Ever feel like life is conspiring against your every effort to have a relaxed day (much less more than just "a day")? That is my feeling lately, especially the last two days. You see, it's the end of the school year, here, and having my daughter schooled through the California Virtual Academy means that one, I have to be sure she stays caught up- and when she isn't, making sure she gets caught up; and two, that she has time to study for her finals, so that we can show that having her home has been a good decision- beneficial for her grades and study habits. What that means is that I'm spending significantly more time looking into her lessons, in order to try to help her study and understand each subject. I'd really like to know: Can anyone explain to me what the value of learning what the figurative language means in poetry, has for adulthood? I'm serious. If you can tell me a valid use for this knowledge, for the average person (not including teachers- English or otherwise) I would like to know what it is. Anyway, back to the subject at hand (no pun intended.) I like learning, but I didn't care much for school when I was there, and I'm not liking it much more now. I think I'm just nuts. Maybe someday, I'll look back on this and find that it did help me in some way, as I'm sure that it must be. (Right?) I just don't see it right now. (Except of course, for having my daughters unspoken gratitude.) :)
So after the day's school work was done, we took some time to go play at the skatepark, so that Mercedes could hang with her "newly found" brother (her father- whom we just found, as some of you know- has a son as well.) While we were there, Mercedes fell and hurt her wrist. Though we don't think it's broken, it is certainly hurting quite a bit. After coming back home, getting ready for dance practice, and going to dance; we then had a graduation to attend, and more of her "lost" family to meet. We didn't get home until about 9:30. I just started to relax, and was getting ready to go to bed, when horror of horrors, the next installment of my trying day was to begin.
My daughter (the youngest one) woke up at about 11:00 with her bed full of vomit. So I did what any caring mother would do: I cleaned her up, cleaned her bed up, gave her a drink to rinse out her mouth, put clean sheets and blankets on the bed, and put her back down. Less than 30 minutes later, she was screaming again! I went back in there, and this time, it was much messier! YUCK! My poor baby had a case of the stomach flu.
After a night consumed by holding her over the edge of my bed to be sick (it's the only way either of us could get what little bit of sleep we did) and much of yesterday rushing to her side to place a bowl under her mouth (and cleaning up when I wasn't fast enough) I finally took her to the doctor. I was told it was "the sickness of the week" and that it was going around. Apparently the doctor was right, because when she sent me to the Children's Hospital to have the baby treated for dehydration, it seemed almost every child there, was there for the same thing. We spent the evening sitting in uncomfortable chairs (remember this is after almost no sleep, and an already frazzling two days) with her in a fever induced sleep. I got to hold her down while they gave her tylenol for her fever in the only other way to do it, when a person can't keep anything down (use your imagination, it's not hard to figure out.) A few hours later, I then got to hold her down again while they gave her IV fluids. I think I cried more than she did. This is my two year old, we're talking about here. She kept telling me she wanted to go home, and that she was all better now. :( Well, after the IV and the medicine they gave for her stomach through the IV, she did look much better. No more vomiting, and no more fever. We got home about 10:30. I did get some sleep last night, but then this morning, the fever was back, and although there was no vomiting, we had other messes ALL DAY LONG! I think I preferrd the other. I know the smell of my house was better with the other. So could you all do me and my family a favor? Pray for us. Pray that I can keep my sanity, that my baby gets well, that my other daughter's wrist heals quickly and that we can somehow get back to a state of normalcy. I hate that when it rains it pours! Have a blessed week, all of you, I'm not sure I'll be up to posting again before the week is over.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Happy Birthday, My Love
My Love, on this day, 41 years ago, you were born. You were born to be my life partner, my other half of one flesh. I am so thankful that the Lord saw fit to bring us together, and I pray that your day is so very blessed today, and every day. I love you so much!!
Dear Readers, if you know this wonderful hunk of a man, that I call "husband" do hop on over and wish him a Happy Birthday. :) Blessings to you!
Dear Readers, if you know this wonderful hunk of a man, that I call "husband" do hop on over and wish him a Happy Birthday. :) Blessings to you!
