Week of November 5th -Goals

I follow several blogs where the owners/writers set goals for themselves. Different things they'd like to see accomplished that week. I like goals. I like seeing a list of things to do that I will do and watching them be crossed off as the goal is accomplished. I'm just really bad at writing out those lists.

Today, I am setting some goals for this week and we'll see by Sunday how I do.

My goals

• Read at least 1 Chapter of the Bible each day 
• Spend time in prayer each day 
• Read at least 1 Chapter of The Bible Questions each day 
• Read at least 3 chapters of The Happy Housewives 
• Spend time with my kids-no yelling, no fighting, no arguing-just being each day 
• Clean one room each evening, maintaining other rooms 
• Do at least one load of laundry each day completely 
• Exercise at least 3 days this week 

I'll update either Sunday evening or Monday as to how I did on these goals-please keep me in check with this. I really need to follow through on each item.

I Am Second

Goodbye my friend

It seems like only yesterday, we went to the Humane Society to find a dog to love. But it was really 11 years, 1 month and 3 days ago.

You were the most beautiful dog of them all, so we brought you home to live with us as our dog-our first baby. We did so much together-walks, car rides, snuggle times.

You were there when the Towers fell on that fateful day in September-nearly 6 months after we brought you home.

You were there and shared our excitement when we got our first BFP and you were there several weeks later when those dreams were turned upside down and I miscarried. You were there beside me through the pain and sorrow.

You were there the following year when we got another BFP, moved to a new home, built a fence for you and your new companion Spot and brought home our first son-Benjamin.

You were there two years later when we again got another BFP and brought home our second son-Levi.

You were there again two years later we moved again into our new home and again you managed the change with patience and love.

You were there again last month when we brought home our first daughter-Rebekah.

Through all those changes you were so patient, so loving and just you.

There are so many things I will miss-trash all over the floor, barking at the garbage men and anyone that stopped within 100 feet of our house, reminding you that it's just a thunderstorm and it would be ok, your happy face when we came home but the thing I will miss most is just you. You were my best friend, my protector, my girl.

I love and miss you my sweet, precious Sadie Dog.

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Sweetest sound

The sweetest sound a pregnant mama could hear is the sound of her little ones heart beating.

Today at our appointment we heard our little ones heart beating. He or she tried to hide again but we found it and it really was a sweet sound.

We love you little one and cannot wait to meet you in 20 weeks.

Another year of phone calls from the nurse

For the last half of the school year last year, I don't know that we went through a week without getting a phone call about one of the boys getting hurt. Mind you, there are only two of them.

This year has been slightly uneventful as far as phone calls. I think I've received a handful of them-all for minor things like bumps and bruises-no need for me to drive to the school to pick a child up.

Today, I was grabbing the laundry basket from the living room when the phone rang. Now I was going to ignore it because...well I had to use the bathroom but then I looked at the caller ID and there it was the school's phone number, ugh. I answered and like I guessed it was the school nurse. Apparently, my oldest son doesn't know how to walk out of the bathroom without injuring himself.  He hit his eye area on the door of the bathroom. Thankfully it just left a mark but seriously kid???  Lol.

I love my kids and I love the things they do. Now the nurse phone calls I don't like them so much, lol.

Our exciting news

Back in February I wrote a blog titled Finding Peace about finding peace after a miscarriage and when approaching the anniversary of the miscarriage. If you would ask me then if I thought we'd ever be pregnant again, I would have said no.

On July 16, 2011-the day before our anniversary after being almost a week late, I decided to take a test and lo and behold it was POSITIVE!!!! Because it was our anniversary, I decided to slip the test into my husband's card. He took it out and looked at it for no less than 30 seconds before finally looking at me and saying, really?

We were ecstatic but because of our loss from last March being so fresh in our minds, we did not want to tell the boys or anyone else for that matter until we were sure this one was sticking. Do you know how hard it is to deal with early pregnancy symptoms and not be able to tell anyone? It's not easy that's for sure.

On August 12, we were able to go to the doctor and see our bean. He/she was very active and had a great heartbeat.

We decided to take the boys out to eat and tell them. I have to admit, I was a little nervous. I know they love their baby cousin but both have been it known that they were not interested in having a baby in our house. Once we told them they were both happy and even started thinking of names for the baby-boy names of course, lol.

We saw the doctor last Thursday and were able to hear the heartbeat-150s and were very relieved to know that things are going well. I am now into my 14th week of pregnancy. We are excited to see whether this little one will be a boy or a girl.

Here is a pic of our little one at 8 weeks, 6 days.