This past week and weekend our family was super busy, not to mention we were all sick. Jamin seems to be doing better today but the past few nights he's been waking up with coughs and cries :(. I am on antibiotics for a swollen tonsil that I've been battling with since December...it's not painful, I just feel like a I a dry throat all the time...On Christmas Eve I went to see a doctor about it and had an ear infection and at that time I got some antibiotics. After completing those my ear didn't hurt anymore but my throat continues to be a little sore everyday.
Today Jamin and I were able to make it to story time at our library in Falcon. Although we make weekly trips to the library every Tuesday, we struggle to make it to the 1000am storytime. He is by far the youngest in the place but that didn't seem to bother him at all. I'm starting to wonder if he is going to be a very social person because he LOVED interacting with all the other little kids there and was making more noise than they were. He especially loved it when the leader started blowing bubbles...he got so excited lol. I myself am someone who grew up very shy so it will be interesting to see how his personality comes out in the next few years.
Lately I've been trying to read many books and the one that I am in right now is Bringing Up Boys, by James Dobson. Several friends have read it and so I thought it would be a good read. I have learned so much already. I myself did not have brothers growing up and the closest thing to experiencing boys growing up was when my cousin Michael would come over and play with my sister and I, and when I would babysit two boys that were 7 and 12 years old. This book has been eye-opening in the sense of thinking about how Jamin may act while growing up...if he's anything like his daddy, he is going to give me a heart attack by the time he turns 10 lol. It's also effected the role I play in bringing him up and how important Kyle is to his overall health. I am excited to read more but this book seems to be taking me forever to finish....there is soooo much information and studies and not to mention the bold statements that the author makes throughout the book.
Sunday and Monday of this week I had been going through, what I feel is, a spiritual battle with a few things going on in my life and the lives of others. It may also have been in part due to the exhaustion I faced on Monday after only getting an hour or two of sleep. Thankfully God is always there to guide and fight for my well being. My quiet time on Monday morning brought me to tears, which hasn't happened in a long time, while I read through Deuteronomy.Needless to say, the Lord showed me a lot of things about myself and how I was viewing what was going on around me. Praise the Lord for being amazing and almighty!
This weekend Kyle and I went to the Dave Ramsey Live event (We would like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to our awesome and amazing friends who bought the tickets for us). It came in perfect timing because lately I have been feeling so weak when it comes to spending. Sometimes I'll have thoughts like, we should take a month off of paying my student loans and put in grass in our backyard, or, thinking that I need things that I don't. This event totally made me "mad" again and I really just want to pay off these student loans and then work on the house and so on. We praise God for protecting us and giving us strength during this time....not to mention providing like no other. Lately things have come up where God has been amazing us all over the place. Our vacuum broke and when we finally decided to order one online we put up the money for it and submitted our order...the crazy thing about this story is that the company never got/processed the order and we were never charged for the vacuum and it wasn't shipped. That same week we got a FREE vacuum from a family member who rebuilt some old ones and was about to give them to Goodwill. Now we not only have one working vacuum, we have two! How amazing is that?! I've also been wanting a new Kitchenaid for a while but know how much they cost. I would always tell Kyle that I will just keep waiting until we can afford one. A few weeks ago my mother-in-law called me up and asked if I would be interested in a new Kitchenaid! I asked her is Kyle had talked to her about one and she said no....how amazing, now I have a brand new kitchenaid mixer and I love it! There are several other things that have happened but I think I need to stop there because I've made this an extremely long and now boring blog for everyone and most have probably stopped reading by now lol.
Sorry no pictures...I'll make sure to get some new ones up soon :)
Today Jamin and I were able to make it to story time at our library in Falcon. Although we make weekly trips to the library every Tuesday, we struggle to make it to the 1000am storytime. He is by far the youngest in the place but that didn't seem to bother him at all. I'm starting to wonder if he is going to be a very social person because he LOVED interacting with all the other little kids there and was making more noise than they were. He especially loved it when the leader started blowing bubbles...he got so excited lol. I myself am someone who grew up very shy so it will be interesting to see how his personality comes out in the next few years.
Lately I've been trying to read many books and the one that I am in right now is Bringing Up Boys, by James Dobson. Several friends have read it and so I thought it would be a good read. I have learned so much already. I myself did not have brothers growing up and the closest thing to experiencing boys growing up was when my cousin Michael would come over and play with my sister and I, and when I would babysit two boys that were 7 and 12 years old. This book has been eye-opening in the sense of thinking about how Jamin may act while growing up...if he's anything like his daddy, he is going to give me a heart attack by the time he turns 10 lol. It's also effected the role I play in bringing him up and how important Kyle is to his overall health. I am excited to read more but this book seems to be taking me forever to finish....there is soooo much information and studies and not to mention the bold statements that the author makes throughout the book.
Sunday and Monday of this week I had been going through, what I feel is, a spiritual battle with a few things going on in my life and the lives of others. It may also have been in part due to the exhaustion I faced on Monday after only getting an hour or two of sleep. Thankfully God is always there to guide and fight for my well being. My quiet time on Monday morning brought me to tears, which hasn't happened in a long time, while I read through Deuteronomy.Needless to say, the Lord showed me a lot of things about myself and how I was viewing what was going on around me. Praise the Lord for being amazing and almighty!
This weekend Kyle and I went to the Dave Ramsey Live event (We would like to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to our awesome and amazing friends who bought the tickets for us). It came in perfect timing because lately I have been feeling so weak when it comes to spending. Sometimes I'll have thoughts like, we should take a month off of paying my student loans and put in grass in our backyard, or, thinking that I need things that I don't. This event totally made me "mad" again and I really just want to pay off these student loans and then work on the house and so on. We praise God for protecting us and giving us strength during this time....not to mention providing like no other. Lately things have come up where God has been amazing us all over the place. Our vacuum broke and when we finally decided to order one online we put up the money for it and submitted our order...the crazy thing about this story is that the company never got/processed the order and we were never charged for the vacuum and it wasn't shipped. That same week we got a FREE vacuum from a family member who rebuilt some old ones and was about to give them to Goodwill. Now we not only have one working vacuum, we have two! How amazing is that?! I've also been wanting a new Kitchenaid for a while but know how much they cost. I would always tell Kyle that I will just keep waiting until we can afford one. A few weeks ago my mother-in-law called me up and asked if I would be interested in a new Kitchenaid! I asked her is Kyle had talked to her about one and she said no....how amazing, now I have a brand new kitchenaid mixer and I love it! There are several other things that have happened but I think I need to stop there because I've made this an extremely long and now boring blog for everyone and most have probably stopped reading by now lol.
Sorry no pictures...I'll make sure to get some new ones up soon :)
I will have to read that Bringing Up Boys book, and I'm glad you enjoyed Dave Ramsey. We have heard great things and have wanted to see him for a very long time! I'm glad God is doing such amazing things in your life!
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