Pray for Olamide Adeyooye's family

For some reason I got caught up in the case of Olamide Elizabeth Adeyooye - a missing Illinois State University Student. I read her blog, her friends' blogs, her boyfriend's band's web site and his blog, etc. She was found today, murdered. Please pray for her family and friends. I can't imagine what they are going through.

Thank you!!

PECULYR

"I'm peculiar
and getting more peculiar
walking 'round talking prosperity
living my life with my future free
I'm peculiar
and getting more peculiar
and if society doesn't agree
that's a good indication to me!"
taken from a David Ingles song (I think)

Got my new vanity license plate this weekend....PECULYR. I love it!!!

Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine

Deuteronomy 14:2For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:18And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

1 Peter 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light...

(all taken from King James version)

Another answered prayer!!

God told me a few months ago that I need to start writing again...poetry, fiction and non fiction. I asked Him to show me what He wanted me to write. Tonight He told me the name, genre and (very) basic story line to the fiction I will be writing. Not only that, but He gave me more than one title....I will be writing a series!!! HALLELUJAH! Glory be to GOD! I am so excited!! I can't wait to start. And that laptop....what a BLESSING right now!!! WOOHOO!!!

Back to the new normal

Brittany is back from Albuquerque after a month. We are soooo excited. Now things are going to be able to go back to the "new normal." We started back to school yesterday, Britty had a co-op about Egypt today (she is mummifying a piece of chicken and they made paper), and she has PE/Art tomorrow. I am so excited to be able to start school and get going "for real" this time...knowing I have a while before any interruptions! WOOHOO I seem to manage my schedule better when we are on a good school run. I am giving us until next Monday to get started on time with all chores done, etc. We ALL need the practice. LOL.

Linda had to go home early yesterday, she got sick, so we had the baby to ourselves all day. We did most of our school in there, including Brittany making an Egyptian pyramid (with secret passages and temples) out of legos. Sherria came over last night for me to practice her hair and makeup. She is going to a Halloween party as the Cinderella from Ever After and I wanted to get her makeup just right. I did it with butterfly wings coming off of her eyes and LOTS of glitter. I glittered her shirt, my shirt, our pants, the floor and everything within the area. It was quite a bit of fun. LOL I also put her hair up and we are going to glitter it quite a bit as well!!

Well I need to go and get things going around here. Linda came in late so I could go to church tonight, so I have been having Kaedy-time this morning. Brittany is back from co-op, though, and it is now time to actually get to work...

See you soon....

Back Again

I was taking a break from blogging, mostly because my friend Brandi was taking a break, and when I write, I always consider her the audience. She is back blogging, so I am too!! LOL. Hi Brandi!!!

A lot has happened since I last posted. We had a weekend nurse for one weekend and one day and then we fired her. We are back to no nurse on Friday and Saturday. Linda, our wonderful day nurse, traded Friday for Sunday so we could go to church on Sundays. She also changed her hours on Wednesdays so I can go to church Wednesday nights. What a blessing!!!

Speaking of blessings, I was SUPER-BLESSED today. (Dr. Carey says SUPER is the highest word in the heirarchy of praise) My friend Melanie and her husband Jim GAVE me the laptop they had lent to me in San Antonio. I feel so spoiled. I danced around the house today every time I thought of it!!! This is SUCH a huge blessing....especially for the days/nights with no nurses and any other trips we may have to take. They are so generous, it is amazing when people are like that. Michael is going to get a wireless router so I can log online with cox and then I will be set! WOOHOO!!!!

Kaedy's first sign!

We have been teaching Kaedy "Baby Signs" for about 4 months. The other day she did her first sign for Linda! She did the "all gone" sign when Linda took something away from her! We are so excited. Now we have to get more disciplined about teaching her signs, knowing that she is "getting" them.

New Diversion

I have gotten TOTALLY sidetracked on this new "toy" Michael found this weekend. It is called Google Earth and it is a program by Google where you can zoom in from outer space to see pretty much anywhere on earth. It is much better than the other satellite sites I have tried. First of all, it is from 2005, second of all it has pictures of EVERYWHERE I have tried, whereas the other ones did not have pictures of Paula's house in the boondocks or other outlying areas.

I have found all the houses I have lived in since birth - including many in NM, one in CO, one in CA; all my various schools; many vacation spots including my friend's house on Cape Cod and my great aunt and uncle's house on Martha's Vineyard; a lake we stayed at in Italy, some places we visited in Germany (although I am still looking for Munich), Downtown San Antonio, Michael's places of residence, many of my friend's houses (although I can't find you, yet, Brandi!!).

