These are the things that are on my mind today.
Minivans – It’s a bit confusing, but it’s also stressing me out a bit. And no, we aren’t buying one. There’s a missionary family coming to CU to drop off their son next week. They have no transportation while there here, and no connections to CU other than that their son is starting there this fall. They are supported by a WY church where a friend of mine (a CU grad) used to go. The pastor’s wife asked Ghena if she knew anyone at CU. She only knows me. SO now I’m really frustrated by the difficulty of trying to help this family find a ride to/from the airport and a minivan for 5 people and all their luggage for a week at the busiest time of the year in C-ville. I totally understand that they can’t rent one (vans are $400-500 for a week…I checked). I’ve been praying really hard about it because I just don’t know what to do. I know God can provide something, but it’s just hanging over my head and stressing me out.
Eureka – We watched episode 2 of season 3 last night. I really like that show. I even dreamed about it last night. But for some reason, they decided to do a TON of product placement all for this men’s deodorant. So it’s “woven” into the show (not very well) and then at least one commercial per break is for this product as well. I don’t like it at all. I want my show back the way it was.
Peanut Butter – I guess Eric’s co-worker was trying to be helpful, but I didn’t really need the help. Eric forwarded me, last week, this article about how some Dutch study thinks there’s a link between eating peanut butter while pregnant and the likelihood of a child developing asthma. They warn that there’s an increased risk for even 1 daily serving of PB. Um…I’ve been doing 1-2 servings a day for the last 10 weeks. And now, I worry every time I have the stuff. I hate that I can’t shake the story. I hate that my control-freak nature has latched onto this idea to fill its needs to be in charge of something. I realized last night (about 3 am) that, of course, lots of it is my fear of failure (ie, my kids have some sort of “issues” = I’m a bad mother) which does give some perspective. But as easy as it is to just say “I won’t worry about this anymore,” it’s much harder to actually do.
So this is where my mind is today. I know I’m not exactly managing Is. 26: 3 (mind is steadfast, trusts in You) at this moment, and therefore I have no peace. But that’s where it is anyway. I really need to get a grip…
As far as the day’s agenda…I have two loads of laundry and some ironing to finish. I also need to do a little more reorganizing in my closet and dresser drawers so that I have room for more maternity clothes. And I probably should start on canning apple stuff so that the bags of apples Eric and his grandpa picked on the weekend don’t go bad. But we shall see…
Happy Wednesday!
I was going to say I ate it all the time and my kids turned out fine. But, you may not think so…Anyway, I don’t think any of them have any breathing problems that I know of!!
Peanut butter toast in excessive quantities is to blame for my remaining “pregnancy” weight. And James breathes just fine.
The curriculum lady at my school and I were talking about this again today (she had twins last year). She said she ate it all the time, too, for the same reasons as you. Her kids are perfect.
I bet you could find an article telling you to stay away from just about anything while you’re pregnant if you tried. I eat 1-2 servings of PB everytime I use it (I’m pretty sure I’m over what they call a serving). None of my kids have any health problems yet. I’ll let you know if they develop anything.
Boo on the PB thing. I took Alka-Seltzer Plus my whole pregnancy with Matthew(you know…nothing but Sudafed…drugs are bad……)and he’s fine. The babies will be what the babies will be. As long as you don’t smoke crack or drink malt whiskey, you should be good to go!!!!
i have never seen eureka. is it on a cable channel? it just makes me think of vacuum cleaners, since we had a eureka vacuum cleaner when i was little. (and i’m sure if this show actually was about vacuum cleaners, i’d probably watch it.. because that’s how much of a neat freak i am.)
I’ll pray about it too- my parents have two vehilces- one that could be large enough but they both use them for work out of town.
@ch1pch0p – Yes, they still have a minivan. But I can’t really volunteer their car on their behalf for an entire week on/around Getting Started. It’s sort of a hectic time for them!
@beccaware – I did tell them to call about the airport shuttle. So hopefully that will help some. Unfortunately, I think they really do need the vehicle. The son has health issues that require them to get to doctors appointments for the days before Getting Started. I think they need the car for that…and for trips to Walmart to stock the son’s room (since I doubt they are bringing much with them!). I’m just praying that God provides exactly what they need…since I obviously can’t!
hey- I’m sure cedarville provides shuttle vans, so they could get to and from the airport. It’s hard when you feel like you should help someone out, but sometimes there’s nothing more you can do. I wouldn’t stress out about it. The freshman student is going to be stuck in cedarville for the next year without a vehicle, so that week could help him get used to walking to the store, beans ‘n cream, main st. station etc.
@ch1pch0p – IJ define normal. Maybe, because of the peanut butter we are the normal ones. Think about it.
I’m pretty sure we all grew up on peanut butter, and look how normal we are. Okay, bad example. Let’s see….
Don’t your parents still have a minivan?
I have always loved and eaten quite a bit of peanut butter – no asthma with my children – Noah had allergy/activity induced asthma (which only happened if the weather was also hot & humid). Just be normally healthy. My kids grew up with only margarine because drs said butter was “BAD.” Now my doctors tell me to stay away from margarine real butter is better so who knows?