Ups and Downs
Posted on September 22, 2009 - Filed Under Personal, Simple Life | 2 Comments
Life is a series of ups and downs. I used to have a CD by a Christian comedian, Mark Lowry and one of his routines involved a section where he talked about this. He said, “If you’re having a bad year, hang in there, it will pass. Having a good year? Hang on! It will pass!” Sooo true!
Lately, things have been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride around here. The whole ATM theft (still not resolved) caused a few issues, but we were lucky in that we didn’t have all our money in the bank, so we made it through. It did mean that my dreams of going to the Kansas concert were out though. Then my dad found out that I wasn’t going and he decided that it was an important opportunity and sent money for the tickets and a night out for Irving and I. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was!! After such a disappointment, to be able to go again is wonderful!
The boys were being very very grumpy last week. To the point of driving me insane. I had deadlines up to my eyeballs, more assignments coming in on an almost hourly basis . . . all urgent, of course, and the kids were literally punching each other in the face and ripping hair out until I was yelling at them and felt like a referee putting them in separate chairs! Irving had work and even though he was supposed to be home all day, he ended up having to leave early three days in a row, right after lunch, leaving me even further in trouble with my writing clients. I had overbooked myself and when things went wrong, it all went downhill.
We had some tests done, found out that the kids had giardia (oh yay!) and parasites, got medicine and lo and behold, it was the first medicine that has ever been forcefully SPIT OUT by Dorian. This kid takes any kind of medicine, no matter how horrid, but this stuff, he wouldn’t touch. Finally, after wasting an entire bottle of rather pricey medicine, I read the dosages, took one of our pills and cracked it in half and mashed it into jam for them to take. And they did!
No sooner did they take meds, than they felt better and started getting along again. Oh, they’re still having spats, but at least they are playing together again most of the time and the fisticuffs are all for fun instead of trying to hurt each other.
I finally convinced my clients that I’m not SuperWoman and got them to let me give longer lead times so I actually have a few seconds to breathe and everything fell into place for the concert, babysitter, transport and I have the tickets in my hot little hands. Not only that, but a serious glitch we were having with getting money from my PayPal account to Guatemala was finally resolved and I no longer have to deal with relying on others to help me get the money here. That is a HUGE relief.
And finally, after all the computer problems I’ve been having, a very sweet friend and blog reader has offered to bring me a real laptop from the States when she comes back down. I’m so incredibly greatful!
So, up and down and up and down we go. That’s just life I guess!
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Oh Genesis;
When it rains it pours! Sorry to hear you’ve been having it rough as of late. Praying for you sweet friend. Know that our car was broken into last week, while on vacation…they stole my purse, my knitting, and our GPS. Not too fun on day two of a vacation given to you by your in laws…who knew you can’t afford a vacation and that we really needed one.
(((hug)))
Kimmie
mama to 7
one homemade and 6 adopted
I’m so sorry to hear that, Kimmie! It was such a beautiful bag that your daughter made for you, too.