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Happy Sabbath,

This week has been a good week, as every week.  There is always something good you can find that the Lord has done, something to give thanks for.

Well on Sunday, I went to the YMCA and started my summer membership with them.  It was not listed on the website but I was so happy to hear that I could do Child Watch again for free as an option of my son didn’t want to exercise with me (or if I wanted to use the machine or weight rooms which are too dangerous for him).  When we were last there, he was 2 years old and had to go to Child Watch most of the time when we were not able to get the basketball court free.  At four years of age, he is a good motivator and helped me to run around the track more than I planned.  Out of all exercises and things I can do, I enjoy jogging/running around the track the most and I’m so happy that I can do it with my son along my side. 

Okay, so I went Sunday and had a great work out.  Monday I did the same and pushed myself on the seated leg press.  I used to lift a decent amount of weight, but sitting around at a desk, in my car, or at home, my body is not as strong as it used to be so of course I was sore all over on Monday and Tuesday.  Monday I went to return to the car and the driver’s side door handle popped and broke. 

I went to my parent’s house on Tuesday to realize that my dad’s van was with the mechanic and I planned to talk to the mechanic that morning but he was busy so I came by that afternoon after work.  The mechanic started taking apart the door which meant I would have to leave the car there and my dad picked me up in the little blue car I was stuck driving all of the end of January into April and made it back to my parent’s house in time for my insurance agent to meet with me at 4pm to write up a policy for my son and update beneficiary information.  On Wednesday, my car was fixed and I drove my son and I to the YMCA to get in another work out despite my right knee feeling not the best.  I made it around the track one jog before I ruined it for the rest of the week.  I was in such pain and could hardly handle the steps to get to my son who had run off.  Turned out he went to Child Watch and wanted to stay in there so I signed him in and decided to focus on upper body weight work outs for the next hour. 

Thursday I borrowed a leg brace from my mom and I’m so thankful for this because I was afraid of keeping position when I would sleep and not having support when I drove my car.  Thursday was a long day in the car and Friday was a shorter day.  I am still wearing the brace and it has helped a lot.  I really want to take it off for Sunday tomorrow, but I know my leg is not 100% yet.  It feels like how it felt on Tuesday before I ruined it the next day.  I guess I strained it, I don’t know, but I thank the Lord that I can still walk on it and go about my usual routine with minimal issue.

Today I went to church and left early.  I left because although my son didn’t make a huge mess this time or run all over the church, he was not obeying me for everything I put past him.  Also, the mothering room turned into a drop off zone for parents who could not bear to deal with their children.  They were loud, messy, constantly peppering me with questions, and blocking my view.  I could not hear the sermon or focus and I did not want to be a baby sitter.  Then someone put a sign up on the door after I had entered the room (I think I know who) saying that the room was to be quiet, clean, and all the stuff that visitors could dream of.  I’m sure that other people look at me to be responsible for the room since I’m always in it, but I am not the parent of all these random children.  In fact, one mother came and retrieved the older well behaved sister and told the youngest one to stay in the room because she couldn’t deal with her noisiness in the sanctuary. 

Despite this, it is still a good day.  I listened to some beautiful praise singing on Magnify Him and read a little.  I had a great lunch and am enjoying some quiet with a delicious smelling candle spreading it’s fragrance throughout.  It is a good time to pray and rest. 

I thank God for an easy work week.  Things could have been chaos this week but they weren’t.  I thank God that the car door handle broke on the day it did and that I had the money to pay for it.  I thank God for the mechanic I have.  He gave my car to my dad and my dad picked me up from the train station.  My dad dropped off his van a second time to the shop because something else was going wrong with it so he used my fixed car to leave the shop. I drove back to pay my mechanic.  I thank Jesus that it didn’t take 2 months to fix the door handle, that it was less than 24 hours. 

I thank Jesus that my son has better life insurance now.  I forget what he had with the other policy I started 2 years ago, but I just got him on a 100k policy that I feel like I can manage for many years.  I thank Him for a safe place that my son and I can work out and have fun.  I wish I had known about these summer membership specials because in 2015 when I signed up, I didn’t know anything about it.  I signed up during the summer time.  I am saving so much money this go round. 

Lastly, I thank the Lord that my dna results are in as of today. I'm waiting for my mom's so we can review them at the same time. Hopefully I'll get hers in time for Mother's day.

God is good.