Happy Labor Day!

Hope everyone is doing well. I cannot believe we are already into September! I was looking forward to a very boring and uneventful August and now that it is over, I realize it was our busiest month of the summer. Believe it or not, my kids are still NOT back to school yet so the summer is not officially over for me. Megan starts PK4 on September 9th and Matthew goes to 2nd grade on September 14th. What does this mean? Mommy is going a little bit stir crazy. The rest of the neighborhood has been back in school for a few weeks now and my kids are REALLY bored! So I have decided to throw everyone in the car and head to Indianapolis for the Labor Day weekend. We will visit with my sister, Jaime, in Carmel AND Greg and Erin Weier who recently moved from Kansas to Indianapolis. (The Kansas Weiers are now officially the Indiana Weiers!) The kids are looking forward to playing with their cousins, Luke Feller and Amelia and Graham Weier.

Before leaving, I just wanted to send a quick update to let everyone know we are all hanging in there. We have made it past the three month mark since Chris died. I have been gently reminded several times by my bereavement counselor that this is when the "anesthesia starts to wear off and the pain is really felt." Oh great - this on top of heading into the holidays. What fun! Apparently (as she explained), when someone close to you dies unexpectedly your body goes into shock and starts overproducing endorphins to survive. At around the three to six month mark, your body stops producing the extra endorphins and that is when you really have to start dealing with the pain of loss. And we all know that the only way to deal with that pain is by walking through it head on. No detours allowed here!

No only is this happening to me but I have even noticed a change in the kids, even Hannah. She woke up crying the other morning which is really out of the ordinary for her. She kept crying, "I want Daddy." And the other night, I found Matthew crying in his bed while holding a picture of Chris. He kept saying, "this is not how we wanted to live. This is not how we wanted to live." As always, I ask that you please continue to keep us in your prayers. I am truly convinced that they are working and I don't know how long this road to recovery is going to be for us.

On a much, much happier note. I thought I would close by sharing a link to a wonderful blog about Chris' Golf Memorial. The link is http://emilyhernandezphotography.blogspot.com/2009/08/inaugural-chris-weier-golf-outing.html . Emily was hired by Jim and Christin Mangan to photograph the day's events. If you get a chance please check it out. She is very talented and I really appreciate all of her hard work that day.
Here is one of the pictures from the Memorial:
Thanks for checking in on the Dundee Weiers. Please have a safe and fun Labor Day weekend! God bless, Betsy.