Update on Jury Duty

After multiple calls and letters, I have been released from Jury Duty- well hopefully.

What I had to do...
1) Call Hannah's doctor to get a signed letter... what should it say you may be asking yourself. When I asked what the letter should say, they replied, "Sorry, we cannot tell you what the letter should say, but you need a doctor's note"
2) I was turned down by the doctor, only to have a sympathetic nurse say she would write something up and see if he would sign it.
3) Received the letter from the doctor which stated that I am the primary caretaker of a dependent child.... yes, just one sentence.
4) Made a copy of Hannah's Birth Certificate to include as evidence.
5) Wrote a personal letter stating that I would be happy to serve jury duty when my life circumstance changed.
6) Included a copy of their website that stated that an acceptable excuse was as follows: Provides actual and necessary care of a person and actual and necessary care of another.
7) Sent all the evidence in.
8) Received a letter saying I was excused from Jury Duty.
9) Received a letter saying I was summoned to Jury Duty.????
10) Call to clarify whether I was indeed excused.
11) She told me I was, but I would not be surprised to find out they did not excuse me after all! I think I should have just served!

Taylor update

It is hard to find time to blog these days. Sleeping, watching TV, reading, cleaning, and checking email seem to fill all my free time. Every now and then I try to catch a minute to just sit and do absolutely nothing. Hannah needs constant attention when she is awake. We received her Pre-school packet in the mail. We are all excited for her to start school in September. She is of course our greatest joy especially when she is in a good mood. On Wednesday she was in a constant state of ecstasy for no reason what-so-ever. Everything we did she exclaimed to me with a "WOW" or "YEAH". I love those days. She is starting to memorize her books. She can finish sentences and sometimes if something reminds her of a book, she will start reciting it. She is still completely clueless about her colors. When you ask her what color something is, she says "Pink"... no "Yellow"... no "Blue"... no "Green" and so on. So she knows what colors are, she just can't identify them yet. We have a color book and she gets them all right, but I realized it is because she memorized the order the colors were in. I guess I can be proud about that. July is the month of bills. We moved here in August, so all of our yearly bills come around this time. We are also doing some major exterior work on our house. We are so thankful for how much God has provided for us. It is easy to always be looking upward at the things we don't have... a larger, more organized house, a full-time cook and housekeeper:), etc. Right after I graduated college, I lived off nothing and I did not have a care in the world about material possessions. Every now and then I just have to stop and remind myself what is important in God's eyes (which is all that really matters). Loving and serving Him and His people. Spending time with Him, caring and loving others.

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Wrightsville Beach. We had a great time and will definitely go back. The last one is of Hannah's new hand wrap. She got a second degree burn by placing her hand on a hot burner. It was an eventful night to say the least.