Hey guys, sorry I haven’t really written anything deep and meaningful lately. I’ve had a lot going on. I have to praise the Lord that my husband got his job back a week ago!!! So that’s a huge praise, and one burden lifted. We have decided to close our business though, a decision we have struggled with and prayed about. My husband runs a skate park, and as I’ve said before, it is his ministry. Unfortunately for the past three years of running it, it has become a huge financial burden on our family and has barely been able to support itself. We were forced to borrow even more money to get caught up on rent last month, and consequently decided that it was just time to let it go. My husband is deeply grieved at this decision, and the skaters are truly saddened as well. The part that we are really having to pray about is that we still have a huge amount of debt from the start up costs of the business, and we are unsure how we are going to pay it all off. I am really having to rely on God to get us through this.

Also, after both kids having Pinkeye, now Titus has come down with some unrelated, mysterious bacterial infection. He has been running a fever of 104* (with Motrin) for the past two days. I’ve been in and out of the doctor’s office, as they have had to monitor him, take samples of his blood, and give him shots of antibiotics (that whole ordeal is another post to come!). I have to go back tomorrow for more blood tests and shots. He has a really swollen, sore throat, and is having a really hard time eating, drinking, and sleeping. He can’t even suck his thumb to soothe himself, it hurts so bad! Poor little thing. I’ve been catering to him night and day. I’m really hoping praying his condition turns around tomorrow!

On top of all of this we are still in the process of trying to fix up our new home so that we can move in. I’ve been busy meeting with painters, flooring guys, picking out this and that… it’s crazy! I am trying really hard to stick to budget and me and my dad are doing a lot of the work ourselves, so it’s taking a while for everything to fall into place. Too much to do. (I realize it may sound bad when I talk about the debt that we struggle with, and then say that we have bought a new house, but I want to clarify that this house was a Foreclosure that we bought about 6 months ago. It was such an incredible deal, we couldn’t pass it up. It was in pretty bad shape though, so we have been steadily working to get it into move-in condition. We are living in our paid-for trailer in the meantime.)

So, you can see why I haven’t had much time to write anything meaningful. I’m so sorry about that. There are so many things on my mind that I would love to sit down and share with you… but they will have to wait at least until the baby is better.

Also, I am supposed to go to the beach with my extended family for a little vacation next week, if Titus is better that is. So, if I’m gone I won’t be writing for a few days. I just wanted to get everyone up to date with what has been going on. Thanks for hanging in there with me! I’m so ready for things to get normal again.

I do want to thank you all for praying for my husband, his injury, and our financial situation. Somehow, the Lord has gotten us through a really hard time; and I knew He would, I just wasn’t sure how! Thank you so much for your thoughts and words of encouragement. You all have truly touched my heart.

Hopefully I’ll be able to get just a few short posts up for the next couple of days. Until then…