Ah, that is when one must take notice...if for no other reason than it is hard NOT to notice that life was hard enough, and is now miserable. Ugh. But, in the midst of it all we do indeed see God at work. As for my sinful self that would mean seeing God working in between my moments of name calling (to God). Yes, pathetically sinful. The day after my last post went something like this:
7:30 AM: Isabella leaves for work (at the horse barn), but returns a couple of minutes later...with a kitten in her hands. The kitten looks fine, Bella says she only has a moment, but two things....One, something having to do with money. Two, this kitten (she holds it up) was up under the car, and as she was driving up our dirt road she saw it fly out from under the car and land on the side of the road. It couldn't walk with it's back legs. Flannery and I took turns giving the kitten some remedies for shock and pain. About 3 hours later the kitten was trying to move around. By later that evening she was walking around! Phew. But, boy was that stressful. Someone was supposed to be coming by that afternoon to take her and another kitten home. They ended up getting kittens from someone else, so we still have said kittens.
8:30 AM: Jeremiah tries to play with Merdia and she gets hurt (minimally so). Her reaction has me wondering if she is getting sick? Hmmm.
10:30 AM: Merida gets up on a chair in the dining room and falls backwards, flat on her back/head. Sigh.
Lots more taking care of kitten and other small things I can not remember right now.
4:00 PM: Jeremiah and I are walking out the door, literally, when the phone rings and one of the girls calls out that it's "L". Hmmm, that's odd, she rarely calls, and only when I call her first. "L" is Bella's horse trainer. At soon as she starts talking I can tell something is wrong. She goes on to say that there were things at the barn that went wrong that day and because of that Isabella is fired. WHOA!!! Now, there is a TON, TON, TON, TTTTTTTTOOOOOOOONNNNNNN, more that went on in this situation over the next 3 days. It all boils down to this: Mistakes had been made, in Bella's contract if that were to happen she loses her horse. HER HORSE! The one that saved her life. And NO I am NOT exaggerating when I say it saved her life. We do not go out, obviously, and spend all evening with Bella talking and praying. I am leaving this in God's hands, for Him to bring the truth front and center. The thing that got me upset was that this wasn't the first time there were mistakes made by Bella. In the past "L" covered for her. That isn't the upsetting part. The upsetting part is that "L" has made plenty of mistakes on her part, that Bella has had to cover for.
6:30 PM: Jeremiah takes off for a counseling meeting, but comes back two minutes later. I sigh....this can't be good. He calls me out of Bella's room, and in private tells me that he found a dead kitten on the side of our road. Apparently the first kitty that was hurt that morning wasn't alone :-( She made it, but her brother did not. And to be fair, he was definitely dead right at the get go....there would have been no saving him should we have found him immediately after the accident.
That was the first day after my last post. Since then we have had a goat stop eating. Meds have not helped. She is eating greens, which is good, but I have a bad feeling about this situation. I am not sure I can handle a dead goat right now :-( Our central AC stopped working. So we are down to just one room that is cool (this little AC unit sometimes can not keep up with all the bodies in there, so we are doing good if the room is at least cool). This means that little kitchen work is being done. The heat along with the high humidity is brutal. We weren't able to attend any fire works this year...ya know, due to the terrorist threats...sigh. We did get to go to a friends July 4th party where we had a lot of fun, but not without trouble as well. Though the actual reason for the stopped up toilet was not Jonah's fault, the fact that he flushed it and it over spilled was. Talk about a mess! Thankfully our friends take those kinds of things in stride! The baby finally, FINALLY kicked the bladder infection. But only in time to get the horrid cough that everyone else had. She is sick, sick, sick. Poor thing keeps coming up to me and pointing to her eyes, and saying, "Eyes, ouchie." She is extremely wrestles at night. Medicine helps some. But that does not stop her from feeling yuck throughout the day.
On a good note the kids are enjoying Runners Camp. Though it was made apparent that Jed still needs a 'shadow' (a person devoted to keeping an eye on him). He 'lost' his team multiple times the first two days!! Flannery is a volunteer at one of the game stations and yesterday they had more helpers than needed. She was asked to help elsewhere, and it happened to be on Jed's team!!! Phew! He did much better!!! No getting lost. Jed is still having auditory processing issues! That means he needs time to process one command. So if the coach says, "Ok team, after this event we are going to take a bathroom break and head over to the snack station..." Well, you lost Jed on the "after this event" part. The other day Jed was standing two feet from the table. He asked me where I put his bowl of oatmeal (sometimes it is up on the counter, other times it's on the table). I told him I put it on the table. the table was on his right hand side. Jed turns to the left, and is about to take a step in that direction when I call out, "Jed, stop....(wait)...your food is on the TABLE....(wait).....(he turns to the table)....the bowl is in my spot on the table...(he looks and sees his food)". Besides those issues he was still having fun.
Aubrey, who turned 4 at the beginning of the year, is not happy with the fact that he can not attend Runner's Camp. Not only can he not go this year, but he won't be able to go next year either! The camp is for 6-12 year olds. Poor little guy.
It is times like this that make me afraid to wake up the next day!! I worry about what other major issue will come up. The Bible says don't worry about tomorrow because today has enough troubles of it's own. Sad, but true. But day after day of troubles gets exhausting. I worry about Jeremiah taking Flannery and Saoirse to Breyer Fest in Kentucky. Will they stay safe? Will they get lost? It comes to a point that I want everyone to sit in a chair and not move....for the next week. Ha, ha! Do you think that would help?
Ok, on to getting some work done, if I can muster it.
