LITSAFALDA
Prayer Angel, Moderator
TO SING PRAISES but also ask for tons of prayers. (excuse the length)
Forgive me as I've been dreading posting due to my own personal struggle and also the feeling of yet one more thing to do. I have been checking in on everyone, but only been in contact with a select few due to things beyond my control but not God's and He keeps trying to get my attention.
Where to even start, my husband decided he was unhappy in his job so he started looking a while pack and then this past December was offered a job he felt he could not pass up, but made us have to start the relocation process. This job also has the possibilities of keeping me at home raising our family and not working too often.
I should also say before continuing even though it was not my hearts desire to move God kept showing me that this was His decision not mine.
Due to the special needs of our little girl and the need of insurance which wasn't going to be available for several months due to probationary time; myself and our baby stayed in Tennessee while my husband took up temporary residence in Florida. So I became a "single mom" taking care of a special needs baby plus trying to keep up with my commitments to my jobs. One that is seasonal and the other which was my "full time" before my baby came home from the hospital.
So from January until July, with a little help from friends and occasionally my mom visiting and hubby being home 4 days out of each month, we kept pushing on. Even though we are blessed with a generally happy baby, some days things are just a bit much for any one person to deal with by oneself.
We finally got through RSV season, very bad respiratory disease and more harmful for preemies, and so we went to Florida for a visit and started the process of looking for a new house.
We had less than a three week period to get things figured out and moving ahead. So during the daytime the realtor took myself and the baby around looking at houses, and in the evenings then the more promising ones we went and showed my husband. We were almost settled on a house, one that would take a lot of work and not as big as we needed, but we decided to expand our range just a bit more. No house is the perfect house but we found one that would meet our needs. After negotiating price and problems everything except the final closing was done......WITHIN our three week time frame. Also the old owners liked the timing for closing on the house as well.
So this all finalized on July first and we got moved to the "Sunshine State" the middle of the month. We're still gonna let the baby be a Volunteer and a Gator hater for those of you who follow college football.
During this whole time period, I have been totally stressed out and reserved about moving. I have been trying to embrace this whole experience, but again it takes a lot of work to pack up and then unpack a whole house while trying to get all of the necessary things set up with doctors, insurance, and job transfers, etc.
I KNOW I am supposed to be praising God and thanking Him for His goodness and mercy and all of His blessings. That has been a very difficult thing for me to do. I still have to work on it every day.
Now for all of the prayers. I have a mostly healthy 19 month old little girl. She can be sweet as sugar or let out a scream that would scare away any monster. She still needs lots of prayers and improvement to start catching up with her real age. ( Most preemies catch up with normal baby standards by their second birthday.) She is still very petite and is not as big as everyone keeps telling me she should be. (As of last month she still wasn't quite 19 pounds.) She will be going to an endocrinologist next week to check on her thyroid as its function has been low for a while now. She has baby glasses, to correct some cross eyed problems, that she won't keep on and would rather chew on them or pop the glass out. She still isn't walking and in the past some doctors were considering braces for her legs to help. This last visit her old pediatrician said she needed to be back in physical and occupational therapy and to add speech therapy as well due to her severe gag reflex. ( Don't ask but sometimes it is not pretty, especially when you work SO hard to get food in her.)
I have a few personal things needing prayers as well including finding new friends. The church that we will be attending is a lot more contemporary than I am used to and has thrown me even further out of my comfort zone. I am more used to a more traditional service and worship style. They have one but it is very early in the morning and still hard for us to get going for that one. I have grown accustomed to a church that felt like part of my family and restarting from scratch is a bit difficult. Also there are many things I need to get finished at home as well as getting some things back on track here for CGA.
I was not able to get our old house ready to sell while still living there so we have two mortgages. We really need prayers for God to send the perfect buyers for us. We would prefer not to have to go so low that we still have debt associated with it.
I know there are several more things and many updates that I have not given about my little girl. Most parents would tell you how they cannot believe how fast they grow and change every day. We would appreciate the prayers but especially the PRAISES for the things that have been going on these past months.
