When life just keeps throwing curve balls

Over the last nearly 2 years things have been, in the very least, utter chaos. If you know me maybe 20 minutes you will know quite easily that chaos is really not something I navigate very well. We have all lived a very different kind of normal. First COVID hit the country and around the world causing us all to figure out how to navigate all that and find out how to manage working from home (or wherever we might be at the time) and not go to our favorite restaurants for a while and handle our children not going to school or daycare or remote learning and then figuring out how to return to the office our our respective work places and living with mask wearing and vaccines and then boosters and let us not forget those that refuse to get vaccinated. We endured all that on top of not being able to be with our loved ones who were in the hospital for whatever reasons or attend funerals or visit those in nursing homes just to find in 2022 that we have a new variant that is spreading like wild fire and now we are facing some of these same issues all over again. It's crazy. You should try (and many are) building a house and especially your retirement home, while living in an apartment for the first time in decades and having delay after delay with the build and navigating the continue chaos of COVID, work, and the anxious arrival of our first grandson. It is beginning to be more than this girl can take on top of the stress of work and not feeling 100% physically. My patience is running thin to say the very least. My understanding is truly non existant and nice is wearing off quickly. We are meeting our builder this afternoon at 4:00 at the house to walk through and discuss trim and it is my hope and prayer (for him) that he is on track and we see progress has been made yesterday and today and he has a solid plan that he is capable of sticking to and delivering on next week or he may just truly feel the wrath of my impatience and frustration come crashing down on him. During this pandemic we have experienced great saddness and some extreme blessings at the same time. First we had the blessing of celebrating the marriage of Tia and Drew. She waited so long to find the perfect husband and she did. He just fits right in with our family and we love him so much.. Then we sadly lost our daddy. We worked so hard to move him in with us and after doing so we only had 9 short months with him before he was taken from us. I am so grateful for those 9 months, but so heartbroken that he was taken so soon. Then we had the blessing of welcoming Cohen Wade, our grand nephew (I know I probably made that word up, but I really don't care). He is perfect and I couldn't love him more. Then we had the saddness of losing our granddaughter, Norah (Tia & Drew's first baby). It was heartbreaking, but we were so inspired in how they handled the loss and drew closer together during a very difficult time. Then 6 months later we were blessed with the news that they were going to be welcoming our first grandson, Luke Henry in March. We honestly cannot wait. We are building our retirement home across the street from them and while we certainly expected to be in our house well before he made his arrival, we will be so glad to be so close to enjoy the bonding and relationship with Luke and the kids that we feel we miss with the others. This house just cannot get completed quickly enough for us. Prayers for that to happen and for life to find a normal level whatever that may be these days. Shewwww....