A friend and I have been reading the book A Place of Quiet Rest by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. It is a wonderful book about developing an intimate relationship with God through a daily devotional life. I read this story that was part of one of the chapters this past week. It so convicted me of how much I love the Word and cherish it. I will let the story speak for itself from here...
“I must have a Bible of my own! I must have one, if I have to save up for it for ten years!”
The year was 1794. For as long as she could remember, little Mary Jones had yearned to hold a Bible in her hands so that she might read it for herself. For years, she had sat at night on her weaver father’s lap and listened to him tell stories of Abraham, Joseph, David, and Daniel. But her family was far to poor to afford a Bible, even if one had been available, for Bibles could scarcely be found in all of Wales during those days.
Two years earlier, Mrs. Evans, the wife of a nearby farmer, having learned of Mary’s longing to read the Bible, had promised the child that when she learned to read, she could come to their house and read their Bible. As soon as the first school opened in a neighborhood village, Mary had eagerly set about learning to read.
Now, the ten year old girl had just walked two miles from the North Wales village of Llanfihangel to the Evanses’ farm. The distance was no object to the eager child: “I’d walk farther than that for such a pleasure, ma’am!” she said to Mrs. Evans.
When once Mary finally was left alone in the room with the Bible, she reverently lifted off the white napkin that covered and protected the cherished Book. Then, with trembling hands, she opened the Bible to the fifth chapter of John where her eyes lit on the words, “Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me” (John 5:39, KJV). Confident that God had spoken to her directly, she earnestly vowed to search His Word with all her heart.
Every Saturday from that point on she made the journey to the Evanses’ farm where she read, studied, and memorized entire chapters from the borrowed Bible. All that time, however, her heart ached, so great was her yearning to have a Bible of her own. She purposed that she must have a Bible, at any cost.
For the next six years, in addition to her studies at school and the many chores to be tended to at home, Mary used every available moment to do odd jobs for friends and neighbors. Every penny she earned was carefully laid aside, until at long last she had saved enough to buy a Bible of her own.
When she learned that the closest place a Bible could be purchased was the town of Bala, some twenty-five miles away, there was no question in her mind about what she must do. With hope in her heart, she started out early one morning, walking barefoot so as not to ruin her one pair of shoes Before she reached her destination, her feet were blistered and cut from the stones in the road.
Physically weary, but barely able to contain her excitement that her lifelong goal should be so nearly realized, Mary finally arrived in Bala where she poured out her story to the minister, Mr. Charles. When she had finished, Mr. Charles reluctantly informed her that the last of the Bibles available for purchase had already been sold and that the remaining Bibles had been promised to others. Furthermore, the Society that had printed the small quantity of Welsh Bibles did not intend to print any more.
So great was Mary’s disappointment, that she began to sob uncontrollably. Touched by the intensity of her passion to have a Bible of her own, Mr. Charles decided that she must have one of the few Bibles left in his possession. Words cannot describe the ecstasy Mary felt as Mr. Charles placed into her hands the precious treasure for which she had prayed, wept, and hoarded all these years. Her heart sang as she walked the twenty-five miles back home, carrying her very own Bible, the Book that would remain her dearest friend and companion throughout her life.
The footnote to this story goes on to tell how: “Mr. Charles Thomas’ encounter with Mary Jones deeply impressed him and led to the establishment in 1804 of the British and Foreign Bible Society, a society dedicated to publishing and distributing the Word of God throughout the world.”
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Birthday Party, Ear Infections, and Migraines
That is just about the order that our weekend took! Saturday we celebrated Drew's birthday with family and friends. He had a wonderful time and it was a great party. The morning was a little bit rough. The first dozen balloons we purchased were lost by mistake when they flew out of the van as we were loading up to leave home. We had to make a second trip to Kroger for balloons. Not the way I wanted to start things off and definitely upsetting but it all ended up good. I think all the kids had a great time and we had plenty of food to please everyone. Below is a slide show of all the party fun!
