Do you ever get that feeling like you just need a break? Well, by Thursday night I was there. I had had a long few days, with very little time to breath. The week went by so fast and I didn’t seem to accomplish as much as I would have liked. By Thursday night I was done.
Just as I was heading to bed Ray remembered that soccer sign-ups were on Friday evening. He then discovered that we needed copies of birth certificates and 1×1 photos for each of our three kiddos playing. Being the super unorganized mom that I am, I had only an idea as to where to find the birth certificates, but knew that I would need to take some head shots. I would deal with it tomorrow, I figured.
Well, tomorrow came. The morning seemed to go well, but I only seemed to have time for a shower, and rummaging through our piles of clean laundry to find clothes for everyone, before we needed to head out the door. I could hear that the kiddos were all good – and even had my older ones read to me as I was getting ready for the day – BUT, as I walked down the stairs, to gather a few things together for our day out, I remembered why I never leave my kiddos to themselves for more than a few minutes at a time – the entire downstairs was a disaster!
I wasn’t going to leave the house a mess, which meant we would be late yet again. Wonderful!
We finally joined our friends at the park, had a great day with our pals, and even spent some down-time at my sister’s house. I so needed it!
We made it home before Daddy and did our best to finish cleaning up. I started a post and even began to make spaghetti for dinner. Multi-tasking at it’s finest. Chaos, however, was waiting to rear it’s ugly head. Didn’t take long… I remembered about soccer sign-ups. Doh!
First I had to find the birth certificates. I sure hoped I had a copy of each of them. Our filing cabinet, with all of important documents, is kept in the guest room closet, conveniently packed in tightly with a desk and tons of boxes. Great place for the important stuff, huh? I couldn’t get the bottom drawer open – the one they had to be in – until we moved everything out, so I decided to finish getting a guest post ready to publish.
20 minutes and a door-less closet later… Daddy, Ethan, Zach and Julia were off for soccer sign-ups. The floor still needed to be swept, my post was just about ready to be published, and the pot of noodles was boiling when I got a call from Ray – he didn’t have the 1×1 pictures and they couldn’t sign up to play without them.
Since I haven’t printed pictures of my kiddos in almost three years, I knew I needed to print the pictures I took that day, but neither of my two printers would print pictures. When I finally got one of them to print, the picture was too small and wouldn’t work, so I went to take another one of each of them.
Then four things happened at once – My camera gave me a “card write protected” message, my computer screen went blank as I hit publish on my post, I couldn’t find a strainer for my noodles, and the babysitter arrived. Did I mention that this was a date night?
We finally got everything worked out for soccer sign-ups and Ray and I made it to dinner, but as far as I could tell From Dates to Diapers was gone. Believe me when I say that I was more than a little distraught, at this point. Was this a test? If it was, I had most certainly reached my breaking point and was proving weak.
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. (2 Cor. 12:9)
I had forgotten Who was in control and on Whom I must lean.
I was more myself by the end of the night … The kiddos were signed up for soccer, I had spent some much-needed time with my hubby, and From Dates to Diapers was back.
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Sounds like the week I had last week…seriously!
I really needed to read this this Sunday morning! Seriously…His grace is sufficient for me even if my kids drive me up the wall and I feel like a breath is impossible…HIS grace can work miracles…it really can
Oh brother! Why do they make it so difficult wanting all that stuff!!! Eight months later & I still haven’t orderd my youngest’s birth certificate … and at this particular moment, I must admit I’m not really certain 3yo’s is in the file where it “should” be!! I hear you on the mess – if there’s any way to help it, I just can NOT leave the house when it’s a mess … who wants to walk back into that?!?!
Isn’t it amazing what all can happen in a week? a day? And then when you finally get a minute to reflect back it’s like “ahhh, I made it, but not because of myself.” I think you are a super trooper with everything you do!
Oh no – I am so sorry! I hate days like that. I had to laugh though, about your important documents being in a closet full of boxes – that sounds really familiar. I have the same, exact organizing system!
I hope you will have a good week!
Don’t you just hate days like this – but love the aha moment that inevitably follows?
Wow, thank you for that. I just wrote “I had forgotten Who was in control and on Whom I must lean” on my dry erase board. I want to remember those words this week. When there is just too much to do and this mommy job gets me down I tell myself “She did what she could” (Mark 14:8). Good luck this week
Don’t you love how the lord just works everything out. When we can’t go on any further. We are reminded to “lean not to our own understanding”, but to trust in him. Gotta love me some Jesus.
Wow, sounds like you had some challenges there Chris. I’ve had days like that and in fact I think today was one of them. Last night we went to Dustins basketball game and Alex didn’t listen to me when I told him not to climb to the top of the bleachers and it reminded me that I haven’t been consistent in correcting him when he doesn’t mind. So today has been me trying to play catch up and let’s just say it’s been a long day. Thanks for the 2 Cor. 12:9 reminder. Oh, only the three oldest, does that mean that Josh isn’t going to play soccer after all? Have a great rest of the night. Love you!
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