That's life

Wow, I was just reviewing how often I have been able to post since taking my job at the end of January. It seems as though my life has gotten a little busy since then because I am hardly able to get to my computer at home to post. I will continue to try to post at least once a week though, for all those family members who like to take a peek into our little world. :-)

Speaking of busyness - this last weekend my husbands sister and her husband came for a short visit. We met up with them at their condo friday night and stayed with them for the evening. It was a very nice condo, with a fireplace. Now any mom with a 2 yr old, is having red flashers going off in their heads right about now at the thought of a fireplace. To put it simply, Josiah found out just how hot fireplaces can get. He got too close, and bumped into the metal part with the backs of his 3 middle fingers and proceeded to fuss to me immediately about it. Once I saw the damage to his fingers, we got him some ice and tried to tell him he was going to be ok. But he was too upset and cried for probably close to 2 hrs becuase his fingers hurts. He would jsut hold up his fingers to me and say "maaa maaa" in that crying sniffly voice of a 2 yr old, and of course my heart broke becuase I felt like the worst mother for allowing such a thing to happen to my precious child. Anyway, we went to Rite Aid and got him some burn medication and bandaids and advil. That combination seemed to work becuase shortly after criving down the road he stopped crying and then he was chattering again. Just like that, he was done with his crisis. But not forgotten, he even showed us all night his bandaids and made a terrible face about them. I think my brother-in-law said it perfectly, I think he was just mad that the pain didn't go away. As soon as we got the medicine into him and it started to work, he was just fine and seemed to deal with everything fine after that.

Phew, so one crisis overcome. The next day, on Saturday we decided to go on a short hike in the afternoon. It had rained that morning so things were still a bit soggy, but the sun was out and it warmed us we walked through the beautiful, lush forests of Point Lobos State Park. We finally made it to the coast and walked along and saw so many beautiful birds. Josiah had a blast! Whenever we take the little guy on a hike he has to gather "stuff." His favorite thing to gather is rocks. I still have yet to discover what makes a rock worthy of picking up, but he studies the ground and then picks up the tiniest rocks, that are always so pretty. He is also found of most sticks, of all sizes. The small he likes to toss along the trail and the large ones he enjoys pretending they are his swords. A fondness he has learned from his cousin, Justin. :-) The hike was beautiful! We saw all kinds of birds, a deer, 2 otters in the ocean (hubby thinks they were performing spring activities) and small hermit crabs. What a joy it is to take your child into the outdoors and show them God's great beauty. We are so blessed with so much beauty that we so often take for granted.

The rest of our weekend with them went very well. We stayed home on Sunday and did a lot of resting and visiting, and took one short trip to the grocery store. We were sad to see them go on Monday morning but were so thankful for the few short days we did have with them.

This week hubby is on a business trip in Sacremento so it's just my son and I at home. Josiah was asking for "da da" last night as he went to bed and this morning when he woke up. Poor things misses his daddy. :-) I thought that was cute. Nice to finally understand the litte guy.

This is getting long so I will sign off till I meet you here again. Blessings to you all!

(Stay tuned.....Pictures to follow soon of our hike)