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Normal… what’s that?

As I sit here this morning, Troy has taken the kids to school and gone to work for the day. I’m getting ready to go to the nursery at church to watch the babies so their mothers can go to a Bible Study. And while sitting here, I wonder what normal is. For the most of the first half of the year, it was getting up, getting Bryce to school and Deanna to pre-school, going to the hospital to sit with Ryan while Troy went to work. If it was my night to stay, I would be at the hospital for around 48 hours straight only to come home to spend time with Bryce and Deanna, get up the next day and do it all over again. It’s hard to believe that now Ryan is back to normal – the only way you can tell he’s been sick is his hair is very short. Every day it gets longer and it looks like it is starting to curl at the ends. Only time will tell on that.

So what is normal now? I have no idea. I try to get housework completed and laundry done, but to be honest I don’t want to do it. It seems I have gone and gone and all I want to do is sit down and do absolutely nothing. And that’s not good health wise for me right now. I’m still on medications for high blood pressure and I really need to get this extra weight off. UGH! Normal it seems right now is getting up, getting the kids up and in the shower and ready for school, getting Troy up so he can go to work, and doing housework. And I will admit that I fail every day at the housework part.

I’m trying to get out of the house more – like I said earlier, I work at the nursery on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday nights. I go to Scouts on Tuesday nights (we started last week). I’m going to a training class on Thursday (more at a later date). But it seems hard to go.

While Ryan was in the hospital so much, I had a girl’s night out with a couple of friends. The one question that still sticks in my mind is “How does all this feel?” My answer: “I will disconnected from every thing – my life revolves around the hospital.  etc.” Now, I’m trying to get back into the swing of things, and I’m not sure how. I know that God is with me and provides me strength when I need it. I have to remember that all the time because He has been with us through it all.

Please forgive my ramblings this morning. It seems, to me at least, that this is the only place I can be honest with myself. Thank you for listening to a woman who has had a very hard year.

God bless you all!

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Troy and Victoria Harrison