Thank You Lord ... even for this

'When it rains it pours' is quite the understatement for the kind of day that the Graf house just had. I'll save you the super long drawn out version and chronologically bullet point it out for you.

- Jacob was sick all night last night

A funny text from my husband after talking with ThedaCare nurse direct line

- Jacob went to the doctor this morning
- Jacob was sent to the hospital to get an emergency appendectomy

I felt bad for the nurse who had to shave his very ticklish belly

- Before they took him back the nurse thought they were removing his gallbladder, we corrected her.

 "I'm too sexy for my hospital gown" payback from a few hospital pics he's nabbed of me

- A very caring friend drove his car back from the hospital so we weren't stuck with 2 cars and was hit in the parking lot.

Little dinged up 

- Surgery went great and we were home within 2 hours of the appendix being removed
- There was a little laptop mishap
- There was a miscommunication between my daughter's teacher & myself. She was told her grandparents would pick her up. She should have been told to ride the bus home. She waited nearly 1/2 hour outside on the coldest day so far in WI (felt like -6 or something like that). No one helped her or told her to go inside.
- She threw up outside of school.
- Kids & 2 adults made fun of her while she was sick and crying outside at school.
- A friend seen her and kindly picked her up and brought her home for me.
- There was a gluten issue with Jacob's prescribed medication so I had to wait extra long.
- The lady who caused the accident is disputing it.
- Ella doesn't want to go back to school and is so worked up she is throwing up.

Ella finally resting on the couch

I don't need to write these things down for my own sake. There's no way I will ever forget hearing my daughter's crackly, tear filled voice over the phone wondering where her grandparents were. There's no way I will forget kissing my husband one last time before being wheeled off to surgery. No matter how routine a surgery is, that's not an easy thing to do. I will not forget standing in WalGreens wanting to reach through the phone and punch the insurance guy who assured me it wasn't his insuree's fault. I will never forget holding my daughter's hand as her voice shaked and tears streamed down her face as she recounted her horrible ordeal and how kids called her fat puker and adults stared and never helped her. I won't forget sitting in my bathroom with the lights off sobbing asking the Lord, why about 500 times. Why are kids so mean, why are adults just as mean, why all this in one day, why, why ... you get the hint.

Thank the Lord my husband is resting well and alive. Thank the Lord that a friend seen Ella and went out of her way to help her. Thank the Lord that a car is fixable and for friends willing to help out however needed. Thank the Lord that my daughter is home safe. Thank the Lord for all the caring family and friends who have helped out, prayed for, checked in on, and cared about us through out the past day. Thank the Lord we are all home together. Thank the Lord.

for my family. 

I was bored and sick of trying to text/talk on my phone within the short space my charger cord allowed. Amazing how fast the battery gets sucked up when trying to relay news to everyone and their mother. Thank you Lord I remembered my charger. I flipped open my Bible to this: 

1 Thessalonians 5:14-18

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁴ And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. ¹⁵ Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

 ¹⁶ Rejoice always, ¹⁷ pray continually, ¹⁸ give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 

Thank you Lord!