What's important

Besides the whole rushed birth and emergency C-section of Monday night, we had another fun event. CR lost my wedding ring ...

Since I had no idea I was going to the hospital, I of course had fun jewelry on for the first day of school. I took off all the junk jewelry and put it in my purse, but gave my Aggie ring and wedding ring to CR to put in his pockets. If you know him, you realize this is perfectly fine because he is a "cowboy" and does not wear loose jeans. Anyhow, when we went to the OR we did not have our camera ... it was in the car and CR did not want to leave my side to go get it. So he put my phone in his pocket with my rings so he could take pictures with that. He had to put scrubs on to be able to go into the room. Still all was ok; he remembered checking for my rings often. Then when Kirby was born he was whisked away to follow her to the nursery and to strip down his scrubs. Meanwhile he is pulling my phone in and out of his pocket to answer texts, etc. After about an hour we got to go to a room and he begins emptying his pockets. No wedding ring ... actually, my wedding band was there; it was the solitaire diamond (engagement) that was missing. He told me and I looked at him with my daughter in my arms and said, "That's ok ... it doesn't even matter." What? I honestly felt that. Yes, the idea of the ring matters. What it represents and means matters, but the material part of it doesn't matter. I had my "diamond" in my arms. He went and asked the nurses for a lost and found and let me tell you, those nurses went on ring search lock down. An hour later one of the nurses comes in with my ring ... she had found it in the bottom of the nursery trash can, underneath his scrubs. I still feel the same though. I have always tried hard not to be a materialistic person, but even more so now. God has given us the gift of life here on Earth and eternal life with Him when it is our time. Soak up time with what God has granted you and realize what matters most. It isn't that drink at the end of a long day, that new outfit that makes you look smashing or the huge new home you just built. Yes, these things are nice but they are temporarily going to fulfill that desire.

Speaking of new home ... Saturday we had a moving party with about 5 guys from church and one of my students. They got all of our big stuff moved in! We are still in the other house until they finish up a few final things, but the big stuff is in and settled. CR wants to sleep up there tonight but I want to wait until the other things are finished. We may go eat up there tonight though, so that should be fun. I will post pictures once it is all in and mainly set up.

Here are some pictures of Grammy and Paw's visit this weekend. Mother was able to stay here all last week (such a blessing) and dad came down Friday. They of course had to head back yesterday, but it was hard. I wish we didn't live 5 hours apart; hoping that may change sometime in the future, though.