A good report

I'm sure this is a topic that you all will find boring but I really thought I should blog about it to give God some [overdue] praise. In trying to get Kaelyn tested so that we can work through some of her issues, we were supposed to get her hearing screened. She had her first [general] screening at the end of last school year and it has taken us this long to get through this second step. The first time we tried, she was uncooperative but also they discovered she had too much wax covering one of her eardrums (which made me feel horrible but the audiologist informed me that it really had nothing to do with how often I cleaned her ears - I still had a bit of a complex). So the second office visit to the ear, nose, & throat specialist was to have the wax removed. That took three of us holding her down. She has always battled us with those kinds of things. To clean her ears, I have to kind of lay across her body so she can't move; it's like major trauma every time we clip her nails and she even flips out if she sees us clipping ours (though that one is getting a little better); every single day - morning and night - when we brush her teeth it's a fight - I don't know why but she can hardly stand it. You would think that since she knows it's going to happen she would just "get over it" but I guess it's more complicated than that. So you can imagine when they try sticking things in her ear, she is about beside herself. The third attempt (appointment) was canceled due to Tropical Storm Fay - the audiologist had 2 feet of water in front of her house and couldn't get out. So now we were up to time 4 (not counting the first general screening where the lady tried to do a hearing screening but couldn't get anywhere close to Kaelyn's ears). The last option is mild sedation, which seemed really extreme to me when we didn't really think there was a problem with her hearing. However, we HAD to get this step done because there didn't seem to be any way around it.
The fourth attempt was a morning appt. in hopes she would be more cooperative. I started praying about it and though I thought it might seem silly to pray about it I thought there was NO way it was going to happen unless God just worked a miracle. I guess in my lack of faith I felt like God probably needed to save miracles for more important situations but I didn't know what else to do. When I was getting Kaelyn around this morning she was grumpy and I thought, "Great, that's just what I need - her to be tired and cranky this morning!" She fell asleep in the car on the way to the appt. and I wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing. I could go on with each detail but I will spare you this time. I'll just say that from the time we pulled into the parking lot to the time we were going back out to the car, only 15 minutes had passed. We went back almost as soon as we got there and Kay just sat on my lap with her head against me as they did the test. She was awake but she whispered most of the time and only flinched a couple of times. I was honestly in shock. As we were walking out, she said, "It was fun ears?" I was just like, "Yeah, yeah it's fun ears!" I was so relieved after everything we had gone through (including getting charged $100 by mistake one of the times they didn't get the screening - we did get the money back after Kevin called them). The point is though, I know it had to be God answering my prayer even though I didn't really even have enough faith to believe I would receive what I asked for. I don't think I have to point out the fact of how often we do this. I think we ALL forget that God DELIGHTS in blessing us, meeting our needs, and even going beyond what we ask for. I think we also forget what a "personal" God He is. It's so much easier to pray for the "big stuff" that we feel like He wants/needs to hear about but I was reminded once again that he cares about my feelings too - if I'm frustrated, hurt, nervous, etc. I wish this would make me learn the lesson once and for all but I am sure the next time a situation comes up like this, I will be tempted to try to fix it myself and then get frustrated when I keep hitting my head against the wall. But for now, I just wanted to share my thankfulness to God for doing something that I thought was not possible.
(This is going to be one of those blogs that will be lucky if it survives my delete button.)