well, we've been in our new place for just over a month. i still do not have pictures to show because i have not yet found my camera-computer cord.
we are getting fairly settled and i am fighting more and more each day the thoughts of how much stuff i "need" to fill this empty space. it helps a lot that there is not a lot of disposible income to be devoted to those "needs".
hannah is three now. she's growing every day and really misses her cousin...even though she won't talk to him for the video camera.
one of my favourite things about our new location is that we are just a few miles from the things we do most often...mike's work, our church, a huge majority of our friends...so i have been trying to ride my bike more and drive less. so far, i've only made trips to church and friends houses. i don't yet have a lock for the bike and trailer, so public places are off limits still.
yesterday i biked over (with hannah in tow) to meet up with some friends and watch the cherry festival parade. it was a lot of fun and a really nice, easy ride.
this morning, we all biked to church together. (it was nice to ride all together.) then we biked to the house of some friends and had lunch. then back home. later this evening, we biked a few miles to mike's folks' place for an early father's day dinner. our route home was disrupted by a stopped train, so we ended up riding a few more miles out of the way to get home. it was way longer than i was planning, so i am pretty wiped out tonight. all totalled up, today i biked just over 14 1/2 miles...not bad.
and i am saving on gas. well, not really saving, prices are going up, up, up...but streching out our tank.
feels good.
oh, yeah...i turned 30 a week ago.
08 June 2008
07 May 2008
hannah is lame...
sorry debra, i can not get her to talk to nehemiah on the video. she wants to watch him over and over but will not make him a message. i think i need to get her used to being taped, i dont do it nearly as much as you do. anyway, i am working on it. and i will try to get some pictures up next week. keep bugging me.
one month later...
i have been thinking i needed to post for a while now, and every time i remember it's really not convenient or i feel like i need to post some pictures and i don't have any new ones loaded to the computer yet...
so, tomorrow will be one week since we moved in. it's so nice to be done with the moving part. the settling in part is a whole different journey. especially since i didn't do any of the packing. finding things is quite a busy job. but i am really making it out to be more difficult than it is. most everything is actually put away, although not in it's permanent spot. our bedrooms and the kitchen are fairly situated, as are the kitchen and living room. there are still things to go through in the garage...we have a garage! which we park our car in, something i have NEVER had in my almost thirty years (the being able to park in part, not the actual garage itself...anyway)
it's really nice. i feel like i am living in a hotel. it's so much bigger and newer than our old place. it will take me a while to detach myself from barbour street. it was where we became a family (hannah's first, and only so far, residence) and where all of her "firsts" happened. a nice little space, for all of the complaining. but there are so many new things to come here on allegheny avenue. God has truly blessed us witht this new season and we look forward to what he has in store for us.
what adventures will unfold for us here?....
we eagerly await them.
...pictures to come.
so, tomorrow will be one week since we moved in. it's so nice to be done with the moving part. the settling in part is a whole different journey. especially since i didn't do any of the packing. finding things is quite a busy job. but i am really making it out to be more difficult than it is. most everything is actually put away, although not in it's permanent spot. our bedrooms and the kitchen are fairly situated, as are the kitchen and living room. there are still things to go through in the garage...we have a garage! which we park our car in, something i have NEVER had in my almost thirty years (the being able to park in part, not the actual garage itself...anyway)
it's really nice. i feel like i am living in a hotel. it's so much bigger and newer than our old place. it will take me a while to detach myself from barbour street. it was where we became a family (hannah's first, and only so far, residence) and where all of her "firsts" happened. a nice little space, for all of the complaining. but there are so many new things to come here on allegheny avenue. God has truly blessed us witht this new season and we look forward to what he has in store for us.
what adventures will unfold for us here?....
we eagerly await them.
...pictures to come.
06 April 2008
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.
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.
23 March 2008
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.
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.
17 March 2008
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.
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.
12 March 2008
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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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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