sweet ending to an oooo sooo long day!

So my day began around 6:15ish this morning after having made it to bed around…….oh, 11:30 or 12, so way too early no matter which way you look at it.  Let me give you a little background about the week we have had.  As some of you know and others may not I took a part time position at my church as WeeROCK director.  That is the birth-preK4 program.  This past week was VBS for 1st – 8th graders and I was responsible for providing childcare for all the volunteers children during that time.  I just took this position the first of June, so this came quite quickly, but luckily the girl before me had most of it all lined out for me (THANK YOU)  Let me just start this off by saying what a wonderful first VBS this was for me.  I was so encouraged by the volunteers and their selflessness to come and give 3hours of their evenings 5 days straight AND with good attitudes.  So even though it was fun and a great time getting to know the kids and other leaders, it was still tiring, physically and mentally.  ( this is longer than I meant already, I guess I needed to vent:) )  Okay, so back to this morning, I woke up, got dressed nice cause I was helping host a baby shower at 11 and then headed to take lil bit to her visit.  Went by the grocery store, farmer’s market and got to the shower location.  Cooked and prepared, welcomed guests, visited and then clean up (which really Bek and Steph did most of, thanks ladies)  I then came home and by this point it is 2 and was home only long enough to check an email and leave again to pick lil bit up from her visit.  From 3:30-6 we were IN THE CAR! 😦  Then we had a nice stop with our good friends for dinner and the exhaustion really started to kick in.  We parted ways with Nathan at this point and I decided it was best to head home for what I thought might be a long process to make it to bed.  There were multiple meltdowns, throwing of cups, multiple time outs to calm down and privileges to stories lost, o and my sanity was slipping real quick like, too.  So, I started saying in my head “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” and prayed for God to light my way and walk me through this moment that seemed like it would never end without much debate and fussing.  So now we come to the last 10 minutes of my time with the kids.  I was sitting on the spare twin bed in Lulu’s room and E sweetly asked if he could sleep in there on the spare.  He has been asking to do that lately and tonight I thought, Why not!?.  So I laid out some rules and crossed my fingers as I left AND………….well, they are both still in there and I just heard a little giggle of excitement over the monitor, but otherwise they haven’t made a peep!!!! This may be blah blah blah to some people, but it was just the little treat that my tired mind and soul needed tonight.  Thank you Lord for the little things I take for granted, for whispering to me in ways only You know how to do to reach me.  Now, I must head to bed so tomorrow won’t follow in today’s footsteps!  And I will end by saying I couldn’t have asked for a better week from both the kids/volunteers at VBS and my kiddos that have been troupers going to bed 2 hours past their bedtime!  I wouldn’t trade it for anything.  God is good all the time.  “…For the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9