This last week has had its share of rough patches. A lot of the rough patches involve a lack of sleep. Last Saturday we had already hit the level of sleep deprivation that makes understanding English very challenging. Yet our nights just kept getting worse. When Andrew and I rolled out of bed Wednesday morning…
Thoughts
Present
I’ve been trying figure out my long term direction for awhile now, identifying the kind life I want to live and trying to create it. I’m still at the beginning of this journey that I suspect will last a lifetime, but I’ve decided on these four principles as my starting place: Inspired, Intentional, Simple, and…
Our How of Food
We have been thinking a lot about the food we eat and how it effects us. This journey in nutrition can be convoluted at times (a lot of the time) because so many people have different research, interpretation of research, personal experiences with food, and their own ideas of what works and what doesn’t. The…
Self Talk
Yesterday we met some friends at the park. Emily followed a friend and started climbing up a rope ladder of sorts. She was pretty nervous starting out and asked me to come close. I went over and stood right there but let her do all the work. After a few runs she was growing in…
Scripture Tunes
When I was a little girl my mom taught us a few scriptures to music. They are the only scriptures I still have memorized. Around the time Emily was a year old I decided I wanted to make learning scriptures to music a priority while my children are young so that they have a large…
The Joy of Sleepless Service
Last night I was up three times with Emily and countless times with Nathan. Someone set the alarm on our clock downstairs and it went off at midnight, which had me running blindly without my glasses with Nathan in my arms, yanking at chords until the noise stopped in hopes that it wouldn’t wake up…
Round Three
Last week I started having c. diff symptoms. I went to the doctors on Wednesday and she sent me to an Infectious Disease doctor on Friday for c. diff round three. Wednesday I felt like I got hit by a truck. I used all the swear words in my vocabulary while venting with my mom…
The Miracles Continue and the Tears Begin
There have been so many miracles this week. I could only get in to see one doctor before March after calling to three different offices twice, and when I went to my appointment yesterday she is perfect for my situation. She even spent time working in a neonatal unit and was able to give us…
God’s in the Details
Three weeks ago I had a baby and my body promptly fell apart. With regular postpartum healing, a separated pubic bone, and battling C. Diff I have never felt so worn out in my entire life. My family has been separated during the last three weeks while I was in the hospital first for having…
I Did It!
For the last few months we have been spending a lot of time exclaiming, “I did it!”, “You did it!”, and “We both did it!”. Emily started it and I quickly jumped on her bandwagon. I have been amazed at just how powerful that phrase is. Last night Emily really wanted a certain pickle out of…