A Time For Every Season....

I know its an odd title for a blog post, but I am so excited! After taking some homeopathic nausea medicine for my 100% of the time queasy tummy I am finally perking up. I took the boys out today and we even managed some swimming! My stomach feels much better, still very upset but I have energy and don't fear being stuck without a bathroom. Drew has been running a fever since yesterday and comes in and out of himself as the medicine wears off. Gabe is still running around and doesn't seem to be catching whatever is going around. I'm so excited that John has tomorrow off and will be home with us! I can't remember the last time he had a whole day to spend at home. He has big plans to get the many boxes I've packed into a storage unit and to get his car fixed for the third time this month. My hero just saved us 500.00 by fixing our water heater which stopped heating about a week ago. He managed to weld some part together and replace some other part and clean out some ...

~ Drew and I were talking about the meaning of Easter and I asked him, "So what happens on the third day?" Drew responded, "It snowed!" Hint: Jesus Washes our sins white as snow...... ~ ~ John asked Drew, "How much do you love me?" Drew replied, "To the lamp post and back." ~ ~ Tonight while cooking dinner, Drew proudly singing says, "my tummy is full, full of songs for me to sing!" ~ ~ Drew commenting on something he did the day before, "Yes, I did that yesteryear!" ~ ~ Drew one night before bed, "You know bats are awake all night, that is called..Nockurinal?" ~ ~ Tonight I asked, "Drew, do you want me to read you a chapter from Winnie The Pooh?" Drew's response, "No, that's not our book, our book is Stellaluna ." ~ So I read him Stellaluna for the umpteenth time. ~ Grandpa Tractor, "Hi Dudley!" Drew retorts back, "I'm not Dudley, I'm Drew Williams!" ~ ~ Drew...

The last few days have found me knee deep in the 1st trimester yucks. I have no motivation , I feel horrible from morning till night and have a horrible headache following me around. So, my blogging, housework, & packing will have to wait until I feel a little better. I don't remember feeling this terrible with my other two, but John assures me that I just don't remember. So, please pray I get some motivation soon, the days look really long and all I want to do is sleep. Unfortunately I normally feel the worst after napping so I try and not nap if I can help it. I am praying this short little season ends very soon - especially since we have two trip to Oregon scheduled within the next month!

I have no pictures from our swimming today, but thought I'd share that Gabe is our little dare devil. I'll post a few pictures from Friday just so you can see how much fun the boys are having this summer! By the end of swimming today Gabe was literally jumping into the water and submerging his entire face. He would come up smiling and laughing and then do it all over again. This is so different than Drew's reaction to water. Drew has always had trouble holding his breath so he has a huge fear of getting his face wet. Gabe is so confident that you can't take your eyes off him for a second! I need to get to the pool store and find him a bathing suit with a flotation device inside - just for my own piece of mind. Our neighbors have one and their daughter just loves it. Gabe also had his 4 back m0lars come through this past week - all 4 at once! Now he can officially chew! He still has huge gaps in teeth though, 5 front teeth and 4 back molars. Gabe is starting to have his ...

John had a woman come into Home Depot today and ask to see the routers. She said her husband wanted a router for Fathers Day. John took her over to the routers (large molding and shaping power tool that normally sits on the end of a table saw) and she sighed, "Well, I expected it to look smaller, how does my husband plug it into his computer?" After John stopped laughing he gave her directions to the Office Depot around the corner!

We've had a lot going on in our home the past few weeks! Our biggest news was finding our that we're expecting baby Williams #3! He/She is due on Valentines Day, though we'll probably end up delivering around Drew's birthday in January. Drew was due February 19 th and arrived January 24. I found out while John was in Oregon and surprised him at the airport with our positive pregnancy test. I'm still a little in shock, but very excited! Last week was great I wasn't sick at all and haven't had any morning sickness. Friday I started to have cramping and a bloated feeling. So far I've just been feeling really full and nothing looks appetizing to eat - even sugar! It has been great not craving sugar - in fact I've been detesting it! I've started to get really tired just like with my last two. It should end by t he second trimester though. Drew is super excited about another sibling and keeps telling me its going to be a girl - we'll see! In oth...

