Yawn...

Or maybe this post could be called "I'm So Tired That I Can't Even Come Up With a Title...Much Less A Catchy One". Or something like that.

First, thanks so much to all of you for your kind words, encouragement and prayers for my Papaw. I was so, so, so down when I wrote that post and your comments were a little bit like gold to me...they really helped me. I guess, even though it wasn't intended to be, getting it all out was a bit cathartic and made me feel like I wasn't carrying around the whole weight of the world on my shoulders.

Truly, I'm feeling a little better about it all now...at least I'm not crying every day. Okay, I'm still crying every day but at least not all day. Since my last post, he has decided to have some other tests done and is considering some aggressive treatment which he wouldn't even speak of before, so I guess it's a process for us all. It does encourage me that he seems to want to explore his options and fight this instead of just giving up like it seemed he would. Please continue to pray for him...he still surely needs it!

Things really have been going quite well otherwise...which is probably why I'm so stinking tired. We have been going and doing every.single.day.this.week. It's been good...there have been gifts to buy and folks to visit and parties to attend. We've planned and visited and wrapped and baked. We've been out and about so much that Preslie has started asking me when we get up each morning, "Go bye-bye? Go shop?". Seriously, she's ruined already!

I've tried every night this week to get to bed early but it just hasn't happened...and obviously isn't tonight either. Preslie's sleep has been pretty junky, too, with all the excitement...and the imminent arrival of 2 bottom molars. Of course, that doesn't stop her from wanting to get up at the crack of dawn each day and go non-stop til bedtime at night...sooooo, this mama is tired. Really, really tired. My weight and crappy hormones aren't helping matters either, but that's a post for another day...or night. ;)

I'm headed off to bed now but just wanted to make sure that you knew how much I appreciate each of you and how much your comments meant to me. We are treasuring each day and in spite of it all...or maybe to spite it...we're actually starting to enjoy the holiday season, much more than I thought we could this year...late nights and all. Hope you are, too.

Yawn. Goodnight!