Wow I cannot believe that I have been so awful about blogging lol.
The last time I posted was almost a year ago!
Gee whiz time sure does fly.
Megan my BFF has been nudging me to blog since well...last year lol.
Now with Serenity actually being here I would like to blog more so we shall see how it goes.
I shared this story with Megan and she poked me a bit and said I need to post it and keep posting more.
So here it is my first post since 2009 :)
Serenity's Bath time:
I love being a Mama and watching Serenity grow. Her morning bath time was super cute today. Her bathtub is in the shape of a whale. The tail part sits back a bit, the body is a seat, and the tub is the whales face. It is super cute. So she sat herself up and leant forward and started swishing her hand around in the water. She has a little handheld whale that sprinkles water on her and she kept trying to catch the whale, but everytime she splashed the water the whale got away it was super cute.
GOTTA LOVE IT!!!! :)
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Saturday, January 24, 2009
About us...
Today my heart was filled with joy. Fred and I slept in, which was wonderful. Well okay I slept in lol. I need my sleep!!!
Freddie went to bed early last night (8:00p.m.) so he was up early, then came back to sleep so he kind of slept in.
We like to go to www.whattoexpect.com and read about my body and the baby's growing body. Fred was excited to know that next week when we go to the doctor we should be able to hear the baby's heartbeat. Hopefully the doctor will do an ultra sound and we can see baby.
That would be great. While we visited the site we got to see a video someone had take of their 9 week ultrasound. In the ultrasound we could see the babies head, arms, and legs. It was really really cool. Usually you can not see that much so early on, but that baby was sitting just right. Everything was clear.
So we decided that although baby can not hear us yet, we will keep asking baby to turn over so that we can see him or her lol. Silly yes, but we already talk to baby anyway lol. It's fun to know that in a few more months baby will be able to hear us.
I hate all the nausea and vomiting that I have had, but it also reminds me that baby is inside of me and everything seems to be going great so far.
Actually the past two days have not been so bad. I only got sick once today, and twice yesterday! Much better than the usual 3 or 4 times. I even slept through the night without waking up needing a snack because I felt nauseated.
I have not really gained any weight, but that is okay. Or so I have been told that is okay. I suppose I will start to in the coming months. My goal is to only gain the recommended 15-25 pounds. I told Fred he has to help me not to pig out and he will :-).
The trouble gaining too much weight will cause is not worth pigging out for me anyway. I do not want to put our baby at anymore risk than he or she already is. Since I am overweight/obese.
If we get an ultrasound (which we are making very clear we want one) next week I will post what I can on here.
So pray that baby is sitting all cool like that other little one was. I can not stop thinking about that video and how next week that might be us :-)
Today Freddie wanted to take a nap with me and when we went to lay down he has the gigantic smile on his face. So I asked him what in the world has him smiling so big???
With a smile on his face that must of been pouring out of his heart, he said, "we are so happy, I am so happy."
He could not stop smiling thinking about me, about baby, about our life now and later. It was a sweet moment. He is right, I am very happy.
I can not thank God enough for giving me Fred and our wonderful life together. We are looking forward to what life with baby will bring us....stay tuned lol :-).
Freddie went to bed early last night (8:00p.m.) so he was up early, then came back to sleep so he kind of slept in.
We like to go to www.whattoexpect.com and read about my body and the baby's growing body. Fred was excited to know that next week when we go to the doctor we should be able to hear the baby's heartbeat. Hopefully the doctor will do an ultra sound and we can see baby.
That would be great. While we visited the site we got to see a video someone had take of their 9 week ultrasound. In the ultrasound we could see the babies head, arms, and legs. It was really really cool. Usually you can not see that much so early on, but that baby was sitting just right. Everything was clear.
So we decided that although baby can not hear us yet, we will keep asking baby to turn over so that we can see him or her lol. Silly yes, but we already talk to baby anyway lol. It's fun to know that in a few more months baby will be able to hear us.
I hate all the nausea and vomiting that I have had, but it also reminds me that baby is inside of me and everything seems to be going great so far.
Actually the past two days have not been so bad. I only got sick once today, and twice yesterday! Much better than the usual 3 or 4 times. I even slept through the night without waking up needing a snack because I felt nauseated.
I have not really gained any weight, but that is okay. Or so I have been told that is okay. I suppose I will start to in the coming months. My goal is to only gain the recommended 15-25 pounds. I told Fred he has to help me not to pig out and he will :-).
