It's Hot!!

Here is what I saw on a time & temp display near my house:

Flooding

I'm taking a quick break from working to comment on some amazing people around here (at church).  In addition to preparing for VBS, the biggest event of the year (I know VBS is a big thing at many churches, but it's off the charts around here), everyone is scurrying around dealing with flooding.  Several staff members and volunteers have serious flooding in their own basements at home, and they're cleaning out the basement-level multipurpose room (gym) and kitchen at church, PLUS helping some elderly church members who need help dealing with flooded basements. I am in awe.  The only way I can describe it is a relentless pursuit of service to others.  Way to go, everybody!

Today

Other than taking a couple of insanely short naps, today has been a very happy day for Elijah and me.  (He doesn't seem affected by the short naps, but I certainly have been.  I could have used some sleep.)  

He has been happy and smiling, giggling and squirming all day long.  Even when we had lunch out at a nice restaurant.  He had crackers, and all was right with the world.  

So he is teaching me to take joy in the simple things, and enjoy every moment.  Here's a picture of him from this morning.  

Have a wonderful day!

Moving on...

It is finally hitting me that even though we're not leaving town, that we are moving on from our church home (for those who don't know---we're helping to start a new church).  And this will be our last Sunday at our church.  Mixed feelings, of course---sadness, but excitement for the future.  When we started attending SPC eight years ago, I had been out of college for less than 2 months, married for 3 weeks, and living in Park Ridge for one week.  It was the first and only church we visited.  We have changed a lot since then, and I'm looking forward to what the next eight years will bring!  

Laughing like crazy!

In case you didn't see this already on Facebook, here's a cute video of E giggling with my dad on Memorial Day.  

It's amazing, in 24 hours, he went from this to inconsolable and having a high fever.  Ear infection in both ears.  Poor kid!  I think there was something else going on, too, because he didn't want to eat, either, and uh, "gave back" the food that we did try to feed him.  So gross.  So we were a little hesitant to start him on solid food again.  But by today, he's totally fine, back to his giggly self, and I'm sick.  I really hope my illness is the same thing he had.  I'd hate to have him get sick again soon.  

So hopefully the giggles will continue and we will be illness-free for a long, long time after this.  SO not fun!