After the party we came home, completely exhausted, and decided to go ahead and push all the clocks ahead to get us in gear to get to bed early. We managed to get to bed at 10pm new time, so 9pm before the Spring Forward, not bad. However around midnight I began suffering from a major migraine headache. Also JC seemed to wake up sporadically through the night that night. Jim did a great job of tending to both of us. Sunday morning I ended up staying home along with JC. He was running fever by this time and pretty out of sorts. He would not sleep unless I was holding him. By lunch time I gave him some ibuprofen and it brought the fever on down and he perked up. Thankfully he did not run anymore fever over 100 but just kept pulling at his ears. He had been doing that for several days so we highly suspected an ear infection. We planned on Jim taking him to the doctor first thing this morning. Unfortunately they were down one doctor and could not see him until 2:30 this afternoon. He does have a double ear infection and is now on augmentin for about the next 14 days. He has just gone to bed for the night with a dose of ibuprofen for the pain, he has been very uncomfortable. I think he will definitely be one of those completely helpless and pathetic men when he is sick!! Well my headache never really went completely away and sure enough it came on strong again over night last night. I tried to drive to work this morning but did not make it to far down the road before I turned around and came back to bed. I think it is gone for good now, I hope! Spring time is very hard on my migraines because of the changing temps and pressure in the air.
So, as you can see our Spring Break has been off to a rather rocky start, but that is okay. Jim and Drew are going to Batesville tomorrow to spend a few days at his mom's and do some things around there for her. They had planned to go down yesterday afternoon but then with JC getting sick had to shuffle their plans around a bit. I am thankful that he was able to do that because I was not really able to physically care for JC on my own today.
Here is another great picture I got of the boys last week, enjoy!
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After the party we came home, completely exhausted, and decided to go ahead and push all the clocks ahead to get us in gear to get to bed early. We managed to get to bed at 10pm new time, so 9pm before the Spring Forward, not bad. However around midnight I began suffering from a major migraine headache. Also JC seemed to wake up sporadically through the night that night. Jim did a great job of tending to both of us. Sunday morning I ended up staying home along with JC. He was running fever by this time and pretty out of sorts. He would not sleep unless I was holding him. By lunch time I gave him some ibuprofen and it brought the fever on down and he perked up. Thankfully he did not run anymore fever over 100 but just kept pulling at his ears. He had been doing that for several days so we highly suspected an ear infection. We planned on Jim taking him to the doctor first thing this morning. Unfortunately they were down one doctor and could not see him until 2:30 this afternoon. He does have a double ear infection and is now on augmentin for about the next 14 days. He has just gone to bed for the night with a dose of ibuprofen for the pain, he has been very uncomfortable. I think he will definitely be one of those completely helpless and pathetic men when he is sick!! Well my headache never really went completely away and sure enough it came on strong again over night last night. I tried to drive to work this morning but did not make it to far down the road before I turned around and came back to bed. I think it is gone for good now, I hope! Spring time is very hard on my migraines because of the changing temps and pressure in the air.
So, as you can see our Spring Break has been off to a rather rocky start, but that is okay. Jim and Drew are going to Batesville tomorrow to spend a few days at his mom's and do some things around there for her. They had planned to go down yesterday afternoon but then with JC getting sick had to shuffle their plans around a bit. I am thankful that he was able to do that because I was not really able to physically care for JC on my own today.
Here is another great picture I got of the boys last week, enjoy!
Friday, March 5, 2010
The new background and a couple of funny stories
I think the new background is incredibly appropriate for a family of two little monkey boys! In the last week JC has just about begun to crawl. He can actually move himself backward pretty well, but this is not really his intention and therefore makes him pretty mad! Soon, oh so very soon, he is going to be EVERYWHERE!! I am not quite ready for it but it was going to happen eventually, right?!?!
