Our dryer started making this dreadful noise awhile back. It would go in cycles between a quiet, I can handle it screech to a full out, awful sound that would make you think twice about running it if someone was over or if a kiddo was napping. Well, God bless Mike, he took the dryer COMPLETELY apart and NOW it does not screech at all!!! So nice! I admit to being a little nervous when I walked into the room and saw the sight below, but what a guy to tackle such a project. :)
We had Grams and Popsy over for dinner and games this past Sunday. We had so much fun with them! Thanks for coming over Grams and Popsy!!
Playing Outside
Playing On the Farm
Playing Mario Kart
This week I find myself thinking, just thinking about so many things. I learned this week, that a friend of mine from my high school days has cancer. She most likely does not have very long left here on this earth. She has a husband and a young son. My mind can hardly fathom it. She is my friend. She is my age. She is 29. She is too young. She has so much left to do. She has a son to watch grow. She has more people to touch. I try to put myself in her shoes or in her husband’s shoes and I find that makes it very hard to breathe. I know that this is not the way they would have wanted or expected life to go, they would not have signed up for this path…
I had the opportunity to be at a conference that equips women to be better wives and mothers. One woman shared her long journey with infertility in the face of every single person she knew getting pregnant. That path was not what she signed up for.
Another shared a story of how for 22 years she had a seemingly normal life. Then her husband got sick and one thing led to another and now he is on medication for a bi-polar disorder. She has a new normal and it is not what she signed up for.
Still another woman lost her sight at age 15. She has been blind now for more years that she had sight. And it’s hard. It’s not what she signed up for.
I know in my mind that God is absolutely sovereign, that before any of these situations reached these families it came through God’s hand. I absolutely believe that, with all my heart, yet it is still so hard for me to understand the why’s of it all. But something I heard yesterday really touched my heart. It is not always well with our circumstances. Life happens, cancer happens, sickness happens, infertility happens, blindness happens. Our circumstances change in big ways and small ways all the time and it is not always well with our circumstances. BUT, even though it is not always well with my circumstances, it is well with my soul. I have been given, by Jesus Christ, enough grace to handle my circumstances, even when they feel like they may break my heart. It is well with my soul because of Jesus Christ and the hope that I have in him. I pray that if you read this blog that you can say, though it is not well with my circumstances, it is well with my soul.
Kate has not made it a secret that she would like to have a sister. :) My good friend, Wendy, had a precious baby girl a week ago, and it brought Kate’s desires back to the forefront of her thoughts. I told her it is possible that she would never have a sister and at best, it could be quite a long time, especially to a 4 year old. She took the news pretty well. She decided if she can’t have a sister, she will just make do with Creighton.
Dear Spring,
I would appreciate it very much if you would come soon. You see, I have a daughter, she is very high energy, and when she cannot spend every minute of every day outside, she resorts to doing the things that are pictured below. If you could come a little early, maybe just maybe our whole house will not end up covered in something it should not be (fingernail polish, permanent marker, etc.) Thanks.
For those wondering how the fingernail polish incident turned out, the fingernail polish has been taken away indefinitely and she did not get to sleep with her white blanket that night.
In other news, I had her preschool parent/teacher conference last week and her teacher said she is doing great, she’s ready for kindergarten, AND she has one of the longer attention spans of all the kids in her class. God bless preschool teachers. Just so you don’t think I only catch her doing “bad” things, I did catch her with a broom and dustpan cleaning up a mess she had made without being asked. She’s a ton of fun, but man alive, she wears me out. My Mom is right, I haven’t been bored in a REALLY long time. :)
Lincoln is doing great in the potty training ordeal. We are down to one diaper a day (night time) and he has not had any accidents this week (it is only Tuesday though). But, we’re excited for positive progress!
Creighton has started holding his hands above his head. We don’t know why, if he is doing “So big” or what, but he thinks it is really funny. I tried to catch him at it last night, but he’s a quick little guy, even with an SLR camera. :)
