A B.A.D. day yesterday. Really BAD. All involving agencies and 2 little girls whom we love very much. We knew by law we needed medical coverage for our home study. We have been trying to get medical insurance for a while. We were denied coverage from one company and had been checking into different options. BUT insurance agencies are SO time consuming and def NOT Marv's first love, so some procrastination was at fault, but we HAD been working on it. Anyways.. our home study agency (the agency we got our new girls through) found out on Thursday that we did not have medical insurance yet. Our SW knew we were working on it and had finished our home study, but never told our agency that we did not have it yet. They came unglued. SW emailed yesterday morning that we HAD to come up with something YESTERDAY or our adoption w a s a t r i s k. Our SW is a gem. She does not say things like that unless it is serious. I panicked. I could just imagine AAA driving in our drive and taking our new girls BECAUSE the rest of us were NOT INSURED. Yes, how ridiculous is that????? It had nothing to do with Addie and Baby. They are not in our name and thus no insurance will cover them anyway. This all was just to do with Marv, me, Oliver, and Isabel, but it's law. I was stressed. Marv was in Creede pouring concrete and so the whole load was on my shoulders. Baby is teething and terribly grumpy and I was supposed to find an agency that would get us covered YESTERDAY??? I challenge you, try to find one. I called and I called. I desperately called. Every one was 30 days out, 10 days to review application, denied because we were in the process of adopting... etc... etc... Impossible. You would think some agency would have a soft heart for a woman weeping to them on the phone, but no! :) I do not get stressed easily, but I'm sorry this turned me into a b a s k e t c a s e. I cried all morning. The house and children were going from bad to worse as I searched the internet and talked on the phone so I finally called Mom. Mom came and took care of the children while I almost threw up my hands. Mom talked to Dad and Dad said to try to call a friend who has been coming to our church for years and we all know him well. He has an insurance business. So I called him and told him the situation and asked him WHAT TO DO. He told me, "I think I can get you covered today." He's lucky we were talking on the phone, because I would have hugged him! Come to find out he couldn't get us covered yesterday, but we will be covered on Wednesday and our agency is OK with that. Thank you, God. As quickly as it had come the storm was over. But wow, what a raging 4 hour storm. I was mentally and emotionally totally exhausted. I put the children to sleep and so badly wanted to lay down and close my eyes, but alas there is no rest for the weary! :) (please don't feel sorry for me, it's just life some days :) I had pages and pages of info to fill out for the insurance agency. By the time I was done Baby was wide awake. She has not been feeling good. I'm pretty sure it's teeth as she has none. She did not settle down until 1am last night, but I got to sleep until 8 this morning and actually today I'm feeling pretty perky! I did not do any dishes all day yesterday and with Baby the way she was I didn't get any done in the evening either and so needless to say my kitchen was a very unwelcoming sight this morning. Then Marv sweetly asked FOR PANCAKES! At first I wanted to scream, but then I decided I could either be happy or mad. I could be mad at him, because he was so thoughtless of me and then he would be mad at me because I was so thoughtless of him and then it would be another bad day! He wasn't trying to be difficult! If I was happy we could have a good day and we could have PANCAKES for breakfast! :) Why am I rambling on about pancakes??? So we had pancakes (pancakes are actually not a big deal if you change your mindset!) and right now my kitchen is clean and the rest of the house is kind of back to order too! I am thankful that by the grace of God I was able to choose to have a good day (and it really didn't have anything to do with pancakes, it had to do with my attitude) ! It came clear to me again that SO MUCH of life is a battle of MY will, MY way and the less there is of ME the more power and grace God can GIVE and GIVE and GIVE. Love to you all my friends..
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and RUNNING OVER. For with the same measure the ye mete withal it shall be measure to you again. Luke 6:38
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