Only time for a quick post this morning…

• I was totally productive yesterday.  I graded, I ran errands, I cleaned, I did laundry, I even relaxed some. Wow – I’m amazing!
• I spent almost $200 at the grocery store yesterday…and that was with the $50 I saved with coupons/cards. Yikes!
• Eric and I are planning to redo our loft, so we spent some time last night designing the new workstations on CAD.  Okay, so he did the CAD work, and I just advised.  But it was fun to do together.
• Last night was the season finale of Eureka.  I hope they make more soon.  Such a good show!
• Please pray about the Christmas program for church.  I’m especially struggling with casting right now, and I found out this morning that the guy I was hoping to have play the main role can’t be involved.  I really need God to drop somebody to replace him in my lap!
• Tonight, I might run to Sam’s Club.  Or I might sit at home and veg out.  We’ll see how I feel about 7:00 tonight!

For some reason that I can’t explain, the link to Eric’s web gallery won’t work on Xanga.  So, here are some of the pictures that you would have seen yesterday, had the link worked correctly.

Here is Kelly modeling the new boa that I found for the girls at WalMart.  There’s a purple one, too, since they don’t share well at this point!

Here’s Holly and my brother.  And later in the evening, Holly and I were reading together.  She loves to read!

For all you moms out there, here’s a great way to get shoes on the children — just hold them upside down!

And finally, a close up of the remains of Holly’s chin injury from last week.  A Dora bandaid does wonders!

I have a quick favor to ask of you as well.  It’s for a student whom I’ll call J.  J is a student who has some difficult issues in her life and who, for some reason, has asked to interact with me outside of class.  I have little experience or training to deal with her issues, so I need a lot of wisdom and I need to let God love her through me.  Please pray for J (and for me).

As for the rest of yesterday, there isn’t much exciting to share.  There were classes.  There was grad school (so far “boredom” is the best word I have to describe that class).  There was a little rain and a lot of driving.  I got home just about 10:00 and went to bed shortly thereafter.  It’s too bad I don’t lead a more exciting life!

So it seems that my stress levels of the last two weeks were not a result only of my to-do list.  Yesterday, I suddenly realized that my issues were significantly hormonally based (you can all figure out what tipped me off, I’m sure).  So, it was something of a relief to know that my inability to cope for the last two weeks was actually directly related to my body and not to a sudden decrease in my over-achiever status!  And thanks again for all your encouragement for the last two weeks…you all rock!

Along those lines, however, my “realization” also means that my cycle has started over, and I’m still not pregnant.  I did wonder two weeks ago if I was close to ovulation, but the signs were never obvious enough, so I missed it again.   And now it looks like I will definitely reach my infertility “deadline” before we manage to get pregnant on our own (we haven’t been preventing it for almost 18 months).  Earlier this year, I set December as the limit for when I would stop hoping it would happen on its own and go to the doctor to start pursuing other options.  I was really hoping I wasn’t “broken” enough to need medical intervention, but I guess I’m going to have to make that phone call.    Anyway, I know some of you have been praying with us about all this, so please continue to do so.  Maybe one of these days, we’ll have some better news to share.

Anyway, for some happier thoughts…it was a very good weekend!

• Friday night was date night.  Dinner at Champps, then some browsing at Barnes & Noble and MicroCenter.  It was nice to be “stuck” in the car together so we had to talk to each other. 
• Saturday, I got lots of work done for grad school and Basic English (I caught up again!).  Then we had Deb’s birthday party on Saturday night.  And the Buckeyes won, though I did not stay up for the game.
• Sunday was church, a light supper, got all my work done, played a computer game, and went to small group.  Then home and to bed. 

So all in all, I was productive (I even cleaned the bathrooms!), I was social, and we got to be early every night.  So lovely!!