Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Someone Please Tell Grandma J That Jackie Is Not A Liar
Ever since Harry had enough of West Michigan Winters, Jackie has come to Kalamazoo to spend Monday night with Helen. Sometimes things don't work out, but for the most part they do. Helen tries to act like she doesn't want Jackie to go to the effort to come, and she will swoon; "Oh, Bob will miss you!", to which Jackie replies that Bob loves to sit in front of the TV with his remote, scanning all 75 channels about every 2 minutes, driving her crazy, and what a relief it is to let Bob have a night by himself to flip channels. So believing that she is doing Jackie and Bob a favor by letting Jackie stay Monday nights, everything normally goes very well. 
However, last week the weather was really bad and Jackie couldn't come. We had a big one day thaw this Sunday, with a lot of rain, but then it got a lot colder and we started to get into a Lake effect mode. Jackie actually started out mid-afternoon Monday to go to Kzoo, but turned around at the D&W, thinking "this is crazy". The roads were icy, it was snowing hard, and the wind was blowing. So she called her mom to let her know that it just wasn't possible to get there that day. "Um, it's sunny here" says Helen. "Maybe I see a wisp of snow". After about 20 minutes of conversation, in which I hear Jackie say about 10 times; "It really is snowing pretty hard here", she tells Helen that she will try to make it Tuesday. The above picture shows our weather Tuesday morning. I talk to a truck driver who was on M6 in Grand Rapids, and he said that it was total black ice, with a lot of delivery trucks having slid off. All of our roads around here are icy, and we are still in that Lake effect mode, so no trip to the city of promise today. Post script. Remember that play with the great title, "Your arms too short to box with God"? That's what I think of when I see Jackie try to toss the snow far enough over the pile that it doesn't fall short and slide back onto the driveway. Post Script 2. Why go to Colorado to ski? Our slopes are a short walk from the house, with great hot chocolate after a hard day of schussing.
Friday, February 08, 2008
From the Freezer to the Oven...
I know many of you have already heard but I am FINALLY pregnant again. James and I actually had to go through In-Vitro Fertiliztion this time around. We had the procedure done for the first time in November - the doctor retrieved 28 eggs from me and after playing the numbers game, we decided to have them fertilize only 5 of them. All 5 were successfully fertilized so they put 2 back into me and froze the other 3. We were pregnant in November for a short time but the embryos for some reason did not survive. So...in January they "thawed" the remaining 3 embryos and put them back in me. It is a weird feeling knowing we had 3 children frozen for 2 months! Anyway, we just came back from the doctors office and I am pregnant with ONE little baby with a teeny-tiny heartbeat.
The picture is of the 3 embryos that they thawed in January. They took the picture (blown up a bazillion times) right before they transferred them back to me. The one in the middle was in the best condition so probably the one we have now. The other two were not as good but still could have worked.
Our doctor said our due date is October 5th but they of course did not include Leap Day (who can forget that???) so he changed it to October 4th!
-Carrie
Friday, February 01, 2008
We're headed to South Africa
Dave and I are flying out of Grand Rapids today (hopefully, it's snowing pretty bad today), flying into Atlanta, and then on to Johannasburg, South Africa. We should get there Saturday afternoon.
Dave will be preaching at the Soweto Vineyard Church on Sunday, and I will be broadcasting my show from there starting on Monday, you can take a listen online, if you'd like. (click on the listen live at the very top of the page) It will air from 10:40 a.m. til 3:00p.m, Eastern Standard time.
There will also be talky blogs, interview and pictures here.
Any prayers would be appreciated. The girls are doing great, their Grandma and Grandpa from California are here, Ellie's in heaven because she'll get paid attention to non-stop, and Mallory just thinks we're going to Target.
Dave will be preaching at the Soweto Vineyard Church on Sunday, and I will be broadcasting my show from there starting on Monday, you can take a listen online, if you'd like. (click on the listen live at the very top of the page) It will air from 10:40 a.m. til 3:00p.m, Eastern Standard time.
There will also be talky blogs, interview and pictures here.
Any prayers would be appreciated. The girls are doing great, their Grandma and Grandpa from California are here, Ellie's in heaven because she'll get paid attention to non-stop, and Mallory just thinks we're going to Target.
