Thursday, March 8, 2012

January 2012 Highlights

So life has a way of getting away from me now that I am the mother of four, (4!) kids. Sometimes it still blows my mind that I have four sweet, adorable, maddening, fun, stressful, crazy busy kids. This month held a lot of adjustment and stretching for me. In non-sugar coated terms, one word: overwhelmed!

Here are the hightlights from the month of January:

- teague sleeping through the night! Starting around 7 weeks he was sleeping 8 hours straight. This slowly increased each week till he would often sleep from 7pm to 6, even 7am. Amazing! None of my kids have ever slept through the night on their own. God is so good to me.

- started a Bible study with my friend Michelle from high school. Honestly, this was not my idea (been feeling overwhelmed adjusting to 4 kids and all the driving with aspen's school), but I wanted to do it with her.

- dropped Journey's ballet class. I just couldn't make it work schedule wise with Aspen's school schedule.

- just days after I committed to the Thursday morning Bible study, I found out that Aspen's carpooling schedule needed to change, having me doing much more driving than I had been. Feeling just a little overwhelmed! Then Mark called me about a property on mt. Tabor that he ran across on craigslist. The next day we went to look at it and the house adjacent....and made an offer. All this happened the first week of January....

- the next couple weeks were a waiting game with offers and counter offers being exchanged, and me stressing about whether I should start packing the house, how the heck we would move our family of 6, and how I was going to find the time to pack on top of normal life.


- girls stay at Nana and Papa's house.  Diana took Journey, Willow, Ava and Zoe up to her house for 3 days.   The girls had so much fun playing outside in the snow, sharing beds (or bedrooms) at night, and making special memories together.  We are so blessed to have grandparents on both sides so involved in our lives!

- the end of the month, offer accepted, we are moving for sure! Eeeks! Let the packing begin.

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