Month: August 2025

I find it hilarious when I switch sides while breastfeeding, and I can hear the milk sloshing around in my daughter’s stomach as she tilts from one direction to the other. 😛

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It is hard to have family pulled away. It is even harder to have it happen after having discussed for years that a lack of certain measures would cause problems… yet the family didn’t follow through with preventing those problems. And it is even harder to watch those problems pull family away from other family members, and seeing them be hurt by it all.

Sucks.

I trust that we will be okay. That doesn’t make it not sucky right now, but it gives me hope to trust in my instincts and to let it all just be for now. God is at work in ways we do not know nor understand.

Thank you, God, for this chance for growth. Please, keep us safe and well and together. Help to heal all our wounds. Please, keep our home safe. In your name, we pray. Amen.

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The baby woke up in the middle of the night, as is her regular schedule. However, for the second night in a row, she has found herself wide awake after nursing and has taken it upon herself to have a fun time with her dad. Obviously, it is adorable and wonderful. Also, my husband doesn’t see her much right now. So, we allow it. But I cut it a bit short tonight so that we all could get back to sleep.

Hilariously, she was lying down with her dad, and all was quiet, then a sudden massive fart came out of her. My husband and I met eyes and then both silently chuckled. The baby gave a huge grin all on her own, like she was laughing at her own fart. It was great.

Anyway, goodnight!

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Tonight, I am tired. Very tired, in fact. But I got pockets made and out into a dress and I redid the invisible zipper on that same dress. I still need to add another invisible zipper onto it, but it has the other work done on it, so I technically can wear it now, if it comes to it. I actually really like this dress and I want to wear it. But I have to be careful about it, because I can’t nurse on the left side without taking off the whole top of the dress. Thus the need for another invisible zipper. But I’ve got to buy that first, then I can put it in. Anyway…

I’m exhausted. I asked my mom to consider coming early tomorrow so that I can exercise before the massage I have scheduled – don’t worry, not only is it at the massage school where massages are less than half the normal prices, but it’s with a voucher we purchased on discount two Christmases ago, so it isn’t costing us any money this time. But I’ve now not gotten to bed at all at a reasonable time, and it wouldn’t surprise me if I don’t really wake up slash get up until after she gets here.

On that note, I’m kind of stressed to go to sleep. Some people came into our neighborhood last night to steal cars. They stole our next-door-neighbor’s brand new truck out of his driveway. It really scared me to hear that, because my husband leaves his cars out front filled with important and valuable things all the time. Maybe not filled with them, but the items are definitely in there. It would be more than the sadness and the hassle of a stolen or broken-into car, by a lot.

Dear God, please, keep our possessions safe and in our possession. Keep us and our home safe and well. Make us happy, healthy, holy, and together on our family, please. Guide us clearly with this plane and job situation, please, and promptly. Thank you for these opportunities. Help us to be the people you call us to be, our best selves. In your name, we pray. Amen.

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I think I had a demon or three removed from me yesterday. And I’m not even joking.

It was wild. My body was convulsing in all sorts of ways, my legs fully flexed, and it felt as though various parts of me were being held onto and pulled on, then suddenly released at different times… like someone grabbing on somewhere, being wrenched off, and then grabbing the next possible place, again and again. But then it got weaker and weaker, and then a final release happened and it all was calm, the convulsions stopped, the weird breathing where I kept exhaling without inhaling and the intense crying all just stopped… and I was calm and at ease and very tired.

I rested there in the chair for maybe ten minutes or so, then got up when I felt the urge to do so. I blew my nose and marveled at my reflection in the mirror – I didn’t look the same, though I couldn’t have explained what specifically looked different. I felt different. I felt emptier, somehow. My body felt genuinely like it was pounds lighter, like how it had felt before I was pregnant. Looking at myself, I kind of laughed and said, “Hi.” I was myself again, fully. I could feel that. And I could feel a space, like an absence, like how the bed next to me is warm still when someone next to me gets out. But also kind of like how my belly and bowels feel after a full bowel movement. (Hmm… Gross. Anyway…) A good kind of emptiness, of voiding.

