Ok we are not really Gypsies, because that would be kind of wierd, but we are officially a "wondering race of people".
We are moving.
Was that written with enough excitement???? Maybe not. let's try again
we are moving!!!
OK those exclamations were fake. I want to be excited, I really do. It seems though all I can think about is this is the TENTH move since being married to my husband. Just in case you were wondering, we have been married 8 years! (that exclamation was real). So I am going to do what I tell my children to do and be "Pollyanna" and play the "glad game"
Things to be glad about........
1) Jake got a job
2) We are not moving to the worst place in the world
3) My family is healthy and they are coming with me
4) I will be 5 hours away from a friend of mine and I am excited to see her
5) I enjoy seeing new places and I love adventures (I am certain this will be one)
6) My God goes with me everywhere! So moving doesn't really matter in the long run
7) My mom and sister are excited because they think Washington is way more cool than Arkansas
There we go. I feel a little better now. Now is there a way to somehow have my faithful bloggers help me with a move? OH yes, please pray that the house sells. We sort of need it to sell quick, and I know our Heavenly Father loves you guys so get praying!:)
It's official we are Gypsies!
struggling.
I was hesitant to write something so very personal on here, but what is the purpose of a blog if you can't share your passions, your peeves AND your burdens? As some of you may know, my husband had a Vasectomy Reversal last September. It is a whole huge marvelous story on how we got to that point but I will save that for another time. One week after his surgery I went in for "emergency" (not quite) surgery to have my right ovary removed due to a very large cyst they deemed to be the kind that does not shrink back down. Maybe I should have gotten a second opinion, maybe I should have done lots of things, but either way, last October I had my right ovary taken out. Yet I was STILL convinced I would get pregnant right away. The very first month we tried to conceive I thought for sure It would happen. It did not. And every month at the time of my cycle I am filled with disappointment. But today I have a different feeling. I am upset! I am upset with my self most of all. Why am I so impatient (as my dear friend Candice tells me everyday)? Why do I still spend 10 dollars almost every month on STUPID pregnancy tests??????? Why? Why cant I just let this go. So maybe God is waiting, so maybe we will never be able to have another one, so maybe I should just be happy with the two I have (which by the way, NEVER say that to me, I am a bit touchy when people say that). The thing is, every month I think "this could be the month" and every time I get a negative test or my cycle, I think "I am so stupid for getting my hopes up. I am NOT going to do that next month". I have literally said that EVERY month now for a year. I tell myself not to get upset the next time. Not to get my hopes up. But, I am hopeless, and I do get them up every month. I just don't understand sometimes. I know and truly believe God is good, and loving, and awesome, and His ways are not my ways, and He is trustworthy. Yet still it is hard to accept His ways over mine. I am sorry for how "emotional" of a rant that was, but I just got a negative pregnancy test 25 minutes ago, so I am a litttttttllllleeee sensitive :)
Will you pray with me?
"Lord, please help me be patient. Guide me in handing over my worries and hopes and laying them at your feet. Help me not to pick them back up again, but leave them with you. For you are trustworthy. Help me also to not envy those with the big family I so desire, and to guide my heart to not grow angry with those who can't wait to be done having children, while I yearn until heartbreak, for more. Make me more like you Father. Amen"
pictures are worth more than words
My cuties playing in the driveway while I spray paint a chair(if it looks a little dark, yes it is, and if it looks like my daughter is in her pajamas, yes she is :). I love working alongside my kids playing. OH and there is my cheap plastic chair that I am spray painting to match my front door. I love what 3 dollar bottle of spray paint can do, don't you?
garage sale find
I LOVE GARAGE SALES!!!! OK now that I have that out of my system I just have to add that I am also really lucky when it comes to garage sales (although I use the word luck loosely since I do not really believe in luck. I believe all my finds are a blessing from God himself). Although I love garage sales I rarely get to go. My kids loath going with me and my husband is hardly ever home on Saturdays to watch them. However, when I do get to go, I almost always find what I am looking for. For instance I realized this month the importance of finding another individual school desk. I wanted to pay no more than fifteen dollars. So on my way to the Farmers market I stopped by two garage sales. The first one had nothing I wanted, and the second had a violin that was the next size up for my daughter. My girl is in a quarter size and by this time next year she will be in a half. Wellllll the violin which is $150 new, was priced at the sale for 50 dollars, and I ended up walking away with it for $30, WAHOO!!! Then on my way home from the farmers market I stopped at two garage sales, the first one had nothing and the second, I kid you not, had an old solid oak antique individual school desk for $15!!!! I almost shouted for joy. God is so good. here is a pic of the desk
It's not that pretty to look at now, but when I am finished with it, it will be!
people are so unhealthy!!!!
OK you know when your kids just say the funniest things ever and you just want to roll on the floor laughing? That happened to me the other day in Walmart (but I was able to control myself from rolling on their aisles, dirtyyyy). So my family and I are pretty health conscious. Maybe in California surrounded by vegans and 100% raw food eaters we would not be considered so, but here in the south, we are pretty healthy eaters. We eat lots of whole foods, organic, some raw, and a lot of homemade. I say all that to give you the backdrop to what Ireland said. We were just finishing checking out and Ireland whispers to me, "mom, people are so unhealthy!" I looked to her and asked her why she said that. She answered "mom, just look in their baskets! This one lady had a jar of peanut butter in it and I couldn't believe what it said!". At this point I start to smile because I just think its adorable when children observe things, so of course I asked her what she saw. She practically shouts her whisper while saying "I can't believe that peanut butter company would brag about how unhealthy their peanut butter is. It said right on the front that is was half sugar! Half of the jar was nothing but sugar! I can't believe people would buy such a thing." At first I didn't understand and then it hit me, she had seen one of those jar's of peanut butter that is labeled "1/2 the sugar". However she read it, "1/2 sugar". I had to work so hard to contain my laughter so that I would not embarrass her. Sooooooooo funny. I love having kids.
my "hole" in the wall
OK this is primarily for my very best friend Candice, whom I have been promising forever to show a picture of what we did to our wall. We had a nice big solid wall between our living room and our dining room, and in a house that is 1300 sqft, that sort of needs to be opened up a bit. So hubby and I took a hammer to it. Soooooo several days, one very fun realization that it is a LOAD BEARING wall, and 10 trips to ACE hardware later, and this is the result.
how we homeschool
I title this "how we homeschool" while laughing. I was teaching the kids the other day and it was raining and I was needing a break, so I told the kids to go outside when it lets up, and play for "recess". So they went outside and stood on chairs so that they could "shake" all the rain off the tree onto themselves. After watching them do this for 20 or so minutes, I began to wonder about how my neighbors think I homescool. I couldn't help but laugh.
And after all that time making such a nice school room for them, THIS is how they want to do their school work
