Randomness
Here are some random snipits from the past week or so at our house..I don't have enough time to blog about each one individually...
1. IT HAS BEGUN...You know how little girls eventually begin having some "opinions" on what they wear? Yesterday I was getting the girls ready to go to a thing at Bryce's school. I put a dress on Kynden and opened the shoe drawer and pulled out a pair of sandals. Kynden freaked out and when I handed her a shoe to play with while I put the other one on, she freaked out even more and threw the shoe at me. So I got her down off the changing table, opened up the shoe drawer. She immediately calmed down as she pulled out 2 tennis shoes. She then happily let me put those on her feet. Great. Now not only does she have an opinion, but she doesn't have good taste.
2. This month of May has been really busy for us. If you were to look at our calendar on the refridgerator, you would see it pretty full and not everything is even on there. I don't really like being busy. It seems to screw up family life/routines.
3. Speaking of family life/routines, Josh and I were able to go away without the kids over Memorial Day weekend. We had a lot of fun. We went to a "cabin" (aka: pretty nice house) in La Pine with two other couples as well as 2, 16 year old boys (son + friend of one of the couples). We left Friday and came home on Monday. Like I said, we had fun..but I'm still trying to decide if all the time, stress, effort, money and disruption to the family routine was worth getting away for a few days. It seems that I'm still paying for it due to very grumpy girls who's schedule is off....However, we very much appreciate Josh's mom for taking the bulk of watching all our kids for most of the weekend. It's a big job!
4. Last week as I was running around, busy getting stuff done in order to leave for the weekend, I turned on Pandora.com for some music. The song Agnus Dei came on and some of the lyrics are: alleluia, alleluia, For the lord God almighty reigns, etc..for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, it's a very pretty worshipful song..anyway, I turn around and there in the living room, with no one around her is Adelynn. The extraordinary thing about this was that she was standing perfectly still (which for a 21 month old is unusual), both of her chubby little arms were straight up in the air and her head was bobbing up and down. I immediately got tears in my eyes because I felt something powerfully spiritual in that moment...How would a 21 month old know to put her hands up in the air? And even if she'd seen it before, how would she have known that that was a song to worship? My own theory (and if you don't like it, you don't have to read my blog.=) is that it wasn't Adelynn the 21 month old..it was her spirit, who just for a moment, was overcome by the need to worship God. What a beautiful, precious gift to me!
4.5. My tattoo is healing up nicely. I've decided I really like having a tattoo. I'm also proud of the fact that it hurt so bad. It kind of represents the pain that we so often have to walk through in life in order to have something beautiful on the other side. By the time I got my tattoo, Josh was totally on board with me getting it..but still I could feel the tiny bit of his hesitation about it and not knowing if he was going to like it..but since I've gotten it, every now and again he'll just walk up behind me and pick up my shirt so he can look at it. He also shows it to people for me...I think it's safe to say that he likes it.
5. I just found out last night that next week is Bryce's last week of school..I thought I had 2 more weeks. I am scared.
6. Last night we had Jay and Allison over for dinner. Along with Macy and Ava of course. I intended to BBQ pepper steaks..but was informed that the propane had finally run out on the BBQ..dang. I just knew that was going to happen when we had company over! I had to fry the steaks instead. I was really worried about ruining them..but I guess it's hard to ruin White's pepper steaks, because they turned out fine. We had a good time. Macy and Jayden played really well together and I was able to pry Ava out of Allison's arms for the last few minutes before they left..she's cute! I miss babies. *sniff*
7. I'm finishing up this blog on Saturday morning and very soon our busy weekend is about to begin..photoshoot, errands, babyshower/bbq at my mom's, etc, etc..did I mention that I don't like being busy?