Ever since, I have noticed how light I still feel and how easy my brain runs. I have thoughts and I have worries and concerns, but they’re all just normal again, like they used to be. I don’t go down a spiral under a barrage of increasingly terrifying concerns and fears or ‘what if’ scenarios. I just have the single thought or concern, and then I move on naturally, usually without even trying. I have normal levels of concern now… again. And I haven’t felt panicked at all, despite the fact that I used to experience a sense of panic several times a day. I’ve just been kind of calm. Sure, things have bothered me, pissed me off, even. But I make my complaint and then am pretty much okay about the situation. I have my dislike or upset and then move on with things, do what I need to do. The thoughts end there on the subject.

Life is very different now from a day and a half ago.

It feels like normal again. Like the life I enjoy living. (Versus the one I’ve been struggling to survive lately. And wanting to ‘get through’ to the next phase, it’s been so hard lately.)

So, yeah… I guess I experienced an exorcism yesterday. It feels so bizarre even to write or say that, like I must be a crazy person. But I’m not. I’m actually sane right now, and I can see how much I hadn’t been sane these recent months. Wild.

She just kept telling me not to resist anything. Just let it happen. We were talking about how a priest had healed my uterus at Church, and how I had told him that I believed God Could heal me right now, but that I felt like I wasn’t worthy of it. And she said, “You see? Half belief… half healing.”

And then I broke down crying and it all started.

She isn’t even Christian.

She just said that I don’t have to go looking – ‘God is in you and you can heal right now. So, let’s just do it, let’s handle it right now, okay?’

I could feel the being being ripped out of me, and I could feel it fighting not to go. And I trusted her words and didn’t resist anything and just let it happen.

It was so, so weird.

And how I kept exhaling, almost like a cat hissing, it was so strong and intense. I couldn’t relax my toes or thighs or calves or abdomen the entire time, and my legs eventually started stamping the ground, having me writhe back and forth in the chair like I was being yanked around… always exhaling, rarely inhaling, like a three-to-one ratio that didn’t make sense scientifically. (I even had a thought of how many pounds I must be releasing with all this CO2…)

The weirdest part was how I ended up arched way backward, my mouth wide open… muscles fully flexed, fingers and wrists curled like a raptor… I kept having the thought, ‘I must look possessed right now.’

The irony, of course, is that I must have actually been so. haha

So, it was something else. Literally.(!!!)

Thank you, God. Please, keep us safe and well and together and keep our home safe and well and together. Thank you for this life and for your healing love. In your name, we pray. Amen.

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Something truly scary happened this morning.

I pray that God heal us all from this morning’s events, wholly, fully, truly with His hand and His love. In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.

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It’s been interesting to see how different people relate to us and to our baby every since I had her. Some people want us to come over, and then spend the whole time holding her and playing with her as much as so will allow them. Others, ask often for us to make a trek to visit them, and then spend not even ten minutes holding or playing with the baby combined. It’s quite weird.

I understand wanting to see the baby. But I would think people have a sense of fairness. You know, if you live far and you just want to say hi briefly, it doesn’t make sense to have us drive a long way for you just to say hi. You come to us. Or, at least, find a way to meet in the middle or something. I don’t know. Maybe those folks have no sense of the effort it requires on our end, and they think we’re just hanging about and looking for something to do all the time, and so a long drive is no big deal for us. They probably have no clue how much it messes with our sleep quality, let alone the hassle it truly is to go drive a ways and then spend time elsewhere like that. Perhaps they aren’t being malicious or mean – they’re just oblivious.

It’s still annoying, though. I get annoyed how my mom always wants me to come meet her partway somewhere, so she can see the baby. But she usually spends most of our time together physically helping me, holding the baby and burping her and changing her diaper and walking her around and all. So, it’s just the effort of getting there and getting home, really, and then I get a bit of a rest and a lot of love while visiting. (I also say no sometimes and don’t go. And she accepts that. But she also comes to us sometimes, too.) So, it’s not so bad. It’s usually quite nice in the end.

