that's right folks...long enough for pigtails! now if I can figure out how to get her to sit still long enough for me to do them. I did this once and now anytime she sees me with a comb she runs the other way yelling "noooooo!"
Saturday, January 24
cute
that's right folks...long enough for pigtails! now if I can figure out how to get her to sit still long enough for me to do them. I did this once and now anytime she sees me with a comb she runs the other way yelling "noooooo!"
Wednesday, January 21
i am grateful. i am grateful, i am grateful
I am saying it like a mantra until it sticks. I have to admit that lately I have been super annoyed by life. I just realized this morning though that all the things I am annoyed by are ridiculous and that I need to have an attitude of gratefulness for them.
So here are a couple things that I am trying to be grateful for:
1. the weather. It is "gorgeous" outside. 71 degrees currently, according to the weather channel. I know that for some of you stuck in the north pole (ahem-trish) this sounds glorious.
my selfish response: But I LOVE the cold weather and we haven't had winter yet! a couple days of sweater weather and that's it!
grateful response: Wow, how nice to not be cooped up inside with two little ones. Its great to be able to go to the park, keep the doors open and not have to worry about what to dress the girls in.
2. Providers Pantry. This is a program that gives seriously discounted food to anyone who wants to sign up, and for us- its free! Someone has anonymously signed up our entire staff for the last two years! (we get one box of food a month)
my selfish response: I want to be able to buy my own food and not have to plan meals around the low-grade, low-quality meat that we get every month. It is such a hassle to have to boil the fat out of the ground beef, cut the grizzle off of the chicken and try to come up with inventive ways of using items I would never buy.
grateful response: It is SO nice (especially in this economy) to have such an abundance of food available for FREE! Thanks to the person(s) who have been such a blessing and saved us so much money! So what if I don't know what to do ribbettes and don't get to buy my favorite brand of blueberry muffin mix? How wonderful to not have to worry about having food and how great to always have enough to make dinner for friends too!
3. Our new church buliding. On January 5th we closed on our first facility for redeemer church.
my selfish response: ugh! I hate how much time this is taking. Drew eats, sleeps and breathes building projects. He is up there all the time getting stuff ready, coordinating work days and working on things himself. Although it is looking MUCH better, there is still SO much to do and not enough money to do it all.
grateful response: WHAT A BLESSING to be in a building that is (except for cosmetic repairs) functional and ready to be moved into! How great it will be to have a permanent facility that we can use during the week, not have to haul all of our equipment to every week and just call our own! Who cares if the carpet is different in everyroom and the kitchen has ugly cabinets?
4. Staying home.
my selfish response: I feel like I am loosing my identity! There is so much I want to do and how am I suppose to do it with little kids running around all the time? I miss being jordan- apart from being keadryn and sayla's mom.
grateful response: it is truly amazing that while so many people have to work in order to make ends meet, Drew's job allows me to be able to stay with our kids. I don't have to be in a job I hate just to get a paycheck but get to be raising my girls. AND- we can afford to put Kead in KDO 2 days a week so that I get some alone time with Sayla and Kead gets some much needed time with other kids. What a privelage!
I am sure there are more, these are just things i found myself being grumpy about today! Yikes. Pray with me that I will have a more grateful attitude for the blessings in our life!
So here are a couple things that I am trying to be grateful for:
1. the weather. It is "gorgeous" outside. 71 degrees currently, according to the weather channel. I know that for some of you stuck in the north pole (ahem-trish) this sounds glorious.
my selfish response: But I LOVE the cold weather and we haven't had winter yet! a couple days of sweater weather and that's it!
grateful response: Wow, how nice to not be cooped up inside with two little ones. Its great to be able to go to the park, keep the doors open and not have to worry about what to dress the girls in.
2. Providers Pantry. This is a program that gives seriously discounted food to anyone who wants to sign up, and for us- its free! Someone has anonymously signed up our entire staff for the last two years! (we get one box of food a month)
my selfish response: I want to be able to buy my own food and not have to plan meals around the low-grade, low-quality meat that we get every month. It is such a hassle to have to boil the fat out of the ground beef, cut the grizzle off of the chicken and try to come up with inventive ways of using items I would never buy.
grateful response: It is SO nice (especially in this economy) to have such an abundance of food available for FREE! Thanks to the person(s) who have been such a blessing and saved us so much money! So what if I don't know what to do ribbettes and don't get to buy my favorite brand of blueberry muffin mix? How wonderful to not have to worry about having food and how great to always have enough to make dinner for friends too!
