August 20, 2008
laying low around here today-just my heart is feeling heavy, you know?
the girls have been involved in building forts, concocting big plans, and overall, just being good kiddos. I have been doing the mundane-sorting through clothes in the garage-pass on, salvation, consign-laundry, downloading pictures, trying to get the bug guy to believe that there really are bees living in my garden.
the weather today is amazing-very cool-like in the low 70’s-sunny and a little windy. very unusual for this time of year around here. every window in the house is open.
last night we went to a concert on the beach-everyone laughed when I packed Maya’s fleece, but she was the warmest one out of the lot of us. Here are a few shots:
the ladies and their sidekick, their cousin Jake
can you stand this sweet little Chase? Jake’s brother
we were at a cookout this weekend and every year the cousins get together for the picture-this is my father’s side of the family. Jake is letting everyone know that these are his buddies…
August 19, 2008
We just found out that my sweet little cousin, baby Amy, went to be with the Lord this morning. Maya said that today is a very sad day-this is the first time they have had to deal with any death this close to their circle. She is right.
Thank you for all your prayers and support-her family will continue to need them for a long time.
August 19, 2008
she made it!
baby Amy is a feisty little one-what else would you expect from our family?
the drs said that these first 24 hours are crucial so keep lifting her up. My aunt, who is out there, said that she was responding to their voices-amazing. They also do not close the chest, so they are able to see her tiny heart beat through the bandages. wow.
the surgery was completed at 9:00 est last night so please keep rallying on Amy’s behalf. Thanks in advance.
August 17, 2008
thanks again for the concern over baby Amy.
she will be having, in effect, open heart surgery tomorrow-with the drs giving her a 50/50 shot at, well, making it. providing the surgery is a success, she will have one in 6 months and one at 18 months to look forward to. and this will not guarantee her not needing a heart transplant down the road.
let’s just focus on tomorrow-the drs, nurses, mom and dad and mostly amy. thanks
August 17, 2008
it’s sunday and the living is easy. ok not easy, but isn’t that the saying?
matt and maya went off to church and olivia and i have already spent some time on the swings and in the sandbox. now she is lining up fabric strips to decorate their flip-flops.
i had the mother of all migraines starting on Friday night and leading into last night-nauseous, pain, numbness-the works. feeling a lot better today, but still like a wet noodle. i had taken about 8 Excedrin migraine tablets before i headed out to a few yard sales yesterday. i wasn’t dead after all.
the first one was one that advertised lilly clothes-they must have had about 10 or 12 pairs of pants. it was a gold mine. if i was 40 lbs thinner. i did however find a hanna andersson dress for myself and a vera backpack.
at the next sale i found an ll bean coat for olivia for $1-it just needed to be washed. score.
lastly, was this little number:
if you have ever been to my home, i have a thing about red. like i love it a lot. this is perfect. it also has a power supply with two plugs in the side. i cannot wait to use it. marcie said that i would regret not getting it, and she was right. i went back tot he same yard sale later for something i was still thinking about and it was gone. i would have cried about this hot little number.
i also finished this project for the girls’ room. i had seen this on another crafty site and tried to recreate it myself. it. was. so. easy. i had bought wood letters that you are supposed to paint, but had not taken into consideration the thickness of the letter with the frame glass. so i traced the letter onto black paper, mounted it on the scrapbook paper and slipped it into the matted frame. total time? since i had “help” from the girls-about 15 minutes for the two of them. they will hang over their beds.
August 16, 2008
maybe you can tell I am having issues with shutterfly-it is causing me great stress!
Any thoughts on a good hosting site? Picassa or flickr? anyone???
