How Great Is Our God...
Okay, so that song just keeps running through my head so it seemed an apt title to my ramblings today. Because no matter how insane life gets, when you step back, all of it is possible OR preventable due to God's goodness. I think I'll view my life that way today rather than dreading the coming crazinesses.
Before I get into what's been happening here, I would like to mention that I happened to check out our movie reviews, and saw that Bend It Like Beckham is for sale NEW for $10. I'm not kidding, y'all, Jonathan paid $45 to have that sucker delivered to me on the DAY it came out. (The movie was $30, and the rush delivery fee the rest.) It was quite possibly the best day of my life. And now it's only ten dollars? That's delayed gratification for you, I guess. But I would have had to wait this long, and that's not cool!
Grandma and Grandpa Fashbaugh came to be with their grandson this weekend! It was a brief but lovely visit. Caleb was NOT on his best behavior. He was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Perfect! On the one hand, I know he's teething, and he's had this horrible congestion for almost a month now ~ so he was a drooling, snotty bag of cries. But on the flip side, he was more charming than ever with those big old smiles, interested looks and teeny laughs. (My favorite!)
Just having them in town for the weekend meant that there was no latitude for just brain dead time. (I usually get some on the weekend!) And I also had the opportunity to do some transcription, so that was further chaos. But I did good! I survived my Monday, as well, which held a headache and more transcription. I'm done with the transcription now, but have social commitments for tonight and tomorrow night, so I'm starting to wonder when I'll be able to let my head droop and just kick it in front of the television for a bit!
I've been back to work for two full months now. It's weird, because everyone kept telling me about how much easier it would be dropping Caleb off every morning once I got to this point. It's become ROUTINE, but not much easier than the first day I did it. I don't know if I'm being overly clingy, or if everyone who has told me that was further away from it so they had a faulty memory. It's tougher than I could have imagined.
But Caleb himself makes my busy-ness fade away. Like last night, when I had just gotten to bed at 10:30 and he woke me up at 11:00 to eat. He wasn't sleepy. He just laughed and cooed and smiled at me until after 11:30. And then when he woke up at 3:00, it was the same thing. It's like God knew that I was running a quart low, and he gave Caleb the joy that I was lacking at that time of the night/morning. It was rejuvenating.
Like Frank Barrone would say, "Fountain of youth!"
posted by Amanda @ 5:33 AM
you actually spent $45 on Buck it Like Bendham???? Now I'm even more disappointed!!!
mwahahahaha...
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