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Everything AND the kitchen sink!
Monday, February 8th, 2010
If ever there ever was a post with a mish mash of stuff, this is it! The kitchen sink included!
Way back when we thought we were moving( you know, two weeks ago…) Mike put up a much needed back splash behind our stove and sink. He used left over tile from our bathroom when we renovated that. I thought that was a very smart and frugal move on his part. The tile is pretty and very neutral in color. I took some pictures so my mom could see how it came out. My mom knows how ugly my walls were behind the stove and sink so she’ll really appreciate how much better it looks. You’re welcome to appreciate Mike’s handiwork too.
As usual, I wish I had taken a “before” picture but didn’t think of doing that while Mike was working on this. This may not seem like a big deal but we threw away our ugly, moldy (yes! it was moldy on the bottom, unbeknown to us!) dish drainer and bought a smaller one. The old one used to be to the right of the sink, taking up a lot of that space and making it look cluttered and ugly. I also had a cookie cooling rack laying there too for an extra spot to air dry dishes. We cleaned that area out and I put a smaller, prettier, non-moldy dish drainer to the left of the sink. It looks much neater and nicer and creates extra counter space to the right of the sink. I also took my dish soap, hand soap and sponges out of an ugly, plastic Tupperware container and put them in a glass pie dish. ( I never make pies!) It’s amazing how you get accustomed to certain areas of clutter and don’t even notice them anymore. Then once you finally notice it and make a few simple changes it makes a world of difference!
This is the back splash behind the stove. The walls were hard to keep clean and because I’m a messy cook they were usually splattered with grease and oil etc. Before Mike put up the back splash I scrubbed the wall behind the stove and to the right. It looked much better just with the walls washed. The back splash actually seems to make the kitchen look bigger and “homey-er”
And one last little detail that my mom will appreciate….
I finally changed the kitchen valance. It had a green, satiny looking valance that wasn’t hideous but wasn’t super pretty either. It was dark green. I never changed the valance after we moved in and have been ignoring it for almost 6 1/2 years! I finally put a cheerier one up. The previous owners also painted over the beautiful dark wood work around the window and doorway. Maybe now that we have time, we can sand that paint off and re-stain it.
Now we move on to my health update:
My nurse practitioner called a couple of weeks ago and said they were having trouble with the machine that reads the results of the holter heart monitor. So, I have to wear it for 24 hrs again. They’ll call me…. (hmm..I should probably follow up on that since they haven’t called me yet.)
I’m still having the same dizziness as before but have kind of gotten used to it! I’ve been taking my vitamin D and prescription iron pills. Even if those don’t help my dizziness they’re still good for me.
*If you’re a man reading this you may want to stop reading here if you don’t want to read about women issues..*
My ultrasound results came back and I have a cyst on my right ovary. That’s all the nurse said when she called. She said that could create fertility problems but from what I understand those are pretty common. So, they want me to go through two monthly cycles and then come back in for another ultrasound to see if the cyst has gone away on it’s own.
Fun stuff, right? So, we’re on a new lead with that. Not sure what will come of it but I’ll keep everyone updated.
On a side note, Katelyn just had another UTI so she was on another round of antibiotics for it. The doctor thinks she’s not wiping correctly and that’s what is causing these infections.
Now, I’ll leave you with some cute pictures of Katelyn in her dance costume. She really wanted to wear it all the time when we first got it. I’ve put it away and she’ll forget about for a bit until her recital in May.
Stop.Wait.
Monday, February 1st, 2010
image courtesy of photobucket.com
Stop. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200 a new house. At least…not right now. That’s what God pretty much revealed to us this weekend. We had to put on the big, ‘ol mean crappy breaks on our moving plans. After busting our butts for a couple of days ( and me pretty much for a whole month) our realtor came over on Saturday and told us we’re going to have to list our house for 30k-50k less than what we were planning on. She showed us a market analysis for our area and it was not pretty. We could sell our house right now but we wouldn’t get what we need for it to be able to buy a better house than the one we already have. So…..we stop. And that really sucks. Big time.
So, in the mean time, we wait. Just like we’re waiting for God to answer other prayers. We unpack some stuff and other stuff we leave packed. After a sad and disappointing weekend I feel better today. God showed me I should be thankful that I have a house right now. He’s meeting our needs above and beyond what we deserve. The house looks the best it’s looked in a long time! Mike did a great job putting a back splash behind our stove and sink. There’s much less clutter. We have a bunch of stuff ready for a garage sale in the spring.
