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Interests: being a mother and a wife, reading, knitting, crocheting, my friends, email, BSF, spider solitaire, foster care, adoption, missions,
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Occupation: wife and mother and RN
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| AJ turned 6 today! He also is celebrating his 3rd adoption day along with his brother, Isaac. He came into our bedroom to announce that he had given up his pacifier and threw it away! He also talked about losing teeth and going to Kindegarten. He knows that he is big stuff now! However he is still the little man who believes everything literally. He was in the garage with his 13 year old brother who was spray painting his bicycle white and when some of the paint circulated and got on his skin, he panicked and thought he was going to turn white. Last year at Cora's graduation party there was blue icing on the cake and a friend mentioned that AJ's mouth had turned blue. No big deal, right? Well, if you've seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it is because Violet turns very blue and swells and he was afraid that would happen to him. It was days before he quit checking the mirror and weeks before we could say the word---blue! Sometimes he has a fear of water causing him to swell up. You can see that I have to be careful in my choice of words. Last Sunday he was hit by a baseball at close range (Isaac) and I really figured he'd have a shiner on his cheek. I nearly used the words, "turn blue" and "swell up" and stopped myself just in time. I told him he might get a bruise. It is a good thing he doesn't know what bruising causes!
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| So today in OH we got blanketed with about 12 inches of snow. Looking at it all brought back 4 specific memories of my dad. 1) sled riding on the sled that is in our garage. I was maybe 5 or 6 and Dad and I sat on the sled and went down a VERY long hill at a diagonal to get the most ride out of the hill. We went a long way, almost to the creek. It was evening and my cousins were there as well. I remember sitting in front of Dad and screaming and feeling the snow hit my face and hitting the bumps on the hill. I remember stopping at the bottom of the hill just beside the creek. I remember riding back up the hill on the sled instead of walking. It was great! 2) I remember there was a snow that was very deep when I was little, probably about 6 or 7 from the pictures. It was so deep that Dad through my brothers and I out the back door into the snow drifts and we didn't get hurt! We made snowmen and there is a picture of the three of us each standing next to our own particular snow creation. I'm sure Dad did most of the work to get those snow guys up! 3) I remember in college (77-81) that I was coming home from UC when my car went off the exit ramp at Montgomery Rd. and I-71. I walked to the gas station right next to the exit and called home and talked to Dad. He came and got me and got the car back on the ramp and followed me home so that I was safe! 4) The blizzard of '78 (1978). Dad went and got Ken Read my youth group sweetheart from his Madeira home and brought him over to Blue Ash so that I wouldn't be sad and lonely. I didn't drive with him but waited at the house for my prince to arrive. I wonder if I ever thanked Dad for going to get Ken or if I just took it for granted? Hey, God. Please let my dad know that I miss and love him and appreciate now, more than ever his acts of kindness to me even when I was ungrateful and had no idea that he'd rather just sit and rest. Tell him I am trying to be a good mom like he was a good dad. | | |
| This year I turn 50 which is a big year for tests and doctors. Most doctors in the US believe that if you are 50 you must have a colonoscopy to test for colon cancer. Not a bad idea. I just don't want to do it.  So I had gone in to see my dr. because of some pain and they drew blood and it came back that I was anemic (which is pretty common for women anyway). I started taking iron and it brought it back to the lower level of normal so all is well. But the dr. thinks I should have a colonoscopy to test for bleeding in my colon since this is 'my year' anyway. I told him that since the blood work was ok then I should be ok to wait until Nov. He smiled and said that it doesn't hurt to go a few months early. ha, easy for him to say! Also, to further prove to myself that I really am getting older, my body really hurt after I threw it at the van trying to shake the ice loose in the door frame so that we could get in the van and leave. I did my usual thing that I have done for years of giving it the old hip. Again and again and again. But the van door would not open. Then I tried the shoulder and finally rammed it with my back several times. I must have loosened it up because Ken only had to yank hard on it to get it open after all my ramming. Later that night at 3:30 AM I woke up with my left hip hurting in a very specific spot. Hmmmmm. What is causing it to hurt so badly? It woke me up enough that I had time to really ponder it and to realize that I had done it to myself when I was trying to open the van door. The next afternoon my back started to ache. Oh, yeah. I had thrown myself like a wild woman at the door trying desperately to get it open so I wouldn't be late to BSF my first day in leadership. Wow! my body is actually getting older and can't be handled quite the same way I handled it 30, 20, 10 years ago! I could actually break a hip now (!). So I will have to be more careful from now on. Wow! I'm not even 50 yet! | | |
| Several times the Pharisees come to Jesus and ask to see a sign. Amazing! Maybe if they would just hang out with him on a daily basis they'd see the signs but then again maybe they were asking for something more superphenomenal like a sign from the sky. Maybe like Elijah and the prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel. What if Jesus had deeply sighed and turned to the Pharisees and asked, "Which one of you will it be?" and then lightening came down and zapped one of their own dead. Would they have fallen to their knees then to acknowledge that Jesus was/is the Son of God or would they still be wanting a sign? My guess is that within a few days there would have been a spin on the pharisee/lightening story which would have made it so that the pharisees had an out for not believing again. But if I had been Jesus (which we are all glad I was not) I'd have been sorely tempted to have the earth open up and eat them or lightening get one of them as a 'sign'. | | |
| I've been noticing that lately Isaac is sleeping through the entire night about 66% of the time. It is wonderful! The other 34% of the time he usually only wakes up once and most of the time I can fairly quickly get him to lay back down. There are still the 1 1/2 hour long wakings or the multiple wakings but they are fewer and I am very grateful! (I know this is boring stuff to most everyone in the world but I figure there is more Xanga space now that everyone else is using facebook and myspace and I have a list of things I wanted to blog about.) | | |
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