Fancy That!

Oh, it's all Jared's fault for coming down with the stomach virus Wednesday afternoon. The daycare called me, and I went to get him. He came out to the car with his back-up outfit on and no shoes because they were in a plastic bag given to me. He threw up before I got there, and once we got in the car I was reaching for a gym towel in the backseat. It was a rough night. Thursday he was very fussy and wanted to be on the couch with me or have me rock him. He'd had the stinkies too. Can you say candles and room freshener?

Friday morning I woke up with nausea. It felt like I was 8 wks pregnant all over again. Jared was full of energy and ready to take on the world. He went to daycare and I went to bed. It was my turn. John had been sick, but he had a very mild case of uneasy stomach that lasted some of the night.

The pediatrician's office nurse told me not to give Jared milk. Friday night he wanted Cheerios and milk. Wrong move. After going to bed, I heard him crying on the baby monitor. I had to change his clothes and all the sheets off the bed. It upset his stomach. I'm not having milk for a few more days. I don't want to have any side effects.

So we are better now. We went to the pool this afternoon as a family. Jared enjoys the 2ft. end of the pool and watching the kids swim. We got some burgers and grilled cheese poolside. The summer is going to be over after this weekend. The pool is closing Tuesday. No more swimming. I think Jared will be ready for swim lessons next spring. I'm thinking YMCA classes.

This week I read our choir devotion which asks us to work on looking up scriptures for our confessions to God. This is my list, Beth! Thanks for reminding me that my list is as important today as it was when I was going through my worst trials while I was having panic attacks. I just wrote to someone very close to me to let them know that confessing these scriptures really helped me. Patty Williams told me once that reading and memorizing scriptures edifies the mind.

Mark 11:22 and Jesus answering saith, "Have faith in God". 23 for verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea: and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass: he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24 Therefore I say unto you, what things soever that ye desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

2 Corithians 1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort. 4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Deut 23:14 For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you and turn away from you.

Lam 3:19 Remembering my affliciton and my misery, the wormwood and the gall 20 My soul has them still in remembrance and is humbled in me 21 this I recall to my mind, I have hope. 22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness 24 The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore will I hope in Him.

1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man, but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond waht you are able, but with the temptation will also make a way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

Psalms 30:5 For His anger endures for but a moment in His favour is life, weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning

John 15:7 If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you 8 by this my Father is glorified that you bear much fruit; so you will be my disciples.

Isiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You.

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 8:6 To be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

I'm enjoying this fabulous weather tonight out here on the deck. The humidity is gone for a few days as we finally got some relief from the northern front dipping down into the mid-southern sky. Thank the Lord!!

I've had a good week. After getting back from a not-so-restful vacation, I was ready to hit the grind at the office with an extra day of patients scheduled to offset me being gone. Monday, I was scanning my first patient and everything was going great until I tried to use the color doppler. It screamed (aliased) at me when I turned it on!! The pulsed wave doppler was faint and hard to hear. I did all I could, and then called the Biosound engineer. I had to wait for him to come the next day with parts. I went home early Monday, and came in late Tuesday after he had time to fix it in the morning. I had some time to rest. Monday afternoon I took a nap before going to get Jared. Tuesday morning I had to take him to daycare before 9am - or they wouldn't except him for that day - I had to work that afternoon, so I had him there before 9am. I went to get my allergy shots and then took some time to study Adult Echocardiography. I reviewed my ESP inc. DVD's to get the video loop section refreshing in the brain.

I went out to my garden to find I'd picked 10 cucumbers and a bucket of tomatoes. Tuesday night I canned 11 pints of tomatoes and 2 pints of pickled beets. I called Mom and Dad to ask if 40min in the canner would be enough. The general opinion was favorable as the phone was passed from Mom to Dad to Grandma Wright who were all in the kitchen pickling their own beets in Pennsylvania. Apple cider vinegar and mustard seeds, sugar and allspice boiling into those tender beets filled my kitchen with a sweet savory smell. I can only imagine that multiplied by the gallon bucket of beets they were cooking up. Wow!

