Please Pray!

Ok this is a really quick post.... I had a great christmas and Joshua is doing well despite a cold! We are still down in Peterborough and enjoying family! I got a digital camera for Christmas as well as some movies that I really wanted.

OK, I have applied for a full-time job as a day shift manager for a Christian bookstore down here... I am not going to get into all of the stuff on line... but please pray for the store to find the right person, and if that perosn is me, please pray that i will have the confidence to do the job and be successful as well as that we could find a siutable daycare for Joshua....

Thanks guys and girls I will post more later... Happy New Year!

Christmas Wishes

hey folks... Ithought that I would quickly post something... we leave today to head back to the Durham area then on to Peterborough/Lakefield. Weare all excited to see our friends and family - But let me tell you buying all the presents, wrapping all the presents, packing for the 3 of us, and cleaning the house so that when we come back it's not a disaster... is alot of work for one person... with 10 month old always at her heels...

We are heading to a wedding on Saturday, and Saurday also begins our travels to celebrate cHristmas.

Joshua is doing well... he JUST started sleeping through the night again... he was teething and sick for a little while. Hopefully his routine can adapt with out too much stress on him, or me. He's so cute... he has 6 teeth now. He loves my piano...he "plays" it all the way from the low regisiter to the high register and sometimes with both hands.... is there piano playing in his future? I hope so. He has also started this little dancing thing.. so cute. He kind of bends at the waist and rocks side to side slightly.

Ok, well I will likely post once we get to lakefield... until then, Have Merry Christmas ! Drive carefully!

Weird Things about me...

Well, following in Lizzie's footsteps I thought that I would let you in on a few weird secrets about me...
1) my fingers and toes go numb randomly and at the weirdest times.
2) I prefer driving standard than automatic.
3) I can recite the movie Grease, line for line.
4) I have a "brother" whose 16 months old.
5) I like showtunes.
6) The characters from Greek mythology intrigue me.

Ok, so enough! Joshua is doing well, he has been sleeping through the nights which is great. His other front tooth came through and I think that's been a huge help to his state of being. We'll see how he does tonight though, I drank a can of Pepsi... I know very bad... but I broke down.

Our brown car is in the shop, it's been more trouble than its worth I think... But Ilike having my own car, so oh well. One of the reason's I was looking forward to having two cars on the road was for this weekend... I have to be at churhc for like 3pm on Saturday night for our performance, and then again at 7am on sunday. so now that The brown car is in the shop it looks like everyone will be at church for a ling time this weekend...I was really hoping to minimize the length for Joshua.Oh Well.

Anyway this entry is very short... I am looking forward to heading home this coming week... I am looking forward to seeing family and friends at DCN.

kissing the hard wood....

Well folks I am awake early once again. Although not by choice this time. Joshua has been doing really well with going to bed for us, not crying at all... but then in the middle of the night say 3:30am, he starts crying. OK, fine, I ignore him and he generally stops in about 20min, maximum. Now before I left for Edmonton, when he cried in the night it would be for like less than 5 minutes. So I am trying to get him back in that habit. I am also trying to get out of the habit of nursing him in the middle of the night. Before I went to Edmonton, this was also a kicked habit. I loved being in Edmonton, I am just giving you the background. Because it was an upset in Joshua's routine, we have had a hard time getting back to what we were doing before. Anyway, last night(early this morning) oh, about 3:30am... Joshua's started crying - I let him cry, it was coming up on 2o minutes and he was still unhappy. At exactly 20 minutes, Joshua decided that he wanted to give the hardwood floor in his room a big full on kiss.... well it was more of a tackle... and I am sure that it wasn't as comfortable for Joshua as he thought it was going to be. Plus it gave Ray and I heart palpitations. So early this morning was the first ever time that Joshua has climbed/fallen out of his crib. He is fine, it took him a minute or two, or three to settle down and nurse from me, but he is now sleeping like a baby beside daddy and I haven't yet been able to fall back asleep. (that was 4am)!

Which brings me to the dilemma of leaving him in January... I don;t know if he will be ready or not. Or even if I will be ready. This is likely just a stage, he is crying whenever I leave the room... which I a was told at this age is normal. But not condusive to me going away in January.

Joshua also fell early yesterday evening and hit his head on the couch... which if he had hit a soft spot would have been fine... except he didn't - he hit the ledge at the bottom of the couch which is harder because the frame in under that part.. so yeah he has a red unibrow right now. My pour child. I am honestly a good parent... really. (times like tonight make me wonder...)

America's Next Top Model is....

Caridee!!! Yeah! I so wanted her to win... and she deserved it. Melrose was way too fake. The pictures of the girls are amazing... remember of course that they are air brushed. I thought that potentially Melrose would win because she did so well with the fashion show... but Caridee's pictures won out, that and her great personality.

Joshua was up crazy late last night, which made for an interesting and tiring day today. Hopefully his night tonight will be much better. I am going to start weaning him.... he's getting his 6th tooth, and he hasn't bitten me really hard yet but it hurts when he's nursing because his teeth are so sharp! I need to read up on weaning... anyway.

Well this is a short entry, until later,

Early Bird Catches the worm

Well, I went to bed early last night - so I didn't get to see if Brittany and Paris made it to the Billboard awards... ahh too bad! (whatever!)

So since I was in bed by 9:30, I am up really early - which I will likely regret later today. However, I have been productive... I have paid some bills online and updated our accounting software... now to get enough energy to pop in an excercise tape... hmmm... maybe that will come later.

I have alot on my mind this morning... which is why I am up crazy early. I am thinking about my resume, and whne I get a job when will they want me to start. Will I be able go away for the prayer retreat at "Great Wolf Lodge", or will I have to work... and if I can go then who will watch Joshua for me... and what if he doesn't handle it very well... is it too long to be away for him, and if I get some one who will watch him.... will I have to pay alot (probably)... but I feel as though I can't bring him...And if he does stay with someone... how badly will he disrupt their life...and then if I can't go(because I can't bring Joshua) and then I have to work... who will watch him then? I don't think I have the energy for this. And probably you don't either...

We missed Ray's Family christmas thing this past weekend. We are too far away now. But all the reports we hear are that it was really god this year, and the food was excellent. We hada progressive dinner on sunday night... ray calls me on friday and says... we are doing soup and salad for 35 people...ok? I'm like what? ok! So I go and buy the stuff, and spend saturday making two huge crock pots full of soup... and Istill have one left over... Ray is going to be eating this soup for the next month at least! But we had a good time. Joshua loved going... although I didn't love it when he wouldn't sleep properly during the night because he had had too much stimulation... it made for a long day yesterday.

I get a little frustrated with Ray when he cleans, he puts things in the oddest places and then can't remember wher he put it... like bills or important mail... grrr! I have to search high and low for everything if I leave him to his own devices when he's cleaning the house. Although I am not going to complain that he's cleaning...

Well, I should go and throw my laundry in the dryer. It's so much harder to do things when you have a 10month old walker and he gets aggitated when he can't see you....