It has been a very busy week or so! School has started back, soccer has started back, garden is producing, goats need fed, kids need notebooks, freezer on the fritz, solar eclipse to appreciate – you know just your every day, run of the mill stuff.
I was already running behind – I know, surprising isn’t it?
I’ll make this simple – challenges vs. blessings
Challenge: One serious asthma attack at Saturday’s soccer game
Blessing: Able to make it to the ER without complication, seen quickly, treated extremely well.
Challenge: Having a child admitted to the hospital and then sent to ICU (your welcome Lexie – I left your photo out of this!)
Blessing: Excellent, friendly, quality, amazing care given by everyone we came in contact with. Seriously the BEST care I have ever received or witnessed in the hospital, and I have seen alot!
Challenge: Parenting one child in the hospital, one child at home – alone – while farmer man handled the farm.
Blessing: Really great friends and family who stepped up and parented in my absence, brought stuff to the hospital, transported to ballgames, fed, etc. my other child. Yay!
Challenge: One very sick goat
Blessing: A sister who will step in and help with the farm while I am otherwise tied up! A vet that would make a farm visit, and a farmer man who is willing to nurse a sick goat even when it is difficult.
Challenge: How to watch a solar eclipse from an ICU?
Blessing: One piece of paper with a hole punched in it. AND a resident who shared some eclipse glasses!
Challenge: Sleeping in a chair in the ICU
Blessing: Plenty of comfort and caring from the staff, visits and encouragement from friends!
Challenge: Having a very sick girl who had to be put on Heli-Ox.
Blessing: The entertainment of listening to my kid talk like Minnie Mouse for a few days! (Your welcome Lexie, I left the video out also – love you – cupcake)
So, the goat is still receiving care by farmer man, the sick kid is home and doing well, the eclipse was great to watch, soccer is on hold for one kid and still in full swing for the other, the soccer team is AMAZINGLY supportive and loving, my schedule over the next few weeks holds more doctors visits than I can keep track of – for animals and humans!
The bottom line: I am so imperfect – I lose my cool, I pout, I get overwhelmed, I yell etc. Especially this week, but, God has provided blessing in difficulty, provision in need, knowledgeable medical staff in illness, peace in the midst of adversity. He is the good shepherd, the One who helps me keep my balance when things become unstable.
I think this week I might be cheating. Farmer man has been farming – I have been parenting. But, part of farming is doing what needs done – when it needs done – because it needs done. Just keep farming, just keep farming, just keep farming – farming, farming. . .
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