Welcome to Parenthood

Our daughter, Lily, is now 11 months old. She has been amazingly healthy, which we are so very thankful for. She can be occasionally fussy, but overall, she is an easy baby to have. About two weeks ago, I was delivering food to friends who had just had a new baby girl. Lily and I had eaten our own dinner at Chick-fil-A right before we took more Chick-fil-A food to these friends.

We were talking and Lily was cruising around the room, but she was not really herself. As I picked her up to check on her, she proceeded to throw up all over these dear friends' kitchen and my pants. Literally, she blew chunks everywhere. We were all shocked, and fortunately, these are good friends who immediately sprung into action and helped me clean up the puke off of their hard wood floors and countertop. We were laughing so hard that we were crying, while Lily was actually crying, which did make me feel bad.

I got Lily into the car and had to pick John up from work, and we were going to try to pick up his car at the shop. Then, we hear more throwing up in the back seat. So sad. We went directly home and gave her a bath. She was acting fine and happy, thrilled to be in the bath as usual. Since I am still green as a parent, I gave her a bottle. I assumed she had just eaten something that disagreed with her and was fine. We loaded back into the car, with Lily in her car seat without its cover sitting on a blanket. We had gone about a mile, when the bottle made its reappearance. We immediately turned around and headed home. Poor baby. She had a 24 hour bug and was fine by the next night. Two days later, it was my turn, and it was bad.

Thankfully, we are all well now and have been initiated into childhood sickness. Those were some great moments. I do feel officially welcomed into parenthood.

Blogging

I think I may start blogging again. We shall see how this goes.

Super Chicken

That is what my mom dubbed the largest day we've had a Chick-fil-A. John and I have stayed plenty busy, and as if starting a business, moving and trying to make a new life wasn't enough, we've taken on the unique challenge of remodeling a new house! We are officially home owners as of a couple of weeks ago. We looked at the house and really liked it and knew we would like it just a little more if it had a few cosmetic updates. A "few cosmetic updates" have turned into quite an overhaul. Of course. I am going to add pictures to our picture place so that any who are interested can follow our remodeling fun.
So far, we have destroyed more things than we have created. Fortunately, God is good to us and has brought us friends who are kind enough to help us through this process. We realized that you have to have either time or money, and we figured out that we have a little more time. So that means we are attempting all kinds of new things.
Super Chicken is going well. We have been incredibly blessed at our store with a great staff and a following in Little Rock that is pretty amazing. We really do thank God for the opportunity to grow and develop and watch a business flourish. What a privilege.
Well, I'm going to try to upload some photos now!

Little Rock Loves Chicken

Well, Chick-fil-A is up and running and now all we do is work. At least, that is what it feels like right now. We have had such an amazing time so far. God has been incredibly faithful to bring us a great team of people to join us in this venture, and it is a pleasure to get to know each of them. Sales have been incredible, and again, we are amazed at the position that we are in. Never in a million years did we dream this, but God definately had this in store for us. There are a ton of funny, hysterical moments in the midst of it all, and we are certainly learning a ton. As always, working with the public is a joyous and entertaining sport. We really do love serving people and getting to interact with so many different kinds of people, but it always gives you a new appreciation for the things that we tend to take for granted. Anyway, we are looking forward to a time when we do things other than work, but for now, we know that this is the task that God has put in front of us, and we pray to be working towards his glory.