Good Morning

Good Morning, everyone!

I hope you had a really good weekend. It was a nice weekend at our house, and we're started on a new phase of bedrest. Namely, several of our family members and friends are gearing up to start back to school. Many of the people who had been helping us with Ruby are a part of the education force. :) It was wonderfully helpful to begin bedrest at the start of summer, because each of them has been able to help out during their summer breaks.

Now, however, they're all getting in their final vacations, and they'll be going back to school soon. :( I am so grateful and thankful for their helps, and I'll honestly miss seeing them on such a regular basis.

A HUGE THANK-YOU to the following people:
Gigi
Annie
Aunt Kim
Autumn
Brittani

Your help has been great, and I am honestly thankful that you guys are working in the public schools of our communities. We need more caring, dedicated, grounded women like you teaching our children!!

Also, it's Monday, which means I should do an installment of "Bedrest Is". :) Have no fear, I won't be letting you down. However, it is a bit different this week. :)

Bedrest is...

* driving your husband insane with over 50 hours worth of "blog design."

* obsessing over little details that no one else will notice.

* dreaming of the future...whether that means getting up to get your own dinner or meeting the person who left you a really supportive comment.

* finally having the time to put some real effort and energy into a long-time dream.

* being nervous and scared to put that dream into action.

* and lastly (for this week),

Bedrest is launching a new blog that you can call "your own." :)

Mike helped me create a space of my own over at Lindsay I AM. (http://www.lindsayiam.com) It's not a lot to speak of at this time, but I'm hoping it will become a fun place soon. Maybe I'll see you over there!

Don't worry, I'm not going to stop blogging here. Not2Us is a space for our family. Anything that's happening in our life as a family will be documented here. This blog is meant to be a chronicle of sorts for our chidren. That will not stop. :)

Lindsay I AM is just a place for me to be me. I felt like I needed a place for all the "extras." The stuff that people might not be interested in. I don't want to make you wade through a bunch of "Lindsay" posts to get to the Burke updates and Ruby pictures. :) Therefore, Lindsay I AM will be a place for my random inserts.

Well, that's about it for this morning.

We have a doctor's appointment tomorrow at 1:15. Please be praying for a few specific things:

1. The amniotic fluid levels went down after I had the flu. I have also been having a slightly faster rate of leakage. Pray that God is miraculously repleneshing the amniotic fluid. Pray against another decrease.

2. Pray that Burke is growing and developing faster than the normal rate. We are getting really close to a point where he will have a small chance at life, if he's born early. Pray him to that point and beyond!

3. Pray for our emotions. We are into Week Five of this journey, and I have to disagree with whomever said the first weeks are the hardest. I find myself getting discouraged more easily nowadays. I can see a few signs of wear on Mike and Ruby, as well. This is very different for our family, and it takes a lot of sacrifice from all of us. Pray that God would give us the portion we need in each area of our lives. We are incredibly blessed, and I can't even believe we've made it this far. Pray that we would stay miraculously focused on the reason for these sacrifices. Burke will absolutely be worth a few months of discomfort. :) (And I've already got great bribery and ammunition to get him to wait until marriage for sex! If I have to go without out it for several months WHILE I'M MARRIED for his sake, then he can certainly wait until he's married for my sake.) :)

Have a wonderful day, ladies and gentlemen! We are blessed to know you!