Well, I have great news to report! Robert was able to save most all of the stuff on my old hard drive! Very few things were lost and they weren't very important. Praise God! And thank you for the prayers! I'm pretty busy right now but I wanted to share some pictures and two sermons that have blessed me a lot recently. This is a sermon about parenting by Paul Tripp that I think should be heard by every parent. It is so sound. www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/parenting-is-gospel-ministry And then this sermon I found on sermonaudio.com using my phone app a few months ago. You can search for sermons on a certain passage from the bible and I searched for 1 Peter 3:6 and found this sermon. I don't even know who the guy is but the sermon is so good! I've listened a few times to it, shared it with several friends already, and will listen to it again, I imagine.www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=511122135339
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So a couple weeks ago Bug clicked a toy car on my laptop keyboard and it started running super slow. I tried a few things and then shut it off so that our resident IT guy could handle it (Robert). We believe that my laptop was likely warning of some issue regarding updates and what not but I didn't properly heed. Blessedly, I had updated early in May, so I wouldn't lose much. And Robert is obsessed with making sure we have accurate ways to back up and keep our stuff in the event of a hard drive taking a dive. For whatever reason though, nothing has worked. Robert even purchased a program for $120 that is suppose to be really great at retrieving lost info from the hard drive. Anyway, none of the computer lingo means much to me. My man knows computers, he's done everything he can and it still isn't happening. Here is some of the stuff I will lose if we can't retrieve my hard drive. Files: Homeschooling- Many, many original documents I made as pertaining to homeschooling. Schedules, lesson plans, reading plans for certain books, articles from on line. So so much. Christian teachings- My notes from anytime I taught a bible study, anytime I read something on-line that I wanted to save to read again later. Church- Documents I made for any organizing I did for church functions House Management- Countless original documents! Schedules, rules, expectations, verses, organization tools out the wazoo. Birth- Dozens and dozens of medical studies and articles speaking to birth interventions, home birth, hospital birth. Prenatal, postnatal, ALL natal. Breastfeeding- Same as birth only breastfeeding. Puppy and Monkey book- This is a book Hurricane has started writing and I've been typing it up with her for later publication. Priceless. Research about Leslie- This is a missionary from the early 1900s I have been researching. Many hours of copying and pasting really old missionary magazines into documents. Spelling Bee- About 40 documents that I had to keep organized for the homeschool spelling bee. Jasper writings- Basically my private (some public) journal in my processes of grieving Jasper. ...and more I can't remember. All pictures and videos from my phone from the last 4 years. Robert is NOT the picture taker in our family. All of these pictures include back to 2007 when we bought our first digital camera. I made a photo book several years ago that covered up to early 2007 but I hadn't gotten around to making anymore. So without my hard drive we likely have very few pictures from 2007 through 2013 either. Which means, Hurricane, The Boy, Jasper, and Wild Man's baby pictures. Along with the videos taken from my phone. I am in the process of figuring out how to convert this blog into a photo book and that would save a lot of the pictures I've taken. But I don't post more intimate pictures, like babies taking baths together and what not. Honestly, those are only the things I can think of right off hand. I know there is more that I can't remember right off. I believe one or two of our babies' birth videos was only on my hard drive as well. I can find Bug and Hulk's births on Robert's computer but not The Boy's or Wild Man's. Anyway, at this point Robert is trying one other thing today and then we are facing taking the hard drive to a Mac expert to have the files withdrawn manually (or something) and that will cost upwards of $500 potentially. So we are praying over if it is worth that amount of money. So far, I'm thinking it is. Anyway, prayers are appreciated! So far I've only cried once but that is mainly because I'm holding out hope. I mistakenly feel like all of the work I had done on my laptop was proof that I did something. I figured, if I died young my husband and kids would have that to remember me by. This was amazing! We were 2 hours late for lunch and 1 hour late for nap (those of you that know me, know that I'm a stickler for a schedule). This train stopped us and then when we could see the caboose it stopped on the track! After about 5 minutes of sitting still it started going in reverse! By then we had busted open a lot of the food we bought at Meijer's and eaten lunch straight from the packaging. So the other day I was grocery shopping with all six of our kids. This requires a lot of focus seeing as how we coupon and watch for sales and clearance and what not to keep our grocery budget down. Bug sits in the cart so he is pretty easy and Hulk is honestly just very compliant. He will typically hang on to the cart as he has been taught to. The two older boys need something to do or they go crazy. So they require a lot of attention. And while the girls are helpful in that they can run and find a product for me or hold a toddler's hand, they are not helpful in that they tend to want to chat with me about totally random, un-grocery related things and it's distracting. So, all that to say, we were making our way down an isle where a bunch of baby food was (although I was there for the other side of the isle with canned tomatoes) and this older woman followed by a younger woman said, "Oh! She's got lots of kids, we will ask her!" She came over and was so sweet and smiley and I was very focused and not paying attention to any context to the possible question that came out of her mouth. "When did you start your babies on cereal?" (To just show my entire lack of the context of the isle we were standing in my first thought was breakfast cereal, which I quickly realized was silly!) I responded, "Infant cereal? Ew! Never." "What?" she replied, "You didn't feed them cereal?" "No. There is no nutritional value in that stuff! I just nursed my babies until they were about 9 months and then slowly let them have finger foods." was my reply. Still not believing me the woman said, "You mean to tell me you never added cereal to a bottle to help your newborn sleep?!" Ah Ha! Now that she spelled it out I finally figured out what was going on! Lol! She had been trying to talk the younger woman (a new mom) into adding cereal to a bottle to help her young baby sleep. Oops! I probably would've been gentler and slower to respond if I had realized I was supposed to settle an argument! Ha! The older woman mumbled something about bravery and wondered off and the young woman smiled broadly at me. I looked at my girls, cringed, and said "Oops! That didn't go how she expected." And now something cute. Bug's new favorite word is "Hi!" When daddy gets home he smiles big and says "Hi!" about 15 times in the first minute. He also carries his moose-y around and makes Moose-y say "Hi!" to people. Good grief! It is cute! So the other night at small group he toddled into the room with Moose-y and went to the other side of the table from me beside a friend of our's. From my view I saw Moose-y's body thrust up into the air above the table and beside the woman and Bug's little voice say, "HI!" about five times before the woman realized Moose-y was speaking to her! And now some pictures... |
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