So, I really didn’t mean to worry anyone when I mentioned in my last post that I hadn’t heard from Josiah in a while. I hope you didn’t lose too much sleep over it.
No, I don’t really think he is in the Bermuda Triangle. By the way–Is the Bermuda Triangle a real place? I keep thinking about it ever since I wrote that, and I would ask my husband but I think I’ve already met my quota of dumb questions for the day, so I don’t dare.
Regardless, assuming that he isn’t in the perhaps mythical but also perhaps very real Bermuda Triangle, I think Josiah is in good hands, and I have peace about it. I sure am missing him though, and hoping he’ll call soon. We knew going into this that there would be stretches of time where they just don’t have access to phones or internet. But trust me–they’re not going without great SURF. :)
More updates!?
You bet!
Um, remember the beautiful pregnant Maryam? The one who gave this blog a facelift?
This is what I know:
She was texting me Sunday afternoon while she worked on tidying-up some of my side-bar ads. (I am sure grateful for my OCD-inclined friends.)
And, on Sunday she sounded great. Her due date was around the 19th of July I think.
Next thing you know, Monday around noon I checked Twitter. To my surprise, Maryam had tweeted at 4:30 AM that she *thought* she might be in labor, and was calling her midwife.
Then at 7:30 AM (That’s 3 hours later friends!) she tweeted again with a photo of a new baby boy, in her arms.
Hello?
Who does THAT?
Wait…Who does THAT, at home IN A TUB, without DRUGS?
Well, obviously Maryam does.
The girl is amazing! I heard from her later that her third baby boy came out healthy and (of course) nursing like a pro! Yay Momma!
What else?
Maybe you’d like to hear the dumbest thing I did last week?
No?
Okay, I’ll tell you.
I took Jonah and Luke to Best Buy to buy an iPod Touch for Jonah’s birthday (which falls on this Friday, the 13th.) While there, we wandered around, played with iPads, used the bathroom, and took our time in every way. I like that place.
But here’s where I scared myself. And I’m still scratching my head about it.
I got back to my car afterwards, and couldn’t find my car keys. I dug all around, and thought I must have locked them in the car. (Strange, because I habitually double/triple check to make sure my keys are in the little pocket in my purse before walking away from my car.)
Then I checked the door handle of the car, shocked to find it was unlocked. (I habitually lock my car doors when I get out. )
So much for MY good habits.
So the car was unlocked, and that was weird. But even weirdER was that when I opened it, the car was RUNNING…with KEYS in the ignition!! I had seriously left my car running in the Best Buy parking lot the entire time I leisurely shopped around the store.
Have YOU ever done that before?
Is there something wrong with me?
Should I get help?
In other breaking news, I have exciting updates going on here at our house!! For starters, my long-awaited laundry room is being finished, and that is enough to make me smile all year long. I get to go buy a new washer and drier to replace the one that presently sounds like a jet plane is landing in the middle of my house each time it runs. I’ll get photos to document the whole process.
And on top of that–I found a very handy, handy-man (I know–work on adjectives, Monica) to fix all of the little things that drive me crazy every day. Things like the sliding screen doors that have been popping off the track on a daily basis for a year. And adding LIGHTS to my (very dark) kitchen. (Yes!) And fixing my freezer which has been on a biweekly cycle of defrosting, then alternating between making NO ice at all, and freezing solid shut (where it took a team to yank it open and usually ended with one of us on sprawled out on our back on the kitchen floor, but that’s another story,) and then randomly filling so full of ice cubes that they came exploding out of the door when you finally opened it. I still don’t understand what was causing the problem, but it seems to be gone and I think I might just quit grinding my teeth in my sleep now.
It’s the little things in life.
I could tell you another embarrassing story about how last Thursday I woke my husband in the middle of the night with severe pain in my forehead and needed him to check it out as I was sure a centipede must have bitten me. Pacing the house I worried about every (deadly) possibility, and finally fell asleep with a frozen burrito on my forehead (the freezer was in the NO-ice mode.)
It took until the weekend to accept the fact that I had a little pimple showing up on my forehead.
I tell ya, those things can really sting.
(Have you ever done that?)
I do have great news! I booked flights today to take a fall trip to the Northwest. I’m so excited!! After my last trip with four boys I made a pact with myself not to travel again with kids until Levi was thirteen. But then I started to think about autumn, and my mom started encouraging me to visit, so I caved. We fly out the last week of September.
