Rough Week

Even though we had a nice day off this week- it ended up being pretty rough. On our day off, we actually got a lot done in Ella's nursery. Then the rest of the week came. Paul ended up with low grade fever and a severely pulled hamstring by the weeks end. I am hanging in there, trying to take care of Hudson and Paul. We had a few late nights with church, meet the teacher night, and Paul's first co-ed softball game with the church league. Hudson got bit again at 'school' and we had to ask for the incident report a few times. It has just been crazy. We are trying to get him into another mother's day out program, but we will wait and see what the Lord has in store for us. Then came tonight. After staying late at school and picking up Hudson, we decided to go shopping for JD's birthday party. We should have gone to eat first, but we decided to go to Toys R Us first...and Hudson didn't like this idea one bit...he wanted to go eat first. Our hour and a half trip didn't go so well at Toys R Us....they didn't have the toy we wanted to get JD, so we settled for another toy, which Paul is taking back in the morning and exchanging for another toy that we think JD would like better. We did however get out of Toys R Us without buying any Elmo toys for Hudson. It was shocking!! I know our weekend will only get better. We are going to play with our friends tomorrow evening at JD's 2nd birthday party. It should be a blast. We will see how things go.
I just thought we would share our hard weeks as well as our good weeks....life if just hard sometimes, but the Lord brings you through it all. Hudson curled up in my lap tonight and we rocked until he snuggled up and fell asleep and it made all the things from this week fade away. It was wonderful. His little hand was resting on my 9 month tummy....I told him he is going to be such a great big brother. As we go through the weekend, we will continue finding the joy in everyday life and the little things the Lord puts in our lives to lift us up.