10.11.08

the most wonderful thing happened today, ...angels in the form of in laws converged upon my home and in essence built the structure for the bathroom addition.

a few have been over here and there getting things started during the past few weeks and today, rather unexpectedly on my part anyway, they did manual labor for hours and hours and those who weren't outside in the heat with saws and measuring tapes were inside in the kitchen cooking or in the dining room putting together our new desperately needed dining room set. they yelled at john to sit the hell down or sent him on errand-boy adventures like Lowe's or finding tools or getting coffee or fetching lunch at Wendy's, so as to not have him over exerting on the heavy work. they let him help enough, but not so much that he'd a trainwreck afterwards.

i am not big on accepting help from others and frequently do not ask even when i probably should. it's just not how i roll. i'm used to being the helper, not the helpee. =)
i think at a few points of the day i sort of left my body b/c i find accepting help to be a crazy challenge; yet there's simply no way we could have done this alone considering john's health, and no way we could have afforded to hire someone this year.
i feel such gratitude.

i do not know if they are aware what a physical help this is to john's weakened condition or what an emotional help this is to both of us who truly had no idea how we were going to get this done before the snow flew. i'm also not sure if they're aware how important this bathroom is. First, when john was so sick, there were days that he could not make it upstairs on his own to use the bathroom so he had to pretty much stay upstairs or move to his nephews house. God forbid that he get that sick again, but if he does a first floor bathroom genuinely assists with his quality of life and affords him options. Secondly, if we are to sell this house, which we so need to do as i really suspect that this house is somehow connected to health issues, a second bathroom will make it much more marketable.

everything is not what it seems. it seems like 'just' a bathroom. but what it really offers is options.

blessings from unexpected places. i am truly humbled.