You know how when you make plans, the next day everything seems to go crazy. That happened yesterday, which was day 1 of my new attempt at routine.
I managed to get up by 6:00. With an Alexa alarm and a series of alarms every 2 minutes on my phone until I actually got out of bed around 6:08. 🙂 I’m sure DH was thrilled. 😉 I got some coffee, read my Bible for a few minutes, then spent a while praying over my day. The biggest thing that I prayed about was letting God guide my priorities for the day.
I had volunteered to help watch a class full of kiddos for my BSF class’s leader’s training day, which meant being at a church 30 minutes away (in good traffic) by 9. DH was kind enough to say he could wrangle our kids through their normal wake up routine so I could get the morning farm chores done in time to get a shower. Yay!
Forgetting to eat, yet again, I got dressed and headed down to feed all the 4 leggers. I got down to ponyville (which is what we have named the area where the 3 stalls for the 3 small ponies are) and found Pumpkin and Christopher Robin stuck in an area they are NOT supposed to be able to get into at night.
Now, ponies are notorious for getting into trouble, and Daisy in particular likes to be a bit of a Houdini.
Somehow, they had broken both the clip for a gate that acts as a stall door and the hook it clips on and shoved the gate into the barn aisle so far that it got stuck. The gate isn’t even supposed to be able to go that direction! Both the stuck ponies were exhausted. At this point, I am vacillating between panic and laughing.
Well, I got them all sorted out. Everyone was tired but fine.
I did eat something then we headed off to BSF. I had a great morning caring for a class of young preschoolers. I was tired when we headed home. We all ate lunch, and I got the kids settled into their normal afternoon activities. The kids have a couple of hours of quiet time every afternoon when they are restricted to quietly playing in their room. They were in the middle of that, and I went down to do the afternoon farm work. So far, other than the pony antics in the morning, things were going fairly well as far as sticking to my routine.
(Cue the dramatic music please.) Dun. Dun. Dun. (Thanks.)
DH had a REALLY awesome friend come over, and the 2 of them were spending the entire day putting up a wire fence. Did I mention a REALLY awesome friend?!?! I was halfway through feeding when I get a call from the wife of the friend who happens to be friend of mine. Her son is a good friend of DS’s. She wanted to know if her son could come over and play and then go home when his dad was done working on the fence. I said that it was fine once the kids got out of quiet time. (My carefully structured day was starting to unravel, but people are more important than schedules. And God’s invitations into our lives are always worth accepting.)
DS’s friend came over around 5, and I figured that the kids would play for an hour or so while the “boys” finished up on the fence. 6:00 – no sign of fencing stopping for the day. I fed the 3 kids dinner. 7:00 – still no sign. DS’s friend is a little older than DS and is in school. It was a school night. I was getting a little concerned by 7:45. I texted his mom. She was shocked that her boys weren’t home yet and came to get her son. It was about 8:45 before I got my 2 in bed. I had gotten practically nothing done around the house that afternoon, so I was feeling a lot behind in work and schedule. My heart was happy though. I was glad that the kids got some play time and thankful that I had been open to letting God guide my priorities.
DH and friend worked on the fence by truck headlight until after 9. (Have I mentioned REALLY awesome friend?!?!) I caught up on a few things that needed to get done and actually ate some dinner. I didn’t get to bed until almost midnight.
Side note – since I am writing this post at 10:00 at night, today hasn’t gone much better in regards to schedules. Tomorrow is a new day and God’s mercies are new every day! I am going to try again. I’ve got another 115 days to make it work. 🙂
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