Thank you all so much for your well wishes and your prayers for our family!
Will had a regularly scheduled well-baby visit this morning. The verdict is that he has a sinus infection. Poor baby!! He has started antibiotics, though. So, hopefully, he’ll really be feeling better soon.
Once again, he fell in the 95%ile for height! He is going to be one tall little boy….just like his daddy.
And his development is excellent…he scored 100% on the questionaire for that.
EA and MC were feeling much better today, too.
I think by the end of the weekend, we’ll have these colds knocked out.
It’s funny how just one day can change your perspective so much. Yesterday I was just about at the end of my rope, but after getting a fair amount of sleep last night and having a better day today, things are looking up.
I am so thankful that I am able to be honest with all of you about my struggles.
I don’t like to portray my life as hard, as anything out of the ordinary. But the fact of the matter is that sometimes it is hard. And while I’m here trying to be a God-honoring wife, mother, and homemaker while my husband is deployed is a bit out of the ordinary.
I hope that through my honesty you are able to put a face…a real face…to Army families.
I struggle with finding a balance between sharing too much of our struggles and portraying our life as the bed of roses it is not.
We touched on the topic of honesty with our children in “Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours” today.
I am convinced that one of the very best lessons that our children can learn from us is honesty. And the best way for them to learn it is through us being open and honest, transparent even, with them.
They need to see us as flawed people.
They need to know that we have hard days.
The need to know that we make mistakes.
They need to know that we are dependent on God’s grace.
This honestly with them makes us real.
It makes our faith real.
And it makes our relationship with our children real.
The same is true of my relationship with you.
Please don’t see me as perfect.
I am flawed.
I struggle.
I have hard days.
I am dependent on God’s grace to see me through.
Thank you for allowing me to share our fun times, our daily dwellings on the good, and our struggles.
Pat says
I love reading your blog (and this will probably come out sounding wrong) but hearing about your struggles makes you more real to me. Even though I’ve not met you in person yet, I feel as if I know you. If you were a perfect person without any struggles, I probably wouldn’t read your blog because you wouldn’t seem like a real person to me and more like a robot. Thank you for being real! Glad everyone is feeling better!
Pat says
Oh I forgot to mention that Stephanie is finally moving back and I found out her new home is only about 5 minutes from where I live. Maybe if you come to visit her, we can all get together!
Happy Mama says
That goes ditto for me I love to read your blog..Perhaps it’s the transparency and honesty that just draws me to your blog!…I hope you guys are feeling better quickly!