well...

it looks like we'll be moving.

we've had a good run here, in our little abode (less than 700 square feet. it's really, for real, little.) mike and i (first trimester pregnant) moved in in the fall of 2004. we welcomed hannah into this home a few months later in the spring of 2005. it is now the spring of 2008.

where has the time gone? i am not quite sure, but it has definitly gone. and i feel like it has been spent very well. we have made some amazing new friends, learned some amazing new things, and look forward to this new chapter.

this new chapter will be taking place, Lord willing, in beaumont, about six miles closer to everything we do than where we are now.

things have been really great out here, but some things have come up and we feel like God is opening a door for us to move forward (or at least, westward!)

so, please pray for us.

that our relationship with our landlords with remain stable and friendly and that throughout this exchange, we will be upright and worthy witnesses of Christ's love

that we will be listening to and following God's leading in the season.

that we will have the strength, the energy, the motivation, and the patience to tackle this adventure over the next three weeks.

that will will retain our sanity and health over the next three weeks.

that God will give us some good rest when this has been accomplished!

thank you, friends who read this. i look forward to updating you all when i can.

a day to remember...

i suppose, out of any day, i feel like easter is the day that i most like to remember.
to remember what Christ did. on the cross. and in the tomb.
most especially what he did in the tomb...when he defeated death and rose up from his burial place.
if he had not risen from death, his crucifiction would have been in vain. another man, put to death for HIS sins.
with his ressurection, what he went through covered ALL of us.
it's something i am most grateful for, thankful for, humbled by.

i would not be who i am today, had he not done what he did.

thank you, Lord.

what i woke up to this morning...

ususally, mike puts a baby gate up in our hallway when he leaves for work in the morning. it's purpose is to confine hannah to our bedrooms and keep her from discovering things unsupervised in the mornings. (i am not an early riser, and she usally wakes me...)

so, this morning, mike didn't put the gate up. and i didn't think it would matter because i had talked to hannah before bedtime about coming to see me as soon as she woke up so she could go potty.

i woke to the cute sounds of hannah playing by herself in her room. clanking of the kitchen toys, talking to herself (or whoever she talks to when she's alone...) and the music coming from her radio.

and then i heard something that sounded like the television. it must be something on the radio, i thought. then i heard a commercial for USA. there is no way that would play on AIR1...now i hear "monk".

so i hop out of bed to discover the television is on. and there is a packet of crackers open next to the laptop. by the scissors i left out. it is hacked open.

the crackers, not the laptop.

i call for hannah to come out to the living room. what were you doing?, i ask. oh, i was watching mr. monk and eating, she answers nonchalantly. just checking, i add, thanks.

i later discover that she also ate two little boxes of rasins and sat in my favourite chair with her ridiculously over-soaked diaper, which of course leaked through her super-wicking fleece jammies and made itself at home in the cushions.

which have been heavily febreezed and are outside, relaxing in the morning sun.

i suppose it's a good thing. i do need to vacuum today. i just wasn't planning on it. thanks, kiddo. you really know how to motivate.

i thought i had a choice, i hope i still do...

so, i heard the other day something on the radio about homeschooling and california. it didn't sound positive. as someone who is seriously contemplating being a homeschooler, i thought i needed to look into this a bit more.
today i heard on the radio that there wasn't going to be an immediate negative action taken. but there is the possibility...
i still am planning on doing some more research and talking to some of the homeschoolers i know about how this is affecting them, or could affect them...and me in the future.

check out this post on www.biblicalwomanhoodonline.com/blog.htm called "california call-to-action" for a bunch more info. i'm new to linking, so i typed the address out also.

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storybook birthday

saturday was hannah's best friend's birthday party. she turnd two this past week. she loves to read and her mom is crazy creative. right now, mckenna's favorite book is go dog go. so, the kids decorated apple box "cars" to have some races in the yard with. all of the kids came dressed up as their favorite storybook character...hannah was olivia. my mom helped me make the dress, well, ok, she did almost all of the work, but i did do a little of the sewing. i made the ears. she loved it! and now...some pictures...

or maybe not. sad. blogger is experiencing some difficulties and i don't have the patience to try again and again. another day. sorry...

for my sister #2

so i was going through some old posts and came across the one where i talked about eating better and all that comes with that. i said that i would be keeping track of my progress here and i never had a follow up.
so here it is:
i have been walking with a friend of mine every monday, wednesday, and friday mornings. so, along with actually going to bed earlier and waking up earlier (and doing those things every day) i am spending a LOT more time being physically active. i have been trying to incorporate tuesday and thursday as walking days as well, but am not having much luck. i actually feel really good about my three-day-a-week schedule. tuesday morning, we go to church for my women's bible study and thursday morning we go to church for our pre school playgroup. so, every morning of the "week", we have something to get us up and out of the house...and away from the television. which is point two. we have been watching almost NO television. mike and i like to watch heros on monday nights. and that's about it. some evenings, which means maybe twice a week, we watch hannah montana and zack and cody on disney. don't ask. it's better content than most everything else on then. otherwise, we eat dinner a lot earlier, at a decent time, and enjoy our evenings as a family, just playing blocks or reading or coloring or whatever..it's been so nice. i feel like i am eating ...well, better. not like a health nut, but i rarely every drive-thru anymore and am trying to actually eat breakfast in the mornings. doing fruits (which was never a problem) and more veggies for snacking. and less snacking. i was just telling mike the other day that, while i'm not sure that i am actually losing weight yet, i am actually feeling a lot better. i think regulating (for the most part) my sleeping/waking, getting more physical activity in as daily as i can, watching less tv, and being more creative have combined to make a "me on the way to better me".

it's kinda nice.

for my sister...

here it is. not so exciting. i have been sewing a lot lately, making tote bags for our church's craft fair next month and some costumes...one for hannah and one for a friend, matyce. saturday is mckenna's birthday party...storybook dress-up...come as your favourite storybook character. hannah is going to be olivia. i am making a costume for matyce, too. it's really just a fleece shirt and hat. he's going as dikkie dik, a dutch character. dikkie dik is an orange cat, who has a little hand puppet that looks exactly like him. he's pretty cute. i can't read dutch to save my life, but the book is really cute and kat says it's one of his favourites. so, yeah, that is my post i guess. i suppose the point was to put up some pictures, but i haven't loaded any new ones from the camera lately. i will definitly post some of the kids in their costumes at the party. most likely on monday...can you wait that long?