My Quiet Place

Today is HOT! 11 am and its already 92 with a heat index of 1oo. It is projected to get close to 100 with a heat index of 110+. Hello Summer!

Our Baby Liam is in the NICU again. Rising bili count, hard to control body temp., projectile pooping. So hard to be so far away. Not that I could do a thing. Johna and Jeff have everything covered so well. I am so proud of their strength and patience with everything. Thank the good Lord for giving them great Dr's. and medical staff to take care of him. My wish is that all tests will come back great and he will be ready to go home for good by Thursday. Realistically, I bet he will do just that by his due date. Tomorrow he will be one week old!!! Another 3 weeks and he should be good to go!! It's hard to describe loving someone so much that you have never seen or touched. But, it is there. Today the kids sent a video of him pooping. So you couldn't really see the pooping part. Just the tiny little face. So precious.

This morning was day 2 in our walking routine. Up at 5:40 - out the door at 6:01! Such a beautiful morning. Now Haley would have awesome pictures of the sunrise. I didn't remember my camera. Deana was suppose to be walking with us (in Gardner) but didn't hear from her. It is hard to get up! While we were walking, it RAINED on us! So refreshing! It has all turned into mug now but what a pleasant feeling while it was going on!

I have scrubbed the dog house, played with the puppies, watered all the flowers, and freshened all the dog waters. Have done 0 house work. Well, the first load of laundry is started. Guess I better get with it. It will be time for our amazing protein smoothies before you know it! Oh, by the way, yesterday we bought this amazing blender called the Ninja! Emily was telling me that Jeremy had gotten one for his protein shakes and since our old B & D blender would only run for a mimimum amount of time before dying, we decided we better get something else. I was actually surprised that Dean wanted to get the top of the line blender. Usually, it is the low end we go for but this one rocks!! Has 3 levels of blades!! We should have smoothies in the blink of an eye! I'm anxious to try it. I am also going to make some of Elizabeth's Salsa so we can have it with dinner. It is SO good and again should be a snap with all the new power we have!

After lunch, I AM going to cut the words for my Grandkid wall! I have pondered it for a long time and now it is time to do it! I have a new picture of Haley and Elizabeth to change, a picture of Liam to add and it will soon be time for Addy's 11 year old picture!! Kate will soon follow!! It is very fitting to honor them! They are the joy of my life!!

Have a great Monday!