Pray for Alivia.

Please pray. Today is her 90th day in the hospital. She has developed a secondary cancer and is not doing well. This is a plead from one mommy for another. Please pray for their baby, even if you don't know her. Just say a quick prayer that the Lord will heal Alivia and provide them with the miracle they are desperate for.

Quote of the Day.

"I'm like a dandelion, jack. You can cut me down; I'll just grow right back." - Kid Rock

This song randomly loaded on my ipod from Jeremy's music list, and I ended up listening to it today while I was walking. That's how I feel right now. Amazing how different things are this year...I think this is our year. Things are going so well. Remind me of how I feel right now if things change later on, kay?

Once the bad times pass, they really are just a distant memory. No matter how rough anything seems, once it gets better, the pain of it all fades quickly. Hard to see when you're mucking through it, but it's great to reflect after the fact.

All smiles here.

Mother's Day Revisited.

Last Sunday was spent running around and celebrating and recognizing our moms, so we didn't really get to celebrate as a family. So today, Jeremy and the kids treated me to lunch. So nice to relax together for a bit.

Colin got to spend the night at Mark's last night, which is always a ton of fun. He also got to visit with Grammie Carnahan for a while in the evening as well. It must have been an exhausting day. He asked if he could relax in bed for a while. :) He's been in bed since we got home from lunch.

Things have been going so well for us healthwise, so I have a prayer request for someone else. Two-year-old Alivia is 80+ in the hospital for a bone marrow transplant. It has been a rocky road, and although she is healing, she has faced a lot of challenges. Their family needs prayers for her complete healing and their continued strength. Please take a moment. Hospital time is like a warp zone, and at this point I'm sure they feel like they have been their for years rather than months. Please pray that they will be home together soon. Thanks.

Summertime and the livin' is...

Crazy. Baseball started this week, school is finishing up, Chloe is getting teeth (hopefully)...and this all explains why it's been a week since I posted. Colin is loving coach-pitch ball this year. He's so excited about it. He can't wait for school to finish up and has started counting down the days. Chloe is attempting to add more teeth to the few (6) she has and is a little unhappy about it all. Poor girl. I've been working like crazy and debating starting work with a second service in addition to the one I am currently working with, so I've been testing with other companies in my "spare" time. ha! I want to get things down pat with work before school is over so that I have a schedule that'll work around swimming and park time. :) We'll see how that goes.

Well, the kiddies are waking. Time for another full day!

First sinus infection of the year.

Took Colin to the doctor today for a persistant cough, which of course is a sinus infection. But, I wanted to note that this is his FIRST infection of any kind of the year! That means 5 months straight of a healthy little boy, who by the way is not so little anymore. He weighed in at 52.5 pounds today! That is a full 10-pound weight gain since July of last year!

The joys of home ownership.

Had a leak...led to mold...removing mold...discovered termites...treating termites...more mold discovery...removing mold...broke pipe...repairing pipe...had to turn off water...turned water back on...water was brown...went to flush hot water tank...discoverd a rusting-out bottom...replaced hot water tank...problem with vents...carbon-monoxide is creeping into our home...so,

now I guess we'll call the chimney repair man.

Anybody wanna buy us out? We could use a landlord right now.

Checkup for Colin. Other updates.

Today would have been a surgery day, but instead we went to the Pediatrician for a checkup. His unaffected ear is looking great. A very thin membrane has formed over the hole in his eardrum and the doctor is confident that it will get thicker over the next month. He also found his tube in there. Colin thought it was pretty cool...and small. :) We have to continue using plugs for a while to make sure that he does not get any water in there. It is still as risk to re-rupture. So excited! He might get to swim this summer without the worry of earplugs!!!!

Work is going great for me. I'm starting to get a routine down, which is nice, and I'm feeling less nervous about it. So far I'm edging on $500 for my total earnings in less than 3 weeks! Yippee! More than I expected getting started. Supposedly, you continue to increase your income for the first few months, so I'm even more excited about the months to come. So far, the hourly rate I'm earning is continuing to increase while the amount of time it takes to finish my work is decreasing.

It's only Tuesday, and we've had quite the week. Jeremy started to pull out the cabinets in our laundry room yesterday afternoon, in order to remove the now moldy drywall from behind them...the cabinets had been built around the pipes. Ugh! And in the process of getting them out, one of the pipes sprang a mini leak. And, of course, in the process of trying to fix the mini leak, it turned into a major leak...the water to the house had to be shut off, and in the end, we called a plumber. Then, today, I didn't realize that the drainage pipe for the washer and dryer had to be cut as well and hadn't been capped yet, and I started a load of laundry. And left to take Colin to the doctor. So, when Jeremy returned home...we had a basement full of water. So, he spent this afternoon sucking water out of the carpet and capping the drainage pipe, so that I don't create any more messes. :) And, it's only Tuesday.

Sometimes I really wonder about the odds of the things that happen around here on a daily basis.