Our Sick Little Girl

Some of you are probably VERY surprised by this post.  It has been a few months since my last entry.  For this, I apologize.

Here is an update. 

Mary Katherine is now 16 months...just a few days from 17 months!  She is talking up a storm, saying 'mommie'...'daddy'....'kel-kel' (for her big sister)...'kee-cat' (means kitty kat for dusty, Kelsey's cat)....'dog-dog' for the doggies across the street.  Those are just a few of her favorite words.  She does call EVERYTHING a cookie!  And...'na-na' for one of her favorite foods..bananas...oh, and her pacifier is called her 'bah-bah'...who knows why she calls it that!  She loves putting that 'bah-bah' in my front pocket of my shirt! 

Mary Katherine started Mother's Day Out a several weeks ago on Tuesdays. She attends at a church near our home.  The ladies are very sweet.  MK is mothering a few of the smaller kids. 

One day at home, Mary Katherine picked up a small (Gideon's-type Bible that some of us got around 5th grade) bible and rubbed in on her cheek.  We understand our Little Champion's Ministry (at our church) hands them those small Bibles and tells the children to 'love Gods word'....AWESOME!! It warmed our hearts to see this!!

Shawn is doing VERY WELL...as you may understand, she has had mixed feelings about sending her baby girl to Mother's Day Out!  Shawn is enjoying her 'new' Christmas present.  She wanted a sewing machine, but couldn't (in her mind) justify the cost of one.  So, Kelsey and I gave her a 'gift certificate' for a sewing maching of her choice (since I'm not expert in that field)...she finally settled on one..an embroidery machine that is also a sewing machine from Singer.  Pretty cool deal......she is really liking it.

I'm working with a new company.  It is called Common Sense Publishing.  We publish three magazines and a 'newspaper' type monthly publication.  It is a wonderful place to work.  We get to open up the word during our Monday sales meetings...I love working there!  They've also assigned me a monthly column in one of our publications.  That is quite a bit of fun...will be coming up with my April column over this weekend.

Lastly, Mary Katherine is struggling with a virus that is causing her to be unable to keep anything down on her stomach.  Even water comes right back up.  We hope she'll be past this in the next 24 hours.  Please pray for her as you are lead.  We are believing in her complete and total healing...in Jesus' name!