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Harder than I thought

Ok, today was way harder than I thought it would be in more ways than one.

First off Sandi did not sleep at all last night. She was distraught and depressed at Peanut's death. She went to bed early this morning, woke up a little while later then went back to sleep. Uh, no. She was not going to church.

Sarah woke up depressed still. She wasn't sure if she would be able to make it through church without breaking down so she decided to stay home with mom.

That meant that it was up to me to get the rest of the kids ready for church this morning. This is not all that unusual since very often I take the kids to church by myself. But this morning had bigger challenges (that I will not into right now) which resulted in me being later than we usually are in getting out of the house. Fair enough. I am, after all, just one man.

We hit up church in a rather uneventful manner, as is usually the case. It went swimmingly, as is usually the case. We got out on time, as is usually the case.

After church we had to hit up Target to get a gift for a birthday party of one of my daughters' friends. That went fairly well. Of course, it was just me and the four youngest children, and they were hungry and tired and wanted to go home to see mom and Sarah. But still it went well.

Then we got home and had to speedily get ready for the swim party. Sandi wanted to go for that drive so we all piled into the car and took off. After dropping the kids we headed home for rest after which Sandi went with us again to pick Sarah and Bekah up.

After the party Sandi asked me to take Sarah to Michael's to look for a box to bury Peanut in. We found one, but it was late enough in the day that we will have to wait until tomorrow to bury Peanut.

Of course the nice bit of all this is that Sarah had time to really put into the box design what she really wanted to. And I was left with enough time to actually get something done around the house.

Which is where the hard part of all of this comes in for me. Because now I am freaking exhausted. And I still have to go to work tomorrow.

Not sure how I will manage all that. For now, I really just want to sleep. Goodnight.