Yesterday...Part Two

After posting my blog yesterday I got my kids a healthy nutritious lunch of cinnamon toast crunch (all the bread was frozen) and since I was on the verge of a breakdown cereal was the best I could do. I kept telling myself just hang in there till 12:30, take Emma to school, come home put McKenna down for a nap, let Todd veg in front of a movie and then you can crawl back into bed. Only that wasn't really how my day was originally planned...I have been dying to get my hair cut and colored for weeks. I was having huge anxiety about being stuck in a hospital bed with two inch roots and bushy eyebrows (can't find the tweezers). So, I booked an appt. with Tami to get my hair done at 1:00, then following that a NST (non-stress test) at my doctors office at 4:00.

After wrestling in my mind about my scheduled day and my pure exhaustion, I ended up on the floor having that good cry I talked about. Only it wasn't the replenishing 'I can carry on' kind of cry, it was the 'I'm going to die if I have to carry on' kind of cry. Emma came in and gave me a big hug, then McKenna hugged me from the backside. Todd came in to pat my back, it felt a little more like being beat to death, but they were all trying to be so sweet. So, I picked myself off the office floor and decided to do the unthinkable...I had to cancel my hair appt. and NST. I needed sleep. I had one problem...I didn't have any time to compose myself before calling Tami. You know when you try and sound fine then someone asked how your doing and you fall apart, well that took all of about two seconds to happen. Through my bawling I explained that I was just too tired to come and I couldn't make my appt. I don't think Tami understood anything I said, but said she would call me later. Just then Ken called to check in...I am of course still bawling and now I don't even try to fake it. He says, I'll be home in 15 minutes. OH, HALLELUJAH! That meant that I could put McKenna down for her nap, Ken could take Emma to school and I could get in bed. That is exactly where Ken found me, still bawling, when he came home. I cried myself into a very restful 2 1/2 hour nap, while Ken took care of the home front.

Eventually, Ken had to get back to work, so he left with Todd watching a movie, McKenna still taking her nap, and me still curled up cozy in bed. About ten minutes later McKenna woke up from her nap. I felt so much better after my nap, except my body was ultra stiff and sore. I slowly made my way into McKenna's room purposely postponing having to lift her out of her crib. Just when I was about to...I heard a "HELLO" from downstairs...Oh, another HALLELUJAH! Tami was here!

Tami had come to rescue me. She stayed for the rest of the evening taking care of kids, doing dishes, and dinner, cutting the boys hair, and yes, I even got my hair done after all. I got the cut and color I have been dreaming about for weeks. Now after Ken paints my toe nails I can go to the hospital a happy woman.

So, anyway after that long story I just wanted to say THANK YOU to my wonderful husband and an angel sister. And to all my great friends that I know I could have called. It was just one of those days when picking up the phone seemed a monumental task. Yesterday was another good example to me of the Lord's tender mercies. And thanks to my great friend Shelly, you were my angel last week, when you showed up out of no where to take my kids. That was another day the Lord put all the right people in my life at the right time, thanks for listening to the Spirit.

Today I am happy to report that I am doing much better, there has been no screaming or crying out of me as of yet and it's almost 10:00 am. Things are looking up!