MN Christian Prayer Thread - Dippy's Back! Prayers for New Beginnings as a New Academic Year Commences ......

[CaptainDippy]

I know I would appreciate prayers as I face the prospect that the Littlest Dippy starts school in a few short weeks (w/c 12th Sept to be precise). Feeling a little wobbly to say the least ......

to hear about Alice, Soozi. Praying for strength for her family.

Prayers for your sermon, MHD; and for your DH to pass next time, Blue; and for a swift farewell to the while fluff BES!

This is a blatantly selfish request for some prayers. Am finding it very hard to stay on top of things at work - mostly just volume of work, but also some interpersonal things that are quite difficult. And I wrote a silly comment tonight on a friend's facebook status - just joking, I thought - and someone else (someone I don't know) has pulled me up on it and said that what I wrote was offensive. I don't think it was, but I am really sad and horrified that anyone else might think that about me... I am honestly the world's least offensive person. I feel about 13 and awkward and friendless all over again. (I posted an apology, and then I just deleted both the original comment and the apology - which didn't make sense without the original comment, but I still feel judged and inadequate.) All a bit pathetic, I know. It's the work stuff that's really bothering me. Everyone thinks I am really competent and in control, and I feel completely the opposite... it's all running away from me.

Oh... I'm so sorry for ranting on. My problems are so tiny. But I feel better for getting it off my chest anyway. Thank you for listening.

oh tuo sorry you are having a tough time. it is really upsetting when intentions are misinterpretted. I hope that you got some sleep and managed to get it out your head enough to sleep. tis not selfish at all. it really depends on what else is going on to know whether something is really onluy a mole hill or whether it is a final straw. it is about context. for example,white fluff on the washing up may nat seem a big deal, but in the context of having had a wholle run of problems with the flat and single parenting with little supporrt, white fluff is, if not a final straw, a staw that is compromising the stability of the load.

it is not pathetic to feel as you do, completely normal. we have all been there. it shows that you care whether you have upset someone. if you are overworked at work and they are piling too much on you which you have little control over, then it is understandable that everything else becomes more difficult to deal with too.

((((hugs))))

tuo - every prayer on here is as important as each other, a problem is a problem, however tiny it may seem. So prayers anyway

Thank you for all your birthday wishes for my beautiful twins, DO they still love painting, on sunday they were painting faces on their balloons as fast as we could pump them up, ds2 even put a cape on one of them and hung it out the window to fly! now there is paint all over the window frame! I think they will be getting up to mischief forever! in all importance, my ferrel organic free range children (as my dsis calls them) are impecably (sp) behaved most of the time, a little paint here and there makes me smile I know I'm nuts!

tuo - now I have a little prayer

I have the accountants today, it makes my tummy do a flip! eeeeeeek!!!!!!!!! Tax return time, bit late but, will just make the dealine! more eeeek!

BOING!!!!!!!!!

Please more prayers for Alices family, my sister came round last night and she looked awful.

TUO good to get it off your mind and into the prayer thread, no problem is ever too big or too small to share and you get a new perspective on the matter
BES Same for you, it's all tied up together in this big load you are carrying, have you heard back from your church yet?
Soozi more prayers for you and Alice's family, such an incredibly hard thing to bear.

Thank you all for your understanding. It really means a lot. BES - yes, I totally understand the 'compromising the stability of the load' thing... it's hard when you're constantly trying to keep everything balanced and moving forward (even if it's just inching forwards... which is what work feels like atm) and then one more thing comes and pokes you in the ribs.

Prayers for all, but especially to Alice's family. So very very sad.

Prayers for Alice's family/friends/LOs. Also for you Sooz. For TUO and BES, and ALL in need of prayer. May God's presence be felt and wrap us all in His love.

yay, have spoken to the man about the air brick. he has already been along and changed the outside brick, empptying the insulation out and relining the hole as the original builders did not line the bottom of the hole. a quick hoover over the hole should get out the last bits of white fluff and then I can leave the dishes to dry in peace. and no longer get downstairs canabis/smoke/cooking smells depending on who the latest tenents are.

just managed to get another 6 rolls of loft insulation in the car and up 3 flights of stairs. 4 have gone in the loft already and 2 are out of the way on the landing. they can wait, want my 10 minutes peace before I go back to get ds. (insulating the loft is giving me great pleasure because h has always refused to do it. and now I can do it. (not pleasure during the process though given the words that are drifting out of the roof! )) I am also now the proud owner of a pair of gel knee pads.

just had a man drift past the window

That last sentence has made me BES, are you sure you haven't inhaled too many cannabis fumes? Glad you are getting sorted now. By the way how did sunday go, did the elder mention anything at all or get back to you via email?

