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Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Hello again

After not weeks, not months, but a couple of YEARS, I decided to start blogging again. For several reasons really. One, I have so many cutesy things the girls are doing (yes, the girlS - I now have another little girl) that I would like to be able to "chronicle" them. Then eventually I will go and write them in those stinkin' baby books. Secondly, I, like so many others, need an "out" every once in awhile. I sure could have used one over the past few weeks. THANK the Lord for wonderful friends who lended their ears. Thirdly, I have GOT to be accountable to something/someone for my lack of initiative to LOSE weight.
That said...
Raylynn has re-introduced me to the joys of Hide and Seek - a game I never particularly loved as a child. Her new favorite movie is The Fox and the Hound in which they play Hide and Seek, so OF COURSE she wanted to play. I started by counting and upon yelling, "Ready or not, here I come!", I heard a faint, "OK, Mommy!" from the kitchen. That stinker. She is at least hiding better. She is actually finding places to hide as opposed to her usual bending at the waist and covering her eyes. I love three year olds! I say that about every stage of childhood but three is a blast. Three has been super hard, but also the most fun. =)
Nora is growing, growing, growing! Shannon looked at her last night and was kind of choked up how quickly she seems to be slipping from infant to child. How I wish I could remember every little moment! When we first found out I was pregnant with Nora, we were not expecting it. I had often wondered how I could ever love another child as much as I loved Raylynn, now I wonder what I ever did without her. =)
Today I start my "vigorous" work out schedule which includes actually doing SOMETHING. Brother. =) I have not been able to get motivated. We went through alot this past summer and I let my emotions get the better of me. And in doing that I kind of let myself go. Still not an excuse for my laziness. I mean I have time to do this...=)

Friday, 06 January 2006

Well, today is the last day of a long chapter in my life and the first day of a brand new chapter. I am happy, excited, sad, angry, relieved, nervous, scared. I thought when I left for Vanuatu that I was taking a huge step of faith. Don't get me wrong, I was. However, it was different. It was more a "heart" step of faith. I was following the Lord and in doing so leaving someone I loved dearly behind who then broke my heart into a million little pieces. BUT as it always does when you take a step of faith, everything worked out for my good. The person who broke my heart, I married AND when the contributions that were promised stopped, the Lord MORE THAN provided for me. So I really have nothing to fear. Look at how He has provided for me in the past? Why can't I remember all of this when I go to pay our bills?

Remember when Brett Jones preached about letting things go to follow the Lord? I had heartily amened that sermon, but I took it as emotional things and thought of all the people I knew who needed to hear this. Isn't that usually the way? But when Pastor mentioned the sermon again this past Sunday, I realized that I needed to let go of this business and this "career" in order to follow after the calling of the Lord. My calling is to be a wife and a mother and I can't do that being in a business that requires my life's blood and first born to "make it". I'm really just writing to encourage myself. I am probably not making sense but to a select few. That's OK. :) This is MY personal journal anyway. HEEHEE.:d

Friday, 30 December 2005

Christmas was WAY busy for us. Whew! I am still trying to recover! Friday night we went to my Mamo & Papo's house for extended family Christmas on my side. That was fun. We did a Chinese Christmas where my mother and father conspired AGAIN to win the best gifts. Hee.Hee. They are so funny. Raylynn got toys and books. Thank goodness for the books. They pretty much evened out the toy haul.

Christmas Eve was spent at my parents house where we ate fahitas (I know that's not the correct spelling but I can't be bothered. Although the time I took to write this I could have done a spell check. Oh well) and opened TONS of presies. Raylynn got toys, books clothes and a rocking chair that my parents so lovingly redid to match her baby bed. It was darling. She LOVED it. We then played Boggle & Trivial Pursuit 90s Addtion, where I found out that my older sis is a sore loser and even worse winner. HEE HEE. I also found out that my mother apparantly lived in an underground shelter during the 90s because she didn't know hardly any of the answers. HAHA. I can say this because she even admitted this as we played. I did feel bad for my BIL because the TP game was his Cmas presie and drinks were spilled on it not once but twice. Cera spilled her coke and Raylynn spilled my coffe. BUT it was much fun and we thoroughly enjoyed our time with my family.

We had a wonderful Christmas day. I got up super early so I could finish the danish pastry I had started the night before. All I had to do was knead the pastry and make this filling. We then had Cmas with just three of us. It was so sweet. Our very first Christmas in our very first home with our very first child. Of course, I was emotional. However, it was hard to be emotional as my husband opened his airsoft gun. Not even going to go there.

