"I want a puppy!"

our

little

4 year

old

exclaimed.

"I want a pink, chikka-chikka-wow-wa!"

{that would be her word for chihuahua}

{Part II} How do you do it?

Is a question we get a lot.

Emotionally?!? How {do} we do it?



We pray a lot.

We pray as a family.

We pray as a couple.

We pray individually.

We attend mass regularly.

We frequent the sacraments.

We try to pray the rosary daily or at least a decade.

We put others first.

We make the time.

We take the time.

We have a mom and dad date night weekly.

{sometimes in the living room or backyard}

We communicate...A LOT.

We have a schedule.

Everything goes on the calendar.

We take a lot of deep breathes.
We accecpt imperfection.

We turn everything over to God.



We trust in God.

Selfless

I ran into the most selfless person I have ever met.

I can't even tell you what he looked like.

His actions were magnificent.

When we arrived to the ER with our 22 month old.

My husband carried him in, while I parked.

We had a t-shirt wrapped around his head and it was full of blood.

When I walked in, a couple was sitting in the waiting room

and I noticed the man's hand was wrapped up to his elbow and full of blood.

They asked me if I was looking for a baby. I was.

I checked us in and went to use the restroom.

As I was walking out of the bathroom I heard the nurse call a name.

As I came around the corner I heard the man saying,

"I am not going to get seen before that baby.

That baby is going in before me."

The nurse assured him that they were both triage

and would both be seen.

He once again said,

"I mean it, I want you to take that baby back,

I want him seen before me."

The nurse re-stated that it was triage and had an open room for each.

{I thought wow, that was very considerate of that man.}

My husband stayed with Keegan

and I waited in the car with the other kids.

When they were finished we picked them up.

My husband was telling me all the details

and everything that happened, then he said,

"I asked the doctor what we could expect with scarring?"

The doctor said,

"There would be a scar but it would be minimal

compared to the man next door,

he's gonna have a lot of scarring.

He blew all of the tissue, muscle

and ligaments off his hand and forearm,

he was loading a 50 gauge muzzle loader,

and it exploded... Nothing about his healing process

is going to heal up nice."

I couldn't believe it?!?

This was the man that wanted my baby to be seen before him...

7 stitches

it was suppose to be an uneventful, relaxing weekend

but...

we ended up in the E.R

with 7 stitches in our 22 month old's forehead.

We had a rough week {what's new?}

Went to get a new fuel pump put in my car

and my husbands car died completely on us.

Needed a new starter and battery.

Fixed fuel pump, now the fuel gauge doesn't work...

we were looking forward to a hassle free weekend.

A couple of games,

spend some time as a family and enjoy the weather.

We decided to play tennis sat afternoon.

Our little guy climbed into the stroller to get a drink

out of the cup holder,

as my husband and I were BOTH

walking over to him to get him out,

he tips over the edge and landed on a tennis racket,

YES, a tennis racket split his forehead open about an inch and a half

{ALL THE WAY TO THE SKULL!}

can you say, BLOOD?

He was an angel at the E.R. He had to be papoosed and

didn't budge or whimper for any of the entire procedure.

Anyway, our uneventful weekend turned out to be very eventful.

Today

we had a prayer service

and balloon ceremony

as a

closure

farewell

goodbye

to

the

{baby}

we

miscarried.

It was respect life Sunday.

Couldn't have been a more fitting day.

How do you do it?

Is a question we get a lot.
Financially?!? How {do} we do it?

We have to make {a lot} of sacrifices.

Some things that we can {go without}.

I cut all of our families hair.
I only get my hair cut about every 6 months.
I don't get mani's or pedi's.
We don't buy new clothes.
We wear hand-me-downs.
If we get new clothes, they are 60% or more clearance.
We only shop for the necessities and buy in bulk.
We don't eat out very often.
We live in a 1200 sq ft home.
We rent our house.
We drive used cars.
We try to buy real food, not in boxes.
{quality nourishes better than quantity}
Our school age kids only play one sport each.
They find rides to the majority of their practices.
We give freely of ourselves.
We don't expect anything in return.

And most importantly,
because we {trust in God}
and He continues to provide for our needs.

Good days

Good days seem so far and few in between anymore.

When we have a high {a good day}

I don't want it to end,

My mind gets all consumed with ,

What can I do to make this continue?

I want this to last forever?

Why can't it always be like this?

It's almost as if I want to go to sleep and not ever wake up...

or real soon I am going to wake up from this dream...

I realize though,

that I am not allowing

myself to be present

and enjoy the moment,

I am getting all caught up

in the what's to come

instead of just

{being}

here

and

now.