Anxious!

Cerys is feeling better, but will be staying home with me and Bales tomorrow. She is sad about it, but I think it's best the decision for her to rest one more day.

I'm really anxious about my scan tomorrow- praying everything is okay with the baby. I'm also excited about finding out what we are having, and hoping it will be visible!!!

I have no idea why I'm re-posting about this, I probably won't sleep much tonight!

See y'all tomorrow!

Sniffles and Sonograms

We have a sick little girl on our hands. Thank you Nursery school. Cerys came home on Friday looking (and acting!) a bit rough. By that night she was so stopped up and couldn't breathe. Needless to say, there was not much sleep in our house last night. Momma needs an extra does of patience today, that's for sure! She is sleeping now, thankfully, and I am praying she wakes up feeling a bit better. I can't remember the last time she's had such a bad cold.

We have our big 20 week scan on Monday afternoon (9:20am Texas time, 3:20pm our time). We would appreciate your prayers so much. First of all that the baby is healthy and growing as it should be. Also, we are wanting to find out what we are having- another little girl or a boy- and I've been told twice that there is a good chance it won't happen very easily. I was even talking to a lady just this morning who is a few weeks ahead of me, and she told me that at her scan the sonographer told her that if "it" was visible then she would let her know, but there would be no special effort made to find out. And of course her baby did not cooperate so she doesn't know what she is having and is really bummed. So, I am praying for a friendly sonographer-who's having a great day- and that this baby would cooperate and let us see! I didn't run into this problem with Cerys, because many of you know we wanted to be surprised, so I never asked! Then with Bailey we were in Dallas and the sonographer was wonderful, she had me rolling from side to side to get Bales to move around more so we could find out. So, I am trying not to get my hopes up for Monday, but if we do find out, we will be sure and let y'all know!

I lit a fallish -smelling candle this morning and made some cupcakes today, in hopes of cheering up our home a bit. I told the girls I would let them put the icing and sprinkles on after naptime...I hardly ever want naptime to end around here, but I'm ready to eat me a cupcake!!! Isn't that typical- on the days you want them to wake up so you can go somewhere or do something, they sleep forever!!! I am NOT complaining though! Cerys definitely needs her rest today...so do I, why am I not sleeping right now???

It's a Fiesta Y'all!

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We have some awesome friends!!! The lovely postman brought us a package this morning from a company in London who sells Mexican food. I won't say who, don't want to embarrass them or anything, but we were on Skype the other night and we mentioned missing Mexican food and they ordered these items online and had it sent to us. How awesome is that?

In case you can't see, there are 2 packages of corn tortillas in the back and a bag of fresh chilies!

Thank you so much- you know who you are! ;) This had made my day. It seems I talk about food a lot on here.

PICKLES and A&W

Yesterday after dropping Cerys off at Nursery, Bales and I rode the bus into town to look for a few things. One thing I like to do is go into a department store that has a small American food section...I've mentioned it before. You can buy things like...Lucky Charms, cake mixes, oreos, canned pumpkin, and a a few other random items. I wasn't really looking for anything in particular, but something caught my eye and I HAD to have them.


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DILL PICKLES! I love dill pickles and have enjoyed every bite after sour bite! :) I also bought 2 cans of A&W Rootbeer (no, to my UK friends, it's not alcoholic). I won't tell you how much I paid for these 3 items, but it was sure worth it.

Now, if only they would start selling cans of bean dip...

S'more Please!

This is a really random picture of our wild child- Marc had some free time Friday morning, so the 3 of us enjoyed a muffin and coffee at Starbucks!

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Then we made a tent that afternoon and they enjoyed reading books in it!

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Tonight we roasted marshmallow's and made S'mores. This summer a store here had some random American items- and one of them was marshmallows. They didn't taste quite the same and in fact the package said made in Belguim, but anyway...I used some biscuits we brought back from France (Petit Brun, our favorite!), and some Fairtrade organic chocolate squares and did this...


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Marc bought a disposable grill and it worked just fine! (Our family has made S'mores with all kinds of things- our first Thanksgiving as a married couple we made them using candles in our living room. Marc's parents were on furlough staying with us and we all got a good laugh! Another year we used the gas stove.)

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As we head into another week of Nursery school, I shall leave you with a quote from Cerys.

While walking home on Friday she said, "Mom, they don't speak English at my school."

So the rest of our walk home was me trying to explain the word "accent" to her. :)

Nursery: Day 2

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Well, no sunshine today.

She had another good day as far as I can tell. Marc and I decided to drive this morning to see what the parking was like, and we did find a place in the back of the school, thankfully it was not too crowded. That is good to know on days like this when it's pouring outside. I took her into her class and came back to the car soaked! Marc just laughed and I was thinking we might as well have walked by the way I was drenched. Oh well, good times!

Success!

She was all smiles when we "collected" her from school this morning. She had a good first day, her teacher said she was quiet at first (totally expected) but got "stuck in" (meaning, got busy doing things) and she was fine! She skipped the whole way home. Actually, we got about 5 minutes into our walk and she was desperate for the toilet so I had to run into a pub with her and we barely made it. I ran right past the bar and the guys just stared at me. I couldn't think of anything to say, but I'm sure by the way I made a frantic dash for the loo they could figure it out.

Q: How was it?
A: I was shy.

Q: Did you have a good time honey?
A: Yes!

Q: What was your favorite part?
A: Playing on the playground, riding bikes, playing in the sand and water.

Q: Did you make any friends? Can you remember their names?
A: Yes. No, I'll have to figure it out later.

Q: Did you obey your teacher?
A: Yes, when she said "It's time to go inside Dears" when we were playing on the playground I obeyed her and went inside.

Q: What was for snack today? Was it yummy?
A: Milk and pears. Yes.

Q: Do you want to go back tomorrow?
A: YES!

Nursery School

Well, the first drop-off is done. Bales and I are back home and it's awfully quiet! But just look-

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Right before we left the house, the SUN poked through the clouds! God is so good to bless us today with the sun's presence. In fact, Cerys said on the way to school, "Thank you Jesus for making the sun come out!"

Here she is, in her uniform (green, white and grey)

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Do you think I took enough pictures?

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And here we go! Look, no rain!!! Cerys sang all the way to school- "Our God is a Great Big God" and "God Said It, I Believe It". She then said, "What a happy day for us!" Ha. I was thinking of those songs on the way home and God gently reminded me of the verse I came across this morning was Isaiah 40:11- "He tends his flock like a shepherd, He gathers lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young."

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It took us about 13 minutes to walk to the school, something that we will have to get use to that's for sure! I was ready for a snack by the time I got home! Ha. There is some parking in the back of the school, but it's mainly residential so I'm not sure if we will be able to drive.

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And here is her school!

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One of the Nursery Nurses (teacher assistant) met us at the door and showed Cerys her hook for her coat and backpack then we said goodbye! She was shy, but not crying which was really good! We hugged and kissed her and told her we would be back in 2.5 hours and then the Nursery Nurse took her by the hand and took her into the classroom.

Then the three of us walked out of the gates and I bawled my eyes out. I had to say goodbye to Marc at the bus stop since he was going into town for meetings, but he is going to meet us at the school in a little while to pick her up.

There are just so many differences, being in another country obviously, some things good, some things I find a little frustrating. We didn't even see the teacher, nor do we know how many children in her class. There are many things I plan to find out over the course of this week though!

I'll be back later today with a re-cap of her first day! Thank you for praying for the weather for us, we were blessed!!!


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