milestones

Amazing to watch our little blessings grow! So fun to watch the video of Asher walking!! Levi pulls himself up onto things already. I do not mind having more than one in diapers so Ian trained himself at barly 2 yrs old and I waited till Josiah was three and had him trained in a day. No intentions of training Avery any time soon but... She likes to sit on thepotty then run around naked. I can tell when she has to go but for almost a month now nothing on the potty but she will bring mme a diaper and then go in the diaper. So I am just going with it. On Sunday she made her first pee and yesterday a poop on the potty!!

I have hired the Ficek Brothers cleaning co. to come clean my house at 9 this morning. They have already called me twice this am to confirm their appointment :) Ian also told me to go to his store upstairs cause he was selling his toys for free to get money to buy legos.

Food:
coffee
scrambled eggs, cheese, toast

rough am

I stayed up to watch ice dancing last night adn did not get to bed till 12:30. I was fairly happy with the results. Wish is was a North American sweep but 2 out of three aint so bad. Fed Levi at 5am and slept till just after 7 and I feel suprizingly good. Levi is a mess I put him down for his am nap and he cried for an hour. Then he only slept an hour!?? Not sure what the problem is praying it is teething or some other normal baby issue and not that he is getting sick. Almost 7 months and not even a runny nose from the lad :)

My parents called last night to say they plan on coming over for a few days w-sat. We are trying to eat what we have so this am I spent some time going thru food and planning a grocery trip so we have enough food while they are here.

Now to figure some fun things to do while they are here. Mom will be a big help packing up the kitchen!! Although they have never moved she is a expert packer!!

yesterday was a beautiful 60 degree day and today looks to be the same :) Will enjoy the weather for you Rachel!

Food:
coffee, pancakes
cheese , bread & butter
iced latte
apple
baked potato, cheese, chili, juice
coffee

lat week :(

This is the last week of the Olympics. It will be good to get back on my regular schedual. I am getting the same amount of sleep since I am not getting up at 5.

Weekend was spent packing and doing laundry. Roy took apart one of the boys bed so now we can put boxes in their room. So far I have school stuff, games & puzzels, boyys winter clothes, all books, most toys, all picturess & wall decor, and all misc stuff from our room packed! Only a month to go :) They should be texturing walls today.

Another beautiful sunshiny day. May try to walk to the park if Levi wakes from his nap early.
Have a glorious day all!

Food:
coffee
tosat, pB&honey

so blessed

I have been dragging for weeks now (maybe even years). Did not think it would be so hard to stay content with the house so close to being done. We have a prayer meeting every Sunday b4 the worship meeting. I so wanted to request prayer for myself but did not know what for so I kept quiet. The Lord knows all our needs!! The answer to my unspoken prayer came in the form of Shelly offering to watch all the kids for 2 hours yesterday. From there the blessings of the Lord flowed and put me in tears of repentance for my lack of faith and contentment!
Blessings of yesterday: 1. Shellie came for 2 hours! 2. quick kidless grocery shop 3. Dutch Bros. coffee shop had all drinks $1 yesterday! 4. beautiful 55 degree day 5. long walk in woods where I saw a woodpecker, squirrel, and a rabbit 6. reading the Word by the side of a stream with bird tweets in the background 7. afew minutes to write in my spiritual journal b4 having to be home. All of this equaled a much needed rejuvinated mommy. GOD IS ALWAYS GOOD!