August 15, 2008
the other day the girls had a hat and shoe fashion show. i have been really trying to get to all those organizational projects that just do not seem to get done…
one area is definitely their hat bins (3) and their shoes. well, i told them they could only keep one bin of winter hats and we did it. some are going to be consigned and others we will just pass on. on an unfortunate note, they each only have one pair of shoes that actually fit them, once sandal weather is over. let’s hope it is warm until like november. i promise i will not let my children wear socks with their sandals…
starting to get excited for the fall and the efforts of homeschooling the girls. i have some great materials that we will be using and hope that it will be fairly comprehensive. we will also still be swimming and they will add gymnastics to their docket. maya has been spotted by the coach already so we will see if she takes a liking to it. again, just because she is chinese does not mean she will necessarily love gymnastics…
i have this hacking cough that is really starting to get the best of me-not even the 25 bottles of cough medicine i bought are helping. it reminds me that i need a new doctor-and that i should have taken care of it when i was not hacking up a lung…
August 14, 2008
finally won the fight i was having with
shutterfly-what is the deal over there???
a few pictures from our most recent rainbow excursion-this was also michaela’s first rainbow-although ia m not sure she can see it through o’s armpit!
i was scared to have my camera out so i had it under the huge golf umbrella-
matt would be proud!
August 14, 2008
today i moved up into the next category on the heart rate chart in the gym
I turned 35 today
holy crap
started out with a trip to the y at 7 and my sister nancy joined me for hell spinning. followed by several singing phone calls and now my sister took the girls to get the food for dinner-bliss. the sun is playing games with us so i am not sure we will get to the beach today, but it is all good. just the fact hat i was awake 15 minutes before maya today was gift enough!
i received an early birthday gift-to-me in the mail yesterday-the new Hillsong album. it is just amazing-one that you can listen to over and over again-oh wait, I have! of course it has the amazing song “healer” which we have been singing in church for the past few weeks. there are many other great, worshipful songs on here and i would totally recommend it-get it.
so for my birthday i have asked the girls not to fight all day long and realize that this is something i am certain my mother said to my sister and i-wow. maya wanted to know what i wanted her to buy me-she was very confused because she has been practicing her wrapping all week long and was not sure how she could wrap good behavior. so i told her to get me a few magazines-knowing my short attention span and my love for having stacks of magazines all. over. the. house.
took a trip to joannes yesterday to scope out a few projects-should keep me busy for a little while! will post pictures soon
when i think about a verse that has been with me for many years-back at ENC even-it is:
Habakkuk 1:5 “Look at the nations and watch-and be utterly amazed. For I am doing something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told (emphasis mine).”
this verse has always had a very special place in my mind and heart and it is still true today. that i am where i am today is utterly amazing-i could not have imagined this place in my life. it is like being a parent-everyone gives you lots of advice, but until you actually do it-you cannot imagine it. that i would have two children 4 months apart. that i would be experiencing their lives along with matt. that the Lord would have brought me through some pretty heavy stuff to be on the other side and be able to see a glimpse of His grace in my life and the lives of those around me. that the Lord would have chosen to bless me with the family i have. that He still continues to bless me-every. single. day.
August 11, 2008
seriously
how many times can two little people say mommy-at current count we are well into the double digits. each. one. of. them.
you would think that since they were up at some ungod-ly hour this morning, they would be wrecked
maybe i am just under the delusion that other people need as much sleep as i do. ok, maybe not that much, but many hours in a row is a good thing. for everyone.
let me just say for the record that i hate the summer for this one reason-it never gets dark. and to my children, dark=sleepy time. not bright light streaming past the room-darkening shades. black night.
today was not as bad as it has been-we had some freakish rain storm and it was really bright out, yet raining like a monsoon. and we had the blessing of a rainbow-and possibly a double one at that. so it did eventually settle down and get dark enough for them to drift off. of course now i just feel like i have been run over by that truck that blows through here periodically.
while we were outside admiring the rainbow-for like 10 minutes, Olivia racked up 5 mosquito bites. now olivia does not just get bit-she develops these huge welts that swell and get hot and basically look horrible. and they hurt. so she has one on a shoulder and the rest on her neck. glad i had her hair cut last week…
so now i am going to attempt the organizing/cleaning i attempted to start before my amazon order came today. i ordered the book china ghosts and i cannot put it down. amazing.
