I Needed That Laugh

These past few days have been draining.  I am tired.  Emotionally worn out and just physically beat.  I have cried, prayed, cried and prayed some more.  Granted, there are others in my life, 2 families in particular, that have had a much more draining week than I, but still as yet, I am beat.  

Tonight I was online, catching up on blogs.  While reading one that I find pretty humorous most days, I found a link to another that literally had me LOL-ing. (Which would be “laugh out louding,” which makes no sense, and I’m pretty sure “louding” isn’t even a word, but I’m too worn out to go back and figure something else out.  So….)

I was on the Big Mama blog where she had posted a link to the Catalog Living blog.  Oh. My.  It did me good to have that good belly laugh.  Your sense of humor may not be as warped as mine, and you may not find it funny at all, but I promise it’s worth a gander. 

Walk it Out

At my job, we make people either very happy or very unhappy, and it all happens in our little room called “triage.”  If you are not in labor, we will send you home.  We understand you may be miserable, we understand you are hurting, yes we can even sympathize and empathize with you because (believe it or not) most of us have been in the throes of labor before.  Point being, we just can’t keep you if that cervix isn’t changing.  We can, however offer suggestions and give you a chance to prove your labor before we send you back home.

Sometimes we will send a girl out to walk for an hour or so, then we’ll recheck her and decide from there whether she stays or goes.  I ran across this video, and let me tell you…the girls we send out walking have NOTHING on this chick.  Apparently she was told by her midwife that she could try to induce her labor by “walking” her baby out….

I wonder if it worked?!

Puzzling

My boys LOVE puzzles.  Especially Wyatt.  He can sit down with a jigsaw and it keep him busy for quite some time.  This morning we did 2 really big puzzles, probably the biggest he has ever seen.

While we were working on one of them, he was laying on top of the pieces.  I told him to get up because we’d never find the pieces if he was laying on them.  He looks at me & said, “They would be under me.”  Such a matter of fact little guy!!

Here’s the pics:

And Wyatt also wrote his name this morning…

I’m pretty proud!

Memorial Video

A co-worker of mine recently lost her husband, a young man in his 30’s, to a heart attack.  I didn’t know him very well, but what I do know is that he was in love with Jesus.  This is JoNate’s memorial video that I wanted to share.  It’s beautiful and such a testament of his amazing earthly life. 

JoNate Scales Memorial Video from First Assembly of God on Vimeo.

Please keep Brandy and Madison (JoNate’s wife and baby girl) in your prayers as they go through this time of grief and healing.

The Most High

I went to Bible study at my church this morning.  This was the first Tuesday that I’ve been able to go, but I’m already excited about next week.  We’re learning the different names of God & what they mean to us.

Today, the name was El Elyon, or Most High God, God that is sovereign over every aspect of our lives.  My God is big.  The Most High.  He holds everything in His hands.  He has a purpose and a plan for each and every one of us.  The thing that I am having a bit of a struggle with is that I have to be determined to follow Him, no matter what kind of day or events I am handed.  To remember that whatever comes to me today has already been sifted through fingers of love.  That nothing that has ever been created can pluck me from His hands. (Romans 8:38-39)

When my world is shaking, Heaven stands

When my heart is breaking, I never leave Your hands

Your hands, Your hands that shaped the world,

Are holding me, they hold me still

Your hands that shaped the world…

(From “Your Hands” by JJ Heller)

Mrs. Jeana gives an object out to everyone each week.  She actually gives two things, one to keep as a reminder of the lesson, and one to give away.  Today she gave us a kaleidoscope.  The lesson was that when you look through a kaleidoscope, everything looks broken & in pieces.  Through our human eyes, this is how we see ourselves and one another.  Broken. Imperfect. Flawed.  Things we don’t like.  We sometimes forget that God has created us.  He knows our imperfections, our brokenness, our flaws, and He loves us anyway.  He sees us in our beautiful mess that we are, and He sees the perfect, put together picture of what He is at work assembling our pieces to be.

Wow.  When it’s put that way….

I hope through this study that I can learn more about the different names of God, how to apply them to my life, and how to witness to others effectively.  That I can have the words to say to win others to Christ.  I don’t know how I’m going to overcome that fear of not having the words, not knowing answers to tough questions.  I don’t know what my purpose is or how God is going to use me for Him.  But I do, absolutely, know a few things.

• I know that I am a beastly, ugly, broken mess
• I know that God sees my mess, but He loves me, and He’s working to put me back together
• I know that through prayer and faith, He will give me the words to speak, and use me for His will

And that makes me smile.

Since when am I Mom?

Today I said to Wyatt, “I love you Sugar Man.”  To which he replies, “I wuv you too Mom.”

Excuse me?! Mom?! Where did that come from?  Last time I checked I was Mommy…

New Specs

We got Way’s glasses today!!  They are not nearly as non-cute as I thought they’d be, and maybe it’s just because Way is so stinkin cute that he makes them look good!

We’re having a bit of a rough time getting him to keep them on like he’s supposed to, but I figure that’s normal for the first time he’s ever worn them.

Here are the pictures from this evening…

Being Silly

Waylon & Mommy

We’ll see how it goes…I’m sure with prayer & persistence he’ll get used to them and we’re going to see great improvement.  I’m a little excited! 

Another Piece to the Waylon Puzzle

For any of you that know our family, you know that we’ve been working our hardest to get all of Waylon’s stuff “fixed” so that he can get his speech and motor skills up to par.  We’ve fixed his ears, got him in language & OT at school (where he’s made AMAZING progress over the last year), and now we’re trying to fix his eyes!!  By golly, we’re gonna get this boy on track!!

A few weeks ago we took Waylon to the Dr. for his 4 year well check.  Everything was good, he took his 3 shots like a pro, did everything he was supposed to do.  However, his Dr. did notice a little something with one of his eyes and referred us to the ophthalmologist.

We went to see the eye Dr. on Tuesday, and long story short, it turns out that Way is farsighted and also has an astigmatism in his left eye.  Which means glasses. Joy.

I’m a little nervous about this whole glasses business, getting him used to wearing them is something that I feel will be challenging. 

We’re supposed to pick them up on Friday, and I’ll definitely be posting on how that goes and will get some pictures up.  Warning though, these glasses are not the super cutest things ever made.  We got a pair that are virtually indestructible, so we did sacrifice the cute factor!!!  Oh well, if he’s got them on his sweet little face, I know they’ll be adorable!