I am planting some flowers we bought for two baskets to hang on the back porch. Wish I could say I am nesting but I love doing this every season and more specifically in the Spring. I just love planting. It's so therapeutic and it just brings life to a dull room. These are for the back porch though. I want to share pictures but I can't find my camera! So, stay tuned to my little projects :)
update...looks like we have a nasty storm brewing! No yard work today.
Although Spring is in bloom and pollen has covered everything (at least it's the same color as my van) the cold weather and rain that has come for a few days visit is welcomed. Hopefully it will clear the air around here. I took some pictures a day or two before the storms came for Shannon. It's a gorgeous pear tree and she loves flowers! Hmmm, okay, I do too ;)
Now, to go along with the crazy TX weather we are all aware of, I have something to add to the craziness. As you all know (who live here) we are having a lot of rain and it's VERY cold right now in March. At 2 am this morning Jason and I were woken up to something out side that sounded like a child or young woman crying in our back yard for help. We woke up at the same time and at first I thought it was Michael off in the distance because I was trying to make sense of what I was hearing from being in a deep sleep. Jason and I got out of bed right away...more like we flew out of bed to rescue the call and I followed the sound to the door in my bedroom while Jason was asking if it was a person and so while my heart was falling with fear because it sounded like a person who was crying for help, I moved the curtains and look out the window and see nothing and no one. As I was looking, Jason asked me a second time if it was a person and I said "I don't see anyone". Then my heart fell again and I left him investigate out back while I went anxiously to check on my children. They were all accounted for and sleeping safe and sound which is the best feeling a mother could have. I was still half asleep. I leave walking back down the hall to my room with a temporary sigh relief but still wondered who or what was outside. I get back to the bedroom to see Jason closing the door in our room, I ask him if he saw anything and he said "A very wet scared black cat." It ran off when he walked out side with the flash light.
We could not believe how it really sounded like a person. I have owned a few cats in my life time and I have never heard one sound like that. I have heard people say that a cat can sound like a baby or child etc...but now we believe it!! It really did sound like a child crying for help. I get goose bumps just writing about it! Y'all should have heard it! I felt bad for the poor cat. It was a stray and obviously wet and very very very cold. Being cold is one thing but wet and cold is just down right painful! I have been there! We went back to bed but 4 am came very early and poor Jason felt like he had not slept at all so he was very slow this morning and dreading going in today for another day of physical pain that I reminded him will save his life. Although he knows this training can and will save his or his partners ilfe it helped to hear it and that I support it. I told him I would rather him go through tourcher like this everyday than to live the rest of my life without him. I admire him, he keeps going even with all the bruise and banged up body parts feeling like he may die on some days.
So on to the pictures! Here you are Shannon. The Pear Tree blooming! P.s...it was cloudy outside. I should take more when it's sunny and beautiful!
Yesterday's message at church is exactly what I needed after last week! In fact, I started wondering who told the pastor exactly what I was going through that the Lord would use to refresh my spirit. Just kidding. I felt so new. ALSO, I got a nice break from the kids yesterday evening. I look a long hot shower, called Jennifer to thank her for the maternity dresses she sent me, and had a nice conversation with her....then I enjoyed quite time until everyone came home! It includes these 9 pieces: Crib Quilt Crib Bumper Fitted Sheet Crib Skirt (Dust Ruffle) 2 Window Valances Diaper Stacker Toy Bag Decorative Pillow
Pastor Al preached John 11:28. It's best coming from him if you have time. It's under "Sermon" March 1st. http://www.wedgwoodbc.org/content.cfm?id=213
On a completely different note:
I finally found crib bedding and I won't have to repaint the bedroom. I bought it on ebay. It was also A LOT cheaper than the other one with the same amount of pieces. I won the auction for $32, nine pieces in all! The bedroom will probably never look how I want it to with all matching furniture etc....I just don't want colors to clash. I have had a difficult time trying to decorate a room/nursery for two girls and one boy. It's been really hard for me.
I still have to find Michael a comforter since he will be moving to the bottom of the bunk bed soon. First we have to buy a mattress for it because we don't have one. We took it off for Amber's trundle bed that was given to her.
Now for the crib bedding. This set is "Jojo" Designs. This is the same seller I bought Michael's crib bedding from, Amber's new bedding from, and now the crib bedding. I recommend this seller. I have received high quality items every time I needed them and at very reasonable prices that are a blessing to me. I will blog about Amber's bedding later. Now, I need to hunt down some cheap wood letters to decorate and hang Madison's name above the crib.
I need y'all to pray for me. I don't know what is wrong with me. I can't even describe how I am feeling right now. It really has nothing to do with crib bedding or getting irritated with Jason or baby stuff etc.......but what I am feeling is filtering out into other areas right now and it's not good. I just don't really know how to explain myself. I do have a lot weighing on me right now but I don't think it's that either.
