Strepp AGAIN and School starts tomorrow

(I began this post yesterday)
How many times can one person get strepp throat in 7 months? The answer for me is ....3 times!!!!! Thank you God for Z-packs. Within 7 hours of taking my first 2 pills, I was a different person. After I realized that I had strepp, all I could think about was being a sick mama and not being able to spend today with my kiddos like I had hoped and planned. Abby, Evan and Emma had an openhouse at their school tonight from 6-7:30 p.m. This has always been a neat time to meet the teachers, see the classroom, and help the kids put away their school supplies. John had to work tonight at the Colt World Series (it's summertime, and we need the moola so he didn't want to take the night off). Anna and Johnathan had MP3 also. John was going to drop them off, then Kim kindly agreed to bring them home. Needless to say, I was stressing a little as to how I was going to feel good enough to take the kids to their openhouse. I prayed and asked God to just figure it all out for me. Mom came and got Avry for the evening. I took at least 3 naps today and broke a fever a couple of times. When I woke up at 4 p.m., I felt like a new woman. The kids and I had a great time at the openhouse and I just took it slow. Sadly, my stamina began to wither away after our 1 hour adventure at Klondike. God was so gracious this evening to me.



I don't know about you, but I often get stuck in the rut of believing that certain bad habits will just never change. Now I know that is not true because the Bible says so! But, boy oh boy is it easy to be deceived. John has instituted a new family habit that has already been life transforming, amazing, phenomenal, monumental. "What on earth could it be" you ask??? It's simple actually. He has decided that we WILL and MUST get up in the mornings when the alarm goes off. The difficult part is that the alarm goes off before the kids wake up and this requires some self control and discipline to get up to the accountability of God and not to children's voices.
I'm proud of John and his new found love to lead our family. It's definately exciting. Oh, and another thing...we're reading the Bible with the children in the morning. Now, before you get too impressed, let me OVERemphasize that this is not by our own accord. The Holy Spirit is completely responsible for this one. Praise be to God!!
It's been a nice slow morning as Anna needed up at 5:40 and the others woke up after she went to school.
Have a great day everyone!! School has begun and a new beginning is here.
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