Saturday, August 23, 2008
Adoption.....
Is something Matt and I have always talked about doing and we knew one day we would try to. Lately both our hearts have been pulled in that direction. I don't want to adopt a baby but an older child maybe Spencer's age. Babies are the most sought after and I have no fear that they wont find homes. I feel like my heart is in China. I want to adopt a little girl. This is something that we want to do so badly, open our hearts and our home to a child in need. But..... in doing research on it, we meet all the requirements to adopt a child from china ...except age. You have to be between the ages of 30-50 to adopt from there. They have such strict regulations and it makes me so very sad. With the disasters over there recently and all the orphaned children I hope that they become more lienient on the matter of age. I guess if not, in four more years we may do it when I turn 30, but for now it's just a dream I wanted to share.....
A new day, and still tired
Well I found some moving boxes on Freecycle.com and Matt is going to pick them up later today so I can start packing up stuff we can live without for a while. Five days and counting!
On a side note, I have started thinking that maybe I should stop buying and cooking and feeding meat to my kids. I am having many issues with my hormones right now and am on several diff. meds and I truely belive that it is because of the meat we eat. More and more places are pumping their livestock full of hormoes to make it bigger and better and so they can make more money, but they don't seem to care about the impact it is having on our health. Young girls are developing so much earlier now because of synthetic hormones they are unknowingly taking into their bodies when they have that cheeseburger or steak dinner. I am really worried about the impact it's going to have on my childrens health sometime down the road. Will I have to look back and say "If only i had been more careful what I fed them", they might not have to deal with this issue or that issue. I have spent a large part of the morning looking up farms that sell grass and grain fed beef, chicken, pork etc. also milk, eggs, cheese, yogurt. These things are things that we have at least 4-5 times a week, and the kids drink milk 3-4 times a day! In my heart of hearts, I wish we could live the simple life, farming, raising our own food etc. We wouldn't have to worry about what was going into our childrens bodies. I found a place up here that sells whole or half angus cows and you get like 600-700 lbs of meat in the form of roast, ground beef, steaks, etc. for about $2100 for a whole cow. If we had someone to split it with and each get half a cow or even split it in thirds, we wouldn't have to worry about buying beef again all year!
Ok done ranting :)
On a side note, I have started thinking that maybe I should stop buying and cooking and feeding meat to my kids. I am having many issues with my hormones right now and am on several diff. meds and I truely belive that it is because of the meat we eat. More and more places are pumping their livestock full of hormoes to make it bigger and better and so they can make more money, but they don't seem to care about the impact it is having on our health. Young girls are developing so much earlier now because of synthetic hormones they are unknowingly taking into their bodies when they have that cheeseburger or steak dinner. I am really worried about the impact it's going to have on my childrens health sometime down the road. Will I have to look back and say "If only i had been more careful what I fed them", they might not have to deal with this issue or that issue. I have spent a large part of the morning looking up farms that sell grass and grain fed beef, chicken, pork etc. also milk, eggs, cheese, yogurt. These things are things that we have at least 4-5 times a week, and the kids drink milk 3-4 times a day! In my heart of hearts, I wish we could live the simple life, farming, raising our own food etc. We wouldn't have to worry about what was going into our childrens bodies. I found a place up here that sells whole or half angus cows and you get like 600-700 lbs of meat in the form of roast, ground beef, steaks, etc. for about $2100 for a whole cow. If we had someone to split it with and each get half a cow or even split it in thirds, we wouldn't have to worry about buying beef again all year!
Ok done ranting :)
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Blaahh
I know I have been slacking on my posts...I have recently started some new medication that is making me really tired and sick, so I have been without motivation to do anything. Not much new right now, Matt went to richmond today for drill and he will be coming home tonight. Long haul for 5 hours of pay. I don't really see that it is worth it, but he had to go. Me and the kids aren't really doing anything, just being lazy..I may take them to the video store later, the family video here has free kids rentals and free educational rentals, and then their new release movies are really close to free. We may go to the park, depending on if I feel like I can endure it.
12 more days until the big move! That makes me happy for sure haha. I am not counting or anything. Everything is done, we are just waiting. I have been trying to get Matt to bring me some box's so I can start packing up stuff we don't use very much that way moving will be quicker but NOOOOO, he wants to wait till last minute and be rushed and stressed...well, leave me stressed, since he is going to be working that weekend. I cannot even express how upset I am over that. i want to get moved so bad, and our closing weekend he has to work. They also changed our closing time from 8am to 3 pm because they aren't going to be moved out until then, and matt has to go to work at 6 or 7 depending on the location he is working that night.
