Lucy is getting baptised!

This post was originally meant to be published last Thursday.  Of course, we all know certain circumstances prevented that from happening...  

(For the record I still don't know if it's spelled baptised or baptized.)

Remember this post?  Haha, well...one week turned into three months, and we finally met with the Pastor on Wednesday night.  Did we drop the ball on this whole baptism thing, or what?  Sheesh!

The meeting went very well.  Casey really liked the Pastor and agreed with everything he had to say - he's even hoping to join the church band!  And the meeting, for me, confirmed what I already knew:  this faith, and this specific church, will be absolutely perfect for our family.  Pastor Steve got us excited about baptising Lulu and becoming active members of the church.

Lucy's baptism is scheduled for this Sunday, October 30, at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church.

I usually enjoy the thrill of party planning, but life is a little too hectic at the moment.  So we're keeping it low-key.  Just family and friends, and a little lunch at our house afterward.  And, lucky us!  The weather forecast is calling for some pretty beautiful weather that day.  Look for Lucy's baptism post sometime next week.


Also, if anyone is interested in guest blogging the week of November 7, get at me!     

Meet Mr. Bionic

I'd venture to say about half of Grampy's body is made of titanium steel. 

The man has a boatload of problems...and we'll leave it at that.

Last Thursday he gave us quite the scare.  (Hence my absence.)  Let me start by saying this man canNOT pass up a good buy.  He bought a giant palm tree - it's about 12 feet tall and weighs almost 500 pounds - that was on sale, to surprise my mom.  And being the manly man that he is, he decided to unload the tree from his truck.  By himself.

He blames the wind.  We blame him.

The tree AND hydraulic gurney fell on top of him.  Try to picture this...he fell backward, did a split, and at one point was laying on top of his left leg.  With a 500 POUND tree on top of him.  The tree eventually rolled over him (breaking his nose, putting his tooth through his lip, and nearly scalping his notorious skullet).  He laid in the driveway for God knows how long, screaming for help.  No one could hear him.  My sister was inside the house, watching Lucy, and there were no neighbors around.  Fallon finally came outside, because she needed to leave for work, and found him.  Imagine finding that?!

She called for an ambulance and he was rushed to the hospital.  My mom and I left work immediately and met him there.  This was the longest car ride of my life.  Fallon was crying, my mom was crying, I was crying. 

It took five fire fighters to move that stupid tree.  FIVE.

The nurses (very theatrically) cut his clothes off and took him for x-rays.  We later found out that he had broken his left femur.  That's right, the biggest bone in the body.  Since he's had both hips replaced (among other things), the break was around the steel rod in his femur.  He was scheduled for surgery the next day, where the doctor would make an incision from hip to knee, and attach another steel rod to the outside of his femur with cables.

The surgery was successful.  It took three hours and two blood transfusions, but it was successful.  Grampy comes home today, two days ahead of schedule.

 
Recovery is a minimum of 12 weeks.

This is NOT the way I expected to become a SAHM.  We'll use vacation time and FMLA to cover Lucy Duty for the next month.  We have one month to find a new plan.  One.month.

Dear God,

Thank you for Lucy.  Thank you for her health, her happiness, and her beauty.  Thank you for choosing me to be her mother.

Thank you for Casey.  Thank you for giving me such a caring and loving husband.  Thank you for leading me to my soul mate so early in life. 

I love you. 

I have a lot on my mind.

Thank God I don't have work tomorrow, because I can't sleep.

I know I said "minimal" blogging this week, but I have a lot on my mind.  Like a lot, A LOT.

Every night I pray.  I've said the same prayer for years (with the recent addition of Lucy).  I thank God for Lucy, Casey, my parents and siblings, and I ask that He guide us to happiness.  I ask that he provide for us, as he always has.  Well lately my prayer list has gotten a lot longer.  Sometimes I fall asleep before I finish praying.  Sometimes I forget to pray for certain things because there is just so much on my mind and so much to pray for....

Lucy
Lucy's health
Lucy's happiness
Lucy's future
Casey
Casey's health
Casey's happiness
Our marriage
Casey's job
My parents
My parents mental and physical health
My parent's marriage
My brother
My brother's actions
My brother's future
My sister
My sister's future
Our house
Selling our house
Buying a new house
Decorating a new house
Our cars
Casey's education
My job
Getting Lucy baptised
Getting pregnant again
Lucy's rash
Breastfeeding
Pumping
All things baby related - babyproofing, crawling, milestones in general
Checking account balance
Savings account balance
What's for dinner?
Friends that kinda suck
Friends that kinda rock
Blogging
Laundry
Cleaning
Time

I'm probably leaving something off.  And as I've put this list to words, I've expanded on each item in my head.  You can thank me later for not sharing.