The trouble gaining too much weight will cause is not worth pigging out for me anyway. I do not want to put our baby at anymore risk than he or she already is. Since I am overweight/obese.
If we get an ultrasound (which we are making very clear we want one) next week I will post what I can on here.
So pray that baby is sitting all cool like that other little one was. I can not stop thinking about that video and how next week that might be us :-)
Today Freddie wanted to take a nap with me and when we went to lay down he has the gigantic smile on his face. So I asked him what in the world has him smiling so big???
With a smile on his face that must of been pouring out of his heart, he said, "we are so happy, I am so happy."
He could not stop smiling thinking about me, about baby, about our life now and later. It was a sweet moment. He is right, I am very happy.
I can not thank God enough for giving me Fred and our wonderful life together. We are looking forward to what life with baby will bring us....stay tuned lol :-).
Monday, December 15, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sunday Afternoon...
Sunday my best friend Megan, her husband Tim and their little one's came over after church. It's was their first time visiting our new apartment after our down sizing. So with there being less space I was wondering how this would work out. It turned out to be great!
Since they had never been there before I showed them the way from church, then I took off and went to the store to buy more snack food. We did not plan on guest and I really needed to go anyway. So off to Kroger I went.
When I returned I experienced one of my happiest moments that day. I was walking down the sidewalk and could hear the little one's laughing! Yes, I could hear them outside. Not because they were being rude or anything it was just normal laughter. The kind you would expect to hear when happy children are near.
It made my heart smile to know they were happy. To think one day God might bless us with children. Maybe one day I will be walking down the side walk and hear Fred inside making our little one laugh. It was a sweet moment for me.
Before we came over I asked Megan and Tim to excuse the mess, I was in the process of hanging things up and putting things away so we had a few things in a few places. Which by the way is now right where it should be!
As I was thinking about the laughter, I opened the door and found myself in the most wonderful mess of newspaper. The little one's were laughing because Fred let them at his old newspaper. Instead of coloring on it, they had taken it and kind of turned it into snow. There was paper everywhere. Flying around in the air on the floor on the couch. In the dinning area. It was everywhere and it was the most beautiful mess ever!
I loved it, who needs toys when there is pots and pans and paper!!!
When it was time to go the little one's helped clean up. As crazy and messy as it looked it only took 2 or 3 minutes to clean up, it was great!
While they were here Meggie read books or maybe a book, one of the little one's took a nap. Fred and Tim watched the Cowboys win, woo woo! I got to spend time with the people I love!
I made chili and best of all we made another memory to last a lifetime.
I'm glad God brought Megan into my life over 20 years ago. Through our friendship I have come to love her family the same as my own.
Her wonderful husband and sweet little pea's.
They have been such a great encouragement to Fred and me.
Hopefully one day God will bless us with children, and our growing family will be something beautiful like theirs.
Since they had never been there before I showed them the way from church, then I took off and went to the store to buy more snack food. We did not plan on guest and I really needed to go anyway. So off to Kroger I went.
When I returned I experienced one of my happiest moments that day. I was walking down the sidewalk and could hear the little one's laughing! Yes, I could hear them outside. Not because they were being rude or anything it was just normal laughter. The kind you would expect to hear when happy children are near.
It made my heart smile to know they were happy. To think one day God might bless us with children. Maybe one day I will be walking down the side walk and hear Fred inside making our little one laugh. It was a sweet moment for me.
Before we came over I asked Megan and Tim to excuse the mess, I was in the process of hanging things up and putting things away so we had a few things in a few places. Which by the way is now right where it should be!
As I was thinking about the laughter, I opened the door and found myself in the most wonderful mess of newspaper. The little one's were laughing because Fred let them at his old newspaper. Instead of coloring on it, they had taken it and kind of turned it into snow. There was paper everywhere. Flying around in the air on the floor on the couch. In the dinning area. It was everywhere and it was the most beautiful mess ever!
I loved it, who needs toys when there is pots and pans and paper!!!
When it was time to go the little one's helped clean up. As crazy and messy as it looked it only took 2 or 3 minutes to clean up, it was great!
While they were here Meggie read books or maybe a book, one of the little one's took a nap. Fred and Tim watched the Cowboys win, woo woo! I got to spend time with the people I love!
I made chili and best of all we made another memory to last a lifetime.
I'm glad God brought Megan into my life over 20 years ago. Through our friendship I have come to love her family the same as my own.
Her wonderful husband and sweet little pea's.
They have been such a great encouragement to Fred and me.
