Glory be! It’s got a heartbeat!

Just a very quick update. I had a prenatal exam yesterday at my new care provider in town. It was absolutely amazing to hear the little one’s heartbeat for the first time ever. Kyle was unable to come to this one so we’re going to make it so that he can come to the next one in October. Our health insurance comes online October 1st and I have an appointment for October 9th. I’ll be meeting with one of the other midwives and we’ll also have an ultrasound.

Things on the job front have not changed as yet. I’m still applying and praying that the Lord brings something along for me to do until the baby comes so that we can save up a bit of money.

I’m also seriously praying about going back to school either in the spring or next fall part time. I’ll be working towards an associates degree in nursing through the local school which is attached to the hospital near our apartment. And before you begin protesting, I am well aware of the facts of how tired I will be with a new baby if I take classes in the spring semester. If that is the way that the Lord decides to lead us, then he’s given promise after promise to be my strength and peace and hope and sanity through it all. I’m not even remotely considering going back full time, but if I’m part-time, then I can keep the loan hounds at bay until I have a job that can pay them back.

The Lord is good; He provides for His children, and I am so grateful to be counted amonst the flock. Otherwise I would have had a meltdown long before now.

Peace and Blessings.

Progress…finally

After dilligently bashing my head against two brick walls entitled “employment” and “prenatal care”, I seem to finally have cracked the foundation of the latter. After prayer and trusting in the Lord’s provision, we have decided to sign up for the spouse insurance through Kyle’s work. It will automatically be deducted from his paycheck, so it’s even more necessary for me to crack into that second wall.

The good news is that I finally have a care provider and my next prenatal appointment will be on September 4th. The insurance will officially go into affect October 1st, but since I’ve already had an initial pre-natal visit and all of my labwork, I only have to pay for regular visits out of pocket until October. I’ll be fifteen and a half weeks pregnant when I go in for my next visit and the insurance will kick in well before I have to take all of the mid-pregnancy tests and take Rhogam.

I’m still working on getting employed, but it feels really nice having one more burden lifted from my shoulders through the Lord’s grace and mercy. Please keep praying for employment or at least for the Lord to show us what he has in store for me to do next.

In other news, Kyle is quietly panicking about having to fly by the seat of his pants come Monday. He’s teaching 3rd through 9th grade Latin and is a little bit nervous as he’s still trying to get settled and plan lessons. Pray that I see my husband back to his normal goofy self soon and not so withdrawn.

Peace and Blessings.

Update thingies…I’m terrible at this sometimes….

Hello Everybody!

My, my, how the time does fly! I seriously owe everybody an update on what’s been going on so here goes…..

A little over a month ago (goodness!), we packed all of our belonging into a UPS truck and sent it to NC ahead of us. After being feted by our former church till our sides burst, we finally set out to follow our belongings. It was a good beginning of a nice month-long trip. Continue reading “Update thingies…I’m terrible at this sometimes….”

Oh dear!

I recieved this in my email and thought it good to share with other people….

OK. I don’t know where to begin because the last 2 days of my life have been such a blur. Yesterday, My youngest daughter Halle who is 4, was rushed to the emergency room by her father for being severely lethargic and incoherent. He was called to her school by the school secretary for being “very VERY sick.” He told me that when he arrived that Halle was barely sitting in the chair. She couldn’t hold her own head up and when he looked into her eyes, she couldn’t focus them.

He immediately called me after he scooped her up and rushed her to the ER. When we got there, they ran blood test after blood test and did x-rays, every test imaginable. Her white blood cell count was normal, nothing was out of the ordinary. The ER doctor told us that he had done everything that he could do so he was sending her to Saint Francis for further test.

Right when we were leaving in the ambulance, her teacher had come to the ER and after questioning Halle’s classmates, we found out that she had licked hand sanitizer off her hand. Hand sanitizer, of all things. But it makes sense. These days they have all kinds of different scents and when you have a curious child, they are going to put all kinds of things in their mouths.

