Tink's Baptism

After a crazy weekend in and out of the ER for Man-Man it was wonderful how God showed that He is the one in control by planning Tink's baptism for that same day. He's great like that, isn't he! My mom wouldn't have been in town to be able to keep the girls at the last minute if Tink wasn't getting baptized this past weekend. Yes, I know we could have called upon any of great friends but I would still have worried more about them. DH's parents were already coming in from AL for the day to watch the baptism so they just left a little earlier. And most of all, this was a glorious and wonderful time in our family's history as our oldest child showed her obedience to her Savior through Believer's Baptism. That is the most important thing! Man-Man was great. The Dr's released us without concern. We were able to give all of the credit to our Lord and further prove that "in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose"!

ER again!

Just a quick post to update everybody. I'm working on 4 hours sleep so it'll be quick. Prince took a fall last night and began vomiting. We just went through this with Princess one month ago so we knew after the second time he threw up we needed to go. We went to Baptist and they were great. We had a CT scan withing 10 minutes of arriving. No brain swelling or bleeding. But there was blood behind his left ear. They did x-rays on his skull and found a long fracture going up his skull from his ear...about 4-5 inches in length. Meanwhile he's still vomiting. They put an INT in him (iv) and gave him nausea meds. They transferred him to UMC to be admitted or for 23 hour observation (because they have Peds ER and Peds Neuro) via ambulance (due to liability reasons). They then needed to get blood. Unfortunately they couldn't get blood to draw from his INT so they had to draw blood from his AC on his other arm. UGHHHHH!!!! And please tell me why they felt the need to rebandage and retape his entire INT BEFORE they tried to draw from it....sorry...it's the RN coming out in me. I didn't want my baby stuck needlessly. He was a trooper though. We are so very proud of him. Dr. Ray-Dios was the Neurosurgeon on call. He came to talk to us at about 130 am. He's great! BTW the fall occurred at 7:30pm...long night. He told us the fracture was a hairline fracture and that if there was going to be any swelling or bleeding it would have occurred by now. The main thing to watch was keeping him hydrated. I was dreading a night in UMC with Neuro checks every 2 hours or so. He discussed it with the on-call ER DR. and they agreed to let us go home. We are continuing to monitor him but he's had no S/S of any neuro probs at all. He's great and he remembers every single thing about the fall and the events at the hospital. We got home this morning at 3am and we're still walking zombies. I'm taking him back a week from Friday to be checked and we'll continue to have checks routinely for about a year to make sure the fracture is healing correctly. I'm sorry this is a very long run on paragraph but I don't have the energy to click the shift and the tab key. I'll write more later but that's the main gyst! He's great, we're great, God is AWESOME! And we're just going to all wear football helmets forever1

Oh, Tink DID get baptized tonight. We're so proud and it was an amazing experience. I'll write about that and upload pics tomorrow.

Good night! Thanks for the prayers and please keep praying.

Jill

Dinosaurs!!

My mom and I took the kids to the Natural Science Museum earlier in the week to see the Dinosaur exhibit. The kids had so much fun. I think Prince enjoyed it most of all. At first he thought the robotic dinosaurs were real! It was cute to see his reactions. They loved looking at the bones and the replicas of real dinosaurs. We also got to see the fish, snakes, alligators, and other animals that are there all the time. What a fun and exciting day. Tink is learning about invertebrates in science so it was a great way to reinforce the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates. She would walk around showing me what each animal/creature was. She also found some insects and arachnids that she was able to tell me the difference between. We're having so much fun in school!

Yes! It is only November!

O.K. I know a lot of you just think I'm crazy but I am so ready for Christmas! I just get so excited this time of year and I can't help myself. We are almost finished with our Christmas shopping and yes, in the next week I hope to talk my husband into putting up the tree. I know, I know...it's not even Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving....the turkey, dressing, giving thanks to the Lord for all He's done for us. But that only leaves four weeks to celebrate the best/most magical time of the year. I just need more time than that. SO I'm putting up the Christmas background and the Christmas music on my blog. I hope it gets you in the Spirit like it does me. And I'll enjoy and treasure Thanksgiving in a couple of weeks as well...I'll just do it around my Christmas tree!!!

Jill

Joining the church!

Well, tonight was the night! Tink felt the call to "walk the aisle" this morning but since Daddy was running sound during church I asked her to wait until tonight. She was excited all day. She even planned to sit up front so she wouldn't have to walk so far. Daddy and I just kept quiet, asking her subtle questions to make sure she was ready. We wanted this to be her decision and we weren't going push her. Well, we walked into church and I asked where she wanted to sit. She said, "on the front row since I'm going to ask to be baptized". Well, she really meant the FRONT ROW. I talked her into the third row...telling her the front row was reserved for the ministers. She said there were "like a thousand seats" on the front row and we didn't have that many ministers. Yes, she is very bright. Not much gets past her. But she settled on row 3. When it came time DH and I just stood up to sing without making a fuss...she looked at me and said she wasn't going. I told her that was fine. But before I could give it a second thought she looked at her Daddy and said she was ready. She led the way and didn't look back. We were so proud of her and she was so very excited. She is bubbling with joy right now knowing that she is about to be baptized following Christ's lead and His example. We should all remember the joy that is in Christ and the sacrifice that He paid for us to have that joy.

Have Mercy on Us!

This morning as I was praying for our country I asked God to show me where He wanted me to focus my quiet time. He led me to a Bible study that I had missed a couple of days work on. It is Beth Moore's Stepping Up study....an amazing study I recently did. Well, I opened to the page talking about Psalm 123...

"I lift my eyes to You,
the One enthroned in heaven.
Like a servant's eyes on His master's hand,
like a servant girl's eyes on her mistress's hand,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God
until He shows us favor.
Show us favor, Lord, show us favor,
for we've had more than enough contempt.
We've had more than enough
scorn from the arrogant
and contempt from the proud."

This is what Beth said..."I'd like to suggest that an entire chain reaction begins with our eyes and ultimately affects our hearts, souls, and minds. Where we look---where we genuinely fasten our gaze---amid continual life challenges has a tremendous impact on how we feel.

I have stopped watching the news over the past couple of weeks. I was getting so down, depressed, irritable, and worried...when Bro. Greg preached on the election I realized that my focus was off of God. I was worried about things I have no control over. He is in control. I have just been praying...praying more than I ever have in my life. And no matter how this election turns out I'm at peace knowing that our Lord is in control of it all. He is the Holy One, ENTHRONED above. He has his throne already. And Psalm 99:1 says that "the Lord reigns, let the nations tremble". Ultimately every other crown bearer will "fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever." They will "lay their crowns before the throne and say: 'You are worthy, our Lord and God.'" Nothing operates outside God's soverign rule, including any prince or principality of earth or air. How comforting is that!! I rest in the peace of the Lord today knowing that above all He is in control and His will will be done. Please continue to pray for our nation and whichever leader is elected.

Jill

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