The Buerglers

Two weeks ago Evie had her 15 month check up which included two vaccines.  Both vaccines included common (1/3) side effects of a low grade fever, or rare but normal (1/20) side effects of a high fever. Evie was one of the lucky one-in-twenty who got a 102 fever for almost two full days..  If you recall from my Epic Thanksgiving , Evie doesn't do well with oral Tylenol.  Thankfully I had some of the other kind of Tylenol on hand.   She was miserable even with the medicine. She just laid on me for two days. Crying. Not eating. Moaning. Ugh. Breaks a mamas heart! Because she was laid up on me, she didn't really get to work out the tender spots on her leg from the shots. On the third day when she was feeling well enough to run around she was doing so with a bit of a limp.  That night she got a bit excited and tripped and fell head first on to the corner of the tv credenza . It swelled up to the size of half a ping pong ball and was bleeding ever s...

Measurements: Weight:  28lbs 13oz (>97%) Length/Height:  32.5 inches (96%) Eats:  3 full meals, 1-2 snacks, 15-20oz cow's milk, 10-15oz of water Diapers:  skipped size fours, straight to fives Clothes:  wearing a few 18-24mos in generous fits (Gap, Old Navy), 24 mos (Carters) and buying 2T in anything new for Spring  Evie finally started walking on January 11. One night after dinner she was determined not to crawl again. She walked about 10-20 steps and would get frustrated but try again. The next morning she got down from the breakfast table, took off walking and never crawled again. Refuses to crawl even on the landing of the stairs or other places it would be convenient. Evie has mastered climbing the stairs, even while holding Delaney or a bottle.  We put a gate at the bottom of the stairs because she would just start climbing and I couldn't find her until I heard her crying at the top of the stairs. ...

Happy Valentine's Day Love, Evie and Delaney

This past Sunday I was blessed and honored to give a talk to the youth group at our parish regarding Lent and prayer, fasting and almsgiving. We discussed Matthew 4:1-11 . Then I shared with them a few examples of each of these things... Here is an excerpt of my talk notes: Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving Fasting is probably the most popular ---  fasting is to abstain from something for a long period of time.   Often we find ourselves indulging in things of this world, instead of in God. aka too much time on Facebook, over eating, gossiping, complaining, etc So unless you have a real dependence on cookies or coke, I challenge you to give up something more difficult to really stretch you. FOR EXAMPLE:   **give up trashy music for only Christian music **give up all the apps on your phone except meaningful email and calling **refrain from gossiping but instead try to say something nice about that person Prayer is usually what people mean when they say they’re going to DO ...

This weekend I had the pleasure of honoring my sister, Katie, with a bachelorette weekend in Savannah.  Katie chose Savannah since she went to college nearby, it has great weather this time of year, and it's casual. Fourteen girls were able to make it from all over the country, and even Canada-eh?  I rented a house on one of the squares, which is the thing to do if you're ever in Savannah with a large group.  Since most of the houses have a 3 night minimum, a few of the girls took an extra day off work to take advantage of the required Thursday night stay. It's always risky getting away with 14 girls, but this was an exceptionally drama-free girl's weekend. Thank you, Jesus! Everyone arrived in stages on Friday, so we decided to have dinner at the house. Katie's sisters-in-law made a huge taco bar.  We spent the evening in our jammies playing games and drinking wine and sangria. Saturday morning was leisurely and very welcomed by the mommies in the group. ...

I love linking up for Miscellany Monday.  I get to write about all sorts of things that are too short for an entire post.  Here are some fun things going on at the Buergler Haus, courtesy of my unedited phone photos. Eric and I have each started going to spiritual direction with the parochial vicar at our parish.  It's been a challenge for me to get in a new prayer routine.  But I am enjoying it so far.  Same for Eric. Evie started walking about three weeks ago. Life in our house has changed. It's so much easier to do things with her now, but there is no such thing as sacred space anymore. She follows me everywhere and is into everything .  I felt like there was a lull during the crawling phase where she wasn't changing a whole lot, but now that she's walking I see so many changes. And her language skills are exploding! Eric and I have gone off the rails on the crazy train. Okay, we've been on it for a while. We've been slowl...