ahhhh technology... again

I was going to have super cute photos tonight of Jonah playing with his new train set, but my computer has crashed. Again. On Wednesday, our sweet friend and blog reader, Wanda, stopped by for a visit on her way from Boone back to Durham. She brought Jonah an adorable train set, and he LOVES it. He has been an awesome self-entertainer for the last couple days. :) The photos are so cute, but they are in Lightroom on my other computer. I can turn the computer on. I can even open Lightroom. But as soon as I try to export the photos (or do any other action on the computer, including opening the Internet) everything freezes up. Total bummage. Matt and I have decided we don't want to keep putting money into fixing it, seeing as how it seizes up every couple months, so we've officially purchased our first (refurbished) Mac. It should get here on Tuesday or Wednesday, and I can't wait! Hopefully it will last us a very long time!

Matt is very sick with a severe sore throat and achiness. I'm wondering now if mine a few weeks ago wasn't a sinus infection after all. I sure hope he's getting what I had and not bringing a new germ in. We are so desperate to all be healthy. AND we are going on vacation next Saturday, to Asheville with Matt's family, and I am so sad to think Jonah or I might be sick for vacation. We won't be going to the beach this summer like we have the last several years, so this is it, our one big vacation for the year. Praying that Matt will start feeling better soon, and that Jonah and I can stay healthy.

We were both supposed to give blood tomorrow at our church's blood drive, but Matt can't give since he's sick, so I'm hoping my iron is up high enough to give. I would feel bad if we both let them down. I've been eating lots of red meat in preparation. It's been tough. :)

Sorry this post is boring and picture free. I really did try. Hope you all have a great weekend. Don't miss the post under this one about the nursing cover that's up for bid on Hope for Anton.

computer troubles

This will be short because I'm typing on the Dell, and we're still having the text jumping issues and sporadic functionality of the letter "x."

I didn't think about it when my computer messed up, but Matt reminded me that I had dropped it in an attempt to plug it in the day before. We don't know what's wrong with it, but it's possible I've lost everything. Some of my photos are backed up on Shutterfly and Facebook, but not close to all of them. The person we got the computer from had loaded Photoshop CS3 on it, so it's possible we've lost that (and all of my Totally Rad Actions that I won at Jonah's EB Auction) too. I'm not panicking yet. I'll just wait and see what they say. 

Okay, I can't take this anymore. The cursor has jumped about twenty times since I started typing these three paragraphs. I feel like I've been a very uninteresting and mediocre blogger lately, so maybe you can consider this break a gift from me to you. Maybe I'll get inspired during my time off. And hopefully I'll have a computer to actually blog on here in a few days. Please be patient with me.

Jonah's doing well overall. His face, though, is banged up, and he took some skin off his chin in a 2 inch fall today. His lips  are our main issue. Between a couple of random blisters he got there last week and the spill he took over the weekend, they are both scabbed, constantly reopening and bleeding, and not able to heal. I LOVE that he's learning to cruise and take some (majorly) assisted steps, but it is a very scary time. I gasp about fifty times a day. And you can baby proof till you're blue in the face, but even rubbing, in a fall, against soft things is still rubbing. But I'm just so thankful for this milestone because I had no idea if he'd ever make it. I just pray for him, protection, resilience, and perseverance. I don't want him to get discouraged.

Okay, really can't take the jumpy cursor anymore. I'll catch you guys on the flip side.