Harvey graduated preschool! I have to admit, I choked back tears for most of the ceremony. Their adorable songs were heart warming and they were all so cute, but the thing that kept me on the verge of tears was knowing this was my last kid to go to preschool. Three of four of our …
I have many women in my life who emulate the role of a mother. Each one has blessed me in a different way, but the coolest thing is to see the power that a nurturing role can have in the formation of a child’s (and sometimes an adult’s) life. For the second hour of church …
I’ve woken up with a migraine since Tuesday… so that’s six days in a row. I know people think I get them a lot, but my normal is actually one time a month around the first day of my menstrual cycle. Though this started two days before that and doesn’t seem to want to quit. …
I really wanted to write on Easter, but I was in a slump. Not because it was Easter, because truly, Easter is one of my favorite holidays and the promise that day reminds us of is the promise of peace and hope. The day was hard for me because I wasn’t feeling well and Andy …
I wrote a blog post last week, but it got deleted by accident, so I’ll play a little bit of catch up and share what we’ve been up to. I shared last week about a conversation I had with Beverly’s TA. She mentioned what a joy Beverly was in their class and how glad they …
When originally told of Andy’s deployment, we were told from April 2nd to December 1st. That’s what we told our kids too. Then when we got the orders it said April 2nd to September 10th. I thought, that is much more manageable, but let’s not tell the kids the new date, because the army is …
Andy and I celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary this week. This week was a good sample of how our marriage has been with lots of ups and a some major downs. Monday morning we took Beverly to the burn unit. Unfortunately they told us she needed a debridement. To prevent trauma and unnecessary pain, they …
I’ve felt a little bit like one of those bobble dolls that gets knocked down, only to get back up again before getting knocked back down. Beverly has been going through some tests, nothing serious, but it looks like she may have another UTI. I’m curious to how the urologist is going to treat this, …
I got a phone call on Friday from my kids’ schools. “Your kid has missed a whole week of school.” I replied, “Yes, I’m aware.” “I hope it isn’t anything too serious,” she replied. “Well, y’all don’t want them, if that’s what you mean. They have had fevers the whole week.” “Well, we hope they …
And so it begins! Andy had a training this week for his upcoming deployment. He finished a few honey do’s so I could get my bathroom back in order and stop getting letters from the HOA about some items we’d sat to the side of our house that needed to be taken to the dump. …