Update

Although it was another 60+ hour week at work, it was a good week. We have some major power issues in the server room though and lost partial power today, so I am anxiously awaiting to see if they can get a bunch of servers back online. I am doing my best not to go in this time as I worked 6 days last week and took a vacation day tomorrow. Hope they figure it out quickly!

Tomorrow we are going to Sacred Heart all day to do some extensive testing on the baby's heart, being it has the irregular heartbeat. The doctors think she will be fine, but maybe for insurance sake they have to send us to Spokane to be sure. They should be able to tell us if there is a serious problem or if she is going to be fine, the tests they do are amazing. If for some reason it is serious, I don't think they will do anything except be prepared to deal with it at birth, and she would probably have to be born in Spokane. Sounds like she will be fine though. We haven't had a healthy kid yet, unique problems with each! Camden wore a helmet, Jude had extreme eczema with infected skin, Gwyn had a couple of eye surgeries to no avail, and Adah had her problems with her legs - low muscle mass. So it would not be normal for us to have a healthy kid anyway. Ya know, life goes on, and the kids are just fine. We love our family and we love our lives together. God has certainly blessed us with wonderful kids!

I really don't have much to update other than that, just hoping all goes well at work so I don't have to go in tonight.

I am still very excited about discipling our kids, and very proud of Terah's efforts to invest in them; she is doing an amazing job! They are worth every bit of effort, but Daddy just has to get past the end of work day syndrome and keep in mind how important that little amount of time is that I have with them. I just can't wait to see Christ formed in them at a young age. It is the battle of our lives, and Mommy and Daddy have to do their part to protect and instruct them. I wish there was some way to open our eyes to this fight for our souls; we only seem to see the battle of our physical bodies, so we end up fighting the wrong battles! And when it comes down to it, (can't recall the scripture) it is a battle of the sinful nature vs the spirit. He who lives by the spirit will live!

I miss teaching Bible study, and as soon as we quit meeting, we lost contact with the new couple at church...so that is disappointing. That is probably the biggest reason I keep doing it; somewhere, somehow, God uses it to change people's lives and keep us in fellowship. However, we are in a new phase of life. Work killed me this year, and we have our fifth child nearly hear. The kids have drastically changed this year; I don't remember them ever "needing" Daddy this much, and maybe it has something to do with working so much and being gone. So I am trying to focus on the family now, and maybe once that is firmly established, then we can think about where God might have us minister in addition. It is an exciting change, but it's not always easy to stay focused or sacrifice my own ambitions to make sure that the family is taken care of, physical and spiritual needs both. It is exciting to think about...

Well, they got things back up at work, so I am going to go to bed - big day tomorrow.