My mom got me a sewing machine in January and I just can't break down and just learn to do it. Using this stuff was so much more fun plus it was easy :) My kind of easy! Anyway, I put together the curtain for the girls rooms last night and all I need to get now is the ribbon to tie it up to make a ribbon-tie curtain. Here's a glimpse as to what it looks like. I'll show you the finished product once i have it up!
When you pray do you get a certain feeling? I don't know...something like being in another dimension? I've had this feeling ever since I can really remember being sincere in my praying. I tried to explain it to a friend of mine and he laughed at me and called me crazy. Thank you Jonathan! Looks like he doesn't get the same "feeling"! Anyway, when I'm earnestly praying and so in tune to listening to the Spirit I feel (here it goes)...like I'm on top of a Q tip! Don't laugh. I know I'm crazy. I can't believe that I'm actually blogging about this but I thought hey, I'll lay it out there and there might be someone else who has Q tip prayers! By having these Qtip prayers I know, without a shadow of a doubt that my prayers are Spirit led and that God is speaking thru me. When I ever I don't have this feeling I can tell that my heart isn't in the right place and the words that come out of my mouth are mine and not God's. Is anyone else with me or is it just me? If it's just me that's alright...I've lived like this for however many years and I think I'll be OK! Just a cool realization ;) Happy praying :)
At Westerville I love to see all the decorations and the Christmas trees that are decorated in red and green. To walk downstairs at church when there's no one around and the building is dark all except the Christmas trees is so much fun. Makes me giggle just thinking about it! Again, something inviting and sacred all at the same time. I wonder if the wise men felt a little of the same thing when they came to see baby Jesus. When they came upon the stable and saw the flicker of the candle lights in an old dark stable. The excitement of what lied ahead of them...the anticipation for what was about to happen. I wonder if it was a little inviting and sacred all at the same time. I know it's only October but I can feel the excitement and I sense the anticipation for what's about to happen! Can you feel it or is it just me? I'm getting giddy just thinking about it!
So here we are on Monday again...boy, do Monday's come quick for you or is it just me? Mondays get a bad wrap but maybe that means we're too busy to begin with! Here are my thoughts for the week - I'm not saying these are set in stone but it gives us a direction to head for :)
We're not sure when we're going to get to meet little Hannah but we sure hope it's soon. Aiva and Ana call her Hannah Montana and are very excited to "play games with her"! Congrats Steve & Jess!
We're going to the pumpkin patch and to Trunk or Treat at our church on Sunday. Can't wait...should be so much fun!
Monday - I don't know
Today is Aiva's 7th birthday :) It's a big day because she'll never have a birthday like this. Today is 10/10/10. I've tried explaining the significance of it all but I just don't think she gets it. One day she'll appreciate it and remember what a great day it was. She is one special young lady and I am so glad I'm her mama...most days. This morning was questionable!
I never realized how hard it was being a mom of a child in school until I had a child in school. I think I have a new appreciation for parents of school aged children. I would love to go back and deal with some of the things I dealt with when the girls were smaller. This school business is pretty tough stuff...and Aiva is only in first grade. Like every parent, you want your kids to ace their spelling test, to have the best project, and to not get in trouble for talking to the kids next to them. You have to give your child all these instructions to make sure that everything goes as it should. With my personality I'm not one who likes to fly by the seat of the pants. I like to have a plan and know the proper steps to execute the plan. The funny part is that I thought I was going to have no problem helping Aiva with homework. How tough could first grade be anyway, right? Wrong... there have been a couple times when I've gone to Google to help me with trying to figure out how to help Aiva with her homework. In one situation, she was actually educating me! Looks like I was a little too big for my britches when I thought that this level would be a piece of cake. As moms, we're always thinking that the time period that we're in is the hardest. My co-worker has a son that won't stay in his crib. Needless to say, she's had a few sleepless nights. I know I must have gone through this with two kids but for the heck of me I can't remember what I did. I'm sure I went to Google or Parenting.com to find out what to do. You learn to cope with less sleep and hope and pray that your little one will just stay in bed. I guess that's what I have to do. Learn to cope with the smarts that I do have and hope and pray that your little one will never catch on that you're learning right along with them!
Today was Anastasia's birthday. She turned 4 years old today. My how time has passed. I can remember the day she was born. It was my first official day off work for maternity leave and I was getting ready to welcome my mother in law and brother/sister in law into town for the weekend. I had just gone to the store and Aiva and I stopped at my mom's to chat. Not sure why I did that especially with milk and other perishables in the car. We chatted on the porch for a few and then I told her we had to be leaving. Before I left I had to pee, like all pregnant women do! This might be too much info but I noticed that I was peeing for a bit too long. Once I had stopped, I stood up and was going to make my way to the sink and something didn't feel right. I sat back down to go to the bathroom and that's when I knew it. My water broke. I called my mom into the bathroom and told her that I thought my water broke and she didn't believe me. Once she saw the panic in my eyes she knew it was for real. I started crying about all my groceries that were going to go bad and she hurried me along to the car. Aiva was somewhat oblivious to what was going on which was a good thing because after I was finished crying about the groceries I started crying about leaving her! My mom drove me to our house and threw the stuff in the refrigerator and got my over night bag. I called my mother in law who was of course surprised because she wasn't planning on coming to welcome a grand daughter but the timing worked out perfect. Nate was at the hospital waiting for me, since he worked there. He was outside waiting for me with a wheel chair. Had I not been leaking so much I would have walked but my back side was wet...completely wet! I kissed Aiva and cried that I had to leave her and then turned to head to the hospital for my life to be changed forever more. I got there around 3 and she was born around 6. She was so beautiful and the first thing I noticed was that she had my thumbs. I knew then that she had to be special. Happy birthday baby girl...in honor of your birthday, here are four things that I love about her.
Yesterday was a busy day but all in all it was great! I've been dreading it all week so to actually get it over with is somewhat amazing. I had to work like a mad woman to get my work done at the church before heading to the dentist. At 12:30 I met my mom and she drove me over to the dentists only to find out that he wanted me to go to an endodontist. I was totally hoping that my dentist could do it because everywhere else that I called was way to expensive to have the root canal done. My dentist gave me a couple names and told me which one of the three was less expensive so as soon as I got in the car I called them up to see if they could take me. There was no way that I was getting out of work to just find out that the procedure couldn't be done. They told me to come on over and that they would fit me in their schedule. I was a little apprehensive at first but after praying I felt a sense of peace in knowing that God was in control and that I was going to be fine. They called me in and got started. After an xray and an explanation of what they were going to do it was 2:30. When I walked out it was 4:07. When the doctor numbed me up, he did an amazing job. I've never had the numbness secluded to just the area that the doctor worked on. My tongue, lips and the rest of my teeth were fine. After all the shoving and tugging I thought for sure I would have all this pain but after I walked out I called Nate and told him that surprisingly I felt fine. I didn't even feel like I had any work done. Since it was too late to head back to work, we decided to head to the Lennox since we were seeing a movie there later. We went to Johnny Rockets first and then headed to some other stores. Mom even bought me some Bath and Body Works lotion...thanks Ma! The movie started at 7:30 and it was great. We went to see Like Dandelion Dust, Karen Kingsbury book turned into movie, and I was more than pleased.
I cried all the way through but it was a good cry...only a girl can say that! Guys just wouldn't understand that concept. I tried to explain it to Nate and he looked at me like I was crazy! If you can, go see it. It's great! Afterwards we went for "dessert" which turned out to be Tortilla soup from Max & Erma and then headed home to hubby. The girls were in bed, had pajamas on and the house was clean. He was a real trooper! Thanks Nate for my night out!
