Packed Up

My camera is packed.  Along with everything else we own.  It's all in a storage unit.  And we are currently bumming off friends and family until our house closes.  It was supposed to be done on Aug 10th but it has hit quite a few bumps and we had to move out of the apartment even though the house was not ready to go.  Poor planning.  I know.  Now we are frantically trying to get things to work out with the house (although each passing day it seems to bring a new huge problem) and we are in California freeloading off my parents for the weekend.  Nice.

I keep trying to figure out how we ended up in this predicament.  There are steps along the way where we should have done things differently but it's too late now.  Now we just have to hope everything works out.  The good news is that I have great friends that have helped out.  They've all come to our aid in one way or another and we are really grateful to them.  I think the low point was when we had just taken our car into the shop.  All six of us were crammed into the loaner Mercury Sable driving back to our friend's house, the gas light turns on, I have to pee, and the blinker in the car breaks.  And then a John Mayer song comes on the radio.  I hate John Mayer.  That was when I thought things can only get better, right?  We had no home.  No car.  And John Mayer was talking about my body being a wonderland-yuck.  That was our life.  All I could do was laugh.

Sad to say after that day we discovered that things could get worse.  We've had nothing but bad news regarding our house.  We are wondering if we are ever going to get into the house.  Who knows!  All I know is this house business has not been fun.  I keep thinking I should be crying or something over it but instead I just eat ice cream.  So I'm getting fat on top of it all.  I have had an epiphany regarding people, trials and choices they make.  Sometimes the stress of life makes us make dumb decisions.  But when you are going through a hard time it is ok to let little things go (like my diet) while I work on something else.  I can't put my whole effort into every aspect of my life all the time.  I need to pick the most important things to focus on and let the other things go.  And so do other people.  When there are other people going through a hard time and they let some things go because it just is too overwhelming I should not judge them for that.  You can handle all things but not always all the time.  Sometimes you can let things wait.  That doesn't mean it is an excuse to give up and not do what is right but you can lighten up a bit in areas that don't really matter when another aspect of life is hard.  Hopefully the next time I blog it will be from my own computer in my own house.  Maybe there will be a picture or two because my camera will be unpacked.  Although my pictures are never interesting anyway so maybe not.

Ka-Chow!!

There are so many things I love about this picture.  He's wearing his Lightning McQueen shirt and proudly sporting the matching underwear.  He's pointing to his underwear.  He's got a fairy water bottle.  He's thighs are still chubby.  His facial expression which isn't even a real expression, he has juice in his mouth.  He's almost 2 1/2 and is only willing to try the potty training because we found some Cars stickers at walmart and he really wants them.  He peed his pants about 3 mins after I took this picture and is back in his diaper again because after Daisy I am not going to try and potty train any earlier than when they can do all by themselves.  I love having Blake.  He pretty much gets everything he wants...something my friends constantly tease me about but I keep right on doing it.  

These are my shoes I got for my birthday.  When I met my friend and she said she made her own shoes I thought, well this friendship isn't going to go anywhere.  However we have had a lot of fun together and are pretty close friends.  We yard sale together almost every week.  Anyway, long story short, she made me some shoes in exchange for something else and I really do love them!  They are really comfy like slippers but don't get too hot like slippers.  She wears her all around town but I want to keep mine as just house shoes so that when we move into our new house I have shoes I can wear inside without dirtying the carpet.  I've never wanted to be someone who had people take their shoes off when you came in their house-for some reason it made me feel silly when I was younger-but after years of wearing my shoes in and out of the house I've seen how dirty they make the carpet.  I also can't stand to be barefoot.  I like wearing shoes at all times.  So, when we get our house we will not be sticklers to the no-shoes rule but I will have my own "house shoes" to wear inside.  

I love my kids

My Talk on Friends

by Heidi Taylor

When you get a friend you can't think you can choose anyone you want.

You need to think about what they do.

As an example on a bad friend...

"Hey come to my house."  And you can't. "No."  "Oh come on.  It's not a bad thing."  "NO!"  And you get so annoyed you go.  And at dinner you get in trouble.

An example of a good friend...

"Do you want to come over?"  "No I can't.  I'm packing to go on vacation."  And your friend says "OK.  Can I help?"

That's how good and bad friends act.

But you should still pray for enemies.  And good friends.  No matter what you should always be nice to friends and enemies.

In the name of

Jesus Christ

Amen.

I love having kids.  I love that she wrote this herself.  I love seeing my kids grow and become these individuals who make their own choices, have their own way of doing things, and pick out their own outfits.  Today is my last day as a 30 year old.  I've spent it cleaning the house, getting the kids ready for church and getting myself ready in my new church outfit.  It's been a good way to end this year.  I love my life and it seems as the years go by it just gets better and better.