Whirlwind

I have been through quite the whirlwind the last 48 hours and wanted to blog about it. Mostly because I once again experienced an important life lesson which I will share at the end.
It all started Monday night. I was flying back to OH after a wonderful weekend in MN celebrating my sisters graduation (pictures coming later).I made it to Chicago just I was suppose to at about 8:00pm. As soon as I got off the plane and turned on my phone I had a couple missed calls and an email from my sister-in-law Christina. She and her husband Scott had been in Ca. that last 5 days in the process of adopting a beautiful baby girl. The email explained that the birth mom had changed her mind and decided to keep the baby. I was immediately brought to tears, we were so excited about her and looking forward to meeting her. So as I am crying and pushing the stroller I stop to check our gate, turns out our flight is delayed 3 hours. I was not happy, but was dealing with it. At least it gave my time to talk to Christina and others and compose myself. I also found out when talking to Christina that her grandmother who has been fighting cancer may not make it through the night. So I sit at my gate for 3 hours entertaining Deacon. I finally get him to sleep and they announce the flight has been cancelled. We have to go to another gate to make further reservations. By the time I pack everything up and get down there, I am almost the last person in line. After about an hour in line, the United representative tells me that the earliest they can get me to Canton/Akron is Wednesday night (48 hrs later). I tell them this is unacceptable because I will already be missing work tomorrow. I ask if there is any way they can get me into Cleveland and I will figure it out from there. I got a flight booked for the next morning into Cleveland at 1:00 pm. He hands me a voucher for a hotel and I ask if there is anywhere I can get diapers and formula because I am almost out. He tells me where to go for diapers, but no luck on the formula.
After picking up the diapers and waiting for a shuttle for 40 minutes, we finally got to the hotel at 1:30am. by the Deacon was wide awake and ready to sleep. I was able to by some yogurt and apple sauce for him at the hotel. He fell back asleep by 2 and I set my alarm for 5 to make calls for a sub, lesson plans and to let daycare know Deacon will not be there. We slept great for 3 hours. When I woke up to make the phone calls, Deacon also woke up and there was no more sleeping. I then posted on Facebook that I needed to be picked up in Cleveland and a friend quickly answered my call! The flight to Cleveland was fine and we got home with no trouble. Deacon slept 12 hours last night and I slept 10!
I got up and went to work this morning feeling quite well......until I got an email from Tony informing me that he had lost his passport and was trying to get to the embassy to see what he can do to make his flight tomorrow. I have to admit, at this point I went to a teacher friend in the next classroom and totally broke down, I was emotionally exhausted. I made a few phone calls and talked to Tony a couple times and we had every thing lined up for him to get a new passport this evening. I received a voice mail from him at the end of the day that his passport had been found in Antigua, where he lost it and his group who he had left for the day was meeting the guy in the park to pick it up!! Turns out a Christian Guatemalan had found it and Tony had his emergency contact info in it, so they called IAS, who then called the U.S. Embassy and talked to Tony and got it all figured out!! Also, Christina's grandmother did pass away this morning, please keep them in your prayers as they are going through so much right now.
So, what is the point of telling this whole saga other than for remembrance sake... WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL. I am a very planned and organized person and I like things to go just as I expect them to. This week has been a very good reminder of how little control I have of my life. Throughout the whole ordeal many people  told me it would be ok and that God would take care of us, which I know in my heart and is a great thing to say, but it's hard to fully grasp and trust that belief. But again, God proved to be faithful and although we are greatly sorry that the sweet baby girl in CA. will not be joining our family, we rejoice with the birth mom is her choice to raise her child. And although I had an emotional day, My hubby is safe and will hopefully be home tomorrow night. God is faithful in all circumstances, it's just hard to understand the why in all circumstances.