So You Had a Bad Day ....

If that doesn't describe yesterday, I don't know what does!!  It started out okay, not bad, actually.  We were going to buy Briggs a prize for going in to his Sunday school room for the last 4 weeks with no crying, fussing, kicking, etc. Bribery, I know, but we had to do something!  Well, then, Aaron decided to pay the bills, and you know how that goes!  So then we leave to go looking for a fire truck - Briggs had decided that's what he wanted.  He's been obsessed with firefighters lately (he wanted his hair cut like a firefighter's).  We get to Walmart and he and Aaron went searching for the fire truck while I went to get groceries.  They finally found me a little later with a slip n slide in hand.  "Where's the fire truck," I asked.  They did not have fire trucks at Walmart (I thought that was odd) so Briggs went around looking until he found something he wanted. He found a slip n slide like Caden's and had to have it.  We tried to talk him out of it because if we move to an apartment (we still have made no decisions on this) he will not be able to use it.  He begged and pleaded, and we wound up with the slip n slide. In that whole process, Aaron snapped at me, and I snapped back at him.  Lovely!  We finally make it back home, and Briggs is asking over and over to go on the slip n slide.  Aaron set it up in the back yard.  Didn't work so well.  Briggs couldn't slide down it b/c of the way the yard goes back there. No water got on the slide and when he tried to go down, a stick poked through and made a hole.  Great!  We then moved it to the front yard to give it a try.  I came inside for something and a few minutes later Aaron came in to get some clothes pins to put on there to try to build up the water pressure.  I heard Briggs screaming to the top of his lungs, and I took off out the door.  He was screaming, "A snake, a snake!!!"  I looked, and there in the pool part of the slip n slide was a snake.  I just started crying. I thought they were all gone.  Oh, and by the way, Briggs has since decided that he doesn't want the slip n slide.  UGH!

All of this happened on top of us trying to decide about moving and changing or not changing Aaron's major.  We came to seminary with his major being MATSIL.  We thought (based on what we were told) that we would receive a discount from the seminary b/c we were going in to missions.  We found out this week that isn't so.  Back in February, we found out about a scholarship for students from SC that we applied for.  MATSIL was not an accepted program for the scholarship so we thought about it, considered our options, and Aaron decided to change his major to missiology.  We resent the paper work for the scholarship.  Yesterday, he realized that he can't be in the missiology program unless he has had 2 years of field experience.  That means he would need to change back to MATSIL and not be eligible for the scholarship.  Boy, we feel like we don't know which way to turn.  And then there's the moving deal.  I want to - have wanted to since we first moved here, especially with all the snakes and ants.  Aaron isn't as crazy about moving.  It would save about $50.00 a month, but we would have not storage place for our kayaks, and we don't know if we could get our deposit back on the house we are in now.  There would also be expenses involved in moving that we have to think about.  We are both on overload right now.  Did I also mention that Aaron has applied for a media position at the seminary that he would LOVE to have?  I need to find a job also to help with income, but it's hard to find something that doesn't involve childcare costs!  Aaron is not really crazy about his job at Kroger, although he is thankful to have one.  And on top of all that, Briggs' behavior/attitude has plummeted!  Did I mention that we are on overload?  Stressed to the max!  So yesterday was a bad day!

BUT THANK GOD that TODAY is a NEW day!  God has assured me that just because I have one bad day doesn't mean I have to have the "Ground Hog Day" experience over and over.  Each day is a new day in the Lord.  He also reminded me of my favorite verse: Jeremiah 29:11 "For I (that's God, not Brandi) know the plans I (again, that's God) have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."  What an awesome verse!  I have to be reminded that it's not my plans that matter, it's God's plans that matter.  I am so thankful that He allows us to start over!  Today, I plan to focus on God and not on myself and the "problems" I think I have swirling around me. 

Matthew 6:25-26 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feed them. Are you not of more value than they?"