Let me paint you a picture of our nights…

It’s 11:30PM and you are in bed (the small, hard bed) trying to fall asleep, but you can’t. It’s freakishly warm in the apartment and your only hope is a cool breeze, so you open the window. No idea where the wind is blowing, but it’s definitely not in the direction of your window. Opening the window also means letting in the outside air and apparently there is a chain-smoking family on the balcony right above your window. Perfect. Just as you are about to finally drift off, someone’s viper car alarm goes off…again. The sound machine app on your iPhone is up so loud to drown out the noise from outside that it actually becomes a distraction and is no longer part of the solution but is part of the problem.

To all of you sleeping soundly in your air-conditioned houses with ceiling fans and pillow top mattresses – you’d think I’d envy you, but I don’t. There’s no where else in the world that I would rather be. In a few short hours I’ll wake up and have one more night down. I’ll get to go play with my son and be one day closer to having my whole family home with me…in my air-conditioned house with ceiling fans and pillow top mattresses.

-Cort