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Ickies

Ug. Yesterday was terrible. I woke up feeling ok a little full from the previous night’s dinner and was up and running like normal. Kyle and I were ahead in our packing so we decided to go into Danvers to pick up some bags for the fish and just relax a bit away from the house.

When we got home, I decided to take a nap. When I woke up from my nap around 2pm, I was feeling quite nauseous. Continue reading “Ickies”

Happy News

Kyle has accepted the teaching position in NC so we are definitely moving southward. I’m really excited about being closer to family and back in an area that I can make sense of. The moving truck arrives this coming Friday. Saturday and Sunday we will fill it and have it picked up by the moving complany. Monday we will head out for our trip to visit with friends and relatives, and apparently we will have a stowaway on the trip with us who will make an appearance in about nine months. We’re really excited about that too. I’ll be putting up more updates as they come and have created a new page where registry and other information will be periodically updated.

When it rains it pours.

Hello everyone. I suppose it’s time for another update on life from the frozen north (well chilly north anyway…can anyone tell me where summer is supposed to be?).

I finished teaching at the school on June 8th, and Kyle and I decided that it would be a wonderful time to take a much needed break before chaos resumes and I have to pack up the house for a move. We decided to go to Niagara Falls for the weekend and it was absolutly, blessedly peaceful and restful. We did all the touristy things and I took lots of pictures, which will go up as soon as I can figure out what’s going wrong with our gallery program.

On the drive home Kyle was thinking about his last convesation with the Headmistress at the school in Concord. When Mrs. C had told Kyle that she was very sorry that she had offerend the English position to someone else who had more experience but that she had a full time teaching position for Latin also open. At first he politely turned her down thinking that it was a joke, but he realized on the ride home that she wouldn’t have mentioned it if she hadn’t been serious.
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Who was married?

It has been my privilege to hear arguments from time to time that the Apostle Paul was married, despite the impression you get in 1 Corinthians 7:7. (What state exactly is Paul recommending when he says, “I wish that all were as I myself am”?) Usually, when people say that Paul was married, it’s on the basis that everyone back then knew that the first requirement to be a Pharisee was that a person had to be a father. Since Paul called himself “a Pharisee of Pharisees.” He must therefore have actually been a father. It sounds pretty shaky to me, but then I’m not the foremost authority on the Pharisees.

Nevertheless, in his letter to the Philadelphians, Ignatius lists Paul among the married: Continue reading “Who was married?”

Jesus, Really

But as for me, I do not place my hopes in one who died for me in appearance, but in reality. For that which is false is quite abhorrent to the truth. Mary then did truly conceive a body which had God inhabiting it. And God the Word was truly born of a Virgin, having clothed Himself with a body of like passions with our own. He who forms all men in the womb was Himself really in the womb, and made for Himself a body of the seed of the Virgin, but without any intercourse of man. He was carried in the womb even as we are, for the usual period of time; and was really born, as we also are; and was in reality nourished with milk, and partook of common meat and drink, even as we do.

And when He had lived among men for thirty years, He was baptized by .John, really and not in appearance; and when He had preached the Gospel three years, and done signs and wonders, He who was Himself the Judge was judged by the Jews (falsely so called), and by Pilate the governor; was scourged, was smitten on the cheek, was spit upon. He wore a crown of thorns and a purple robe; He was condemned: He was crucified in reality and not in appearance, not in imagination, not in deceit.

He really died, and was buried, and rose from the dead, even as he prayed in a certain place, saying, “But do Thou, O Lord, raise me up again, and I shall recompense them.” And the Father, who always hears Him, answered and said, “Arise, O God, and judge the earth; for Thou shalt receive all the heathen for Thine inheritance.”

The Father therefore, who raised Him up, will also raise us up through Him, apart from whom no one will attain to true life. For says He, “I am the life; he that believeth in me, even though he die, shall live: and every one that liveth and believeth in me, even though he die, shall live for ever.” Do ye therefore flee from these ungodly heresies; for they are the inventions of the devil, that serpent who was the author of evil, and who by means of the woman deceived Adam, the father of our race.

–Ignatius of Antioch, letter to the Trallians

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