Hope From Your Mama!

We arrived at camp. Our Fifth Family Camp weekend at Camp Forest Springs. The stress leading up to the vacation was immense, I will tell you. The planning and packing. Noah had some sort of a sinus issue that was bothering him and we took him to the doctor the week before and they did NOT offer anything to help. I wish we ONLY had to pay them if they DID something to fix the situation or offered advice that I COULDN'T Google myself! He had been doing SO good with not hitting himself and had JUST started doing it again and crying more with this sinus thing just before we left for our vacation. I had hoped this would not be something the staff would have to deal with! I wrote a letter ahead of time to them explaining a little bit about Noah. I wanted to help them as they were to watch him in nursery while Frank and I went to our sessions. It's so hard to even imagine what other people think of our boy, as we're just so used to him. I would never want an...

I have never blogged before. I like the idea of it.  I came home with soul-full of thoughts and wanted to write some of them down.  So I went to this Google site and sat down to figure out this new technical hurdle for me to jump.  With my luck I will pour out my heart and then try to hit "publish", only to receive some "failure" message.  Insert chuckle. It asked me for a title for my blog.  I guess because I have craved most of all through my life, the Hope of glory (Col 1:27),  I like the idea of Hope.  Then I thought of the verse about hope being the anchor for our soul (Heb. 6:19) (indeed it IS)... and I thought it clever that "hope anchors soul".  Just like rock smashes scissors, scissors cuts paper and paper covers rock.  HOPE is the anchor for our soul. So, here goes... Today we went to see the movie, "Tangled". Earlier in the day I found out some devastating news that a friend of mine, who has been trying to have a baby via a s...