As a part of the settling-in process, we went to IKEA. A lot. I went to IKEA 3 times within a week and a half probably for a total of 12-15 hours. Unfortunately, all 3 times at 2 locations IKEA did not have the duvet cover I was looking for, which just turned into disappoint for the rest of each IKEA trip.
The second time we went to IKEA and after being yet again disappointed by the duvet cover selection (they didn’t have the right size duvet cover), I was overwhelmed with disappointment and a bad attitude. It was at the end of the week–a week full of the Italian bureaucratic system and working on settling in when all I wanted to do was get on campus, meet new students, and reconnect with old friends. When we were leaving the IKEA store after round 2, it was POURING rain. We had no other option but to walk to the bus stop by the mall and wait. None of us had umbrellas, and even if we did we were carrying too much stuff to hold one. And with this rain, there was nothing to do but laugh and enjoy the ridiculousness of the moment. God really washed away my frustrations and disappointment in those moments as I was being soaked to the core with IKEA purchases in hand. I love how He works like that. 
