i've been reflecting.
but because i can get kind of wordy and because i'm sort of itching to try out my new connected knitting needles and continue where i left off in parenthood, i'll keep it brief. :)
in 2012:
"hey mama, when i grow up i'm going to be an airplane. my face is going to be the nose, my arms are going to be the wings, and my feet are going to be the (lowers voice) horizontal stabilizers.." was one of my favorite things joseph said.
i learned that i can't love people if i'm afraid of them.
we bought a house.
i discovered the wonderful laundry folding motivation that is parenthood on netflix.
and more.
in 2013:
i want to SEE my boys. i don't want to escape when it's tough -- i want to dive in in those moments. (remind me that i concluded this after experiencing day 1 of grabbing my phone and zoning out when chaos begins to mount vs. day 2 of being the pilot in the airplane closet.)
i want to see how taking a break from sugar makes me feel. i bet better. i just have to get past this week, right?
i want to make things. because it really is fun to make things.
and more. probably something about meal planning and being more relationally intentional :)
happy new year!
1.02.2013
12.22.2012
wonderful Christmas time:
grace upon grace
(upon grace upon grace)(etc.) and telling joseph "hey, i feel silly, but i
have to tell you something again this morning. can you guess what?"
"i'm sorry?" "yep."
mailing a package
of cheer by christmas eve for $19 when the first quoted price was $68
settling
(gradualllly) into our new home (pictures.. someday)
peppermint
americanos
mama time
cutting out strips
of red paper and stapling them together in swirls and scrolls
19 degrees this
morning
seeing sisters in 3
days
and brothers
and brother-in-laws
and baby to join us
soon shryock
and a car to get
us there to boot
flannel and cardigan
(somebody please tell me if this is not allowed)
reflections on 2012
and so much so much the Lord has done
jude discovering on
december 21 that wrapped presents under the tree can be unwrapped
a video for my
secret santa to be made...umm..today?
a (free) rug big enough to
perfectly make joseph's attic room cozy
a (free) train
table hiding in our garage
chicken chili and
beer bread and honey butter (oh my)
extra coffee
annnnd it's
beginning to look a lot like christmas
see you in the new
year, friends :)
11.08.2012
home sweet new home
we're in the middle of moving week. which makes today grammie's in town let's gear up for the next five days and go on a date to nord's and sunergos while she hangs out with our boys who gladly wave bye-bye to us day. ahhhh :)
i've been doing lots of packing and thinking lots of moving thoughts. like how somehow when it's time to start packing, things that have no value (hello, blender without a base) suddenly seem valuable and how it's challenging to pack up a room when i feel kind of guilty throwing away bobby pins and how it's awesome to fill our lego box to overflowing with all the lost legos i'm finding and how really instead of writing CLOTHES on a box, i'd rather specify: a. clothing i currently wear, b. clothing i think is cute and would probably wear if i could just get a sister to louisville to show me how to wear it, c. clothing with sentimental significance i never wear but would never part with (here's winking at you t-shirt with photo of jeremy and me on the front), or d. clothing i found on clearance at gap OR the j.crew jeans i bought for nine dollars at plato's closet. nine dollars!
after months of delay -- actually, jeremy told me it's been 100 days since we signed our contract -- we found out yesterday that we'll officially close on our house friday at 4. just shy of the end of the week -- thank you, Lord! after that we'll go from packing and cleaning the apartment we're moving out of (sigh. it's going to be tough to leave my newly sparkling fridge.) to cleaning and painting and unpacking in the house we're going to call home for quite a while. and probably put Christmas lights on in a few weeks. amazing.
shortly after setting the closing date, i had the um we're ACTUALLY moving moment, the moment i realized just exactly how excited i am for this house to be ours: when i filled a box with the boys' big LOUD trucks, the ones that make such delightfully realistic truck noises on our hard wood floors, the ones i'm sure sound like thunder to our neighbors below. so excited.
so. i guess i'll check in soon from massie avenue. :)
until then, here's judy-jude dancing. to this song. it's his favorite. much to his father's dismay and his mother's i'll play any song twelve times a day especially if it's from the wicked soundtrack delight.
i've been doing lots of packing and thinking lots of moving thoughts. like how somehow when it's time to start packing, things that have no value (hello, blender without a base) suddenly seem valuable and how it's challenging to pack up a room when i feel kind of guilty throwing away bobby pins and how it's awesome to fill our lego box to overflowing with all the lost legos i'm finding and how really instead of writing CLOTHES on a box, i'd rather specify: a. clothing i currently wear, b. clothing i think is cute and would probably wear if i could just get a sister to louisville to show me how to wear it, c. clothing with sentimental significance i never wear but would never part with (here's winking at you t-shirt with photo of jeremy and me on the front), or d. clothing i found on clearance at gap OR the j.crew jeans i bought for nine dollars at plato's closet. nine dollars!
