Hanging in there again...

It's been nearly a week since I was in the ER. Life goes on as it must do. We are busy doing math. Rebekah is learning half past on the clock and Caleb is doing percents and not liking it. Jordan is doing mortgages and has a headache :) We have our busy day today so we'll see how well I fare at the end. I'm mostly extremely tired throughout the day. My hemoglobin is a bit low and surprisingly, I can sleep at night! I don't usually sleep much but I can't seem to get enough. The kids remain very helpful. I am getting over the thoughts that consume you when you are overtired and have your hormones going crazy. I was always so happy that we had Lena because I didn't want my last baby to be a miscarriage so now here we are again in that place but again I'm so thankful for Lena and her smiles and that she still nurses. It gives me a baby to hold and nurture. Thank you for your prayers and concern.

Isaac continues to do very well! We did see some blood yesterday but it may be from the chili he had. He doesn't seem to be able to tolerate tomato products. Otherwise he has been blood free for more than 10 days! Praise the Lord! I also love touching his shoulders. They are filling out again and his color is changing and looking less yellow and pale! He is in great spirits as he has been for some time. He is talkative, argumentative with siblings, has a huge appetite, loves his food (praise as he is still on restrictions), and is doing well in school.

The Most Photographed Child in our house...

LENA is smiling because the camera is pointing at her! I love this face of hers!

On a much happier note...

Happy 17th Birthday Jordan!

Yesterday was also my dear Jordan's 17th Birthday. She was a lifesaver here at home along with Emily taking care of everyone and the house was perfectly in order when I came home from the hospital. It's chore day today and there isn't a whole lot to do other than vacuum and dust because the house is so in order. Wednesday night I was not feeling good at all and had to lie down most of the day and evening and the kids brought the camera to me (thanks for digital media) and showed me the house. The kitchen was cleaner than when we just had company Sunday and everything was picked up. What a blessing!

My musical child got a Mandolin for her birthday and picks it up, tunes it and plays a song. She's so amazing to me! I have NO musical ability. It has 4 double strings and tunes like a violin. I guess the notes are the same as a violin too. That was Jordan's reasoning as to why she can pick it up and just play it. Our house will be blessed with the sounds of a mandolin anyway, part selfishness why we got it for her, you know. We like to live our wishes and dreams through her :) Check out Jordan at her blog www.Christismyvictory.blogspot.com

Life of a Middle-aged Drama Queen...

That should be my new title of my blog. I certainly seem to have my fair share of drama. I was really looking forward to 2010 being less event filled. Yesterday seemed to be trying to top last year's top 10. I ended up in the emergency room yesterday after the bleeding from a miscarriage wouldn't stop. When I started bleeding I thought, "Oh, good, because now it will progress since I had been miscarrying since Monday." Then, it kept on coming. Kevin was home yet cleaning out the driveway because about 6 a.m. he was going to go to work and said I probably wouldn't be able to get out the driveway today. He didn't have time and had an important job to get to. I said, "but how will I get to the doctor today (I was going to say hospital but changed it to doctor)?" I knew something wasn't right this time and kept imagining bleeding was involved. I've never had a clear thought quite like this before. I didn't tell that to Kevin though. I think he just knew he had to clear the drive.

I continued bleeding so profusely all the way to the hospital that at one point I thought, "I'm not going to make it!" I looked at Kevin but what do you say when you think the words are your last. I just said, "Help me Jesus." We did call an ambulance on the way because I knew I needed my vitals taken soon. We met it a few miles from the hospital and at that point everything was stable. At the hospital they must not have realized how much I was bleeding because they were going so SLOW! I wanted to shout at them to hurry it up because I don't have much time. When the nurses took my pants (soaked to the very bottom) they realized it was a bit more serious than they were treating it and in moments I had a lot of people in the room. I nearly passed out when my blood pressure went to 60 over 30 and my heart rate went sky high. Fluids got me over that and then I got a work over for about an hour. I had a lot of IV's with different things and then within moments I was down to one nurse in the room. I kept hearing we were going to the operating room so I said, "things are stable now and I'm not going?" They got the bleeding to slow considerable so they were going to watch it and see if it continued like that and thankfully it did and I'm here writing at my computer. I stayed the night since we are 40 miles out. The doctor said if we lived in town I could go home. I was glad to stay since I knew it would be hard to rest completely still here. I did lay down a bit today but not nearly as much as I should. Thankfully, again, the children took over everything and everything is quite well here.

I am thankful to the Lord for being with me and for deciding it wasn't my time to go. I am thankful to be home again with the kids and to get back to some kind of "normal" :) If there is such a thing. I do pray that I was some sort of witness for the Lord there although I didn't witness directly to anyone. I hate dead air as you can tell by my writing every detail so I talked the whole time they were working on me because I just don't know what to do with silence. The doctor holding my uterus to stop the bleeding said it's because of all the pregnancies that your uterus isn't contracting. I laughed and said, "Oh, that's what they all say, you've had too many children and your uterus isn't working properly." He just said it's true. Well, I don't question that it isn't true to some extent but tell me why the first nurse of the night only has two children and had a miscarriage like this one if it's all about how many children you have? I believe it just happened this way and it was for some purpose I may not know until I reach heaven.

Happy New Year with a couple birthdays...

Rebekah turns 8 years old.

Emily and Rebekah get the unique distinction of sharing a birthday but being born 5 years apart. The other unique distinction is that they were both born on New Year's Day. During both their labors we really wanted them to be born the day before as that was when I was induced. I did not think it was great at the time as I was hoping for speedier deliveries not two-day long ordeals! :) It turned out great though and is a special day for all around here and I don't remember much of the two days anyway.

Emily gets her ears pierced for her 13th Birthday!

We went with the girls of our family and some friends to eat at a Chinese buffet. The girls had fun trying some new things and Laney almost tried sushi. Rebekah had 3 bowls of ice-cream!

A week's gone by...

My two 7-year olds!

Gideon on his 7th birthday. Quite toothless too. Just pulled another one last night!

I'm sure my followers are waiting on pins and needles to see what we've been up to! :) I sometimes feel I am so boring on here but it does chronicle our journey in life and I like to read about others lives so here we go.

My Gideon John turned 7 years old on Dec. 30th and was 7 years old with his sister Rebekah while she waited for her 8th birthday on the 1st of Jan. We had a good night eating pizza, chips and having dirt cup ice cream treats with a few other family members.

I have some catch-up to do with the girls' birthday on the 1st. We had fun. I hope I have time tomorrow to post a picture or two of what we did that day! Have a good day friends!