I feel as though I should post something because its been a while, but there isn't much going on so I don't feel like I have much to say! I can always post more pictures of the babe... Oh, that reminds me - I never posted her 3 month pics.... I'll have to get to that. Gosh, its so hard to get anything done around here! Keeping up with dishes and laundry is about all I can handle. Forget cleaning the house - and getting a meal on the table takes a great effort.
Abi, Abi, Abi.... We have fought all day today. She will NOT sleep longer than 45 minutes for her naps. It doesn't seem to matter what I do... Even if I fight with her for several minutes and hold the pacifier in her mouth till she falls back to sleep (after a bunch of screaming) she will be awake all over again in 45 min. I can't seem to fix the problem. Then she's miserable and screaming all day because she's so over tired. Hmmm... I think I'll call Chris and Pam Stanley tomorrow and see what they have to say....
We've been thinking about getting a ping-pong table for the family room down stairs. We have no furniture to put down there so the room is empty and we've wanted to make it into a game room. All game tables are expensive though! We were going to split the cost and take it out of our "allowance" money, but Kris found one on sale on Craig's-list for $35! (cost us $40 because we didn't have exact change...) Anyway - he borrowed the truck from work and picked it up last night. Its nothing fancy, but I think we're really going to enjoy it. Maybe the family room will get some use now!
Our smallgroup meets this Thursday - we're starting a study on the book of James. Why James? Just happens to be my favorite book and no body said what book they wanted to study, just that they wanted to study one! We now have 7 couples in our group - 8 sometimes. The group is growing - hard to believe that at the start of last year we had only 2 couples and were concerned about it! We've had 2 new couples join this year and are learning how to work with the expansion. We know that it changes the dynamics to have new people join, but feel strongly that we should keep our group "open." Funny thing is - why are both of the other "young married couples" groups in church struggling to get people? They are both excellent groups!? I'm praying that they will see new people soon too and feel encouraged. We feel very blessed. It would be hard to have to "split" our group if it gets much bigger - we're all getting so close now. We shall have to wait and see how things go this year.
So I'm back to work... Just per-diam, so I'm working only 2 shifts per week. I'm working every-other weekend (days) and one evening a week. That way Kris can be home with Abigail when I'm working and we don't have to worry about who is taking care of her. The one day a week that I work evenings I have to be to work at 3pm and Kris doesn't get out till 4pm so she stays with Nicole for a couple hours. I'm so grateful that she's willing to help us out like this. She already has 3 girls and has to deal with my schedule that changes every week. Thank you Nicole!
I'm anxious to see what my paycheck will look like this week so that we can re-do the budget and see if things will actually work out! I think that things might get a bit "tighter" than we are used to. Prayerfully we'll be able to handle everything as is. We shall soon see...
Guess I had more to say than I thought.
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3 comments:
wow that was a mouthful.
i like being part of your life. just so you know.
:) glad to hear it :)
oh, i do remember those days and do not envy you at this time. Bella would only sleep 20 min at a time & would not go back to sleep. the thing that finally started helping us, was putting her to bed every two hours on the dot..she started sleeping for 40 min, an hour and eventually 2 hours - this took a couple months, mind you. I don't know if it will help you or not. Hope you find something that works for you.
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