It has been one of those days! This morning I attended my MOPs group (actually it is called Mom's Carelink). It is basically a group of moms that get together and fellowship while our preschool kids are being cared for in the church nursery. We have brunch, some kind of devotional, and a speaker or other activity. It has been great fun for both Emmitt and I! Today, a mother got up to solicit our prayers. She is a nurse in the labor and delivery ward at a local hospital. She said she was nursing for a family this weekend (she is friends with some of their family members as well) who birthed a stillborn baby at 37 weeks. I immediately started to tear up. A flood of feelings and memories came to me. (On a side note, I hate that when I think of my firstborn I am immediately met with all of the traumatic memories rather than the few good I have of her.) I felt led to reach out to this woman and the family who had just suffered this great loss. I walked up to her a short time later and thanked her for what she did for this family. I told her that she will never know the impact she had on them as she cared for them through this experience. I still remember the name of the nurse who was there throughout most of our delivery with Babe B. I then told her a little of my story. I sat down and couldn't really focus on the activity today (it was on the 5 Love Languages). I wrote a letter to this family explaining my situation and offering my support including my contact information. I passed the letter on to this nurse/mother in our group. She assured me she would forward it to the family. We gave each other a long teary hug and the tears have come and gone all day!
The snow is finally melting here. Jesstine has really been wanting to build a snowman. Since I have been feeling down today, I didn't feel up to letting her go outside to play. Too much work! So, I brought the snow in for the kids!
(A special thanks to Aunt Jenni for most of Emmitt's attire today!)
You may be thinking, "What a MESS!" It was a little work to bring the snow in. I happened to have a plastic tub I had cleaned toys out of laying on the floor. It took three tub loads to get this much snow in the bathtub. I also put a towel down at the edge of the tub. As for the snow??? When they were done, we did this:
She really was done with the snow. She wasn't thrilled about me letting go of the shower head!
Later this week is Valentine's Day and Jesstine's half birthday. We have been working hard on these:
And finally, Jesstine earns a free personal pan pizza each month for reading 5 minutes a day. So we stopped by Pizza Hut on our way home from school. While waiting for our pizza, Emmitt said something that made me (Grandmom when she reads this) so proud!
Emmitt: "Mommy! G-O! Says GO!!!!"
In Him,
The Hutchins Family
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