Anyway… tonight was a weird one for me. My baby is a little too active for me to be able to hold her while eating. And the dog was not reliable enough for me to set her on the ground safely. So, I just hung out and chatted and held the baby. But no one seemed to notice that I hadn’t gotten a plate of food. It was a friend I don’t know who asked if I’d eaten and offered to hold the baby for me. Like I said, it was just a bit weird. I was okay. But it was weird. And I’m very tired from it.

Also, I had a bit of a struggle on the whole financial status front tonight. No one was being nasty or anything. But everyone was just sharing about all their summer travels. Obviously, we haven’t had any ‘travels’ for the past few years. We had a weekend trip to Galveston once, and canceled anything else we planned for work/money reasons. We never got to use the companion pass we’d worked hard to make happen. (I actually feel really guilty about that one… really guilty…)

And I know we’re doing the right things now. We both did the whole ‘what you’re supposed to do’ kind of job route for a while. And we both ended up rather miserable with it, neither of us wanting to stay in our career. It has just been tough timing for us both to be making almost no money and for it to be for so long. It wasn’t what we’d hoped or planned to have happen, but it’s what’s happened. So, we’re rolling with it. I trust fully that things will go beautifully for us financially. We just have to keep at it right now. I pray a lot for clear guidance, and it seems like we keep getting that. So, one day, we’ll be able to join in the talks of our recent travels. Just not right now. And it’s weird how that simple fact – “Just not right now” – makes it feel a lot like we’re failing at life; like all the rest isn’t true. So, I’m feeling that sense of failure strongly right now. But I also know that we’ll be okay, and that it’s okay for me to be sad right now about that.

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I have had a headache most of the day today. It has made me want to curl up and cry and sleep. Perhaps it is for lack of those things that my head hurts. Maybe it’s water. Maybe both.

Whatever the case, I shall drink some more water now and go to sleep.

God, heal us, please, and make us well. Grant us beneficial sleep tonight and each night. Help us to be well and safe and whole and together. Keep us safe, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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Somehow, I remembered to register for the Home Depot kids event today. I was supposed to do it first thing at midnight. I was even awake then. It has been on my calendar for yesterday to remind me to do it at midnight last night. But I totally forgot. Then, today, I somehow remembered and I got registered. Turns out, they don’t fill up in an instant like I had anticipated. So, that’s a positive, I suppose. I registered at two different stores early this afternoon. (The first one turned out not to be the right one – it was automatically assigned when I opened the website, and we have at least three stores that are closer than that one, if not more. So, I registered at one I had actually wanted to use.) Now, I just have to remember to go get the actual kit in over a month when the time comes. Fingers crossed, because it’s a cool one! A crop duster!

Anyway, I ended up sucked into the phone again today, doing various seemingly important things. Yes, they mattered. But I hate spending time using my phone when I’m hands-on with my child. And my child has been very needy the past week-ish, and there’s a lot of hands-on time right now. So, it was doubly frustrating to have to deal with any extra stuff on the phone today because of that (both the hassle of it and the decrease in attention it gives my child when we’re together).

God, help me to choose less time spent on my phone each day. I have felt the guidance at nighttime – thank you. Please, continue it in the daytime, too. Please, keep our family safe and well and whole and together, especially my husband and our baby. Guide us kindly and clearly forward. Show us exactly what to do these next 24 and 72 hours for our financial future. Help us to solidify the next step in the process for us to reach financial stability and reliability, and a beautiful and fulfilling career for us both. In your name, we pray. Amen.

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Sometimes, people’s… behavior, we’ll say, just pisses me off. I suppose it is all just part of the trials and tribulations involved in growing into the people God calls us to be. We can be grateful for the trials, for our growth through them allows us to be the people we want to be and to lead the lives we want to lead.

It can still be extremely difficult in the moment of the bad behavior, nonetheless.

God, help us clearly and kindly please. Guide us lovingly forward through these trials, and encourage us effectively, please. Keep us safe and well and together, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.

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