28 days left

Day 12

Tuesday

Today was a day of preparation! We are getting ready to fly home for a few days. Michaels parents gave “us” the most amazing graduation gift. (I love getting graduation gifts when I wasn’t the one who was in school all that time hehe!)

They gave Michael and I first class tickets to come home! I am so excited. Michael graduated from grad school, our two nephews graduated from kindergarten, and my brother graduated from DeAnza with his AA and Auto Tech Certificate (good to have a car guy in the family I’ll tell you that much!) So were coming home to have a family celebration and enjoy a few days with our family before we move again and Michael starts his Grown-Up job and we don’t know when we will be home again. ! I have flown many times but never first class, and since it’s a non-stop it is a long flight too! Ill take pictures and send them tomorrow. We are surprising my dad. He doesn’t know were coming. I’m going to call and be totally nonchalant and find out where he’s working and surprise him by just SHOWING UP with his favorite coffee J SNEAKY!!!! I am so excited!

So today is packing and getting the house straightened up before we go. Yesterday really got that started. Today more laundry, at this point I think every garment we own is clean, albeit not put away as we don’t have a dresser with us in Virginia, it’s still back in California, BUT there washed my goodness! And all the dishes are washed and put away. The sink is smiling at me. (flylady.com) I’m smiling myself.

OK now that I’ve written that, famous last words right? ROUGH MOMENT HAS ATTACKED!

Penny has just started vomiting. Michael and I were having a bit of a spat (not big enough to be a fight) I was snippy, he was snippy. I walked away, he came after me. There were tears, and I went out to take poor Penny to go out to some grass. BUT, the apartment complex was fertilizing, with chemicals extremely pungent and really that cant be good for a vomiting dog to go eat/walk on… SO I left to go to the Target parking lot to let her in some other grass. Target, only a mile away, actually has a bunch of green space around it so it’s not so strange as it sounds to take the sick dog to Target.

While I was there I called my mom and told her about it and she, wise woman that she is, told me to think about it a different way. Our battle is not against flesh and blood kind of thing. How was it that Michael and I who have been feeling so close and connected since starting our 40 days, would be snarking at each other so much all at once. We have every reason to be happy today. Were going to see our family tomorrow, flying first class, house is neat, dishes and laundry are done, we have been loosing weight and feeling great.

I started thinking about my Mikey, he’s the best guy and husband in the world and I really don’t know why I was so upset. I wasn’t upset WITH him, but we had very different plans for how some things were going to go this week and butted ideologies but it was no big deal! I went home and apologized. After that we had a great night getting ready.

Penny even settled down and wanted her dinner and was fine after that violent burst of vomit-tosis. J Glad thing too because she’s going to school for a week, in the morning.

God is good. He reminded me that just because I felt angry, didn’t mean I needed to BE angry. Does that make sense? I was mad that Michaels plans and mine weren’t the same and I would have to alter my planned little schedule. (oh I am SO a hobbit, Michael has changed my name to Billbobetta btw) But once I realized that I wasn’t really mad at him or really at his different idea, just sad that my plans were changing I was SO much better. The enemy was using my emotions against me and I hate it when he does that. I have been really trying to recognize when its happening so I can stop it faster. It is NOT easy. When I get mad it’s kinda a 0-120 in one instant. I see red and well she’s gone folks… I’m working on it. Slowly.

Todays devotional was a double as we figured we wouldn’t be able to get up on time to really focus on it tomorrow morning. So we did two today.

Watch and Pray and God is in the Details.