A long weekend...

My employer reopened this weekend! And what we thought might be a slow start turned into one major butt-kickin'! I went for what seemed the whole weekend without any sleep between working Friday night, arriving home to do homework and find a kidsitter fiasco and not going to bed till 3 am at least to waking up Saturday to having to find a new sitter for the day and having to be out the door at 10 am for a double shift.

Jourdyn is coming into the whole pre-teen. And like the month she was born (March), she is definitely roaring in like a lion. I can only pray that she go out like lamb because I am not going to be able to take much more of this!!! Her giftedness and strongwilled tendencies (of which she comes by naturally) really are a force to be reckoned with on their own, add puberty, change and emotions to the whole mess and you have one perfect storm waiting to pounce!

I spent most of Saturday, with little rest over night, an emotional basketcase at work! And boy, apparently you could tell! Because many people stopped me to ask if I was okay. This continued well into Sunday. I just had a rough weekend!

I found this online at a site about gifted children. And it has helped me understand Jourdyn's world tremendously! Maybe it will help others as well.

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:
A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

To her...
a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,

and failure is death.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - - - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, her very breath is cut off from her. She must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency she is not really alive unless she is creating."
-Pearl Buck-