A Long Weekend!

Usually a long weekend is accompanied by an extra day off from work for Tom but that is not the case in this long weekend.  We are experiencing our first challenge of child sickness with Titus :(  Despite the fact that mommy not only stays home with Titus and has hesitated to even put him in the nursery at church on Sunday mornings and every time we are exposed to sickness I drink that nice Emergen-C stuff as preventative for him and I he still caught daddy's nasty cold.  I think the Emergen-C has actually worked in the past for him, even once I was sick and took it so that he would get anything beneficial from it through breast milk and he didn't get sick then.  But this cold that Tom had was nasty!  So Titus' nose had been getting a little clear drainage earlier this week and then yesterday it hit him good and he didn't nap very well yesterday and I thought he wouldn't sleep very well last night but he did okay with only some coughing really now and then.  But this morning we found a very stuffy, dried crusted, sad looking baby in his crib, which was not fun for any of us to deal with getting rid of.  Our poor baby boy has been a little bit playful as the day went on but he was very sad looking with his horrible breathing sounds and very cuddly because of it.  Which makes any parent happy to have a cuddly baby.

So please pray for him, he did get some good rest today and has been sleeping now for about 2 hours.  But as a result we stayed home today to keep our germs to ourselves and to let him rest and we sure did miss seeing lots of our friends today at church.  And we did miss the fellowship that church brings into our lives and the teaching of the Word.  I am so thankful for the church body that we have and the men that serve in our church as Pastors.

P.S. We did make our big purchase this weekend but were disappointed to find out that the 20% off coupon could not be used on strollers!  We did use it on the jogging kit for it though and we did get to use our dividend on the stroller.  So we missed out on saving $124 on it but it was a great investment for our child(ren) and that just means we get more of a dividend back on it next year!