Not Again!

If you happen to get my personal newsletter, you know that several weeks ago I hurt my back. That is not unusual for me, since I seem to do that a lot…much to my extreme dislike. But, after many massages, plenty of rest, and wearing out the hammock, last Sunday found me feeling wonderful and ready to be productive again. So, I grabbed all four girls, and ran up to the IMM building to get busy and paint that office.Oh I was careful all right. I commandeered Sehdoe and his friend to move out all the heavy furniture, and I had Chris open the paint bucket for me. I was not about to get hurt again, not me! So, I got out the painting things, and that is when my trouble began. Both Meme and Memewah thought that painting looked like fantastic fun, and babysitting was just plain old boring in comparison. So, I finally gave in against my better judgment, and gave each of them a paint brush and told them to paint the corners for me. They were oh so careful, and so after rolling all the walls, getting Hannah and Destiny out of the paint bucket about a thousand times, and putting Destiny down for her morning nap, I finally decided to let Meme and Memewah finish up those corners while I took the little ones down to make lunch for the men. The men have to work you know, and they would be hungry when they came in! So, leaving my little ones doing such careful nice work, I dashed off to the house.Lunch finished up successfully, and I hurriedly cleaned up the kitchen again, then bundled all my girls back up to the IMM building. What met my eyes was NOT what I was expecting! The girls had decided to paint all the woodwork, there was also a generous amount of paint smeared all over the floors and little paint footsteps down the hall. It was a disaster! I sat down and cried. That was just too much work to do all by myself while trying to take care of all the girls at the same time. But, there was just no other way to get the job done, so I set the girls to work cleaning the floors and watching their little sisters while I started to apply the last coat of paint to my now ruined room. (At least it looked ruined) But then, things got worse…the students started coming to the door and watching me work, my little girls were tired of “helping”, so they started screaming and yelling and running up and down the halls with the other kids. We were all covered with speckled yellow paint, and it was time for Destiny’s nap. Only one wall left to do… So I went and sang to Destiny to put her to sleep while trying to hush the other girls at the same time. I am not sure why, I must have had some rather tight muscles or something, but when I went to lay Destiny down, my back just had a fit and I suddenly found myself rather uncomfortable…to say the least.But…I still had one wall to paint, and then all the cleaning to do. If I stopped then, I was sure that it would never get done, and we would just have a monument to my bad day that I would have to look at the rest of my life. So, I went back to that room and finished it! Dumb idea…I know.So, I rested in my hammock again for several days until my back got to feeling a little better. I was determined not to get hurt again, but surely a bath would not hurt anything. So, I went out and sat on my little stool to take my bath. I was happily getting clean when all of the sudden, there was a huge explosion in my lower back. I yelped in pain, thereby scaring my kids half to death! It took me a while to figure out that I was going to survive the blast, and then I made my way slowly, painfully, to my well used hammock. So, here I sit.There are a lot of things that I don’t know right now…like how long I will have to lay here in order to get better, but I am happy to leave that all in God’s hands. I have been able to accomplish a few things while down so far. For instance, my Adopt a Student page is now up and going. If you check my home page you will see it. Also, Jon put Andrew’s presentation from Faith Camp this year on my home page, so I am sure that you will want to see that also.“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord…”