Answer to Prayer Request Number One

Praise God!! I just called whatever phone number one needs to call the night before jury duty and guess what?? Yep, you guessed it! I do not have to report!! God is just simply amazing!! He is amazingly good ALL the time!! I was really feeling very sad about being away knowing the anxiety that it would bring to Hannah. I was bracing myself for a rough week or more; I feel like we really just recovered from me being gone that one Saturday a couple of weeks ago. Her scabs just healed yesterday from two weeks ago as she continues to open them up with her scratching. Oh, I am SO relieved!! Healing the emotional scars of our little one will take time and lots of love and any change in schedule seems to be a two steps forward, three steps back kind of a process. We have noticed that any time I am gone seems to bring about some anxiety that usually seems to come out the next day.

Another Olympic funny......Tonight, as we were watching the women's gymnastics (We tape it to watch the next day.) I was commenting about " When I was in the Olympics yada yada yada...." Benjamin said, "Really, Mom? You were in the Olympics?" "Of course" I replied. He says, "Which event did you compete in?" We just happened to be watching the balance beam so I said, " The balance beam!" To which the room erupts into laughter!! I, personally, didn't see anything funny about my response. Matthew pipes up and says, "Oh, yea, Mom. Well, what medals did you win?" I very humbly reply, "I won a bronze and a gold!" To which he quips, "Well then, where are they?" Of course, by now I have to tell the truth. So I solemnly tell them, "I had to sell them to have all these children!" Laughter erupts again.