Hi there, my fine, blogging friends. Just a word of encouragement before heading off to Portland for an appointment with Miles to get his prosthetic shell for his blind eye. (I'll post pictures when I get home!) I just wanted to encourage you all to keep up in your faithful endeavor to keep in touch with the entire cyber world while still maintaining a semblance of a "balanced" life. (Who is it that we have to blame for that ridiculous oxymoron??). Just to let you know that sometimes there are actually material rewards for all this punching of keys! No, I have not been hired by a famous magazine to do their humorous editorials! But, it was something just as exciting! Yesterday at church, a friend approached me and told me she had a gift for me. After reading my blog, she gathered together all her Fuzzi Bunz cloth diapers and covers (you know, the NICE cloth diapers - not the way my mother had to do it!) and "loaned" them to me for the coming baby! I was overcome! I blogged about my desire to swaddle my baby in something other than bleached environment killers, and look what happened! Aren't friends great? Isn't God good?! So... for all you fellow blog-artists, keep at it! You never know what may happen!

I was doing some research today on Blake's digestive issues, and this was the ad that came up on the side of the page: