One of those weeks

You ever have one of those weeks where it feels like one more thing will just be the straw that breaks the camel's back....and then that one more thing happens?

I'm there. This week I sat down to do some back of the envelope calculations about next year's daycare costs vs. what I am likely to earn teaching...yeah, so that leaves us $4K in the hole from daycare alone, let alone my salary not contributing anything to cover other household costs. That's just depressing. I am not someone who wants to be home full-time with kiddos, but I can't say that I can justify putting them in daycare to lose money so I can do a job that I'm not so thrilled with either.

Then, we have a major family event in the works with my father-in-law's parkinsons which has taken a sudden and dramatic turn for the worse. Over the course of a few weeks he has gone from fairly functional, living a regular life, to hospitalized and now in rehab and unlikely to be able to come home - can't walk, feed himself or even, it seems, think straight anymore. I so feel for my mother-in-law. Her first husband died of cancer in his 50's and I don't think, when she remarried 10 years ago, she ever thought this marriage would also ask so much of her. She is a young 72 with a lot of life left in her (her own mother is still alive at 103) So we are all feeling overwhelmed and sad for both of them.

Now, here I am home for the day and waiting for our final windows to be installed. We decided to have two in-wall, ancient air conditioners removed and replaced with picture windows. The one upstairs went fine. Downstairs brought with it rotted wall studs, a colony of carpenter ants and damage to the major, lower support beam that is holding up the addition of the house. A fair portion of the back of the house is now ripped off and I'm hoping it is all put back together before the end of the day. Somehow this was missed on the inspection so we're stuck with dealing with it and paying for it.

And there you have it, a lot of stuff all at once in life. I guess that's the way life goes. Good stuff can be hard and bad stuff can be hard. Things always work out and everything comes to some kind of resolution whether it is a new baby entering the world and jobs changing, a life leaving the world or renovations you weren't intending to do needing to be done.

March on.