In our family-we seem to have no time to be tired or
sick.
Life just rolls and keeps us busy and on our feet.
Well last night we all crashed. Literally. Had a big day
doing a million Fall things at home and then made a big sausage stew and had a
great movie planned out for the evening. We were all looking forward to the
evening. We drove up to that cottage for a late dinner.
When we arrived at 9pm for our late dinner we all juts
kinds stepped out of car and sat on couches. Hubby heated up the dinner. We
juts lounged. He has more energy than all of us put together lately.
(A far cry from a year ago where he would always be the
one to sleep. Poor guy all alone on Saturday night.)
That’s how tired we all are. Exhausted. Our weeks are so
big and busy-like most people we know. We crashed.
I am on a med for 4 weeks now that is lethal. It is for a
slight high blood pressure I have and it’s symptoms are awful. One is chronic
tiredness. I slept 14 hrs and woke up exhausted!
But I truly have no time for this tiredness or symptoms. Literally
if I mention any symptom to my family they just say ”oh really” and walk away!And
I get it..it doesn’t even hurt my feelings at this point. I know we have no
time for this.
Whenever one of us gets sick we just kind of ignore it
and hope it goes away really quickly. It’s a good method-try not to pay
attention to it and it usually disappears .With five of us in a home there
always seems to be one aliment or another..besides Chase who likes to discuss
his health as much as possible-the rest of us just pretty much never speak
about how we feel unless really necessary.
Scoliosis has been harder to ignore clearly
But all the back pains and headaches and colds and
stomach flus and period cramps, and frozen shoulders and sprained ankles etc….they
get so little attention in this house they tend to fade away until the next
time.
So no one really cares too much about my chronic
tiredness as they are all too tired themselves to care.
I think we will all do really well with our upcoming
beach vacation in November! First time in a decade that hubby and I will
replace our usual couple vacation with this family one….and I think we will all
need it. My Mom is coming tooJ
I intend to enjoy every lazy minute of it. I will shut my
mouth, try to turn off my nagging, stop caring about if they are on Facebook or
not, soak in the sun, read a lot, lie by the beach and the pool, have a lot of
good food and great conversations and just SLEEP. And I will try to be romantic
in the evenings if I can find the energy given that Hubby and I have our own
room! Yay!
I really pray there is lots of nice hot sun. This family deserves
a few rays this year. I hope we find them there. And I hope I can just relax
and take it easy. No stress, no drama…just fun as a family. Keep the hurricanes
away, the sun shining. Keep illness far away-and cozy beds near. Lets see if I
can challenge myself and only say “yes” to the kids all week or “sure whatever”
wouldn’t that be great if I could do that??????
I can’t wait.
And surprisingly we are happy to give up our alone
vacation for these crazy teens of ours. We need to soak them all in for the
next few precious years even if half the time they drive us crazy.
After that? It will be juts you and baby for many many
years. Let’s make sure we take full advantage of the lives we have right now…and
that includes three teens. Our bebes.