Another beautiful day here. Sunny and fairly warm! Praying it lasts although Feb is known here for high winds. However they won't be too bad if it is so warm :)

Food:
coffee, coffee bread
oatmeal, raw sugar, rasins, coconut, milk
pb&banana, apple

going the distance

Proverbs 31 woman is a woman living out life to the glory of her God! Today thinking on vs 12&13 She will do him good, and not evil all the days of her life. She is like a merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

Although I would say that I want no evil to come upon my dear husband how often do I unintentionally bring evil to him. I am to be his help meet so am I going out of my way to help him? By asking him to do all the little errands since he is out (which he is always willing to do yesterday he dropped off library videos) is not helping him. Olin (our home builders) keeps calling with things to sign. Monday we both had to go sign for the flooring, final costs paper needs to be returned, and now they need one of us to sign something else... also lenders papers need to be returned to fed ex. Soooo this am Roy was taking the package to fed ex and he came back in and asked me to do it. I said yes although I have no idea where it is and not too excited about taking all 5 kids in for a probably less than a minute drop off. After that I will take them all into olin to sign my sig another less than a min activity. So in order to be the best help meet I possibly can I will spend more time getting kids in and out of the car to run these errands and then go to two grocery stores to accomplish the next proverbs 31 verse. This woman went the distance for her family to provide them with food. Since there were no fridgerators in those days she probably had to go to the market often possibly even daily. The blessing of fridgeration!! We are not told of how many children she had but sounds like she had more than one by the word children in various verses. I am willing to go the distance because I love my husband, children, and God. I will do these tasks heartily for the glory of the Lord!! My prayer is to always have this attitude as a first reaction in all that I do at home or out. We all work and can give heartily to the Lord in all that we do. I am sure you all have a better handel on this than I do but know that I will be praying this for each of you throughout the rest of this month! I love you sistas!!

Food:
coffee
yogurt, granols, cherries
apple

Survivor Thursday

looking forwared to the 20th season starting tonight.
may try to get to the library today. hard when you have someone napping almost all day. levi naps 9-noon avery goes down at noon for 2-3 hrs levi is down again at 2 till 5. i am blessed that they respond well o their sleep training but it makes going anywhere kinda hard.

Food:
coffee
oatmeal, rasins, br sug, coconut, milk

Late start

Slept in this am. Roy came and woke me at 7:30 to tell me he was leaving. Micah was very confused and asked several times why mommy wasn't the first one up. Avery Ian and micah were all up b4 me. Levi did not get up till 8 (he nursed at 4:30).

Any ideas on garage storage space. We are looking to maximize the space by using celing and walls. We have a lot of boxes of clothing. Roy is trying to design something that he will build but we would love any ideas anyone has or things that have worked for you.

Rachel we love love love the sesame ginger seasoning!! Had it last night with our stir fry compliments my soy sauce perfecttly!! Thankyou thankyou! :)

Food:
a little coffee, pancake, butter
yogurt, granola, cherries
stir fry, soy
iced latte
shepherds pie, OJ (old neighbors stopped by and dropped off 8 cartons of OJ!!
cottage cheese

Goals

Weighed myself the other day and i have lost the weight i gained last fall. I am now 118, below pre preg weight 0f 122. Not sure that I shared this with you but last spring (end march begin April) I started getting hheadaches. Dr and nurses said normal with precnancy no worries. I do not take meds unless I am unable to function. I was taking Tylenol every day. They continued after Levi was born and I finally told Gloria who had me walk the line at the park. Her nephew had a brain tumor and that is the tell all sign. I passed:) So why the pain?? My conclusions were brain tumor, nutrition, stress, not enough sleep, long hair, too much caffine, and house conditions (dust, mold ect.). During my pregnancy out of the blue my dear friend Lisa had asked me if I was eating enough. I guess a mother of many knows some of the habits of a busy mom. In Oct I started purposfully eating more as much more as possible. By thanksgiving I had gained 10 lbs and headaches were random. I have lost the weight but am still trying to eat more at meals. I also do not have snacks in the house unless we make them. Headaches are gone! Thank you Lord for showing me some of my many needs.

It is so about being healthy in order to serve the Lord without any hinderance!! So as you continue on with your weight loss goals I encourage you to keep on for the service and ultimatly glory of the Lord!! "She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."

