We're on vacation in lovely Gatlinburg, but I brought my laptop and found some time to post. Good thing, because I have some big, BIG news. Those that know me well know that my husband and I have been infertile for nearly our entire almost–21-year marriage. The Lord had blessed us with one adopted child, and, thankfully, only 1 miscarriage. But that's changed. I'm pleased to announce that, after 18 years of actually pursuing (and nearly giving up on) a biological addition to our family, the Lord has blessed us again: I'm actually pregnant and have seen and heard the baby's heartbeat in a sonogram! Lord willing and provided we have a healthy baby from this, it will truly be the best of both worlds: a baby by adoption and one by birth.
Given our somewhat older ages, this is a bit of a surprise--along the lines of nearly 1/2 Sarah and Abraham, and, so, Rog is considering the name Isaac if it's a boy. :) Given the age factor, we, naturally, are a little concerned about how things will go and covet your prayer for a healthy body for me and a healthy fullterm baby--boy or girl (we don't care!). But nothing is too hard for the Lord, and His timing, as always, is impeccable. May He be glorified through this.
I supposed I'll have occasional updates to post, but feel free to ask whatever between posts. We've got a lot of decisions and work to do over the next few months, and I'll try to keep up. :) Thanks for your prayers!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
The not-so-great flood :)
Things have been a little crazier than usual here recently due to a little flood we had. Our water softener tank cracked and allowed water to continue to pump into it and out into the basement last weekend. Our weekend, and part of our week even, had been devoted to the cleanup process. At least that's part of my excuse for not blogging. Been doing a lot of appointments and end-of-year things as well. I'll put pics of the flood below, but since it's hard to see the water in some shots, I'll post a video, too. Also in the news, Ri needs braces. Sigh. Just when we were hoping to pay everything off. :) Oh, well. I'm sure the economy will be forgiving. Not.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Ahh, Springtime
When you think of Springtime, what do you think of? I'll bet kites and flowers are high on the list. Well, in keeping with that, and to update you on my tulip planting of last Fall, enjoy these pictures of Springtime--guaranteed to help you forget your worries of finances and flu. :D
Ri and I jokingly refer to these as my "goth" tulips. I'm not much for dark colors normally, but I just love the "black" tulips (Queen of Night).
Happy Springtime everyone!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
I knew I was missing something
Lest my avid readers who by now have already read the latest blog miss this (lol), I meant to also post this audio of Ri singing at church a few weeks ago. Steph used Scripture and put this together, composing and then accompanying Ri. Had a bit of trouble getting it to a format that would play here, but enjoy this first "performance" of this new song.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Winding down
I'm happy to report some of the craziness is over. Ri had her last performance tonight and we can breathe a sigh of relief. She did great--along with the rest of the cast. Here's a picture of her getting on her mic and some other backstage shots (I worked backstage tonight--got to see the play last night with mom). No photos could be taken during the show, but we'll get a professionally recorded DVD in a while. I'll see if i can excerpt from it and post that when I get it.
And an update on Ri's leg. It's so much better, although, ironically, the picture makes it look worse than it is--particularly when the last picture made it look better than it was at the time.
Now all that's left is basketball, piano, and 5th grade play, but we get a bit of a respite between plays. Maybe a bit of time to catch up. :)
And an update on Ri's leg. It's so much better, although, ironically, the picture makes it look worse than it is--particularly when the last picture made it look better than it was at the time.
Now all that's left is basketball, piano, and 5th grade play, but we get a bit of a respite between plays. Maybe a bit of time to catch up. :)
Saturday, February 28, 2009
TGIM
Well, all I can say is Thank God it’s March. Can’t say I'm unhappy to see February gone. It’s been a bad month generally speaking--and not just because of the weather! (Pics below of our early Feb. snowstorm(s)).
But we made the best of it. :)
During one of the storms, my mom needed to go to the hospital--dehydrated from a nasty stomach virus. And again a few days later when things took longer to clear up than expected.
But then, we did get a chance to go down to the cabin, and although it was cold down there, too, it was a little nicer than home.
