Feb. 4, 2006 - Wow! Is it *really* February???
A lot has gone on for us, which is why I have not blogged lately.
In the last month I was sick for a week with dh gone long hours. Then of course the children got sick, one by one. Fortunately for the olders it was not a big deal but each of the littles each became quite sick, the baby most of all.
We had 3 ER visits in 1.5 weeks. Dd (10 mos) was unable to keep anything down for alomst 24 hours and was lethargic so I took her in due to concern about dehydration, turns out she had a urinary tract infection, not good in a child her age. She needs further testing to make sure she does not have any urinary tract abnormalities and she will be on antibiotics until the testing is completed. Ds (3) went to the ER 2 x's 1 week apart. One of those trips was due to a lamp falling on his head (he pulled on the round table it was on). He now has a scar to match the rather large scar from when he pulled my jewelry chest onto his head when he was about 20 months old.
Then...in the midst of all of these injuries and sicknessess, our landlord told us the house we are living in is needed for his son. Since we have only been here for 11 months, it was a bit of a shock. Ok- quite a shock. Of course we had no boxes from our last major move which was cross-country-NO WAY was I moving anytime soon! HA! So we've this will make move #12 in 13 years. I'm a bit sick of moving. I'm dog tired just thinking of it,actually. We need to be out by month's end, and we are going to my in-laws. Time is short and we just don't have the funds needed to turn around into another place. With a major move to in-laws from NY, a short distance move to our house, a baby being born and having to move again- we are tapped out. So since in-laws are gracious enough to allow our family of 6 to invade, it looks like we will be there for a while to try and lower our debt substantially. MIL could use help cooking and such and I often run errands for her even now, so it will help them as well, it seems.
Some exciting things have happpened in terms of dh's art in the last month as well.A couple weeks ago he stopped into a gallery that handles abstract art- which is the style dh does. He was just visiting to check them out to see if he should approach them in regards to showing his art. During the course of the visit he showed the gallery owners his website and the next day they went to his studio and took several pieces of his work to show clients for whom they consult. They plan to continue trying to place his art through their consulting, so that is positive. The opportunity to put on an art show at a rather large local chuch has come out of dh's meeting the consultants/gallery owners. Dh had thought they were considering having him put together a show for Easter of various artist's work. He was pleasantly suprised to find out a few days ago that they are interested in an exhibition of his art, much of which is quite tied to scripture in terms of inspiration. So we are very excited about these recent events! As we just moved here and dh has no professional connections this is a great blessing. It will be quite exciting to see what the Lord does and is doing!
Soooo- of we go on more great adventures......
I'll try to get to this more regularly, but with packing and moving and having to pack things in my in-laws house.... I'm thinking it might be sparse....
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Posted by 3FoldChord
I hope your daughter heals up soon!
