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<\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> Do you see these three darling children?<\/p>\n First row: Brett<\/a> and Iris<\/a>. Brett<\/a> still needs a mama. Iris<\/a> finally has a family committed to her and they are in the homestudy stage. Kaia<\/a> has met her family and they are in love with her!!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Click on their names to see their Reece’s Rainbow<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Consider this.<\/strong> I know most of the people who participate in this link-up\/meme are Catholic but these<\/a> apply to priests as well.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Random Act of Kindness.<\/strong> Those who know me on Facebook<\/a> or Twitter<\/a> have heard this already but I’ll tell it again.<\/p>\n I’ve been having a really tough week. My brother is moving out of state at the end of the month and he and I had a tough conversation this weekend because he’s stressed and I unfortunately can’t fix it. (Nothing really bad — I just can’t get into the details until he makes some of them public on Facebook<\/a>.) Everyone who I talk to about the move mentions Sean (my brother) being at the hospital with me the night they almost put Daniel on ECMO and I hit the breaking point with that on Monday night. I had a serious cry and barely got sleep so Tuesday, I was tired to the point of nausea. (I had to cancel Daniel’s ENT appointment because I was in no shape to drive.)<\/p>\n Wednesday, I had the radio off while I was driving up to Sacramento and was praying aloud about how stressed I was and how I didn’t know how I was going to make it through the day because it was going to be long. I was also praying about Daniel’s peds appointment because doctor’s appointments with him can be either hellish or good — there’s no in between. I stopped at the drive-thru $tarbux<\/a> because I needed caffeine and the car in front of me was blocking me from being close to the speaker so it took a few tries to communicate my order. When I got up there, I was reaching for my debit card when the barista told me that the car in front of me had paid for my drink.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n I started sobbing and probably scared the barista but it was seriously what I needed. Given that coffee is usually on my no-no list (stupid ulcers!), you can definitely say I enjoyed my latt\u00e9 a whole lot more. Seriously though, it was a total answer to prayer. <\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The appointment.<\/strong> Daniel’s appointment went well — he’s high-maintenance enough health-wise that we have to check in with his pediatrician more often than just the yearly Well-Child appointments. When we were there on Wednesday, she had made sure her scheduler put us in when the clinic was likely to be fairly empty so Daniel could run around and open\/close doors to his heart’s content while she and I followed him and talked. He allowed her to examine him without objecting too much and she’s satisfied with his growth at the moment. She had also FINALLY (!!!!!) received Daniel’s MRI’s from his previous neurologist at Sutter and was amazed when I told her exactly what was going on in the report using words like “demyelination” and talked about how the lack of myelin on the neurons meant that the information wasn’t being transmitted as quickly. (My undergrad Biology classes were definitely not a waste of my time even if I didn’t end up being pre-med and heading to medical school.) I should have told her about pwning the residents who made up the entourage of Daniel’s pediatric neurologist last year when I was using words like “methodology” and “antecedent” to explain ABA<\/a> to them after the neurology resident dealing with us had spoken to me condescendingly.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Cuddlebug time.<\/strong> I had another opportunity to have a sleepy boy in my lap and sing him to sleep on Tuesday night. He didn’t feel the need to nap yesterday or today and is still (at 9:50 p.m. as I’m typing these) running around the living room like a live wire. Oh well… there will be other opportunities.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Baseball.<\/strong> My Giants play Marie’s<\/a> Orioles tomorrow. I have a feeling that there will be some trash talking over Twitter<\/a> during the game. \ud83d\ude09 Then again, my Giants have been sucking lately so some of it will probably be warranted. Of course, the worst thing is that I live with a Dodgers fan… and they’re at the top of their division while my boys are at the bottom.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Inside Westboro Baptist Church.<\/strong> I’m currently reading Banished<\/u> by Lauren Drain and while it is disturbing because of the sheer crap that church teaches their young, it is fascinating how they lived “normally” in the world but were also completely separated from it. It shouldn’t astound me how severely brainwashed those poor people are but it does. I haven’t gotten to the part where she has a change of heart and I’m kind of looking forward to that. <\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — 1 — Do you see these three darling children? First row: Brett and Iris. Second row: Kaia. Brett still needs a mama. Iris finally has a family committed to her and they are in the homestudy stage. Kaia has … Continue reading
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