I'm just not my usual self and I am feeling it......
So, if y'all would pray for me I would appreciate it.
I am feeling down, cranky, and things that don't usually bother me or crawl under my skin are right now. Yes, I know I am pregnant, but I don't want to use that as my excuse. I don't know what's wrong with me lately. It includes these 9 pieces: Crib Quilt Crib Bumper Fitted Sheet Crib Skirt (Dust Ruffle) 2 Window Valances Diaper Stacker Toy Bag Decorative Pillow
I got mad at Jason last night when I showed him crib bedding that I REALLY want and when I showed him a couple he chose this one too and all though he really likes it too he doesn't want to spend the money for it. It's SO much cheaper than the others I had in mind! It's not my fault I have good taste that happens to be expensive. Sometimes I tell Jason he can't afford me.......joking around. I DO LOVE to shop and I mostly window shop but I can shop till I drop! But Jason will tell you I can shop until every one else drops leaving me no choice but to go home ;p
It's rare for me to get mad at him, especially over something like this! So what is wrong with me.....
Just take a look at this set! It's well under a hundred dollars for 9 Pieces!! AND the price includes shipping! I am an ebay girl! It's the same seller I bought Michael's crib bedding and Amber's recent bedding which is totally cute. The other issue is this.... I would use what I bought for Michael only it CLASHES with the blue walls. I would repaint it but it's SO much work that I will have to do by myself! I have never been able to decorate a baby's room before so that's probably what I am feeling selfish about? And I admit, I am picky, more than I should be. It takes me for ever to pick something out but when I do I keep it forever.
You know letters made out of wood or resin that is decorated to put your baby's name above the crib. Well, I looked into that for Madison and it was going to cost over $200. No Way! So I then thought I "heck, I can make it". I looked at walmart and their wood letters are cheap all I have to do is decorate and use a small staple gun to attach the ribbon and then hang on the wall. This is a project I am excited about but I have to find bedding first.
Yesterday at 4 in the morning I heard Michael cry or more like a whine from his room...he was cold and holding his blanket up for me to cover him (I learned later) because he doesn't know how to cover himself quite yet.
But first... I went to get out of bed and my feet slid on the floor (we have hard wood flooring) and I slipped crashing my head and shoulder into my dresser and slid the rest of the way down crashing on the floor so hard landing my left side. I couldn't move. I was like dead weight going down and it happened so fast I could not react. It hurt!! Jason flew out of bed yelling if I was okay and helped me get up, I was still half asleep so all I did was moan “ooooohhhh”.
Once I got up I stayed up and drank something sweet and then the baby moved around and I didn’t want to call my doctor right away or over react etc…I am going to go to my chiropractor. My neck and spine is out of whack now along with my pelvis. The left side of my body is in so much pain. I bruised my head and it hurts to touch plus my ear hurts along with my shoulder arm and on down the line.
They sent me to labor and delivery at the hospital to be checked. I felt a little silly going, only because I am not the type of person who goes to the doctor for every little thing.
They hooked me up to the monitors. One for me and one for the baby. She is perfect but the fall caused Uterine Irritation which is why I feel cramps with some sharp pangs and contraction like feelings etc.... She moved around so much that the nurse finally came in and had to sit down, make conversation with us, and follow her with the monitor to get a couple minuets of good heart beat reading for the doctor. I told Jason how active she is.
So, I have to take it easy the next couple of days, take warm baths, and Tylenol. Praise the Lord we are okay. I was not terribly concerned, however the doctors and nurses are. Apparently there are many women, according to the nurse, who have such falls or car accidents that the Uterus reacts to the impact and as a way of nature and tries to expel the baby. Apparently it's pretty tricky because when this happened the baby begins to react to the placenta which is reacting to the Uterus and they have been able to save babies and others they could not save. I begin my 29th week on Sunday.
Fortunately the Lord had his hand on us because it was a really bad fall I took and I am grateful that I got the blunt of it and not the baby and even more so I am happy that my Uterus did not react in haste. I'm just in a lot of pain.
By the way we have have a name for our baby girl.
This morning I was reminded by my children how they truly know what love is at an early age, at least when it comes to loving mom and dad. They touch me this morning, they both gave a hand-made card to me and to Jason and have not expected anything in return. They also reminded me that you can't buy love.
This card is from Alyssa.
She told me I am her super hero lol....I still can't find my cape.
From Amber.
I think she knew how bad I felt that we are unable to treat them today. We are blessed today though, my dad and his wife are taking us to lunch or dinner for Valentine's day. I am definitely reminded that you can't buy Love :) 
Happy Valentine's Day my friends! I love you will all my heart!
P.s...Shannon, I am still working on the "house" post.
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