But I’m still really disappointed and upset.
We’ll chug a long here. I’ll be back to blogging more frequently now.
And we’ll wait.
The Bible says a lot about waiting. When I did a search on the word “wait” on Biblegateway.com there were 142 verses that popped up. When I searched for “wait on the Lord” 42 verses popped up. Apparently there’s something about waiting that God wants us to learn!! Here are a couple of my favorites:
Psalms. 27:14
Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strenthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!!
Isaiah 40:31
But those who wait on teh Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
Psalms 130:5
I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, and in His word do I hope.
I know I’m not the only one waiting on God. Who else is waiting?
I pray these verses bless your heart like they have mine.
This Boot Is Made For Dancin’
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Yep, this girl is just fine now. We went to the doctor yesterday and she was given a clean bill of…..healthy foot. Now she can continue to dance without than cumbersome thing!
Of Boots, Heart Monitors and Floods
Monday, January 18th, 2010
If you follow me on Twitter or are friends with me on Facebook you know that last Friday and Saturday were not my best days.I promised a post on everything that happened so lets get started, shall we?
Thursday night, right before bed, Madelyn tripped over one of her toys and hurt her foot. Since it was bed time we comforted her and put her to bed. Friday morning she got out of bed and started crying because her foot still hurt and started limping. So I made her an appointment at the pediatrician’s office and the first available appointment wasn’t until 3:00pm. Which was fine because I also had appointments that day for myself. Friday was originally supposed to be a day for me to tackle packing and cleaning to get our house “show worthy” for when we put it on the market. My inlaws were going to watch the girls. Well, that was not meant to be. Let’s get back to Thursday again….
Thursday I had an appointment with my Nurse Practitioner for a physical and to talk about the dizziness I have been experiencing for over a week now and it having been a while now that we’ve been trying to conceive. So, they listened to my heart and said that I have an irregular heart beat so they have put me on a Holter heart monitor for 24 hours. I just got that put on today. My NP isn’t sure if maybe that has something to do with my dizziness. She looked in my ears and saw that I have a hole in my eardrum so wanted me to see an Ear, Nose And Throat doctor. She wasn’t sure if maybe that had something to do with my dizziness. She also scheduled an ultrasound for this Wednesday to check things out “in there”. She wanted me to have lots of bloodwork done.
Now let’s get back to Friday…
I went to have my blood work drawn at 8:30 am, had an oil change appointment at 9:30, then had my ear appointment at 2:15 followed by Madelyn’s pediatrician appointment at 3:00. Well, I had to wait over an hour for my turn in the lab so I had to cancel my oil change appointment. I didn’t get in to have my blood drawn until almost 10:00 am. I then went home got some of the kitchen cleaned and headed out again at 12:45 to meet my inlaws at their house and watch the girls so they could go pick up their van. Then I left for my ear appointment and my mother in law met me at the pediatrician’s office at 3:00 with Madelyn. The ear specialist said he didn’t think that my ears were the cause of my dizziness.
Once at the pediatrician’s office(after waiting 40 minutes to see the doctor) Madelyn’s doctor felt that Madelyn had, indeed, most likely broken something in her foot. I say “most likely” because the x-rays she had taken later on didn’t show anything but her doctor said at this age they have so many tiny bones and muscles in their still growing feet that x-rays don’t always pick up everything. So, off we went to the cast room at our hospital. After another long wait the orthopedist looked at her foot and decided she should have a boot. By this time it was around 6:00 pm. He finds out they have no more small boots to fit Madelyn so he sends us to another local hospital to get one from their cast room. When we get there we have to register(again) and fill out all sorts of paperwork etc before we can go the boot. Finally the boot is put on and we can go home. Thankfully, Mike was able to get out of work and come to the hospital for some of this.
Saturday morning, we get up and Mike takes a shower only to find that it won’t heat up. So he checks the hot water heater in the basement and finds that our basement is flooded and the hot water heater is broken. He stays home to get the basement cleaned up and get a new hot water heater. I take the girls to Katelyn’s dance class and go check out two more houses. Thankfully everything was taken care of and our basement is back to normal again.
