first i start with a spoon and a bowl.
i can actually eat using my spoon, it only took me a few months to figure it out.
but you know what, i get more in my mouth if i just use my hands.
i can’t see how much milk i have left so i dump it out.
and really, the bowl just gets in my way so i give it back.
and when i’m done, my daddy helps me wash my hands.
the end.
I had a nightmare.
Ryan was having an affair and he didn’t want to be with me anymore. I left the house frantically, in a rage, the street started flooding and I couldn’t swim back to get Lucy. All I kept saying was “I’m going to throw up, I’m going to throw up…”.
And what does one do when they can’t get back to their family during a flood? Watch Cheerleading competitions in Ocean City of course!
There was more detail but that is all I’m givin’ ya…
So..
When I woke up this morning I rolled over and asked Ryan: “Are you having an affair?”
I was pretty sure I knew the answer but when you have dreams like that you just have to make sure, or you (I) will be wondering if it was a prophetic dream from the Lord sending you (me) a warning. lol. I know, you’re (I’m) nuts.
What was his response?
“No, I don’t have time to have an affair.”
Uh, okay. Thanks. Good I guess?
lol
I totally understood what he meant, but, I think the appropriate answer at a time like that would be something like: “Of course not! Don’t be crazy. You are the only woman for me.”.
DUH!
These are my siblings and this is the most recent pic I have of the three of us together, it is almost a year old.
Erin, my brother, is almost 21. Emily, my sister, is 16. I love them. They are sometimes crazy and I don’t know what to do with them, but for the most part I love them. Ha-Ha.
Out of the three of us, they both got the “good genes”. Thanks Mom and Dad!
Erin. Erin. Well, Erin got the washboard abs, the nice golden tan skin, the natural athletic talent (he could pick up any stick or ball and be amazing at any sport no matter what it was) and he is very smart (book smart) without really having to apply himself. Very good at math. Something I am NOT! Erin wanted to be a male model once, I think he could do it. Other models would hate him because he could eat three Quarter Pounders with Cheese and not gain an ounce. Jerk. Oh yeah, Erin is also somewhat of a “chick magnet”, I am not sure if that is self proclaimed or not. lol
This is my gorgeous sister Emily. As you can see, Emily got the good hair-soft, thick, shiny & *straight. Emily also has amazing electric blue eyes. Mine are poop brown. She, like my brother, also has amazing natural athletic talent (I am more of the apologetic, less aggressive type). Emily is unique, sensitive and caring. She will do anything for anyone if they need her. One might think of Emily as on of the guys. She also has something else that I don’t have but she would kill me if I wrote what it was… but she knows what I am talking about. And I am jealous.
And then there is me… I guess I got the personality. And, maybe the straightest teeth.
at 14 months old.
I hear something in my sleep. What is that? Crap! Lucy is crying. What time is it? Ugh, 5am. I really don’t want to get out of bed, maybe she will stop. Lord, please let her stop, please make her stop, please make her stop…
She doesn’t stop.
Ryan, let’s Rock- Paper- Scissors to see who goes to check on her. There is no response. FINE! I’ll do it.
I go into Lucy’s room and decide that I am not going to bother with that sleep training stuff, I will just rock her back to sleep, that works like a charm… everytime.
It didn’t work like a charm.
She is whining and squirming around like crazy. Child. It is 5am! There is no waaay you are ready to be awake for the day.
Lucy, tell Mommy what you want! Tell Mommy what you want (since she can talk ya know).
Well, that little girl looked right at me and pointed towards the hallway, so, I walked her out into the hallway. Then, she pointed toward the kitchen so I took her to the kitchen. Next, she pointed to her bottles on the drying rack.
“Oh, you want some milk?”
She smiled and did her really cute baby sign for “more”.
So, Mommy made Lucy a bottle of warm milk. She sucked it down and passed out.
It worked like a charm.
Goodbye 5am!
“But the spiritual nature produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” -Galations 5:22-23
Patience. where do we leave it when we lose it? A little boy may have been searching for his mother’s patience on the beach. He was so excited, that he cried out “Mommy, Mommy, look what I found!” She barked her response, “I wish you would stop calling me Mommy! I can’t stand it! I just need a break!” Somewhere in the sand, her patience was lost.
We mothers know the sadness in our children’s eyes when we find our patience is missing. We desperately need to locate it before permanent scars are engraved upon the hearts of our little ones because they believe every impatient word spoken. We love our children. We don’t want to harm them with words.
So, why is patience so often lost? Living with children is not easy. Mothering is tiring business, and when we grow tired, we become impatient. Tempers flare as a warning that self-examination and time evaluated are needed.
Asking ourselves some simple questions and changing our lifestyles may help us find our patience before it is lost again. Are we getting enough rest? Are our tires bodies getting proper nutrition and exercise [nope, not me]? Do we need to say “no” to some of the demands on our lives outside of the home? Is it time for a night out or a weekend away with our husband? When did we last spend time resting in the patient arms of Jesus?
Patience is a fruit of God’s Spirit. If we seek Jesus, we’ll find our patience. As we remain in the branches of His fruit tree, we’ll never find it missing again. It was there all the time.
Lord, I can’t do this in my own strength. I pray for patience that comes from You. Protect me from the busyness and exhaustion of life. I want to be like You, for You never lost Your patience, and You never hurried anywhere. I ask that Your patience reside in my heart and control me. Thank You for being patient and loving with me.
–Elaine W Miller. Bathtime Reflections for Drained Moms.
by posting a video like this…
Modeling session.
We don’t have cable so Ryan got us Netflix. I love it.
We could wait for movies to get to Redbox and only pay a dollar, but we have to wait too long, and I feel like watching a something now!
We get movies and TV shows for one low price each month. We can order the new movies and they come through the mail, we can stream some new movies, older movies and TV Shows to our TV and to my computer.
The computer streaming is especially handy while Lucy is napping and while I am cooking dinner.
If you don’t watch $10 worth of movies at Redbox then this may not be a good deal for you but for us to get cable and rent movies it would cost us WAY more… so it works for us.
So, now I am addicted to some shows that most people probably know about but I don’t because, well, we don’t have cable.
Man V. Food: http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Man_V_Food
American Pickers: http://www.history.com/shows/american-pickers
Pawn Stars: http://www.history.com/shows/pawn-stars
I really love food and history so these shows are perfect for me, and they are only 20-30 min long so I can watch one while I cook a whole meal or a couple while Lucy is sleeping. That is, if all my chores are done. hehe…
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A good blogger once gave me the advice to keep blogging, no matter what. So if I don’t have anything interesting going on or a good topic to blog about, blog anyway to keep my readers happy and my creative juices flowing. So, that is the reason for the random post.
Obviously I am extremely creative. Netlfix, yeah, that is a topic worth blogging about. < thumbs down fart noise>
Hello again.
I am sure after the Holidays we are all in the “gotta start saving again” mode. Well, where to start? I think groceries is a good one, since we all eat and gotta get our groceries.
FlyLady has been on my blogroll (or Pages I Visit) for a while now but thanks to Amy for reminding me.
Here are some good tips for cutting down that grocery bill: Click Here.
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