3. Our new church buliding. On January 5th we closed on our first facility for redeemer church.
my selfish response: ugh! I hate how much time this is taking. Drew eats, sleeps and breathes building projects. He is up there all the time getting stuff ready, coordinating work days and working on things himself. Although it is looking MUCH better, there is still SO much to do and not enough money to do it all.
grateful response: WHAT A BLESSING to be in a building that is (except for cosmetic repairs) functional and ready to be moved into! How great it will be to have a permanent facility that we can use during the week, not have to haul all of our equipment to every week and just call our own! Who cares if the carpet is different in everyroom and the kitchen has ugly cabinets?
4. Staying home.
my selfish response: I feel like I am loosing my identity! There is so much I want to do and how am I suppose to do it with little kids running around all the time? I miss being jordan- apart from being keadryn and sayla's mom.
grateful response: it is truly amazing that while so many people have to work in order to make ends meet, Drew's job allows me to be able to stay with our kids. I don't have to be in a job I hate just to get a paycheck but get to be raising my girls. AND- we can afford to put Kead in KDO 2 days a week so that I get some alone time with Sayla and Kead gets some much needed time with other kids. What a privelage!
I am sure there are more, these are just things i found myself being grumpy about today! Yikes. Pray with me that I will have a more grateful attitude for the blessings in our life!
Monday, January 19
sweet spirit
Tuesday mornings I have a date with this little sweetie. Drew takes Kead to KDO and I grab Sayla, she eats and then we cuddle...sometimes we don't even get out of bed until 10:00. It is such a special time for me to get to know her sweet little personality. She just melts my heart! She has such a sweet and gentle spirit, she is a delight to be around and she giggles and smiles at anyone who pays attention to her! I love this little bear!
Saturday, January 17
"helping"
kead LOVES to help me cook...mostly she loves "shredding" cheese, but on the rare occasion that I bake something its a happy-helping day for her.
Sunday, January 11
this is pat
Here is an add on to the "family sick" post, in refernce to kead's joy at reading about pizza pat. It cracks me up!
pizza pat
pat my brother-in-law (with keje, whom kead calls "didi")I just love that Kead gets so excited to read about pizza pat! I don't know if my bro-in-law pat is working towards such a full mustache, but it would be pretty sweet if he could pull one off! Love you Patrick!
Thursday, January 8
I'm IN!
I opened my inbox and this was waiting for me...
Acceptance Letter Welcom to South Plains College
is it just me, or are you slightly embarrassed for a college that has a typo in the subject line of an e-mail acceptance letter?
is it just me, or are you also slightly embarrassed for me that I aspire to attend said college?
South Plains- here I come!
Acceptance Letter Welcom to South Plains College
is it just me, or are you slightly embarrassed for a college that has a typo in the subject line of an e-mail acceptance letter?
is it just me, or are you also slightly embarrassed for me that I aspire to attend said college?
South Plains- here I come!
Wednesday, January 7
family sick
ways I know Kead is missing being around the family:
* whether in a magazine, picture on our wall, a book etc. ANY picture of a girl, including pictures of me, she points to and says "TISH" (aka- aunt trish)
* she asked for papa to change her diaper today. I would have let him.
* she found my baby sling this morning, put it around her neck and walked around the house yelling "Booooke...he go?" (Buuurke....where did he go?) over and over again.
* we have a book called "pat's pizza" and when we read it kead says "pat pat pat" over and over again, pointing to the little italian man with his big mustache...haha.*
* We sing a silly song about the denver zoo (thanks to kirst) frequently around here. This is how it goes- I sing and then kead comes up with an animal we see at the zoo and then we make the noise the animal makes together. Cute. BUT- today it went like this:
- me- "its the denver zoo for me and you and..."
- kead- "TAI!" (aka Lita, aka my mom)
...no noise making...I don't know what sound a Lita makes. :)
it was a lot of fun to have so many people who just adores the girls around for so many weeks and it makes my heart melt that she recognizes their names and faces!
*this is funny because my brother Aj, my Brother-in-Law Pat and a friend of theirs and currently in a "stache-off" meaning they are competing to see who will keep the mustache the longest! oh, and funny cause he is italian. :)
* whether in a magazine, picture on our wall, a book etc. ANY picture of a girl, including pictures of me, she points to and says "TISH" (aka- aunt trish)
* she asked for papa to change her diaper today. I would have let him.
* she found my baby sling this morning, put it around her neck and walked around the house yelling "Booooke...he go?" (Buuurke....where did he go?) over and over again.
