Choosing Joy day 3

Today was a very full day, consisting mostly of waiting. I spent the whole day, 60+ miles away from home,sitting in a hospital waiting room. There we sat, me my daughter and granddaughter,waiting ,waiting , waiting.
My grandson is a special needs child and is in the process of going through a battery of tests to decipher what his actual diagnosis is. So today was just an MRI. Doesn't sound too bad. But for a little guy, who's only six, and doesn't really understand what is going on, this is trauma for him. So this MRI was only suppose to take about an hour, but he had to be anesthetized. So it took longer than expected. The nurse said they took a lot of extra pictures. Kinda makes us wonder why. Now we have to wait to have the results read, which could take a few weeks.
So Joy was not really a big thing for us today. But on the way home , my daughter reminded me of something. The city Christmas tree lighting ceremony is tonight. Ugghh! We all had been looking forward to this for weeks. But after today we were all feeling pretty drained. "Maybe we should just stay home" was our first thought. But after thinking about it for a few miles, I decided it was best to push through the feeling and just go. If it was too much for Zac, we would go home. We have to at least try. So we did.
It was great! The kids just lit up when we got there. It was great! They watched the countdown to the tree lighting, had hot cocoa, watched the snow fall, listened to the Christmas music, and talked to Santa. It was truly a joyful time had by all of us. And just seeing their little faces all aglow, made it all worth while.
We all had made the right choice. We could have choose to stay home and wallow in our day of waiting. No, we choose to rise above the feelings we were having and search for something better. Our decision gave us all joy. I am so glad we choose to go to the celebration.