Pot Luck Post

It has been a long week since I have blogged. AJ is still teething, so we went several (stressful) days without naps this week. The timing was pretty bad since it was the week of my deadline - but I got it done! Project submitted...what a good feeling. I enjoyed working, although this project went much longer than I would have liked. And while I learned some interesting things about the community and talked to some great people, I also encountered a lot of rude/lazy/unhelpful people. So I am really happy to be done.

It has also been a trying time lately because of APY's recent health issues. He was recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, two very painful diseases. There are so many mixed emotions I have at this time. I am sad that we have to deal with the "in sickness and health" stuff already, and I often think I'm not doing a very good job with that. I feel like a broken record: I'm sorry you don't feel well, what can I do, I'm sorry you're in pain, I wish I could do something more. It does not help that he literally works seven days a week right now, and it definitely makes life harder when our child doesn't nap. He is starting a couple of different therapies, but we know through friends that gaining control over these diseases usually takes a few years (and "control" will never mean living pain-free). We are also starting down the long road of testing various medications and dealing with their side effects. We have been extremely lucky in life and we are so blessed! But if you pray, APY could really use a prayer these days. (I suppose I could too).

Speaking of the big guy, one of our priests (not the awesome one, but a new young guy who I'm not crazy about) gave 'the political talk' in church this weekend. I was in the front row since I was singing, so I couldn't get up and leave even if I wanted to. I will not go into what he said. You can not fight priests' logic - I have learned this over the years after several failed attempts. It's like the pope beams them the rules and they are burned in their brains and they can't deviate, or take in other world views, or realize that life is grey, not black and white. I know, I know....that is what structured religion is all about. But I was really wishing I could see if anyone else in church was thinking like I was.

I'm tired of this election, I'm tired of this division in our country. I can't talk to my parents or my in-laws about it, and I'm sick and tired of logging onto facebook to see my college classmates using their statuses to give props to Sarah Palin. It's like members of the two parties are either berating each other or walking on egg shells. There are too many children going to bed hungry and soldiers dying and people losing their homes for us to spend time figuring out how many houses John McCain really owns. We need to do important stuff, and we need to do it now.

Anyway, we're off to New Jersey this Wednesday, and AJ is so excited to meet her newest cousins. I think we'll have a good time flying together, just us girls. Well....as good of a time as you can have flying these days. If you want to find me at O'Hare on Wednesday, I'll be the one pushing the carseat and dragging the luggage through the airport. I am not paying to check it. I will also somehow be carrying Starbucks.

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