Excitement is in the air!

After spending a week at Notre Dame on retreat with my teens, I kinda did a 180 of sorts and hit the ground running at work getting ready for Vacation Bible School!

For a few different reasons, VBS has not happened at this parish in about 3 years. So I've had my fair amount of concerns of if I could pull it off. You know me over here, Mrs. Worry Wart.

However, between having 20 registrations in a week and more than a handful of people coming forward to help put this together, I'm feeling much more excited and hopeful that we can get this off and going.

The theme we're going with is out of a Loyola Press book of Catholic Vacation Bible School themes, and is "Living in the Kingdom," so I've been busy all week constructing box castle towers and envisioning a welcoming, grand environment for the kids to walk into. I have a BUNCH more to do this Sunday and Monday before it begins (we're doing a three evening program), but first...

...wedding in Dallas! One of my childhood best friends that I went to grade school AND college with is getting married, and I'm pretty thrilled for her. She's found a spectacular guy, and they complement each other very well. I'll be flying there and back on Saturday.

Also today, I had my latest NFP follow-up appointment. I know some of you reading this know about it, but I haven't blogged about it up to this point to avoid emotional outbursts or being too flippant with mine or Matt's privacy. But with his "O.K." I feel much more comfortable giving this update. We have been trying to build our family for 20 months (I've lost count these past few months, I had to do the mental math when I went in for my appointment today) and have been seeing an NFP physician since last October. Nothing too intensive has happened up to this point. I've mostly been on vitamins and amoxicillin and guaifenisen and discovered my dislike of taking so many pills. After two frustrating appointments where nothing moved forward , the doctor agreed to have labs drawn on me.  (I have to say as a disclaimer that I'm not upset at the doctor for taking things the slow way. When we first were deciding whether to start in town or go straight to Omaha, I felt God was calling me to grow in patience in the process. I've had to eat my words for thinking, "Let's take this slow," because boy has it felt slow, but I'm also finding grace in the slow.) This next week we'll be doing a draw to find out some of my hormone levels. I'm not sure when we'll hear any results, but I'm just excited to finally be moving forward again in this process. Please pray for us as we hopefully start finding some more answers. I've been praying to Brian a lot to intercede for us, so I know he's working hard in heaven.