Did you ever feel like you have so much to do you don’t know where to start? That you’re being stretched like Mrs. Incredible and are about to snap?

Well that’s how I feel right now! I’m trying to finish edits on my WIP in the midst of scheduling doctors appointments, acquiring donations for my kids school fundraiser for THREE classes, on top of planning activities for this fundraiser (Americana Day) and setting up displays for two of these classes, and rewriting a play for one, typing out my recipes for a cook book, and getting performers to come and that’s not even considering all the work it will take to decorate the rooms. Tomorrow I have a meeting for one of the class projects that I haven’t even begun work on. The good news is that I delegated a lot of the work already, but my train wreck of a house has been stressing me out for months, but I just keep stepping over the toys and clutter, and now my husband informed me over Spring break my son wants a sleep over birthday party! ARGH!

If my mom wasn’t staying with me the laundry wouldn’t be getting done and neither would most of the cooking. She’s really been helpful in cooking and chopping veggies, so I feel healthier, physically, I’m just drained mentally. I’m surrounded by clutter and don’t know where to start, and I still have a list of people to call for other various meetings and a doctor appointment to take my mother to tomorrow!

My hubby doesn’t understand that I don’t want kids in this house because every where I turn there’s either kid clutter, mom (my mom) clutter, year old homeschool clutter, and WIP work cluttering my desk. I really wanted this spring break to be a time I could declutter my home and now I may have to be entertaining kids! ARGH! Feeling like a pirate here!

Hubby says I shouldn’t worry, and not to stress, but he has no clue how much needs to be done, and I don’t want to be pressured into doing it and then have two days full of noisy boys in my home. I really don’t want to have a sleepover in this house at all. At first it was going to be at a hotel. I’m not sure why it changed, but I really can’t deal with it right now. I have too much going on, too much to worry about, and too much stress!

Thanks for listening. We now return to your regularly posted blog…

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So many people around me seem to need prayer I thought I’d take the time to jot them down. You’re welcome to pray for these people and add your own request to the comment section:

My dad is recovering from a heart procedure where they had to go in and open up his stents.

My mom needs healing in her arm, a job, a home, and a car (she just moved to town and has a broken arm)

My father-in-law is recovering from a minor stroke.

My husband’s cousin is battling skin cancer.

There’s a situation at my kids school of unkind talk and bullying toward another student and my heart goes out to him because my son experienced the same thing. I pray that this situation gets resolved and the students that are acting unkindly will realize their sin and stop their behavior.

A writing friend had an unexpected death in the family.

Another writing friend is facing surgery.

A friend’s two year old was diagnosed with cancer.

Jesus, I pray for all these needs. They are so great and so many, but you are greater and care for these people even more than I do. Comfort them in their trials and restore their bodies, minds and souls to the way you have designed and purposed for them to be. Rid them of disease, sickness, and pain to YOUR glory. Strengthen them when they are weak and give hope when they are hopeless. May they each draw closer to you!

Amen.

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It’s 4 am in the morning, that’s right 4 am, and I would have been to bed hours ago after a pretty good writing session, but I’ve been searching for an illusive version to my WIP. I keep multiply copies on my computer, SAVING AS so I can have old versions of my WIP. I back up through a Yahoo group, Mozy and gmail and no where can I find the version where I rewrote the ending! I know I wrote it AFTER ACFW because I had a paid critique, and I had great ideas on how to up the stakes. I know I really wrote it! I even think someone might have critiqued it for me.

It was 180 degrees from what I originally wrote, and I don’t think I can muster up the energy to rewrite it and rewrite it as well, so please pray! I’m only 20 pages from the end, and I was getting my writing second wind, now I’m dead in the water (cliche alert) and through it all I have such a peace. No anxiety rolling in my belly (Maybe it’s the late hour, and I’m numb!)

I checked one of my flash drives, there’s a slight chance it could be on another one. But I really have no idea what could have happened to this version. The only thing I can think of is when I wrote it, it didn’t get saved or my computer died and it never got recovered.

This is really not a good thing to happen right now because I’m so far from being finished, and I’m losing steam! I really, really, really, don’t want to rewrite these chapters, and if I have to, I’m not sure when I’m have the mental energy! Definitely not tomorrow! I need some sleep!

