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with the transition from summer to the beauty of fall and winter looming ahead of us i have been doing a lot of thinking. not necessarily about the seasons of the year but of the season of life i am in right now. my season of marriage, my season of motherhood, my season of being me. things have been relatively good for us. yes, jarrod is still unemployed right now but we are trying to be positive and lean on the ever faithful God we have. but behind our smiles there are still many tears. the tears over how much jarrod still hurts that he got let go. the human nature to worry about if there is a job for him out there. the questions of why we were uprooted from a home and a town we loved so much to where we are now. and that we may never know. we are SO thankful that we have gotten involved with a church we love. a small group we adore. those are blessings we would have missed out on if we hadn't moved here. jarrod and i celebrated five years married this past year. and even though we dated forever and knew each other so well it was still a struggle. but i can say with all confidence that i love him more today than i did yesterday and i will love him more tomorrow than i do today. he is my best friend and i couldn't make it though this crazy life without him. and then there are my kids. what a blessing they are. they change and learn new things everyday. i love being a stay at home mom and getting to be apart of all of that. yet, i feel most days i am in survival mode. just doing what i can do each day to make it through. the painful monotony is sometimes unbearable. and yet i know i am doing a the single most important job there is. raising, nurturing, and loving my kids. all too soon i will look around and there won't be toys scattered across the floor. no boo-boos to kiss better. no tears to wipe away after a scary dream. so even though my season seems a little much for me right now, i will embrace it with open arms because too soon it will be a new season.
i have noticed with max that anything lucy does he has to try too. standing on the stool at the sink to brush his teeth, climbing on the fireplace hearth to use as a stage, the fact that he has to have a fork at mealtime, and the most recent...ditching the high chair. mealtimes have been awful. he takes a few bites and then starts throwing a fit. so the other day i told jarrod 'let's try putting him into his booster seat and see how he does.' as soon as we put him in his booster he was perfectly content to sit and eat the rest of his dinner. and that is how things have been for the last two weeks. both kids in their big kid chairs eating their food. last night before baths max even sat on the potty. nothing happened...which is what i expected but once again he saw big sis doing something and he just had to give it a try too.
my brother-in-law's blog link is being moved to the bottom of my list until further notice...or he posts something new :)
first i need to say thanks kelli for posting pics in smilebox on your blog. i have now found my new form of posting pics to my blog. i hope you don't mind i am stealing your method and you will all be seeing many smilebox slideshows in the future! this past week we took the kids to the rader pumpkin farm in normal. it was sunny-ish when we left home but by the time we got there it was cloudy and very cool. the kids didn't mind. they enjoyed all they had to offer and we got to pick out some pumpkins too. then saturday we took them to champaign to curtis apple orchard. lucy loved the ponies, the slide, the wagon ride...well it's safe to say lucy love it all. max did too and we are already looking forward to next year when he will be able to enjoy it even more. after the apple orchard we met some friends for papa del's pizza. it was delicious...as usual. company was great and we got home in time to put the kids to bed and jarrod got to watch a movie. now we are enjoying a quiet house with the football game on the tube. all in all a wonderful weekend!
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