Christian prayer thread- Easter on the way

[blackeyedsusan]

All welcome to join

Here is a list of all those who popped in or were regulars on the last thread. I hope I have not missed anyone!!

Amberlight- being treated for breast cancer. side effects may damage her heart.
Beatrice Primrose and cupoftea poorly baby and support for the family
Bluetinkerbell - ttc after losing the beloved Sterre during her second trimester
CaptainDippy- busy busy busy
Chairofthebored -dh has ms and ttc number1
Doodlealley -popped in to ask for prayer re breast cancer.
DutchOma- dh has a lung disease requiring regular trips to hospital/drs and lots of rest
Expat's dd suffering from leukaemia
Fink- recent single parent- husband left
FriendofDorothy- ttc -appointment soon. poorly cat.
Gingercurl - things are stressful at home, studying, high blood pressure
Issypeach - work situation insecure for h and Issy. Prayer requested for the dcs one of whom has gone awol and the other at uni
Jaffacakes ... when is/was your due date?
Jugglingwithsnowballs-job applications to work 1 to 1 with children
Lostmywellies - recently returned to the uk, currently freezing due to heating problems. frriendships for dd and ds to settle into nursery
Madhairday - reoccuring lung infections, dd with psoriasis/partial hearing and unhelpful school
MaryB - work and relationships at church. difficult situations socially for dc's
Notevenamousie - curently undergoing treatment as an inpatient. recently lost her mum.
PositiveAttitude- soon to be working abroad for 2 years. prayer also for current work situation and 3 jobs! (eek) pray for protection and continuing recovery of dd3 just out of hospital and battles for dla
SESthebrave -prayer for husbands stessful job situation and high blood pressure. pray for her quadraplegic friend suffering from pressure sores
Springydaffs-prayer for the truth to be known and a reconciliation with family
SweetestThing- just got the all clear from cancer and officially in remission. however, still has to deal with the after effects of surgery.
Teaandcakesplease - single parent to 2 young children. unsupportive parents re ds "being a toddler." prayer for new reliable friends.
Tuo -dd1 and dh to be more positive about her faith
Weegie atypical variant Guillain Barre syndrome has left her with no sensation in her legs below the knees or arms below the elbows, including hands and feet and the lower part of her face. she can do practically nothing for herself.
Welshcerys- family
ZipidiSoozi- things aren't so easy at the moment. we would love to hear from you.
and finally (I hope)
Blackeyedsusan - mad as a hatter! single parent to 2 youngish children, separated after dv. pray for friends and a new church. ds's behaviour and toddler diarrhoea. dd, niggling health problems.

jan, in a couple of years time you will inadvertantly find yourself screeching at a mischievious toddler in front of a vast arrray of judgy people just like the rest of us.

(if you have a boy it will be sooner as at some point mid pooy nappy change you will be screeching,."don't touch your willy!" )

(you may later then have to smile sweetly and pretend that your toddler did not just say fuck in the middle of assembly and the listeners must have misheard) (he has not said it in assembly, yet)

please pray for dh and me today he was so awful to me last night and i dont know how much longer i can stay in this marriage ive been up all night and cant cope

Prayers for peace for you Jan... :(

Well done Weegie! :)

I haven't posted a prayer request before, so here goes my first one!. I'm off to Eurodisney early tomorrow with DH, DS (dx Asperger's Syndrome) and DD (who has eczema). I think we're as prepared as we can be, but I'm feeling quite stressed about the flights. DS has not flown since he was a baby and has sensory difficulties (He's 10 now). We've had to leave one of DDs lotions behind as it won't fit in due to security regs. The alternative is stuff she hates using.

Please pray that everything goes well, we've got all we need and we all enjoy it. I don't want to get stressed and make everything miserable for everyone.

Thanks.

Will keep praying for you all. It's good to read the answers .

oh Jan love, (((hugs)))

were you up all night with baby or as a result of whatever happened between you? (don't feel you have to answer)

hello creatovator! eek!

hey creator i will be thinking of you on your trip, your very brave and i prayGods blessing to be with you

BES thanks for hugs and support i was up till 1 to do with dh - being upset etc and then after that the baby was up every hour- 2 hours its really hard i have no clue how to make her sleep i will not do cio. i bf her and its the only thing that will make her go back to sleep. how is your weekend going :)

oh dear. ds is not taking the lack of daddy very well. we have had tears and spilt drinks and more tearrs and upsets. I am not sure when he is coming as his battery went flat half way through that conversation. ds is being very clingy. cried when I went out of the room. I am trying to keep my patience when ds is behaving badly as it is because he is not happy today.

we did not make it to church as I was upset last night too and did not get to sleep til 2 am. (but at least I wasn't woken by small babies.)I hope that you day is better jan.

Jan, is there any way you can have a bed to yourself for a few nights so that you can throw the pillows out and feed lying down? It is quite a few years ago since I did any breastfeeding, but the difference between feeding ds, (sitting up and staying awake) and dd (taking her to bed with me, going to sleep, both of us and heaving her to the other side when we woke up) was absolutely amazing. Quite a number of people do co-sleep, but I would say that you need a bed to yourself and not one with (d)h in it as well.

Hello all, been a bit awol, not been on much since dh got back :) Praying for you all - esp Jan - hope today has been better? Praying creotovator for your holiday - dd has psoriasis so I sympathise with your lotion problems. Hope they both love it and there are no problems.

