It was a long week

Last week was one of the longest our family has experienced in a very long time. When the week began, I was scheduled to work three days, but I ended up working all day, everyday. Tuesday was one of the longest days we've had in a long time. I went straight from working at school to volunteering at school by being in the library for the school book fair. Then we had two separate parent teacher conferences. During the book fair, my mother called to let me know that her best friend had passed away. We had been told the day before that hospice had been called in, and I'm glad that her suffering at the very end was rather short. It was also at the book fair that my sister called to let me know my cousin's husband (only 28 years old) had been taken to the e/r with stroke like symptoms. Fortunately, we learned two days later that apparently it was a rare form of a severe headache and he should be fine. That evening about 10, my sister texted me. I couldn't imagine who could be texting me so late. Normally my sister wouldn't, but on the other side of my family a cousin had let her know that yet another cousin's husband had been rushed to the e/r with chest pains. Fortunately he too appears to be okay, but I'll be honest, it was a very long day. At first I was finding myself thinking how unlucky our family was, but ultimately I decided that no, we were indeed very lucky. Both Eric & Russ should be fine and we are so grateful! JR had a major social studies project due last week, and my husband helped him a great deal with that. I managed to squeeze in the normal responsibilities of cooking dinner and doing laundry, and even managed to get everyone packed so we could leave after school Friday to head for my in-laws for an early Thanksgiving. My husband managed to take two wrong turns before we even left the area (this did not instill confidence in his driving for the evening!) and it was nearly 10:30 that night before we got there. To say that I was exhausted is an understatement! We had a wonderful dinner with the family, and after church and brunch this morning we were back on our way home. It was an absolutely miserable drive home (it rained fairly hard most of the trip), but we made it safely, and we are all looking forward to such a short week. We have so many fun plans next weekend, and we have so very many things for which to be thankful!