Handling setbacks, any advice?

[Scott1701]

HP,
Sorry to hear about all of the nutsyness at your place.

I'm with the chill out types. I've been in the rollcoaster here for the last couple of years, things look good for a bit then back down. Now we're kinda in an up cycle. She's been feeling tired for a long time, we're talking months, where she would take two and three hour naps on both Saturday and Sunday. This has been tough, as I don't know what her energy level will be at any time. She's been going to the Dr for checks, they've emliminated diabetes, thyroid and something which I can't remember. She went in for an overnight sleep study, to check for apnea earlier this month and she will get the results next month. This last weekend she made it through both days without a nap and had energy Sunday night to work on the kiddo's room and do some laundry. We had a busy weekend too, good friends took us to "Les Miserables" and we hung out with their family. They, by the way have 3 girls like you and unfortunately the children reinforced our decision to just have one child, you are a brave woman handling your brood day in and day out. We're wimps in that area. Sunday we had our ongoing couples group at our house for the afternoon. I was on house cleaning and food duty, while she did the religion thing in the am. It went well, but she was also not tired at the end of it. So I'm giving her major kudos for her work on this, we also had a quickie on Sunday too, so that's helping me.

So just hang on and ride out the path. Your hubby seems like he is the batton down the hatches and barrel on through type. Keep in mind what you are going through, father, sister moving, job change are ALL on the top of the list of life's biggest stressor and you have several of them at once.

So take a deep breath, hug the little ones, hug the spouse and check in with your cycber friends here and we'll help get you through.

Scott
-Who is dealing with the unnatural weather here in Mn. We had RAIN, RAIN here in January when we should be having our wonderful 20 below weather. It's just not right.