In the first month of her life, Addilyn had two ultrasounds. Angela and I didn’t tell many people about it because there was a chance that we would find out that everything was as it should be and there was nothing to worry about. The first ultrasound was because at her three-day appointment the doctor noticed she had a sacral dimple and because of how it looked thought there was a chance she had spina bifida occulta. This wouldn’t have been major, but something she would have to deal with for her whole life. The second one was a few weeks later when her belly button wasn’t healing as quickly as they would have liked and there was a chance her bladder was still connected to the umbilical cord. Again this wasn’t super serious, but would need surgery to fix. In both cases, the doctor told us that those would be the worst case scenarios and they just wanted to be absolutely sure. [Read more…] about Worrying About Addie’s Ultrasounds
Life
A Love Like No Other
Yesterday I started off my Mother’s Day strong. I got both kids out of bed and let Angela sleep in. Zeke and I handmade a card for her. I asked Zeke what he wanted it to say and he started with “I love you.” That’s a great start to a Mother’s Day card. Then when I asked if there was anything else he said, “I jump jump jump and bounce bounce bounce.” That didn’t make the cut. I went with a haiku instead. Saturday night, when I told Zeke we were going to do something special for Mom in the morning, he yelled, “MAKE PANCAKES!!!” I’m not going to crush my kid’s dreams, so we made pancakes. While I made the pancakes, Zeke made Angela a gift basket. It included a fake piece of pizza, a Thomas book, 2 pairs of socks, and the backing to some stickers he used the other day. [Read more…] about A Love Like No Other
Undivided
Recently at Charisma Church we started playing Matt Redman’s song King of My Soul. It’s a really fun song and I enjoy it. If you haven’t heard it before check out the video below. I really like the bridge. It has one of those fun sing/yell feels. It has been in the rotation for a few months but something really grabbed my heart this past Sunday. There is one simple line in the song that I had mindlessly singing that hit me hard. “So let my life be undivided God.” [Read more…] about Undivided
Introducing Addilyn Grace
A little over two weeks ago, Addilyn Grace Spindler was born. She is doing great and I’ve already created a boyfriend application. Angela had a C-section and I was in the operating room with her. The moment Addie was born the doctor asked if I wanted to look over the curtain and take a picture. No, nope, not a chance. But I knew Angela would really want the picture (because she likes gross stuff like that and is a Grey’s Anatomy freak) so I sucked it up and took a peek over the curtain.
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Finding Victory In Defeat
I’m not a big gamer, but one of my favorite video games is Super Mario World. There are still times I will bring out my Super Nintendo and play that game. Even though I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve completed the game, I still enjoy the levels. All of them except for one. Tubular in Special World still makes me cringe just thinking about it. I still have nightmares of the first time I came across this level. I think I died over 100 times trying to beat it. I got so mad I had to turn off the game and go do something else for a while (and this happened a couple of times). It got to the point where I debated just quitting on the level. Since it’s in Special Word, I didn’t need to beat it to beat the game. But I am too stubborn for that. So I tried over and over. Each lost life made me feel more and more defeated. [Read more…] about Finding Victory In Defeat
Feeding the Trolls
I don’t know anyone who actually sits quietly in a theater during the previews. Recently, as my friends and I were at a movie, we were talking about what we thought of the previewed movie. We spent some time making fun of the cheesy movie theatre rules videos. Then as the production logos started to come on the screen (still before the movie had started) the guy in front of us turned around and said, “You guys need to stop talking, the movie is on!!!” At that moment a million things ran through my head of what I should say back to him. I could tell him that his yelling at us was louder than us talking. [Read more…] about Feeding the Trolls