TUO - oh, not pathetic in the least, praying for you. FB can be a PITA sometimes with different interpretations etc, don't let it get to you.

Praying for Alice's family :(

Can I ask for prayers for dd again, her psoriasis/excema has flared up really badly with bleeding bits and crusted bits all over her scalp, lots of hair is pulling away too but she doesn't want to wear a headscarf and you know what children can be like, she gets some cruel comments because it is v v obvious at the moment :( We are applying all the creams and lotions and shampoos but it is not helping, I feel so bad for her. it might be she is worried about high school so soon after moving primary school, that could have brought it on, please pray it will clear :(

praying for your DD mhd psoriasis can be such a PITA specially when being her age!

praying for Alice's family!

and everyone else who needs prayers!

on the second floor mhd so seeing people go past the window is unusual. tis the cavity wall insulation people, on one of those hydraulic platforms. the canabis users moved out a year or so ago.

BES it was more the description of a drifting man that led me to thoughts of hallucinogens

Hello Blue :)

Hi mhd have your kids got half term as well next week? fancy meeting up at the shopping centre? or could go to the park? if it's not raining!

Hi Blue, that does sound great, just waiting on some friends who are visiting to tell us which days then I can find out when/if we're free, is it ok if I let you know nearer the time? DC would love that too, they have vouchers to spend :)

yeah no problem! I just need to sort out the days DD will go to childminder. She'll be home with me on Monday, the other days I need to see still, but we're flexible :)

Yay, half term next week, need the break, I am totally exhausted, its been a busy term with new job and the world generally spinning too fast, good job I have longish legs!!!!!

Anyone free to meet in Nottingham next week????? I'm free Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday.

xxxxxxxxxx

a little halloweeen rant, ds really doesnt like it, nor do i.
most of class going to spooky disco after school, so dressing accordingly, majority of girls as witches.
one of his best friends had full devil outfit on, which quite scared ds.
all i could think to say was, its still him underneath.

another 6 rolls of insulation posted into the loft.

hey sorry its taken me so long to come on and say hello

We finally came home yesterday. Exhausted, recovering very slowly from my emergancy section but so very happy. I've been very anaemic and unwell, Xander has had jaundice and slow to take to feeding so we were kept in for 5 days.

Xander is beautful, the image of his sister. I still can't believe he is here and at home. We sobbed theatre down when he came out screaming. Short version is an awful induction with me reacting badly to drugs. Day 1 nothing happened, after 24 hours I was being treated for hyper stimulation and my labour stopped again with treatment to stop the contractions again (one was starting before other was finished, this went on for hours, dangerous for Xander, could've caused placental abruption). Next morning (Thurs) my waters were broken. Took 12 hours to get to 10cm, and then after 2+ hours pushing he wasn't coming through my pelvis. He wasn't distressed but I obviously was and exhausted and it was time to call it a day and to get him out! Labour recorded as 15 hours 13 minutes. De-brief was his position wasn't great and he was still high up and not moving any further down with each contraction, and his size....

So Alexander Jon arrived 14th Oct at 00:45, weighing a whopping 8lb 13oz (at 36+2!!!) His weight is all in his length though, he is quite skinny really but super long!! (Today he is down to 8lb 4 though, just had first midwife visit and weigh in)

Hope everyone is well and thank you so much for all your prayers! xxx

Caz - just sitting here smiling for you :) :) :) Carrying on praying that you will soon settle into life with your lovely boy and the scar will heal easily. sorry that the labour was so hard though.

BES praying that parents evening goes well and that they have sorted out someone to have ds.

Congratulations Caz! I'm smiling and wincing in equal measure - don't fancy hyper stimulation and hope that my request for VBAC is met with kindly ears when I see my consultant in a month or two.

Mufti - I'm not a huge fan of halloween now either. When I was a kid I don't think there was anything like the concentration of little devil or witches costumes. When I was young people tried to put some imagination into their outfits and when we went out guising the neighbours had to guess what we were. Dressing in something as boring as a witches costume would have been frowned upon. And there was absolutely no trick or treating. If we'd said anything like that to some of the neighbours they'd have slammed the doors in our faces and told our parents! Instead we had to tell a joke or sing a song in exchange for apples, sweets and monkey nuts. It all seems a bit more sinister now.

