Hello again everyone! I am finally back to cyber world. We moved into our house on the 8th and I just now got my dsl working this week and our phone has been on and off, so we've been out of touch for awhile. We also don't have cable and our friends took their rabbit ears back, so for almost a week we were without tv, phone and the internet. And amazingly we survived! :) Ryan did finally hook up the vcr and dvd player so I watched a lot of movies to keep myself distracted.
I'm just sitting here looking for blinds for our windows on line. Those things are freakin expensive! We have 2 bedrooms were the width is about 2 inches too wide to get blinds already made in the stores and our living room windows are 10 inches too long. Which means we have to do custom blinds if we want them. We priced faux blinds for our living room. For 36X72 blinds that you can just buy in the store they are $29. Our windows are 36x82 so we figured we could get them for around $40 or so, but no...they are $79! come on people..it's only 10 more inches! so who knows what we'll do. as i'm sure you can relate matt and tracey...it sure is expensive to fix up a house. but lots of fun! we absolutlely love our house! i can't believe that 3 years ago we fell in love with it and now we are actually living in it! thanks Lord..you are way too good to us! And the paint colors we picked out look great. i didn't realize how different they would make a room feel. i'll have to post some pictures soon of it. that would be so great matt and tracey if you could come down, but i'll understand it you don't want to drive any more than you have to.
Hannah is doing great. She is really getting on a good schedule. Sometimes she struggles with her naps still, but she eventually gets herself back to sleep most of the time. She's been kind of finicky eater lately, but today has been a good day. it's amazing how one day you can be so confident that you are doing everything right, but then one little thing doesn't go as expected and you start to completely doubt yourself. i honestly don't see how people can raise a child without God's help and stay sane. If it wasn't for being able to just rest in Him and let His peace take over when i'm at my wits end, I would be a very stressed out person. 90% of the time Hannah is perfect angel, but for some reason that 10% can take a lot out of me. but boy is she a cutie. i'm amazed at how i melt at every smile and coo she gives as if it's the first time she's ever done it. and every little thing she learns or does i think she's the smartest baby in the world! she's a blessing that's for sure
we are reading a book called the purpose driven life by rick warren in our sunday school. i guess it's quite the popular book lately. i haven't been very good at staying up with the readings, but I am definitely going to read it again when we are finished with it in our class, because it's a very practical book. some of you might have already read it. if not i highly recommend it. he basically shows how the bible tells us what 5 purposes we have in this life...worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and evangelism. i let myself get so overwhelmed with life somtimes that it will be good to ask myself before doing something, is this fulfilling one of these purposes. it seems like most of the time the purpose i am fulfilling is having fun and doing as little as possible to get things done.
well i guess blogging isn't fulfilling one of those purposes so i'll end it here. :) have a great weekend and christmas if i don't get a chance to blog again. i know it's a very cheesy cliche but it does speak the truth..dont' forget that "Jesus is the reason for the season!!"
Merry Christmas!!!!
I'm just sitting here looking for blinds for our windows on line. Those things are freakin expensive! We have 2 bedrooms were the width is about 2 inches too wide to get blinds already made in the stores and our living room windows are 10 inches too long. Which means we have to do custom blinds if we want them. We priced faux blinds for our living room. For 36X72 blinds that you can just buy in the store they are $29. Our windows are 36x82 so we figured we could get them for around $40 or so, but no...they are $79! come on people..it's only 10 more inches! so who knows what we'll do. as i'm sure you can relate matt and tracey...it sure is expensive to fix up a house. but lots of fun! we absolutlely love our house! i can't believe that 3 years ago we fell in love with it and now we are actually living in it! thanks Lord..you are way too good to us! And the paint colors we picked out look great. i didn't realize how different they would make a room feel. i'll have to post some pictures soon of it. that would be so great matt and tracey if you could come down, but i'll understand it you don't want to drive any more than you have to.
Hannah is doing great. She is really getting on a good schedule. Sometimes she struggles with her naps still, but she eventually gets herself back to sleep most of the time. She's been kind of finicky eater lately, but today has been a good day. it's amazing how one day you can be so confident that you are doing everything right, but then one little thing doesn't go as expected and you start to completely doubt yourself. i honestly don't see how people can raise a child without God's help and stay sane. If it wasn't for being able to just rest in Him and let His peace take over when i'm at my wits end, I would be a very stressed out person. 90% of the time Hannah is perfect angel, but for some reason that 10% can take a lot out of me. but boy is she a cutie. i'm amazed at how i melt at every smile and coo she gives as if it's the first time she's ever done it. and every little thing she learns or does i think she's the smartest baby in the world! she's a blessing that's for sure
we are reading a book called the purpose driven life by rick warren in our sunday school. i guess it's quite the popular book lately. i haven't been very good at staying up with the readings, but I am definitely going to read it again when we are finished with it in our class, because it's a very practical book. some of you might have already read it. if not i highly recommend it. he basically shows how the bible tells us what 5 purposes we have in this life...worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry, and evangelism. i let myself get so overwhelmed with life somtimes that it will be good to ask myself before doing something, is this fulfilling one of these purposes. it seems like most of the time the purpose i am fulfilling is having fun and doing as little as possible to get things done.
well i guess blogging isn't fulfilling one of those purposes so i'll end it here. :) have a great weekend and christmas if i don't get a chance to blog again. i know it's a very cheesy cliche but it does speak the truth..dont' forget that "Jesus is the reason for the season!!"
Merry Christmas!!!!
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