Well I am still here, and I am still alive…and now I am well. and Every Monday I am going to post random ramblings about our lives….this maybe one of the longer ones…it spans months but it is to keep family and friends up to speed on our day to day lives, from the perspective of our faith as a family intertwined as it is who we are, not what we do!
So Onto todays Ramblings….
Let’s start at the latest bit of crazy and the least unexpected of all. Nearly two weeks ago….I found myself in the ER waiting for emergency surgery….MY gallbladder to be exact. Let’s just say apparently I had been a lot sicker than I realized. It’s amazing at just how well I feel since the surgery, it has been kinda hard for my poor hubby to keep me down. I have learned my limits though…like bending. I gave up bending over a week ago!! The back pain that I had been experiencing for literally months went away as soon as the gall bladder was gone and has not been back since. And during this time God really struck me with some new thoughts….now that I was feeling better And that I had to be resting it was the perfect time to read and write and read and write and write and read some more…and I have done just that. It is during these moments that God and I have worked through some REALLY tough stuff….NO joke. Part of what we have worked on is this lack of confidence thing that has haunted me for 2 1/2 years now. but Im going to be blogging on that regularly now.
The next oddity is that this has been our absolutely sickest winter since our oldest child was in preschool…he is going to be 12 in just a few short months…we have gotten 6 illnesses that have hot almost very person in our family. the most recent was child #3 getting the flu… yes he had the flu shot. this has not been easy. We have not had 1 whole week since New Years without at least 1 kid home sick from school….it’s not a two and a half months I want to revisit anytime soon.
And perhaps the craziest of antics of all actually happened in October. we had a friend and her three small children move into our home. yeah so we grew by four…if you are keeping track that is 10 all together and 3 cats and a dog…..no exaggerations. . Their apartment (in our house) has been mostly done since just before Christmas and in just about a week and a few days they will be moving into their own place. It has been a stretching experience but we are glad we did it!
We also said goodbye to hubby’s Grandpa in October and then his uncle VERY unexpectedly almost a month later.
Im really sorry it has been so incredibly long since I have written. it has not been my intention And I will be discussing on Mondays my struggle and explaining my journey with my word confidence, so place on jumping into that next Monday. I can say this….God has given me the desire and gift to write…or so I am told, so I will write. I am not going to hide any longer. My confidence is not in men but in Christ….and I am not doing this for anyone else but HIM to bring him glory through what I have to say! Thanks for sticking with me! and I look forward to getting to know each other in the near future.
with much love,
Mary