And then the following 2 weeks we all fought a nasty head/chest cold. Ri and I are still coughing a little, actually.
And the coupe de gras. Having the vaporizer running in Ri's room for her cough, she bumped it and got a nasty burn on her leg. We were treating it at home, but we thought it was taking a turn for the worst, so we took her to the hospital last night, where they removed the top layer of skin. If you think this looks nasty, you should have seen it with the bad/dead skin still on it. Turns out, we'd done everything all right and she is well on her way to recovery.
This brings me to a prayer request and a praise:
Healing, of course, for the wound, as well as her to be able to get around. It hurts her to walk--I supposed the skin moves and stretches, and it's very raw. We're not quite sure how things are going to work at school this week.
Now the praise: when this happened, it was bedtime, and Rog was out working in the back garage. I had gone out to ask him to come in to pray with her. Poor Ri had pulled off her wet, burning pajama pants and put a cool wet cloth in it on her own before I came back in and realized what had happened. We figure God had helped her know just what to do to keep it from getting worse, rather than waiting for me to come back in and giving the burning longer to cause more damage. And the hospital said it really looked good considering.
So, hopefully March will be better, and we will be able to blog a bit more and stay well. Hope everyone else had a better February, and is looking forward to Spring! :)
But we made the best of it. :)
During one of the storms, my mom needed to go to the hospital--dehydrated from a nasty stomach virus. And again a few days later when things took longer to clear up than expected.
But then, we did get a chance to go down to the cabin, and although it was cold down there, too, it was a little nicer than home.
And then the following 2 weeks we all fought a nasty head/chest cold. Ri and I are still coughing a little, actually.
And the coupe de gras. Having the vaporizer running in Ri's room for her cough, she bumped it and got a nasty burn on her leg. We were treating it at home, but we thought it was taking a turn for the worst, so we took her to the hospital last night, where they removed the top layer of skin. If you think this looks nasty, you should have seen it with the bad/dead skin still on it. Turns out, we'd done everything all right and she is well on her way to recovery.
This brings me to a prayer request and a praise:
Healing, of course, for the wound, as well as her to be able to get around. It hurts her to walk--I supposed the skin moves and stretches, and it's very raw. We're not quite sure how things are going to work at school this week.
Now the praise: when this happened, it was bedtime, and Rog was out working in the back garage. I had gone out to ask him to come in to pray with her. Poor Ri had pulled off her wet, burning pajama pants and put a cool wet cloth in it on her own before I came back in and realized what had happened. We figure God had helped her know just what to do to keep it from getting worse, rather than waiting for me to come back in and giving the burning longer to cause more damage. And the hospital said it really looked good considering.
So, hopefully March will be better, and we will be able to blog a bit more and stay well. Hope everyone else had a better February, and is looking forward to Spring! :)
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Christmas Miscellany
So, my evil plan worked. Blog snubbing. Don't post a blog in a while and see if it gets others moving (hint, hint) lol, and it worked!
Heh, heh, yeah it's late. Not much to report here either, altho there's plenty to fulminate about, but we'll just post some fun pics from the holidays.
10 guesses as to who the baby is! :)
Roger opening his "surprise" gift--athough we still didn't give him the big green egg until later.
Roger's "gag" gift to us. We gave the octopus to the dog and just about gagged doing so lol.
Christmas at the Smiths
Like father, like son.
An "interesting person" at the CM. :)
More to fulminate about later, but we'll let these air for a while. :)
Happy not-so-new year to all!
Heh, heh, yeah it's late. Not much to report here either, altho there's plenty to fulminate about, but we'll just post some fun pics from the holidays.
10 guesses as to who the baby is! :)
Roger opening his "surprise" gift--athough we still didn't give him the big green egg until later.
Roger's "gag" gift to us. We gave the octopus to the dog and just about gagged doing so lol.
Christmas at the Smiths
Like father, like son.
An "interesting person" at the CM. :)
More to fulminate about later, but we'll let these air for a while. :)
Happy not-so-new year to all!
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