Making a plan isn't always a bad thing unless you live here with my children.
You can make your plans all you want but as the saying goes "life happens!"
I have a test coming up in the morning and I have been studying for it for the past few weeks whenever I get a chance like, after they go to bed, while they are swimming, during a break at work etc.
Tonight I wanted to take a practice test and my plan was to do that while they were in church.
It seemed that we had some unfinished school work that had to come to church with us, so first we had to finish "their" work for the day.
Once that was done my precious hour and a half of alone study time was down to a "Ok I have 20 minutes left now"
I started to work on it but it seemed that they were losing all sense that God gave them.
I couldn't concentrate, they were all over the place and it just kept getting worse.
I got halfway done before we had to pick up the middle child from her class.
Just then what was already a night that needed to end became a scene of "whose kids are those?"
Needless to say I "voiced" my frustrations the entire way home and for 10 more minutes after we got here.
I finally get everyone in bed, start cleaning up and getting laundry together when I was already feeling guilty with the "Kelly, you have 3 amazing children and your just stressed out feeling" but then I had to find THE NOTE.
It was sitting here in my desk chair.
So I of course went to everyone and apologized for getting so upset.
I told them that I loved them so much and appreciate who they are and how they make me feel!
I thank God for them and for his gentle reminders.
I might mess up again tomorrow, but that's just ok because I have some great help!
"In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry Ephesians 4:26
