the changes in her life have permanence. If I were her, I probably would have had a difficult week too. However, I'm not her - I'm the one that she was taking it out on. So, that added to my fun all week long too. To top it off, I also started my monthly hormone-induced emotional rollercoaster on Wednesday. I started to feel like I was defeated.
On Thursday, the day after our school discoveries, we had a plumbing disaster. The toilet valve in our master bathroom failed. I took less than two minutes to figure out what was happening after it started, but in that two minutes our bathroom turned into a small pond. Fortunately, I was able to stop the water from hitting the carpet thanks to a pile of towels that I had not put away right outside the bathroom door. Unfortunately, it was too much water to get up fast enough. I used every towel in our house to absorb it. And when I was done, I started to hear "rain". So I looked outside and saw that it wasn't raining... and realized that the "rain" was in my house. I ran downstairs to see water dripping from the door frame inbetween our downstairs bathroom and laundry room. Then I had another scramble to find buckets and trashcans to stop the disaster. During all this, I received a call from the school nurse. However, since it was only 20 minutes until school let out for the day, and I was worried about making it in time to pick her up at all, I ignored the call until I got home later. (Lynnae was fine.)
When Andy came home later, he cut holes in our drywall to investigate the damage. We did indeed have standing water above our laundry room, but it doesn't appear to have spread from there. Andy did a thorough job of getting the water down and doing an initial dry. We'll leave the holes open for a week or so before we seal them off.
Of course, all of this meant that my house was a wreck. This was unfortunate because we had a CASA visit the next day for the kids. I woke up and started cleaning, and kept cleaning until I left to pick Lynnae up from school at 1. (Her school has early release on Fridays.) The visit went well. Afterwards I looked at Andy, (who took a vacation day after the ordeal on Thursday,) and told him I didn't feel right. I had to run to the grocery store to pick up some supplies, and decided to get us Jamba Juices. They were so slow at Jamba Juice, I was standing there for 24 minutes. (They made 5 smoothies between Andy's and mine... which I had ordered at the same time.) By the time I got home I felt horrible. I couldn't really function to make dinner so Andy picked up Taco Bell. We'd also had pizza the night before due to the plumbing incident. This was a week of eating poorly.
On Saturday morning I really was feeling bad. We went to our friend's house anyway. And I am so glad that we did. Angie and I went to go see Get Smart, and the time we spent at their house was the only good part of the week. However, I definitely now have a full blown cold.
Between the illnesses, the difficulty from Lynnae, the meetings with the teacher, the water in our walls, and my hormones... I felt like I couldn't take anymore. I actually woke up on Friday morning and told Andy that I didn't want to do Friday. I asked if he could make it skip so that we could go straight to Saturday. Then I remembered the movie Click, and decided that might not be a good idea. All I can say is, I feel like a survivor for making it through the week. And, I'm expecting lots of good things to happen next week after all the ordeals we survived!!!
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