It’s almost midnight.
Six out of the eight of us are sick.
We move tomorrow.
A bomb basically went off in the house.
Andy and I are practicing some serious mind over body.
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So as I try to drift off to bed my mind is racing about how I’m going to fail tomorrow.
I’m a surely going to fail at having every box labeled appropriately.
I’ll probably fail at not losing the important cords that the Comcast guy will need.
I will probably lose somebody’s special treasure.
I won’t feed the kids anything nutritious and possibly anything at all tomorrow.
I will likely not be able to hug and appropriately thank all the amazing people that are helping us.
My sick kids will not get cuddled. Hopefully, I’ll be able to find the medicine to keep their fevers down.
It’s a family member’s birthday that I failed to recognize properly.
I will probably snap at my husband several times. I will fail at recognizing his own stress and exhaustion.
I will be tunnel focused on getting us moved.
And it’s December 31.
And it’s an important, huge day for The Adventure Project.
Our team is working insanely hard. And I should be helping them more.
We have some 2012 goals that we really need to hit tomorrow.
I want to be helping. Because it’s important to me. Because they all work so hard.
I feel like I will fail them tomorrow as well.
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I am going to be a big fat failure tomorrow.
I just am.
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So while I am off failing everyone that I love so dearly, you guys can help if you want.
Check out our 2012 Results. It’s pretty cool to see the imagery for everything that was accomplished this year.
You can see too what we still need funded in the Health, Hunger and Environment programs.
(The Water Program is FULLY FUNDED for 2012!)
Sarah is super awesome and speedy with issuing receipts, so if you need to release some 2012 money, would love for you to consider joining us today.
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Thanks for your patience.
Thanks for letting me fail more days than not.
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“I am being told anew in the unmistakable language of love, ‘I am with you, I am for you, I am in you. I expect more failure from you than you expect from yourself.”
(Manning)
Jodi,
You Need to focus on all the positives in your life. You are DEFINITELY NOT a failure. You are truly an amazing woman, mom, and wife. God is still in control, and all will go well tomorrow!
You were brought to mind today, even before I read this post, and I have been praying since for calm and peace, lots of help, and patient and recovering children. Believing that God has heard and answered and that your next post will be of a successful, even if a long, day. Much love and blessings on your new year.
Prayers to you Jody and the best news ever, tomorrow is not only a new day but a new year in a new house, so even if today doesn’t go as you hope it will, you get all new tomorrow…and I would explain to Andy that moving the end of December is not ideal.
I am not sure if I have posted a comment on here before- there have been a ton of times I wanted to but it wasn’t going to happen because of being on the ipod- but I wanted to let you know that I check your blog each night before going to sleep and honestly I am amazed at everything you get accomplished. Since I check your blog on my ipod and it takes a while to upload the post for some reason ….it makes it impossible for me to comment….. and since I was determined to comment today I decided to log onto your site via my computer- so it was a shock to see what your actual page looked like today when I logged on. It looks really nice and really professional. I wanted to tell you that I love all of the photos that you post and you are really pretty and your kids are soo cute. I love how they all have their own personality and don’t have a problem showing it. That is wonderful. I wanted to tell you that it makes me sad when I see you putting yourself down in your blog posts sometimes. You are an incredible woman. You are a mom to 6 kids and haven’t lost your mind yet- so therefore you should have your own national holiday that should be celebrated every year. (and I am not talking about mother’s day- I am talking about Jody day- On national Jody day all coffee should be free at Starbucks- all meals should magically appear on the table and all of the children should pitch in to clean the house from top to bottom without even being asked- on Jody day no one is allowed to call and interrupt you while napping or catching up on a favorite show- no one can ask for help with homework- and no one is allowed to fight or complain) I honestly don’t know how you hold it together. You are doing a great job. I have been following your blog for several years now and honestly, I don’t know how you have held up to all of the moves, changes in schools and doctors, and basically the craziness that has happened. The house robbery would have done me in- but some how you seem to just take it in stride. You are amazing. Please don’t be hard on yourself. If all of these upheavals would have happened to me I would have had to be committed several years back. You are reaching out to help people in other parts of the world- which is soo incredible. You help people in every city you go to- which is a ministry in and of itself. I don’t cook- actually I hate to cook- so you aren’t the only mom who lists that as a fault. I am sorry that you are sick- especially when all of the craziness of the new move is happening. You are an amazing woman for hanging in there through thick and thin. You are a daughter of the King and I know he is very proud of you. I just wanted you to know that your blog is a bright spot in a lot of people’s lives and that I think you are an amazing woman! (don’t put yourself down- you are doing great! you’ve managed to make it through things that a lot of us would have not bothered to stick around to deal with and I applaud you for everything you do!) Can’t wait to see what you and your kids are up to next. They all look very talented and I am sure you will guide them through life so that they become remarkable adults. Good luck with everything you do in life! Wishing you a great 2013!