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I can’t go into details right now, but I could really use your prayers. I’m supposed to leave tomorrow for the ACFW conference, and I’m experiencing somewhat of a family crisis (not my immediate family). I’m a little shaken and don’t know how everything is going to work out, but God does. And he is faithful.

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I just finished reading Camy Tang’s Sushi for One? I thoroughly enjoyed being immersed in the Asian culture as well as the life of die-hard volleyball player. I used to play volleyball in junior high and high school so it was fun getting to relive my sports playing days, though I was no where near as good as Lex.

It’s hard not to sympathize with Lex being the misfit (sports loving female fanatic ) in her large Asian family and being caught in family politics which transcend nationalities. Peppered with enough zaniness and romance, Sushi for One? sucked me into Lex’s life, insecurities and dating fears.

But the thing that touched me the most was the very subtle faith message you really didn’t know was there until the end. Lex has a problem with doing things without asking God. So do I. Over the years I often acted without prayer or thought of consulting God, and it got me in trouble, just like Lex.

Now I’d like to believe I consult God on lots of things, that I pray about what to do before I do it, but I don’t. Like Lex, I’m a doer not a travailer! So when I sometimes leap before I pray, I trust that God will gently tap me on the shoulder and give me a feeling of unrest in my spirit if I’m off track. And if a gentle tap doesn’t do it, I’ve learned from experience that he’ll get my attention one way or another. Just like he did Lex.

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On the second day of school, Joey (10) comes to me after bedtime. He looks sad and distraught and starts off by saying, “I don’t know if I should tell you this or not because you might say something and I don’t want you to.”

I immediately think he’s having trouble with a kid at school. Turns out, he’s having trouble with his teacher. He’s feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by the differences between homeschooling and school.

Here I thought he’d be the one that would love it and be well adjusted, but it turns out he’s having a hard time with the rules. He says he feels like his teacher is getting on him about lots of things and that he doesn’t even know what the rules are.

Some things he’s been corrected on have been, sitting improperly in his desk chair. (He’s used to doing school work sprawled out on the floor) He’s interrupted once or twice at school and in the lunch room he was called over by the teacher because he kept getting up and down at the lunch table. He felt very embarrassed that she called him over.

Right about now I’m starting to feel guilty. Joey’s teacher is really sweet and during our pre-school conference she asked me what she wanted her to work on with Anthony. I mentioned he talks a lot and might need some help with interrupting. That we’re trying to teach him life isn’t always fair, but it’s how you deal with things that matters. We also mentioned he’s been going through a whinny stage. So I’m thinking maybe I brought this on my son!

He also mentioned being confused during a science lesson because his teacher said Molecules make up atoms and said the water atom was made up of a 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen molecule. Joey said that I taught him that atoms make up molecules. To tell you the truth, atoms and molecules confuse me so I wasn’t sure which was correct.

Now I’ve learned that when I question something Joey usually is right. Once he hears something, he remembers it. But we went to my homeschool books and lo and behold, he was right. The hydrogen atom makes up the water molecule. But how does he go and tell his teacher she was wrong. BTW, she had confided in me that one of the teachers had challenged her to do more in science so I told Joey science wasn’t her best subject, but Joey can’t understand how a teacher doens’t know everything.

So he could really use your prayers right now. It’s only the second day of school, but he feels like an outsider. His closing words to me were, “school is not like I imagined it.” I could relate. Homeschool wasn’t what I imagined either.

I guess I didn’t prepare him enough for school. I just thought he’d love it. I told him how just because it hurts sometimes doesn’t mean it’s not God’s plan. (Hope I got that double negative thing right. I guess if I woke up Joey and asked him, he’d know!) I went on to explain a diamond is just a lump of coal until it goes in the furnace and comes out shining. (He questioned my diamond theory and made me think twice about it, but I stuck to my analogy.) I told him, maybe this was God’s way of making him shine. Then I held him, and let him cry in my arms. We ended with a prayer and I said, “I promise things will get better.”

He looked at me through tear filled eyes and smiled. “Mom, don’t promise things you can’t deliver.”

But somehow, I know things will get better!

