Frustration and Faith

I hate it when people give you the run-around. It's been happening with this one organization for what seems like too long now. First it was that I should keep breastfeeding so I wouldn't have to get their vouchers for formula. I feel I did fairly well on the breastfeeding front, considering I pumped my milk for three months. I was sick of pumping, sick of being up around the clock to do so and felt I had done okay for the first go at it (even my doctor gave me a pat on the back, reminding me that both of our medical problems right after delivery and the ones still going on didn't set us up for a great start... we aim higher next time).

Anyway, then come to find out Ryan has issues with formula, but it's too late to turn back the clock now that the milk is dried up. So, the organization says get a prescription from good old Doc and they will make sure I get the one he can tolerate. Well, today, I show up with the script and they said I need a note of diagnosis! So very frustrating.

*Big deep breath*

On another note, I've been reading about faith. It's so easy to have faith in the good times, but when your back is up against the wall faith is hidden in the deep dark corners of life and we try to draw on other things, like logic, reason and past experience. Hebrews 11 can't say enough about the people who had deep faith in God. How would Moses know when he raised his hands that the waters would part? He just had faith and it happened. The list in that chapter is a good one. I've enjoyed reading it over and over again on my study of faith, so I share it with you so that maybe you will find a nugget of gold for yourself.

Here's Ben wearing Adam's hat. While exploring our kitchen and coat rack the hat feel on his head. Ben cried. So, I had to show him that hats are fun to play with.

Ryan was very excited to be in his exersaucer on Friday morning. He's trying to hold Louis the Lobster in his right hand =)

We also saw Fr. Dan (the priest that married us). He met Ryan for the first time. We ate wonderful double chocolate chip cookies and Maggie's Yummy Burritos.

This weekend we went apple picking with Jeremy, Maggie and their daughter Marianna.

Sarah and Kyle with Ryan.
Okay this photo of our Labor Day get together is a bit dark, but it's the only one of all of us together!

Little Ben!

BLESSINGS

This past weekend was lots of fun. Our dear friends Kyle and Sarah were visiting. We had lots of fun. We played Dutch Blitz, ate Shain's of Maine ice cream, ate at Fi Wood Chinese restaurant, had a bbq, played guitar hero, talked, talked and talked and the girls made jewlery and played with Ryan and the boys played Magic.

When Kyle and Sarah left on Monday night, Adam and I both agreed we were sad to see them leave. We had a lovely time and still agree we are, dispite distance and a bad habit of not keeping in touch, closer to them than many of our other friends. When we get together, we can talk about anything and it always seems like old times.

Sarah made new friends with Ben, the boy I babysit. I am pleased to write here that he will be around a lot longer than I was thinking. His mom said she was leaving his dad and then I suppose that changed over the weekend when he promised to go to counseling with her. I really hope things work out for them. This is her second marriage.

And, in January I will be taking care of a little girl who will be three months old then. Adam and I will be back to what it was like when I had a newspaper job, though we have some debt to take care of before it's really back to old times. I have to say we feel really blessed. God continues to provide in so many ways. We've really learned a lot about ourselves and our finances through our situation. We just never thought one of us would get fired and were one of the many people in this country who weren't saving money like we should have been. While there was money in the bank, there wasn't three months of living in the savings.

Anyway, we are just so thankful and we appreciate the many prayers that have been said for us.