October 2009

Let's recap the month in a nutshell....

Jadyn - Needs another tooth pulled, her adult teeth come in twice as fast as her baby teeth come out. This is getting expensive, there are a LOT of teeth in a kids mouth! Found a handful of new friends at our church home. Feeling more "at home". Schoolwork is getting better and easier flowing. Finally connected "real" world to her history. She is learning the Middle East and connected what she is reading with NCIS. Ha! Love it!

Jeffery - New buddy from church as well! Learning to play football and how to play like a real boy, been hard when he only has had 2 sisters to play with. Doing great at school! Missing Lafayette less and less. Still counting days to when he can play the video games. It seems that just as he is about to regain the games he does something to mess it up again. My poor guy! I keep praying he learns but I don't know that it is possible, he is a BOY! lol

Jenna - Has surprised us with how well she does with Torbin. She is so loving and playful with him. Just like a big sister should be. She hates when he is upset, she tries her hardest to calm him down. She has been sick this week. Still whiny so not quite back to normal but getting there. Liking school a lot! She has learned how to read 1 and 2 vowel words. She can even write her name in cursive! She is so proud of herself.

Torbin - Belly laughs now, rolls around like nobodys business, and can even sit up for a few without assistance. Ah my baby boy is getting big already. How fast they grow and learn. He is only 5 months old and wearing 12 month clothes. Now if only he could figure out that you have to use your hands and arms to crawl. He throws them out like he can just take off and fly. Not getting anywhere that way.

Josh - Seeing a chiropracter now. Not sure how we feel quite yet other than expensive! Over the 2 night classes in Lafayette he is enrolled in. Still has another 2 months and its wearing him out. Not moving quite as well as he did a few years ago. Moving more like an old man, ha and I keep reminding him he will be 30 this year! So long 20's!

Theresa - Busy Busy Busy! Trying my hardest to keep up with laundry, but it's an unending task. We had a rough week at the beginning of the month with food vs money. Money won to the bills, food lost major time. But God pulled us thru! Now we are trying to bless those that have blessed us. We never gave up our tithe to the church though. I am so proud of that about us. I have been busy trying to enroll us both at Southeastern University in Florida, online degree for Theology. I am so so so exicted! We are gonna minor in Missions. Trying to finish up the paperwork for FAFSA and enrollment. It is way more work than I originally thought, but going to be well worth it I hope.

Will keep you all updated! Persevere, Pray, and Possess Patience! God Bless!

Now to my vent regarding Monday September 28...Josh and I have officially been married 1 1/2 years. Honestly a day I never saw coming looking back at our 1st year. It has been a rough one. We only dated for a month, but we grew up together so who knew we had so many quirks that we both were so unaware of?!?!? I came into this marriage with 3 children and he had zero, problem #1. In my previous marriage, I did all the discipline, the errands, the sports, the cleaning, the cooking, the loving, etc. Name it and I did it. My ex was not involved unless someone was watching. And then of course when we divorced I did it all on my own fully. Marrying Josh was like hitting a brick wall. I always imagined a husband that helped with everything but did not realize what I was praying I guess. He has one way of raising (iron fist and nothing less) and I have another way (follow the rules but be yourself). Finding that balance is still a work in progress but much much better. Now I also have a husband that is very romantic, nothing I knew about him until we dated. He writes poetry even! He does little surprises here and there. So I tried doing one yesterday for him. I went to far in trying to cover up what I was doing and he snapped! Now we had a fall out this past summer, he moved out even. When he came back we made a vow to never question our love and marriage again. That we would work out all and I do mean ALL problems. So anyone out there have an explaination as to why he was so quick to jump me and question his feelings about me when I snuck away to surprise him and was full out honest about my whereabouts because of it. I admit I was wrong but don't break your vows! I was so frustrated last night! Still am a little bit. I just have a hard time understanding how deep his love goes for me when it can be questioned so quickly?!? I may get mad at him, frustrated and ready to pull my hair out, but I do not question my love for him ever. He is my entire world. He is my best friend. My hope. My love. My past, present and future. He is the man I will sit with at 80 years of age and laugh about memories and cry about memories. I'm hurt and sad and mad all at the same time. Hopefully our week gets better.