after months of delay -- actually, jeremy told me it's been 100 days since we signed our contract -- we found out yesterday that we'll officially close on our house friday at 4. just shy of the end of the week -- thank you, Lord! after that we'll go from packing and cleaning the apartment we're moving out of (sigh. it's going to be tough to leave my newly sparkling fridge.) to cleaning and painting and unpacking in the house we're going to call home for quite a while. and probably put Christmas lights on in a few weeks. amazing.
so. i guess i'll check in soon from massie avenue. :)
until then, here's judy-jude dancing. to this song. it's his favorite. much to his father's dismay and his mother's i'll play any song twelve times a day especially if it's from the wicked soundtrack delight.
10.31.2012
10.28.2012
i know it seems like i'm not doing anything but making a cloud costume
i was happily immersed in creating these halloween costumes for my boys for the last few days.
a prop plane for joseph.
you know, like they go together? guess how long they wore them at tonight's trunk or treat? joseph would not put the plane on at all. and jude was a sad cloud turned grumpy cloud turned so squirmy cloud that we stepped out of the hot dog line to take off the cloud and abandon it in a corner. it's okay that it had cloud elbow patches. and that the prop plane had horizontal stabilizers.
actually it's kind of awesome when i think about it because this afternoon i caught myself facebook photo daydreaming about these costumes and how cute the boys were going to look and how i was going to take a pretty cute picture of them together, probably in the grass, in their prop plane puffy cloud cuteness. anyone with me here? annnnd that didn't happen. which makes me laugh at my facebook daydreaming confession. i've noticed my mind thinking in these types of images often, and then i think about thinking in images and what i even think about images, but that's another post. :)
there's always actual halloween for that photo op, right? it was pretty fun to zone in so much on a cloud costume that i said to jeremy this afternoon, "i know it seems like i'm not doing anything but making a cloud costume.." because it was the third time he'd come home to me working on it, to which he replied, "nothing else matters." and i agreed.
in other news, we might be able to take a halloween picture on the front porch of our new home. i know, like this week! jeremy was told on friday that the form he had to initial and fax (and re-initial and re-fax) was the last bit of paperwork before closing, so we're hoping that we hear monday that a closing date is scheduled for tuesday and that would make us owners of our new home for wednesday when we're planning to trick-or-treat on our new street and hand out candy from the front porch of our otherwise empty home. oh, i hope.
happy halloween, friends. :)
a prop plane for joseph.
and a puffy cloud for jude.
you know, like they go together? guess how long they wore them at tonight's trunk or treat? joseph would not put the plane on at all. and jude was a sad cloud turned grumpy cloud turned so squirmy cloud that we stepped out of the hot dog line to take off the cloud and abandon it in a corner. it's okay that it had cloud elbow patches. and that the prop plane had horizontal stabilizers.
actually it's kind of awesome when i think about it because this afternoon i caught myself facebook photo daydreaming about these costumes and how cute the boys were going to look and how i was going to take a pretty cute picture of them together, probably in the grass, in their prop plane puffy cloud cuteness. anyone with me here? annnnd that didn't happen. which makes me laugh at my facebook daydreaming confession. i've noticed my mind thinking in these types of images often, and then i think about thinking in images and what i even think about images, but that's another post. :)
there's always actual halloween for that photo op, right? it was pretty fun to zone in so much on a cloud costume that i said to jeremy this afternoon, "i know it seems like i'm not doing anything but making a cloud costume.." because it was the third time he'd come home to me working on it, to which he replied, "nothing else matters." and i agreed.
in other news, we might be able to take a halloween picture on the front porch of our new home. i know, like this week! jeremy was told on friday that the form he had to initial and fax (and re-initial and re-fax) was the last bit of paperwork before closing, so we're hoping that we hear monday that a closing date is scheduled for tuesday and that would make us owners of our new home for wednesday when we're planning to trick-or-treat on our new street and hand out candy from the front porch of our otherwise empty home. oh, i hope.
happy halloween, friends. :)
10.14.2012
a good morning & a steady hope
the boys and i headed to cherokee park this morning -- jude was up with a fever last night and we didn't want anyone else repeating the week we've had from our germs, so sojourn it wasn't and hiking it was. it has been a hard week {insert sounds of jude's new shrieking and jeremy coughing and toys crashing and joseph's angry "i'm gonna run away"}, and i've been (a tiny bit) weary. this morning was such a quiet gift -- just a good morning with little reminders of the Lord's grace and how near He is even/especially in this season.
