Burning at Both Ends? Rather, the Whole Thing in Fire!

I do not like the start of this new year. Let me just put that out there.

As if life wasn't complicated enough to begin with, I have another family crisis issue to attend to that is actually taking me away from time with both my husband and son. We've had to cancel a holiday for stress relief to take on board more unwanted stress. I can't attend certain seminars for Autism therapy/understanding because my attentions and funds are being pulled elsewhere.

And unless I want to empty my bank account and face the wrath of a woman scorned, I have to sort it out with my own two hands.

Someone said to me recently, that God has a plan for us all. That's a great cop out isn't it? Certainly feels that way to me. I've started to read the family story of two children with Autism, Let Me Hear Your Voice by mother Catherine Maurice. Would that woman have chosen to have children with challenges just so she could write a cathartic book and hopefully help others? I seriously doubt it.

I'm in the "sandwich" generation between my mother's acute health issues and my disabled son. I haven't even gotten a handle on his Autism yet. I'm not ready for this.