It is unbelievable that it has been a whole week since I blogged.  What a week it  has been.  Last Sunday night / early Monday morning my baby began having trouble breathing and was coughing terribly.  We decided to take him to the emergency room and ended up staying there until yesterday afternoon.  It has been a incredibly long week. 

I feel very “out of the loop” and totally behind but I will catch up with everything someway, somehow.  I just feel blessed that my baby is doing better and that we are finally home safe and sound.  I hope everyone had a good week.

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I have so much to say I honestly don’t know where to begin. I’m sure this little update on my family will turn into a series of blog posts since I tend to be long winded.  I am amazed at how I feel today. First day home alone with a new baby, a 16 month old and a 4 year old nad I’m actually not freaking out, I have had a shower and the kids have been bathed, I have actually checked email, eaten and am now blogging, but the best part….. I squeezed into my favorite pre-pregnancy Old Navy Flirt jeans!!! I am rockin’ , but no seriously I am blessed. I fully expected to be a blithering bundle of nerves hiding under the bed by the time my husband arrived here at 4:30 pm today, however it is 2pm and I am sooooo happy and feeling soooo blessed.

Readers of my blog, let me tell you what I am attributing this to.  The power of prayer.  It’s funny, the other morning, in fact the first morning I woke up in  my own bed after spending days at the hospital God put a quote in my mind.  Where else would it have come from? I’ve never read this anywhere that I recall, though for the purpose of not plagarizing I won’t say it is 100% original.  But the quote was

“I do not believe in the power of despair, but I do believe in the power of prayer.”

I didnt’ know at the time what that meant or why I had just all of a sudden had it put into  my mind, but now I do.  God put it there and I prayed that I’d be able to handle all this.  Now, sitting here I feel as though I can. I know I can because PRAYER WORKS and even if I’m the only one praying for me, which I know isnt’ the case, I will NOT despair.

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This weekend can be summed up in the title of this post….BLESSED.  Yesterday without knowing I’d receive this card from the foot of a cross that the ladies of Proverbs 31 had set up at the conference I had written about the blessings I felt i had received throughout the weekend.  Then, I went to the closing session and was told to pick up a card from the foot of the cross.  On the card would be a verse and behind the verse in lighter print was a word for us. My word…..BLESSED. 

Girls, tell me something I don’t already know!  I am truly blessed.  Not only from attending She Speaks this weekend, but in everything I am blessed. It’s hard to know what else to say right now, as my mind whizzes back and forth, I have so much information from She Speaks I want to use and apply, but for now…. I’m VBS director for the next 5 days so I must go get dressed, whiz myself and my 2 kiddos off to church and then rush to a dr.’s appt. to assure that baby  #3 is doing what he’s suppose to be doing.  He is due in exactly 3 weeks. So I leave you with the verse that was on the card…

“I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and his incomparably great power for us who believe.”

Ephesians 1:18-19

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I know that seems like an odd question. I meant for it to be thought provoking. Because, it is the way I am feeling today, blessed, but at the same time overwhelmed, a little sad, and frustrated. The whirl of emotions is strange to say the least.

Normally on Sunday night I do my weekly planning session. Last night hubby and I were researching flights to North Carolina for the She Speaks Conference which we’ll be leaving for exactly 1 month from today. Yes, I know I”ll be 36 weeks pregnant, but I have the clearing to go as long as things are fine at that point, so I am planning to go.

Anyway, with the excitement and possibility of flying instead of driving 9 hrs to get there I just could not focus on my planning for the week. Another thing that has me feeling “off” is that my son’s last official day of school was today. Tomorrow we take him at 8:45 am and he performs in a little play which we’re invited to and then we have cake and he comes back home with me. I am getting a little nervous about how I’m going to get any work done with my son home ALL day this summer, which will officially start for him on Wednesday.

Finally, this morning I wake up to bad news. At 8:30 am a childhood friend of mine’s daddy has a massive heart attack and dies in route to the hospital. She is in California expecting twins and has had a hard time getting pregnant so we’re not sure she’ll be able to fly home. My heart aches for her. We’re not even 28 years old, these are her first “children” due in December and her daddy won’t be there to welcome them into the world. Sooooo sad to me that I cannot seem to concentrate today.

I am trying to make myself feel better about doing nothing today, but I was planning on doing little or no work tomorrow with my son’s program and all that I feel a bit overwhelmed. So today, pregnancy hormones kick in as I feel a whirl of emotions.

I realize it is a time to count my blessings, 2 healthy happy children, my daddy is still here on earth to enjoy them and so is my mom, summer is here, I’m going to the She Speaks Conference in one month and couldn’t be more excited. Am I too blessed to be stressed?? I think so.

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