Monday, April 14, 2008
Gone Fishing
Ok, so I was gone a little longer than a week. What can I say, huh? Life happens. :) I have had the most wonderful couple of weeks! On the 2nd, I told you that we were going on vacation to Universal Studios and Disneyland. We had so much fun, and it was great to spend time together as a family with no work, no schoolwork, no cleaning, and all that stuff! Our biggest decision was what park to go to, and what rides to ride when we got there. We did end up going to Knott's Berry Farm instead of Disneyland for a second day, though, and that was a good decision. We stayed in a hotel on the beach, and had the greatest view of the sunset on the nights we were back before sundown! Watching the sun go down, with the ocean in the foreground from our hotel room was just so amazing! Each time, I just had to take pictures because the glory of His creation was too much not to do so. Here's just a sampling of the pictures I got from our hotel room.
That's the Channel Islands you see in the background of that last picture. One of these days, we'll take a ferry out to the islands, since, we like to stay at that hotel, whenever we take a vacation. If you're ever in the Oxnard area, or going to be going through there, I highly recommend that hotel. It's the Embassy Suites at Mandalay Beach (not to be confused with the Mandalay Bay Casino- that's in Las Vegas.)
We also had a great time teaching our children about what it means to worship the Lord in our everyday lives. Our youngest refused to sleep in the crib that was provided for her, so you guessed, it...she slept with us. One of the nights that we were trying to get her to go to sleep, she had found the Gideon's Bible in the side drawer, next to the bed, and decided she wanted to "read" it. So we let her turn pages, and we "made up" the story for her. (What I mean by that, is that we didn't actually read that bible to her, but told her who Jesus was, and that He hung on a tree for her. So we didn't actually make up the story, but just told her the "story" unrelated to whatever page she happened to have turned to.) Do you know how awesome it is to hear a child say "Dezus" for the first time?! And how wonderfully humbling it is, to say grace with all your children in a public place? The hotel served actual breakfast each morning for free, and so each morning, we would go down and get our table, and say grace before we went and got our food (it was buffet style, sort of.) To show our children how not to be ashamed of our faith, was just so neat!!! We rarely eat out, and I don't remember the last time that we ate out with the children, before this trip.
Another thing that was awesome, and that I didn't tell you before was that April 4th was our 5th anniversary! We spent it at Universal Studios, having fun and being silly. My wonderful husband gave me tickets to Women of Faith for the following weekend. I'll tell you more about that later in this post. Thank you, sweetie, for being such a great listener, and knowing just what kind of gift is perfect for me!
Ok, well now that I've gone on and on, about our trip, I'll tell you about the rest of my two weeks hiatus. :)
When I got back, I attempted to wade through my 153 emails waiting in my inbox, and learned that I had been given two awards! Sometimes, I just feel so loved!!! Thank you to Michelle at In the Life of a Child for the Blogging With Purpose Award.
I also received an award from Bola, whom I've never met before, but apparently, she likes my blog. Incidentally, the award she gave me was one I received from Sidharth as well, and I thank you both. I can't really say that I know what I've persevered through, at this point, as I am highly blessed, but thank you all the same.
I apologize that I am not going to pass these on. Not because I don't know any fellow bloggers that deserve them, I do, but because I just don't have the time right now. I am highly appreciative of these awards, and to all my fellow bloggers, though. And I must say this, all the glory goes to Him, above. If it weren't for His prodding in my life, there would be no blog here.
Ok, well as I told you earlier, I received tickets to Women of Faith from my husband for our anniversary. I was just so tickled! Not only had he given me tickets, but he had made it possible for me to attend with one of my good friends. We don't get to see each other often enough, and rarely do we get to spend time together without our respective children. (Between the two of us, we have 8 children.) We've been friends for 15 years, and she was a big influence on my change in faith. Her gentle and loving persistence with regard to my lack of faith, for a number of years, had much to do with me finally seeing the "Light." Thank you Kelley! You are a true friend and sister.
That second picture is of all the ladies that were speakers, and or musical artists at the Women of Faith conference. So much fun!!!
And finally, finally, I learned yesterday, that I do, indeed enjoy fishing with my husband. For the longest time, whenever I would go out to the ponds with my husband, I would take along a book, or something to do, while he fished. Because of that, we weren't really spending time together. But yesterday, for some reason, I decided to pick up my daughter's fishing pole, and try it again. (I used to fish occasionally, but I have a phobia about worms- even fake ones, so I couldn't bring myself to do fish anymore.) Anyway, I learned that I was actually having fun. I think my poor daughter was a little put out that I commandeered her pole, but Hubby says that now, maybe he'll get me a decent pole of my own, since I do seem to like it. :) Who knew???!!! One last picture, and I'll close for the day...
