Snow!

This is our third snow this year and I am officially on orders from my cousin to make my kids quit praying for snow. The 2 younger ones have really been enjoying this. The bottom picture is a tiny windowsill snowman my daughter made from last week's leftover snow and then last night, it snowed again and the top picture is of our birdfeeder in the snow today. So, we did one day of school and now we have a snow day. :-)

BTW

Thanks for all the comments, prayers and warm thoughts. I appreciate every one of you all.

School?

We're going to attempt to get back to school today. I don't know how it will go, but we're going to give it a try. I will at least make the kids do all they can without my input. I probably should have started that some time last week, but I didn't. Oh well. I'm going to work my way through my list of things to do and see how many of them I can check off. If you've been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know I'm a list-maker. I think it's funny that blogger doesn't recognize the words blog or blogger in it's spell check. You'd think it would, wouldn't you?

Still going through the motions.

I'm working and during breaks in the work, I'm trying to distract myself by playing the Sims and watching "Whose Line is It Anyway?" but it's not working. I'm feeling very sad tonight. One week since the funeral. I do not feel that I can cope with anything and I've got so much to do. Work, school, writing thank you notes, arranging for my Mom to see a back specialist, worrying about Mom, worrying about the kids and housework. And yes, I do know what they say about worrying.

Working this weekend.

I'll be working this weekend, trying to make up at least a little bit of the time I lost during the last 2 weeks. I really am getting so tired of medical transcription and want to find another job, in another field, but I'd still like to work at home. Not too tall an order is it?

Thanks everyone for the supportive comments on my blog. I really appreciate each one of you.

We did.

We ventured out to go skating last night and we went to a recreation center today and had a good time. Our lives are gradually resuming. I guess it's what we need to do, but it feels kind of weird. I think Reba McIntire said it best when she said "I guess the world didn't stop for my broken heart." Life goes on when you would expect it to just stop or something. I don't know.

Day 6.

I'm hanging in here.  I just had a big tearful session in the shower and while doing laundry because that's what I do if I'm not reading, blogging, watching TV - basically whenever I have a minute to think.  We've accepted condolences from the UPS driver today.  He apparently made deliveries to Mom and Dad's house frequently.  Yesterday my Mom got a huge stack of cards in the mail.  The one that was the most touching to me was from Dad's eye doctor.  My Dad was facing going blind from macular degeneration, bravely and with a sense of humor.  His doctor wrote how touched he'd been by Dad's charm and optimism and how much of an honor it was to treat such a man.  The man who delivered Dad's oxygen supplies cried in my Mom's arms yesterday.  Mom has been a trooper, surprising me with her strength.  Her brother and sisters have surrounded her and are taking good care of her.

My husband and kids are distracting themselves with Wii Sports Resort, something they've been saving for and bought this week.  It's been a God-send.

I'm trying to decide whether to take the kids skating tonight as usual or attend a leadership team meeting with the big homeschool group I am a part of.  I should go to the meeting, but I'm not sure I can face an hour in the car, each way, thinking.  (I wouldn't have my kids with me as a welcome distraction.) 

Okay.

I'm doing okay today, not exactly good, but at this point, I'll take "okay".  I've been watching season 1 of NCIS, which is nice and distracting, so that's good.  I also worked last night, which wasn't distracting enough and left me entirely too much time to think, so that was bad, and I have to work again tonight.  We're not doing school right now and I don't know when we'll start again.  Fortunately, we have some leeway, since the state says we have to do 180 days of school and there are 365 days in the year.  We'll get it done.  Eventually.