Blessings and Hugs, "Angel"
Forgive me as I've been dreading posting due to my own personal struggle and also the feeling of yet one more thing to do. I have been checking in on everyone, but only been in contact with a select few due to things beyond my control but not God's and He keeps trying to get my attention.
Where to even start, my husband decided he was unhappy in his job so he started looking a while pack and then this past December was offered a job he felt he could not pass up, but made us have to start the relocation process. This job also has the possibilities of keeping me at home raising our family and not working too often.
I should also say before continuing even though it was not my hearts desire to move God kept showing me that this was His decision not mine.
Due to the special needs of our little girl and the need of insurance which wasn't going to be available for several months due to probationary time; myself and our baby stayed in Tennessee while my husband took up temporary residence in Florida. So I became a "single mom" taking care of a special needs baby plus trying to keep up with my commitments to my jobs. One that is seasonal and the other which was my "full time" before my baby came home from the hospital.
So from January until July, with a little help from friends and occasionally my mom visiting and hubby being home 4 days out of each month, we kept pushing on. Even though we are blessed with a generally happy baby, some days things are just a bit much for any one person to deal with by oneself.
We finally got through RSV season, very bad respiratory disease and more harmful for preemies, and so we went to Florida for a visit and started the process of looking for a new house.
We had less than a three week period to get things figured out and moving ahead. So during the daytime the realtor took myself and the baby around looking at houses, and in the evenings then the more promising ones we went and showed my husband. We were almost settled on a house, one that would take a lot of work and not as big as we needed, but we decided to expand our range just a bit more. No house is the perfect house but we found one that would meet our needs. After negotiating price and problems everything except the final closing was done......WITHIN our three week time frame. Also the old owners liked the timing for closing on the house as well.
So this all finalized on July first and we got moved to the "Sunshine State" the middle of the month. We're still gonna let the baby be a Volunteer and a Gator hater for those of you who follow college football.
During this whole time period, I have been totally stressed out and reserved about moving. I have been trying to embrace this whole experience, but again it takes a lot of work to pack up and then unpack a whole house while trying to get all of the necessary things set up with doctors, insurance, and job transfers, etc.
I KNOW I am supposed to be praising God and thanking Him for His goodness and mercy and all of His blessings. That has been a very difficult thing for me to do. I still have to work on it every day.
Now for all of the prayers. I have a mostly healthy 19 month old little girl. She can be sweet as sugar or let out a scream that would scare away any monster. She still needs lots of prayers and improvement to start catching up with her real age. ( Most preemies catch up with normal baby standards by their second birthday.) She is still very petite and is not as big as everyone keeps telling me she should be. (As of last month she still wasn't quite 19 pounds.) She will be going to an endocrinologist next week to check on her thyroid as its function has been low for a while now. She has baby glasses, to correct some cross eyed problems, that she won't keep on and would rather chew on them or pop the glass out. She still isn't walking and in the past some doctors were considering braces for her legs to help. This last visit her old pediatrician said she needed to be back in physical and occupational therapy and to add speech therapy as well due to her severe gag reflex. ( Don't ask but sometimes it is not pretty, especially when you work SO hard to get food in her.)
I have a few personal things needing prayers as well including finding new friends. The church that we will be attending is a lot more contemporary than I am used to and has thrown me even further out of my comfort zone. I am more used to a more traditional service and worship style. They have one but it is very early in the morning and still hard for us to get going for that one. I have grown accustomed to a church that felt like part of my family and restarting from scratch is a bit difficult. Also there are many things I need to get finished at home as well as getting some things back on track here for CGA.
I was not able to get our old house ready to sell while still living there so we have two mortgages. We really need prayers for God to send the perfect buyers for us. We would prefer not to have to go so low that we still have debt associated with it.
I know there are several more things and many updates that I have not given about my little girl. Most parents would tell you how they cannot believe how fast they grow and change every day. We would appreciate the prayers but especially the PRAISES for the things that have been going on these past months.
Blessings and Hugs, "Angel"
*HUGS*
