A new year in a new house, that hopefully by the end of this week we will actually own(or are atleast paying the mortgage on)! We continue to enjoy our home, but are still getting use to the drive. We don't mind the drive on Sundays or planned going to town days, but it is the times when something comes up and we have to figure out how I am going to get to town. I suppose we will get use to all that and one day when we have another vehicle it will be much easier. It does help so much that my mom often lets me use her van and sometimes keeps some of the girls so that makes running to Chatham much easier.
THe pregnancy is going well. I continue to thank the Lord for all the aches and pains that remind me that a little one is growing inside of me. I have a lot of braxton hicks contractions I am thinking that comes the more children you have, but I am curious and look forward to asking my midwife about it this week. I start going every other week to the midwife so that means I am nearing the end! We are getting more and more anxious to meet our babe, especially after getting out the photo albums this week and looking at the pictures of our other babes! We are also still wondering if this will be our first boy, or our 5th girl!! We are also still searching for a name, I have a girls name that Bryan isn't overly happy with, but did say we could keep it as an option!! :-) As to a boy name, I really don't know!! The baby moves around a lot and the girls love to feel the baby!
We had a very nice holiday time with Bryan home. As a family we don't celebrate Christmas, but we do give gifts for New Years and have a special day on new years day. The girls were looking forward to new years day and all the presents more this year then ever before. We had all the young people from church over on New Years Eve so I let the girls stay up hoping they would sleep in and they did very well getting up around 9:30am. We loved having all the YP over, I wasn't expecting everyone to come as it was a rather last min. decision, but we ended up with 19 YP. We all had a great time playing games, talking and eating. Our church is very blessed to have such a wonderful group of godly YP. Bryan and I always enjoy being with them, and so do our girls.
Our new years day was very nice and the girls enjoyed their gifts, their favorite was the box of scissors, paper, glue, and other crafty things. Alicia especially loves sitting at the table making notes and cards and cutting and gluing. We watched some of the home videos from 2010 and were amazed at how much Cassia has changed in a year.
With this new year I have had a change of heart to the way I have been running my life. I talked things over with my husband last night (until 1:30am) and he has agreed with me so now I am excited to begin. Due to a blog post I read and the Lord's prompting, I have decided to slow down and enjoy my time with the girls more. I am not going to try to train myself to rise early and get going, only to end up exhausted and cranky by the next day or two. I am going to continue going back to bed after Bryan leaves and snuggle with all my girls. As long as we are eating breakfast by 9am I will be happy. We will do school in the morning and not stop for snacks and then after lunch we can do our chores. I want to enjoy the girls and not be so rushed and I want to be cheerful and patient. I need sleep right now, I only have the chance to get sleep for another 10 weeks or so, and I want to enjoy it! The girls are going to grow up so fast, I want to enjoy them so that is just what I am going to do. My husband said the only things he expects from me in a day is to love the girls, discipline the girls, and train the girls. He does appreciate a clean house but if it just doesn't get done because I am too busy with the girls, then not to worry. My expectations were all from myself, it is freeing to see God's hand lead me in new ways. So we will be taking more time to snuggle, read books, and let the girls help in the kitchen. If you come to visit and the house is messy, it will be messy because we are enjoying life! Don't worry we always clean up before bed! So come and visit and enjoy life with us!!
Enough of my babbling.........time to go have tea with my mom!!
