Sunday evening my brother and most of his family came to see us at my sister’s house.  It was great to see them all – boy are the kids growing!

While in Omaha visiting this family, we also visited the zoo and went swimming. 

Tuesday morning, June 24, we headed off to visit our friends near Platteville, Wisconsin.  We arrived at suppertime and left the next evening after supper.  While there we enjoyed discussing the latest things we have been learning about natural living with our good friends Leonard and Valerie.  They also have a young son, Shannon.  They’ve had more than their fair share of health problems, but a natural diet has helped Valerie a lot.  She was near death a few years ago with multiple allergies, and is doing much better now – that is another story for another post!

Wednesday evening we drove on to Tiskilwa, Illinois to stay with my husband’s parents.  We lived there before coming here, and have many friends we wanted to catch up with.  We didn’t get to meet with all of the ones we had planned, but did have several important meetings with some of them and that was good to do.  Tim’s mother’s family had a family reunion at the camp where we used to work that we were a part of from Friday night, June 26 to June 28.  All of Tim’s immediate family, as well as many others we hadn’t seen for ages got together there.  We continued to share time with some of Tim’s brothers and sisters and their families while we continued in Tiskilwa until July 3.

Last Wednesday we drove on to Wichita, Kansas to stay with my sister Becky and her family through the Fourth of July.  We went swimming at a very nice YMCA on Thursday morning and that evening I saw my aunt Barbara and uncle Ray at my sister’s house for a nice brisket dinner.  We went to a Christian concert in the evening and happened to meet with an old friend of ours there.  It was great to catch up with her.  We were sorry that her husband wasn’t with her, as we haven’t been privileged to meet him or his daughter yet.  I took our youngest three children home before the fireworks as they were super exhausted and the loud music was a bit too much for them.  We saw the fireworks at a distance on our way home, and they were satisfied with that.  I took some cute pics of my Josiah while there:

While we were there on Wednesday night my 9 yo dd kind of sleep-walked out to the living room after she had been asleep for an hour or two.  Her right side of her face was all squinched into a grimace, and her arm twisted strangely.  Her right leg was shaking and could barely hold her.  She responded to my talking to her, but didn’t quite connect with what I was saying to her.  I sat her on my lap until she woke up, and then sent her back to bed.  She didn’t remember any of it in the morning.  I am thinking it might have been a seizure, but I’m not sure.  I wouldn’t be surprised since she just had another vaccine about 6 weeks ago, and she was really tired from getting very little sleep the night before.

On Friday morning we left early and arrived home about 13 hours later – yea!  The kids all traveled really well – including the baby.  We listened to several books on tape, which helped the long hours on the road to go much quicker.  We only ate out twice over the entire 15 days, except one meal I had with Tim’s mom, sister, and sister’s-in-law.  That is really good for us!  The second time was our last meal on the road!  I think most of us were sorry due to how we felt afterward, but we were so sick of sandwiches and snack foods!

Resting in His Faithfulness,

Carol