1. IT HAS BEGUN...You know how little girls eventually begin having some "opinions" on what they wear? Yesterday I was getting the girls ready to go to a thing at Bryce's school. I put a dress on Kynden and opened the shoe drawer and pulled out a pair of sandals. Kynden freaked out and when I handed her a shoe to play with while I put the other one on, she freaked out even more and threw the shoe at me. So I got her down off the changing table, opened up the shoe drawer. She immediately calmed down as she pulled out 2 tennis shoes. She then happily let me put those on her feet. Great. Now not only does she have an opinion, but she doesn't have good taste.
2. This month of May has been really busy for us. If you were to look at our calendar on the refridgerator, you would see it pretty full and not everything is even on there. I don't really like being busy. It seems to screw up family life/routines.
3. Speaking of family life/routines, Josh and I were able to go away without the kids over Memorial Day weekend. We had a lot of fun. We went to a "cabin" (aka: pretty nice house) in La Pine with two other couples as well as 2, 16 year old boys (son + friend of one of the couples). We left Friday and came home on Monday. Like I said, we had fun..but I'm still trying to decide if all the time, stress, effort, money and disruption to the family routine was worth getting away for a few days. It seems that I'm still paying for it due to very grumpy girls who's schedule is off....However, we very much appreciate Josh's mom for taking the bulk of watching all our kids for most of the weekend. It's a big job!
4. Last week as I was running around, busy getting stuff done in order to leave for the weekend, I turned on Pandora.com for some music. The song Agnus Dei came on and some of the lyrics are: alleluia, alleluia, For the lord God almighty reigns, etc..for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, it's a very pretty worshipful song..anyway, I turn around and there in the living room, with no one around her is Adelynn. The extraordinary thing about this was that she was standing perfectly still (which for a 21 month old is unusual), both of her chubby little arms were straight up in the air and her head was bobbing up and down. I immediately got tears in my eyes because I felt something powerfully spiritual in that moment...How would a 21 month old know to put her hands up in the air? And even if she'd seen it before, how would she have known that that was a song to worship? My own theory (and if you don't like it, you don't have to read my blog.=) is that it wasn't Adelynn the 21 month old..it was her spirit, who just for a moment, was overcome by the need to worship God. What a beautiful, precious gift to me!
4.5. My tattoo is healing up nicely. I've decided I really like having a tattoo. I'm also proud of the fact that it hurt so bad. It kind of represents the pain that we so often have to walk through in life in order to have something beautiful on the other side. By the time I got my tattoo, Josh was totally on board with me getting it..but still I could feel the tiny bit of his hesitation about it and not knowing if he was going to like it..but since I've gotten it, every now and again he'll just walk up behind me and pick up my shirt so he can look at it. He also shows it to people for me...I think it's safe to say that he likes it.
5. I just found out last night that next week is Bryce's last week of school..I thought I had 2 more weeks. I am scared.
6. Last night we had Jay and Allison over for dinner. Along with Macy and Ava of course. I intended to BBQ pepper steaks..but was informed that the propane had finally run out on the BBQ..dang. I just knew that was going to happen when we had company over! I had to fry the steaks instead. I was really worried about ruining them..but I guess it's hard to ruin White's pepper steaks, because they turned out fine. We had a good time. Macy and Jayden played really well together and I was able to pry Ava out of Allison's arms for the last few minutes before they left..she's cute! I miss babies. *sniff*
7. I'm finishing up this blog on Saturday morning and very soon our busy weekend is about to begin..photoshoot, errands, babyshower/bbq at my mom's, etc, etc..did I mention that I don't like being busy?
posted by Kristi @ 7:38 AM
1 Comments:
At 10:57 AM ,
Katy said...
We are kindred spirits, I too don't like a full schedule. Therein is the crux. Are we not the 'schedulers'? Then why, if we resist a full schedule, is our schedule packed? Somethings are unavoidable, I know. But I still resist flying around town...harumph!
Now for clumped comments;
*Sweet story about Adelynn. *Sorry about school ending. You could look at it like an opportunaty for you to have help from the older kids????? (trying to find the silver lining.)*So how long did it take to have your tatoo done, from start to finish? *Are we getting together next week? I know you've got a full plate, let me know.
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