Back again...

Maybe I should catch everyone up since my last post...

Last Friday, August 1st, my mother-in-law and I took a trip to the Mossy Grove PBC annual meeting. It had been years since I had spent any time in that neck of the woods. I was graced with so many memories for friends who have moved out of the area, friends who are still in the area, and a wonderful meeting. Unfortunately, one of my lovely migraines surfaced making a lot of our visit somewhat miserable for me. I learned one valuable lesson: never leave home without your migraine medicine! Yes, we were only gone for 24 hours, or a little more than, but as I learned, you can never be too cautious. I do believe this migraine was by far the worst I have ever experienced. It was a throbbing, pulsating mess that had me in the bathroom sick between 3 and 4 am. It came and went at random, but I do praise the Lord that it finally went and has not returned. I am struggling to find the cause and the triggers to my migraines. I wonder if they are stress, food or hormone related, as most of them are. Well, my hormones are going strong now, being that I am almost 6 months pregnant, and unfortunately, stress is a factor of my life. I also noticed that the last three times I have had a migraine that the meal I ate before the migraine was a chicken salad sandwich from Chik-fil-A. Hmmm... that is off of my menu for good...at least until the baby comes! I can't wait to visit the Mossy Grove area again when I am feeling a little bit better and it is a little less hot!

One of my favorite times on this trip was my visit at the Thomas Family's home. Troy and Rebecca Thomas have become dear friends and I love them dearly! Their children are so sweet and kind, and good role models for my own son! Their home was lovely and a simple joy to be in! Rebecca shared with me a lot about homeschooling and the curriculum they will be using. It has very much interested me and enthused me about homeschooling in the future. I so want to homeschool my children and I hope laws in VA don't change so much in the next few years that I won't be able to. Josiah enjoyed playing in the family play room with the other kids, breakfast was a treat, and Josiah slept well, which is always a worry for me when we are out of town.

When I last wrote, we were getting ready for some visitors this weekend, but we had to call and arrange for our visitors another place to stay because I became more and more ill as the week went on with an upper respiratory infection. I did not want to get them sick, so I had to release them to stay somewhere else. Unfortunately, they had to cancel their trip because one of the visitors was sick as well. Please pray for me as far as my sickness. If I am not a lot better when I go back to the doctor on Monday, he will consider putting me backing in the hospital because I am having a hard time breathing. I feel a lot better already, but I am laying low this weekend and not doing much of anything but resting [I know many of you wonder why I am up this late, but I was so tired this afternoon, I ended up taking about a 4 hour nap...also, I crave water at night and tonight has been a lot worse...I need to wait for 3 glasses of ice water to make its way out of my system...]. So, visitors have been rescheduled and cleaning has been put on hold until my energy renews!

I am really looking forward to spending the day with my DS tomorrow. He is just the joy of my life! He is having so much fun out doors that I am going to have lunch on the front porch [my DH cleaned it off and put up a lovely table and chairs set!], and we are going to play in the yard. He loves the flowers and calls them "wowers" and has to kiss them every time he walks by them! I love it that he loves the outdoors so much, I just wish the heat was not so hard on me! We will probably play in the water and just have loads of fun!

I love watching Josiah blossom. I know I have said it about other phases of life, but this period where he is just learning to talk and developing more personality is one of my favorites. Ever since our trip with Grandma, Josiah has been saying "Dramma!" all over the place. This morning, he had been babbling and her name came up every few minutes, then he walked over, got the diaper bag, kissed my leg, walked to the door and said, "Dramma! Bye-bye!" and tried to open the door like he was leaving. It was precious! He is saying a lot of words now, among which are: apple! nana! gook [for book]! gilk [for milk]! wowers! babo [for baby]! yucky [for any and all trashcans]! and dedu [for Jesus]! He is also singing [incomprehensibly, of course] and waving his hand like he is leading songs in church. He loves to talk on the phone, when no one else can hear him and he loves his bath time and loves his books. He now sleeps with one of his favorite books and instead of crying in the morning, he wakes up and I hear him "reading" his book.

Well, it is late, and now that you are caught up with us, I will close this for now. Happy August!