Well my weekend was a fun one. Friday night we were supposed to go camping but it rained so we had movie night. Jadyn went to the church for a tea party with the MPact girls from 6 - 10p.m. The rest of us watched the new X-Men movie "Wolverine". Not too bad. Saturday I achieved a new record on laundry...I did 3 full laundry hampers..even put away and folded. So proud of myself. But that included delivery from Papa Johns for lunch. :) Then my hubby surprised me with a night out. Was not an eventful night but I had so much fun with just the 2 of us. We went up to West Point (near Lafayette,IN) to the bar. We ate dinner and watched the Purdue game, which was a waste of time since they LOST! But we were kid free for 3 hours and it was a great 3 hours! Then we went to my moms to stay the night and watched the movie "Ghost of Girlfriends Past" - 2 thumbs down! We got up and headed to First AG Sunday morning where I got to see some old friends. Then to eat at Little Mexico and back to visit with my momma then home. Aaahhh Home! Was so tired. My husband topped off my weekend with allowing me a 2 hour nap it was amazing:) Monday was a busy one though. Up and schooled the chidren, we were done at 1:30. Made a quick cereal lunch (all you moms know what I mean...yep yep) as I showered and ready for a sad event. Our friends lost their baby girl at 7 months pregnant and had a memorial service for her. My eyes never stopped watering and dropping tears. I was amazed at the whole service. They wrapped all around God. With worship and prayer and a call to except Christ in your life. Erica stood fully wrapped by her Lord. She gave a 10 minute speech and held it together far better than I would have. I am so proud of her. And Miss Kinley Rebecca Crum is beautiful!

Well, lets see. My day began with a body that did not want to get up. I so wanted to hit snooze but my crying 4 month old reminded me that sleeping was not an option. At least he sleep until almost 8:00! Well my morning officially began at 6 when the alarm went off for my husband. It makes going back to sleep almost not worth it, but laundry and dirty dishes does not sound like a motivator to crawl out of bed. So at 8:00 we were all up and moving. The arguments began...who decided to squirt toothpaste all over the counter? Is it really worth a 10 minute argument? REALLY? At 8 a.m.? My kids thought so. :) Then we moved on to breakfast and being as payday is tomorrow our food supply is low again. So of course "Mom, there's nooooooottttthing to eat!" So we settled on bread and butter. Then we began school. We open with prayer and bible time. We have a friend that lost her baby at 7 months pregnanat this morning(please pray for her and her husband), but my kids hearts shown thru this morning as they all wanted to pray for her. Then we move on to the work. Somedays are just so hard to focus. We made it all the way to 10:00 without too much argument and then it was recess time. The bummer about homeschool is that when it rains we have to gym to play in...so we just run around the living room. Back to work we went. Lunch at 1:00. In the meantime I am cleaning off our bookshelf. At least organizing it. That turned into a 2 hour job...not recommended LOL And my job as teacher is put on hold every 3 hours to feed Torbin. He is such a breathtaking relief though. He is my sanity at times. A break away if only for 15 minutes. We cleaned up some of the house. It seems to have gotten way out of control. But there is always tomorrow. Daddy came home at 4:00 and the kids love that time of day. The rain made our day not so exciting though. We did school and cleaned. Then the kids had computer time while I cooked dinner. Breakfast for dinner was a hit tonight! Eggs, bacon, cheese, potato casserole. Mmmmmm good! Then Josh and I vegged on the couch watching NCIS as always and played with Torbin. Showers began at 7 (because we once again have lice, does anyone out there have any tips????!!! I am starting to lose my mind over these stinkin' bugs!) Kids were all in bed by 8...and it was "alone" time. We watched the new "Flashforward" show and I give it 2 thumbs up. Then I packed lunch while he watched CSI. Then to bed we go...now I type and he sleeps. Sorry for my boring day. Maybe the rain will go away and I can have more exciting times for you. My Lesson Of The Day : If mom does not get the first cup of kool-aid, there will be none left in the pitcher for her later when the chores are done. :)

Let me introduce our family...

I am married to my childhood friend, we have 4 children(Jadyn, 10/Jeffery, 8/Jenna, 4/ Torbin, 4 months). We live in Indiana near Indianapolis...now to the real story. I married at 17, had 3 children, divorced at 24. Went through a rough couple of years, to have their father walk out on us. Ran into my loving husband, Josh, at the county fair. We rekindled some old high school/jr high feelings and married within a month. We had our youngest in the next year and half. We have had our ups and downs. More downs than ups...but we wake up every morning and go! We count our blessings, we smile, and we enjoy our life we have.

Now, as for me, I stay home and homeschool our children. It has its bad days and its good days. Some days I hold on for dear life to regain my sanity for a few moments. Other days, my kids can't get me to stop laughing. I do love my life and I would not trade it for the world. My husband is a bricklayer for the union and I HATE it! ...but it pays the bills. If only there was another job out there that paid just as well. :( We go to a local Assemblies of God church. We are new to our community so still looking for our spot in life right now. Anyone out there have any tips? LOL All I can do is hold on tight and enjoy the ride. :) I wanted to introduce us first off. From now on I plan on daily writing to you about my trials and errors of the day (isn't that how mothers live?!?!) Maybe I can let someone know they are not alone, maybe I can just make someone laugh. Come back often and enjoy!