Breaking the chandelier and Rachelle's status

Well, for the last 16 hours or so, my aunts and I have been doing more home stuff. It was pretty rough and I have to admit that I gave out before they did. Pretty shameful. I also managed to break a glass light bulb cover on the chandelier in our new house which was a bummer. I used to watch that show, "Trading Spaces" on TLC with Rachelle and thought those people always looked kind of exhausted when they were doing their jobs. Now, I understand a little more of what that is like.

And now for the real reason you are reading this blog...Rachelle is doing fine. They were monitoring her until about 2:30 AM last night and finally decided she was OK. The bad part about that was that 2:30 AM isn't a decent time to go to bed. However, she seemed like she was doing well anyway when I talked with her. She was just glad they didn't have to put her on the mag again. It is a day to day gamble to see if they are going to stick her on it. I think she is now big enough that she can't type very much anymore so I don't know if she will be able to do any more posts on her blog. The doctor came in and said that the goal is still 34 weeks. She asked him if 33 weeks would be OK but he said "no" so I guess that is that. She is just afraid that they are going to get way to big in that time. I am guessing that she must be getting noticeably bigger every day (which is something I never thought I would say in a public about my wife). Anyway, I guess that we are just going to push for 34 weeks but I will go out there anyway just in case.

A really nice guy from Australia whose wife had triplets sent me an email the other day commenting that he feels my pain. It is nice to hear that there are people out there who do. We had the pest control people out yesterday and I am really glad that we did because, like most new houses, this one has some bug issues. I went out and saw a bunch of dead bugs that were the result of the treatment they did yesterday. One of those bugs was a scorpion. Although, scorpions are kind of cool when seen from a distance, I don't really like them in my house (especially with a bunch of babies). Also, as we were moving the bricks out to the back yard, my aunt Linda picked one up that had a huge spider in it. The body of the spider was about an inch but with the legs and everything it looked to be about 3 inches. It pretty much made me jumpy for the next hour or so such that when I was picking up some bricks, some sand dropped on my foot and caused me to yell and throw my bricks into the air.

Today I listened to a podcast that talked about humility. I have learned that you should never pray for humility because you will get it and it will not come to you in the way that you had hoped. I seem to be experiencing dose after dose of the type of humility that comes in ways that are not as I had hoped. I often feel not quite up to the tasks I am facing. My aunts came in and did more in 6 hours than I had managed to do in three weeks. Every once in a while, I realize what is happening in my life and it almost knocks me over. However, most of the time, I have a calm assurance that it will all work out. So far, there seems to be many things that are just working out...except for the broken chandelier.