Monday, December 28, 2009

My little reindeer...

Caleb is getting so big...he loves to sit in his Bumbo seat! Next week he will be four months old and I can't believe how the time has flown! Love him so much!

Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas in Chicago

We opted to stay in Chicago this year and do Christmas with our little family. We have had a great day celebrating together. For a starter Christmas present for Bryan and I, the kids both slept until around 10 am. After everyone woke up we grabbed a light snack and then started in on opening the presents. Nathanael has never really gotten into the present thing but it didn't take him long to figure it out. I must say that he is very meticulous when he unwraps his presents...one little piece at a time. We opened our presents to each other and then Nathanael and Caleb opened their gifts from Santa.

Bryan made this video of Nathanael's first glimpse of his new fort from his Papaw and Muss. He loves it and actually will play by himself for a little while! Enjoy!




Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Pondering the Brevity of Life

"...yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes."
James 4:14

Life has been difficult lately. I have been having some health issues and it has really been such a refining process in my life. I have had some type of a headache since Thanksgiving and when I say that I mean at times it is dull and annoying and others it feels like my head is going to explode. Along with that 2 weeks ago my vision began to blur and I began to have tingling in my arms and legs. Bryan and I really began to get concerned and started to really pray that the Lord would heal me and that He would give us wisdom in what we needed to do. Last Wednesday night I woke up in the middle of the night with a crazy headache and it was so painful I began vomiting. This lasted for 3 days and after some research and talking to a doctor that goes to our church we decided I needed to go and get a CT scan to make sure I didn't have a tumor or some type of a brain bleed. So off we went to the ER to get checked out.

I have to say, I was really scared. To think about having something that serious was truly sobering. Everything from not being able to raise my boys to leaving my sweet man behind led me to tears. BUT then I began to think about how the Lord would use my situation for His glory and it honestly began to be okay. I really began to just pray that whatever the diagnosis I would be able to give glory to Christ and that He would be exalted through it.

We got the results back and the CT scan was negative! Praise the Lord! Even in that I just continue to think about the brevity of life and that we are only here for a little while and that our next minute of life is never promised!

I would encourage you to pray for Matt Chandler, a pastor in Dallas that has brain cancer. Pray that He would continue to honor Christ and that the Lord would give Him the strength during the treatments for the cancer. Pray that the Lord would give his wife extra grace during this time as she takes extra special care of her husband and her children.

"You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand." James 5:8