7:30 AM: Isabella leaves for work (at the horse barn), but returns a couple of minutes later...with a kitten in her hands. The kitten looks fine, Bella says she only has a moment, but two things....One, something having to do with money. Two, this kitten (she holds it up) was up under the car, and as she was driving up our dirt road she saw it fly out from under the car and land on the side of the road. It couldn't walk with it's back legs. Flannery and I took turns giving the kitten some remedies for shock and pain. About 3 hours later the kitten was trying to move around. By later that evening she was walking around! Phew. But, boy was that stressful. Someone was supposed to be coming by that afternoon to take her and another kitten home. They ended up getting kittens from someone else, so we still have said kittens.
8:30 AM: Jeremiah tries to play with Merdia and she gets hurt (minimally so). Her reaction has me wondering if she is getting sick? Hmmm.
10:30 AM: Merida gets up on a chair in the dining room and falls backwards, flat on her back/head. Sigh.
Lots more taking care of kitten and other small things I can not remember right now.
4:00 PM: Jeremiah and I are walking out the door, literally, when the phone rings and one of the girls calls out that it's "L". Hmmm, that's odd, she rarely calls, and only when I call her first. "L" is Bella's horse trainer. At soon as she starts talking I can tell something is wrong. She goes on to say that there were things at the barn that went wrong that day and because of that Isabella is fired. WHOA!!! Now, there is a TON, TON, TON, TTTTTTTTOOOOOOOONNNNNNN, more that went on in this situation over the next 3 days. It all boils down to this: Mistakes had been made, in Bella's contract if that were to happen she loses her horse. HER HORSE! The one that saved her life. And NO I am NOT exaggerating when I say it saved her life. We do not go out, obviously, and spend all evening with Bella talking and praying. I am leaving this in God's hands, for Him to bring the truth front and center. The thing that got me upset was that this wasn't the first time there were mistakes made by Bella. In the past "L" covered for her. That isn't the upsetting part. The upsetting part is that "L" has made plenty of mistakes on her part, that Bella has had to cover for.
6:30 PM: Jeremiah takes off for a counseling meeting, but comes back two minutes later. I sigh....this can't be good. He calls me out of Bella's room, and in private tells me that he found a dead kitten on the side of our road. Apparently the first kitty that was hurt that morning wasn't alone :-( She made it, but her brother did not. And to be fair, he was definitely dead right at the get go....there would have been no saving him should we have found him immediately after the accident.
That was the first day after my last post. Since then we have had a goat stop eating. Meds have not helped. She is eating greens, which is good, but I have a bad feeling about this situation. I am not sure I can handle a dead goat right now :-( Our central AC stopped working. So we are down to just one room that is cool (this little AC unit sometimes can not keep up with all the bodies in there, so we are doing good if the room is at least cool). This means that little kitchen work is being done. The heat along with the high humidity is brutal. We weren't able to attend any fire works this year...ya know, due to the terrorist threats...sigh. We did get to go to a friends July 4th party where we had a lot of fun, but not without trouble as well. Though the actual reason for the stopped up toilet was not Jonah's fault, the fact that he flushed it and it over spilled was. Talk about a mess! Thankfully our friends take those kinds of things in stride! The baby finally, FINALLY kicked the bladder infection. But only in time to get the horrid cough that everyone else had. She is sick, sick, sick. Poor thing keeps coming up to me and pointing to her eyes, and saying, "Eyes, ouchie." She is extremely wrestles at night. Medicine helps some. But that does not stop her from feeling yuck throughout the day.
On a good note the kids are enjoying Runners Camp. Though it was made apparent that Jed still needs a 'shadow' (a person devoted to keeping an eye on him). He 'lost' his team multiple times the first two days!! Flannery is a volunteer at one of the game stations and yesterday they had more helpers than needed. She was asked to help elsewhere, and it happened to be on Jed's team!!! Phew! He did much better!!! No getting lost. Jed is still having auditory processing issues! That means he needs time to process one command. So if the coach says, "Ok team, after this event we are going to take a bathroom break and head over to the snack station..." Well, you lost Jed on the "after this event" part. The other day Jed was standing two feet from the table. He asked me where I put his bowl of oatmeal (sometimes it is up on the counter, other times it's on the table). I told him I put it on the table. the table was on his right hand side. Jed turns to the left, and is about to take a step in that direction when I call out, "Jed, stop....(wait)...your food is on the TABLE....(wait).....(he turns to the table)....the bowl is in my spot on the table...(he looks and sees his food)". Besides those issues he was still having fun.
Aubrey, who turned 4 at the beginning of the year, is not happy with the fact that he can not attend Runner's Camp. Not only can he not go this year, but he won't be able to go next year either! The camp is for 6-12 year olds. Poor little guy.
It is times like this that make me afraid to wake up the next day!! I worry about what other major issue will come up. The Bible says don't worry about tomorrow because today has enough troubles of it's own. Sad, but true. But day after day of troubles gets exhausting. I worry about Jeremiah taking Flannery and Saoirse to Breyer Fest in Kentucky. Will they stay safe? Will they get lost? It comes to a point that I want everyone to sit in a chair and not move....for the next week. Ha, ha! Do you think that would help?
Ok, on to getting some work done, if I can muster it.
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Oh friend, I'm so sorry. Life is hard hard hard sometimes.
Do you have a good devotional/quiet time plan right now? If not, check out www.shereadstruth.com--I've been doing some of their plans lately and finding them SO good. I highly recommend the one on Thankfulness--it was so encouraging and speaks a lot to how to be thankful in suffering, in want, in waiting...
Praying your family is protected and able to see Christ and His blessings clearly, even in the midst of these many trials!
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