Craziness!

Our house is a complete wreck! If I was able to upload pics fromt his offsite computer, I would show it to you - you would not believe that we are living here. Brian keeps trying to talk me into going to a hotel, but it would be so much harder, I think. This next week we have to move everything out of our house ( we will move it to the playroom and third floor which the builder is desperately trying to get finished in time) and in the garage. All of the hardwood floors are being refinished. ( The playroom has carpet and the third floor has the checkered floor like our backhouse, so that is why we can use them for storage!) Brian went out of town this past week - he always seems to pick the best times to leave - although the trip was planned by his home office a year ago...still, I think he has some pull somewhere! We ( I, really) completely moved AG out of her room so we could rip out her window seat, repair, paint, etc. She needed more space in her room so we are setting her bed in between the builtins. The window seat never really got used as a window seat, just as a junk pile.
Today I did 17 loads of laundry - carrying it all from upstairs down and across the war torn backyard of trenches to the garage and back....full day in and of itself!
I also made it to home depot tonight at 9pm for my 3rd round of paint selections for the outside trim and came home and painted it in the dark ( for 2 reasons: its too hot in the day and my hope is that the paint would dry and I would be pleasantly surpised in the morning with one of them...eternal optimist!) My neighbors are starting to think I have no plan at all!
So, at 10:30, the kids and I went to pick up a prescription at Walgreens cuz U think I am coming down with a sinus infection. ( Here comes the long drawn out story....) I have to admit, I was not feeling well at this point. So I pulled up to the drivethru knowing the script was called in at 8pm and 2 and a half hours should be enough time. I waited and waited until finally a voice came thru the speaker ( no face, just a voice) to tell me that there was no record of anything. After checking 3 times at my request he finally said well, there is something for Jana Lee? Ding Ding Ding, YES that is probably the one. But no, it hasn't been filled since there was no Jana Lee in the system. He said my doc spelled my name wrong. I told him that was highly unlikely since my doc is my uncle and that I would just wait in the pick up line for my meds. Still with voice only, no face...he asked me to leave the line, wait my 30 minutes and yes, my doc called it in wrong!
So, with a very bad attitude, I pulled up to the front of the store and went in, grabbed a new curling iron and some mascara, and sat and waited in front of him. I was thinking of all the witty things I might say back to him like " I guess you missed the week in pharmacy school where they teach you to be gracious to patients that probably don't feel good!" or "remember, the customer is always right - even int he middle of the night!" or a desperate effort of name dropping like " my pharmacist friend, Krista Sanders ( who also works at walgreens) would never treat anyone like that, I am sure of it!" (Krista, you will be happy to know that I decided to leave you out of it!)
But as I sat, I lost my vigor. Partly because I was feeling terrible, partly because Austin reminded me that God wants us to still love people even when they are not nice to us ( as he lovingly rubbed my arm telling me repeatedly that he was sorry I felt bad), partly because at this point, I had seen his face not just his voice, and partly because I know those pharmacists work long hard hours with all kinds of people in their face all day.
So, when he called "lee" I went up to the desk and said, "I am sorry, everything just seems bigger when you don't feel good." He said no problem and I could tell he was relieved that I did not make a scene at the front counter at the end of his shift therefore officially leaving him with a bad day at work. Sleep well Mr. Voice.
Thank you Holy Spirit that you override me in so many situations! I would make a mess of myself ( and often times do) if it were not for you.
Here is part B of the story (as if that drama was not enough!):
Its 11:30 at this point, and I still have my kids at Walgreens for pete's sake! I got all my chickens in the car and hopped in the front seat - the parking lot was well lit and rather busy to be so late at night. All of a sudden I look up and a lady was banging on my window. She was yelling at me to roll down the window that they needed help. My first instinct was to do just that - I always want to be remembered as someone who helps people! But I thought again and realized that Walgreens was open, there was a police man on the other side of the parking lot and other cars available with men instead if a mom with 2 children who might have been a more appropriate target to ask. I shook my head at her and left my window up and promptly started to back out. She moved on quickly. Who knows what her intentions were, but I saw her husband in a truck sitting in the corner of the parking lot with the back of the car loaded.
It majorly impacted annah grace. The whole way home we talked about it. Why did we not help her? Doesn't God say we should help the poor? The whole topic of discernment has come up a lot lately so i have been trying to take th opportunity to prep ag for all the times she might need such a word and why she should call on her heavenly father for lots of it! So, case in point. I told her that I used discernment...and if the lady really needed help, she could have gone in the store, talked to the police, etc. I told her the lady did not use discerment when she chose to approach the one person in the parking lot who had kids with her late at night. Life is full of lessons, we just got a lot of them today!