My Week

Pam ~ Time flies when you're crazy-out-of-your-mind busy you have a lot going on :-).  Here is what I've had going on.

Friday
Leave for work.  Work all day.  Get home, spend 5 minutes throwing pajamas and nighttime "stuff" into a backpack, and leave.  Arrive at sister-in-law's house around 5:30 p.m.  Spend the evening enjoying nephew and nieces, along with phone calls from spouse regarding the clutch going out AGAIN on his car.  Husband finally arrives at 8 p.m.  Reading and then wonderful sleep.

Saturday

My Snuggie :-)

Wake up.  Spend early morning cuddling waking up little girls, and getting cereal on the table.  Head for home at 8:30 a.m.  Arrive home.  Shower, start laundry, prepare for the day, final pickup around house.  Valentine gift from husband - SNUGGY!!!  Company arrives at 12:30 p.m.  Enjoy time of fellowship until 4:50 p.m.  Leave house at 5 p.m.  Evening spent with YACS college kids for a "Gingerbread House Building Competition."  Too much sugar consumed by husband :-).  Arrive home at 11:30 p.m.  (2 hours past our normal bedtime).

The winner of the Gingerbread Contest

Sunday
Church.  Friends arrive to spend lunch and afternoon.  Play Canasta and fellowship.  Friends leave at 4 p.m.  We leave at 4:15 p.m.  Take soda cans/bottles to Dahls.  More adoption money.  Church.  After church fellowship with YACS college kids.  Watch "Despicable Me."  Pick up friend's car for Nathan to borrow.  Arrive home at 11:15 p.m.  Go to bed.

Nathan and I with our new adoptive friends ~ Carmen & Garth.

Monday
Leave for work.  Valentine Party with students.  After school teacher meeting.  Arrive home at 5:45 p.m.  Stay home for the evening :-).

Tuesday
Leave for work.  After Care duty.  Arrive home at 6:25 p.m.  Make Oreo Salad.  Leave at 6:35 p.m.  Drop friend's car back at his apartment.  Drive to other friends' house.  Fellowship with pizza and silly kids.  Great conversation.  Arrive home at 10:30ish.  Go to bed :-).

Wednesday
Sleep in!!!!!!!!!!!  Wake up with headache.  Pick up Nathan's car from mechanic.  Start working on taxes.  Drive to hospital.  Check-in.  Wait.  Numbing, then "contrast" injected into hip joint.  Wheelchair ride with lots of people staring (probably not, but that's how it felt!!!).  MRI.  Tired.  Go home.  Sleep.  Headache still.  Soup.  Watch "Columbo."  Headache better. Finish taxes.  Read blogs :-).

Life is BUSY

Pam ~ Did you notice that I haven't been posting very much lately????  Things have been a little busy and blogging is one thing that I haven't been finding the time for.  Oh well.  I'm back now.  At least for today :-).

God is continually amazing us with His provision for our adoption.  We received a check in the mail this week from an extended family member on Nathan's mom's side.  I have met them once or maybe twice, but really don't know them.  They had heard about our adoption journey and wanted to send us something to help.  We just stood in our kitchen and said, "God, You are amazing.  Thank you!!!!"

We also had one family make a donation to our adoption through Lifesong, and Lifesong matched their donation!!!  I am soooooooooo excited to update our thermometer tomorrow!!!  It will make a good size leap this week!!!

(Just a reminder about Lifesong.  They will match ANY donation [up to $3,000] sent towards our adoption expenses.  Click HERE for more information.)

This last Saturday was filled with meeting our college kids (we are "leaders" of our church's college group) for lunch at Tasty Tacos, a home school supervising home visit in the afternoon (I supervise for three families), and a big fundraising banquet in the evening for the Christian school where I teach.  I was pretty much busy from the moment I got out of bed until we got home just before midnight.  Then it was up for Sunday School and church, an afternoon nap :-), and church nursery duty in the evening followed by a Super Bowl party with the college kids.  (Okay.  I'll be honest.  I didn't watch the game.  I played "Settlers of Catan" in a side room.)

I spent most of Monday morning in a spine specialist's office as he tried to figure out what is causing the leg pain I have been having since August.  I ended the apt. with x-rays being taken of my hip, and then headed to school to rescue relieve my associate teacher.  I left work early on Tuesday to go to the dentist for two small fillings (btw ~ "small fillings" does not =  less numbing) and spent the rest of the day trying not to talk very much.  Because the novocain always makes my stomach upset, my wonderful husband made me soup and RedBoxed the movie "Inception" for us to watch (good movie, btw).  I also found out on Tuesday that I have to have a "MRI with contrast" taken of my left hip next week.  I won't be allowed to drive for 24 hours following that (because of the ink they will be putting into my hip joint), so I will be taking TWO days off work.  I NEVER take two days off in a row!!!!  I"m not sure I'm going to be able to handle it!!!

This coming weekend is BUSY!!!!  Friday night, Nathan and I will be babysitting our nephew and 3 nieces all evening and overnight so their parents can get away for a night.  Then, we will rush home, get ready for the day, and hopefully be ready to fellowship with a fellow adoptive couple who are coming to our house for lunch and the afternoon.  Then Saturday evening is a "gingerbread house making competition" with our college kids.

I've rambled on long enough :-).  If you are still reading by now, maybe you'd better leave me a comment so I can see who my true bloggy friends are :-).

Oh yeah.  Last thing.  Between everything else going on, I'm working on final preparation for our soup supper & silent auction that is going to be on Saturday, February 19th.  It's going better than I had planned, and I'm looking forward to seeing how God works.  I think I will probably share some more information (again) on this fundraiser tomorrow for our "Fundraising Focus".

Finally.  I'm done.