Food:
coffee
pancakes, nutmeg syrup, orange slice, milk
apple
2 egg in a basket
chix, broc, carrot stir fry, rice, soy sauce, juice
ice cream a mut while watching the fat fattys :)

3 days 15 hours!!

Looking forward to this week. Last was a mess with Ian sick and Levi spent thurs and fri nights waking up around 2:30 and crying for over a hour. Not sure what the problem was but he has gone from 8-5 the last two nights :)

Saturday the ladies met at IHOP for bfast! After I dropped some financial paperwork off at Olin homes. Sandy says our eta for the finished house is March 12-19th!! I was sure it would be beg. April. I have a bunch of pics that I will try to post but I have to figure how to get them into the new comp program first.

Friday Levi officially crawled! For aver a month he has gotten where he wants to by rollind and doing a lunge move. So fri he used his hands and legs to properly crawl a few feet. He still often uses the lunge move so I guess he will have a tough face :)

Food:
coffee, animal crackers
yogurt, granola, cherries
pb&j sand,, grapefruit
iced latte
meatloaf, couscous, juice
cottage cheese

MOPS today

I am so thankful to the Lord that Ian was suddenly much better yesterday. At 10:30 he came to me and said " mommy I can walk! I am all better now." He was sooo excited and then he started playing and carring on as if nothing was ever wrong. I feel like I have been through the wringer. Excited to be able to go relax this am knowing the kids are having fun too.

Food:
coffee

too late a night

for somestrange reason they moved the biggest loser back an hour so i did not get to bed till after 11:30. Yes Rach we watch and love the "fat fattys" (Roys idea of a name :)

Ian was a little better yesterday but much more difficult and very demanding he"vry concerned about his illness and why he is dizzy and can't walk too well. I assured him it was from lack of food. Took Roy and I 15 min to get him to take a large spoon of jam with 1/2 a smashed tylenol in it. I was sure he would go into a seizure from sheer panic. May cave in and call dr today :( Praying for wisdom. We have never had a child sick for more than one day so this is new territory. Thankfully no one else has it! Going to be very dissappointed if we miss MOPS tomorrow. Thank you all for your prayers they are much appreciated!! What a relief to know our God is in control of everything. Be anxious for nothing... Faith in all things for our God works all for good to his glory!! Now to remember that at all times :)

Food:
coffee, cranberry oat bar
carrot muffins, butter
grapefruit
pb&banana, milk
iced latte
pumpkin pancakes, eggs, juice

Quickness in order

Ian is sick. High fever all day yesterdasy 103-4. Threw up in our bed around 11:30 pm and about an hour later fever broke. It is back again this am. Problem is he will not take meds. Even if you get it in him he will gag on it. Liquid is too sweet for him and we got the dissolving kind but that did not work either. Thankfully he has not has a seizure looks like he may have out grown them. PTL!! Please pray that he is healed soon and no one else gets it.

Avery is trying to push me outta the chair. Rachel I now sympathize more with you... I am remembering the sippy at night delimal you had not understanding why after a night or two w/o it she would be fine. Avery has that kind of temperment. Girls are a very different breed from the boys and much more demanding and as for our situation smarter earlier, more vocal earlier and very tempermental :) We just may have our first case of terrible twos here.

Food:
coffee
toast, juice, grapefruit
pb&banana sand w/extra pb, juice

Hello all

Sorry it has been so long!! I sure have missed you sistas! Usually Even when I am gone I still read your posts but not this last month. We got some sort of a computer virus. Over the holiday the older neighbor kids were here playing games on computer and I was also playing some games with Micah and Ian and the computer really got messed up. My awesome husband eventually fixed it but with limited time avaliable it took awhile.
Must go get my reading done. Avery has started waking up early and not much gets done when she is up :)

Coffee
oatmeal brown sug, coconut
Pb&banana, bun w/ butter
iced latte
grapefruit
creamy turkey&rice soup, bun, juice
carmel cranberry oat bar