So now on to a few "happenings". Last Sunday I took four 4th grade girls from my Sunday School class out for a reward after saying all the memory verses for a 2 month period of time. I let them decide what they wanted to do and they wanted to go roller skating at a place close to our house. So we set out after church to get some lunch. The skating place did not open until 2pm so the plan was to pick up some lunch and go back to my house for a while. Well, at first Drew was scared to death of all those girls in the house, and then he decided he liked it a pretty good bit and basically became their life-size baby doll for awhile! We got to the skating rink just as they opened and man they were packed! Lots of birthday parties going on and what not. So we get in there and I am planning to skate with them. Now I cannot even tell you when the last time I roller skated was, I am thinking it has got to be 20 years ago. As I was lacing up the skates I began to panic and realize just how nuts I really have gotten that I would seriously strap on a pair of boots with wheels attached to them and proceed to then try to stand on them, let alone move around! I am happy to say though that skating must be somewhat like riding a bike, something you do not forget how to do. I did pretty well I think, now it was not graceful or impressive by any means but I did manage to get my balance pretty good and skate at a pretty good pace. I did hit the ground twice. Once when one of the girls pulled me down as I was helping her and the other time was completely on my own, I just lost my balanced and landed on my backside with A LOT of force! Needless to say I have a very bruised knee and a nice bruise on my hip that are still there today! Overall though I really had fun! It was a great time of bonding with the girls. They are all so special to me. God did not bless me with daughters of my own but I believe He wants me to be a special person to each of these girls and I thank Him for the relationship that I have with them.
The next story is a funny Drew story. On afternoon last week as we were heading home from school here was a song playing on KLove that the chorus talks about no one being like God. I cannot remember the exact song at this moment but that is what the chorus says. Anyway, Drew was singing along with it and suddenly stopped and told me that no one was like God. I told him that he was right, no one is like God because He is God. He then says, "I am not like God because I do not have a beard." I started laughing! How funny that he thought of God as having a beard! And that the beard is what distinguishes Him from the rest of us!! Of course I know that the only images he has ever seen that depict Jesus are of a man with a beard so naturally that is what his 6yr old mind thinks of. We talked more that day about why God is not like anyone. He is beginning to take so much in from the scriptures we are learning for Awana and from Sunday School. I do think he is somewhat interested in salvation but does not really have a clear understanding. He understands about people going to heaven and that we have people we love that are already there. He actually had a friend over to the house a couple of weeks ago that he was telling all about the picture in our dining room of his Papa. He told him that Papa is in heaven with Jesus and one day we will see him again. His Papa would be so proud of him! So, the next time you think you can run your own life and tell God what to do you just remember, if you don't have a beard you are not like him!!
Well we have another busy weekend ahead. Jim will be in Ridgeland, MS for the State Indoor Championship. He will be leaving early tomorrow morning and probably not going to get home until about midnight. Drew actually has to go to school tomorrow. We are having a 60% day tomorrow to make up for snow days. While he is at school JC and I are going to go visit my nana at the nursing home. I am praying it will be a good visit. Tomorrow evening my bestist friend and her girls are coming over and we are going to cook dinner together and hang out. It will be a nice distraction from Jim's absence. The weather is going to be gorgeous this weekend so I am hoping the kids can do some outdoor playing!
Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed weekend! I am sure I will have more monkey business to share soon!!
So now on to a few "happenings". Last Sunday I took four 4th grade girls from my Sunday School class out for a reward after saying all the memory verses for a 2 month period of time. I let them decide what they wanted to do and they wanted to go roller skating at a place close to our house. So we set out after church to get some lunch. The skating place did not open until 2pm so the plan was to pick up some lunch and go back to my house for a while. Well, at first Drew was scared to death of all those girls in the house, and then he decided he liked it a pretty good bit and basically became their life-size baby doll for awhile! We got to the skating rink just as they opened and man they were packed! Lots of birthday parties going on and what not. So we get in there and I am planning to skate with them. Now I cannot even tell you when the last time I roller skated was, I am thinking it has got to be 20 years ago. As I was lacing up the skates I began to panic and realize just how nuts I really have gotten that I would seriously strap on a pair of boots with wheels attached to them and proceed to then try to stand on them, let alone move around! I am happy to say though that skating must be somewhat like riding a bike, something you do not forget how to do. I did pretty well I think, now it was not graceful or impressive by any means but I did manage to get my balance pretty good and skate at a pretty good pace. I did hit the ground twice. Once when one of the girls pulled me down as I was helping her and the other time was completely on my own, I just lost my balanced and landed on my backside with A LOT of force! Needless to say I have a very bruised knee and a nice bruise on my hip that are still there today! Overall though I really had fun! It was a great time of bonding with the girls. They are all so special to me. God did not bless me with daughters of my own but I believe He wants me to be a special person to each of these girls and I thank Him for the relationship that I have with them.
