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Stress. How do you handle it? Do you curl up in fetal position in a far corner of your room behind the closed door rocking and humming while sucking your thumb just wishing it would all go away? Or do you just run right over it with the largest bulldozer you can find [...]

We got off to a late start last Tuesday resulting in a longer trip with more stops, but we made it. We settled in for the night with plans for the next day. Just down the road from G’Ma and G’Daddy’s house is a great little place full of history, The American Village Museum. (Remember the new house we were going to buy?)

Home, home on the range. Where the deer and the antelope play.
Oops wrong song. Oh, well.
We are home after an eight and a half hour drive. I am propped up in my own bed, with my own pillow, snug as a bug in a rug with my my laptop, importing 100s of [...]

defined as:

extreme fatigue
debilitation: serious weakening and loss of energy
a marked diminution in capacities that are usually taken for granted
a state of extreme mental or physical fatigue
the state of being drained, emptied, consumed, or used up

Headed home tomorrow; another 8 hours on the road.
Pray we both stay awake for the drive and that the children are [...]