Herc,

This has been the center of your world for months now. You've fussed, fretted, and have been worried about the move, the combining of two households and what it would mean in your life.

Maybe now that the busyness is over, the real dealing has begun. You've moved (stressful), you've moved in with your mother (stressful), you did about 99% of the work and worry with everything involved with this yourself (stressful), during all of this you had to put your cat to sleep (stressful). Plus other things we've talked about off of the forum.

Honey...you've been carrying a big ol' load for quite a while now! We both know when the stress comes off, the symptoms tend to come out. Doing a lot of work keeps us too busy to deal with stress. Guess what? You're not busy anymore. Your body and mind are telling you it's time to deal with what you've put off.

Take some quiet time, be gentle to yourself, pamper yourself. You've put in quite a fight to get you and your mom into one house. Just reading about you stripping and painting dressers made me tired. And I was only reading about it! Sorry to quote the big McD...but you deserve a break.

Lisa