Life is such a hoot. Sometimes, you can go on for weeks, even months at a time, and all is well. Nothing bad happens, finances are good, chores get done, everything just goes your way...and then wham! Somebody gets hurt, or sick, or a vehicle breaks down, or payments get lost in the mail, and there you go on that roller-coaster, and you look up, and Thanksgiving and Christmas are right ahead, and guess what? The big plans you made to host someone for a big doings are falling through left and right, and it's too late to change without someone being disappointed and deeply hurt.Such is the situation here and now.If you're wondering which of the complications have occured to throw a monkey-wrench into my plans, try all of the above. But, it gets worse. Yon son, on whom I must, and usually can, depend for the lion's share(haha..that's a joke..he's a Leo!) of the cooking, because it involves things I can no longer handle on my own, like lifting a turkey into the oven, has to work on Thanksgiving day. So, we planned to be having our Thanksgiving on Wed...and Sherry is coming over.Some of the trimmings for the meal will be missing, because I am playing catch-up with the aforementioned lost bill payments.But, we still will have the Turkey, and stuffing, and whatever else we can throw together.So, it won't be so bad...or so I thought, until we got the news that someone special will be in town for the holiday, that Yon son really wants to see, and naturally he is torn, because it is his wife! Were it not for my plans, and the day, I would expect him to bow out, in deference to his other half. Who am I kidding? Of course I am going to say go! I may be his mother, but he must be with his wife. Perhaps, with a little help with preperation, he can get it going, and then take off....but no,I cannot even ask such a thing. I'll just convince him that I can handle it, and then muddle through the best way I can. I don't think it's fair for me to ask him to take any time away from his wife for my silly dinner party...Holiday or no Holiday. Somehow, someway, I will cook that lousy bird, and Sherry and I will eat and have Bible study, and play games and have a wonderful time, regardless. I refuse to further complicate Yon son's already complex life, by being "Oh so needy", and taking his attention away from where it ought to be. He won't like leaving me on my own, but I will have to put my foot down and be very firm with him that he is needed elsewhere, and that's just the way it is! He will want to insist that he and she can come and help me, because we worry about one another in this family, but it just won't fly.With her job, she isn't able to get home all that often, so he needs to focus on the two of them. Besides which, the more I think about it, who needs Turkey? Maybe I will just save it for Christmas...on the other hand, whose to say that she won't still be home then, which would be great...but Yon son has to work Christmas too.Hm! This is getting more difficult to figure out than I expected. Oh well.Maybe I will surprise them, thaw the Turkey out, and give it to the kids to take home and cook. However, should I do that, then Sherry will be disappointed! She can't cook for herself, and has a date to go out to a buffett Thanksgiving day with friends. That's not a proper sit-down dinner for such a Holiday.That is why we planned the event the way we did to begin with. Harrumph!
Okay. Back to the prayer closet.I've got two days to figure this out...all things are possible with God.Even if Sherry and I end up having toast and soup for Thanksgiving dinner, it's not the end of the world, is it? Life goes on. I'll let you know what I come up with later.
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