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Wordless Wednesday: Stuck
Rolling gone awry.
A Review
Last week:
- Celebrated Aunt Sarah’s 19th Birthday with the fam.
- Big Guy, Rachael and I took the cats to the yearly vet appointment on Monday and got their shots updated in time to give the record to our caseworker on Wednesday.
- Started only blogging when the kids are in bed/asleep.
- Little Man started rolling from belly to back. (YAY!!!)
- We focused on sleep training for Little Man and reintroduced sleeping in his bassinet after he had to sleep the past two weeks in a bouncer due to sickness drainage.
- Almost broke Abi’s new bad habit of getting out of her bed when told to go to sleep. (We’re pretty well there.)
- Moved Hannah out of Matt and my room (we’re no longer dueling bassinets on either side of the bed. YAY!) into “the girls’ room” where she did AWESOME in the transition and continued her middle-of-the-night feeding (around 4am) without disturbing her sisters.
- Matt and I had our first date night in weeks (months?) – thanks Grandpa for staying with the masses. =D
- Hannah had her follow-up Dr. appt for her double ear infection, thus ending antibiotics.
- Big Guy had his physical done for preschool with shots (boo).
- Hannah started solid food. (Yay peas!!!)
- Big Guy toured the preschool that he started today. (YAY!!!!! He likes!!!!)
- Our foster care caseworker visited and met our new kids. =)
- The boys’ GAL (court attorney voice) visited and gave me much more info about the case.
- We had a second outbreak of lice (BOO!!!!!!) and this time my 2 yr old got it. (SO not cool).
- Began planning for and hunting for tickets for our trip to CA in April. (WOOT!!!)
- Upward basketball practice for Daddy and a movie night for us.
- Nit combing, nit combing, nit combing…. hair treating (non-toxic, but still annoying).
- Matt went to his brother’s Bachelor’s party.
- Matt’s brother William married his lovely fiance (and now bride), Koutrney, Saturday so we hauled the masses out there to attend and celebrate.
- I tried to do homeschooling prep so we could start homeschooling this week (goodbye 3.5 week break!!)
- I cleaned like a beast, rearranged our room a bit (since Hannah moved out), caught up on my Bible Study, got those “twins” back on a feasible post-sickness schedule, treated our cloth diapers and got “the twins” into cloth, got my laundry routine rolling.
- And we OVERCAME LICE!!!!!!!!!
And I survived to tell it all.
(Deep breath) Feels good to be almost on track! =D
Music Monday: Step Intentionally
This is a humorous song written by Sara Groves that actually holds a really good point. This song talks all about the church running from the conflict of the world – fleeing to the moon in a moment of “I don’t want to deal with this”.
I have always enjoyed this song (even though Matt laughs at me sometimes due to it’s silliness) because it speaks to a reality of the foolishness of avoiding the world’s sin. There are many times I just wanted to run and hide – be it a frustrating conversation challenging my faith or a discouragement in watching a fellow believer take Scripture way out of context and represent a characteristic of God that in inaccurate. I’m sure I’ve caused many others to smack their own heads as well as God is continually modeling and shaping me to be more like Him and less like my sinful self.
Just as this song touches on the irony of running from the world, it’s been a helpful tool in remembering to look at the large picture of Christianity and the faithfulness of God to work amongst us broken and sinful people. What a great God that He uses us losers as tools to reach the lost!
So in those moments that I want to rein it in, pack it up and run away from conflict, frustration and “the log in another’s eye”, I am thankful that God uses people like Sara Groves to point out the silliness in that philosophy.
Afterall, how will they hear or see if no one shares Christ?
You have to get into the muck to help another out of the muck.
– Step intentionally.
Deceit.
What do you do when you find out the county lied about the placement case you accepted?
You feel shocked.
You repeat the new information that changes the odds of working toward adoption in an unfavorable way.
You feel frustrated that your clearly stated desires were blatantly ignored.
You call your out-of-town sister in a mixture of confusion, frustration and shock.
You feel betrayed, stabbed in the back and stuck in a situation that either you or the children will pay for, not the ones that misrepresented the case.
You ask the baby, “what is going to happen to you?” in disbelief and uncertainly while bouncing him.
You put on a movie for the older kids because you’re emotionally spent.
You go for a walk when your husband gets home so you can try to clear your head and come to terms with the new conditions.
You call your husband on the walk so he can talk to you while making dinner because some things should not be shared with children.
You cry until your baby looks up at you in the front carrier with bewilderment.
You leave your mom a message since she’s one of your best friends and is unavailable.
And you just walk in the quiet, cold, asking God, “what now?”
Then you come home in time for dinner.
Do bath night assembly lines as usual.
And hug your boys goodnight.
Because even when you’ve been disrespected, two little people are worth more than shifting stability and the very ugliness of a case you would not choose to accept, had you been told the truth.
So who knows what tomorrow holds for all of us in this equation.
But I do know this… I can’t do this.
But Christ can.
And will.