Pray for the babies.....

Today has been a roller coaster day. Cameron is having some problems.....the baby is pressing on her spine causing non-stop migranes, so the date for the Csection has been moved up at least a week. They have started injections to mature the baby's lungs in case they have to deliver him earlier. Please pray for our girl and baby Conner.

Pray hard for baby Bennett Speck who was born Monday. He has a horrible infection and is currently on a heart/lung machine at Georgetown University Hospital. God is watching over him and his sweet family. His grandma and I are good friends, in our writing group together. You can go to his blogsite at: prayingforBennett.blogspot.com.

Life is precious and so fragile. This year has proven that to me. Thank God for His love and care for us. Our hope is in Him and His love. Thank God we can pray to our Heavenly Father, and He hears us. Please God, be with these sweet babies and their courageous moms and dads. It takes true courage to raise children in this day and age. God, please be with them and let them feel your Presence and take courage in Your love for them. In Jesus name....

Pray!

It's been awhile since I have blogged, because we have been so busy! Don and I returned yesterday from our weekend in the mountains, celebrating our 32nd anniversary. We had fun up in the mountains, hiking and just relaxing. Most of our summer has been about other people...it was nice to have a few days with the two of us. We have a lot coming up with the grandbaby coming.....Cameron is coming right along with her pregnancy. If you are a praying reader, please pray for her!

I was shocked and saddened to see that little Bennett Speck was born with an infection. Pray for Kelly and Bennett and Travis, Kathy and Bobby Shunk, too. The good news is the doctors have identified the bacteria, and now they can treat him. Pray!

I have some health issues that need prayer, too, and some decisions to make. Pray for me as well. Be sure and thank God for how He continues to bless us all. He is our perfect Heavenly Father.

32 joyful years and fun with Ansel

Well, 32 years ago today a new family began with the marriage of Jerri Sisk to Don Harrington, and I am 32 years happier today than I was Aug. 9, 1975. God has blessed our marriage in so many ways....by giving us four wonderful sons, now a beautiful daughter-in-law and soon-to-be

daughter-in-law and baby grandson who will soon be born. I believe God planned for Don and me to be together, because we have helped each other get closer to Him over the years and have been each others' best friend. Thank you, Don, for 32 years of unselfish service to me and our family, and thank you for helping me grow closer to God every year. Thank you for being honest and loving with me and never judgemental. Thank you for holding me accountable to change when I needed to change and for never giving up on me. Thank you for seeing more good in me than I see in myself and for always being faithful in heart and in deed. I'll always love you!

Now, on a less mushy note, we have been enjoying Ansel Sisk, my nephew, who is visiting this week. Tonight we celebrated our anniversary by taking Ansel to batting cages and hitting some balls together--yes, I loved it! So far Ansel and I have seen a movie (Ratatouille), gone to art class together and hit the library and some stores, and played lots of some kind of fantasy video game--I forgot what. (I've been killing Droids and Ergles?) We are planning to go to the Inner Harbor and see the National Aquarium and of course go to some museums. It's been so much fun to have a 13 year old in my home again. He actually wants to go places with me! Wow!

Friendship and Idiocy

Well, I learned something tonight. I'm almost never right when I really think I'm right about what someone else is thinking when they don't come right out and say what they are thinking, or they do, and I don't trust them to say what they mean and mean what they say. Long story short, I have a hard time with trusting others. My good friend and I hit a bumpy spot in the road. I haven't had a good history with confronting loved ones. It just never works out like I think it should. The words that come out of my mouth are seldom fed back to me in the way I heard me say them. In other words, I have a fear of expressing negative feelings. So I talk myself out of expressing them, and one thing leads to another and then there's this whole big thing built up that doesn't need to be there between me and others. So, once I realize that it's getting out of control, I just blurt it out with a lot of explanation and "I'm sure you didn't mean it but...." And then I realize I'm an idiot. I love my friend Lisa, and she loves me, even if I am an idiot. I love my kids and they love me, even if I am an idiot. And I love my husband, and he loves me.....even though I am an idiot! And, most importantly.....I love God, and He loves me.....even though He really knows I'm an idiot. Thank you all for loving me. I'll try to not make mountains out of mole hills, or at least talk about the mole hills before they become mountains. Thanks for loving me.

Running in S-L-O-W motion

Okay...I'm really tired. I have a bazillion things to do before Ansel gets here, and I'm moving in slow motion. (Maybe I can find a picture of a turtle online!) I have been trying all week to finish up the house so I can relax before Ansel gets here, but there's no rest for the weary.....whatever that means. Whoelse would rest but the weary? (Unless it's a Biblical quote, and then it makes perfect sense!) Anyway I'm even too tired to finish this blog, so it's going to be pretty lame today. Sorry. Maybe tomorrow will be better! (Well, I couldn't find a turtle, but fish are nice)

Publishing with Pictures

Okay, so I know I'm way behind, but I think it's so cool that I can publish pictures on my blog now. I'm literally rushing into the 21st century, aren't I? Okay, now for Les and my other friends who don't know how to post on my blog. You just click on Comment, and, if you don't have a blogging account, they will set you up with one......you have to give name address etc, and agree to privacy policies etc, but it's free, and I would love to have some comments on my blog.

But even if no one comments, I will still write, because, "If I write it, they will come!" Now let's see what picture I can put on this entry.......

Okay....me and hubby! How's that?

Love and Listening

"Love is patient. Love is kind." We speak a lot about love in our culture, but I'm not sure that we understand much about it. I love my family, but I don't listen to them enough. Today I listened, and I realized most of what I thought was the problem, wasn't, and what I wouldn't have considered the problem, was. How often does that happen....not just with my relationships, but with most? How many times have friendships ended or people left churches, spouses, jobs, because people thought they knew what the problem was, but it was something else completely. I really think it happens all of the time. It is such a wast of time--and relationships. We need to be about reaching out to the world, but who will want to hear what we have to say when we can't get it together with one another? Also, we think we have to TELL others about Christ, but I think we need to be like Christ and show others. Jesus was a deep listener, and He was kind. I want to be more like Him