the last 12 hours and the next 3 days
Our precious Louie went to bed with a slight fever last night. He woke up four times in between 7pm and 7am and I checked on him around four times more. Bear has been in Colorado with a great group of college-age MKs on a retreat or we would normally have shared getting up with the kids last night.
Around the 6th time up, I evidently wasn't completely awake. I gave Louie a bottle of just water (instead of formula) and put diaper rash creme on my hand instead of his bottom. Louie smiled and waited patiently while I washed my hand and got him a new bottle.
Then our security alarm went off at 7:15am as Jona ventured downstairs before I turned the motion detector off. Poor buddy. It was our first false alarm and he was so afraid the police were going to show up at our doorstep. His concern subsided after Brinks called to check on the alarm AND after we all realized that today is his 1/2 birthday. Cake ahead...
After baths for us all, Jona was the first to get downstairs and from the kitchen he announced, "Mom, I made myself breakfast!" "Great," I said, "what is it?" He then came back upstairs showing me his "sandwich": a rice crispy treat (courtesy of Granny Angie) sandwiched between two flat Krumkake's (courtesy of Grandma Ruth).
This Sunday I'll be in MN speaking at Maranatha Church. On Monday I'll share in chapel at Northwestern and that afternoon I'll have the opportunity to spend time with Bethany Publishers (I just finished "Finding an Unseen God: Reflections of a former Atheist" for them. It should be out in 2009). I'll come home late Monday night into the arms of my family and settle in to write the rest of the next book (a devotional for MOPS).
If I come to your mind, I'd greatly appreciate your prayers, especially for the time at Northwestern. I absolutely LOVED being with their students a few years ago. The message on my heart is a bit thick and focuses on our theology of pain. This generation's potential is unquestioned. But I believe that their ability to manage pain may prove to be a great hindrance to them realizing that potential.
Around the 6th time up, I evidently wasn't completely awake. I gave Louie a bottle of just water (instead of formula) and put diaper rash creme on my hand instead of his bottom. Louie smiled and waited patiently while I washed my hand and got him a new bottle.
Then our security alarm went off at 7:15am as Jona ventured downstairs before I turned the motion detector off. Poor buddy. It was our first false alarm and he was so afraid the police were going to show up at our doorstep. His concern subsided after Brinks called to check on the alarm AND after we all realized that today is his 1/2 birthday. Cake ahead...
After baths for us all, Jona was the first to get downstairs and from the kitchen he announced, "Mom, I made myself breakfast!" "Great," I said, "what is it?" He then came back upstairs showing me his "sandwich": a rice crispy treat (courtesy of Granny Angie) sandwiched between two flat Krumkake's (courtesy of Grandma Ruth).
This Sunday I'll be in MN speaking at Maranatha Church. On Monday I'll share in chapel at Northwestern and that afternoon I'll have the opportunity to spend time with Bethany Publishers (I just finished "Finding an Unseen God: Reflections of a former Atheist" for them. It should be out in 2009). I'll come home late Monday night into the arms of my family and settle in to write the rest of the next book (a devotional for MOPS).
If I come to your mind, I'd greatly appreciate your prayers, especially for the time at Northwestern. I absolutely LOVED being with their students a few years ago. The message on my heart is a bit thick and focuses on our theology of pain. This generation's potential is unquestioned. But I believe that their ability to manage pain may prove to be a great hindrance to them realizing that potential.
posted by alicia britt chole at
9:20 AM
4 Comments:
This morning I woke up and discovered your blog and I am so excited. You are to me a mentor from afar. I am so excited that I can now read your blog and grow from such a certain faith within you. Finding the strength in the midst of all you face seems to be exactly the theme these days among the men and women of God. Thank you again for your blog!
I truly thank God for you every Monday when I receive your devotional and when I check in on your blog. You are definately one of my shadow mentors, and while we've never met face to face, I appreciate and see His Spirit in you and in your writing. God's blessings for safe travel and for his purpose fulfillment. Deana
Hi, Alicia!
I just wanted to write a quick note to say that I'm in chapter 7 of Anonymous and am enjoying it immensely. I wasn't sure what there would be to know about Jesus' hidden years, but knowing you I had to read it. The concept that our present tells us about our past has been settling into my heart for the past several days, and I'm finding myself motivated in different ways because of it. Thanks so much for sharing what the Lord has taught you. I'm looking forward to hearing you in Feb. at the Potomac District Women's retreat!
Blessings, Jen Godzwa
alicia.. what a full house!
thank you for posting your morning time and all that follows!
just read this today.. i ask the Father to fill our momma days with grace and we would receive grace with open arms.. wide open!
bless your tuesday, and for your family too~
with love, lisette
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