"You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
are they not in your book?
then my enemies will turn back
in the day when i call.
this i know, that God is for me.
in God, whose word i praise,
in the LORD, whose word i praise,
in God i trust; i shall not be afraid.
what can man do to me?" psalm 56:8-11
there was alleluia playing from the car next to us and the changing leaves and the wide sky and psalm 56. there was a content babe in the carrier and instead of mama and son at odds, we were exploring the woods together and climbing/crawling up the giant hill and playing at two playgrounds. there was running into a mom i met weeks ago describing a week almost exactly like ours and her encouragement to me when i thought i'd be encouraging her. there was a picnic table lunch and driving through the park to thy mercy my God and stopping by the little airport on our way home. there was the successful conversation with my neighbor about our noise (yikes) and the excited anticipation and relief of moving into a house (so soon!) and flowers from jeremy and worn-out joseph napping.
i'm learning a lot through these kinds of weeks, and one thing i'm seeing is God growing us/me in a steady hope in Him that is different from the hope i have in a perfect day of little difficulty. it's a thought that stretches my heart and mind -- this can be hard AND God is good. our son can be spontaneously furious and our baby can be sick and i can't meal plan for anything AND my hope is in Him. and He's with me! He reminded me this morning.
"You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
are they not in your book?
then my enemies will turn back
in the day when i call.
this i know, that God is for me.
in God, whose word i praise,
in the LORD, whose word i praise,
in God i trust; i shall not be afraid.
what can man do to me?" psalm 56:8-11
10.05.2012
amazing things joseph has said this week -- jet plane edition
to state that joseph has been obsessed with jet planes since our trip to colorado would be ... an understatement.
some of what we have heard around these parts this week:
"wow, look at all those other jet planes taking off down the runway." (in the car, sorry, jet plane, on the way to target)
"i hope that i dream about jet planes all night long."
"let's talk about things that are cool about jet planes." (opening up the conversation at our second breakfast)
"you like prop planes, jude?"
"how about your name can be pilot-in-training instead of mama?" (after i suggested jet plane for his new name)
"jophes. maybe like prop-plane-jophes." (telling his new friend, miss abby, his name)
"what's that place where the planes go up and down? take off and land? oh, the cell phone lot. maybe we should go to the cell phone lot." (jeremy took the boys to both louisville airports. amazing.)
"hey, mama, i have a secret for you. let's watch jet plane videooooooss.." (whispered in my ear at approximately 7:12 am)
"it roars down the runway. faster and faster, then up in the air. they are on their way..."(direct quote from airport)(also around 7:12 am)
"i love you to the end of the flight." (sigh. thank you, prop-plane-joseph.)
"it's a good day in the country, pilot." (my favorite. joseph's expression of joy and contentment and good feelings all around is "it's a good day in the country.")
my next post is going to be entitled "objects around our home that are not jet planes that have been made into jet planes that i cannot get a non-blurry photo of as jet planes because the pilot is always moving and narrating the jet plane taking off and flying and landing." although, after this incident, we made three jet planes out of a shoebox and have since visited once upon a child to find the jet plane puzzle we went looking for and a toy prop plane.
"mama, can you believe this garbage truck is also a jet plane?" yes. yes, i can. :)
some of what we have heard around these parts this week:
"wow, look at all those other jet planes taking off down the runway." (in the car, sorry, jet plane, on the way to target)
"i hope that i dream about jet planes all night long."
"let's talk about things that are cool about jet planes." (opening up the conversation at our second breakfast)
"you like prop planes, jude?"
"how about your name can be pilot-in-training instead of mama?" (after i suggested jet plane for his new name)
"jophes. maybe like prop-plane-jophes." (telling his new friend, miss abby, his name)
"hey, mama, i have a secret for you. let's watch jet plane videooooooss.." (whispered in my ear at approximately 7:12 am)
"it roars down the runway. faster and faster, then up in the air. they are on their way..."(direct quote from airport)(also around 7:12 am)
"i love you to the end of the flight." (sigh. thank you, prop-plane-joseph.)
"it's a good day in the country, pilot." (my favorite. joseph's expression of joy and contentment and good feelings all around is "it's a good day in the country.")
my next post is going to be entitled "objects around our home that are not jet planes that have been made into jet planes that i cannot get a non-blurry photo of as jet planes because the pilot is always moving and narrating the jet plane taking off and flying and landing." although, after this incident, we made three jet planes out of a shoebox and have since visited once upon a child to find the jet plane puzzle we went looking for and a toy prop plane.
"mama, can you believe this garbage truck is also a jet plane?" yes. yes, i can. :)
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