Day 139-141

Well, when RA is kicking your butt each day, it is hard to get on and type lol.  My hands haven't been working so well lately and usually after the boys go to bed I am upstairs and DONE coming down for the evening.  So tonight I made an extra special effort to get back down and hang out and blog!  Because this blog is very precious to me.  It has helped me through so many difficult times!  I can't even believe I have had a broken bone and a surgery during this next 365 days blog lol that totally cracks me up, but hopefully it gives people hope that even in the darkest of times, there are happy moments to be had around every corner!

So Mon-Wed here I go!  I am so thankful for my little family.  We have had some fun and cold days this past week!  It has been so nice to snuggle up with my family and have Family Home Evening for the first time in our upstairs family room.  It was so wonderful to share a lesson and then head over to the bedrooms!  I am SO grateful that David hooked up the TV up there as well so I don't have too far to go on the nights I don't want to go downstairs to watch television!

Tuesday-my friend Lanay asked if I would come hang out with her while she did a laundry day, so I brought over some Starbucks hot chocolates and pumpkin scones and we had a great day of laundry and laughter!  I am beyond grateful for the friendships that I am making out here!  I have barely lived here 5 months but I feel like I have known some of the people out here for years.  It is so wonderful to have friendships with people who are so strong in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and who we can share gospel experiences together! We had pizza instead of Taco Tuesday because I went to an activity at church.  It was so much fun hanging out with the ladies from church and getting to know other people better!  We have so many wonderful and funny gals in our ward!

Wed- I had the opportunity to watch my friend's daughter for most of the day while she attended classes.  We had so much fun together!  I bought her a pretty hair band with a blue flower (because I don't GET to buy pretty hair bands with flowers like....ever! lol)  We had a nice lunch together and played with toys and then went and picked up Connor and then Joel and her brother.  It was fun having kids over and having everyone play!  I made pot roast for dinner (I cannot not even explain how much I love cooking in my kitchen!) and we had buttermilk biscuits to go with it.  Tonight we headed out to Target to get some gloves and mittens for the kids.  It is supposed to be in the high 30s/low 40s in the morning and I want those kids nice and toasty warm!  Especially as Joel walks to school!

Well, there is my 3 days of thankfulness!  I am so thankful for friendships made here in Texas.  I am so grateful for my family and the love we have.  I am really thankful that I will be headed to bed early this evening because I am so tired!  I hope all of you are enjoying this month and what ever weather you are getting where you live!

Day 138

WOW....I am thankful that I have not given up on this blog (even during my most tired days it is always on the back of my mind to remember happy moments to blog when I am able).  It is amazing to me that I am nearing the 5 month mark for living here in Texas!

Today was a great day at church!  My first day as nursery leader was pretty much a success and I had a good deal of help because they called a new person to help me and my friend Mari came in for the last while as well.  Other than one kid eating play-doh and having a complete melt down when I took it away from him, no really big cries or upset kiddos today!

I had a lot of fun participating in singing time with them as well as providing fun snacks and doing the lesson.  I am really looking forward to next week!

We came home and headed up to our movie room to watch a Sunday show.  Before long, my eyes were closing and my Sunday nap happened lol.  When I woke up, we had some chicken noodle soup and corn bread for dinner and then Skyped for the next 2 hours with David's parents and my parents!  It was a really fun time watching the kids be so excited talking with their grandparents.  AND we were able to book a flight to have my mother-in-law come out for a visit at the end of the month!  SO looking forward to all of the GramZ/Mother-in-law fun we will have!

I was able to have the energy to make the kid's lunches for the week...I think some of my energy is starting to come back after Joel's surgery!  It only took me two weeks to recover lol but I am thankful I had the energy to to what I did today!  Now off to bed to begin another week of fun with my precious kiddos.

Post 132-137

So, as you can see it has been a while since the blogging lol.  I think it is because school is in session, my RA is flaring like crazy, and all I want to do at the end of the day is go to sleep!  For those of you with chronic illness, you understand the thought process of just 15 minutes MORE of sleep instead of blogging.  BUT I do want to blog and be thankful!  Especially since November is upon us and lots of people are doing thankful blogs.  So even if I sign on here to write one thing each day that I am thankful for this month...I am going to make an effort to blog each day!

I can't believe we have been here for over 4 months now!  It seems like just yesterday we were moving in without any of our belongings to a state that we didn't know if we had a house or not lol.  Now our home is 90% unpacked, things are looking great, we have a movie theater room, a play room, and a beautiful bedroom.  My family loves playing in the backyard.  Ginger loves running in the grass chasing her ball and Joel loves playing basketball with me on our little court.  We are so blessed!

This week was filled with more sleep.  Like I said, I am flaring pretty badly right now but I am taking Humira (this week was a shot week and I did it all by myself again!) and methotrexate and hopefully my body will respond to the combo of taking those two things soon.  For now I do what I CAN when I CAN and leave the rest alone.

This week was also Joel's school book fair and it was fun to get to work at his school, eat lunch with him, bring him in from class to buy books, and buy his teacher books.  There is something so magical about reading and it is such a happy moment to me to see how much Joel and Connor both love the books we bought to this week!

All of my kiddos got to dress up this week.  Ginger got to go to Doggie Day Care as a Bumblebee and she had a blast and looked SO cute!  Connor dressed up for his school parade and Joel got to do a PJ day at school.  Halloween in Texas was great!  We ordered a pizza and ate and then got the boys dressed and headed out.  We did all of our street and another street.  It was so much fun to meet new neighbors and talk to people on our street!  There are so many wonderful people that live here!  The boys had a great time collecting candy and looking at all of the decorations.  They were so cute in their Knight and Jengo Fett costumes!  They went to bed happy and worn out!

Friday was David's day off of work so he got to take Joel and his "Stinky Cheese Man" pumpkin project to school and do breakfast with dad!  I worked at Joel's book fair one last time and then David and I did lunch at our new favorite Sushi restaurant!  It is SO good!  We left with our tummies smiling!  He needed new shoes so we went to the local outlet mall and found some good ones.  It was such a nice day hanging out with him just the two of us all afternoon!  At night we ate dinner and then headed upstairs to the movie room to watch Harry Potter.  It was SO nice snuggling on our couch and watching a movie!  We really felt like we were at the theaters!  I can see us enjoying that room for years to come and I feel so blessed to live here!

Today is Saturday and is is SO cold!  Joel had an early soccer game and we froze as we watched him play.  It was sure nice to have a piping hot cup of Postum to drink while I watched him play!  My Postum came in the mail earlier this week and I have really enjoyed trying out different ways to drink it!  Tonight for dessert I had postum with eggnog as the dairy creamer...it was DELISH!  We all snuggled on the downstairs couch and watched Beetlegeuse...I think that is how you spell it lol.  It was loads of fun and now bath then bed!  I am flying solo in the nursery tomorrow at church so really hoping it all goes well and that the kiddos enjoy their time with me!

Well, I am thankful I was able to write this blog today.  And like I said, I am going to try to do every day in November for a thankful blog as well as happy moment journal.  Hope all of you are enjoying happy moments where ever you may be!