Anyway, if you decide to download this program, do it realizing you will get SUCKED in and "play" on it quite a bit.

Why not to walk around for two months on a broken foot....

Well I broke my foot. How you ask? I have NOOOO idea. I know when though.....the day we moved the FAITH library. I was out by the truck talking with my friends and when they drove away, I limped into my garage. I had NO idea what was wrong or how I did it, just that all of a sudden my ankle/foot REALLY hurt. I was not able to go to the doctor, because soon after that Kaedy and I went to San Antonio. It hurt while I was in San Antonio on and off. When I wore my tennis shoes, it did not hurt nearly as much as when I wore my sandals. Some days I had a severe limp and others I hardly limped at all. When I got home, it still hurt but then we were caught up in bringing Kaedy home. Last weekend, I was coming down the stairs in the middle of the night when I stepped on that foot and it gave out. I fell down three stairs and pulled some muscles in my back. I went to the doctor on Monday afternoon and found out that my foot is broken, my ankle is sprained and my back muscles were pulled. I got some meds and a wooden shoe (no, not like what the Dutch wear). I go back to the doctor in 14 days and he will re-xray and decide what to do next - whether to cast it, keep me in the wooden shoe, or ??? Anyway, my foot feels MUCH better when I am wearing the wooden shoe. I accidentally came downstairs without it today and really really felt it. I am so glad I had a chance to go to the doctor!

We have a new nurse this weekend. She only works 9-5 so we fill in the times in between our night nurse's 12 hour shift. The new nurse, Kim, is very nice and really enjoys Kaedy. If she worked every weekend 9-9, she would be just about perfect! LOL

Emily: Future nurse?

BEWARE: this is a little graphic, those with weak stomachs, skip to the second paragraph.

We don't have a nurse this weekend. We are blessed that we will have a nurse every other weekend, which will be nice. Michael had to work yesterday morning, so Emily and I were here with Kaedy by ourselves. I was talking to Paula on the phone when I saw/heard Kaedy coughing and she started to de-sat (her oxygen saturation level went down). She usually does not de-sat, even when she coughs or has a plug in her trach. I got off the phone and quickly gloved up, got the oxygen going on the ambu-bag, turned on the suction and tried to suction her. When I took off her vent tubing, there was a big bloody glob in her trach. I tried to suction it out and the suction wasn't working. I took my non-sterile hand and tried to figure out what was wrong with the suction machine, and couldn't find a thing. I thought maybe the tubing got clogged, because it had some mucous on it, so I opened up a new kit and got new tubing. No luck there, either. Meanwhile, her sats were still dropping. I ambu'd her (aka bagged her) and she came back up, so I tried to put her vent on her to go get the back up suction machine. As soon as I put the vent on her, she de-satted. I bagged her again, up to 100, put the vent on, and she de-satted into the 70s, very quickly. Sooooo, here I am, just me and Emily, Kaedy needs to be bagged and I need to go get the backup suction machine which is at the end of the crib, but completely out of reach.

I then taught my 4 year old how to bag the baby.

She bagged her for about a minute while I got the machine and got a new sterile kit ready to suction. I go to suction Kaedy again and the backup suction machine was not working. I have Emmy bag her again while I figure out what was wrong (this time I could figure it out) and open up ANOTHER sterile kit and suction her SUCCESSFULLY this time.

Later, when Michael came home he was able to figure out what was wrong with the first suction machine.

So far this is the scariest thing that has happened to me, personally, with Kaedy. I now COMPLETELY understand why we need to have two people here all the time, preferably adults. Unfortunately that means that we will only be able to go to church every other weekend, one at a time. I am already going on Wednesday nights, by myself. I will be going Saturday, Michael will be going Sunday morning and I will be going Sunday nights, every other weekend. I can't wait for a better scenario!!! I really miss church when I am not there. And I am not able to do all I want to do for the church, when I can't be there, as well.

I am looking forward to the next season of my life!

I'm a couch!

Emily and I were reading a book together before naps today. It is called "I like me." Whenever I read her or Brittany books, they always pick out which one of us matches each character in the book. Today, Emily was saying: Kaedy was the little girl, Brittany was the dog, Emmy was the cat, Daddy was the bird, and I was the couch. THE COUCH???? "Why am I the couch?" "Because everyone is cuddling on you!!!" OF COURSE! :-)