This was such a fun day!
It was the day that our season tickets to the Vikings games arrived in the mail. I took this picture to text to Jason right when they arrived. We were so excited!
Our plans were to sell the tickets to all of the games but 2 and the money that we made would pay for our 2 trips.
As the first game we were planning to attend rolled around, we decided not to go. We realized that we just couldn’t justify spending the money to go on the trip. We are working so hard to save for our adoption, and we still have a long ways to go to save up what we need. While we’ve been working around the clock and could REALLY use a little getaway… we just didn’t feel right about it. So, we sold our tickets. We ended up making more money off of the two games we had intended to go to than any other game of the season. In my mind, that was confirmation that we had done the right thing.
We were supposed to be leaving for Minneapolis Friday after the kids got out of school and we were supposed to be at tonight’s Monday Night Football game.
But we aren’t there. We are sitting in our living room to watch the game instead.
2 days after we sold the tickets for tonight’s game, this happened:
They were unable to fix the roof before tonight’s game so the game is being played at the University of Minnesota (which is outside! And it’s wind chil –1 and snowing! brrr!)
While I feel for the people who bought our tickets… we were so thankful that we were able to sell them before this happened.
We’ve been sad about having to cancel all our plans and go without our fun little “mental health getaway”. The boys were especially upset when they found out we weren’t going to be able to go, so that was hard too.
It was a good reminder for me that doing the right thing isn’t always the option we want to chose, and isn’t always the option that seems the most fun. But in the end…it’s the right thing.
Instead of spending the money to take a trip (or two) we were able to save all of the money that we made off of our ticket sales.
After all, we are praying that God will provide. He did. He didn’t provide enough to save this money for our adoption AND go have fun…but that’s not what we NEED. Ah… the old needs vs wants lesson :)
And besides…the dream was always to see the man play in person. And we did last year. It was an awesome little trip.
I blogged about it here, here, here, here and last but not least, here. I got all teary eyed looking back at these posts.I’ll never forget this trip!
I may be sitting at home today instead of on a trip, but I’m thankful anyway. (And I’m MUCH warmer!!)
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