Hopefully one day God will bless us with children, and our growing family will be something beautiful like theirs.
Unemployeed...Updated
*I'm sorry, I forgot to update this post. A friend was asking me about it last week. I did transfer to the other center. It has been a nice experience. The staff is very nice over there and I like it a lot. I have no regrets and I am very glad I decided to give the big church a chance.*
Our life has been so crazy here recently. I am technically unemployed. The church early childhood center that I worked for closed it's doors on the 21st. The reason given is too much of a financial burden. In other words it was not bringing in as much money as was hoped for.
The church I worked for is actually a satellite ministry for a larger church. I was told that the decision to close the doors was not brash, but one that had been prayed about for several months. When the smaller church took on the responsibility of the center it was already in a poor financial situation.
The big church wanted to grow it as a ministry to children and their families. However over the last 14 months the center never grew beyond 50 children. So the big church still had to support the smaller one and it over time became too much to handle. According to the big church reps.
We, the staff, were all given our certificates that the church had payed for and even our FBI background checks. So it will make it a lot easier to hire on somewhere else. That is a huge blessing.
Now I'm kind of stuck in transition because the bigger church might transfer me over to their Early Childhood Center. Which is stable and has been around for the past 17 years. I will actually work today from 8:30-2:30 I believe. So I am hoping and praying that I find out their plans for me. If I transfer my start date and vacation time earned will remain the same, and more importantly I will not have to look for a new job and can go love on the kiddos over there.
It will be kind of strange for me. They are not in need of a Preschool Teacher so I'm not sure what I will be doing. Maybe I will sub or be a floater and help all of the Teachers as needed. I think I would like that. We shall see!
Our life has been so crazy here recently. I am technically unemployed. The church early childhood center that I worked for closed it's doors on the 21st. The reason given is too much of a financial burden. In other words it was not bringing in as much money as was hoped for.
The church I worked for is actually a satellite ministry for a larger church. I was told that the decision to close the doors was not brash, but one that had been prayed about for several months. When the smaller church took on the responsibility of the center it was already in a poor financial situation.
The big church wanted to grow it as a ministry to children and their families. However over the last 14 months the center never grew beyond 50 children. So the big church still had to support the smaller one and it over time became too much to handle. According to the big church reps.
We, the staff, were all given our certificates that the church had payed for and even our FBI background checks. So it will make it a lot easier to hire on somewhere else. That is a huge blessing.
Now I'm kind of stuck in transition because the bigger church might transfer me over to their Early Childhood Center. Which is stable and has been around for the past 17 years. I will actually work today from 8:30-2:30 I believe. So I am hoping and praying that I find out their plans for me. If I transfer my start date and vacation time earned will remain the same, and more importantly I will not have to look for a new job and can go love on the kiddos over there.
It will be kind of strange for me. They are not in need of a Preschool Teacher so I'm not sure what I will be doing. Maybe I will sub or be a floater and help all of the Teachers as needed. I think I would like that. We shall see!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
He Drives Me Crazy!!!
So Fred was doing something that made me nuts and he looks me right in the eye (okay well as best he could lol since he is like 8 inches taller than I am) and he says "how come you blog about only wonderful things I do you should paint the full picture not just half of it." :) Is he nuts! So he wants me to blog about how He Drives ME Crazy!!!
Just to humor him a bit I thought sure why not.
I mean I'm sure any woman who has ever been with a man for an extended period of time can relate to a number of these.
So here is my Fred drives me crazy list...
When he toots...I swear his gas could be used to take an entire country out and sometimes he strikes without warning! So beware lol!
I have never met anyone who can hold more spit in their mouth, I always say SPIT IT OUT!!! ICK!
Okay now anyone with a teenage boy will like this one. Fred can eat a whole pizza, buffalo wings, and drink 10 teas, then look at me and say, "that was just a snack, what's for dinner"
LOL.
Is that even normal for a teenager???? I mean really, I would die!!! And he is the skinny one someone please explain that!
Now this is sweet kind of, but sometimes not so cute. Fred always kisses me goodbye in the morning before he leaves and always kisses hello when he returns home in the afternoon. Which I love, however...
Summertime means sweat and my dear wonderful Freddie sweats like a pig. So the morning kiss is fine, but he comes home covered in sweat leans over ever so sweetly and plants a big one on me. Needless to say his sweat drips into my eyes, covers my face, and next thing you know I am wetter than a penguin!
Now that is when He Really Really Drives Me Crazy!!!
