Unexpected things happen ALL the time…Have you every heard the expression
“When it rains it pours”
Well, yesterday it was a monsoon. I laugh now as I look back at the unexpected happenings.
So yesterday started out in its normal crazy fashion…Up at 5:30 (First day back after Spring Break I might add) Yeah that was easy!! Ha!! Lunches made kids fed, three of them on the bus at 6:25. Whew!
Finished up my study Questions from “You Are Loved No Matter What” by Holley Gerth (THAT BOOK IS AAZING)
Bus alarm goes off a second time ..Fourth child out at the bus for a 7 50 pick up.
Back inside:
Blogging
Bible Study
Reading
Normal household chores
Then I did something that is completely normal and it led to something SOOOOO completely Unexpected. I went out to the garage to get chicken to thaw for dinner….the unexpected was that the upright freezer door wasn’t shut all the way….UH OH! yep, so the rest of the normal plans out the window and I collected all the thawed gross things from the freezer that now resembled that of the abominable snowman fro Monsters Inc….WELCOME TO THE HIMALAYAS was all that ran through my mind! well after my hands we frozen and completely sticky…my sweatshirt and my pants doused int the conglomeration of mystery liquids……I had all the Ick taken care of….found chicken in another freezer and thawed that, put it in the crockpot and what’s that? the alarm for group #1 of our kiddos returning from school with #2 returning soon after group #1. Did I mention I was having Bible study with a teen from our youth group around the same time? Hubby was picking her up.
Hubby and I had realized that the freezer had been ajar since we left to visit family on Thursday YAY! Hubby also informed that while he was on a run to deliver a tractor (normal) His glasses broke and feel apart while he was driving (UNEXPECTED and dangerous) he made it taped them together BUT now had t run to the eye place we get our glasses prescriptions filled. At that point he offered to take the kids with him and to pick up groceries (Normal and AMZING) But half way through his trip the fan in our van wouldn’t shut off…even when the van was shut off and key removed (UNEXPECTED but isn’t can trouble almost always) I finished my bible study, her dad picked her up, I finished dinner and I sat down on the couch.
Everyone cam rushing in and quite frankly if you have read Hope for the Weary Mom or seen Mom’s Night Out you will get what I am about to say.
I had a moment…..And my kids ate dinner in silence…and I felt horrible (after all hubby’s sermon was coursing through my brain….Saying” you blew it”!!
Hubby left for a meeting, saying that if it ended before a certain time he was going to run to the store to get the part for the car. Ok off he went I gave the 45 minute warning till bed….
Homework
Chores
Reading
Child #3 asks “mom can I get my shower?” (NORMAL)
” Yep you can”
10 minutes later….As he stands at the top of the stairs , “Mommy why do you have your razor in the shower?” Ummm because it’s my shower and it’s hanging up above your reach!
Umm no it’s not and I think Im bleeding everywhere . (SO UNEXPECTED that it took a few seconds to register, but I snapped into nurse mommy mod) e. let’s add to this that this is the child with Autism AND he is JUST out of the shower.
So after some minor freaking out (on his part) my little army of three non injured kids snapped into a well oiled machine f helpfulness. And I could not with all the pressure I could get the bleeding to stop. I had to call hubby.
Hubby came home….Off to urgent care….To sit and sit and sit some more . Usually our urgent care is very quick….Not last night. They finally got him in at 10-ish. due to how his foot was cut they had to create an imitation scab. When they left, the battery in the car was dead from the constantly running fan (Unexpected, kind of) they came home at 12:30 am. (UNEXPECTED)
SLEEP (normal)
Now this morning had a few unexpected things like oversleeping and leaving child #4’s math homework on the table, but compared to yesterday it was a breeze!
Thankfully in all of the UNEXPECTED events of yesterday, it could have led to major strife and minus the MOMENT I had unrelated t all the rest going on, it’s those moments that show our true colors. Does our responses point to a Savior who is in control of every detail, or do we get bent out shape and let everyone know it , that it didn’t go according to our plan. I know it wasn’t in my plan to smell like a garbage can. Do we moan and groan about how awful these circumstances or do we whisper a prayer and say ok LORD it’s not about me. There has been a lot in my life that has been UNEXPECTED, soon good, some not so good and some just horrible things. Thankfully God doesn’t expect us to be perfect through it all, he wants us to rely on Him, for everything!
