Posts Tagged ‘coping’

Place to place…

Monday, November 19th, 2012

From Friday Mom – Jaime:
I promise that not every post from here on out will be about how we’re doing since the hurricane, but it’s been kind of an all-consuming thing these days.

There are days that I’m angry. There are days that I just want to cry. My mom, with all her psych degrees, keeps assuring me that it’s perfectly normal to be mad at the trees for coming through the house, frustrated that other people got to go back to “normal” as soon as the lights come on, and sad that I can’t just go home.

Andrew has been going through a “I’m not going to listen to anything that anyone says to me” phase. That too is frustrating. But more so because I don’t know how much of that is normal, 4 year old boy attitude or if it’s because he’s also having trouble dealing with being displaced… And if it’s the later, how can I really get mad at him for acting out? I do it myself!

Our insurance company hooked us up with a great company who helped us find a townhouse that we’ll be living in for the next couple months. Being a tenant again is not really what I expected at this stage of the game, but it’s a nice little place and will suit us fine for a couple months. We’ll move in over the weekend, though we have a bunch of stuff there already.

Last night we were trying to get Andrew excited about the place, telling him about it and how he’ll have his own room again. While he’s very excited to have his own bathroom – which is CONNECTED to his room (truly important stuff here!) – he’s also confused. He scrambled up into my lap last night and said, “Mommy! I am very confused. We have our new house. We have our old house. We have the hotel. We at Nana’s. We not at Nana’s. Now we have this other place?”

I couldn’t really say that some days I wake up and am so disoriented it takes a few minutes for me to realize where I am too.

I tried to explain the best I could. Maybe he understands some of it. I wish there were some kinds of magic words to make him feel better about everything that’s happened the past couple weeks. Well, I really wish there were some way I could just speed up time and fast forward to when we can all go back to our place… But for now, he’ll have to settle for some extra hugs and whatever extra patience I can muster up.

It’s hard to believe that next week is Thanksgiving already! I hope you all have a great one.