It's been an uneventful weekend. Monkey spent Friday night with Mr. Handsome's parents, and I spent the day being lazy! I had great plans of cleaning and sewing, but the gray day and all the rain made my couch beckon me to lounge on it all day!  and that's what I did!!  :-)   Sunday, was MORE rainy than Saturday had been! It was Mr. Handsome's weekend to work, so I was by myself to get the kids and myself ready for and go to church. This is VERY hard for me, I'm not gonna lie!. I know there are TONS of people out there that have MORE kids than I do, more issues, more reasons to say "this is tuff" and I admire that they have it all together and can get their kiddos to church well dressed, with every bow in place, clean, and on time.  But for me, by the time is step through the children's department door, I feel like I look like a frayed wire!  And to top it off this Sunday, it was raining!!!

 I really really don't like going to church in the rain, alone!  Trying to hold Monkey in one arm, and the umbrella in the other is a balancing act worthy of the best gymnastics team. Then to go back for Butterfly and get her and the diaper bag on one arm, and the umbrella in the other.. while she is trying to EAT said umbrella, is more along the lines of a circus act than anything else!!  Anyone that would have walked up at that moment to check out what I was doing, would have laughed their head off as I was holding the string from the handle of the umbrella in my mouth to keep the wind from blowing it away, while it was balanced on the car roof, as I was buckling the car-seat around Miss Butterfly. Looking back now, it seems pretty hilarious!  In the moment however, it normally would have been enough to reduce me to tears.. it has many times.  If shed many tears, ruined a pair of shoes, and felt like I was gonna go completely to pieces many Sundays.  The effort is richly rewarded, as worship is always great.  However, I KNOW that it's all just an attack from Satan to try and get me to give up!  Sometimes I have. I have just thrown up my hands and say "Forget it! We're not going!"  But I keep trying, and I'm gonna keep on trying! God is with me!  Satan will NOT win!  

My reason for sharing this, is hopefully encourage some other mother, who is trying her best to get her little ones to church, trying her best to pull it all together, and thinks that everyone but her knows how to do it and has got it all down pat. Or for that mom that is thinking about giving up and throwing in the towel..  Satan is lying to you! YOU can do this! Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ..  Is it easy? NO WAY!  Is it worth it! YOU BET!  
To paraphrase what David said in I Chronicles 21:24, I will not sacrifice unto the Lord that which costs me nothing.  Sometimes worship is more sweet when it has cost us something. 
Keep you head up, keep up the good fight! We are all in this together!!

TTFN