Superman or Batman??

The other night my two older boys were arguing. Not uncommon around here, but I stopped to listen to what they were arguing about. One of them thought Superman was better and one of them thought Batman was better. I laughed right out loud that they were arguing over something so absurd. They asked me who I thought was better. Actually, I told them, I never really thought about it.

I was relating this to Paul later on that evening, sure that he would find it as humorous as I did. Are you kidding me? he asked. There's no question- Superman is better.

I sighed and thought to myself, at least I know where they get it from!

Friday

I went to the doctor this morning and my blood pressure was good. I was relieved. I will have an ultrasound in about 3 weeks, so hopefully (if baby cooperates) we will be able to find out if it is a boy or girl. It really doesn't matter to me. Yes, I would like a boy just so Samuel can have a brother close in age (and because I have boxes of boy clothes from Sam), but a girl would be fine too (hope she doesn't mind dressing in blue, because I have no girl clothes!). I think it's a boy, but I'm not real certain. I knew with Samuel that he was a boy, and I also knew that Paul was a boy. The others I had no clue.

This new medicine makes me so sleepy. I literally have slept for hours at a time the past three days. I am amazed that I can sleep so much and still be sleepy. Hopefully this won't last too long- it makes it hard to keep up with the house, kids and laundry.



I can't wait to meet our new baby. Sam, minutes after birth.

Wednesday

Where has the week gone that it is Wednesday already? I had so many plans for this week, but most of them have not happened and are not going to happen. Paul, Sr. and Zack have been gone all week while Paul preaches a revival at a church about 2 1/2 hours away, so I thought I would have some extra time to devote to various projects around the house. Didn't exactly work out that way. We've had 2 extra people this week in the afternoon/evenings, so things just sort of evened out and we ended up with the same amount of people here, the same amount of work involved in cooking and cleaning up, and no extra time. Oh well.

I went to the dr. today. The baby sounds great. In fact, the dr. had a hard time keeping the microphone on his/her heartbeat because he/she was swimming around so much. But the heartbeat is good and strong. I, on the other hand, am not doing so great. My blood pressure was very high. So now I am on two blood pressure medicines and have to go back in 2 days to make sure it is working. I'm sure it will, but for how long? This is what happened with Samuel until I got to 30 weeks and it went up again and I went on bedrest. I am already anticipating bedrest with this one, but pray it doesn't come until much later in the pregnancy.

I've been reading a blog for a little over a week about a family who had a baby girl with trisomy 18 (a fatal disease). They didn't know if the baby would even make it to birth, much less anytime afterward. She survived 8 days and went home this evening. What a testimony this family has had these past 8 days. How do you take care of and love a baby that you know is going to die? They did and they did it beautifully. If you want to check out their blog, the address is:
Http://www.conorbootheandgirls.blogspot.com.

Have a nice evening.

Ready for Church

 

 

 

 

And it begins....

Paul and the boys left yesterday afternoon on their first hunting/camping trip of the season. I'm not even sure where they are at, but wherever it is, it is full of hunters. It is one week before the "official" deer season begins, so this hunt is an extra, one that many are taking advantage of.

They packed everything in the back of the truck after a morning of trying to locate the camping/hunting stuff. We are not the most organized family, and it really shows at times like this! But, they finally got it all together and took off, only to turn around and come back for the drinks they forgot! We hope they take some deer- we are all out of venison and I miss having it in the freezer and not having to buy ground beef.

Sam, the girls and I got up and out the door fairly early for us this morning. To us, fairly early is 9, especially when it's not Sunday. We went to the MOPS consignment sale just down the road from where we lived. We got there around 9:20 (it opened at 9) and the place was packed. We could hardly move in the huge gym they had it in. I looked around and found some winter clothes for Sam, and went to get in line. The line was down the middle, across the back and all the way up the side! I said forget it! So I put my clothes back on the rack and we left to do some other running around. We checked back at the sale when we were done, about 2 1/2 hours later. There were considerably less people, so we went in and decided to look around. I went to the rack where I had put the clothes I had gathered earlier, and to my surprise, they were all still there! The line was much shorter, so now Sam is all set for winter. I was hoping to find a bassinet, but no such luck. When I got there the first time, they were all sold!

The rest of the day we will spend cleaning- we neglected the house yesterday, and today it shows it.

Have a great day.

Wordless Wednesday

Baseball is always more fun with dad.

Baseball