bummer january

I have decided I do not like January. It's long, anti-climatic, cold, incredibly germy and this January-blustery. I'm sick of being stuck at home. Last weekend, I hit a low point emotionally. Thankfully, I have good people who gave each of my days a high point. I had a friend randomly drop by with flowers, visiting teachers, my mom, and even though little miss was sick, I got lots of cuddles from her that day, some time with gg, and some shopping-errand time with boo. If I'm going to make it through another week of this sad month I've got to look for the happy things, instead of gazing out the front window watch the wind blow by.

a gloomy kind of day

Today is quite blustery, I've sat in our chair for most of the day looking out as the wind blew leaves soaring all around ...and even snow for a bit. It's a day that feels a bit gloomy but then the sun would shine every now and then so it didn't seem so bad.

To add to the gloomy-ness little miss is not feeling well. In the middle of the night she got a fever... 104.7 :( . It continues to be so unless she has Tylenol. But she'll still play a little, smile now and then, and she has no problem eating. She has a cough...which is what made me check on her periodically in the middle of the night until she spiked the fever. Now she also has a runny chunky nose. This is the first time she has been really sick... she has had a cold once or twice. Sick babies break my heart. It so unfair that they have to suffer.

When she is sick I just want to be where she is and keep a constant eye on her. Hope we all have a restful night.

handiwork

When I asked boo what she wanted for Christmas she often replied with a a skateboard, a rocking horse and a kitchen because the one she had was too small and that little miss could have it. I already had the notion to change an old entertainment center into a kitchen. I researched, planned and gathered supplies pretty much since thanksgiving. However nothing happened until a few days before Christmas when gg had time. I'm super impressed how it turned out.

 The faucet was $12 from wally world.
Contact paper for the Formica look was $1 from the dollar store.
 The burners are old cds painted.
The knobs are old ones from Schaefer...free!
The sink is a dog bowl from menards $6.
The handles are old ones from old doors of the work table in our basement. And the paint
$1 for each of the colors ( clearance at menards, who knew?)..well the black was more ..gg and dad bought that. Then I bought primer for $13ish
Curtain rod from wally world $2
Fabric $6
There is also the plexiglass glass for the oven and something similar that we were going to put on top of the burners to give it more of a smooth stove top look and feel....that probably cost us $10
Then hinges, chain for oven door, and who knows what else gg bought to get the project done.

Gee, all the cheap supplies made me think we did this on the cheap but eek, guess not! But I love it and so does boo and gosh darn it, WE DID IT! It may have taken a couple off days and nights till 2am but we did it!

I searched all over, for like a month, for good dishes, pots and pans, utensils etc. And I love what we got.  Most of it. Is Just Like Home from toys r us. I love the colors...not girly but not the boring primary colors either. Then I bought a dish set from target for$9. That are great. Great sizes for everything and durable.

It was so much fun watching her open presents. Every thing she got that morning "this is the exactly what I wanted...even hand sanitizer. But when it came to the kitchen she was jumping up and down trying to take it all in. I'm so glad we go that on video.

fight, Fight, FIGHT!

Why does my baby fight naps so much? How exhausting it is. She got only 15 minutes of napping, maybe, between lots of crying for her nap before church yesterday. Once we got home from church she fought her subsequent naps as well.

And this morning, I laid her down 50 minutes ago. She quieted down for a few minutes and then started crying again. And now, 50 minutes after I first laid her down she has quieted down again. I hope she sleeps. It's like she catches herself falling asleep and she gets mad at herself (and probably me) for falling asleep.

She is such a happy baby with sleep, and even without it she isn't terrible but just harder to handle. I need her naps too, so I can get some stuff done or just relax.

I wish kids could cherish naps like adults do but if that was the case all we would do in this house is sleep. :)

are we alike?

This is Boo at 5 months:

And this is Little Miss at 8 months -not sure why Boo was wearing a 12 month old dress so young.

Here's both of them at around 8 month-ish.

I thought these girls looked alike but I'm not so sure anymore, especially as you compare the two. I wonder what miss Little Miss is going to grow up looking like. What fun the future holds.

blessings

In our church we are assigned congregations based off where we live, well they are changing those boundaries tomorrow. In talking with someone today, they said that a previous plan proposed they were going to eliminate one of the wards and GG would no longer be bishop. Sounds lovely, right? I think so too but oddly I found myself fearing the day he is no longer bishop. Not that I like him being gone or him having to have those responsibilities but I'm afraid the day he is no longer bishop I will no longer feel so abundantly blessed. We have had great blessings come to us this last year that we had been desiring for sometime and I truly feel the Lord has blessed us because of the service and sacrifice that has come with him being bishop. And I wonder, how does anyone ever make it this world without the Lord and his blessings? Would GG still be a teacher and us living in an apartment still, just getting by? Would we still be longing for Little Miss's arrival to our family?  I feel that sometimes he call us to serve not because we are necessarily qualified or the best for the job but because he wants to bless us.

When I think of Little Miss as a blessing of GG serving as bishop, I get a small (and I mean small) glimpse of Hannah from the bible who plead for a son, so much she would give him up to the Lord after he was weaned.  It was difficult for me as a 20-something to say, "yes, I will support my husband in this calling", knowing he would be gone a lot and that I would have to do a lot on my own. And having already known what it was like to be alone a lot because of football I didn't answer blindly. But as I sat in the stake president's office, I knew that we would be blessed with another child as I said "yes".  Sacrifice and commitment brings blessings. 

flappers

I LOVE that little miss flaps her arms and legs like crazy when she is excited. Especially in the morning when I go to wake her up. She seems so excited she is just about ready to burst. I guess this mommy interprets that to say, "mom, I love you sooo much I just can't hold it in". Really it's probably "alright! the food has arrived! I'm starving!"