Week of 12-22-19

CEMETERY AND BUFFET
Grandma Ruthie invited us to the cemetery to visit Grandpa Russ and then to her house for a "Christmas Buffet".  It ended up being a really nice time.  I loved Meg's poem that she read at the grave and the nice spirit that was there as we sang a few Christmas songs together.  This is a special family.  I feel so blessed to be part of it.  I got to talk with Ali and Nancy a little, that's always nice.  I just wish Nate had been able to be there.  12-22-19

THE PRIESTHOOD IS SO REAL
I just experienced the coolest little miracle. Sadie has been a little sick for the past few days. Goopy eyes, cough, etc. It’s been a fairly light bug though so we’ve just done the humidifier and keeping her eyes clean. She’s been okay. But tonight, at about 1:30 she woke up just screaming. I went to get her and bring her to bed to nurse her, and she would not nurse! She was violently not eating and screaming through the whole process, so I thought maybe she’s poopy, went to change her and her diaper was not even wet which was not a good sign. Then I brought her downstairs to bounce her a little and she just screamed. Nothing was working. She rarely even slowed down her screaming. It was so sad and a little scary. I thought maybe I should give her some Tylenol, looked up the dosing online but my syringe and bottle were not even comparable to use them together. So I gave up on that. Tried taking off her jammies cuz she seemed hot and standing in the open doorway helped for a second, but that was all. So I tried a blanket. That didn’t do anything. Then I got the idea to pray. I don’t know why I hadn’t tried sooner, but I did say a little prayer in my head. I was interrupted with the thought to go up and have Nate give her a Priesthood blessing. Which I did. As I got in our room and said the words, “I think you should give her a blessing, the words from my patriarchal blessing popped in my head. Made me think this was a prompting.  I didn’t hear much of what he said, Sadie screamed through the whole thing, but the coolest thing happened on the way down the stairs, I stopped in her room looking for something soft like her B from Molly, couldn’t find it, but thought to grab her toy flamingo, and rattled it a little. She stopped screaming a little so I poked it at her with some smiles and rattled it a little more and she immediately stopped crying. Even smiled a tiny bit. Then we sat down on the couch and she grabbed at it a little. I got the idea to try nursing her and sure enough she went for it! She nursed for a few minutes and then fell asleep! I don’t dare move her even to the other side, but I’ve been overwhelmed with the Spirit and thoughts about the power of the Priesthood. It is so amazing!! I had to text Nate upstairs and say a few words about our little miracle and he was feeling the same way. Pretty cool. I feel so blessed to have been able to be part of this cool miracle. Unworthy, and ashamed that it took me almost 40 minutes to think of the right solution, but oh so blessed.
Right after this all happened I wanted to share the moment with someone so I messaged Becky and I think being able to hear about it was an answer to her prayers! Which made me glad I could help. Pretty cool little miracle. The Priesthood is so real.   12-22-19

GRANDMA HATCH
So, I'm not sure what happened to it, but the party my mom had planned for the family kinda got canceled.  I guess Heidi couldn't come or something.  I don't know.  She had wanted to frost cookies and sing songs and while we had changed it to our house for the space, we were all excited and cleaned up the house for it.  So I'm not really sure what happened.  But my mom gave everyone gifts and cute little fuzzy stockings full of M&Ms and money for some people :).  She had already given me my cute Precious Moments Advent Nativity a week or so earlier.  So we all had a nice time together, it was a good evening, just not the party we had anticipated.  12-23-19

BRADLEY
I made a note in my calendar about Bradley saying something funny about wives being the boss of the husband and I can't remember it exactly, but I wanted to make note of it anyway :).  To tell his cute (I'm sure she'll be adorable if she gets my Bradley) wife :).  He's a very smart boy!  12-27-19