July 7, 2009 by ittybittyblog
I am still on my blog break…posts every Monday for July, but I just wanted to post this little update as many of you have been praying and supporting me/us these last few months…
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As I have posted before, I usually participate in a Beth Moore Bible study at a church near our home. This summer there isn’t one so I was allowed to check out a Bible study to do at home. The one that I wanted was only on VHS and we don’t have a VCR anymore, so I chose a different one… “Believing God” because it had DVDs.
I watched the first session last week and then yesterday I did 3 or 4 days of the first week. She talks about how believing God=having faith in God and what “stuff” we struggle with in our faith that holds us back. She also talked about how God rewards faithfulness and mentioned in the introduction that she had prayed that everyone involved in this study would see in a big way the reward for a deeper faith in God.
As I was going through this study yesterday and sitting at the table praying and writing and listing where and what I struggle with in my faith we got THE CALL…
The call that Danny got the job that he had applied for back in February or March, the job that he has really wanted. He has been unemployed since the end of January. I started my job the end of January. I am losing my job next Thursday, and we found out that Danny got his job yesterday.
God is good.
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
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July 6, 2009 by ittybittyblog
…or is it a grasshopper. I’m not sure, especially something that small. But Owen was playing with it and every time it would jump he would yell “bug, eat you!”
Then we finally convinced him to hold it…
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June 29, 2009 by ittybittyblog
I am going to be taking a blog “break” of sorts.
We have decided to cancel our internet, as a result it won’t be easy to post very much. I am scheduling a few posts to go up through out the month of July (on Monday’s…) but probably nothing more than once a week for the rest of the month.
…unless I find some super easy alternative…
But don’t worry, I’ll still be taking pictures of the kiddos and the critters and writing down Grace and Owen stories so I will have posts when we are back up and running again…
See you around…
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June 23, 2009 by ittybittyblog
Grace wanted to cuddle with Toot…
Daisy wanted a little chicken leg…
Surprisingly, that silly chicken seems to like to cuddle…
Owen wanted a turn, but not with Treebie, she’s mean…
“Hold it Sissy, please?”
Everyone needs a little bit of love…
Even the chickens…
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June 21, 2009 by ittybittyblog
To my sweet husband…
to my Dad…
aka Grandpa Annie
and the Father-in-laws…
Danny’s Dad
aka Grandpa Jeep
and Danny’s Step-dad…
aka Grandpa Ruby…
WE LOVE YOU!!!
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June 19, 2009 by ittybittyblog
Grace lost tooth #4 yesterday and took this picture of herself. I think it says it all!
Oh and “braces”.
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June 18, 2009 by ittybittyblog
Thanks for the sweet Daisy comments on my last post.
We thought that we were going to bring her home yesterday in the morning but when I talked with the vet she still wasn’t doing very well. They were going to give her more antibiotics and IV fluid and let her rest some more.
We went to visit her at around 4:00 and you could see how much better she was feeling. We were able to bring her home around 6:00 last night.
The poor dog came home with more medicine than Owen when he came home from the NICU!
Our other scare with Daisy yesterday was when the vet tech showed us that she is lactating…LUCKILY it is a false pregnancy. That would have sent me over the edge. No puppies for us:)
So Daisy is on the mend, we are just going to be super careful that she doesn’t get into anything else that she shouldn’t (grapes, raisins, onions, chocolate…more fish, slug bait…)
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June 16, 2009 by ittybittyblog
Three weeks ago today was when poor Daisy had her unfortunate encounter with slug bait.
Daisy had been doing really well until Monday when she started acting lethargic. I could tell her tummy was upset.
This morning when I got up, there was quite a mess in the laundry room. I won’t go into details (you’re welcome) but the poor pup wasn’t well. She had no appetite which was also a bad sign.
Danny and the kids took her to the vet and they ran a bunch of tests and did x-rays to make sure she didn’t have some sort of obstruction.
Apparently, Daisy has salmon poisoning from some bit of raw fish that she found in the yard. “If untreated, death usually occurs within fourteen days of eating the infected fish. Ninety percent of dogs showing symptoms die if they are not treated.”
According to the vet, if she even found just one fish scale it would be enough to make her sick.
Daisy is spending the night at the vet’s tonight, getting some iv fluids and medicine.
We hope to have her back home again in the morning.
We’ll be praying that in 3 weeks (July 7) that we aren’t at the vet’s office again with a deathly ill dog.
We love her, but $1000 in vet bills is crazy.
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June 14, 2009 by ittybittyblog
We were visited by the Tooth Fairy again a couple of weeks ago…I just downloaded the pictures…
Grace put her tooth in this sweet little box that some of our friends gave her.
That night the “Tooth Fairy” came to visit and replaced the tooth with some money.
The “Tooth Fairy” looked for the little baggie with Grace’s other teeth in it, but could not find it. So instead, the “Tooth Fairy” put Grace’s tooth on my dresser.
On Friday, Grace was getting something off of my dresser and came in and said “look Mommy!” and in her hand she was holding a tooth.
She currently has two more loose teeth so I thought maybe she had lost another one, but there was no crying or blood.
And then she said “I found this on your dresser, do you think the Tooth Fairy dropped it there?”
Um, yeah, that must be it…
The “Tooth Fairy” needs to be more careful…
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June 12, 2009 by ittybittyblog
Owen was out on the porch with all his trucks and tractors. As usual, he was parking and re-parking and driving them around on their little picnic table. The ultimate for Owen is to get to put his riding tractor up on the table too, as I have posted before.
Naturally, I took pictures of this before I took him off of the tractor. Look at that happy face!
After I pulled him off of the tractor he proceeded to throw a bit of a tantrum and was yelling at me and hitting at me and saying “Working, Mommy! Working, Mommy!”
On a different day I came home and the kids were playing outside, I went to the front and out the front window I could see Owen on his tractor halfway down the stairs. I ran to get the camera but he was getting off of the tractor by the time I got back. He had made it down two steps and was partway onto the third by the time he climbed off. Little daredevil!
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