Getting ready to go on vacation involves using suitcases and staying at a hotel. Help! The exterminators gave me a low-toxic spray to use on our suitcases (to repel bugs although I don't think we have any there) and in the hotel room (definitely using it there). Another precaution we're taking is packing our overnight clothes in large ziploc bags to avoid any possibility of bugs from the hotel. I've discovered, thanks to my aunt, some fantastic, heavy-duty, inexpensive ziploc bags at Dollar Tree, and over the last ten weeks, I have made several trips there, procuring bags by the dozen. I've used these to pack all our clothes and items on bookshelves. On one occasion, the cashier at Dollar Tree asked me if I were the woman who was buying up all their bags. Wow. I didn't see that coming. Paranoid, I suspected that she suspected me of bed-bug infestation. I offered some sort of "spring cleaning" explanation (which is true) and started buying my bags at various other Dollar Trees in town.
So all I have to do now is chill. The kids are great at this. Speaking statistical logic to myself helps somewhat: "You haven't seen a bed bug in over a month. You haven't seen spots on the bed sheets in three weeks. The bug guys have promoted you." Speaking truth about God to myself helps infinitely more because these truths are certain and don't change: "He will never leave me or forsake me. He delights in me. He never slumbers or sleeps. He cares for me." I'm learning slowly and sporadically.
So all I have to do now is chill. The kids are great at this. Speaking statistical logic to myself helps somewhat: "You haven't seen a bed bug in over a month. You haven't seen spots on the bed sheets in three weeks. The bug guys have promoted you." Speaking truth about God to myself helps infinitely more because these truths are certain and don't change: "He will never leave me or forsake me. He delights in me. He never slumbers or sleeps. He cares for me." I'm learning slowly and sporadically.
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