Exhaustion

This week has been kind of a crazy one for me.  As you know, by my last post, last week I wasn't feeling the best.  Then last weekend Marks sister, Missy, got married.  It was a beautiful wedding and Missy looked GORGEOUS!!!  As you can imagine, weddings aren't exactly the best time to be sick or the best time to try and rest so you can get better.  By the time we got home on Sunday I was completely exhausted, but I couldn't rest quite yet.  Mark left Monday for a business trip in Prague, he doesn't get home until Tuesday, and I had lots of laundry to do so that he would be ready for his trip.

Mark left Monday.  This is the longest he has ever been gone.  I feel blessed that we've been able to email back and forth.  Then yesterday I got a phone call from him and that made my day!!!  I miss him so much!  Every time he leaves I start having horrible dreams that something happens to him while he's gone.  I usually wake up bawling my eyes out.  Every time this happens I start praying, "Lord, I have no control. Mark is in your hands.  Please be with him and protect him.  Please Please Please bring him home to me safely."  I know it is only by God's grace that we're even here and recognizing that helps comfort me, especially when Mark is gone.  Every time I hear Mark's voice or when he comes home from a trip I thank God for protecting him and bringing him home to me. 

I have been using his absence to catch up on my sleep.  Every night, so far, I've been in bed by 9.  I'm feeling much better and I'm finally getting my energy back and I don't have a cold anymore.  Mark and my family always make fun of me for going to bed early, but this week I don't care.  :)

Mark gets home Tuesday evening and lets just say Tuesday can't come soon enough!!!