The next story is a funny Drew story. On afternoon last week as we were heading home from school here was a song playing on KLove that the chorus talks about no one being like God. I cannot remember the exact song at this moment but that is what the chorus says. Anyway, Drew was singing along with it and suddenly stopped and told me that no one was like God. I told him that he was right, no one is like God because He is God. He then says, "I am not like God because I do not have a beard." I started laughing! How funny that he thought of God as having a beard! And that the beard is what distinguishes Him from the rest of us!! Of course I know that the only images he has ever seen that depict Jesus are of a man with a beard so naturally that is what his 6yr old mind thinks of. We talked more that day about why God is not like anyone. He is beginning to take so much in from the scriptures we are learning for Awana and from Sunday School. I do think he is somewhat interested in salvation but does not really have a clear understanding. He understands about people going to heaven and that we have people we love that are already there. He actually had a friend over to the house a couple of weeks ago that he was telling all about the picture in our dining room of his Papa. He told him that Papa is in heaven with Jesus and one day we will see him again. His Papa would be so proud of him! So, the next time you think you can run your own life and tell God what to do you just remember, if you don't have a beard you are not like him!!
Well we have another busy weekend ahead. Jim will be in Ridgeland, MS for the State Indoor Championship. He will be leaving early tomorrow morning and probably not going to get home until about midnight. Drew actually has to go to school tomorrow. We are having a 60% day tomorrow to make up for snow days. While he is at school JC and I are going to go visit my nana at the nursing home. I am praying it will be a good visit. Tomorrow evening my bestist friend and her girls are coming over and we are going to cook dinner together and hang out. It will be a nice distraction from Jim's absence. The weather is going to be gorgeous this weekend so I am hoping the kids can do some outdoor playing!
Hope you all have a wonderful and blessed weekend! I am sure I will have more monkey business to share soon!!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Birthday Fun!
Last night we took Drew to IHOP for dinner, as pictured above! Following dinner we took him to Walmart to pick out a baseball glove and bat because he will be playing t-ball in the OB City league for the first time this Spring! We had a great time. JC got a little tired as you will see from the pics and the video. It did not take very long at dinner for us to realize why we rarely go out to dinner with the kids these days!! It was a good night though and Drew had a good time. He is looking forward to his birthday party coming up!
Monday, March 1, 2010
6 Years
At about this time 6 years ago I was in a labor room at Baptist Hospital Desoto having labor induced with my first child after my water broke at 37 1/2 weeks pregnant. By 11pm that night, after trying to push for 2 hours, Jim had to make the decision to have the doctor perform a c-section. At just a few minutes past 11:30 we welcomed Drew to the world. He weighed 6lb 11oz and was perfect! Our lives have not been the same since! It is so hard to believe that he is actually 6 years old today. He is growing up so fast and becoming such a sweet young man. He loves to tell us all the time that he loves us. He has begun to pray quite a bit on his own lately. He will say some of the sweetest things to the Lord! It makes me want to cry now just thinking about it. I went to school today and took cookies to his class and was able to read a book to the class. He has a special hat on today. He was so excited about spending his birthday at school today. Tonight we are taking him to dinner at IHOP, one of his favorite places, and then to Walmart for him to pick out a baseball glove and bat because he will be playing for the first time this year in the OB City league. I will take more pictures of him tonight. Below is another one that I took this morning, he was showing off his new shoes!
Friday, February 26, 2010
There are never enough hours in the day...
I have had all intentions of updating the blog for over a week now! However, as usual, our crazy, hectic, non-stop life has kept me from it! But I guess we have to have all that stuff going on in order for me to have something to blog about, right?!?!
