Lately

It's been a while. It's not that I don't think about blogging. I do. I come to my computer daily and look at my friends blogs and other interesting blogs, but I don't ever think of anything interesting to say on my own blog. Well, interesting or not, I am blogging. Right now.

Our house is in the framing stages!! We have attempted walking through the first floor once, but it was a bit messy and we ended up stepping over and under lots of wood. But, they are almost done framing the second floor now! I cannot wait to get out of our apartment. It actually is a nice apartment (minus the cricket problem and hundreds of children who like to play outside in the yard and in the street with no adult. So, I really shouldn't complain because we could be in an old small ugly apartment instead of this one. But, we are so ready for a yard for Lorelei to play in and a place for the dogs to go out. And more space to spread out!

Speaking of the dogs, I am at my witts end with them. See a typical morning:
Wake up.
Brush teeth, wash face, do as much as possible to get ready before Lorelei's hollering gets too loud.
Go see eager baby L.
Change stinky pants.
Get L dressed.
Put L in high chair.
Get L's breakfast and milk ready while telling her "I'm fixing it! Hold on a second."
(Dogs at my feet all the while)
Bring L food.
L plays with food.
L throws food to dogs.
Fix myself toast.
L throws sippy cup on floor and dogs begin licking the sippy part.
Wash sippy cup.
Bite of toast.
Give sippy cup back and try to convince Lorelei that milk and her breakfast is good.
Put out dogs breakfast.
More bites of toast.
Maggie finishes her breakfast in lightning speed.
Maggie begins scarfing Milo's breakfast down. Milo watches.
Tell Maggie "NO!"
Take dogs outside to potty.
Come back inside.
Wash off L's jelly smothered cheeks.
Get diaper bag packed and everything ready to leave.
Pick up Lorelei, grab diaper bag.
Step in something wet...
Look down...wet yucky stuff dribbled across carpet in a trail...leading to a big yucky puddle.
Give dogs evil eye, through towel on it, and leave.
Return to find that Milo pooped inside....again....

Ok ok, it doesn't happen like that every morning. But most of it does. So I have decided. One baby=not difficult. One baby + 2 terrible dogs = difficult. No more babies until we can take the dogs out of the equation. Rob says they have another good 10 years in them and that we will be waiting a while. So my friends, it will either be 10 years until I birth our second child or I will be looking for new homes soon :)

I mentioned that I am doing a Bible study now at a church that we had not attended before. Well, we decided to try going to church there on Sundays and we love it. When in my life have I looked forward to Sunday mornings all week? Never...until now. I have prayed for God to reveal why we are in this town. I know we moved back to DFW for family and Rob's job opportunity, but I knew that surely God had something else planned for me here. And why this particular location out of all the suburbs? And I think this is it. I began looking for a Mother's Day Out for Lorelei. They were all full because I started looking after the school year started. However, I found an opening at this particular church. Went, toured, enrolled Lorelei and the director of MDO invited me to the women's Bible study the next morning. Went to the study and loved it, talked with one of the leader's who encouraged me to come to Sunday service. Told her I would come but Rob had to work. Well, God being the awesome God that He is, allowed Rob's work schedule to be changed unexpectedly to where he had Sunday morning off. All of this to tell you how amazing it is to see God's plan revealed like this. This is why we are in this town. Had we not moved to this exact location, I do not think I would have even checked into this particular church's MDO. But God had greater things in mind when we moved in. Meeting new friends at this church and Worshiping Him and learning about His word in a whole new way to us. Gives me goosebumps!

Lorelei is at such a fun age right now. She is walking sometimes and chattering all the time! Her new favorite words are "go go." I guess I must say "Let's go" alot or something because one day she said "go go" when we were in the car and so I repeated it to her. On and on we went. I would say it, she would say it. We took her to the pumpkin patch last weekend. She loved the pumpkins (aka "balls") and petting the animals at the petting zoo. We went with a family we met at her gymnastics class! She is also down to one nap a day, which I love because it is usually a very looonnnnggg nap!

Here's a few recent pics...