What's in a number anyway?

I have been awake since 3:30 am,

if I can call it awake since sleep really didn't come at all.

So What's in a number, anyway?

For a girl who always prided herself in needing

an uninterrupted 8 to 10 hours asleep per night,

this painful night stuff should be driving me crazy.

What is driving me crazy is thinking of staying awake

all night then trying to go to work.

I have decided going to take the rest of the week off.

Then I don't have to stress over when I sleep and how many

hours it has been.

Next week is off week and by then this darn weather

should settle itself.

What am I most thankful for these days?

Coworker friends who always listen to me and have my back.

Who when they say they are praying for me, I know really are.

HOBL who encourages me to stay home when I struggle

with what I should do.

Who never makes me feel like a burden or that I am not

pulling my own weight around here.

The fact that baby boy and the bean are coming and sleep

Friday night....

Baby girl being accepted back into Nicholls for the fall semester,

deciding that she has to get a degree.

Friends, friends, friends, and sisters, sisters, sisters

who are always encouraging me to do what I need to do

and remind me that they love me and I have nothing

to prove to no one.

Life may be full of pain and that sucks, but it is also

full of more good things and I am happy, fortunate

that I can still see and focus on this.