Well lets get caught up. Today JC is 9 months old! I cannot believe it! I was thinking earlier about what life was like one year ago. I was pregnant and pretty miserable and highly anticipating the arrival of my little boogy. Now I want time to slow down so I can enjoy all the important moments with him that seem to be flying by. Let me update you on all his stats. He weighs a little over 20lbs. I cannot remember his exact height measurement, I think it was 29 inches. You see we went to the doctor last week. We were supposed to go today but Drew ended up having to go, that story will be part of his update, but anyway we went. So the doctor is all amazed at how long he is and starts asking me how tall I am. Well I told him I am 5'1". He ask me how tall my husband is, and since I really don't know Jim's height I guess at 5'6" or 5'7", I think my guess was off slightly, cannot remember what he told me now! Anyway, the doctor is like telling me about how JC is at the very tip top of the growth chart on his height and how amazed he is by that given that me and my husband are not tall people. So I kinda got the impression that he was implying that JC might be the "milkman's" baby! Seriously, I am sure he will grow into that height as some point, but he is really long and really heavy! I went back to Drew's baby book to see what he weighed at 9mon. Drew was just over 17lbs at this point! He did not even weigh 20lbs until he was 15mon! So I am not really sure how we ended up with a giant baby this time but we did. And since he is so big he obviously has a giant sized appetite to go along with it! The boy puts away a FULL bowl of cereal every morning along with a bottle of formula. At lunch and dinner he eat two full jars of food and usually wants to follow that with a good helping of puffs and a full cup of juice. He stills gets a "night, night" bottle which is now about 9-10oz and a morning bottle that is 8oz. The lady at the day care said "he likes his groceries", I like that and she is right, he does!! He has developed quite an attachment to his mama. I am sure that I make it worse but inside I know that he is the last baby and I indulge it more than I really should. He will even cry for me rather than Jim some now. He actually cried when I left him at the daycare this week for the first time. He only did it one day so it is not habitual yet, but I think that may be coming. He does cry every afternoon when I get there until I actually pick him up. And if they have to change his diaper when I get there, which is most days because he has been asleep, he cries the entire time they are changing him! He is not yet mobile, and I am kinda glad! He is very grabby and kinda bad at times! He HATES being put on his stomach! He can get up on his legs and arms like he is going to crawl, he can even rock back and forth but will not go forward or backward. He just does not like it! Now what he does like is standing! I have stood him up next to a chair a few times and he if figuring out how to hang on and stand up. He can pull himself up from a sitting position with just a little help. So I will not be surprised if this one bypasses crawling all together and goes straight for coasting around the furniture . He is very strong! He can say mama and bubba, but he will not say daddy or dada! As a matter of fact when you try to get him to say it he will usually either say mama or shake his head no! He is rotten people! He jabbers all the time though. He keeps himself occupied in the car everyday by taking his socks off! Most days I just take him in the daycare without them on because he refuses to leave them on, the boy likes to be barefooted! Thank goodness for footed pjs!
Well, let me move on to Drew. He has had an interesting few weeks. We have had a conference with the teacher since school went back after Christmas due to him getting N's on his report card. We just did not understand the problem. His school work is great. He knows his skills and is really doing good on sight words, writing, math, etc. The N's were for not listening and not following directions. When we met with the teacher she indicated that he seems to be daydreaming and not paying her any attention. Jim and I both suspected that he may be bored because he did have the skills down. So we ask the teacher to begin moving his race car off track (their classroom discipline tool) when he was not listening. We talked to him about the listening and we prayed about it with him. The teacher even told us that after the new year they had talked about New Years Resolutions and Drew had drawn a picture of his showing him sitting at a desk and the teacher standing there and wrote that he wanted to listen better. So he obviously knew that he needed to do better in this area. Jim and I began to notice more and more at home that we were having to speak very loudly to get his attention. Well a couple of weeks ago Jim and I realized it was getting really bad. So we talked to a friend from church that is a school nurse about checking his hearing. She came to the house and did it and he heard nothing on one side and only heard 2 tones on the other. So she contacted our school nurse the next day and it turned out that the district audiologist happened to be at our school that day and they tested him. Well he failed it again and the test she did indicated that he had fluid in his ears. So I made an appointment with the doctor last Thursday. That is why JC ended up at the doctor last week instead of today. They checked his ears and they were full of fluid and puss. So we are now on antibiotics. He is already hearing so much better. I really suspect that he has had that going on for months now and just got really bad in the last few weeks. He even told Jim one morning earlier in the week that the water sounded funny while he was brushing his teeth but Jim told him it was just that he could actually hear the water now! They will test his hearing at school again in about another week and let us know how he does. I am sure if he does not pass it this time we will have to see a ENT but hopefully that was all it was. He has had a much better week at school this week too, has not gotten in trouble one day!
