I am the wife of a soldier, and the mother of two little ones (ages 3 and 1). I am passionate about my God, my family, and my country. I chose the title for my blog because I started it around the time that we found out my husband would be going to Iraq. I am so proud of his service to our country. Also I am constantly striveing to become more like christ. Hence the title "passionate patriot conforming to 'His' image.
I will be ordering some more Thoene books to read
Jan. 24, 2008~ I think I am on a roller coaster. ~
I know my last post was very depressing. Well after I had my cry, I still didn't feel better, so I called my mom on the phone. She set me strait. (I should have called my dad. He gives the sympethy, my mom tells you how it is.) Although I would rather have had sympathy, a good talking to is what I needed. Then she told me to come on over. So I crocheted and we watched her newest net flicks movie while the kids played. It gave me the break I needed, so I felt better.
Then on Tuesday, I was supposed to clean house all day because we were having some guests over on Wednesday. However, I got online at 8:00 in the morning, and my hubby was there. So we IM'd until 12:30. I hooked up the web cam so he could see the kids. He was so excited when our daughter started laughing and blowing kisses to the camera. He said his biggest fear is that she will not remember him when he gets home. I had such a good time talking to him, and getting everything sorted out. I was on cloud nine the rest of the day.
Then Wednesday came. I made 6 loaves of bread, and some homemade chicken soup. The only cleaning I didn't get done was dusting, and straitening the play room. I wasn't too upset about it though, It was much more important to talk to my hubby. I had put out the place settings got out the candles, and the crystal. I had it all done up nice, but only 2 my guests showed up. That was o.k. though, I got to get to know them better anyway.
The only thing that went wrong was one of the pieces to my mixer fell down the garbage disposal and got lodged. If my hubby was home he could fix it. But he is not. I tried to see if I could take the disposal apart myself, but I cannot figure it out. Now I have to wait until tomorrow when my dad will be off work and able to come fix it for me.
Then last night at about midnight, my daughter threw up. So I cleaned her and the bed up as much as I could and put her back to sleep. She was fine the rest of the night. My son never got sick, but two hours later, I was up throwing up too. I am not feeling nauseous any more, but I am feeling very week.
I called my mom and she said that it sounds like what she had last week, and she still hasn't quite gotten rid of it. I thought great. So I gave my daughter a bath, striped the bed and put clean linen on it. Now the rest of the day we are going to vedge, because I am feeling very week. My hubby said he would try to contact me tomorrow. I hope I am feeling better by then.
We were supposed to go shopping today, and mail my hubby a package, but it is going to have to wait until tomorrow afternoon.
Well, I will try to check in later.
P.S. Thank you to everyone who tried to encourage me after my last post. I know in my head that things will get better, it is just hard sometimes to tell it to your heart when it is breaking.
God promised that he will get me through this, and I know he will. He didn't promise that it wouldn't be hard sometimes.
