An Update

It's been a while since I've blogged with pictures. In fact, it has been one whole month since I have taken my camera out of it's bag and taken a picture. This isn't a good thing for someone who decided at the first of the year to take a picture a day. What a slacker I am.

I guess I've been busy with trying to get a business going, which by the way, isn't going anywhere just yet. Disappointingly, I haven't had anyone contact me with a request to design for them. I'm not too worried though, my friend also designs blogs on the side, and she told me it took a while for her to get busy. I'll just be patient.

Some things are still the same around my neck of the woods (and I have come to appreciate that that is not necessarily a bad thing). Kalli is still enjoying her preschool once a week.

She still enjoys building little cities out of her blocks (and drawing on her pants).

She still has crazy short hair, but it is getting long enough that she is starting to swipe it out of her eyes. Yay! That means I can pull her bangs back and pin them with a barette. I really don't like to deal with bangs. I'm too lazy with my own hair, I don't want to deal with Kalli's, too.

I am very happy to say that Grant has gotten three out of four of his top teeth in. He literally has been teething these four teeth for months. I will be very excited, within a week, when his fourth problem-some tooth comes in. It's funny, his teeth seem huge in his little mouth. I'm sure he'll grow into them...well, I hope so anyway.

We still have a lot of climbing going on in our house. Grant just loves to climb. He is like his sister in this aspect. I try to avoid most of it, but sometimes my little climbing star is just too quick for us. So, we find Grant on top of the table every now and again. But he's such a cutie that I can't be mad at him for too long.

He's been a little sick for a little while now, so the paranoid mother in me wants to have him checked out. It seems like a lot of my friends with babies are telling me that their babies have RSV-even though they are feeling/acting fine. Grant has some congestion in his chest, and an occasional runny nose, so I want to make sure he doesn't have an infection he is battling. I hate it when I get these feelings of being unsure, but I suppose that is one of the trials of being a parent. Trial and error. I would rather err on the side of caution and have my doctor tell me he is fine, than to have a potential problem. It can happen to the best of us.

Oh, and it looks like I spoke too soon about coaching softball. It seems that the coach led me to believe that he wanted me to coach, when in reality he wanted me and another person to coach concurrently and that he wanted me to split the stipend with this person. Eh..hem...first of all, I know that one doesn't coach for the money. I think the first year I coached, I spent three months of time, everyday, ranging from 3-8 hours of my day, and I earned roughly $1500. So, not worth the money. Coaching is something you do because you love it.

Well, I guess I'm a snot, because I refused to split the stipend with someone that earns six figures a year. Obviously he doesn't need the money. So, I asked the coach to just choose between the two of us because I didn't want to split the money, the schedule, responsibilities, etc. I was already making a huge sacrifice by trying to make it work, and Austin was willing to sacrifice, too. Well, I didn't get picked.

Am I disappointed? Sure. I didn't get my way. No one really likes that. But, I also feel a sense of relief. Even though I really wanted to do it, I feel like now is just not a good time in my life. I need to remind myself that I am in a stage in my life where I am being asked to make a lot of sacrifice--for my children, my husband, my church. But, with sacrifice comes blessings, and I need those blessings. I need the strength that comes with the knowledge that I am doing the right thing by taking care of my children from home, and not being able to do all the things that I want to. I know the Lord knows that this is difficult for me, but I also know that He is willing to bless me for my efforts.

**I totally didn't expect for this post to turn in the direction that it did. I guess I did have a lot to get off my chest. That's what happens when you wait forever to update your blog.