I'm Back!

I know it's been forever since I posted an entry on here. So sorry! This entry will hopefully catch everyone up-to-date and get me back on track with posting regularly...

Well, first of all, we survived our 10 days without Daddy at home. It's always such a bummer when he's not here, and we're so grateful to have him home with us now! But thankfully we had my parents to keep us company and offer lots of help! We had a GREAT visit with them, and they seemed to have a fabulous time here as well. I must say that I was very impressed at how well they did traveling so far, spending time in a different culture, and eating lots of different foods. Granted I only took them to the yummy places to eat, but they still handled all the differences so well. What would have been an extremely difficult week for me with my husband gone turned out to be a really fun time spent with them. It was also just great to see them be able to spend quality time with the boys. The boys, of course, loved the attention and all the surprises that Grandma kept pulling out of her bag (think Mary Poppins). :o) Thanks so much, Grandma and Grandpa, for coming all this way to help us out and spend time in our world. We love you!

In other news... After two weeks of nursing pain I, along with my sis-in-law and her midwife and lactation consultant friends, finally determined that I had thrush. Oh my. Today has now been 4 weeks since the whole thing started. I've been treating it in a multitude of different ways, not the least of which was changing my entire diet and cutting out sugar and almost all carbs while only eating protein and veggies. Unfortunately the diet change caused some other digestive issues on top of everything else. :o( I would have a good day and think that it was clearing up, then the next day would be another painful day. I finally started an antibiotic and I've now I've had 3 days of minimal pain so far. It's not fully over yet, but I'm really hoping and praying that I'm finally on my way out of this. I have not been ready to stop nursing Micah, and I really didn't want to end our nursing relationship on a bad note. I have loved nursing all my children despite the painful issues I've had to deal with. I'm just so thankful that I still can nurse! And I'm thankful that God has given me the endurance to get through the difficult days.

There are lots of other things to blog about, particularly my sweet Luke's 3rd birthday! But I'll have to save that for another post. For now, I'll leave you with a picture of my cuties with their grandparents.