Does The Mom Definition Include The Word RELAX?

Well, we got the youngest registered for her first year of high school, the middle all set for his junior year, and the mother has so far remained in one piece. Going to a small high school like I did (maybe 60-something in a graduating class), the size of the kids' school still manages to freak me out a little. The lockers number up into the thousands and the hallways remind me of a coastal southern town... apparently everything is set up in squares. The middle assures the youngest that she'll figure it all out in a matter of days, and the youngest assures me that I am more nervous than she is.

She's probably got a point.

It does seem kind of weird not involving the oldest in the back-to-school plans. The other night he took the other two for a ride and ice cream and as the front door shut on a quiet house, the husband asked, "Is this what we have to look forward to? What in the world are we going to do with ourselves?" He went back to the computer and I went back to my book. I'm guessing we'll keep doing what we always do. About an hour after the kids left, a storm began to blow in and I began to pace faster than the wind. I sat on the front porch watching the pine trees sway and wondered where in the world those kids were. The rain fizzled out and in they came. The husband's words? "Now mama can relax."

No rest for the weary.

And yesterday a tiddly piece of news drifted my way. On the scale of bigger things happening in the world, this would be considered nothing more than a speck of dust in the midst of the Sahara, but in my little corner of the universe, it was as ear-splitting as the proverbial clanging cymbal. I was reminded that God does indeed have a plan and that His plan makes a whole lot more sense than mine. If I would have had my way a few months back, then somebody else would have missed out. It just made me think of how much easier things would be if we all sought to stay within His plan. Of course, who am I to talk... I have enough trouble keeping my own feet planted.

Yep. It's been quite the week and it's only Wednesday.

Good things are on the way. =)