White Noise

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How many of you sleep with a white noise machine? What about your children? My children do and I want to wean them off of it. But I am afraid I'll have sleepless nights for a while till they do. We had machines that ran all night and they went kaput. So I bought new ones, well they only run on a timer and then shut off after certain time increments. The longest being an hour. I worry they will wake up. Tonight is the first night of it. So far so good, although Rhys just rustled and seemed irritated, so I popped the bink back in. Trips to the dr's are always rough on the kids. We have to travel a bit and then we usually have to get a prescription so the day is long and he doesn't get good naps that day. Anyway, I'm worried about all this and I shouldn't be. Why am I even blogging about this? Oh I know, because I"M TIRED AND WORN OUT!!

Pray for me.

No-Poo Update

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So I've been no-pooing it for a while now, I can't remember how long, a month maybe? Well it was going great, until..... I got frizzy dry hair. NOOOOOOO!!!!

So I tried a honey rinse. Bad idea. Well the idea itself wasn't bad, what was bad, was not following the recipe exactly. Hmm, that looks like 1 tsp of honey and that looks like 4 cups of water. Eww, why is my hair crunchy? It said not to rinse. I had to keep my hair up all day because Rhys likes to chew on my hair and well, honey's not good for infants under 12 mo's ya know.

But, the next day, when I washed my hair the outcome was glorious. It did turn out really nice. And I realized I was using too much baking soda, so I cut back on that and my hair is not so frizzy anymore. I'm really oiling it well too with the jojoba oil. It all seems to be working.

Little Bit o Dis

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Life has been, shall we say, hectic around here. Forgive me for not blogging of late. Here is a quick summary of what's going on...

I am slowly getting things in my garden that can go in at this point. Such as onions (we have 3 types), spinach, lettuce, and beets (we are trying those this year, as we love pickled beets and eggs). I am planning on getting my potatoes in soon. I can't wait to see those wonderful, beautiful plants coming up.

We have sickness in the house again. Seems like we just chased it out not so long ago. Nadia's been puking off and on for a week now. It's not the stomach flu, ya know, where you throw up for like a day and then you recover. She throws up like once a day, sometimes twice and then it's done. However, her stomach is constantly hurting and she isn't eating very much. We caved and let her eat her cheesy sunchips. Poor girl. One look at her and you can see she's sick. Went to the dr today, Nadia has pinkeye and a double ear infection, not to mention a cold. We think what is happening is that the mucous from her nose is draining into her empty stomach and well, her body says 'get on outta here'. And up it comes. We got a decongestant for her and hopefully, I pray, she's doing good so far tonight. In the past nights she's usually thrown up by this point. Rhys has an ear infection, which probably explains why he's been getting up so stinkin early. I am feeling a cold coming on too, but I've been hitting with everything I have. Garlic, echinacea, fluids, zinc, vitamin C. Pray for all us, because....

We leave on sunday for the annual conference. We will be staying with Andrew's parents for a few days. I hopefully, if the kids are better, will get to see my new nephew and just a few days of relaxation. Andrew is receiving his lifetime ordination. This is a huge deal for us. This is something he's been waiting for for a loooooong time. We are grateful.

I am continuing to drop weight. I love it. I had the dawning realization that I had no summer clothes. Last summer I wore matnerity summer clothes, and the summer before that I was a size 14/16. I had since gotten rid of all of those. I had a few shirts I could wear but no shorts or capris. So I went to walmart and *gasp* I'm in a size 10 again!! The one pair I could've worn an 8, but they didn't have that size. And I was shocked to find out that walmart doesn't have sizes below a 6. It was only 9 years ago that I was at the other end of the spectrum. I was a 28. At that point they hadn't come out with the 30/32 size for plus sized women yet. I was worried. What was I going to do if I had gained anymore weight? Thank you Jesus, I didn't. But now I'm at the other end. It's kinda nice.

That's all for now. I'm tired, Andrew is on the phone with an old friend and we have 15 minutes left of LOST. *sigh* Goodnight all, see ya in the funny papers!

Aint Got Much to Say

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I figured I'd check in with y'all. But I aint got much to say. Mostly household stuff and working on a nine-patch quilt. I can't wait to get that done. I have a lot of respect for people who put these things together on a regular basis. Oy. Later gaters.

Gratitude

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Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice. I know it's not enough, but I am grateful. Blessing and honor to your glorious name.

Lookee At What I Did!!

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I made a 'baby-in-a-bag' by just copying the one he already had!! I used two recieving blankets that we don't use anymore and put it together in like 2 hours!! I did use Jan Andrea's instructions and it worked so well. If he needs more I will make more, because I have tons of zippers (my grandmother was from the great depression) and more recieving blankets. I couldn't bear to pay $12 for a sleeper he might only use for 3 months. And I scoured out good will for some and could only find one. So this is what I did! YAY!

Here's my happy little guy all ready for bed in his new sleeper.
I have matching blankets, but being that this was my first one I didn't want to mess up really nice ones, so that's why the back is striped and the front is pooh. But he doesn't care. Isn't this cool?