Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with friends who live 3 hours from our house. We loved getting to eat the traditional American dishes, getting to speak English and having fellowship with other like-minded people. We have so much to be thankful for this year, not the least of which are healthy bodies. Jordan got a clean bill at her visit with the Dr while we were in the city...her body has recovered naturally from the miscarriage and she will not need a D & C! Praise God!

To our first child

Our hearts are sad today, Little One, as we think of all the things you never got to experience in life. We had so much to share with you and never imagined you would only be here for 10 short weeks. Our arms ache to hold you and our eyes long to see your sweet face. We want you to know that you were loved. We waited so long for you and we were not prepared to say "good-bye" before we even heard you cry. We had hoped for more time to make some memories together before you had to go. Today is hard for us, Little One, but we know that you are more alive today than we have ever been. You are in Papa's arms where only LOVE remains. Mommy and Daddy look forward to the day when we can join you.

College night...and other explosions

Thank you for those of you who lifted up our Thursday night University group. We met for the first time last night with students from the local university who are studying to become English teachers. We had 4 students show up, a medical doctor who wanted to improve her English, and a High school English teacher...all of whom are Hindu. We shared the story of the creation of the Spirit world and the fall of Lucifer and then discussed it in English. They brought out some great insights and applications to their own lives. We gave out 40 fliers so we hope to have even more students join us next week when we will discuss Creation.

Also unexpected this week, our oven blew up. I had knelt in front of it to turn it on after it refused to heat up and it just exploded: threw open the door, engulfed me in a fire ball and made a huge noise like a bomb which sent all of the neighbors running over to see what had exploded. I ran in the house screaming at Jody to look at me, with my eyes tightly shut, imagining the worst: a black char-grilled face and shirt with at least one side of my hair completely singed off and no eyebrows. He finally calmed me enough to get me to open my eyes and look in the mirror. It only singed the bottom two inches off my hair and it did so pretty evenly so you can't really tell. It was scary, but we are unhurt and it gave us something to post on the blog!

Ready or Not...

We're pregnant! We met with a midwife here last week and expect Baby Blanton to arrive around June 11. If everything goes smoothly, we will deliver here, with a midwife in the hospital 3 hours away from our home...

To break the news to Jody, I wrapped a baby outfit with a card and gave it to him, telling him that this was something he had wanted for a long time and I wanted to get his picture when he opened it. He was completely caught off-guard. The initial reaction was the proverbial "Deer in the headlight" look below, but he quickly warmed to the idea of becoming a Daddy.