The Girls are off to College this Week...and a Prayer request for April

The local community college has a program every year for children in 3rd through 8th grades to take enrichment classes. This will be C's last year participating, and it is E's first. It runs from 8:30 in the morning until 3:00, with lunch provided. Each girl is taking 3 classes.

C is taking Spanish, which is surprisingly advanced. She is also taking Babysitting/CPR, and wants it to be known she is only taking it because I am making her. LOL Her afternoon class is a science class. She has homework assigned...last night she was to write a resume about herself for the babysitting class, and to study her spanish vocabulary words, which we all made a game out of, and ended up "studying" until 10:30.

E is taking 2 different art classes, and a dance/tumbling class, all of which she loves. E loves them so much she wants to sign up for the session in July, and take 3 MORE classes.

As the girls are in softball this time of year, too, it makes for a very tight schedule this week...get them up at 7:30, do chores, leave at 8:15, pick them up at 3, run home, do all our pet care, have supper, get 2 baths done, (this is where it comes in handy that my husband and I have 2 seperate houses....one girl bathes at our house, one at step-dad's, lol) and get to the ball field by 5:30 for warm-ups and games till either 8 or 10, depending on the night.

Yesterday was REALLY tight, because April had a surprise doctor's appointment I had to take her to at 2. She is having what we hope are minor heart issues. She spent 5 hours in the emergency room last Thursday, and if she is still having them next week when she goes for her regular pre-natal appointment, she will be sent to a cardiologist. They have already had her hooked up to a heart monitor for 3 hours, done extensive bloodwork, (and more yesterday), given her IVs, ran an EKG, and done an ultrasound. There are a few dangerous heart conditions that normally are asymptomatic until pregnancy, but then again, there are several possible causes that are completely harmless. We're just not sure which she has yet. So, while I am trying to not scare April, and am focusing her on the "It's-probably-nothing-but let's-find-out-because-of-the-baby" aspect to her, I would appreciate prayers for this dear daughter and her unborn child.