Here are the pics of the two of them at the doctor...
Here is a video of the kids, and yes at the end of it Drew lets JC fall over. I promise no one was hurt in the making of the video! Just one more thing for JC to add to the running list of things to one day retaliate against his brother for! I am telling you, one day that big brother is gonna get it from the not so little one!!
Honestly I have so much more I would like to write but this post is already so long now as it is! I will try to post again in a few days. I do want to leave you with a quote from a book I am reading, actually I do not have the book with me so I will have to paraphrase it. Basically is was talking about our never ending "to do" list. If you know me very well I am a major list person, I have a list for everyday of the week and I live by the list! But I often feel like there is never enough time to do all the things on my list. The point of what I was reading is that we often use our "to do" list as an excuse for not spending time with God. The quote was that while there will never be enough time for all the thing on our "to do " list there is always enough time for the things on God's "to do" list. I am learning that because He is an all-powerful, mighty God, He makes it possible for me to get done all the things I HAVE to get done if I only put Him first! I love Him so much for that!
Well, that is it from the Mayos for now!
Well lets get caught up. Today JC is 9 months old! I cannot believe it! I was thinking earlier about what life was like one year ago. I was pregnant and pretty miserable and highly anticipating the arrival of my little boogy. Now I want time to slow down so I can enjoy all the important moments with him that seem to be flying by. Let me update you on all his stats. He weighs a little over 20lbs. I cannot remember his exact height measurement, I think it was 29 inches. You see we went to the doctor last week. We were supposed to go today but Drew ended up having to go, that story will be part of his update, but anyway we went. So the doctor is all amazed at how long he is and starts asking me how tall I am. Well I told him I am 5'1". He ask me how tall my husband is, and since I really don't know Jim's height I guess at 5'6" or 5'7", I think my guess was off slightly, cannot remember what he told me now! Anyway, the doctor is like telling me about how JC is at the very tip top of the growth chart on his height and how amazed he is by that given that me and my husband are not tall people. So I kinda got the impression that he was implying that JC might be the "milkman's" baby! Seriously, I am sure he will grow into that height as some point, but he is really long and really heavy! I went back to Drew's baby book to see what he weighed at 9mon. Drew was just over 17lbs at this point! He did not even weigh 20lbs until he was 15mon! So I am not really sure how we ended up with a giant baby this time but we did. And since he is so big he obviously has a giant sized appetite to go along with it! The boy puts away a FULL bowl of cereal every morning along with a bottle of formula. At lunch and dinner he eat two full jars of food and usually wants to follow that with a good helping of puffs and a full cup of juice. He stills gets a "night, night" bottle which is now about 9-10oz and a morning bottle that is 8oz. The lady at the day care said "he likes his groceries", I like that and she is right, he does!! He has developed quite an attachment to his mama. I am sure that I make it worse but inside I know that he is the last baby and I indulge it more than I really should. He will even cry for me rather than Jim some now. He actually cried when I left him at the daycare this week for the first time. He only did it one day so it is not habitual yet, but I think that may be coming. He does cry every afternoon when I get there until I actually pick him up. And if they have to change his diaper when I get there, which is most days because he has been asleep, he cries the entire time they are changing him! He is not yet mobile, and I am kinda glad! He is very grabby and kinda bad at times! He HATES being put on his stomach! He can get up on his legs and arms like he is going to crawl, he can even rock back and forth but will not go forward or backward. He just does not like it! Now what he does like is standing! I have stood him up next to a chair a few times and he if figuring out how to hang on and stand up. He can pull himself up from a sitting position with just a little help. So I will not be surprised if this one bypasses crawling all together and goes straight for coasting around the furniture . He is very strong! He can say mama and bubba, but he will not say daddy or dada! As a matter of fact when you try to get him to say it he will usually either say mama or shake his head no! He is rotten people! He jabbers all the time though. He keeps himself occupied in the car everyday by taking his socks off! Most days I just take him in the daycare without them on because he refuses to leave them on, the boy likes to be barefooted! Thank goodness for footed pjs!