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UPDATE:  Chris went to the clinic where the doctor thinks it was a combination of injesting river water (nausea), dehyration, sinus drainage (sore throat and nausea) but I’m still thinking there’s a chance of strep since Grace had it 2 weeks ago, so we’ll probably take him into our doctor tomorrow. Right now he’s sacked out in his own bed, and happy to have his puppy right by his side. Thanks for the prayers!
Jedi’s happy too. He slept on Chris’ bed every night while he was gone.

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In case there’s someone reading now, I thought I might ask for a little prayer. Chris is at camp 1 1/2 hours away with an 102 fever, and other symptoms.

Okay, now that you’ve prayed. Here’s the story.

Chris and Joey have been at camp all week and today we get a call from the nurse that Chris has 102 fever, headache, abdominal pains, sore throat, etc.

She thinks my husband needs to come and pick him up 1 1/2 hours away and take him to the doctor.

Okay, now the hypocondriact mom in me goes searching on the internet for symptoms to West Nile virus and an life threatening/fatal ameoba disease. Chris has some of the symptoms of both.

Now I know this is not really the case, but it seems quite odd at the timing of this sickness especially since I’ve been reading a book on how to pray protection over your children (which I have been doing all week, several times a day.)

It’s just hard to know what to do. Take him to the hospital for blood work, or to a clinic where there is no blood work readily available, take him home 1 1/2 away?

I call the camp and ask them to have Chris call me back, which he eventually does and says he’s fine. Just a little sore throat and he wants to stay until tomorrow. Sure, he feels fine now that he’s dosed up on Motrin.

My husband’s probably there as we speak, thankfully he was thirty minutes closer Teeing off on the golf course (not so thankful to be interrupted!)

He leans toward not worrying and doesn’t want the expense of an ER visit. I tend to play it safe. Do what it takes to know that Chris will be fine, no matter the cost.

If you’re still reading, please pray for healing, and wisdom for him to know what to do!

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Heather of Mom2Mom Connection asked me some great questions about prayer.

Be sure to check it out and don’t forget to comment!

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Heather at FaithLifts/Swank Designs has just been diagnosed with a brain tumor! Needless to say, prayers all over the Internet have gone out on her behalf and BooMama has put together a plan to help her during this time.

Please add her to your prayer list and feel free to display the button in your sidebar! She has blessed so many people with her and now it’s time we return the blessing.

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So many people I know right now are battling breast cancer or some strange sickness, I don’t know if I could possibly list them all.

But some of the most urgent ones are following:

Margaret’s mother Susan
Her blood pressure is high, her blood sugar is high and so is her heart rate. If she continues on this course, the doctors say she will not make it very long. She also has not eaten in a week and they found she has a uninary tract infection. She is not waking up or responding, but she is not in a coma. We are urgently asking for prayer and for healing for Susan at this time. All your prayers are very much appreciated.

Rebekah’s mother Paula Batchelor is VERY sick with flu like symptoms, numbness, weakness, a temperature, and many other symptoms. Please Send this through any prayer chains you have.

Heather: Headaches and pain

Breast Cancer:
Lisa B.
Michael’s mom
Theresa

Dionna’s Daughter for fainting and seizures

Leah our Babysitter:
Stress, heart related issues

My Mom: For gall bladder palips and pain

My Dad: Heart related
Step-Mom: Back problems

I hope I’m not missing a recent prayer request, but if I am, God knows who they are. If you have a prayer request, please leave it in the comment section!

Lord, I ask you to touch these bodies, minds and souls. Correct what is wrong and make it right, for your glory. Help the doctors give the right diagnosis, the right treatment and surround these people with love and faith. Lord, hold your children in your healing hands, and make them whole and healthy so they can finish out the remainder of this life surving you and living life to the fullest.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen

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I got this prayer request from a relative and thought I’d pass it on to all the wonderful prayer warriors out there.Hi, I need a little help here. Could you put one of our soccer players was hit by a car the other day while riding his bike. He went through the wind shield of the car. It was a real bad accident. He came through surgery well, but has a long road ahead of him. He has five broken vertebrae in his back and now has a rod. He will be in a full body cast for two to three months. They are not sure what type of injury his brain has received or if any of it will be permanent. His name is Lucas Rand.

Thanks for the prayers!

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