Jennifer and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Weekend

I am going to take a moment to whine, so stop reading if you don't want to hear it would rather me just tell you in person. It started yesterday morning when Abby and I came into the kitchen as Chris was gathering his things to leave. Major work crisis -"1 to 2 hours to fix". Four hours later, called Chris who said the problem was "bigger than expected and the fix wasn't co-operating". Whatever. At this point it was noonish, so I started trying to make the kids lunch and I had the fridge opened because I was trying to counteract the heating system by cooling with the fridge figure out what to fix. As I turned around, I saw libby coming at me with a glass BBQ sauce bottle and as I start to tell her to give it to me and reach towards her to get it, she drops it, glass shatters everywhere and Lib is in the middle of a BBQ glass shattered mess. She starts screaming and I grab her and take her over to the sink to see how badly she's cut. Luckily I had just done the dishes so I had room to lay her mostly in the sink with just her chest on the counter. Even though she was screaming bloody murder, I could only find one smallish cut and one that was pretty bad. I was looking for glass in her foot, but luckily there was none. I grabbed a kitchen towel and tried to stop the bleeding while running around looking for bandages. Unfortunately, all our gauze and major wound care has been used for playing doctor by abby and chris, but fortunately we happened to have huge band aids in the cabinet. I was freaked out because I was by myself and running around holding libby while trying to stop the bleeding. But I handled it and was proud of myself! I got her in her high chair, gave her motrin and held a Capri sun to her foot to help the pain (it was cold?!). Anyway, Chris had to work all night last night and today and my mom hurt her knee really bad yesterday so when I brought the girls out to see her, abby was acting really crazy because she was worried about my mom and manifesting it in the way of a 3 yr old. We came home @ 5:30, got to spend 1 hr of quality family time together, put the kids to bed and now I am in the office with chris, FREEZING TO DEATH! I don't know why I am so cold – maybe it's because I set the thermostat on 66?? We'll, if you'd seen the power bill this month, you'd be freezing too!

 

Ok, for the non bad part, I just wanted to say how much I love Chris and how proud I am of him. It is definitely a team effort for our little family, and sometimes I don't know who has the harder job – him or meJ

ah ba

we went to callaway today to give the girls a chance to enjoy the outdoors, and i just wanted to post this (sorry i didn't edit to the end, but premeir elements is giving me a hard time!) - libby said abby's name for the first time today! abby loves it and she loves being a big sister - most of the time. they play really well together - most of the time. Being an only child, i love to watch their relationship grow and chris and i hope it will strengthen over the years. we love you libby (abby calls her libby lou lou) and abby (now known in our house as AH-BAH or AB!)

praying for peace

My Parenting in Cols Playgroup has a message board, and someone posted an asinine question on the board that their more asinine minister posed to his congregation regarding God hating the people of Hati, I am sure stemming from a comment that a somewhat prominent (?) evangelical (?) person made recently. Don't want to give him the spotlight to remain relevant an more than the media has done already, but in the mb there was a link to this article discussing the fallout from PR's statement. I really loved this part and in talking to my friend Kristen, this was how I was explaining to her I felt. On the MB i wrote that the God I believe in and who created all the people of the world, loves us all. Even if they don't know or love Him. (Just like global warming - it believes in you even if you don't believe in it:)


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I’ve also found that the more I trust in Christ’s redemption to be sufficient, the less overtly religious I am.
And, quite honestly, the more suspect overtly religious people become to me. When I’m with somebody who talks zealously about faith, about Jesus, about the Bible, after a while, I find myself wondering whether or not their faith is strong at all. For instance, if I were with somebody who kept talking about how much they loved their wife, going on loudly and profusely, intuitively I would wonder whether or not they were struggling in their marriage. I would wonder whether they were trying to convince me they loved their wife, or if they were trying to convince themselves. (Now that I think of it, though, some of my favorite people talk about how much they love their wives, but these are less public proclamations and more sighs of appreciation.) Faith in Christ, for me, is similar. It’s intimate. I’m more comfortable giving quiet prayers, intimate prayers. Often alone, in fact. I speak of faith the way I speak of personal matters. Of course there is a time for proclamations, but that’s the key, isn’t it? There’s a time. Anyway, I love that the New Testament is mostly intimate letters written to small groups of people who met in homes. I like the quiet authenticity of our faith. Robertson’s loudness and shock-jock verbiage seems strange and oddly uncompassionate. It felt like he was trying to tell us how tough he was, not how compassionate God is.

no shoes, no bra, no underwear, no problem!

thank goodness the cold weather has caused me to have to wear a heavy coat when taking abby to preschool!

just sayin'.

tomorrow is the day

the best 4 generation pict we could come up with from christmas. will post more christmas picts soon!

abby and ccas the hat says: "santa's little helper"

tomorrow is finally the day that abby's getting tubes in and adenoids out. Since Chris got me a super speedy new laptop for christmas, I have been working on putting all of our home movies on DVD - it is a time consuming process to say the least. Technology is so amazing to go from watching the 8mm b&w home movies of my mom growing up, to no movies of me growing up (sad i know!) to having access to edit countless hours of video clips in to an actual movie. you can lay music on top, add in still photos...it's pretty cool. needless to say, because abby was the first born we have wayyy too much video of her and wayyy not enough of libby. I started w/abby for some reason and i've made (still doing the finishing touches) a 2 1/2 hour movie - OF THE FIRST SIX MONTHS! are you kidding me?! i hope we stopped taping so much after this point, cause man - that's a lot of editing! anyway, I am sure everyone wants to see - right?! maybe i'll post it on YouTube later:)

anyway, I can't believe that little baby is so grown. Age 3 is so wonderful for her. I was telling my cousin Kimberly and Kristi @ abby's b-day - it's not that i think she's the most amazing kid, but she is the most amazing of herself..she's really growing and becoming so wonderful. I didn't think we would make it through the 2s, and now she just shocks me every day with things that she says and does. it's like i can see a glimpse in to the person she'll become. And she is still loving ballet - her recital is May 18th (right Kimberly?). Feel free to come out and watch her class doing "animal crackers". I am sure it will be interesting to say the least. I can even tell in ballet how she is maturing. She is so helpful with Libby and is a great big sister and a great friend. She is loving school and has 2 best friends - Ben who is in her class at school, and Owen who we met @ a PICP event. Ben and Owen have older sisters that Abby has become fast friends with. We also have a neighbor, Taia that Abby loves to spend time with. We love our Abby and hope that this procedure tomorrow will help her hearing, and keep her from being in so much pain with her ears and throat. she is a trooper.