The Puzzle by Lew

The intent of this post is two fold - 1) to apprize folks of how The Plan is progressing and 2) to provide insight to others in our situation. The title of this post will remain constant and will be updated as the pieces to The Puzzle fall into place. It will only be posted by Lew (we'll see how that holds up). The Plan is just that - a plan and it is conveyed in this post as a puzzle. Tonya and I put a plan together. We looked at it all, from all sides. Well, at least WE feel we looked at it all from all sides. The Plan essentially evolves around putting our family in the best possible situation to raise Quadruplets plus 2 wild and crazy boys.

The box to the puzzle was opened when we looked at each other and said wtf are we going to do! That would have been when we first found out that there were 4 in "there"...The box to the puzzle has a picture of our family on it, with each of us holding a baby, and all the facets of The Plan in the background. Thanks to Tonya, we do not know the gender so the babies have question marks on their faces. Our goal with The Puzzle is to have the background pieces together before the babies with question marks on their faces are born (thanks, again, to Tonya).

There are not enough pieces to classify the puzzle as a jigsaw, but there are quite a few pieces nonetheless. Up until recently, the puzzle did not have much rhyme or reason to it. We have studied it, looked at it from different angles, even gone so far as to look for numbers on the back of the pieces, but still we remain "puzzled".

Some of the pieces are starting to fall into place. They aren't joined together, at least not for the moment, but there appears to be some pieces that seem as though they may fit.

Next week there will be some pieces that are connected...and I will be able to lay the puzzle out for you all to visualize.

It would have been nice to have the puzzle together by now, but life is not easy, it is a challenge, and it is far from a game. I consider it more of a series of mazes, and I have never considered a maze a game. Each stage of our lives is a maze, and with each maze you have to choose a path or paths to go down. There are paths that you can go down that end abruptly. There are paths that seem to go on with no end. You can continue on a path or turnaround. But, there is only one path that is the right path. Tonya and I are doing our best to find that path. Please pray for us.

We are ready for this challenge, but this f&$%ing puzzle needs to get together and this is one hard f&$%ing maze!

Love,
Lew