This 'n That

Lately my sleep habits have been awful. Absolutely awful. I sleep REALLY good for one night, and then the next 3-5 nights I can't sleep til well after the morning has arrived. Guess which night tonight is???

For those of you who might not stalk me on facebook. Or who do stalk me on facebook and just aren't very good at stalking... I have a lot of big things going on in life right now!

Last week I agreed to be the Gillette MOPS Co-Coordinator. Yes. Me. I'm the one who (should I post this on internet for all to see?) has always said I'm not even that IN to MOPS. But, when it ended abrubtly last year it troubled me greatly. I had even considered stepping up to coordinate when I knew the position was open, but really thought someone else would step up. Then when no one did it was shut down, to my surprise. All I heard from all my MOPS friends was shock, dissapointment, and sadness. So then all summer I prayed hard about starting a Women's Bible study or a Mom's group that was not MOPS at my church. Something that could start out small so I could start my leadership skills on a smaller scale...but I never felt peace.

Part of that is because I am already the nursery directer. I coordinate the baby showers at church (and just recently have HELP, thank goodness!!!), have my Pampered Chef cooking clubs and babysit a 3 month old 14ish hours a week. But really, I think it was just that it wasn't God's timing. In fact, I know it wasn't.

A couple weeks ago at a Bible Study I almost didn't join, at a church I don't go to, on an evening I was supposed to have cooking club, I met Stacey. Stacey moved from Cheyanne and has coordinated MOPS before. To make a long story short- here we are getting MOPS restarted and it's awesome. I am so excited. No, really, I AM! I found out that coordinating is something I just enjoy. But only if it's right. And only if I can bounce ideas off someone else. So, all in all, this week's been a busy one trying to get MOPS started in a month instead of months and months which is normal.

Speaking of babysitting. Did you all know I was doing that? (Oh, yes, all you facebook stalkers did, how 'bout the rest of you?) Anyway, I've been babysitting a (then 2 month old, now 3 month old) for a month. It's.been.awesome. I was nervous at first. But so far Katelyn and Kaden totally love her. And she sleeps 90% of the time and even then half the time I wake her up to feed her. And when she is awake she just adores watching my kids play. So far, so good. And the extra money is nice too! It keeps me home Tues-Thurs afternoons, but I always have at least an hour of ME time still. Does it get better than that?

Let's see...what else is new? Kate has been a teething monster baby. But just tonight we felt one bottom right tooth. If that's the only tooth that comes from this teething disaster I'm gonna be depressed. But at least there's one, right? Katelyn is getting bigger and smarter and cuter and sneakier as the days go by. She loves nothing more than to scream at brother for touching HER STUFF. (Which is really his stuff.) Also, she thinks his trains are an awesome way to get his attention. Mommy is about to go crazy with it.

Kaden has had a cold/allergies/something problem since Labor Day. I keep saying "If he's not better by Friday..." but really I just don't want him on antibiotics! I don't know if he's ever gotten over something without them! We've been feeding him allergy meds but wondering if he's going to need some asthma treatments. But I don't want to talk about it anymore. This week I changed all his clothes to 4T. I expected them to all be huge. Um, nope. They look great on him and this mommy's in denial. He cannot be growing up so fast. Speaking of growing up, he started Cubbies last week. He's been there twice and loves, loves, loves, LOVES it. And it's a nice break for us too. He was given his book, vest and bag last night and first thing this morning he was asking to look at his book. He's so quick at memorizing the verses, but won't say them to anyone but me. And even then only if no one else is around, or listening, or COULD BE around or listening. He suddenly thinks he's shy. Weird. Also, he's been testing my patience lately. My prayer is that I will be a mom like God wants me to be. Not yelling, or going crazy on him. Boy oh boy...it's been hard. But I sure do love that kid.

This weekend I have a Craft Day all day Saturday and a Baby Shower on Sunday. Crazy me decided it would be "FUN" to make cake pops for this baby shower. Which-it would be- if I were confident that I could make them, have them turn out, AND be cute. I did practice once...and learned what not to do. Needless to say, after a busy week of MOPS planning, Cooking Clubs, Awana, babysitting, etc...I'm worn out going into a crazy busy weekend. And coming out next week isn't looking any calmer! But I'm not complaining- I feel so blessed in all I have and do. My friends. My appointments. My leadership (which I've grown so much in!) and my kids. I love it all. (Oh and you too, Luke!! Even if I haven't seen you lately! Date soon?)

Yes, I did just ask my hubby for a date on my blog. And I bet it works too.

An Update.

I go through these phases where it's really hard to convince myself to post. I'm not sure if it's because i feel like everything I'm doing is unimportant to remember. Or if there's so much going on I just don't feel like trying to keep up. I feel like it's more the second one. I have so much going on, and when I have a few minutes what I really want is to go outside since it's so nice out!

Next week the kids and I leave for Denver for a week with my friend/roommate from college. I am really looking forward to that. I have so much to get done before then though, because VBS is just 1 week later.

I tried to go to the church today to copy the VBS inserts (this attempt was #3.) It did exactly 15 and then started being a pain. I figured out how to do 10 more...so then it started printing them off center. WHAT? Stupid stupid stupid. So.... that is still not done. I was going to put up the big huge sign with Luke on Sunday but then our car died, and that became priority. I also was going to put posters up around the church, but when I looked for them I realized I hadn't gotten them ordered in time. I'm determined this stuff WILL get done. I'm thinking a family trip to the church is in order tonight.

I do however, have cooking club done, and have 1 show ready to submit, the other I'm still waiting on. I have directions MOSTLY printed for Denver next week. Deposits made, cash gotten, Walmart shopped, and the kitchen is sparkly. Only 1 more Lia Sophia order to get dropped off and that will be checked off. So I feel like I should feel accomplshed today, btu i don't!

Today I ended up at the park for a while (a story in itself) and Kaden had to potty. So, he peed on a tree. At first he was not okay with it. Then he loved it. Then he thought he needed to pick the flowers he had also peed on. GROSS!

I have looked EVERYWHERE for sandals for Kate. In all of Gillette and Rapid City there is not a single pair of cute size 3's. How is it that my kids sizes are always out of stock??? Always!!?!?!

I think why I feel so behind on this blogging thing is that Luke had 2 four day weekends in a row. That's right, he worked only 2 days out of 10. That's a lot to keep up with! We were BUSY. but we have new windows, new gutters, an (expensive) trip to Rapid, and a dead/now revived car behind us. And that's just what Luke did.

Better get back to life now...I'll try to update-even if it is boring.