Survived Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was tough.  It was on a Thursday 7 weeks out from when I loss Jason so I had all those memories swirling around in my head along with everything else.  I lit the candles by Janessa, Hope, and Jason's chairs and kept them lit all day long.  I got set for a very long and emotional day--problem was God had other plans for me to keep me distracted and help me find strength to survive this holiday.  His plan--we had an unexpected and unwanted guest at our house for Thanksgiving--a MOUSE in my youngest daughters room.  Our daughter discovered this exciting news a couple of hours before our Thanksgiving meal.  I freaked out--my husband tried to catch it but it was too fast.  He set out to see if there were any stores open.  I am Thankful that Smiths was open so we could get some traps.  We spent the holiday setting out traps and put a quarantine on my daughters room.  She handled all of this really well.  She didn't scream or freak out like me she stayed calm and was okay not going into her room and sleeping on the couch last night. 

We did manage to forget about the mouse for a little bit while we watched the movie "Planes".  I was afraid it would trigger hard memories, but, it didn't.  I just remembered getting motion sickness and now looking back feeling happy that Jason was with me even though I didn't know it.  I was so happy to see at the end of this movie right before the ending credits the name of the casting director in big letters that stayed on the screen for at least 20 seconds--the casting directors name--JASON!!! How AWESOME is that!!! Jason's movie has his name in it!! Definitely a Hug From Heaven!

This morning we discovered that little mouse monster managed to avoid all the traps--ughhh!!! We spent the day taking my daughters room apart piece by piece to take away its hiding places. Freaked out when my husband had me come in and do a walk through of the room to show me that the mouse wasn't in there anymore.  The minute I step into the room the mouse runs out of wherever it was hiding right in front of me--my daughter may not scream when she see's a mouse, but, I DO!!!!! Mouse is taken care of now--while I try not to have a heart attack--I really hope it did NOT have any friends---YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I want a cat!!!

So Thanksgiving sucked again this year, but, for different reasons than I was expecting.  I guess on the bright side I was totally distracted yesterday and today so my grief over Jason not being here for Thanksgiving has not been as bad as what it could have been--God truly works in mysterious ways to bring calm and comfort??!!