Gearing up for the weekend
It’s time for an update on all that’s been happening here. Let me just say that it’s been a tiring, and very expensive week! So there’s good news and bad news, I suppose.
First, you’ll be glad to hear that whatever Hannah had only lasted 24 hours. So she’s over it. Praise the Lord! But it was rough while it lasted.
Secondly, the car is fixed. We did all our running around on the bus yesterday, but we were able to get the car back just in time this morning for Shari to make it to an appointment she had. The repairs were costly. It was actually nothing new – just a nagging problem that we’ve had for a couple years that we just didn’t do a good enough job of fixing the first time (it wasn’t anybody’s fault – just a judgement call that didn’t turn out to be the best). So in a way that’s good news that there’s nothing “new” wrong with it. After all, it is 21 years old. It may have been time to buy a new vehicle rather than spending so much on repairs, but we’re still in the process of raising money for a new vehicle and so far have only a small % of what we need. So for now this will have to do!
I was determined to get to bed early, to start catching up on a week and a half of sleep deprivation. Of course when you want to sleep, you can’t! 😕 And then at one or two in the morning Hannah got up and decided it was time to play, and had a temper tantrum when Shari told her it was time to sleep. So we dealt with that, and once again are looking ahead to the day when we can again get a full night of sleep!
Ending on a good note, though. Though exhausted, I seem to be over whatever I had – it lasted about a week (Monday to Monday). And we have some bright spots over the next few days. Saturday night some guests are coming over and we’re going to share a bit about Mexico. Sunday night I’m presenting part II of the 2000 years of missions seminar (come!). And on Monday we’re heading to Three Hills to share there. Yes, we will be lucky to survive all this in our condition. But you have to understand that these are encouraging points in our lives and they will at least renew us in spirit if not in body! Meanwhile, pray that God would multiply our sleeping hours! 😉