Paige Barnes

Flu Baby Husband and son have had the flu all week. Two doctors appointments, tons of Lysol wipes and spray, and several hundreds of dollars given to Walgreen's for Tamiflu and Relenza and isolation of the boys and the baby still gets the flu. I came home from working Saturday night to a baby with a high fever who was lethargic and moaning. Then she had a slight episode where she went very pale and glassy eyed and looked like she wasn't breathing. Scared me to death and I am an ER nurse! So we spent most of the day in the ER on Sunday and after blood tests and xrays and such, baby tested positive for the flu. She's been just pitiful. I remember the one time in my life I've had the flu and I hurt so bad all over. She's just been laying and moaning constantly. Her fever hasn't budged despite round the clock doses of Tylenol. Here's hoping my flu baby will feel better soon!

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Reason #11 that I love my husband: He cleans things when he thinks I am mad at him. It never fails. If he thinks I am mad/upset at him, he will start cleaning. It's actually kind of funny because the kitchen gets really clean! Sometimes I wish he'd just ask me what's wrong, but hey, a woman can't complain when her husband starts cleaning! :) ~Paige

Reason #15 that I love my husband: He tells me everything will be ok and I believe him. Like when our apartment building was destroyed in a fire when our son was 3 months old. I didn't know where we would go or what we would do. We were so young and didn't live near family and my husband was still in college. But he said it would be ok, and God showed up. And when our son was diagnosed with diabetes. And when I was put on bed rest at 30 weeks with my second pregnancy and then our daughter came early and had to be in the NICU for over a week. But through it all he assured me that everything would be ok. And it has been. ~Paige

Big Brother with little sister before she is transferred to NICU at Huntsville Hospital. Kate just chillin' under the bili-lights. On Sunday, the day we should be taking our new baby home, we were told she would be transferred to the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at the other hospital here in town. The hospital we delivered at was great, but their nursery was not able to care for her at this point in the journey. We were sent to the Regional NICU at Huntsville Hospital . We can't say enough about the stellar care that our daughter received from the nurses and doctors there. I was able to ride in the ambulance with her and when we arrived we got a crash course about life in the NICU. We were only allowed to see her at certain times and couldn't hold her or even touch her that first day. It was very hard. They had to put her under the bili-lights because her bilirubin level was too high. I was a ball of emotions. I mean, I had just had a baby, and now our sweet baby ...

Kate Jillian Barnes October 1, 2009 @ 11:53pm 7 lbs and 18 inches

Well, lots has happened in the past few weeks. Me being on bed rest for this pregnancy hasn't allowed me to update as much as I thought I would. So, I need to play catch up. You will see several posts coming up in the next few days. Maybe even several on one day as I try to catch up with the past few weeks! ~Paige

So today was a good day at Casa de Barnes. We let Daddy sleep in. He's been doing most of the 2am blood sugar checks since mommy has been so sick. He woke up on his own and was ready to finish the painting in our front bathroom. We are very close to being finished. Just have to put the floors down, install baseboards and the vanities. I can't wait to see the finished product! Today was also the first UT football game of the season. Daddy is not one of those die-hard sports types, but he pulls for Auburn. Mommy goes for the Tennessee Volunteers. Apparently, Big Red is the only kid in his class that didn't understand his sweet teacher's zeal for "Roll Tide"! In fact, she said he didn't know what "Roll Tide" meant! So, I made a point to squeeze my very pregnant self into my Big Orange shirt and sit myself and my boy down in front of the TV to watch the Vols whoop up on WKU. Go vols! ~Paige

So since my last post a few things have happened. I was working my normal, insanely busy 12 hours in the ER and just so happened to go into pre-term labor. Called the hubbs, who came to pick me up, and we made our way to the hospital where my OB practices (This just happens to be at a different hospital than where I work). Turns out, I have already started dilating and my body was gearing up for labor. Not good at 30 weeks. So, they gave me all sorts of lovely medications to stop the labor, as well as steroids to help the baby grow, should I go ahead and have her. Thankfully, we were able to stop labor, and I was able to go home. But, now I am on bedrest until baby Kate comes. I still have 8 weeks until my due date. That's a long time. So, I am trying to my best to be a good patient. Nurses make the worst patients, sometimes. My husband and son have been fabulous to help out, and I am trying to make the most of my time on bedrest. Mostly working on youth stuff for our ch...

So last week, I had the opportunity to spend a few days in the hospital. I am a nurse in a busy emergency room and was actually at work when it happened. I passed out and the next thing I knew my fellow nurses were taking care of me and giving me the good once over. All details aside, it looks like this pregnant girl had some low blood and electrolyte levels and more than likely the mild heart condition that I have was acting up as well. They took great care of me during my time there. I only work weekends, so I have spent the past week trying to be calm, still, rested, and quiet so that I will be ready to go back this weekend. Very hard for me to do. During this time, I have been talking a lot to God and listening to some of my favorite Bible teachers, and really listening. I wonder if God helped me to my knees (literally) to remind me that I need to spend more quality time with Him. I cried myself to sleep last night thinking of my boy going back to school in a few weeks. I'v...

