I'm Here Now

I'm here...finally. I will tell you that this blog is aptly named because I will have many confessions, and I do love coffee.
Firstly, my hubby, 3 kiddos, 1 dog and I just made the big and long-awaited move back to New Mexico 4 days ago. As I stated on Facebook, moving is probably one of the hardest, most stressful events one will ever experience, right up there with childbirth. My stress levels the last week were somewhere around 3 or 4 ka-billion, and I didn't even know it until Saturday afternoon when in the course of loading the moving van I found myself TRYING to throw up just so I could get on with the loading. ( I'm sure that's more than you wanted to know). I will say, however, that my dear friends who came to feed us and help me clean the house went above and beyond to finish up for me after they made me go to one of their homes to sleep for a while.
Sunday was "Travel Day". Really...I hope to NEVER have to do this again (unless it's from our next home to our new straw-bale home that I'm still determined to build before I'm old.). It was a fairly good, uneventful trip. I did watch Jarrod whip the U-Haul/trailer holding our van from the ditch a couple times, thanks to the high winds. I only screamed once.
We made it to my parents' house in Pojoaque (po-wah-keh) that night and slept great! Monday morning we all headed to Albuquerque to unload everything we own into a storage unit. You know, I'm starting to think that moving no longer becomes me, as I am usually the only female, and once again, the heat and stress ( and,dare I say, age?) took over. I spent the next hour puking and screaming from the pounding in my head(worse than my migraines, if that's possible). How do guys do it?!?
The last couple of days have been foggy. Jarrod and I already determined that this week we will spend recouping and gathering our thoughts before hitting the job scene. We're exhausted, outta sorts from the crazy pace we've kept up for the past couple of weeks, and need to help our kiddos get adjusted to this "in-between" stage. Bless my Dad and Mom for inviting us to invade their home for a few weeks! We're all adjusting to the organized chaos and lack of privacy. Yet spending time with each other is the reason we moved back. It's totally priceless!
So, today's confession: I'm missing my normal routine and my friends, but I'm letting it work through my system this week. I'll be fine...in fact, I'll be more than fine because I am not alone.