Oh Caz... I am so glad to hear your news. I'm sorry that the labour was so hard, but the key thing is that Xander is here and fine. This has been such a hard time for you, and I pray that you'll soon feel much better in yourself and that Xander will bring you all the joy that you deserve.

Prayers for your parents evening BES. I hope it all goes well and that they are as good as their word re. looking after DS. Have you spotted any more 2nd-floor drifters today?

Your poor ds mufti. My dd1 is now 11 and still a bit freaked out by clowns. I think all you can say is exactly what you did say, and that it's just meant to be funny, not really scary. Can you pick out something in the costume and make it something to laugh about (e.g. 'Look how tall that hat is... gosh, if she walks under a tree with that on she might leave it hanging from a branch' or 'Don't those horns look silly... they look like cow's horns', or whatever). I wouldn't normally suggest encouraging laughing at other people, but if it's not at THEM but at some element of the costume that you can make sound silly rather than scary, then it might help.

I could do with some more prayers re. work complications. Don't want to say too much publicly, but I am dealing with the consequences of a tragic death, as well as some overseas unrest... None of it affects me directly (didn't know the person who died personally; am far away from the problems abroad) but I am basically doing crisis-management atm, and it's both exhausting and stressful - especially when everyone round and about is stressed and upset too. I need prayers for inner calm, as well as tact, empathy and ... time-management!

Jaffa - cross posted. I had a really wonderful VBAC (nearly 10 years ago now) so if there's anything you want to know...

Hallowe'en was so different in the US (where we were last year). People here think that the whole 'trick or treat' thing is 'American', which it is in a way, but over there the 'givers' also dressed up and decorated their houses and then sat out on their porches with tubs of sweets to give out. So the kids only went to the houses of people who were obviously taking part in the whole thing - there was no random door-knocking where it might have been unwelcome. And there were some 'scary' costumes, but also plenty of other, more imaginative ones. I hate Hallowe'en here and have never celebrated it, but even I kind of enjoyed it over there. (The quantity of sugar collected and then consumed by the kids was the scariest thing about it!)

Caz - You've done it, you're home with your special little bundle, healthy and well! Congratulations xx

Trying hard to settle into new job, not delivered a lesson yet, but the trainers seem really nice (apart from 1) hopefully don't cross her path often, need to invest in some ear muffs! freezing my ears off!

Off to the SoulCentre tonight, my weekly churches together meditation not done my homework!

Had parents evening tonight, I am very proud of my dtwins, in every way different for each which is good, although ds2 does have Dyslexic tendancies I think I knew, I feel more confident about it this time round, and feel able to deal with it...

So all's good, God is Good! as long as the world slows down a little bit but can't ask for miracles too often!

well they had a creche set up for children in a classroom. (phew)

the following paragraph may be a bit ranty (feeling exhausted and it is all too much tonight and I need to put it somewhere)
the school is driving me bonkers at the moment with their lack of communication. turned up early to look at work, like in every school I have ever been in (about 15 of them) and like in reception, only there is no work to look at. they seem to think we should know this by osmosis. so I was a bit annoyed. how the hell are we to know what is happening when they don't tell us? have also been "told off" about using more than a double page for homework, despite the instruction saying stick more paper in if needed. already pissed off because instructions said in 2 different places that there would be a learning objective and aim, there wasn't so I asked what it was... "ermmm it was just a task"
was the gist of the reply. being too tired to think straight, i just could not get my head round the lack of learning objective and the point of doing the homework. if the instructions had been a little clearer it would have helped too. the language was a little confusing and not properly thought through.
I have found out more about her reading and writing which is helpful and a little about maths.

I am just waiting for the washing to finish and then I am staggering to bed. this week has been a bit much. too many little things on top of some big things and I am desperate for half term to arrive. one of the routes out of town is closed due to road works and more traffic is coming up our road and there are also diversions along the route I take to school which is an annoyance I could do without. ds still has toddler diarrhoea still and there have been a few other accidents. I am feeling stressed because I am tired, but can't sleep because I am stressed. vicious circle. dd has come home with marker pen on dresses and t shirts and it is not coming out. the flats are being insulated and the insualation came through the air bricks. the rewashing the washingup has gcreated a backlog in the already over stretched system and I am feeling guilty. a health letter came and it was cc-ed to ss which has upset me again. feeling I am looking over my shoulder all the time just incase they get involved again. feeling underpressure to be always on top of things. and the loo is still leaking and the door is still waiting to be fixed and the radiator in the hall is still broken and I have done nothing about getting it fixed. that and the stress over trying to arrange something for parents evening is a bit much. and that is just the tip of the iceberg.