St. Nick's Day

Today was eventful...it started when Ella woke up Wayne and me to let us know that St. Nick had put stockings under the tree. She was so excited. He brought us each a pear, golden apple, small bottle of coke, some candy and a movie for Ella: the new Night at the Museum. I made jimmy dean sausages (which did not get cooked thoroughly...oops we did not eat them), and eggs. Then we went to church. On our way there our car temperature gauge spiked, thankfully we were right near a gas station...we pulled in and Wayne was able to fill up the empty radiator with coolant. We were just a few minutes late for church. Some of my friends at church were surprised to see me there. I am definitely getting big.

Church was great. Northstar has started a new series titled "Christmas Vacation" dealing with the stress of the holidays. you can check it out if you'd like at northstarpc.org

After church we came home and watched Ella's new movie from St. Nick. After the movie I asked Ella to get me a pillow from my bed as I was now ready for a nap. What I failed to remember is that I had left a glass of water next to my bed and next to that, my brand new notebook laptop. Yes, she tried to get me a pillow and knocked the glass over which spilled onto the laptop, which was turned off thankfully. And yes, I am blogging on the notebook...it still works, thank you Jesus.

Later on in the afternoon, Ella and I made some gingerbread cookie dough. It's in the fridge now setting for us to roll and cut out. So exciting. Our first christmas cookies of the season. Maybe we will get to them tomorrow. We have picked out a total 10-15 different kinds of cookies to make this year...we'll see if Joshua will let us make them all. We will try to remember to take pictures and post them as we make them.

Oh, yes, and Grammy is here going through her boxes of stuff she has. She has been sorting through her files and boxes. Well, she and Wayne have condensed them into 8 boxes on a pallet and 3 boxes to ship with UPS. In between putting the boxes on the pallet and shrink wrapping them up, we took a break and had some hungry howies pizza. UMMM UMMM Yum. They finished everything up and ready to watch the Bears take on the Cardinals.

I hope everyone is doing well. Sorry I have not blogged in a while. I had a couple of rough days last week with headaches and even ended up in labor and delivery to keep an eye on my vitals...Joshua continues to be doing great. I was able to get a pretty good narcotics to knock me out and help me to get some sleep. Then my OB gave me a prescription for some more drugs to get rid of the headaches so I do not need to go into the hospital. I have only needed to take it once so far.

I will try to be doing better with the updates. So far we are shooting for Thursday for the c-section. But if anything happens before hand I will try to keep you all posted.

Many blessings :)

Sara