As I type this I’m wearing my monitor and having to write every single thing I do that makes my heart pound, cause shortness of breath, dizziness or any other kind of symptom. The little booklet also indicates that I should write any bowel movements that cause any of those things! I thought that was funny. I have already had to write that “yelling at my kids” caused my heart to pound. I’m afraid that’s going to happen a lot within the next 24 hours….
I’ve included some pictures of Madelyn in her Wee Walker. It actually looks really cute on her! She has to wear it for a week and then we’ll follow up with the orthopedist. She’s been doing fine with it and has come close to running in it. Nothing stops her!!
House Hunting Update
Monday, January 11th, 2010
I’ve been kinda blogging apathetic here lately. No, I don’t have a fever! lol Losing my camera with all those great pictures that made for several great blog posts really threw me for a loop. House hunting and packing has also taken up a lot of my mental energy and time. The good news is I did buy a new camera. I returned my Kodak and bought a better one. And I’m not telling what it is! I like it and I don’t want to know if it’s crap this time or not! I haven’t taken good pictures with it yet, other than just to play around with it. I’m still sooo flipping dissapointed that I don’t have any of our 2009 Christmas pictures or some cute ones I took before that and during my parents visit. Anyway, I must move on and not dwell on that anymore.
So… for an update!!
We looked at 6 houses this past Saturday and I have two more scheduled to look at myself this coming week. One of the houses was the very first one that we liked that started this whole moving process. It’s also still the one we really like and the one we’ll most likely put an offer on. It’s in a great location and in a nice neighborhood. A neighborhood!!! If you don’t understand why that’s exciting to me, let me explain. Right now, I live on a main road. There’s a busy street in front of my house with lots of cars, honking and sirens going by constantly. We’ve gotten used to it for the most part. But we’ve had to be very safety cautious with bike riding and the girls playing outside. The street the house we like is on is quiet and has an acre of land. Part of it is “wooded” and Mike is having dreams of playing paint ball in the woods in our backyard. It’s also close to the highway which will cut Mike’s hour long commute to about 40 minutes. It’s a short sale which means the house is heading towards foreclosure but the seller and the bank is trying to get rid of it before that happens. The problem with short sales is that getting the house takes much longer, lots of tedious paper work and kind of a pain in the butt!! It can take anywhere from four to six months for everything to go through. And sometimes, even then, the buyer ends up walking away from the house. The seller can ask for a price that the bank ends up not accepting. The bank can take forever to approve your offer. So…we’re trying to not get our hopes up. A couple of the positive things about it though is:
a) We are not in a rush to get out of this house. Having to wait awhile will give us plenty of time to pack and get our house in order.
b) The seller is already asking a good price for the house and we will probably try to get an even better one. Many times you can get a good price on a nice house with short sales since the bank is just trying to get rid of the house without a complete loss.
c)Once the seller accepts an offer and the buyer starts the whole process no one else can put an offer on the house until the bank accepts,or doesn’t accept as the case may be, and the buyer decides whether to keep going or walk away.
However are continuing to look at other houses and not putting all our eggs in one basket.
I tried to copy some pictures from the listing but they won’t save! So, I have no pictures to show.
Basic stats: Dutch Gambrel style, 4 bedrooms and one bath upstairs, 1 bath, living room, formal dining room, eat in kitchen, office on first floor and basement with two more rooms in it. Unfortunately, no garage but we would look into building an attached garage to the side of the house. Especially if we could get a good price on it!
I’ll be updating more as we keep looking. Our house should be ready to put on the market within the next couple of weeks. We’re very positive about the selling of our house. We’ve put a lot of work into it and it has a lot to offer.
I apologize for how boring my blog has been lately. I’ll have some more “fun” stuff in the near future.
Have a great day!
New Year-Changes And Goals
Monday, January 4th, 2010
Happy 2010! I never thought there would be a debate going around on whether you should say “two-thousand-and-ten” or “twenty-ten”. I personally prefer “twenty-ten”.
Anyway…now that we got that business out of the way…..
I’ve obviously been on blogging hiatus for two weeks and it was actually nice! My parents were here for ten days visiting and it was a great visit. Christmas was great! I’ll post a summary of our activities as soon as I post our Christmas pictures. Which will be as soon as I find my camera! Yes, I seem to have lost my camera!! If you know me at all you know I am constantly taking pictures and posting them on my blog. So, I’ll be lost without my camera. And I’m not so sure my hubby will be too keen on buying a new one right after Christmas. Not to mention the pictures I’ve lost that are on my camera! We’re changing our playroom around today and I’m hoping I’ll find it in there somewhere. If you think about it please pray that I find it!!
