Thursday, August 28, 2008

Snaggletooth, Part 2


I was woken up this morning by a 5-yr.-old bouncing around the bed saying, "I'm ready to go to the dentist now!" She was so excited! She's even looking forward to bedtime tonight to see what the tooth fairy will leave her for her tooth! Hallelujah! Thanks for your prayers! She couldn't be happier!

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Snaggletooth


My sweet little girl is going to have to have one of her front teeth pulled! A few years ago she fell at the zoo. The trauma received to one of her front teeth was enough to kill all the nerves inside. They did a nerve treatment forever ago hoping to be able to save the tooth. However, it abcessed last week. So now they have to pull it! Try explaining this to your 5-year-old! We haven't told her yet...not really sure what to say! I think she'll be a cute snaggletooth, but I know how much it hurts having a tooth pulled when it's not loose! Please pray for her! They are pulling it at 9:00 tomorrow morning. Thanks, friends!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

my HOT Hubby! :)



Look at these headshots! Doesn't he look good?! Steven had an audition with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival yesterday. I am so proud of him! We won't know anything until mid-September. But I just wanted to brag on him for a minute for stepping out of the box and trying something new! He worked really hard to prepare and I'm sure did a bang-up job! His voice is amazing, and he sang "Close Every Door" from "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". HE also did a monologue where he was a bakery employee who got caught eating up the profits...it was humorous...for those of you who know him, I"m sure you can imagine just how humorous...he spent the rest of the monolgue trying to convince Mr. Reilly that he wasn't eating up the profits, he was actually increasing them! I think he did well...I venture to say he probably did a lot better than he thinks he did. Either way, I'm so, so proud of him for putting himself out there and broadening his horizons! Way to go, Hubby! I love you!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Life Goes On




Well, the BIG day came and went without much fanfare. My girl seems all grown up now and is spending the majority of her day with someone besides me...scarier than I ever imagined. I have to say I catch myself thinking about her and wondering how she's doing many, many times throughout the day. Thomas gets ready to go pick her up about an hour after we drop her off...then an hour after that...and an hour after that! He misses her too. I'm so proud of her for being such a big girl, but, wow, it's a huge change. Already I seem to have so much more time in the day. I think I'm going to be bored next year when Thomas starts. I've forgotten what is was like to be leisurely about anything. I have older friends who have been telling me for years now that I just stay tired because I have little ones, or I'll have a lot more time to clean the house or do whatever when they get a little older. It's so strange because I'm beginning to see how that's true. Very true. I've been soaked into this sponge of motherhood for 5 1/2 years now. I can't imagine having time to myself at all. I've gone from taking my free time for granted to being overjoyed to have no free time (when they're itsy-bitsy babes) to wondering if I'll ever even have time to sleep again to wishing I just had one hour alone to realizing it's not so bad carting them wherever I go to again enjoying their company (when they're not fighting) to realizing I don't have much of their time left to wondering what in the world am I going to do with myself and all this non-kid time!!! And, yes, I know that was worse than the turtle-crossing-the-road-in-the-Grapes-of-Wrath run-on sentence! I ran out of Lexapro a couple of nights ago and just got it refilled...can you tell?!?! Anyway, enjoy the pics of her first day of school!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

The BIG Day


Tomorrow is the big one...the one I've been thinking about since May 16, 2003. Rachael starts Kindergarten. It's not so much K5 as it is the elapsed time between 2003 and 2008. Furthermore, tomorrow will not be hard because of school, but because tomorrow means high school graduation will come, then college, then maybe grad school, et cetera. Then there's the whole possibility of growing up and meeting a man...YIKES! So friends, as you see, I'm not one of those raving psychotics who is sobbing relentlessly for weeks before K5. I'm just a little teary over how quickly the last 5 years have passed...and also knowing the next 13 years are going to seem just as quick. My little girl is growing up. Wow. So here's to Rach Anne! May she be God's little missionary in our public school system, and may the Lord watch over her tender heart as she is led by people we don't yet know. I'm so glad He loves her even more than I do!

Monday, August 4, 2008

Please Pray for my Friend

Some of you know my dear friend Mary Sue and her husband Herb. She is so dear and precious to me and is such an amazing example of faith and hope. But today that's coming a little hard for her. Her husband had a heart attack this morning. They did an emergency heart cath., but even then the findings were not very encouraging. To make a long story short, he's going to definitely need open heart surgery and will kind of be like a time bomb until he is able to get it. There are lots of details to get bogged down with here, but just pray that the Lord will, as He is SO capable of doing, masterfully orchestrate all of these problems and provide the funds, time and correct motivation for the surgery. And please, please lift up my sweet friend Mary Sue. She's been through so much already and she desperately needs lots of prayer support now. Thank you, friends, for joining me in prayer!