Sunday Best

First things first! Sarah Dawn- please send me your address to amycthphoto@gmail.com so I can mail out the book you won (er..from a couple weeks ago?!)..SO SORRY ABOUT THAT! I certainly have been slow with things!

Did you dress in your "Sunday Best" as a child? My brother and I would..I remember clearly loving to dress up, especially when in High School. I think it helped my self confidence. And early in our marriage (er..rather...before babies, or at least after the first!) I liked to as well..a break from the "mommy at home" duds I donned. I try to have our children dress their best...it is a compromise these days. I honestly am not that fussy...Buddy even wears jeans sometimes. Well, all the time! Ella is so good though- she willingly wears a dress. I struggle with what to wear these days- need to start walking again (the past couple weeks I haven't been able to as much!) so I can feel thinner. I had an adjustment made to my thyroid meds a few weeks ago. saw a slight change to a thinner me, but now I don't think so, so I am disappointed. And it makes it hard to feel self confident in anything I would wear. Oh well. There's bigger fish to fry, as they say...

Will David has a very mild case of Hand/foot/mouth Disease..yeah...bummer. He has ulcers in the back of his throat and a runny nose. No rash or fever to speak of. He had been pulling at his ears all week, and so that is why I took him to the dr.s and had him checked out finally. No ear infection..that suprised me...but not the doctor. She guessed right away. Turns out there have been numerous visits to her office with the same thing going on. Doesn't seem like the kids have it....their immunity is good to this, as she said would probably happen, so that's good. He has been nursing sooooooo much more again, and I suppose that is because it soothes his throat. Nighttime has been certainly rough..hoping to get some better sleep SOON. I was very ragged today..very ragged indeed. Had to take a nap (or two) this afternoon when Rich came home from his Civil War event...

Speaking of which...the Nineteenth Century Acoustic Society played for a barn dance last night. Rich (and my dad!) are musicians for it, and I am very sorry I missed it. I heard it was fantastic. One of these days, I'll go, and I'll get some photographs that I have been wanting to take! Today was also a reinactment of a battle, and Rich actually got to participate as a soldier in that. Don't know how I feel about that..haha...

I do plan on making a fan page for the NCAS on Facebook someday soon. They are beginning to become quite popular. Some great musicians in that group! :)

I went to a wonderful friendly crop at my church last Monday. The next one is August 3rd and it can't come fast enough. Really. I had a hard time gearing myself up to go last week, but eventually got there (20 minutes late) but had a fabulous time. I met some great people, from our church and outside of our church. Also, they had a declicious dinner, including dessert, and I found out they do that each time they meet. Oohhhhohh....food usually gets me anymore. I think because I am nursing. LOL. I still get famished at times. Next time I hope to just take one small SC kit and a few punches, inks, whatever instead of a huge box and bagful. HA! I got three pages completed anyways! Will show them here later this week.

Our homeschool curriculum is finally going to be on its way! It's an eclectic array of materials.....I didn't go with just one company. I am most excited about the English for The Thoughtful Child program and the First Language Lesson as well...kind of classical in a way, as far as form of educating, with some great copywork (verses, poems, etc)...Ella is really excited for our school to start. I am trying to get a little spot in our basement for an optional work area for us, but it is slow going. We did get Buddy's toys in his room REALLY pared down and organized so that is a great help in his room at least. We are going to have a garage sale in a few weeks (time still undetermined) and getting all this stuff sorted, etc., is great timing.

Well, it is quite late and although I would love to share more, deeper thoughts, I cannot. For my nights are interrupted, short, but sweet too...I get to hold a little baby boy close and pray for him while he eats and sleeps. Sigh....