Thanks Everyone!

Thank you all for your well wishes and encouraging words, but most of all, thank you for your prayers. They're all appreciated.

Not much to report on the job hunt just yet. Chris is starting to get a little stir crazy now. Hopefully this week he'll start getting some good news coming in. He put his boat up for sale online on Friday night and by Saturday morning had someone willing to put down ernest money on it so Chris doesn't sell it to anyone else. It'll probably be a couple of weeks before we get paid for it, but it'll be a huge help when we do get the money. Oh, and I'm having my first garage sale ever next weekend. We won't make a killing, but hey, every little bit helps.

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Becky, Erin and I hosted a baby shower for Lisa yesterday. It turned out really nice and I had a lot of fun helping organize it. We did a lot of it ourselves. Erin made the invites, Becky made the favors and I made the cake, a sign for the yard and some of the decorations. I didn't take a picture of the cake, but it turned out real cute, which was a relief. It was in the shape of a baby carriage. I'll post a pic if someone will be so kind as to send me one, or put one up on their blog so I can steal it. Got it!


I did, however, take a picture of the yard sign. As we were waiting for guests to arrive, I look out the window just in time to see a dog wander up to my sign, give it a good sniff and then lift his leg! The nerve. So, I had to take a picture of course. This was taken after the shower and it was a windy day. Add to that the pee, and my sign looked a bit harried at this point.

I find it sad that the only picture I took of my lovely friend Lisa's shower was of a sign that had been peed on. What does that say about me?

When I got home from the shower, I thought I'd lay down for just a bit. I woke an hour later. Chris has been sooo good to me the last couple of days. He kept Clara on Friday while I went to help decorate for the shower, then on Saturday during the shower and then again everytime I sneak in one of these little cat naps.

I'm just now getting hit with the tiredness. We woke around 7:00 am on Saturday and I laid down for a nap by 9:45. To be fair, I didn't sleep real well the night before. I was up with a severe sore throat and Clara woke coughing around 1:00 am. It took half an hour to get her back down.

Anyway, after my little nap on Saturday evening, it was close to 7:00 and we hadn't eaten dinner yet. We packed some sandwiches and hit the park with Erin, Glenn and Becky, and Micah and Lisa. As we were leaving, it was already dark. Clara tripped and skinned one knee pretty badly. We got a band-aid on it and she was doing a little better. Then we stood in the parking lot talking for awhile and she started running around again and tripped a second time! Double owie! She scraped her other knee this time and got the first one even worse. Poor baby. I felt so bad for her. She cried the whole way home. I thought she'd be over the tripping over her own feet stage by this summer, but apparently not. She just doesn't pay attention when she's walking, so I have a feeling she'll have scraped knees for a long time to come.