Oh and my all time favorite, you know how you can send a man to find something but he never does.
I can tell Fred, go look in the pantry behind the peanut butter and you will find your snacks, no better not say snacks he would find those!
How about and you will find my jar of olives. He will come back look at me and say, "I didn't see them!" Are you kidding me.
So off I go into the pantry move the peanut butter move some other random something maybe move one more thing or not and whoop there it is! He will look at me and say, you said "behind the peanut butter!!!!!!!!!"
Please scream with me now.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Needless to say...
HE DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!
Now for all the things he does wrong he does a 100 more right so I have learned to run fast lol. I have found that keeping tissue on hand is always a great idea, the way to a man's heart is truly through his stomach, and I have also learned that if you want a man to find something give him directions without giving him directions and he will figure it out! ;) LOL
Just to humor him a bit I thought sure why not.
I mean I'm sure any woman who has ever been with a man for an extended period of time can relate to a number of these.
So here is my Fred drives me crazy list...
When he toots...I swear his gas could be used to take an entire country out and sometimes he strikes without warning! So beware lol!
I have never met anyone who can hold more spit in their mouth, I always say SPIT IT OUT!!! ICK!
Okay now anyone with a teenage boy will like this one. Fred can eat a whole pizza, buffalo wings, and drink 10 teas, then look at me and say, "that was just a snack, what's for dinner"
LOL.
Is that even normal for a teenager???? I mean really, I would die!!! And he is the skinny one someone please explain that!
Now this is sweet kind of, but sometimes not so cute. Fred always kisses me goodbye in the morning before he leaves and always kisses hello when he returns home in the afternoon. Which I love, however...
Summertime means sweat and my dear wonderful Freddie sweats like a pig. So the morning kiss is fine, but he comes home covered in sweat leans over ever so sweetly and plants a big one on me. Needless to say his sweat drips into my eyes, covers my face, and next thing you know I am wetter than a penguin!
Now that is when He Really Really Drives Me Crazy!!!
Oh and my all time favorite, you know how you can send a man to find something but he never does.
I can tell Fred, go look in the pantry behind the peanut butter and you will find your snacks, no better not say snacks he would find those!
How about and you will find my jar of olives. He will come back look at me and say, "I didn't see them!" Are you kidding me.
So off I go into the pantry move the peanut butter move some other random something maybe move one more thing or not and whoop there it is! He will look at me and say, you said "behind the peanut butter!!!!!!!!!"
Please scream with me now.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Needless to say...
HE DRIVES ME CRAZY!!!!
Now for all the things he does wrong he does a 100 more right so I have learned to run fast lol. I have found that keeping tissue on hand is always a great idea, the way to a man's heart is truly through his stomach, and I have also learned that if you want a man to find something give him directions without giving him directions and he will figure it out! ;) LOL
A Time For Everything...
Here recently I had to let a "friendship" go. Sometimes in our life we are so blinded by love that we do not see the pain in staying in a situation or a relationship.
Finally after many years of being in a "friendship" with this person I had to say it's time for me to go.
I did not want to say goodbye because I am forever an optimist and maybe one day our relationship can be healed, but right now I am just not sure about that. Right now I am at a point where I can not even talk to this person because my heart is so overcome with sadness, but in my pain I have found peace from God.
It's beautiful how when we are in a place of pain or hardship God will whisper something into our heart and help us to move forward. As my heart wept from the ending of this relationship God used His word to remind me...
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
Finally after many years of being in a "friendship" with this person I had to say it's time for me to go.
I did not want to say goodbye because I am forever an optimist and maybe one day our relationship can be healed, but right now I am just not sure about that. Right now I am at a point where I can not even talk to this person because my heart is so overcome with sadness, but in my pain I have found peace from God.
It's beautiful how when we are in a place of pain or hardship God will whisper something into our heart and help us to move forward. As my heart wept from the ending of this relationship God used His word to remind me...
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and at time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
The Holy BibleEcclesiastes 3:1-8
You know God must have really wanted me to get this point because yesterday my Preschool class and the Pre-K class had to uproot our pumpkin patch, so Ms. Suzanne the center director had the kids sit down and she shared part of Ecc. with them also. At first I started to tear up as once again God knew I needed to hear that, but then I smiled because I knew everything would be okay.
So I found that it is okay to weep when you have to give something up, but the weeping is followed by laughter. The scripture also said there is a time for mending, so there is always hope that one day this person and I will enter into a true friendship.
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