There is a new project starting up in the Barnes household. (Aside from the baby that is currently growing in my belly). :) We are going to be writing down our experiences over this past year since our son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes. We have no idea of knowing where this will go, of course, but we have spent this last year spinning up and down and all around. If there is an emotion to be had, we've had it this year. And we have grown as a family more than we ever imagined we could. So we decided that perhaps others could be helped from our experience. We have long given this diagnosis over to the Lord for Him to make us (especially our son) stronger because of this. For Him to use this to help others. So after a night of being awake all night and feeling a prompting from the Lord, and after a family meeting - we are all in! So, we are praying about where God would lead this new endeavor. And we give it over completely, 100 %, whole-hearted to God for Him to use i...

I am notorious for buying books and letting them sit on my bookshelf for years before I get around to them. I'm like a book hoarder, so I can never get them read in a timely fashion! I am reading a book that I've had on my shelf for a few years. It's called "Life Wide Open - Unleashing the Power of a Passionate Life" by David Jeremiah. I've read several things by David Jeremiah, and I highly recommend him. He's an easy, to the point, simple facts and thoughts kind of writer. A good, quick, encouraging read. I am not very far into this book yet, but it's already speaking to me. See, I think for the past year one of the things lacking from my life has been passion. Too many things have gone on and taken over and, I guess, kind of squelched the passion way down. But this is not what we created for - to be passionless. I read this just tonight and just had to share. "That wellspring of all that is good and pure and vital is placed within each ...

The past few months have quite literally been the toughest for me personally thus far in my journey on this earth. I have been a coward. I have been disobedient. I have tried to do things on my own. I have failed to listen. I have argued with God. I have whined (a lot) to God. I have had resentment over some things. I have wished things weren't this way. I have not spent time with God. I have not focused on Him. I have run at times. I have hidden at times. I have been weak. I have wanted to crawl in a hole. I have not made Him proud. But my Hero has spoken to me (and I actually listened!). He told me that he has not moved. He will uphold me and my family with his mighty right hand. He has shared with me that he is proving me genuine. In a sense, I am getting a skin graft. The old needed to come off and it has been very painful. The new is being put on and it is not without its pain as well. But in the end, it will be worth it. It will be new and living and use...

I've been meaning to blog this all week, but I was waiting on the hubbs to get my new header up and running. What do you think? Likey? Anyway, I wanted to post a few thoughts from the message our pastor shared with us on Sunday. I tell you, we go to an amazing church. And it has nothing to do with a building (because we don't own one) or the immense theology training of the staff (although they are so in tune with God and speaking His truth boldly) or even the programming (which does rock - especially for our kids). It has everything to do with two things: 1. Jesus - First and foremost . It's like the cheering at a ballgame sometimes, only people are shouting "Jesus"! Everything that is said or done points directly to Jesus - our Redeemer and Savior. 2. The people. The church is not a building. It is a living, breathing, organic body of people on this Earth who love Jesus and go about their everyday lives loving others and helping others and loving Jesus...

http://www.newspring.cc/series/beautiful Must go to this site and watch this series. Perry Noble is awesome! I wasn't convinced that he could pull off the first sermon in the series, because he's a guy, but he knocked it out of the park! Ladies, you MUST listen to this. It will change you!

May the joy of the Lord be yours this Christmas! As I reflect on all that has happened in the life of my family this year, I realize that God has been teaching me. I don't know that I've always heard him at the time, but it's flooding me now. It's in the hard times that we grow the most. And through some very hard times this year the Lord has done so much for us. We've been introduced to a new church family and found a place where God wants us to be. We've grown closer as a family. We've stepped out of comfortableness into the unknown and unsure and seen that God will hold us and He will provide and do amazing things. There is a fire burning in me to reach the world for Jesus...at least my corner of the world. I see the Lord positioning us....slowly, but surely. I will follow Christ wherever he leads even if it takes forever. I have whined and complained and cried and pouted and once I even kicked the kitchen cabinets. I have been through the ent...

The Christmas season is here. We are doing some serious remodeling of our home, and I am so enjoying all the Christmas decorations because they take the focus off of all of that craziness! I thought I would post a few of the Christmas pics here. Hopefully tomorrow we will get our annual Christmas picture taken and get our cards printed and mailed. I will post that pic soon. I hope that this Christmas season brings your much joy and blessing. May you be blessed by the knowledge that our Lord and Savior Jesus came to earth as a baby and grew into a man who died to set us free. Hallelujah!