(One of the many frogs that great me as I water each night.) It was been a wild week! John flew to Oregon to be with his family during the passing of his grandfather, he returned home to Texas on Wednesday during tornado like weather! Luckily his was one of the few planes which was forced to land! The next day he went to a job fair and had some great interviews! The weekend was a blur of swimming and visiting with grandma Patti who is here visiting. John worked all weekend. then on Monday John has another job fair! The car broke down today so we're also dealing with that! This week the kids and I played a lot at the pool, visited with friends, and played with Grandma Patti! Drew starts swimming lessons tomorrow and Gabe is just excited to be running around playing all day long. My garden is slipping into Summer and the bull frogs are out in abandon. I've been catching them all spring in the hopes that they would eat all the bugs in my garden! I've been prepping for an audit...

Evidently my body loved the three weeks of getting up early and exercising. This week John has been gone so rising at 5:00 am and going to the gym isn't possible. I've been so busy managing life that even thinking about dragging the kids to the gym around lunch time makes me overwhelmed - there is a lot to be said for an early morning workout time - no excuses and silence to start out the morning. So, here I sit, my body aches from the lack of exercise and is wide is awake and won't go back to sleep (actually it was the dog wanting to go potty that woke me up!). I've been up since 3:00 am and after tossing, turning, taking a shower, praying, telling my mind to be quiet, I decided to print out some awesome organic Internet coupons and post about it. Crazy - I know! I have a few pictures of our growing frog population that I should edit and post, maybe I'll work on those instead of going to sleep? Well, my kids will be up in a few hours so I better go back to tos...

John left on Sunday for a brief trip to Portland to be with his family. His grandfather is very sick and his mother is returning home to Oregon after spending almost a year in China. It is so sad because she has been looking forward to coming home to spend time and care for her dad, but no one is sure if his health will make it. It was a rather unexpected trip, so I'm still trying to put my daily plans together. I sure appreciate single parents, its a hard thing knowing that relief isn't coming home to add some flavor to your day. John always lightened up the evening hours with pillow fights, sword fights, and race car play. We all miss Daddy and can't wait to see him Thursday! Gabe has finally started to use sign language! It seems like we've been working on please forever, he has finally started! The only problem, he will say please for something I wasn't intending on giving him and then its just so darn cute that I'll give it to him anyway. Oh well! I spent a...

Sunday was one of those days where I wondered, "have I lost my mind?" First we arrived to church later than desired, the worship and message were wonderful and it challenged me for another week. I arrived home and tried to get the boys through lunch and then Gabe took his nap. This is when all the chaos started, we left for church team and arrived on time! Drew insisted that he wanted to "run out his energies" by climbing stairs close to the building so as I watched him out of the corner of my eye while I grabbing Gabe out of his seat. I took his hand and into the building we went.... very slowly because Gabe can only walk so fast and is too heavy to carry very far! Our team was great and then I collected the kids and out to our car we went, only to discover that I had left the car door wide open - for 2 hours! What a goof! Some sweet ladies had gone all over the church asking for the owner of the car, but we're in the way back of the building, so I didn't g...

Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song." ~Isa. 51:3 511. The beginnings of fresh and productive habits (beginning of my third week, its getting tough) – “Forty-five percent of what we do every day is habitual,” posit researchers. “This is, performed almost without thinking in the same location or at the same time each day, usually because of the subtle cues.” I am on a missing to impart good habits into my life. Many would say I am a naturally disciplined person, but I think it is in all of our nature to be a “sl uggard” as the Bible references throughout Proverbs. I am so grateful for the energy and motivation the Lord has blessed me with so I can change some bad habits and replace them with good ones. 512. Sunrises – with my new habits come the opportunity to watch the sunrise. I haven’t been up that early since kids came into the picture. The sunrises just speak the very nature of God to my soul. 513. Lord, thank you for this new cadence (r...