Crying Tired

Most of you will know what I'm talking about...you know how exhausted you feel after you have had a really hard cry. Your head is throbbing and your cheeks still feel the burn from the salt. Your muscles are tired and you just want to sink into some warm blankets to give into sleep.

That's how I feel today, minus the salty cheeks. I haven't been crying, it's just the anxiety over so much chaos. We were so blessed to have friends put us up for a couple of days (and cook for us!), but the disruption in routine was still tough. We were back and forth to the house, feeding pets and picking up forgotten necessities. The kids had to be shuttled back and forth to school (when they desperately wanted to ride their bus.) The dog barked like crazy and had to be watched like a hawk (it's one thing to clean up poop on my own carpet...) Plus, we still had normal things to attend to and the first three days of the week are crazy with tutoring, piano, prayer meetings, dance class, etc.

After the construction workday ended yesterday, the contractor said that the drywall tapers probably wouldn't be able to get here until Monday. This was the first time that we had to say, "That just isn't going to work for us." Leaving the house the way it is until then isn't an option and neither is moving it all again in five days. I haven't heard a resolution to the situtation, yet, but of course my phone died while we were gone and I can't track down the charger...