* we have a book called "pat's pizza" and when we read it kead says "pat pat pat" over and over again, pointing to the little italian man with his big mustache...haha.*
* We sing a silly song about the denver zoo (thanks to kirst) frequently around here. This is how it goes- I sing and then kead comes up with an animal we see at the zoo and then we make the noise the animal makes together. Cute. BUT- today it went like this:
- me- "its the denver zoo for me and you and..."
- kead- "TAI!" (aka Lita, aka my mom)
...no noise making...I don't know what sound a Lita makes. :)
it was a lot of fun to have so many people who just adores the girls around for so many weeks and it makes my heart melt that she recognizes their names and faces!
*this is funny because my brother Aj, my Brother-in-Law Pat and a friend of theirs and currently in a "stache-off" meaning they are competing to see who will keep the mustache the longest! oh, and funny cause he is italian. :)
Tuesday, January 6
family christmas 2008
ok- I know this is totally cheating...but we took all the pictures of family christmas on Kirst's new camera and, in typical jord form, I didn't get them before I left! SO- check out her blog; the glorious middle for the holiday fun!
Saturday, January 3
5, 5, and 3
A friend of mine did this on her blog and I loved it!
5 things I hope to accomplish in 2009
1) start my graphic/web design courses at SPC
2) read/study the bible with a group of ladies
3) finish the patio in our back yard
4) walk in the park with the girls for exercise.
5) start international/redeemer playgroup.
5 things I am proud of accomplishing in 2008
1) having sayla grace
2) helping start redeemer
3) learning how to spend time as a family.
4) starting KoJo
5) starting the Redeemer Mentoring Program and the great people we have met through it!
3 things I am not so proud of in 2008
1) our stinking kitchen is STILL a weekend away from being finished!
2) not reading more...
3) not keeping in touch with friends in the Middle East very well.
I am really looking forward to 2009. I hope you will do this post too, it is fun to think about what happened in the last year and look forward to a new one!
5 things I hope to accomplish in 2009
1) start my graphic/web design courses at SPC
2) read/study the bible with a group of ladies
3) finish the patio in our back yard
4) walk in the park with the girls for exercise.
5) start international/redeemer playgroup.
5 things I am proud of accomplishing in 2008
1) having sayla grace
2) helping start redeemer
3) learning how to spend time as a family.
4) starting KoJo
5) starting the Redeemer Mentoring Program and the great people we have met through it!
3 things I am not so proud of in 2008
1) our stinking kitchen is STILL a weekend away from being finished!
2) not reading more...
3) not keeping in touch with friends in the Middle East very well.
I am really looking forward to 2009. I hope you will do this post too, it is fun to think about what happened in the last year and look forward to a new one!
Monday, December 15
LOVE these guys!
We got to see some of our favorite people in whole world on their trip back to the states. We met these guys in language school and Vic and I were pregnant together (the first time around). She got to be at Kead's birth and I got to be there when Josiah was born. I feel like God gives everyone a precious few life friends that you know will just be around no matter what, that you can always relax with and that no matter how much or little you get to talk everything just picks up when you get to see each other. For us one of those couples is John and Vic. It was great to hang out, catch up and see little Josiah, even though it never seems like enough time. :)
Saturday, December 13
gotta love west texas
when we moved to the middle east everyone kept telling us how bizarre and different it was to experience a sand storm...but after living in west texas for a couple years it just felt normal. maybe someday we will live somewhere that doesn't get more inches of sand per year than it does water.
Drew got this great shot of a sand storm moving over our house a couple days ago:
Drew got this great shot of a sand storm moving over our house a couple days ago:
back in business!
Horray for Cyber-Monday! We finally bit the bullet and got a new computer! Drew is so sweet and will be taking the old one to work and I get to keep the fancy new one with me. Although I must admit that I am kind of stressing out about having to re-learn how to work my computer after having the last one for 5 years (which is really long in computer years!)
I am looking forward to being able to keep in better contact, and update the good ol blog more often plus help my rockstar sister with our kojo blog more than once a month!
Wednesday, December 3
Monday, December 1
happy birthday to you...
happy birthday to you...
happy birthday my kirsty...
happy birthday to you!
happy birthday best friend, big sis, awesome mama, craft buddy, Godly woman...I love you so much!
happy birthday my kirsty...
happy birthday to you!
happy birthday best friend, big sis, awesome mama, craft buddy, Godly woman...I love you so much!
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