His Timing & Grace

It goes without saying that life is busy right now. It's also quite evident that I am a person who struggles with transitions. So when a car needing brakes, a 2nd car whose power windows went out, a baby who's been exposed to RSV, 2 nights of conferences for me, and an early release day for the boys came on top of all the other things happening during our week, you would think I would be a total wreck.

I truly believe it's because of God's timing and His grace that I haven't been all that affected or stressed by these things.

One our cars needs some brake work done, so Brian arranged to do some car shuffling later in the week when his mom comes into town. Perfect! We'll have another car around if we need it.

On Monday afternoon, Brian put the window down on the other car to grab the mail and it wouldn't go up. How nice that it happened during an unseasonably warm week and right in front of our house. If he needed to be out and about with his window down this week, it wouldn't be too inconvenient. He called around and it looked like it would be a $350+ repair. Bummer.

The boys were scheduled to have a 2-hour early release on Tuesday and I had conferences that night. Brian had planned to take the day off to ease all of the juggling stress. Who would have known that the night prior to this, Luke would come down with a horrible cough after having been exposed to RSV. No problem, Brian already had the day off on Tuesday so neither of us needed to scramble to put sub plans together. Brian was now able to be home with a sick baby and home to greet the boys when they got out of school at 1:30.

Since Brian was home in the morning, he decided to call a co-worker from the high school auto department. They were able to take the car with the broken power windows and agree to fix it for about $100, so Tuesday morning while both of us were home, we brought the car to the high school to be fixed and picked up an extra vehicle from my parents' house. Again a potential stressful event that worked out very easily.

Since Luke's cough was sounding pretty bad, I decided to try to get a dr. appt for him. I was able to get in quickly and decided to plan for a sick day on Wed. How nice that Wed. happens to be the day where I have a 60 min prep in the afternoon and am only responsible for about 60 min of student contact time. Easy and quick to leave sub plans. Very little stress.

After Wednesday, Grandma Marilyn will be here for 6 days and will be able to help out with Luke while Brian and I have school. If she didn't have plans to come, we'd be taking turns staying home to be here with Luke. What perfect timing to have her come and help us out!

So, at the cost of one pre-arranged day off for Brian and a planned ahead sick day for myself, we're now able to have Luke home for almost a week, get two cars repaired, enjoy this beautiful weather we're having, but most of all, realize that God takes care of all the details, big and small, in our lives.

I am very thankful for His timing and grace this week!

**The dr. didn't do an official swab for RSV, but feels pretty certain that's what he has. She checked his oxygen levels which were fine, no sign of ear infections, no temperature...just some heavy congestion. He's eating and sleeping normal (8 hours a couple of nights ago and 6 hours last night), so we're just supposed to keep an eye on him. Again, it could have been so much worse, and we're so thankful that it's not!

And for those of you who are wondering, he'll be 4 months on Friday and he weighs 17 lb 9 oz.