"You may have ten thousand very good reasons not to be positive. Even so, being positive is still your most effective choice." --Ralph Marston

This is what WantLess posted on my comments on my last post about being overwhelmed. Looking back I did feel overwhelmed that day but yesterday was a doozy of a day. I am only going to recap it because then I am moving on and getting busy with projects today. Mariah and Josh went to the dentist yesterday, both cativy free but it was discovered that some of Mariah's adult teeth didn't form and that when the baby teeth fall out, there will be nothing to come in to fill those holes. Also the other teeth are pushing on those baby teeth and everything is croweded and forming crooked. We see an Ortho dentist in early June. Then Emmy had an 11 minute seizure at school and had to make a flying trip 40 miles one way to see her doctor who prescribed a new med on top of the other meds. I will be researching this new med heavily before I administer it. I mentioned her mobility is getting worse and she is falling all the time and I was concerned. To which he replied loudly, "Your daughter has Rett Syndrome, it will get worse before it gets better". I just about decked him and I think he knew that because he grabbed my hand and then told me that this is Rett Syndrome and it is devasting and we have to move forward. I am very glad my husband was in the room because I was sobbing and very emotional. NOW this doctor is wonderful and he is a very caring doctor who deals with special needs kids all the time and looking back, I am thankful for the reality check. He is right - all the therapy is not going to "fix" her and that is what I have allowed myself to believe in the back of my mind. After realizing this I have decided to allow myself some slack this summer and we will only be making the 80 mile round trip once a week instead of twice a week to PT. Maybe this way we can finish our homeschooling curriculum and do some other things that have been shoved to the back burner. While I was at the doctor's office, my cell phone kept vibrating and I ignored it. Upon leaving the doctor I fould out Dale and my very close friends had just signed divorce papers. I had really thought that they would work through this. The other call was Josh telling me the blender had caught on fire but he had successful threw it outside and hosed it down. The last thing to top the day off was our battery died leaving us stranded but like an angel our friend Cindy came and rescued us. The funny thing was God sent her because she was ahead of us and only came back to bring us some water since we had been at a building for about an hour and a half.

Today in light of a new day, these things weren't so bad but man yesterday they about knocked me under. I am very thankful for a few key people who helped me get through it. Thank you Cindy, mom, dad (who always knows when to call and tell me to buck up), Sandy (for leaving work to watch Mariah while we were at the doctor), and my facebook friends who are prayer warriors.