Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Thank You for your prayers
Chad went home yesterday afternoon! The doctor has told him that he can return to college in January but Chad has decided he will prove the doctors wrong and be back by the end of September. The doctors have been amazed at his recovery and are shocked they sent him home so soon!! There is nothing left to do except praise God!
Friday, August 24, 2007
update on Chad
Hi girls,
I'm so glad today is Friday. I hope to take several naps this weekend as I had something going on every single night this week. I'm exhausted!
Wanted to give you all an update on Chad. The surgery was yesterday and the hospital staff all say it went as good as can be expected. The GREAT news is that Chad started moving his extremeties immediately after surgery. PRAISE GOD FOR THAT!! Chad took out his own breathing tube, another good sign. He is currently in ICU. Prayer requests at this point would be specifically:
1. that his previous symptoms would reverse
2. for there to be no swelling or bleeding as these are the two major concerns
3. quick recovery
4. Chad's emotional state
I'd like to use this time to say how much I love coffee. I'm serious! I LOVE coffee. It's getting me through these days!
So, Nobu is nearing on the 60 pound mark and has more and more energy every day. Funny, it's been raining for a week straight here and this "water dog" will not go for a walk in the rain. He also has to be coersed to go potty in the rain. honestly, it's not fun walking outside first thing in the morning, wrapped in a towel, and stand in the rain waiting for your pokey puppy to take a poo. Yes, this was the picture of us at 6 AM today! (we have a fenced in yard, i was covered!)
So Hobby Lobby has scrapbooking paper 50% off this week - i stocked up! I purchased $52.80 worth of paper, for only $26.40! How amazing is THAT!
And here's my final piece of breaking news. I just can't take it anymore. I've been keeping a secret from my blog reading friends (personal blog). This is a great feat for me since I have always been known to be a terrible secret keeper. You may think i don't deserve credit, because i haven't kept the secret from everyone. But, I'm taking baby steps here (big baby steps in my mind!) Oh, and most of you already know, so it's not really that big of a secret... On Saturday, September 1st, we get to bring home this cutie to join our family!!! Everyone, please meet Fujiko!
I'm so glad today is Friday. I hope to take several naps this weekend as I had something going on every single night this week. I'm exhausted!
Wanted to give you all an update on Chad. The surgery was yesterday and the hospital staff all say it went as good as can be expected. The GREAT news is that Chad started moving his extremeties immediately after surgery. PRAISE GOD FOR THAT!! Chad took out his own breathing tube, another good sign. He is currently in ICU. Prayer requests at this point would be specifically:
1. that his previous symptoms would reverse
2. for there to be no swelling or bleeding as these are the two major concerns
3. quick recovery
4. Chad's emotional state
I'd like to use this time to say how much I love coffee. I'm serious! I LOVE coffee. It's getting me through these days!
So, Nobu is nearing on the 60 pound mark and has more and more energy every day. Funny, it's been raining for a week straight here and this "water dog" will not go for a walk in the rain. He also has to be coersed to go potty in the rain. honestly, it's not fun walking outside first thing in the morning, wrapped in a towel, and stand in the rain waiting for your pokey puppy to take a poo. Yes, this was the picture of us at 6 AM today! (we have a fenced in yard, i was covered!)
So Hobby Lobby has scrapbooking paper 50% off this week - i stocked up! I purchased $52.80 worth of paper, for only $26.40! How amazing is THAT!
And here's my final piece of breaking news. I just can't take it anymore. I've been keeping a secret from my blog reading friends (personal blog). This is a great feat for me since I have always been known to be a terrible secret keeper. You may think i don't deserve credit, because i haven't kept the secret from everyone. But, I'm taking baby steps here (big baby steps in my mind!) Oh, and most of you already know, so it's not really that big of a secret... On Saturday, September 1st, we get to bring home this cutie to join our family!!! Everyone, please meet Fujiko!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Life seems a bit crazy!
I've been thinking a lot about you all. This week started my third week of school and things are crazy. I love my new position as the Tech teacher. I'm really busy all day, but I spend it all with kids. I see the Kindergarteners - 6th grade. Each grade has it's uniqueness about it. My 2nd graders have to be the cutest. They are so poliet. They always ask how my day is going and tell me regularly that they love me. :) It is so cute.
My 5th graders are pretty good, but are starting to get attitude. :) My other favorite class is 6th grade, but that is only because they were my kiddos last year. I'm learning lots about computers and I'm really busy with school now. I've laid low the last few years and didn't get very involved with what happened at school. All has changed this year. I'm running lots of after school classes and committees. I'm going to love my break when it arrives.
Nick's family is coming for Labor day, so that will be exciting. I'm hoping that I will be prego by then, but nothing to report yet. It's been tough the past few weeks with the pregnancy stuff. I have a few friends around here that have gotten prego on the first try. I know God has a plan, but it is a little hard when you don't know His plan fully. I know you all understand that.
