J-A deals almost constantly with allergies. Sometimes it's my fault, letting her have a little too much dairy like ice cream and cheese, and it gets her nose running. Other times like now, the weather changes, and the poor baby is coughing and dripping everywhere. So her nose has been sprayed with saline, sucked out and smeared with vicks. She's got Tylenol and allergy/cough medicine and slept last night with the humidifier and Vicks. Her room was hot, moist and medicine-y smelling this morning. I'm praying for no ear infection this time. She tends to drain back into her throat and ears which makes her sound terrible and turns into an infection which she just had last month!
On the pregnancy front, I started having Braxton-Hicks....I didn't expect it this early, but "What to Expect..." says it's normal after 20 weeks...who knew? It's weird, like everything else with pregnancy, for my stomach to suddenly turn into this rock hard ball, and I'm not doing it. Not that I was able to make my stomach rock hard before...
I'm finally getting the unpacking thing done. Still a long way to go, but I really am making progress now. I think I'm going to have a painting party soon and have my girlfriends come help me get the baby room and the office painted. The baby room used to be a boy's room, and it definitely needs to be changed. The office is this terrible sea foam green color that I just can't take. The garage is next, then decorating.
Better get busy.
things have been crazy... my parents were here, then I was sick for over a week, Bill's been working like crazy, meeting at church so we spent time with the visiting preacher, etc.
I never seem to have it together. Always running, never getting anywhere. I've been kind of down since I got home from TN. I just have so much to do, and it seems like I will never get it done. I finally decided a couple of days ago to quit worrying about what has to be done and just get up and do it! Sounds obvious, I know, but it took me awhile to get here. So, here I am on the computer taking care of one of those tasks that just seems insurmountable to me. I think we're going to switch our phone service to one of those internet services like T-mobile maybe. $10/mo beats what we're paying now. The only problem is, part of our phone bill is made up of paying for dial up service so we can maintain the same email addresses we've had for like 10 years. We don't use dial up. We use a cable modem, but our addresses are through AT&T and that was the only way to keep them. Dumb us for not using yahoo or hotmail way back when...but whatever. So I am transferring all contacts and bookmarks, etc. and changing my email address with all of our billers. (My stomach just changed shapes...so cool.) The point being...watch out for a new email address coming soon to an inbox near you!
***I just sent out emails updating my new email address & I'm getting back some delivery failures. I think some of you may have filters set up for emails with multiple recipients. So please note my new email is:
angelesharp@yahoo.com
Pretty creative, huh?
Well, I'm heading out of TN and back towards TX tomorrow. I'll break the trip up about halfway and stop at a hotel to relax for the evening with J-A before dragging her back out on the road again on Thursday to complete our trip.
I REALLY don't want to drive home, but I'm ready to be home and see Calvin. J-A really misses him a lot, and I'm eager to feel like a normal family again. We've never been apart for such long periods of time. We've been gone over 2 of the last 4 weeks. Of course, I'm not looking forward to getting home and completing the overwhelming task of finally unpacking all of our boxes from the move. I may put it off a little longer as there is a storm in the Carribean brewing.....I cannot imagine doing getting back in the car again.
Oh well, I hope you all have a good day. Remember to count your blessings and pray for our friends, Matt & Lauren, who are suffering greatly right now.
Hello Angel! It's Tracy, just making sure you got home safely... and I'm guessing you had a birthday, so Happy Birthday! Again, it was so nice to meet you. =)
Not a misspelling...I feel so silly updating my blog in light of the Bassford's loss today.
I'm in Tennessee with Cindi. Julie-Ann is happy, and we're looking at maybe heading back toward home on Wednesday next week. We got power at our house today, so that's progress. Now just waiting for Wal-Mart to get back to 100%.
Pray for Matt and Lauren, and if you offer words of comfort, remember the best thing to say is just how sorry you are and that you will pray for them.
We had the opportunity to hold little Macy and take some pictures. She is a beautiful baby, perfect in every way, except her little lungs and heart. She looks a lot like Lauren did when she was born, but she has carrot red hair, even her eyebrows. Lauren and Matt are doing as well as can be expected. They are performing an autopsy and will likely have a funeral on Wednesday next week. Lance flys into Chicago Monday night and Lesli arrives Tuesday afternoon. Matt's parents are on their way and should arrive sometime tonight. Please continue to pray for all of us. This is a very difficult time but our God is good and will support us through this.
well, i'm not in TN. I'm in Lufkin, TX. Developing a little anxiety about not being far enough away from the storm. Calvin wanted me to hang back and see what happened with the storm. Of course it has turned now and with mandatory evacs for Beaumont area, leaving this area would be difficult with traffic. So, I'm hanging here until after the storm, then if I can't go home due to damage, I'll go to TN.
I'll try to check in, but we may lose power here too...who knows.
