Little man has been sooooooooooooooo fussy lately. I just can't figure out what his deal is. He started to get that way about 3 weeks ago and is still goin strong. I don't know what to do with him. He wants to be held 24/7, but reality is I just can't do that. If he's not sleeping or eating, he's crying. Even through the night. The 3 nights that we've had the kids back, I've been up with him just crying and crying most of the night. I'm just lost. I don't know if their is something wrong with him or what to think of it. I just wanna fast forward through this because even tho I got a 5 day break of being up in the middle of the night, that first night back with him, I was back to my normal, tired self. I really think, or maybe just hope that once he is moved out of our room (which if that were an option, he woulda been long gone outta there) and has his own room, he will sleep better. The second Nat and I get in bed at night and so much as whisper, he starts stirring. Oh well, he sure still is the cutest little man on the block!
Stetson in his new car seat!
Nat likes to call this "the $1400 car seat" cuz of everything we went through to get this seat in the first place. Its not the one I really wanted to get for him, but I settled for this one cuz sometimes finding the best and cheapest one isn't the greatest idea. :)
-One thing that we really struggle with, and that satan has a strong hold on our family with is going to church. It never ever fails. We will plan to go to church and something, anything will keep us from it. Sometimes its Nat working to the wee hours of the morning on the Sat night before, or someone wakes up not feeling well, or if its just simply the kids are actually sleeping in and we don't wanna wake them. Its been this way for awhile for us and I absolutely HATE it!! This past Sunday, we were in town and wanted to go to my parents church. So we got up and got ready, got the kids ready. Madelynn was in the kitchen eating breakfast and Nat walked in to see her experimenting with GREEN food coloring. It was everywhere... and although we were already running about 15 minutes late, we didn't let that stop us... and we showed up at church 30 mins late, with a green child, and green on ourselves. That just goes to show the little things satan will do to keep you away from God. Now if we can just always be that determined, life would be that much better for us.
believe it or not, she did NOT fall in the process.
my boys.
It was such a great, but way to short visit.
.......and the most exciting thing of all going on right now....We found a house.. and we've put an offer on it!!!!!!! I've been so hesitant to share cuz of all the bumps in the road, all the NO's and all the negative-ness that we have come across while trying to find a place to live. With the mobile home business, we found one that we absolutely loved... but because of the amount of time Nat's not been at this job, we couldn't get approved for a home only loan. We were only approved for a land/home loan and we were not wanting to go that route due to the amount of money we would be putting into it each month. So once again, we were at a fork in the road and wondering why in the heck this was happening to us AGAIN.
Well, turns out that God had other, better plans for us. Isn't it funny how that works out?? We think we have it all figured out, and that we found the perfect house and that their couldn't possibly be something out there better for us. No way!! Then God sits up their laughing and thinking to himself, If they only knew what I have for them.... Nat had seen this for sale sign about 5 miles outta town (on his way to work everyday) for a couple weeks now and for some (God) reason, his brother had also mentioned it to him the other day. Nat was off so we thought we'd swing by and check it out and oh my soul!!! We both just about peed our pants when we got there. Its on 20 acres. Tree's everywhere. Like literally, it is the most trees that I've ever seen in NM. Not even kidding you. So then were like, well it don't matter cuz there's no way in heaven we'll be able to afford a house like that. On 20 acres and all. 3 bed 2 bath. 1700 sq feet. So we took a plunge and called about it... and guess what?? Its in our price range. Its for sale by owner which is another awesome blessing cuz we don't have to deal with a realtor and pay bukoos for it! That's why they're selling it themselves is cuz of the negative experience they had with a realtor and all the money they ended up paying in the end. Its all just too good to be true. I keep telling Nat I'm not gonna get excited about it till moving day. (Can you tell im NOT excited at all?? ;) ) Everything is just falling into place so beautifully. We went out and looked at the house and the girls absolutely thrived!! Its at the dead end of a country rd with absolutely nothing for miles and miles!!! When we were looking at the outside, the girls just went googoo over all the space! They cried when we had to come inside. Can you imagine, letting them go outside and have all the space in the world to do anything with. I cannot wait!!!!!
So pray for the rest of this journey. We were approved for the loan and now were getting all the financing wrapped up and hopefully in the next few weeks we will be homeowners and be living in our new house. I can't wait. I dream about the day when we have a bigger (more than 500 sq ft) house.
-As I'm sure most everyone in the US was hit with some kind of winter storm, we hit one coming home last night! It started snowing about 70 miles from home and it was COLD!!!!! We left TX at 70 degrees, and slowly watched the temperature drop as we drove home. I was in a short sleeve shirt and shorts... so when we stopped in Andrews for a potty break, and it was snowing/raining/26 degrees, I looked pretty ridiculous walking into the convenience store holding my child who was wearing my jacket because I didn't pack her one warm enough. One things for sure, we are definitely not cut out for this kinda weather!
Their is a nice white blanket of snow covering the ground this morning. Madelynn keeps asking to go out and "wawk on da snowman"... but it is waaay to cold. When it feels in the negatives, thats just not normal. Once Nat gets home later, and it warms up a tad I think we'll take the girls out just for a sec.
Speaking of little Madelynn-ites, here is a little video of her saying my most favorite word!
That's great about the new house! Hope everything works out perfectly!
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