Monday, January 26, 2009

A Little Bit of Everything

You know how they say that there's good stress and bad stress? Well, stress is still stress, right? Right now, there's just a whole lotta everything going on. Nothing real bad or anything like that, praise God! But just lots of things that make me feel like my goal for simplicity is unrealistic. I just feel that it's so far out of reach and everything that happens in my life seems to push that goal further away.

I'm just busy. Busy doing what???? Oh, you know, the usual - taking care of the kids, the dogs, the house, working full time, trying to lose weight, trying to be perfect... ha! Maybe I'm just foolish to think that I can have a fairy tale kind of life. The kind where by 7:30 each night, both kids are sound asleep in their beds, the house is clean (laundry is all folded and put away, the kitchen sink is empty and shiny, and everything is put away in it's proper place), allowing me to sit down and work on things that I enjoy doing (not that I don't enjoy being a mom and a housewife). But I do have other interests, you know....

So I spent a couple hours last night prepping meals for the week. Hopefully, this will ease some of the burden of getting dinner on the table. I feel that the more prepared I am, and the more I follow my routines, the more in control I feel and the more I am able to accomplish.

Ok, sorry for whining. Now, here's some news on the kids:

Grace - She's just about crawling! I keep expecting her to just take off. She's been getting up on all fours and rocking for about a week now. She even got up on her knees to look into a basket the other day! She does get around by rolling, but she gets angry because she can't seem to go in the direction she wants to go. She scoots backwards on her tummy, but I know she wants to go forward... It's funny to watch her get frustrated, but I know she'll figure it out soon enough. Tomorrow, she goes in for her 7 mos checkup and shots. I hate shots!!!! It's heartbreaking to see them get poked.

Noah - He's doing really well in preschool lately. No more getting into trouble. Apparently, he had an imaginary "friend" that was causing him to be bad. Unfortunately, "invisible Hunter" died. But Noah has stopped getting into trouble ever since! Noah is very proud of himself these days because he can recite the Pledge of Allegiance perfectly! It's sad that I stumble over it and he has to help me to get the words right.

I'm excited because Patrick bought me a new bike! It's an electric blue Diamond Back Insight 2. I really like it. A couple weeks ago, Patrick's cousin gave us a bike trailer. Now I can actually go bike riding and bring the kids along! No more excuses..... I'll get Patrick to take a picture next time we go out for a ride.

Ok, that's all for now... I need to come back and post about what I've been learning at Journey this month. The whole month was about living dangerously with a dangerous God. Yesterday's message was the one that really got to me. Is your God a "safe" God or a "dangerous" God??? Think on that and I'll be back soon with more details.

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