Today we set an alarm to get up "early." Tris woke up in a great mood and I woke up anxious about health insurance and if we're going to find a camper in time and will we actually have enough money to buy the truck we need. This is pretty typical of us I think. My brain is always filled to the brim with lists and worries, Tris' just plays some sort of pleasant hold music until it's actually required for operations... at which point it can be useful...Unfortunately this morning, my brain won.
It was one of those mornings where everything goes wrong and you start to doubt your sanity of packing up a comfortable life in paradise to move to a state that does not want to give you health insurance and where you can see your breath. We struggled through an ACA application, came up with very few options that were all bad and crazy expensive. The truck camper that seemed perfect and the right price just a few miles away was already sold. Another one has a price that seems too good to be true is a two hour drive away to find out if it actually is. Crickets from everyone else we contacted. Tris spent a long time on hold with his student loan company. He spilled rat medicine all over himself. When I went to hang out with the rats they were all disinterested and grumpy. We descended into one of those funks where no one is actually upset with each other but is also not equipped to make the other feel better.
Eventually Tris took himself off for a walk. I napped, trimmed rats claws, caught up on laundry. And then we had to face getting ourselves out of the funk and off to dinner at our friends' house. There was amazing food, great company, and board games. Impossible to stay meh for very long. And when we got home there were cuddles with all six of us in an arm chair with the boys on our shoulders taking a bath and the girls fast asleep in my lap (this never happens).
All the issues of the morning remain, but I think we're feeling a bit better equipped to try and tackle them again tomorrow. I'm sure this will be the first of many struggle days of the trip, but as long as they end as well as today did, we'll be just fine.