I love reading about what is going on in your worlds!! I'm praying for each of you daily. Keep posting!!
Kim...send pictures of your new house!!
My 5th graders are pretty good, but are starting to get attitude. :) My other favorite class is 6th grade, but that is only because they were my kiddos last year. I'm learning lots about computers and I'm really busy with school now. I've laid low the last few years and didn't get very involved with what happened at school. All has changed this year. I'm running lots of after school classes and committees. I'm going to love my break when it arrives.
Nick's family is coming for Labor day, so that will be exciting. I'm hoping that I will be prego by then, but nothing to report yet. It's been tough the past few weeks with the pregnancy stuff. I have a few friends around here that have gotten prego on the first try. I know God has a plan, but it is a little hard when you don't know His plan fully. I know you all understand that.
I love reading about what is going on in your worlds!! I'm praying for each of you daily. Keep posting!!
Kim...send pictures of your new house!!
Hi girls - It sounds like its been a pretty rough couple of weeks. I, too, have missed hearing from everyone, but I understand that life just plain gets busy sometimes. Kimmie, I am so sorry to hear about your Grandmother. I am keeping you and your family in my prayers more than usual this week. Juls, I am so glad you're close to your family right now. I would love it if you were here still - I could really use you around about now! - but I am so glad that your family is close to help you get through this challenging season. I really wish I was able to make it up to Ohio for the shower so I could see both you and Kim.
Thanks to all of you for all your birthday wishes! It was a good birthday, but I hope this year is even better than last. Things are looking up in the Cobb household. Shawn just has one semester left of school (yay!) and we just found out yesterday that the job situation is going to greatly improve. He will start next semester working on a contract basis (part time) for a company here in Tulsa as a Controls Engineer. When he finishes school in December, he will (hopefully) be signed as a regular salaried employee of the company. That's the plan, anyway, and it sounds like a great plan to me. Once he starts working full time, I can look at just working part time and going back to school. The financial burden will not be nearly as great, so that is music to my ears. That means more time and money to go visit my family and my Sapphires.
We are heading up to Minnesota over Labor Day to see my family. I am throwing a shower for my sister in law and my (soon to be) niece. The Dr. bumped her due date up to October 2. It's getting so close, I can hardly wait! We also got to spend some time with Shawn's niece and nephew and his mom last weekend. It was fun! But I would have liked it a lot more if we weren't all crammed into our tiny whiney apartment. :-)
Ok, well I suppose that should be all for now! I love you girls, and I think about you all the time. Let's get better at blogging, ok?
Adios!
Thanks to all of you for all your birthday wishes! It was a good birthday, but I hope this year is even better than last. Things are looking up in the Cobb household. Shawn just has one semester left of school (yay!) and we just found out yesterday that the job situation is going to greatly improve. He will start next semester working on a contract basis (part time) for a company here in Tulsa as a Controls Engineer. When he finishes school in December, he will (hopefully) be signed as a regular salaried employee of the company. That's the plan, anyway, and it sounds like a great plan to me. Once he starts working full time, I can look at just working part time and going back to school. The financial burden will not be nearly as great, so that is music to my ears. That means more time and money to go visit my family and my Sapphires.
We are heading up to Minnesota over Labor Day to see my family. I am throwing a shower for my sister in law and my (soon to be) niece. The Dr. bumped her due date up to October 2. It's getting so close, I can hardly wait! We also got to spend some time with Shawn's niece and nephew and his mom last weekend. It was fun! But I would have liked it a lot more if we weren't all crammed into our tiny whiney apartment. :-)
Ok, well I suppose that should be all for now! I love you girls, and I think about you all the time. Let's get better at blogging, ok?
Adios!
Monday, August 20, 2007
sorry
Hi Girls,
Kim, I'm so sorry to hear about your grandma. I'm sure it's hard even when it's kind of her time and you've been expecting it. I'm sure it's especially hard because you can't make it into town for the funeral and stuff. That would be really hard. You and your dad are in my prayers.
I hope all the rest of you are doing well. People haven't been posting much since Seattle. I think maybe we all got our talking and updating out of our systems when we were together. =) I miss you all though. We've just been getting settled into life in Ohio. Josh is working all the time, about 90-100 hours per week. So we don't get much time together. The kids are good. They're getting big and staying busy and active. I'm still babysitting 3 days a week. We're still trying to find a church and I'm still trying to find friends and activities to do with the kids. That's about it for us. I've been going to my parents' house a lot when Josh is on call and that's been a huge blessing for me with his work schedule. I'm really glad that we're near family for residency. I don't think I could have survived otherwise! Love you all!
Kim, I'm so sorry to hear about your grandma. I'm sure it's hard even when it's kind of her time and you've been expecting it. I'm sure it's especially hard because you can't make it into town for the funeral and stuff. That would be really hard. You and your dad are in my prayers.
