Still Standin

The last few days have been a crazy whirlwind. Most of our things are now on their way to Mississippi, we are now sleeping on borrowed beds, using borrowed lamps and tables, etc. Lily had a very hard time with all the change, but now that our house is somewhat back to normal she is somewhat back to her normal self.

I missed a couple of school deadlines, because I was living on no sleep and had so much going on and someone was screaming and crying so much, anyways, I doesn't look like I am going to be able to pull of my normal 100% in the two classes I am currently taking. Doesn't look like I will be getting A's. Still what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I am taking the position that sometimes just passing is OK. This week I have a final project and a final paper, next week two finals and then I am done with school until we get settled in Mississippi.

It is times like these that makes me realize how very much I love my family. Each of us has strengths and weaknesses but together we are a great team. I think that all the moving and traveling has given us the chance to really know each other and we seem to be able to work as a team. Mandy is going to be 16 next month and she is such an amazing girl is so many ways. I am especially proud of the fact that she is able to pull it together and really chip in and help the family. It is nice that she is smart enough to understand what needs to be done and I don't have to constantly delegate things to her, she can assess the situation and participate in the solution all on her own.

Lily doesn't handle change well, having people come in and take all her things, seeing the house empty, all that was very difficult for her. Now that we have filled it back up with the borrowed stuff she is better. She is starting to settle back into her routine. She has been sleeping in a regular bed. At first she refused to even allow her favorite blanket, pillow and stuffed bear to be set on the bed. So I let her sleep on an air mattress on the floor, we all slept on air mattresses for one night, the day they picked up our stuff-we had to wait until the next day for them to deliver the borrowed beds. She liked the air mattress but not the bed, so I let her sleep on her air mattress next to the bed. I looked in on her before I went to bed, she had stripped herself naked (she does that a lot) and she was sleeping on the bed. I guess she changed her mind. So Lily spent her first night in a bed, it went well. Now my sweet baby is potty trained and sleeping in a bed, maybe someday she will learn to make it threw the day without a screaming fit? For the last few days we couldn't even make it through a book without a screaming fit about something. At one point she screamed so much she started to loose her voice.

Back to my school work.