Month: July 2025

I love a good book series. I read several throughout my childhood, and the habit has continued into adulthood. I’m delighted always to discover another good series, and I’m happy to say that I seem just recently to have discovered a mighty good one. It will take a few more books to be sure, but I’m really liking these so far. Can you guess what series it is? Brace yourself: The Hardy Boys.

I am delighted to find that I like them so far. I was a fan of the Nancy Drew books I read in high school or college, and I wondered if their ‘male’ counterpart would be to my taste, too.

Anyway, absolutely exhausted, so must turn off the audiobook and sleep. Goodnight.

Thank you, Lord. Keep us safe, please. In your name, we pray. Amen.

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For whatever reason, it feels like my pelvic floor strength is regressing. I was making such big strides, which were making a massive difference in my daily physical life and in how I felt in my head. But this week seems to be unlike the first ones. It doesn’t even feel like progress has slowed, so much as having stepped a bit in reverse. Not a lot, but definitely a little bit the wrong direction here.

Hmm…

Lord, heal my body, please. Keep my family safe and well and together, please. Have them stick with the breast milk, please, and keep M safe and well. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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A conversation:

-Also, I was surprisingly underwhelmed when we saw the baby a little while ago. Is it because I just recently had a baby just like that, so the novelty is gone?
Or am I just borderline heartless?😂
– Hahahaha you are definitely Not heartless!
I think maybe that’s part of it. The novelty aspect
– I started crying as we were walking to the room. But, once we entered, and I saw the baby, I was like ‘Oh. A baby. Cool.’
Haha
– Haha

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I am quite grateful that my brother did the photos of the baptism. They are, for the most part, great. However, I just wish he hadn’t underexposed everything, because it had been a massive undertaking, going through to edit every single photo for the same five things, but to slightly different degrees. And some of them just didn’t turn out because of the under exposure, but it is only a few of them, and they weren’t necessarily the best ones of the lot, anyway. Would have been great if they hadn’t been so dark, but so it goes.

But also, I’m exhausted from having stayed up four and a half hours editing only the good photos, which is about a hundred of them.

Now, I must sleep.

God, thank you for the blessings of this past weekend. Thank you for these blessings in my life and of my life. Please, keep my family safe, make us well, and keep us together. Thank you for our love and for our home. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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I just want to go to sleep. I don’t want to brush and floss and… well, floss and brush and floss, and then clean and put on my retainers… I just want to go to sleep.

But my mouth feels icky. There’s no way I physically could stand not brushing my teeth, let alone the mental aspect of going to bed without cleaning my teeth and mouth from the day’s buildup. Ugh – super gross.

So, yeah… got to go do that now.

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In a good way today. I am grateful. Thank you for the blessings and the love and for keeping us all safe and well. Please, heal my brother of his current ailment. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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The baptism was quick and to the point, the party was happy and reasonably easy, and I think we all genuinely had a quite good time. And the food was very good. I need to get The Godfather to smoke us brisket all the time in the future – some of the best I’ve ever had, it was, basically, perfect.

Thank you, God, for the blessings of today. In your name, we pray. Amen.

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There is a decent amount to be done on the morning, but I think it is very doable at this point. I just have to put our clean laundry on the bed in our bedroom, and then put the random baby stuff into the baby room. After that, I find out if the outfit fits our baby, and then I get dressed and we’re ready to go!

I don’t think my husband has so simple a list for his part…

Ugh.

I just wish we were getting much more sleep than we are about to get. God, grant us wonderful sleep, please, that we be refreshed and delighted and ready to participate in your blessings in the morning and all day tomorrow. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Dear Lord, please, guide us sweetly to a good sleep schedule and life schedule. Help us to be our best selves freely. Be with us. Make us well and keep us safe and together, please. Thank you for this life and this home and our many blessings. In your name, we pray. Amen.

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I have had a touch of trouble yawning lately. I struggle a bit to get to that good, full, shudder-level of a yawn sometimes. It reminds me of when I have a cough, and it feels like the cough is about to burst out, and so can’t stop it. Though, no cough comes. It’s just that the yawn’s climax doesn’t occur. I usually have to reposition myself a touch and/or focus really hard on keeping everything in my face and throat relaxed enough not to cough or whatever instead. It’s been quite weird. Perhaps I really am just fighting off yet another cold, and the whole throat bit is because of bacteria my throat is fighting off. Perhaps I’ve just got something a bit odd going on at the moment. Perhaps I’m just so tired and not sleeping enough, this is the result.

Whatever the case, God, heal me and make me well, please. Keep my family safe and well and together, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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