I hope all the rest of you are doing well. People haven't been posting much since Seattle. I think maybe we all got our talking and updating out of our systems when we were together. =) I miss you all though. We've just been getting settled into life in Ohio. Josh is working all the time, about 90-100 hours per week. So we don't get much time together. The kids are good. They're getting big and staying busy and active. I'm still babysitting 3 days a week. We're still trying to find a church and I'm still trying to find friends and activities to do with the kids. That's about it for us. I've been going to my parents' house a lot when Josh is on call and that's been a huge blessing for me with his work schedule. I'm really glad that we're near family for residency. I don't think I could have survived otherwise! Love you all!
Another update
Things have been a bit hectic around here lately. My dad called me on Friday, informing me that my grandma had passed away. It wasn't unexpected -- she was 90 and had been sick for a while. For the past five years or so, she's had dementia and hasn't really been herself. And then about a month ago, her health really started to deteriorate. She quit eating and couldn't even get out of bed. Since she was DNR, all they could really do was wait.
They're having the viewing today and the funeral tomorrow. It was such short notice that I couldn't get a plane ticket. I would have had to fly through the night last night, and I know the baby wouldn't have liked that. I would have been a zombie when I got there. So Adam and I decided that I would stay home. I'm having a hard time with it because most of my Wilson relatives will be there, some of whom I haven't seen since I was a teenager. I really wanted to be there for my dad, though. Times like this make it very difficult to be far away from your family. Of course, if I really had to be there, I could be there. But with buying the house and the million other things going on right now, a last minute plane ticket just wasn't in the budget.
So I'd appreciate your girls' prayers -- especially for my dad. I think he's having a pretty hard time. Not that it wasn't her time to go -- I'm sure she's at peace now and not feeling any pain. But it's still got to be horrible to lose your mother. And he and she were very close.
In other news...Nancy and Ken (Adam's parents) have been here since Thursday, helping Kendra get ready to move into the dorms. Yesterday we piled all her stuff into about three carloads and moved her in. It really made me think of our ORU days. Of course, the University of Washington is a bit different than ORU (none of those Jetsons buildings) but the overall feeling was the same -- so much excitement and anticipation and meeting new people. Her little dorm room looks like something out of the Pottery Barn catalog. It helps that her roommate actually did her shopping at Pottery Barn. It's all very pink. We spent the afternoon there, helping her put things together and put clothes away. It was a lot of fun but exhausting. I came home last night and crashed. The in-laws are here until tomorrow then it will be just Adam and me again for the first time in over a month. We're a little excited about some alone time. And being able to walk around naked again, of course.
Ok, I'd better stop before this turns into a novel. I love you girls and miss you so much!
They're having the viewing today and the funeral tomorrow. It was such short notice that I couldn't get a plane ticket. I would have had to fly through the night last night, and I know the baby wouldn't have liked that. I would have been a zombie when I got there. So Adam and I decided that I would stay home. I'm having a hard time with it because most of my Wilson relatives will be there, some of whom I haven't seen since I was a teenager. I really wanted to be there for my dad, though. Times like this make it very difficult to be far away from your family. Of course, if I really had to be there, I could be there. But with buying the house and the million other things going on right now, a last minute plane ticket just wasn't in the budget.
So I'd appreciate your girls' prayers -- especially for my dad. I think he's having a pretty hard time. Not that it wasn't her time to go -- I'm sure she's at peace now and not feeling any pain. But it's still got to be horrible to lose your mother. And he and she were very close.
In other news...Nancy and Ken (Adam's parents) have been here since Thursday, helping Kendra get ready to move into the dorms. Yesterday we piled all her stuff into about three carloads and moved her in. It really made me think of our ORU days. Of course, the University of Washington is a bit different than ORU (none of those Jetsons buildings) but the overall feeling was the same -- so much excitement and anticipation and meeting new people. Her little dorm room looks like something out of the Pottery Barn catalog. It helps that her roommate actually did her shopping at Pottery Barn. It's all very pink. We spent the afternoon there, helping her put things together and put clothes away. It was a lot of fun but exhausting. I came home last night and crashed. The in-laws are here until tomorrow then it will be just Adam and me again for the first time in over a month. We're a little excited about some alone time. And being able to walk around naked again, of course.
Ok, I'd better stop before this turns into a novel. I love you girls and miss you so much!
Friday, August 17, 2007
pray
Girls, please pray for Chad. Chad is the youngest son of my mom's best friend. The family lives in Seattle. Chad is about 20 years old but they have just recently found he has a birth defect that makes his skull not grow completely, thus blocking off spinal fluid from flowing. (that's basically what's happening but i'm really not well informed with specifics) Chad is going in for emergency brain surgery. He has spent an evening and night having tests done to determine what/when etc the surgery can be done but during that time has gotten worse. To those of us who aren't specialists, it seems he would need the surgery immediatley! So please pray for Chad and his family (one brother and one sister, and his parents) as they get through this day. I'll keep you posted as the surgery takes place and how it went, etc.
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