and one funny thing

to anyone who doesn't have kids yet and always wonders why parents talk about how once you have kids you can't even go to the bathroom in peace....

i know there is an endless array of reasons parents say this, i am SURE... but mine for today was that ara was feeling really sick and no one else was home and i had to poo.... but i had to poo with her ON MY LAP. because if i put her down she cryed the biggest tears of all.... and knowing she was feeling sick and crying those tears cause she couldn't be held was too much. to me thats crossin the not going to the bathroom in peace line.... although i'm sure my daily ventures to the bathroom with her standing by the gate in the doorway needing to be entertained and asking to brush her teeth would cross most peoples line.. i'm just getting used to it. good times.

doctor

so we went to the doctor today and im ok, i was feeling better today than yesterday but i still wanted to get checked out cause the last thing i had felt was deep chest phlegm. yuck. ara on the other hand has bronchitis and dr bravo seemed a little surprised at how much crap was in her chest.... he was sooooo sweet, he gave us the visit on the house because he knows ara is on temporary insurance right now so we would have had to just fully pay for the visit.... and he was like 'well she never gets sick :) and you're good people' hahha so cute. he gave her amoxocilin which i'm not into antibiotics, but i know she needed something, cause she's been livin on the edge and even though bless her heart, she hasn't been grumpy AT ALL everything about her shows me she feels absolutely terrible. plus i'd rather clear this up and not move into pneumonia.... anyway i'm really excited for her to start to feel better. so that's the sitch. i'm feeling better... she will be soon... seth is starting to get sick, but we're just hopin and prayin he doesn't get it as bad as the two of us....

going out

we tried to go out today because i have been in the house for 6 days straight, in bed.... and we thought maybe fresh air and the sunshine would help.... i felt sick to my stomach, weak, shaky legs, and like i was going to faint. it was nice sitting in the shade for a bit, but it left me feeling more sick overall. bummer. i thought we'd go out and the sun would heal us all and we'd be laughing and dancing by the end of the day. i dont know what to do, is this how the flu normally is? i've never had it.... poor ara is sick too, i dont know if i wrote this she got a 102.3 fever on friday night i think it was and its been waning back and forth between that and the 99s. poor muffin. she looks crazy and just wants to sleep so much. we're just keeping her super super hydrated and giving her remedies and some tylenol here and there when the fever spikes. seth's starting to get sick too, i'm praying desperately that he would only get a cold and not this full on thing that i have or we'll be screwed. good thing we dont have two kids yet, we'd die.

and one more thing

check out my new favorite blog....

branthansen.typepad.com

amazing.

tour tea

go see my husband on tour please!!!!!!

myspace.com/lakes. for dates.



and also this is my new tea set....





my aunt has a tea pot exactly like it that i've always wanted.... and then out of nowhere my grandma sent this set up for me! she doesn't even know that my aunt has the exact same tea pot and that i've always always wanted it! crazy.

blessed?

when i was doing the dishes tonight i was thinking about how we (as humans) think of blessing, or i guess us who believe in God or what not.. anyway most of what i see that people express as being blessing is good things and i was thinking about how i feel so blessed or lucky to be able to stay at home with arabella and spend so much time with her... then i was debating whether that was lucky or being blessed.... and i dont think i really believe in luck, things to me happen for reasons, as i have learned from my entire past..... so if things happen for a reason then the only other option really is that when you feel something good has happened to you you are being blessed by someone, God or otherwise. so then i was thinking about how it doesn't seem right in my mind to think i am blessed for being able to stay at home with ara, because does that mean that someone who wants to stay at home with their child and doesn't get to is not blessed? and if not, why would i be blessed and them not be blessed.... and this is something seth and i have discussed a lot, like when we had absolutely, i mean absolutely no money and it would have been easy to say we weren't blessed, and i see that a lot in church that you are 'blessed' when you have a lot or have things, and that God wants to bless you with things, big houses, cars etc..... or even the way to which God wants to bless you with different characteristics, or 'gifts of the spirit' the way we tend to see blessing is in the 'good' and not in the 'bad' .... but i think it is all blessing. God knows what we need, seth and i needed to have no money at all for a time, it was a blessing and i'm so thankful we went through that, i just think if we look at life like God wants the best for us always, and if he is for us and in control, then everything can be a blessing..... it just depends on how we look at it. i mean this isnt a new idea i guess.... God said this in the bible.... that trials are blessings, because they produce perseverance.

anyway i dont know if this all makes sense it seems a bit scattered.... but i think sometimes, actually most of the time the best blessings dont look like what we would think they should look like.


this new baby is a blessing.

let me just say

no offense to catholics, but the pope is really creepy.