Worn

"Sometimes God redeems us from the struggles and sometimes God redeems us through them." 10th avenue north



You know when it rains it pours? How sometimes you actually feel like you haven't breathed for awhile? You're trying to come up for air? A lot went down starting around 1am last night...
my mom got sick (flu bug hit her)
c woke up at 1am and ended up sleeping on the couch (with no sleep machine...therefore making today tough until OT regrouped him) (tonight we're back to door closed for sleep. daddy always straightens things out!)
both boys woke up at 6am and quite frankly i'm impressed I even got a shower in today (and some lipgloss on)
I forgot the ergo on our way to OT and because c was in medicine/anti-ot melt down mode/lu needing a nap bad crying mode/...I ended up carrying two little boys up a huge flight of stairs and having to hold c down on the toilet to pee before OT. A sweet lady came to my rescue and opened the door for me. I just about cried.

taking lu to storytime while c did OT was the highlight of our day.

as well as the fact that post OT C was back to normal (we really do love miss a)

 

All this to say it was a hard day.

I fed the boys lunch and put them down for naps and headed to work for an early 1-4 work session while the boys napped. And finally I breathed because at 4:30 hubby came home from his week away and hugging him erased all my tension and calmed me instantly. He is my calm and peace and it felt good to have his presence back home!

 

So my point is that barely making it through the week...and then today (where my team partner of the week. aka mom. was out of commission....) is that I wanted to say there was a moment, a beautiful moment where I got to turn on klove (cause it was just lu and I in the car going to storytime...c likes his 'cds' ) and the song Worn came on and 10th avenue said this...

 

"Sometimes God redeems us from the struggles and sometimes God redeems us through them." 10th avenue north

And....I cried a lil. Cause I like to do that ya know.
I needed that. Whenever I turn on Klove I hear something good and powerful. Godfilled. So I'm going to keep reminding myself of those words.

I got bit at work today. But, surprisingly it was a good session with my lil kiddo, despite the teeth marks (that actually went through two shirt layers mind you)

I know all this stuff, Good and hard, it's helping mold me...shape me...and the hard moments make me appreciate precious little moments with my sweet boys.
Kisses and hugs, their lit up faces when they see daddy come in the front door after 4 days away, their love for each other. Their giggles and smiles. All these little moments make up for the very hard ones that happened this week. I also know there's always a rainbow after the rain storm. And that it was only a month ago that we were seeing plenty of rainbows. I know we'll see some more soon. It's just been an extra rainy season lately :)

I'm hoping sickness is gonna leave us for good! Seriously.

Now time to relax with hubby while we munch on fresh baked chocolate chip cookies while catching up on our fav. tvshows, cuddles and love. I sure do love my hubs and am glad he's home sweet home.

also...i feel so bad my mama got sick! but i couldn't have made it through the week without you mom! love ya :) and thanks for taking care of us this week.