We do have some goals and changes we would like you to keep in your prayers for us:
1. After two years of prayer and keeping our eyes open we’ve finally decided to move! We have been casually looking at neighboring towns and the housing market for the past two years but the houses have just been way out of our price range. The housing market has come down since then and we have been able to find several houses we like and can afford in the two towns we’re looking at. One of the biggest advantages is location. If we move to either of these towns it will shave off 40 minutes a day off Mike’s commute. He’s usually on the road two hours a day so this will be a nice bonus. One is the town Mike grew up in and the other is a town we like and know pretty well. We’ve started “sprucing up” our house so we can put it on the market and have started packing some stuff away. I’m excited! And a little….sad. Maybe nostalgic? We’ve been in this house for six years.It was our first house. I had both my girls here. We had church cookouts and other social events here. There are a lot of memories in this house. But, after this past Christmas we realized it is waaaayyy too small for us!! The next few months are going to be stressful, but worth it. We’re going to hold a garage sale (in the winter!) to get rid of a lot of stuff. I’m looking at our backyard and wondering how we’re going to get all those toys and backyard climbing toys out from under all that snow!
So if you’ll specifically keep these things in your prayers we’d appreciate it:
a) That we’ll find a house that is perfect for our family size wise and price wise.
b) That selling our house will go smoothly and with no complications
c)That the packing and other details will also go smoothly.
I’m going to cut down on my blogging (gasp! Say it isn’t so!!) while we are in the packing and moving process. I’m going to try to cut down to three times a week unless I post something that’s quick and easy. I’ll keep everyone updated on our moving.
2. My other huge prayer request that you all know about now is us having another baby. Please pray that the Lord will allow us to conceive this year. It’s now been 18 months of TTC ( Trying To Conceive to you fertile folk ;o) ). I’m making an appointment with my doctor in the near future to talk about this matter. I didn’t think I’d have to do that again but here I am. I’m sure there will be blood tests and all the other stuff I went through with trying to conceive Katelyn coming up. Again. Maybe there will be some answers. Maybe there won’t. I know that ultimately it’s a God thing and I have to wait on Him. And I have to be ok with whatever His answers are.
I do have somewhat of a resolutions list but you’ll have to wait for Top Ten Tuesday tomorrow to see what they are! I do have to say, I like my cousin Lydia’s goal of losing 5 pounds a month until June. That’s very do-able!!
Here is my 2010 Bible verse for this new year. It says it all for me right now!
Psalms 71:14-16(NKJV)
But I will hope continually and I will praise you yet more and more. My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and your salvation all the day. For I do not know their limits. I will go in the strength of the Lord God, I will make mention of Your righteousness of Yours only.
Well, there you have it. My first blog of 2010!
Happy New Year! Many blessings to you and yours this year!
Family Update
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
So, I haven’t blogged in a few days so I figured it was time for a little update about what we’ve been doing here lately. Turns out there’s quite a bit I needed to update on! So, I’ll try to do it chronologically.
Here goes…
*About three weeks ago we left our church of almost 4 years. It was a hard decision and one that we had been praying about for awhile. Mike had a great conversation with our old (ex?) pastor and he was very gracious and understanding. One of the reasons is that we live in Massachusetts and we were going to a church in New Hampshire. We drove a good ways each Sunday to get to church and because of this we weren’t as involved in our church as we wanted to be. We have since found a church closer to us that we have been enjoying attending. We’re still praying for the Lord to show us where He wants us permanently. It was a sad and hard decision with lots of teary good byes.
*School/Awana/Dance Update- Katelyn is enjoying all three, although the past few weeks she has balked a little at going to school and Awana. I don’t know what the deal is with that. She usually come out happy, it’s just the going in that she doesn’t want to do. She still LOVES dance. Mike swears he’s noticed a difference in her dancing and rhythm. I can’t really see it all that much and wasn’t really expecting her to come out of this class knowing all sorts of dance moves yet! I think it’s cute that he does, however…
*There were some layoffs at Mike’s company and thankfully he was not one of them. He was told his job is stable and secure for right now. Praise the Lord!
