not my plans...

So this weekend was looking like it was going to be really relaxed. Pretty much everyone was going to be either A. gone or B. working and I was going to be doing nothing at all except babysitting from 12-5 on Saturday which meant that I wouldn't be able to go home either... I was pretty bummed about this schedule because I really wanted to go home and I had stuff I needed from home and I was ready for a fun weekend. Well Friday night I ended up hanging out with one frined for quite a bit of the evening and it was pretty fun. Around 9:00 I ended up in the student center playing Imagine If with Wizer, Ryan, Nate, Erin, and Danee. That was a blast. I haven't lauged that much all semester! Dad asked me to meet him half-way home at 8:00 Saturday morning, so we could switch vehicles since Alfred decided to have issues again. So Saturday morning I got up at 6:45 so I could be at the meeting spot at 8. I got there and waited for about 15 mins only to find out that mom and dad were at home looking for the license plate tags and insurance cards. I ended up driving all the way home, getting to grab my winter clothes and switching vehicles. I then drove back to Ankeny in time to grab my laundry and head to Inmans to babysit and do laundry. I hadn't seen the Inmans for forever so I was pretty excited to see them, but I had been invited to go with friends for the afternoon so I wasn't so excited that I had to miss that. The kids took an amazing nap of like 2.5 hours!! Which meant I got one too!! And I got to do my laundry for FREE and I even got done like an hour earlier than I had anticipated! And then to top it off, I was able to go out to eat with my friends and it was pretty much a way better weekend than I could have planned.
Looking back on it now, I can see how God planned it better than I did, yet at the time I couldn't see that. Just this one weekend is a small glimps of my whole life. God wants to plan it in a way that is for my ultimate good!! And I still think I can do a better job?!?! Wow. I still have so much to apply to my life. I have the head knowledge, but I don't believe it or practice it. Hope somehow that may have been a small encouragement to someone somewhere.
Im off to bed now! Have a pretty full week ahead of me. later!