I had a killer headache last week, and by killer I mean the kind of migraine headache that builds and grows through the night (grr, headaches are supposed to get better with sleeping) and leaves me vomitting and in intense pain, unable to get out of bed for a day. Ugh, I hate losing entire days of my life to pain.
It could’ve been worse…
I attempted to take my kids to a county fair. We stopped at a grocery store for some snacks that don’t cost an entire arm and a leg. We piled back into the van to head to the fun. The van wouldn’t start. The fuel pump was dead, it wasn’t gonna start no matter how much I tried. I was stuck in a parking lot 15 minutes from home, with 7 eager children, and my husband was working and unable to head over to save the day. We got out and walked to the fair. It was fun, and then it got hot, and I had forgotten to charge my cell phone, it was almost dead, but it had enough battery left to call my sisters for a rescue which (with their children in tow) took 3 car loads! We piled 6 of the 8 of us into their 2 cars and I handed my 2 oldest boys some cash and sent them over to Target to wait in the snack area for 1 of my sisters to head back for a second load of my children. We stayed at my youngest sister’s house (she lives very close to where we were stuck) for some hours, appreciating her air conditioning after I had started to succumb to one of my way-too-much-sun headaches. Eventually my husband came to pick up some of us and then had to head back for a second trip for the rest of them. We may have (fer sure) developed a deeper appreciation for our 12 passenger van.
My husband had to spend several hundred dollars and an entire Saturday replacing the fuel pump.
It could’ve been worse…
I have sleep issues. They ebb and flow, sometimes more of a problem than others. Saturday night I had major insomnia. Wide-eyed and alert until 2 am, when I finally laid down and tossed and turned for at least another hour, only to wake up a few short hours later, not really ready to face a Sunday morning and all the getting ready and the getting out the door and the getting to church, but I did and I was tired and it was ok.
It could’ve been worse…
Today is a bad pain day. My neck is apparently quite upset with me for something. I’m trying to stay off of pain killers, both because I am newly pregnant, and because I’ve started seeing a new chiropractor and I’m trying to ease back into the detoxing and naturally eating and living lifestyle that I prefer and away from the conventional convenience foods and prescription and over-the-counter medicine overuse lifestyle that I had slowly slipped back into over the years.
It could be worse…
I’ve had a few reasons to grumble… and I have, a little bit, but mostly I just rolled with it, and this is pretty much a major victory for me, as grumbling may have been my middle name for the majority of my life. By the grace of God, that is changing, it really, really, is.
Thinking on things to be thankful for is life-changing.
Meditating on the multitudes of His mercies is heart-changing.
In a good way!
471. a vehicle which has given us so few problems over the years
472. breaking down in town, near our destination for the day
473. beautiful (hot & sunny) weather to be outdoors in
474. family that lives close enough to help
475. sons old enough and responsible and trustworthy enough to be left alone in town for a while waiting for the third car load
476. kids day free games to entertain the children for under a million dollars (have you seen the price of carnival/fair games these days?! who throws away $5 to toss 3 basketballs?! Ok, my teen did, just once, ’cause then he was out of cash, and is pretty sure he’s learned that it really is a waste of money…)
477. cold water on a hot sunny day
478. ice cubes
479. finding the right part in our small town on a Saturday morning
480. room to work and all the tools Mr. Extraordinary could need at my parent’s place
481. company and assistance from my dad and brother-in-law while my husband tackled what may be his biggest vehicle repair project yet
482. it worked! (the repair)
483. it still works!/works again! (the van)
484. the money to fix it
485. no morning sickness
486. ice packs for when my neck needs ice
487. hot rice packs for when my neck needs heat
488. years of safety on the roads on our long drives to and from church every Sunday
489. good messages from His Word
490. hymns sung with kindred spirits
Thank You, Lord! You are so good to me, to us, better than I deserve.
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Thank you for the reminder to seek out the blessings we have in our lives – there are many, even when things don’t always work out the way you expect.
And, congratulations on your newest little one! I hope your pregnancy is going smoothly.
Ali, thank you reminding me to seeing the blessings and the good in the midst of what seems to be a not-so-good situation. I needed that today!
‘seeing’ should be ‘see’ :/
Newly pregnant? CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
I will praying that this pregnancy goes smoothly for you.
http://www.anordinarymom.com/2010/07/the-due-date-that-wasnt/
What a blessing to see how you are counting those blessings! God is so good even through the storms!
Congratulations on your pregnancy!