12 more days until the big move! That makes me happy for sure haha. I am not counting or anything. Everything is done, we are just waiting. I have been trying to get Matt to bring me some box's so I can start packing up stuff we don't use very much that way moving will be quicker but NOOOOO, he wants to wait till last minute and be rushed and stressed...well, leave me stressed, since he is going to be working that weekend. I cannot even express how upset I am over that. i want to get moved so bad, and our closing weekend he has to work. They also changed our closing time from 8am to 3 pm because they aren't going to be moved out until then, and matt has to go to work at 6 or 7 depending on the location he is working that night.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Finally!
After a three week hiatus, I finally made it back to the gym. I have been twice this week and I am so mad at myself for being lazy these past three weeks! I am pretty sore from my workout the day before yesterday and I SO did not want to go today lol. I did though so praise the lord for getting me off my butt and back to the gym! Not a lot going on right now, Matt is really unhappy with his job. I fear he is pretty miserable here. Some of the guys that have been there for years, like to blame Matt when they screw something up or decide to be lazy, so he is getting a lot of flack for things that he has no control over. Please pray for him that his job gets better and these guys will take more responsibility for their own mistakes. Hopefully something will open up in another state before too long and he will get out of this terminal, but I'm not sure how much better it would be somewhere else. He is thinking about leaving NS and working for another railroad. Maybe Canada. I wouln't mind to live there, it's so beautiful.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Kids are Wonderful!
So I have been using a star chart to keep my little ones on track for doing their chores and schoolwork and as I was getting online today to print them another chart, I happened to come across a web-site for 'online' chore charting. I thought I would check it out and see how it worked and I was so impressed. Not only are there hundrends of chores, but there are also things like being healthy, staying fit, doing bible study, manners, you name it and it's probably on there! You can make unlimited charts for different things, for example I made one for Spencer's schoolwork, one for housework, one for good manners, one for demerits (if he misbehaves, he loses points). Everytime they mark off something they have done they earn points towards rewards from me or they can use their points to buy clothes and furniture for their cat, which is like their character on the site. It's so cool. If you want to check it out here is the address...http://www.handipoints.com/. The kids are having a total blast with it!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Daily Blessings
Today we took the kids to the Golf and Swim club to swim at the big outside pool. It was a lot of fun. We hadn't been to it before and the kids have been begging for a month to go ever since our well meaning realtor mentioned how great it was. The kids really loved it, Spencer is getting better at swimming and Chloe is getting a little braver, she spent more time in the 'medium pool' as she would call it then she did in the baby pool. I spent half an hour before we left looking for our camera so that I could take pictures and post them but my camera has officially went MIA. I have no idea where it could be. Matt of course was the last person that had it and he is so bad about losing things bless his heart.
23 days left until the move...not that I'm counting haha. I think we are going to paint Chloe's room before we move her furniture in there. Right now its a dark green, and you all know how girly she is. We may do a light sage paint and do purple decor or do a brown paint and pink decor, since both those colors are pretty neutral colors. I don't think we will paint anything else, since it's all pretty new paint anyway and there is none of it that we don't like. Spencers room is sort of a sage color with leaf pressings done on one wall. I'm really glad that they are leaving all the curtains, blinds, shower curtains, etc. All except their baby's curtains, which will be chloe's room so we will need to get curtains for her room before we move in.
It's terribly hot here, almost 100% humidity. Today was a little better, the storm that blew through, made it a little better. We at least had a little wind today so it made it seem less hot. Our poor apartment conditioner just cant keep up and at night is gets so hot in here.
I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with this blog. I decided that I want to post a weekly bible verse and maybe a weekly quote that strikes my fancy. Only a very few people have even replied about this blog so I'm not even sure how many people will be checking it, so I guess it's basicly for me to have somewhere to put my thoughts. For those of you who do read it..thanks!
We just found out today that our bestest friends (yes I did mean to write 'bestest') are going to be proud parents of a baby girl! We are so excited for them, they have waited so long for this little miracle and I thank God for blessing them in his time. I can't wait to see her!
23 days left until the move...not that I'm counting haha. I think we are going to paint Chloe's room before we move her furniture in there. Right now its a dark green, and you all know how girly she is. We may do a light sage paint and do purple decor or do a brown paint and pink decor, since both those colors are pretty neutral colors. I don't think we will paint anything else, since it's all pretty new paint anyway and there is none of it that we don't like. Spencers room is sort of a sage color with leaf pressings done on one wall. I'm really glad that they are leaving all the curtains, blinds, shower curtains, etc. All except their baby's curtains, which will be chloe's room so we will need to get curtains for her room before we move in.