*Potty Training Update- We had been doing so good! I say “had” because for the last 4 days or so we’ve all been sick. So that has slowed down our potty training progress. Madelyn has still been asking to go potty so that’s a good sign. I think we’ll be able to catch up pretty quickly though.
*A couple of weeks ago my friend Allie and her friend Laura (Laura Wagner Photography for those who live locally) came to our house to do a photo shoot in our backyard. It was for Katelyn’s 4 year pictures and Madelyn’s 2 year pictures. The girls did great and we got some great shots. Here are just a couple of the pictures we got. You can go to my Facebook album that I uploaded to here to see the rest of them.
Aren’t they purty?
Laura and Allie did a fantastic job. Check out Laura’s photography website-www.laurawagnerphotography.com. Allie is her second shooter and just as fabulous.
*I bared my soul in this post last week and am changing the direction of my blog to reflect this “authenticity” a bit.
*As to the past few days we have all been sick. Fever, coughing fits, aches and pains. The works. It has not been fun. The only one who hasn’t gotten it yet is Mike. And I’m fully expecting him to come home sick today. Not hoping. Just expecting. I don’t think I’ve been that sick in a looong time. Sunday I stayed home from church. I was in bed most of the day. I finally dressed and dragged myself downstairs to get myself moving a big. I was almost delirious. No joke! I was able to stay awake long enough to watch “Confessions Of A Shopaholic” (cute movie!) before passing out in a feverish stupor again. Then, I had weird dreams about that movie. So, today, we seem to be back on track again. I kept Katelyn home from school and plan to not go to Awana tomorrow night. I think we just need to stay home for a few days. Since I haven’t cleaned my house since Saturday it’s looking pretty nasty. So, while the girls are recouping, I’m cleaning.
I think that pretty much sums it up. Now, I really must go clean. And I apologize if this post was a bit random or grammatically poor. I’m still in the recovery stage myself!
What Would Have Been Wordless Wednesday
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
I was supposed to write this post yesterday. But since I was having fake spam virus issues on my computer I was not able to write. So this has also turned into a little update post as well. But first, the Wordless Wednesday pictures I was going to post yesterday
In case you were wondering, that is Colonel Sanders and this was taken at the KFC/Taco Bell near my inlaws’ house. The girls thought this was awesome.
Katelyn went to her first Awana meeting last night. She is in the Cubbies class.( Ah! I remember when my brother Bryan was in Cubbies!) I signed her up at a church that is close to us. This is their first year to do Awana. I put Madelyn in the nursery and I went to the adult Bible study that is going on during that time. Some friends from our church also put their girls in Awanas there so Katelyn knew some of the kids going in. Not that it mattered, of course. She absolutely loved it. She’s going to get her own little Cubbies Bible verse book and a vest to wear. So cute! I am so glad I signed her up. Madelyn started crying the second I started walking her out of the main area where all the kids meet. I could see what was going on her in her mind -
” I have to leave again? Katelyn gets to stay and I have to leave a fun place AGAIN?”
She immediately started throwing a fit and screaming “No!” at me as I dragged her out of the room. Once I got her to the nursery and she saw all the new toys and everything she immediately stopped. “Oh, for me???”. She didn’t even look back as I left the room. I’m sure it helped that she was the only one last night and the nursery worker was someone that also goes to our church on Sunday mornings. Madelyn loved it. I always feel guilty when my child is the only one (or ones) in the nursery. I feel as if I’m wasting the nursery workers time by making them stay with my one or two kids when I could just stay with them myself. But I was so looking forward to being in a grown up Bible study again and I knew Kathy didn’t mind. And I really did enjoy the study. While I was struggling to get both girls to leave and get in the car Madelyn kept shouting saying ” I .Want.To .Go. With Kaffy” (Kathy). Per their usual MO they did NOT want to leave last night. So at 8:10 I’m struggling to get two whining,tired, upset and excited little girls into our van so I can get home, put them to bed and watch “Glee” on time. We’re definitely going to have to work on our exit strategy.
