The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men...

Let me deal with the first half first.  We’ve inexplicably lost our mouse.  It really ought to be somewhere, but until we find it, we’re stuck using touch pads.  (that fills the part about mice )

So, Sunday night, I was really fired up about today.  I planned to finally get a good full day in at the office, and had a long list of things to do.  First, I must find my desk, second, Dr. Bob gave me a book by A.W. Tozer on worship I wanted to chew through today (review to come when I’ve finished), and there’s a whole long list of stuff that I want to get started on at work.

My plans were well set, until the 4 am feeding (I think, it might have been the midnight one).  What happened?  I woke up dizzy (well actually, apparently I woke up with vertigo).  So, I drank some juice and had a late snack, fed Isaac and went back to sleep.  I woke up later still dizzy.  Matter of fact, the world has yet to cease spinning (Jodie takes this point to remind me that the world does not in fact revolve around me, and I tell her that apparently it does).  Two meals, a nap and several bottles of water later, I was at the doctor’s office trying to explain to him that I felt dizzy, but no I didn’t have a headache, no earache, etc.  I was actually starting to feel stupid, when he held up a finger and asked me to follow it.  I tried, I really did.  And then he had me stand up, put my arms out in front of me and close my eyes.  I’m actually kind of proud I didn’t fall.  So, after prescribing me some anti-dizziness medicine, he let me know he really would like me to get a “head scan” and we’d see what’s wrong.  Yay, an opportunity to come face to face with my fear of getting stuck in a tube!

Anyway, after my appointment, Jodie’s scheduled appointment, Isaac’s appointment to get a weight check (BTW, after two weeks of nothing, he’s finally starting to gain weight), many feedings, and another attempt at a nap (the meds cause drowsiness), I’ve managed to make it to the end of the day with only one or two things checked off my list.  Looking back on the day though, I did get some extra Bible reading done this afternoon.  Since I was dizzy and couldn’t drive Jodie to the doctor, I got some extra cuddle time with Isaac, and was forced to sit down for a day.

I’m not going to super-spiritualize this, but I do think that sometimes our Father knows when we must be forced to take a break.  Not that that doesn’t stop us from planning our days, but be ready for those plans to change, or even be upended entirely.  Have a blessed day, and hopefully tomorrow I can get that cd review done, and that book read, and that desk cleaned…….