Update on us

Thank you for all the cards, flowers, emails, meals, and most of all, prayers. I do not know how we could have survived the last four days without them. Please continue to pray as we begin healing from this ordeal.

Sunday night, our precious baby - Dominic Philip, was beheld by us. Perfectly formed, perfectly loved, and entrusted back to His Heavenly Father.

I had to have a D&C later that night due to excessive bleeding, but we definitely felt your prayers carry us through that difficult time and I was able to come home after an overnight stay in the hospital.

So we are home, we are healing, and life goes on...

Please pray...

Please pray for us and for repose of the soul of our precious baby.
I had a routine appointment today and the baby had no heartbeat.
Our hearts are broken...
Please continue to pray for us in the days ahead.

Menu Plan Monday

It's another super crazy week in our household! The start of baseball season adds another crunch for time to our already busy schedule! We moved to the country for a simpler lifestyle....um, still waiting for that to happen!

Monday: Chicken fettucine alfredo, salad, garlic bread.
Tuesday: Enchilada casserole. Working day for me so this will go in the crockpot the night before.
Wednesday: Tacos and pintos.
Thursday: Baked penne and salad.
Friday: Homemade pizzas.
Saturday: Hot dogs and tots. Doug has a wedding, I have a class I have to take for work and Kyle has a game! Pray for us!
Sunday: Beef stew and cornbread.

Bubblewrap!

YOU.MUST.DO.THIS.NOW!

Cloth napkins

I came across some of my vintage cloth napkins today. I collected these treasures from yard and estate sales but never used them much because I wanted to "save" them for a special occasion. Who am I kidding? We hardly ever have dinner parties or special luncheons, so I thought I would get a few out to use this next week. I put them in a cute little basket on the edge of the counter and hopefully I'll remember to use them!

Who knows, maybe I can get the boys to start using their napkins and stop wiping their mouths on their sleeves!

Divine Mercy Sunday

Eternal Father, I offer you the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Your dearly beloved son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. In atonement for our sins and for those of the whole world. For the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.



Read more here: Divine Mercy Sunday

Let's see what's growing in the garden!

Our family garden is coming along really great! All the seeds that were planted have germinated and are surviving the wind coming off the field (in another 4 weeks, the hay will be a nice wind shield!)
The corn has sprouted up nicely. I double planted each spot in case of some of the seeds didn't germinate...they ALL germinated! Now I have to pluck out one of my babies so the other one can thrive :-(

There was also the surprise of a little baby bell pepper growing! I had seen the flower bloom, but thought the plant was too young to actually produce anything!

My fruit trees seem to be happy, too! I thought it would be years before we'd see any apples, but this morning I found a beautiful deep pink blossom (with two more to come!) We still might not get any apples, but the flower show will be really nice!

And here is our ever faithful fig tree. It seemed to have popped out all those leaves overnight! Sonya, if you're reading this, you're going to have to come down this summer and help me make strawberry/fig preserves!

...and yes, that's Shorty's behind you see there in the picture! He was busy chasing the birds out of the yard this morning!

First thrifting of spring!

Found this great platter at the thrift store today. It's hand painted and extremely heavy (and was only three bucks!) When I was checking out, the lady said, "Oh what a pretty tray! With a little touching up it will be perfect!" I'm thinking, touch up? Who the heck would want to do that?

I also got some awesome baskets for .75 cents. Nice big sturdy baskets for books and garden tools.
....Now to get geared up for garage/estate sale season!

Spring Scrapbooking!

I spent the evening digitally scrapbooking our Easter fun. I downloaded a FREE spring kit HERE.
I really prefer digi-scrapping to traditional scrapbooking. First of all, it can all be done for free by downloading different kits online. Second, it took me less than 30 minutes to do these three pages. Third, I can get them printed for less than two bucks a page! I'm all about simple, quick and cheap!

Happy Easter!

Have a blessed Easter season!
Prayers and good wishes from the Creamer family

What we did today...

My husband RAWKS!

I have been having a little difficulty sleeping so my dear husband got me this:

It is a SOOPA-FABULOUS pregnancy pillow! It came while I was at work, by the time I got home the boys had totally broken it in. I can not wait to snuggle up in my nest tonight...although, I may need to beat a kid or two out of it first!

Lots of folks emailed and asked where they could get it, so I'm posting the link HERE
You can do a search on amazon.com for "pregnancy pillows" and will find TONS listed!
BTW, it really is an awesome pillow...like sleeping on a cloud!

Timmmmmmber!

All day long we've had 30-40 mph winds in advance of a storm front that's coming through tomorrow. I had just stepped outside to go into the garage when I heard a loud SNAP! I looked up and watched (it seemed like slow motion!) this huge tree branch falling towards our house! Thank God and all of our Guardian Angels that the limb missed our home by about two feet!

John Paul and Danny thought it was "super cool" and asked if we could leave it there and make a club house out of it. I told him the homeowners association would NOT think it was "super cool," so we called a local tree guy to cut it up and haul it away.

We'll be thanking God tonight for sparing us and our home!

Menu Plan Monday

Simple meals planned this week! We will be steadily busy with ball practices, CAP, CCE classes, and evening Masses for Holy Week...still, dinners together as a family are very important to me!

Monday: Corned Beef and Cabbage. It's St. Patrick's day so you've got to have traditional Irish fare! Unfortunately, I won't be having any green beer this year!
Tuesday: Ruben Sandwiches. Will use left overs to make these wonderful sammies. Will toast them with provalone cheese because no one here likes them with sauerkraut but me!
Wednesday: Taco night!
Thursday: Beef Stew with homemade bread. Will put in the crock so it will be ready when we come home from Holy Thursday Mass.
Friday: Quick and Easy Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers
Saturday: Grilled Pork Chops with Mashed Potatoes
Sunday: Easter dinner at Doug's parents home. Will bring deserts and homemade rolls.

Danny has been licking Smurfs again...