Pumpkins and such....

This week was pumpkin week in our house.  We did a "five little pumpkins sitting on a fence book" and then yesterday we were supposed to go to the pumpkin patch.  Instead, we did a "5 little pumpkins on a fence craft" and they also wanted to do some painting, so I painted their hands to make pumpkins.  I hope it clears up tomorrow so we can go, because I have nothing else planned for the day.
It's been a discouraging few days.  I think it just may be the rainy blah days.  I feel like this dark cloud hangs over us lately with things.  Jack's doctor is not helping him the way he needs to be helped, my medical bills are still coming in, the unexpected goof last week that caused  me $160 last week, some other personal trials that are going on, the car battery died this morning (I am hoping that is all it is), and I think someone was trying to accuse my two younger kids of something this morning of something I KNOW they didn't do.  Even through all of this the last little while, I can't get the thoughts that none of this took place without God knowing about it ahead of time, and without him allowing it to happen.  We've been blessed so much that I can't dwell on the "black cloud" that has been over us.  I know there are other people who are much worse off than I am, and this stuff is just minor.  I think of the words of one of the songs that says "This is the stuff that drives me crazy, this is the stuff that's getting to me lately, in the middle of my little mess, I forget how much I'm blessed".  Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday and thank goodness God is in control.