Things good here, dh back and had a wonderful time, we are all thrilled he is back. God bless all.

BES im sorry you are getting it rough too and had a difficult night last night. its exhausting when they are so clingy. i didn't get out to church, dh did.

dutchoma, thanks, we do sleep in separate beds at the minute to try and get better sleep but unfortunately co sleeping doesn't work for me... on bad nights the baby does end up sleeping with me ( and i do take her to bed to feed each time) but i get no sleep. for some reason i cannot sleep with the baby, i hear and feel every movement, can't relax with her beside me and just never sleep. im thinking of what sleep techniques to use because nights are just getting worse.

madhairday im glad your dh is back and trust you are having lovely family time together. things are a bit better between dh and me now but i just feel so drained ive been in bed most of the day.

Thanks for your support everyone and prayers. The whole family have been calmer than I expected today .

Jan praying for sleep for you tonight and more strength.
MHD glad your DH is back. It's really hard when they're away.
BES hope things are going better for you.

We made it to church this morning. It was great. The people I spoke to love my DCs and are so accepting of them. That's not always easy when DS does some very unconventional stuff .

well, he turned up, at 3.45 I did get unintentional revenge though. Because he was late and ds was distressed and needed supervision, it took me longer to clear up the kitchen enough to make tea (my indoor garden is taking over the worksurface) consequently, tea was a bit late and he had to catch a later train.

school trip, car insurance (eek ) and immuninisations today.

I hate having to take responsibility for everything.

mind you , at least I don't have to think of all the possible things that he could do to bugger it up and give him instructions on randaom possibilities. apparently I was supposed to know that he might agree to have the car hoovered out when he took it for a service... I made him pay to replace the magnetic books and toy pieces that went up the hoover.

Jan - I hope today is better. I also found the 6 monthish stage difficult. Looking back, I think the DSs were hungry but I followed the guidance and didn't give solids until 6 months. Within a few months they were eating enough to fill their tummies a bit more so they slept better at night. I hope the same happens for you. Would DH take the baby for a few hours at the weekend? I found it difficult always being on duty and really found that it helped to have a couple of hours of me time to look forward to.

Feeling very tired and fed up today - rather worried about finances and feeling the need to get a job. Very difficult to talk with DH about my concerns though (as he shares them and just adds to the pressure )

But I'm trying to take one day at a time, especially as it's the start of the Easter hols now and I have the children at home from school. DS has his grade 3 trumpet exam later this morning - so we're all feeling a bit nervous about that too.

Prayers would be very welcome. And prayers for you all too at the beginning of school holidays and as thread title says with Easter and spring on the way !
Very glad of more sunshine today - sunny blue sky days and new flowers and blossoms always lift my spirits a little ! Also going to stay with my parents next week which should make a pleasant change.

DS has done his trumpet exam now - and it went well we think

So feeling a bit less stressed now ! Thanks all

oi, we are still at school, I'll have you know! we break up on thursday.

took ds for his injections and they had run out of one of them... so we go back again another day for the other one. I am not sure he noticed the injection. there as no reaction at all.

Wow, not breaking up til Thursday ? That's very close to Easter !
I thought everyone would be the same as us. What's everyone else doing ?

oops, I forgot to ring the car insurance this afternoon... must do it tonight.

Sunshine? We have snow forecast for tonight!

We're on holiday. When I say that, of course I mean that the dcs are on holiday. As they're 8, 6, 4 and 2, that's fairly hard work for me!

I was having a really bad grumbly morning today - worries about the future weighing me down and impinging on the present - until (wait for this) dd2 had a particularly nasty accident of the poo variety. (Not well, poor girl.)

Yup. You wouldn't've thought that would turn a bad day around, would you? But, while holding my breath and cleaning everything in sight, I pondered two things. Firstly, that I was much better suited to the patience, sympathy, reassurance and drudgery of the response needed in that situation than dh would've been. So I shouldn't grumble so much about being a sahm if I can't go back to work any time soon. And secondly, that presumably God thought I would do a good enough job in that situation that he didn't need to intervene to save me from it. :)

So the present is looking brighter. We made chocolate nests this afternoon. But the future is still murky and uninviting. Do I agree to an international move if it comes to that? Or do I put my foot down because I don't think it's the best thing for the dcs? So much responsibility! And so much uncertainty. It's going to take a while...

I'm not sure I should've mentioned chocolate nests in the same post as a nasty poo incident! :o

oh dear lost. is she in pants? oh dear. cleaning up normal poo from pants is bad enough, cleaning up diarrhoea from pants is grim. (assuming it is as grim as cleaning it up from tights/vests/etc.)

dc's dad has a default option for cleaning up poo... shout for dc's mum. (to be fair he manages the normal fairly contained small leak diarrhoea quite well and just shouts for the oh my goodness it has gone all the way up his back poo. )

If all is said and done Lost how do you feel about another international move? You seem to consider everybody else's pov: "dh wants to go, but it may not be best for the children", what you think is important too. And it is important not to deny yourself so that you become just 'silly old me who is a sahm without a career'. You are very right to acknowledge that you are good at what you do and that you need the opportunity to go on doing that. Sorry if that sounds a bit 'preachy'.