It's terribly hot here, almost 100% humidity. Today was a little better, the storm that blew through, made it a little better. We at least had a little wind today so it made it seem less hot. Our poor apartment conditioner just cant keep up and at night is gets so hot in here.
I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with this blog. I decided that I want to post a weekly bible verse and maybe a weekly quote that strikes my fancy. Only a very few people have even replied about this blog so I'm not even sure how many people will be checking it, so I guess it's basicly for me to have somewhere to put my thoughts. For those of you who do read it..thanks!
We just found out today that our bestest friends (yes I did mean to write 'bestest') are going to be proud parents of a baby girl! We are so excited for them, they have waited so long for this little miracle and I thank God for blessing them in his time. I can't wait to see her!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Almost home owners!
Well it's official...it has been for a while, but now that it's getting closer it feels more like reality. We are moving! I am so happy to be getting out of this apartment, it just doesn't feel like home to me. I can't wait to have a backyard to let the kids go play in and let the dogs run around in. I can't wait to not have to carry groceries up three flights of stairs! The kids are excited to be getting their own rooms again...well Chloe isn't. She said she will be scared to sleep by herself, but her room has mood lighting so we can leave the light on for her and just turn it down until it's almost off and she should be find.
Lately she has been scared of everything. She wont even go to the bathroom by herself. I'm at a loss as of what to do, she doesn't watch tv during the week and even when it's on over the weekend they don't watch anything that would be scary to her. I took them to an event at the childrens museum a few weeks ago, called "My mummy and me" and they got to learn about mummies and egypt. She tells me she is afraid there is a mummy behind her. It was in no way a scary event at all, and i'm not sure why she would be scared. I guess I forget that no matter how big she acts she is still barely out of toddlerhood.
Spencer is doing so well with his school work lately, I am so proud of him! He has been getting 100% on all his spelling tests and has almost stopped complaining about doing his work. I have been giving him more responsibility around the house as well so I think that he feels more grown up.
I have been teaching them to unload the dishwasher, sort laundry, dust, vacuum, and run the washing machine and dryer. Well only spencer does the washing and drying. They have been folding the laundry that they are able to and putting it away as well. Spencer cleans the bathroom sink everyday and wipes the table after every meal. I have made them a Chore chart for all the things they need to get done in a day and each time they finish a task, they get a star sticker to mark off that task. When they get all their chores done they get a special treat....candy, ice cream etc. If they get all their chores done everyday for the entire week, we will take a special trip somewhere.....go out for ice cream, go to the zoo, museum, park, movies, etc. They are doing so well and they even keep on me to do my part of the chores (mom will you run the dishwasher so we can unload it and get our star?) It's amazing how much they enjoy it, and I must admit, I'm getting spoiled with so much help!
Lately she has been scared of everything. She wont even go to the bathroom by herself. I'm at a loss as of what to do, she doesn't watch tv during the week and even when it's on over the weekend they don't watch anything that would be scary to her. I took them to an event at the childrens museum a few weeks ago, called "My mummy and me" and they got to learn about mummies and egypt. She tells me she is afraid there is a mummy behind her. It was in no way a scary event at all, and i'm not sure why she would be scared. I guess I forget that no matter how big she acts she is still barely out of toddlerhood.
Spencer is doing so well with his school work lately, I am so proud of him! He has been getting 100% on all his spelling tests and has almost stopped complaining about doing his work. I have been giving him more responsibility around the house as well so I think that he feels more grown up.
I have been teaching them to unload the dishwasher, sort laundry, dust, vacuum, and run the washing machine and dryer. Well only spencer does the washing and drying. They have been folding the laundry that they are able to and putting it away as well. Spencer cleans the bathroom sink everyday and wipes the table after every meal. I have made them a Chore chart for all the things they need to get done in a day and each time they finish a task, they get a star sticker to mark off that task. When they get all their chores done they get a special treat....candy, ice cream etc. If they get all their chores done everyday for the entire week, we will take a special trip somewhere.....go out for ice cream, go to the zoo, museum, park, movies, etc. They are doing so well and they even keep on me to do my part of the chores (mom will you run the dishwasher so we can unload it and get our star?) It's amazing how much they enjoy it, and I must admit, I'm getting spoiled with so much help!
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