August 7
Our momentary troubles
I caught one of the kids wearing their swimsuit yesterday because they said their unmentionables needed to be laundered. I can't decide if I should be more embarrassed because my kid was wearing their swimsuit for underwear or for the fact that I'm sharing this with you.
You might remember that Monday I spent hours, no exaggeration, calling and visiting pharmacies and clinics to get the second dose of the varicella (chicken pox) immunization to be school-prepared. Our insurance wouldn't pay for a pharmacy to administer the shot and there wasn't a clinic I could find that had it available. We still don't have the shot which is required to be admitted in school. I'd rather not pay the hundred plus non-insurance cost. And I'm not home schooling.......To be continued. P.S. I haven't bought a single school supply. I've got to face shopping, apparently more unmentionables need to be on the list.
Yesterday was day three of our wheat free week. I ate out with some wonderful ladies at the Tea Room on Nederland Ave. I skipped the wraps and scrumptious sounding Quiche for Lentil soup and a salad. (It was actually really good). The kicker was the waitress describing the Chocoflan on the dessert list. I rarely have dessert but it bothered me that I couldn't have the Chocoflan because it wasn't wheat-free (my friends were watching).
I made rice noodle lasagna for supper. I was pretty pleased until I heard a crunch-the kind that makes you want to put your fork down and call dinner done. Hayden announces "Y'all be careful not to bite down on the dry wall". He bit into a noodle not exposed to adequate sauce. I'd really tried to make this dish work........
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. -Horace Walpole
Still buried under mounds of laundry.
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come -Proverbs 31:25
We're packing up to visit Trinity to remember one of our favorite ladies in the world, Ms Marj, who lost her battle with leukemia. She was as dazzling as her hats and earrings. I wish I could have one more hug, but I know she is fully experiencing the victory of the THE BIGGEST BATTLE. I'm glad for that.
Energy is hard to find these days. My body is in rebellion to my new diet and insistence on working out; it wants to know where all this 'out-of-the-blue healthiness' comes from anyway.
There's one thing most-worth mentioning that happened last night prior to the noodle fiasco. Rylie took her spoon and tapped her glass of Gatorade, toast-style, and said she had an announcement. It was a good one. I won't share it just yet because she plans on sharing it with the world this Sunday.
There are a thousand things in a week that don't go just as I planned (Thank goodness some of them don't!). My computer not working, another failed dish, pants that won't fit, arguing in the backseat, clutter on the stairwell....... these things put me in a tizzy. And they make me tired.
But then I think about Ms Marj. And I think about last night's "Big Announcement".....and I then I remember
For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond comparison. 2 Corinthians 4:17
It's that knowledge that turns my tizzy into felicity. Really, these momentary troubles are weightless in light of eternity.
Every day is not a good day. Life is lived best when every day is realized as a God day.