Ever since my sweet Noah was born I’ve been having a harder time blogging. It’s hard to come up with a decent chunk of time to get a good post written. Oh well. Take right now for instance. I really should be getting myself bathed so that I can go meet a friend with all 3 of my children in about an hour. I most likely will be about 10 minutes late because I’m choosing to blog right now. Ok, so here’s what life has been like recently:
1. STILL waking up multiple times a night to soothe and comfort my youngest…. I am always tired. And I’m tired of being tired!
2. We picked up our first batch of produce from the CSA Farm To City program. We have enjoyed every bit of what we got except for the radishes. We’re trying to eat them, but it’s hard to eat something when I really really don’t like it. Our goal is to not waste any of it.
3. Noah is sitting up on his own and loving it. He loves to reach for toys around him, and once he gets the toys he has a blast banging them together. I’m guessing this is a boy thing. But it really could just be a baby thing. Noah is also eating food. He is not a fan of baby food… and I really don’t blame him. Bland food isn’t my preference either! haha… so he’s been getting more and more table foods… I think I need to get the magic bullet soon so that he can eat more of our foods. I don’t see a need to spend more money on foods that he isn’t going to eat!
4. Grace is done with preschool. sniff sniff. My first baby girl is going in to Kindergarten next year! Yikes! She’s super excited about going on the school bus next year. Here’s hoping that the excitement will last by the time she has to take that first step onto the bus.
5. Becca is finally starting to talk more. Or rather, I can finally understand more of what she’s been saying. It’s been wonderful to actually have some sort of conversation with her…. the poor girl must have been so frustrated with me never knowing what she was saying. I still don’t understand everything she says, but it’s such a big improvement.
6. Mrs. Woolworth is still alive. We love our cat dearly, but seeing her age rather quickly over this past year has been hard and sad. She seems to be getting kind of mangy looking if that makes any sense. She also seems to be getting frail even though she’s been eating lots of food. Rich and I sense that the end is near for her. 16 years is a pretty decent life for a cat. It’s going to be hard to see her go.
7. Rich is almost done at the Charter School! Yippie!!! This summer is going to be great with having him around more… except for when he’s in Bolivia. I’ll be missing him a lot! Working at the church is going well. He loves it.
8. I’m doing pretty well. I feel like I can finally handle the 3 kids now. I haven’t been too brave in going out places by myself with them yet, but I’m getting there. I’m also starting to lose a little weight (finally!) from my last pregnancy. The first year after I have a baby is always the hardest for me physically, so when I start to see little bits of my old body coming back I get really encouraged. I have a feeling that this summer is going to be the time for me to get my body back. I’ve been walking a lot and eating healthily…. I may even start running by the fall.
9. My garden seems to be coming along nicely too. I have a great veggie garden started, and I’m excited to be able to put the fruits of my labor on the table! The flowers are looking pretty too… but I have a harder time taking care of those. I think growing food is more up my ally. Flowers that I really don’t have to maintain are more my thing… although I do enjoy learning how to care for my garden as I go along. Fun fun!





I made corned beef and cabbage with potatoes and carrots for our little family and for Rich’s brother’s and soon to be sister in-law. It was fun to actually have something to do that took a good amount of time. Rich came and joined us around 6:30…. here are pictures of what he did during the day.





