Ready to Move On!

Sorry for the lag in posts over the past couple of weeks; if you follow Jonathan and I on facebook, or on his blog at www.pastorjonathandavid.com, you will know we've been through the ringer in a few areas!

First, Ethan has started having night terrors.  Much worse for us than him, I know, but good grief!  They make him cranky and tired and my we won't even start on the topic of my nerves.  However, he has not had one in four days now.  Yay!  We are learning that not skipping naps, or being late for them, and a consistent bedtime make a big difference, as well as other tricks to help him settle back into sleep more quickly when he does have them.

Then on Saturday/Sunday... BAM!  Bring on the longest course of stomach virus we've had in a long while.  Four days.  Literally.  All four of us.  Completely miserable.  So I pretty much lived on the couch for four days and four nights, stripped sheets off of beds as the kids threw up, taught Emily how to get sick in a bucket, and changed a multitude of dirty diapers.  Jonathan was left to fend for himself in our bedroom.  The worst day for me was the day after the puking stopped.  I was so weak I couldn't stand for more than 30 seconds at a time.  The worst moment of that day was laying on the kitchen floor, water running, bottle on the counter and I was bawling because I couldn't even get to my knees without blacking out to make Ethan his bottle, who was screaming in the other room.  You don't get much lower than that...ugh.

However, we hopefully will get out and about tonight.  We have missed our church's entire fall revival due to this bug, but are going to try to make it to their fall festival this evening, so be watching for pictures!  And lord willing, I will try to go for a jog tonight.  It's literally been a week since I ran, and with a 5K only 7 1/2 weeks away, I need to be training.  But it is starting to pay off, though:

I think I am liking being 30!  :-)  Still have a ways to go, but I'll get there, sooner or later!  But it's time to finish this year strong - two more months left to go!

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die." Daniel H. Burnham

Dream big as you enter into the homestretch of 2011!