Sometimes, I just wish I could take care of myself/my immediate family and no one else. But I care about others and I also want to do good in the world. Plus, I do believe that we get back what we put out into the world. So, it’s good for all of us. But it is also totally exhausting to do it all, sometimes.
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Communicating while sleep-deprived and utterly overwhelmed can be difficult to do, especially to do it kindly.
God, guide us, please. Make us well and keep us safe and whole and together. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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There’s nothing quite like looking so forward to seeing your husband, and then ending up screaming at each other as soon as he gets home, because he’s tired and you’ve been beyond your capacities for months on your own already.
What great irony.
Basically, tonight sucks something horrible.
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It is a very difficult psychological experience to feel a strong desire to be away from one’s own child – to feel a need for space. It is a sense of helplessness and anger, topped off with intense guilt for even feeling a need for a rest from the present company.
And yet it gets all the worse when one doesn’t ever getthat time apart.
Yup. It really, really sucks.
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I want to go to sleep. My baby wants to run around and scream and attack me with joyful slaps and jumps and stomps. Now, I am crushed and exhausted and miserable and angry, and I want to go to sleep.
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Our shower broke the other morning. The AC started leaking into the living room today. There are a few hundred flies perched atop the grass all around the wood piled next to my car. Our backyard is a total and horrible jungle of grass and weeds (and bugs) totally out of control. We can’t use it. It isn’t even safe to walk through it. I had to today in order to deal with clearing out the AC drain pipe, and I ended up with rashes and scratches all over my legs, everywhere my gardening boots didn’t cover. There are ants all over the kitchen countertops. And our house is a mess, and I’ve no idea how to restore order to any of it anytime soon.
God, guide us, please. Keep us safe, make us well and whole, and help us to be kind and loving with one another. Resolve these issues for the better, please. Release me of the constant irritants that attack me all day, every day, and help me to sleep at night and get true rest. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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It looks like God really is looking after our family. We’ve been having such a hard time in general, but especially around not getting to spend time together these past two years. And it seems like He may have just arranged for a paid month+ of family time for us. Things have yet to come to fruition, but it seems to be a good chance of our having at least a couple weeks, if not more than double that together, all at once. We actually would get to take a family vacation. Maybe even have a sort of honeymoon… wow. That would be really cool.
Thank you, God, for this family and this life. Please, make us well, keep us safe and whole, and help us to be together and to be loving and joyful with one another. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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I still want to go somewhere. But it would be great not to have to spend a bunch of money for a hotel or airbnb at that somewhere. Hopefully, I can find some people who have extra space for us to come stay and visit in the near future. And, in the meantime, perhaps I’ll still take a shortened trip to somewhere direct. I’d really like to go visit DC before July fourth this year, see it with all the hubbub and anticipation of our country’s 250th anniversary of independence. (Way cool, by the way. We even got to see some of the founding documents recently, which was totally awesome. Especially the draft copy with edits written all over it! That was awesome!) Hoping my husband will end up with a few days off, and he can come join us in the explorations for one day. But we have to see how this week goes for him first. Hopefully, it will go really well, and he’ll be able to take the mental day to spend with us next week in DC(!). Fingers crossed!
But also, probably still will go, even if he can’t. Just might stop a night with him afterward, if that works for him. And, again, if not, we’ll just enjoy the trip and then come home.
Thank you, God, for this life and my husband and daughter. Help us to be kind. Make us well and whole, and keep us safe, please. Grant that my husband do well in his work always. Help him to be his best self. In your name, I pray. Amen.
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She fights me and climbs on me and literally hits on me. But, the moment I set her on the ground to play instead of go to sleep, she freaks out and starts crying intensely.
So, you are ready to go to sleep, then…
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He guided us clearly yesterday. I am trusting him to guide us clearly today, too.
Thank you for everything, God. Please, keep us safe, make us well and whole, and guide us clearly. Help my husband to do well, as you made him to do. In your name, we pray. Amen.
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