New and Exciting only applies for so long.

There are days that sneak up on you. Days where you wake up smiling but then you take a step out of the door and realize things aren't as sunny as you thought when you first rolled over. You fight it, but the realization of why your day is cloudy becomes clearer to you.

I watched someone i love very much out of the corner of my eye today. So much pain and exhaustion rolled up into one body - and there's no way for me to take any of it away and help make it better. The uncertainty and the helplessness are enough to make anyone want to curl up and hide from the world. But then I have to remember that hiding doesn't solve anything. But then it also hasn't felt like facing it head on has fixed anything, either.

My dad said it'd be 14 months at the least before things got back to normal. As my family has been saying:
The novelty has worn off.

Chillin with the vbs dino!