WHAT DOES ONE DO?

...........When one is in a motel room with 2 sleeping grand children and a sleeping husband and it's 3 a.m. and one can't sleep? You can't turn on the TV with everyone sleeping in the same room!!! Well, if the motel has a computer in the lobby and you are a blogging addict you get up, get dressed and come on down!!!!

Situations arise even in the midst of fun outings and vacation time. It's due to our "situation' that I awoke at 2 a.m. and laid their for an hour before I came to the lobby.

Tuesday the car began to "act up". So yesterday morning Mickey has decided he'll drop us off at Oceans of Fun and he'll take our beautiful '93 Red Cadillac to the dealership and have it checked out. We are very close to Oceans of Fun but the car barely makes it. So Mickey calls our towing service to have the car towed to the dealership. Thank goodness we did make it to the park so the kids and I go in. Mickey sits and wait 2 hours for the wrecker :o( Bless his heart he never complains!!

Oksana & Aric had a blast at the water park. All kinds of water rides and junk to eat. The weather was absolutely beautiful. Cooler than the day at Worlds of Fun and thank goodness because we all have a little sun burn as it is.

Back to the car "troubles". It is the transmission. YIKES!!! Mickey rents a car and comes to get us at 4:30. Thank goodness Oksana has a cell phone. We are all starving because all we've had to eat is junk food. We find a Chili's and have a great meal and then head to the dealership to look at new cars.

Sooooo here we are in Kansas City with an 8 years old and a 12 year old, lots of luggage and a situation to be rectified. What are we going to do?

Option 1 - call Marc to come get the children and we'll wait to have the car repaired.

Option 2 - Rent a truck and a trailer and tow the car back to Tulsa.

Option 3 - Buy a new car!

Option 4 - Buy a used car!

Option 5 - Throw our hands up and give up!!!!!!!!

Well, option #5 is out so that's good news :o)

Now you can understand why I am blogging at 4 a.m.

One thing I know for sure..........this may have taken us by surprise but it hasn't taken God by surprise. Another thing I know for sure.......God has his plans and purposes even in situations that befall us like this and He is for us and not against us and that in the end it will all be alright. (As I typed that I thought of something else.....our daughter, Jacque's, personal license plate reads "Alright" because that has been how we've raised our kids!!!)

All you prayer warriors out there........please pray for us that we clearly hear God and do the right thing.

CRY ME A RIVER! :O(

Those of you who have been following my blog know that we have been planning a trip to Nova Scotia. I first posted about it on 2/28 here and about getting our Passports on Have Passport Will Travel here.





Well I don't know who said "The well laid plans of mice and men ....." but it came into play today.



Some of you know the on again - off again route this proposed trip has taken, especially the past 10 days as we awaited the birth of one special little grand daughter of our friends. She was finally born at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 30th, and then it was just a matter of whether we were leaving today, July 2nd, or tomorrow, July 3rd. Then during the night Saturday our friend we were going with got really sick and finally this morning around 9:30 a.m. we called it off.



All day yesterday and until just a little while ago, Mickey and I checked airline costs, talked about just driving ourselves, etc. but finally decided "We said from the beginning of all our planning and talking starting in January that God would either open or close the door". We firmly believe God did close the door. Mickey and I learned a LONG time ago not to kick down doors that God closes!!!!!



Are we disappointed? - YES. Are we downtrodden? - NO. Do we have the peace of God about our decision? YES! The thing that disappointed me the most wasn't missing the Nova Scotia International Tattoo (even though we've had our tickets for months along with our hotel reservations in Halifax) or not getting to see The Ship Hector with her masts. The thing that did disappoint me, and even caused me to shed a few tears, is we had been planning to meet with a dear blog friend along the way. That really disappointed me. Can't tell you who------!!!!! I'm believing some way, some time, some how that meeting will take place. Why? Because it's the desire of my heart and "God gives us above and beyond what we can hope or ask".



So what did we do today........ Made alternate plans to take our grandchildren, Aric & Oksana, to Kansas City to Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun for 4 days and 3 nights July 9-12. And we'll have one grand time doing that and we have the peace of God and joy in our hearts about it.



We've got a few shorter trips and things up our sleeves in the future we'll share later too. So instead of one Giant month long trip to and from Nova Scotia we'll do several little fun things within an easier driving distance.



And I won't missing my blogging time!!!!! he he