Well, let me move on to Drew. He has had an interesting few weeks. We have had a conference with the teacher since school went back after Christmas due to him getting N's on his report card. We just did not understand the problem. His school work is great. He knows his skills and is really doing good on sight words, writing, math, etc. The N's were for not listening and not following directions. When we met with the teacher she indicated that he seems to be daydreaming and not paying her any attention. Jim and I both suspected that he may be bored because he did have the skills down. So we ask the teacher to begin moving his race car off track (their classroom discipline tool) when he was not listening. We talked to him about the listening and we prayed about it with him. The teacher even told us that after the new year they had talked about New Years Resolutions and Drew had drawn a picture of his showing him sitting at a desk and the teacher standing there and wrote that he wanted to listen better. So he obviously knew that he needed to do better in this area. Jim and I began to notice more and more at home that we were having to speak very loudly to get his attention. Well a couple of weeks ago Jim and I realized it was getting really bad. So we talked to a friend from church that is a school nurse about checking his hearing. She came to the house and did it and he heard nothing on one side and only heard 2 tones on the other. So she contacted our school nurse the next day and it turned out that the district audiologist happened to be at our school that day and they tested him. Well he failed it again and the test she did indicated that he had fluid in his ears. So I made an appointment with the doctor last Thursday. That is why JC ended up at the doctor last week instead of today. They checked his ears and they were full of fluid and puss. So we are now on antibiotics. He is already hearing so much better. I really suspect that he has had that going on for months now and just got really bad in the last few weeks. He even told Jim one morning earlier in the week that the water sounded funny while he was brushing his teeth but Jim told him it was just that he could actually hear the water now! They will test his hearing at school again in about another week and let us know how he does. I am sure if he does not pass it this time we will have to see a ENT but hopefully that was all it was. He has had a much better week at school this week too, has not gotten in trouble one day!
Here are the pics of the two of them at the doctor...
Here is a video of the kids, and yes at the end of it Drew lets JC fall over. I promise no one was hurt in the making of the video! Just one more thing for JC to add to the running list of things to one day retaliate against his brother for! I am telling you, one day that big brother is gonna get it from the not so little one!!
Honestly I have so much more I would like to write but this post is already so long now as it is! I will try to post again in a few days. I do want to leave you with a quote from a book I am reading, actually I do not have the book with me so I will have to paraphrase it. Basically is was talking about our never ending "to do" list. If you know me very well I am a major list person, I have a list for everyday of the week and I live by the list! But I often feel like there is never enough time to do all the things on my list. The point of what I was reading is that we often use our "to do" list as an excuse for not spending time with God. The quote was that while there will never be enough time for all the thing on our "to do " list there is always enough time for the things on God's "to do" list. I am learning that because He is an all-powerful, mighty God, He makes it possible for me to get done all the things I HAVE to get done if I only put Him first! I love Him so much for that!
Well, that is it from the Mayos for now!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Catching Up
Well it has been another snow day here in Northwest Mississippi. We have now officially missed 4 days of school. I am happy to say that this time there was actual snow though! And I have the pics and videos to prove it! We had a really good time playing in it all this morning. Now it is raining/sleeting. The rain has managed to knock our snowman down already. I was rather disappointed but Jim did not feel the need to go out and fix him. JC even got to have some fun in the snow. He seems to be fearless and wants to experience everything, very different than Drew at that age! Now we are spending some time just chillin in the house. It is nice to have a day like this where we can just sit and relax. We have been so busy lately. Jim has been working most weekends right now, so it is especially nice to have a day to spend with him. I know it will be difficult to get all the work done at the office this week but it will be worth it I think!
Jim beginning to build the snowman, and Drew throwing snow on him!
Showing JC the snow for the first time!
JC getting to play in the snow in Jim's truck bed.
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Jim beginning to build the snowman, and Drew throwing snow on him!
Showing JC the snow for the first time!
JC getting to play in the snow in Jim's truck bed.
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