I will go one week ahead of Dave and yes, I will be flying alone with my four boys. So you might consider adding me to your prayer list. Like yesterday.
Thanks for listening guys. I’m so glad I have you.
Before I go, let me remind you to HURRY over to my Giveaway post and leave a comment. Hint–there is not much competition yet for the kids’ board shorts and hat…Just comment and you’re in the running!!!!
And feel free to tell me if YOU’VE DONE any of those things?
ALOHA!!!!
The grommom
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I am slightly jealous that Josiah has had the ability to call you guys. I think i managed to get one email off to my parents when I got in country to tell them I was safely there and then a couple at the hosts home at the end of the trip. I got one e-mail off at the middle of camp and that was because they heard I was missing my dad’s 50th birthday for the trip so they allowed me an email home, they only got email through the cell phone. and 12 years ago there weren’t as many cell towers on lake Caliraya outside of manilla.
And I am very excited that you are gonna be in the PNW during yours and mines favorite time of the year. Will you guys be down in Mac? Do I get to meet you before I come down to you?
Wow…You did have a crazy experience on your mission trip!
And YES! We’ll be in MAC the first weekend of October! Can’t wait to meet you!
We can even talk more Hawaii plans then!
xo
Monica,
What dates are you actually leaving in late September? And loved this blog was pretty funny…..a pimple…lol.
We leave at the very end of your trip I think…I’ll get back to you w/ exact dates. Maybe the 28th And thanks. Pimples aren’t very funny though.
hahahahahaha!! you left the car running……hahhahahahaha……that is funny. glad it was still there when you came out!
Haha! Thanks for the laugh! I am constinently doing things like that! I give blondes a bad name!
Also, I am Polish. As a child, every time I did something not-so-brilliant, my dad would lovingly say “Well, honey. You ARE a blonde Pollock after all…….what did you expect?”
Jennifer
http://teachingboys.net
Oh my goodness—-there are some things a mother doesnt want to know!! Sure hope your dad doesnt read this one! The pimple story cracked me up–to think we always called Lance the family hypocondriac!! Poor Dave….
When Brock was a baby, I was rushing one morning to get to work on time… I pulled up into work, turned my car off, started to open the door, and realized Brock was still in the backseat!! I about had a heart attack and was so thankful that I realized he was in the back before I actually exited the vehicle! Forgot to drop him off at daycare!
Hmmm, I seem to remember a time or two or three…. looking out of our two story window ( this was when we lived kitty corner to the Swansons on Kelakela st.) and seeing the mini van or path finder with ALL doors open for long periods of time (overnight). He he he.
I can only tease because I have done MANY head in the clouds things in my lifetime ( or maybe this week). Just ask Kendall.
About your bite. I had a “recluse spider ” bite in my armpit this A.M. Amazing how much it resembles a pimple too. Ha ha . Keep up the good stories.
Josiah remains in my prayers.
no, i havent done those things exactly. i did think i locked my keys in my car once and called aaa to unlock my car only to find out that i had them in my purse the whole time.
ok, that’s pretty embarrasing! (and I’ve never done that before!
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aloha!
I have quite a few bad-mommy-moves but this one relates to forgetting about a running car. Before you judge please keep in mind that we do live on a private dead end road w/property so I wasn’t worried about car/baby snatchers! So.. When Reid was an infant I left him soundly snoozing in the car with the a/c running while I pulled the groceries out of the back. Of course I became distracted, phone rang, Clara needed a snack, I needed the potty, etc. I felt very organized, I had taken care of those things, washed all of the weeks produce, the food was put away and I was ready for a head start on prepping dinner. Then I realized “oh no, I have another kid!” fortunately he was still sound asleep, car still running 1 1/2 hour later!
He was definitely an easy baby;) my labor with him was very quick, like your girlfriends. He was born in the tub too, but at a birthing center, not at home. I first had thought i was in labor at 10:30am, got there at 12:30, had him at 3:18, stopped bythe video store and by 8:30pm, all four of us were at home in bed watching a movie.
Oh my goodness! How funny. I could see doing that with leaving a happy sleeping kid in the car. But scary for that moment, right?
And you are radical–had a baby in a tub, then rented a movie and went home!? I’m so impressed.