Sewing, and 2 year olds

Here are a few shots from the past several months.

Fun Labor Day Weekend

Yes, I really don't have any pictures, but we have had some visitors that made for a great Labor Day Weekend. For some, this was their destination (how exciting!); for others this was the bed and breakfast to and from dropping off their son at BYU-I (how exciting!)...

As part of our fun, we stopped at Purdum's Market - wow... amazing stuff there - and got some veggies. While Enoch and I were shucking the corn he said, "Look! There is one of those bugs I said look like a mosquito!"

I looked and saw one of these running around on the patio:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/falconne/2241027747/

Wow! It was the first time I can recall seeing a spider wasp so closely! It was amazingly large and fast on the ground. For more see:

http://www.entomology.ucr.edu/ebeling/ebel9-2.html#spider%20wasps

and read along on the Pompilids.

I got the jar and Enoch actually captured it by very carefully crawling over to it and placing the jar over it. We took it in for all to see and look up more information. Ours was a little more greenish with some smoky wings (closer to the Cresson?) I don't know exactly where in the wasp family it was, but it was a great diversion... such amazing color and size.

Anyway, happy Labor Day Weekend!

Just a few words

Will update soon. We are alive. Wanted to share these words from C.S. Lewis:

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."


Applies to alot of late, don't you think?

Benjamin Lucas Palmer comes home!!!!

On Friday the nineteenth of June, his twelve week birthday, Benjamin Lucas Palmer finally came home. He weighed 6 lbs. 8 ounces. He is still on caffeine and a monitor and has some problems with blood pressure, but we are hopeful he will continue to improve and are so grateful we are all together as a family.

How to comment

I used to think that only 3 people read this blog. (Thank you to the three!) Then, I neglected to post on Benjamin for awhile and boy did I hear about it! It seems that many view the blog but have no idea how to post a comment. So here's how:
At the bottom of the post you are reading there is a line that divides it from the previous post.There you will see blue lettering that says "0 comments" or some other number of comments. Click on the "comments" word and it will take you to a page where you can post a comment. That page is pretty self-explanatory. Now, I know I don't always comment on other blogs, but if you have the time, I would like to know your out there. Thanks!
Love-Jen

We are still here....

Obviously, I'm not good at the play by play blogging. I apologize for not keeping everybody informed.
We are doing pretty well. I had a bit of a breakdown last week but honestly, it ended up being a good thing. It threw things back into perspective for me and I'm doing much better.
The 5 children at home are doing well. We are working to get better from a bout with illness last week and are battling that nasty cough that never seems to go away. It's a bit frustrating because I worry about bringing Ben home to the Palmer petri dish.
Ben is doing AWESOME!! He is 1/2 ounce away from being 5 lbs. He has been off nasal cannula for almost 48 hours and has been doing well. (That means he's breathing on his own folks!) Now we need to work on the eating. He only takes about 1/3 of his feeding from nursing or a bottle and we need to get that up to 80 percent before they will take out his tube. It's a bit of a two edge sword as many things are in hospitals. If they would stop feeding through the tube he would be more motivated to learn to eat orally but he also might lose alot of weight in the process.So now we need to pray that Ben learns to eat and the other kids get better before he comes home! And of course don't forget to pray that MamaJenny doesn't lose her newly found sanity. Again.