Better

For the last several days, I have been in a constant state of stress. I am not normally a stressed out person, so this was very different for me. I don't like stress. It does crazy things to my body. It all started from about the time we made the offer on the house. I was stressed because I didn't know if they would accept it. In addition to that, I knew we had Soo much to do to get the house ready to put on the market. In addition to that, Bryce's birthday party was Saturday night and I had a lot to do to get ready for that. Josh got home early on Friday and immediately we got to working. We worked solid through the weekend. We dropped to bed at night completely exhausted. Unfortunately for me, being so busy during the day doesn't allow my brain to process things. This is unfortunate because that means that as soon as I stop working (aka: while I'm trying to go to sleep) my brain has all this catching up to do. So I would lay in bed, physically exhausted for hours unable to go to sleep. This is frustrating. We put out a call on Thursday for friends and family to come and help if they were able. We got one friend come and park his trailer so we could load up some burnable items that were "junking" up our side yard. My father in law came and did a couple drywall repairs. That was it. I won't go further than that. I'm very thankful for the help we did get. But....

Anyway, Josh and I got a lot done over the weekend. More than I imagined we would. However, Monday I was still stressed out. Our house was officially on the market and things were not done. I called my friend Christine and she dropped everything that she had to do that day and came to my rescue. I was still stressed. We worked hard until about noon and then we decided to take the kids out to Burger King. Here's where things get a little more interesting. Upon returning home, I put the girls down for their nap. I then went in to the boys' room to put Jayden down for his nap. I noticed that there was a milk jug that had been full of water sideways in their room. It was a brand of milk that I don't buy. Their window had been open and I thought maybe our neighbor boys had thought it would be funny to throw it in while we were gone. I didn't think it was funny. Then I noticed that there were two big rocks in their room as well. Okay...whatever. Annoying, yes. I figured I'd talk to them later about it and kind of shrugged it off. Later that night after Josh got home, I went to peek out our window shades and noticed a crack in our window pane. What the heck? I pulled open the shade only to discover that our outside window pane was completely shattered. Josh came running in at my exclamation. We looked outside and realized that there were two or three big rocks under our window in addition to all the broken glass. We're 98% sure that it was our neighbor boys. Josh left a note on their door about it...but we haven't heard from the parents yet. Add another thing to our list of things to do.

Today has been better. We've gotten all of the big stuff done and we're mostly in a mantainance faze. Maintainance is easier. Still a lot of work. But easier. I actually got to have some down time today and last night and it really did me some good. I think I'm back to almost my normal self. So far our house has been on the market 2 days and not one single call about it. Kind of disappointing. But I feel so strongly that God is leading us in this direction that I'm not worried yet. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go overdose on chocolate milk, banana cake and whipped cream.