The first two weeks of Pre-K for Katelyn have been a success. She loves it! It’s definitely been a scheduling adjustment for me. We’ve started up a bunch of new stuff that is affecting all of us recently. Pre-K, Dance, Awana and Bible study. It may not sound like a ton but we went from doing non of that to all of it in a span of two weeks. God has definitely working on my “flexibility” issues. All this new stuff is putting me out of my comfort zone. I thrive on routine. I thrive on predictability. I thrive on a monotonous routine and predictability. I’m driving to dance every Saturday in a town I don’t know how to navigate at all and am still learning how to get to. I’m participating in a Bible study that is not at my own church with people that I know. I”m learning what it’s like to be a school mom. I’m stretching my rut a bit.
I’ve been mentioning that I’ve been struggling with getting up early in the mornings so I could read my Bible. I’ve been trying to do that for weeks now but the girls have been getting up at the same time as me every day- 6:30 am. As soon as I start heading downstairs I hear them giggling in their room. This used to be a time I treasured and looked forward to. I could usually count on them sleeping until 7:30 am. It was so peaceful and quiet. I loved sipping my coffee, and slowly and peacefully waking up while reading the word of God. Now it’s turned in to some covert mission in where the goal is to get dressed as quickly and quietly as possible and tip toe down the old, creaky stairs, grab coffee and read whatever I can as fast as possible before the girls wake up. I feel like I’m starring in a roll of “Mission Impossible”. This is usually if I can get up at 6:00 am. If I get up at 6:20 I can forget it. This issue has actually become a point of stress and frustration for me. Not fun anymore. I don’t think I can humanely get up any earlier than that every day without going to be at 10:00 every night. Which, no matter how hard I try, has not been happening recently. I even prayed ” Lord, can’t you keep them sleeping later in the morning? I am trying to read Your Word, you know. I could use a little help”. This may sound utterly silly but it shows you what a “stick- in- the- mud” person I am about routine. If I’m going to read my Bible it has to be in the morning and in peace and quiet by golly! Well, the Lord has other ideas, I guess.
(This whole story does have a point and does tie in to the routine school story)
With this said, the three days a week that Katelyn goes to Pre-K for two and a half hours I sort of have a little time to kill. It takes me 20 minutes or so to drive her to her school for 11:30. By the time I get home it’s usually noon. I have to back at the school to pick Katelyn up at 1:55. I usually have a little more than an hour to hang out at home and have lunch before I have to pick her back up again. There is definitely not enough time for Maddy to nap. So, of course, I’ve been trying to figure out just exactly how to schedule that time. So, I came up with a plan- I would make Maddy and myself a picnic lunch and we would eat it on the school grounds as soon as class started. Then, I would put Maddy in the stroller and we would go for a walk until she fell asleep thus filling my exercise requirements and her nap requirement. I would then let her sleep next to the van while I read my Bible, spent time in prayer, journaled and read a bit. Sounded perfect to me. No more struggling to read my Bible in the early mornings! A little extra reading time! Well, the first time I tried this was not successful. We really enjoyed our picnic but Maddy did not fall asleep on our walk and on top of it begged to get out the whole time. At that point I remembered I had some birthday shopping for a party we’re going to this Saturday so I took a quick run to the store and did that before I had to pick Katelyn up. So, I’m going to give the picnic/walk/nap thing a couple of more tries but if those don’t work I’m still at a loss about what to do during that time other than going home and wasting gas. I could run errands but I don’t always have three days worth of errands to run and it will also depend on Madelyn’s mood during that time. Being who I am, I continued to stress over reading my Bible in the early mornings, not knowing what to do with myself for two and a half hours three days a week that’s not a waste of time and also making sure Madelyn gets some sort of rest so she’s not a wreck by the end of the day. Whew. (This is the kind of stuff I worry about folks!)
Anyway, I’m learning my lesson in flexibility. This morning I got up at 6:20 and headed down stairs. The girls were sound asleep. Until the phone rang(Mike’s coworker who Mike was picking up this morning) and Mike banged the door shut on his way to the basement. Then they woke up and came downstairs. I realized circumstances aren’t always going to be perfect and exactly the way I want. I put on the t.v for them, gave them their morning chocolate milk and sat back down to read my Bible. In the middle of t.v noise and constant interruptions from them. Not my ideal Bible reading moment by far. But, if I wait for circumstances to be just perfect for Bible reading, I may never read my Bible again. I think God wanted me to see that. And I think it’s good for the girls to see their mommy reading the Bible and praying. It sets a good example.
I haven’t figured out a good use of my time while Katelyn is in school yet but I’m sure we’ll figure something out. And that’s ok.
