Sad Sad Sad

All I can watch on tv is Virginia Tech. I am so sad about that situation. More information is added to the story every minute it seems like. One thing I wonder about...I was listening to the radio and someone brought this up and I wonder if they are right...if the campus WAS able to lock down after the first shooting, as many people are posing as a possibility that lives would have been saved that way, wouldn't the shooter have just instead killed the people in his dorm instead of the student in Norris Hall? Also, in a way, I'm not surprised that an English major would leave an 1800 word manifesto before he committed the absolutely horrible thing he did. This whole situation is just sooo disturbing. I have been in constant prayer for the families affected, the campus, the students, the killer's family, and for God to intervene in the people's lives that need it who may be on the path to doing something like this in the future. I know the killer's name. I just can't bring myself to actually type it.

It makes me fearful--or rather extremely prayerful--of the world that Kenny is growing up in where schools are not such a safe place anymore. Teachers are targets...I just pray that God watches over Kenny as he grows up. I can't imagine what the parents are going through who just lost their child in this tragedy. To them, these college students are their babies that they held and rocked to sleep, that they calmed their tears in the night, that they loving cared for when they were sick, that they dreamed with about their future, that they missed when they went away to college...oh, it's just so so so sad.

Thankful

Brandon has a very scary thing happen to him on Thursday. Around 8:30 he was working on my car and the radiator hose broke after he had given it a test drive right as he was leaning over to check something out. He came in the house and said my name in a panicky way and I saw him holding his face. He said he had hot anti freeze all over him. Me not knowing what the compostion of anti freeze was afraid to look at him because I thought it was like battery acid and I thought it might be melting his face like acid and I was so afraid. I didn't know how I was going to be able to look at him and not freak him out or scream or something else. He went to the sink and started washing off his face, rinsing his mouth out and I looked to see how bad it was--his face was red from burns but not melting like I thought it might. We continued to rinse it, he went to the tub to get more water flow, and then he called his dad. Jerry came over, took Bran to the hospital, and I stayed here with Kenny. It was so scary. It was right around his left eye. The doctors were afraid he might have damaged it. God certainly protected him then--he no protective eye wear on but he has no damage to his eye. He's got a big blister above his eyebrow and redness still around his eye but he looks so good. I think about what could have happened (him losing his sight, suffering 3rd degree burns that would scar) and realize he's okay and I am so thankful.

It's a case of Murphy's Law in action...

More Random Thoughts

Two things I can't stop thinking about today...

Ever since Anna Nicole died I've been following the story about her daughter Dannielynn. For some reason she has just captured my heart. I have prayed for this little baby and I don't even know her. I just feel so bad for her losing her mother and now it looks like she losing the only father she's ever known. I feel bad for Howard K Stern too. He's lost his love and now his daughter. It's just a sad situation all around. I don't know where the best place is for this child. I just pray that God watches out for her. Maybe I feel an attachment to her because she's the same age as Kenny and I think about how helpless he is...

I'm also sad about the Virginia Tech shooting that happened today. They say there's more fatalities than at Columbine. I'm sad about someone who thinks a solution is to kill people. I'm sad for the people that were just going about another day on campus who lost their life. I'm sad for their families. I'm sad.

Just A Quick Minute

Kenny enjoyed his first Easter and Easter egg hunt. We went to Heather's after worship Sunday morning and had a wonderful dinner and then headed outside (where it was a tad brisk) and we all watched Rylee hunt eggs. I carried Kenny and he was able to grab two eggs. Rylee was very helpful and carried Kenny's basket and even shared her eggs with him! He had his first outsdie sing in Rylee's bucket swing and he loved it.

Well, my minute is over!

Feed Me!

Today has been sort of brutal. Kenny woke up at 5:30 this morning starving!! Normally that wouldn't be too bad (even though he sleeps through the night and his normal wake up time is 8am) but yesterday I had my first caffeinated drink in about 4 months (I just wanted a vanilla coke so bad) and I couldn't go to sleep until after 1am. So he ate for a while, fell back asleep, woke up in another hour hungry again, fed him again, then I took a short nap while he watched baby einstein, and then he was starving again, so it was time for cereal. He's been eating rice cereal for about three weeks now and I try to be neat and not get it all over him when I feed him, but today was all about getting him fed. I couldn't shove it in fast enough today! For a picture of what he looked like when we were done, go to the next post.

By the way, he's also eating as I'm writing this post. It's only 10:30am.

So We Had A Little Mess To Clean Up...

Here We Go Again!

Well, with summer right around the corner--and waterski season and swimsuits--I have once again started my daily routine of working out. Today is day 4 and I feel so great and proud of myself. The only thing is that it seems that after completing week 3 something always happens and I'm not able to work out for a few weeks and then I feel like I'm starting all over again. Last time I started my daily routine and I was set to start week four I got really sick for a week and half and then was recovering for another week...then Kenny got sick and I don't know what happened after that. So time has passed and here I am...starting again. The program I'm doing is a six week one so I just hope I can stay well and finish it. I've never finished it because something ALWAYS happens. Always at week four something happens. I'm scared of week four!

I just visited the website (wwww.beachbody.com) and I think if I make it all the way through I'll get myself a tank top. A little reward?

Brandon and I were talking the other night and he asked me what I would like to do for vacation this year. I am hoping to make it to California in the summertime to visit family and friends and show off Kenny but that would be without Bran...Bran only gets the week off between Christmas and New Year's every year and one more week off whenever he'd like to take it sooo...I'm not really used to the idea of a big vacation. Growing up, my family and I always went camping but that's not "vacation". "Vacation" is what the Brady Bunch did when they went to the Grand Canyon or Hawaii. Well, now I'm going to do it too. Bran suggested going to Glacier National Park and I think that's an awesome idea. I've never been there before and it looks incredible. It's called the Switzerland of...North America (I think). We would probably go up through Yellowstone (a place I adore) and then travel home through northern Idaho (which I've never seen but he has since he went to school in Moscow for one year). He's going to go pick up the trailer from my parents house tomorrow so we can get it all ready to go for all of our summertime fun. I hope it can make it to Glacier!

We also have on the agenda going to Featherville again this year--it's pretty much a given every year with his family over Memorial Day weekend that they will go up there. The guys dirt bike to their hearts content and we're camped by a river so I'm happy too. It will be our first official camping trip with a baby. I know Kenny will be just fine though. He's so easy going. Today we went all over town (getting a set of dishes from Bran's grandma's friend, visiting Daddy at work, shopping for clothes) and he was so good. He's such a joy!

Saturday we went out to my parents house and my dad took some awesome pictures of Kenny. I'm going to try to post them...

Well, I did one! It takes about 6 minutes to load with dial up so I think one is good for now