I know I typically update on Saturday, but I was sick all day yesterday, and seriously slept nearly all day. I think I was only up for around 4-6 hours yesterday. It was good though.....my body needed it, and I have started feeling a little better today thankfully! Also, I knew that today would definitely be a day to write about! Got to see the nephew and celebrate Easter with the family (well, most of them anyway!).
Today, my family gathered around a table to eat lunch, we weren't all there, but it was still good. We were definitely missing Josh, Kelli, and Christopher Ryan, but we made the best of it. Krystal and mom made lunch, then Isaac had an Easter egg hunt! (I will have to add pictures later....apparently the internet hates the idea of pictures right now!)
After the Easter egg hunt, he went inside to get all of his Easter eggs opened and gone through! He also got his Easter basket! My mom has been making us Rice Crispie Easter baskets for as long as I can remember. From the time you are able to eat real food, you get an Easter basket made of rice crispies! I love it!
Despite being sick, and feeling like crud all day (well all weekend actually) it was a good visit home! I always love when I get to see the family and I am so excited that with only a month of school left, I will be home for good! I am so proud of myself for sticking with it and finishing, even when it got difficult! Now, my reward with be watching my niece grow up and not having to be around only in spurts like I was with Isaac these first couple years!
Today though, as I looked at my nephew, the gravity of what Jesus did really hit me. I began to look at him and how much hurt it would cause to lose him, and he is not even my child. I cannot even begin to imagine what God must have been feeling. Besides simply losing his child, he also had to turn His back on him when he needed Him the most. God cannot be in the presence of sin, and so I imagine the hardest thing for Him to do in all the history and future of time, was to turn His back on His one and only child. I mean, Isaac bonked his head today, and I scooped him right up and kissed his head to make it all better. I cannot even imagine having to turn my back on him for something even as simple as a bumped head. Let alone turn my back while he was being nailed to a cross to take the sins of a world that hated him! Anyway.....that was my food for thought today!
As for the rest of my weekend: I got very little accomplished that I set out to do. I planned on working on my Teacher Work Sample, didn't happen. Planned on writing lesson plans, also did not happen (but they were started and will get finished very soon). However, I feel like there are times in life, where you need to put some things on hold to take those opportunities that come few and far between. For me this weekend, it has meant resting and trying to get better, and cuddling up with my nephew to watch Thomas the Tank Engine. Those precious moments are moments that I know will start to fade all too soon, and let's face it. I would much rather remember cuddling with him, than working on my homework.....besides, it will get done.....it always does!
I shall update sometime in the near future regarding my dr. appointment tomorrow. Kind of relieved and kind of nervous, but I think it is getting to the point where surgery is going to become the only real option to determine what is wrong with me and to fix it......all I knwo for certain, is that I am in pain.....and I am ready to be done!
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