We then headed over to my inlaws house for breakfast where we at the danish, yummy cranberry & walnut scones, and venison sausage. (drooling) We then had our fourth Christmas in three days. Raylynn got her wagon from Mimi and Toots. They got her a rocking chair also, but it stays there. They got it because Raylynn is always trying to play with the one that was my mother-in-law's when she was a little girl and it's very ricketdy. Anyway, she also got ANOTHER baby doll (that makes THREE), some toys and outfits. She also got a silver cutlery set for each stage of childhood - baby spoon, toddler spoon and fork and child size spoon, fork and knife - with her inital engraved on it. Of course that is what she liked the best because it was metal and she loves the taste of metal. After she opened that she didn't want to open any of her other gifts. GO FIGURE. HAHA

Well, with all the gift cards to Home Depot S was able to get his chop saw. He was thoroughly excited. He was thrilled with his airsoft gun that I got him, but then he sat on it and broke it. HEE HEE. I don't know why, but it was so stinking funny to me. Boy was he mad that I couldn't stop laughing. But he was able to fix it. Now he can go fight NuGen. He also got a girllmaster sandwich maker. They had one in Oz and he loved it, so his mom got him one. Now he can make our grilled cheese sandwiches. HAHA He got an assortment of other things, but I don't want to list them. =)

And now to me...I got three tops from my mother in law, bath stuff from my father in law, silver mirror tray with Cmas candles and little glass jewels from my sister in law, girft card to the mall from S, along with some AWESOME perfume from V's Secret called Succelant and some Amber Romace from V's Secret also. My inlaws also got me some other little things, but they would take time to describe them and I don't feel like it. HAHA. They got a us a joint gift. It was this ceiling fan that we had wanted from Home Depot. They apparantly bought months ago and have been sitting on it all this time. Thank goodness we never went and got it. We were excited though. We had wanted to get it becuase it FINALLY went on sale and was actually affordable, but they sold out before we could get there so we were thoroughly disappointed. But now we have it. Yippee.

Well, the rest of the day was spent eating and eating and eating again. We had dinner at S's parents house and then dessert at his aunt & uncle's house. It was fun. We were supposed to go shopping with Shannon's parents on Monday since I had all those stinking gift cards, but they ended up staying up late on Cmas night and so they didn't want to get out and fight the mall traffic. So in turn, neither did Shannon. THE STINKER! But we ended up going up to Gateway Station with Danyel and pulled out R's stroller and walked around all those stores because it was SOO nice outside. We met Shannon's parents there and they bought us a coffee. I enjoyed the exercise and fresh air. So did Raylynn. She is SO content when she is outside. I'm sure all of our summer will be spent outdoors. We then went back to Shannon's parents house and hung out with Danyel and put some stuff on eBay to sell. (Shannon's parents went to a friends house for dinner) Then when they got back we played Trivial Pursuit with Danyel and Lakieta until 2:30 in the am.

Well, that's pretty much my holiday. Wonderful wonderful wonderful. I was so thankful for all the time I was able to spend with alllll my family. If you actually made it to the end of this blog. I would love to hear about ya'lls holidays.

I hope and pray that everyone has a wonderful and safe New Year!

Thursday, 22 December 2005

Well, it is 5:26pm and I am nervously awaiting docs for my personal closing. Whew. We almost didn't get approved, but the Lord came through and here we are. Thank you Jesus!

My last day is January 6th here at ol' XXXXX. (Wouldn't wan to give too much info away) I am in a way sad, but mostly I feel free. Free from the stress of this awful business. I am refusing to worry about how we will "make it". S & I watched the second marriage dvd in Joe McGee's series, Marriage Building 101 (or something like that). Anyway, it is ALL about finances. In it he states that in order to have a family and provide for them, it takes faith. You have to work in faith. Now I know this may seem like a no-brainer to most of you, but hearing it the way he said it encouraged me greatly. I refuse to become wearing in our well-doing. We will reap blessings.
I am trying to get a new business of sorts off the ground, so do keep me in your prayers. C will be helping me. I honestly don't know what I would have done w/o her these past few weeks. She's been a real blessing to everyone here at the office. I can't wait to find out what's under her & R's tree!!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of what's under trees, it is almost sinful how many presies that R has coming to her. HOLY COW! We are having a total of SIX Christmases this year. Out of the two that we've already had, she has received the following:
1. $50.00 (uh, yeah)
2. 4 outfits
3. 1 baby-doll (that totally one-ups the one that mommy got her )
4. A singing/vibrating butterfly
5. 1 book and
6. 1 care bear item that I am returning because I don't like care bears
And our schedule for the weekend includes, Christmas with my extended family on the 23rd, Christmas Eve with my immediate family, Christmas early am with just the three of us, Christmas mid-am with the Finchs and Christmas pm with the Finchs/Sherrys. OH MY WORD. Poor little R. She is going to have complete overload. But it will be fun for me. Hee hee.

I wish you all a wonderful Christmas.

Friday, 16 December 2005

the Siren
You scored 73% Seductiveness and 40% Playfulness!

The seductress. You are the mermaid that lures sailors to their deaths with your voice and beauty. You enchant those that come across you, whether it's your intention or not. Your beauty is the deadly kind.

Your opposites - the Maiden