Today and yesterday were full of patients and the ultrasound machine was as good as new. The Biosound engineer thought the doppler boards needed the plug-ins cleaned and reseated. I didn't even need the new parts to fix the problems. Today I called John to ask, " Did you want any pizza tonight?" Jared has seen the Pizza Hut commercial and said, "Momma!!!! Pizza!!! Eat it!!!" When I told him yesterday that we didn't have any pizza, there was a tantrum over it. This morning we were going through the Starbucks drive thru and there was another billboard Jared saw, "Momma!! Pizza!! I see it!!" Oh boy, I think it wasn't too bad of a crying fit in the car. So John brought home 2 P-Zone's and a medium pepporini pizza, and Jared dove into it. That's the best he's eaten this week without asking constantly for cookies and ice cream.

Ok, so here it is, my work in progress. I think I started this project last Christmas on the way to Virginia or Pennsylvania while I was in the car for too many long hours. Yes, Christmas '07. I can't say I'd ever tried knitting a lace pattern before, so it got a frogging a few times because I miscounted or knit a row in the wrong direction once.

This is a picture of my inspiration pattern
As you can see, I have made my corset a little differently because I usually don't like buttons down the front of anything. Now, think long and hard, have you ever seen me in a button down shirt? I took this pattern, and made it a V-neck. Hehehehe!! I couldn't stand it if something came unbuttoned or bowed out of a buttoned area. Enough said! .

I've been on the lookout for a purple ribbon that will be crocheted into the border. I wish I had the gumption to take this off of the needles to try it on, but what a pain it would be to get it back onto the needles again. Oh well, I'll just keep on knitting and purling until it's long enough to finish. I'm going to change it up at the bottom also. I found this idea on the Ravelry.com. I plan to add these circular cables as the edging embellishment. I'm so excited. Usually, I've been picking this up to knit while I wait at the Dr. office after my allergy shots. They want me to sit around for 30min. to see if I have a reaction. I've been sitting and knitting. I am trying not to get too anxious for this project to be done, but I've had a shrug picked out to knit for a while now. I have the yarn waiting behind the couch!! It's going to be beautiful!

Our SUV pulled in from a long drive from Myrtle Beach, SC on Saturday. We had a good time. You can't beat the Beachwalk Villas in Cherry Grove. They are on he second row from the beach, and if you walk across the street the building in front of it gave us access to an outdoor and indoor pool and a hot tub. The second floor of that building also had a game room and workout room. The second floor porch had rocking chairs where you could enjoy a nice view of the beach.

Cherry Grove is a great place for families. The best thing we found this year was The Black Pearl Mini Golf center. The one night we took the kids ( 2 2yr. old boys ) to get ice cream, we sat outside on the deck to eat it. We found an area to buy fish food and feed the fish and little turtle in the water tank surrounding the mini golf area. Remember, you can't play mini golf with a 2 yr. old. We walked up the stairs to leave and found a large arcade. It looked like Dave & Buster's in there! The boys had fun on the little kiddie rides. Our husbands were all into Wack-a-mole and football throws. I'd really recommend this for those rainy days.

For a night-time cool place, we stopped at McDonald's indoor play place. Jared had to have a place to get all that energy out. Our 3 bedroom condo with a small livingroom wasn't doing the trick. I'm hoping to find more indoor play areas for little ones in the future.

The best money we spent was on the Huriccane Fleet Dolphin cruise. The boat takes off north of Cherry Grove in Little River, NC. I've never been that far from the coast in such a small boat. The 3 foot waves rocked us heavily with water spraying into the front of the boat. The little guys really liked finding out the it was actually hard to walk from the rail to the seating area along the sides of the boat. Jared kept laughing while he tried to come over and sit next to me. After we got out to the shrimp boats the dolphins swam by our boat over and over. They were coming out to get any scraps left over from the shrimp nets. I'll bet I saw 20 dolphins. It was really great! We got some extras from the shrimp boats: a baby shark, a canonball jellyfish, ribbonfish, sand dollar, a baby squid, and a stingray, and a starfish.