Hurry up and be patient already!

Do you ever think you’ve learned something and then realize you have to relearn it all over again just for good measure?

The past two years but especially 2009 was filled with the lesson of patience.  I hate patience.  It doesn’t fit with my hurry and get it done self.  It’s like walking. Why stroll when you can speed walk?  I hate being stuck behind the amble along strollers anywhere. Frankly, they get in my way.  And I regress…

Patience.  Yep, thought I learned that lesson.  I had occasion after occasion to sit and wait for things to happen with Desta’s adoption.  And almost 5 months ago (on Monday actually) I thought I could tick off that character trait as “being learned.”  One huge check mark right?

WRONG!  Apparently I haven’t really learned patience yet.  And here we are, relearning AGAIN what it means to be just wait.  This time we are waiting for something else, possibly a big something else.  That something else terrifies me, makes me tingle with excitement and want to vomit all in one breath. 

AND I get to wait because NOTHING is in my hands this time. I can’t even busy my days filling out paperwork of getting fingerprints.  NOPE.  Just have to wait and be patient. 

So having learned SO MUCH about patience the last two years, I am keeping myself busy (isn’t that what patience is about, being busy?  ha!).  Purging this house of much stuff.  Craig*s L*st, consignment sales and garage sales– here we come.  It’s all going.  Now to just figure out how to keep my kids from taking the stuff out of my carefully sorted bags and hiding it all back in their rooms!