Thank you to all of you, for your patience in my return, and I'll try to keep you updated, more often so that the next post isn't so lengthy. Blessings to you all!!!
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That's the Channel Islands you see in the background of that last picture. One of these days, we'll take a ferry out to the islands, since, we like to stay at that hotel, whenever we take a vacation. If you're ever in the Oxnard area, or going to be going through there, I highly recommend that hotel. It's the Embassy Suites at Mandalay Beach (not to be confused with the Mandalay Bay Casino- that's in Las Vegas.)
We also had a great time teaching our children about what it means to worship the Lord in our everyday lives. Our youngest refused to sleep in the crib that was provided for her, so you guessed, it...she slept with us. One of the nights that we were trying to get her to go to sleep, she had found the Gideon's Bible in the side drawer, next to the bed, and decided she wanted to "read" it. So we let her turn pages, and we "made up" the story for her. (What I mean by that, is that we didn't actually read that bible to her, but told her who Jesus was, and that He hung on a tree for her. So we didn't actually make up the story, but just told her the "story" unrelated to whatever page she happened to have turned to.) Do you know how awesome it is to hear a child say "Dezus" for the first time?! And how wonderfully humbling it is, to say grace with all your children in a public place? The hotel served actual breakfast each morning for free, and so each morning, we would go down and get our table, and say grace before we went and got our food (it was buffet style, sort of.) To show our children how not to be ashamed of our faith, was just so neat!!! We rarely eat out, and I don't remember the last time that we ate out with the children, before this trip.
Another thing that was awesome, and that I didn't tell you before was that April 4th was our 5th anniversary! We spent it at Universal Studios, having fun and being silly. My wonderful husband gave me tickets to Women of Faith for the following weekend. I'll tell you more about that later in this post. Thank you, sweetie, for being such a great listener, and knowing just what kind of gift is perfect for me!
Ok, well now that I've gone on and on, about our trip, I'll tell you about the rest of my two weeks hiatus. :)
When I got back, I attempted to wade through my 153 emails waiting in my inbox, and learned that I had been given two awards! Sometimes, I just feel so loved!!! Thank you to Michelle at In the Life of a Child for the Blogging With Purpose Award.
I also received an award from Bola, whom I've never met before, but apparently, she likes my blog. Incidentally, the award she gave me was one I received from Sidharth as well, and I thank you both. I can't really say that I know what I've persevered through, at this point, as I am highly blessed, but thank you all the same.
I apologize that I am not going to pass these on. Not because I don't know any fellow bloggers that deserve them, I do, but because I just don't have the time right now. I am highly appreciative of these awards, and to all my fellow bloggers, though. And I must say this, all the glory goes to Him, above. If it weren't for His prodding in my life, there would be no blog here.
Ok, well as I told you earlier, I received tickets to Women of Faith from my husband for our anniversary. I was just so tickled! Not only had he given me tickets, but he had made it possible for me to attend with one of my good friends. We don't get to see each other often enough, and rarely do we get to spend time together without our respective children. (Between the two of us, we have 8 children.) We've been friends for 15 years, and she was a big influence on my change in faith. Her gentle and loving persistence with regard to my lack of faith, for a number of years, had much to do with me finally seeing the "Light." Thank you Kelley! You are a true friend and sister.
That second picture is of all the ladies that were speakers, and or musical artists at the Women of Faith conference. So much fun!!! And finally, finally, I learned yesterday, that I do, indeed enjoy fishing with my husband. For the longest time, whenever I would go out to the ponds with my husband, I would take along a book, or something to do, while he fished. Because of that, we weren't really spending time together. But yesterday, for some reason, I decided to pick up my daughter's fishing pole, and try it again. (I used to fish occasionally, but I have a phobia about worms- even fake ones, so I couldn't bring myself to do fish anymore.) Anyway, I learned that I was actually having fun. I think my poor daughter was a little put out that I commandeered her pole, but Hubby says that now, maybe he'll get me a decent pole of my own, since I do seem to like it. :) Who knew???!!! One last picture, and I'll close for the day...
Thank you to all of you, for your patience in my return, and I'll try to keep you updated, more often so that the next post isn't so lengthy. Blessings to you all!!!
Type rest of the post here
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