Wow

Where to start? Well, Corban slept great for a few days and last night we were back to not sleeping..... well at least for a couple of hours. Apparently he is teething and nothing works we just give him medicine and he fusses till it starts to kick in, poor baby. He has also recently decided he does not want paci, not that I mind about that. He is still however fond of his bottle. We have tried everything but there is no substitute, I figure if that is all he is holding onto I really shouldn't worry. Yesterday I had to take him to work with me to the back up daycare where they sent a kind in his room home with hand, foot and mouth virus. We have prayed over Corban and he is showing no signs of it. The daycare did a good job and cleared the kids out of the room and bleached and sanatized everything, but it still puts my nerves on edge.

I am starting something new at work. I have been asked to start teaching new hires in the training class in on the job training. My hourly supervisor is taking another position which leaves me and one other guy to push for her spot, which would mean not being on the phone all the time and having to deal with difficult situations.

Changes

The past few weeks have been an emotional roller coaster for me. I blame some of it on the hormones and lack of sleep that one little man has refused to let mommy have. I have learned that some of my "friends" are in fact, not really friends, I refuse to be a "rainy day friend" maybe that is selfish of me. But I have too much going on in my life that is invaluable to me to "waste" my time. Don't get me wrong I will continue to love and pray for you but if it happens once shame on you and twice shame on me, the third time would just be stupid. So, I am done investing. I have re-learned in these past few weeks of my emotional/mental breakdown that God is of course my refuge, rest, hope, strength and way maker.

All that being said please keep our family in your prayers as we are facing some BIG decisions. There are some big changes we hope will be taking place soon. I will update as soon as I can on that. On another note we have 2 people interested in the house please pray it sells, we really need more room!!!!

I know I have not posted any belly pics I will have to take some.....

My big boy

Corban is growing so fast. This past Sat we made another trip to Ikea to take Eric's mom and visit with Eric's older brother. It was a LONG ride with Corban but he was not too bad seeing as how we were in the car forever.... After we arrived at Chris' apartment and were getting ready to leave for lunch, 10 minutes later, we had to bribe Corban with cookies to get him back in his car seat, not that I blame him. While at Ikea we were on a mision for the toddler cabinet locks because the "normal" ones will not work on our cabinets becaue we have Ikea cabinets, which are made different. We did manage to find them and it was great last night when Corban got mad and was trying to open the cabinets, because he knows this is a nono, and they wouldn't open. I didn't have to worry about him grabbing stuff :). While he is by no means a bad kid he is having to learn what are nono's. For a while he has been getting a pop on his hand or bottom for things but it has reached the point where he looks at you like, what? So last week started time out, which he has done twice at the sitter's house and a few times at home, I think that may be his button. He HATES standing in the corner for 1 minute, standard is 1 minute per year old the child is. While I am not a time out fan I know all kids have different things they don't like for some it is taking away toys, pop on the bottom, no tv, but lucky for us I think Corban's may be time out.

Mother's day was good Eric bought me a card and Corban "signed" it and now he loves pens..... so we have pulled out the crayons and he loves to color, mostly with the purple. We met my parent's for lunch at Johnny's Cafe, their home cookin is SO good.

I am still stuck working 10-7 this week and next and I am close in line at work for getting a "set schedule" I am praying that a 7-4 shift will be available, that would be awesome. On another note Eric and I are considering the name Emerson Jackson for li'lbit.

Random thoughts and facts and a little catch up

Where to start? Well this weekend I saw my husband dressed as a very convincing woman thanks to a good friend, Ann. It was for a "Dude looks like a lady" beauty pagent. The wo-man with the most money in donations from the audience won the entire thing. While it was quite entertaining I would be ok never attending another one, there were some points, when doing the talent, seeing a man dance in a mini skirt was revealed a little more than my little eyes wanted to see. But they raised over $1,200 for cancer.

I am applying for a teaching position this week, keep that in your prayers, I am so tired of working till 7pm every night. Sat I was ablr to go order new glasses :) they will be the transition ones so they go to sunglasses when you go outside, seeing as how I have not had sunglasses in over a year I am SSSOOO excited about that. While strolling through the mall yesterday Eric and I wondered through Sears only to find an Eddie Bauer edition double stroller in the box for $59.99, seeing as how it was last years model, it was something we couldn't pass up.

Out of the 6 people that I know are preggo 5/6 are expecting boys.

Old lady Jetta say what?!?!?!?! Squish!

So yesterday Corban and I ran an errand by Target and were off to my sister in law's for family lunch. Eric stayed behind to do an open house. As we approached the Kingwood (church) intersection at Industrial and 95 I was turning right and had a red light. Traffic was appraoching so I had to hit my breaks. I had just long enough to think "Oh, good thing I didn't go there's mom." At that moment I lunged forward and could hear the crunch. No screeching breaks, just crunch. It was not an awful hit but it was hard enough to send me forward and have my seatbelt stop me and my glasses end up sideways on my face. I had just long enough to think "Wow, Corban is doing really well" as I pulled up and over onto the grass. But then it started, it was one of those terrified deep breath screams and big tears. At this point in time I had no idea what had hit us or who and I didn't care, I figured that it was hard enough that it did some serious damage to the explorer. I jumped out of the car and the lady was already out of her car with her wallet asking if I was ok. I smiled at her and went to get my screaming baby out of the back seat. She felt so bad and begged me to let her pay me for the damage. I told her I had to have a police report she was nice about it but I could tell was irritated, but she was a nice lady. Mom, who was able to hear the entire thing got down to a street and turned around and came back. It didn't take Corban too long to calm down once he was out of the car.

There was some damage done to the explorer but nothing like her car. She drove a 2007 Jetta and the front end was smashed. She let it run a few minutes and it started smelling so she cut it off while we were waiting on Alabaster police to show up. The cop who did the report was nice and fast, he is a keeper. He actually tried to talk the lady into towing her car because it was so smashed, I am taking headlight hanging, squished up hood, hole in the front bumper, I was suprised her radiator was not smashed. The cop jumped under her car, couldn't raise the hood due to it being so smashed, he said it looked like the car would work but didn't recommend it but she drove it home anyway, well I guess, I turned off so she didn't see what house I was going to. I have felt the baby move since then but I am still thinking of going to the doctor.... also thinking of taking Corban too, it is not like he can tell me if something is bothering him and I wouldn't know where to touch to see if his neck or anything was sore.......

Masters

So, I have decided I must go back and get my masters. I don't hate my job but I don't like it either, but it pays the bills for now. I am currently researching my options of schools and it looks like University of Phoenix is my only option. Since my schedule changes from week to week and most universities do not offer online classes it is really annoying. It will take 20 months for me to complete my degree but it will put me back into the field that I feel as though God has called me to in the first place. The cool thing about Phoenix is you only take one class at a time and you don't take it in the semester format. Class one my be 3 weeks and class 2 may be 8 weeks. I can also take a break when lil bit gets here, this also helps because I don't have to wait till Jan to start classes. I am still doing a little more research on schools though. I would like to get on here in Calera though.

Should we stay or should we go? Eric and I listed the house with a MLS number and have been house looking. While we can make it work with lil bit, we don't necessarily want to. We saw a house yesterday that we really liked and spoke with the agent who looked our house up. She told us we would have to drop the price of our house to under 100,000 if we wanted to sell it. I think I may have looked at her like she was crazy. I told her that we would add on before we went below what we paid for it. So in the mean time we just wait and pray. God will either bring the perfect buyer or, we will add a den and master to the back of the house, we will still have plenty of yard.

On another note we find out what lil bit is on April 28th. Any guesses?

Tears of sadness, tears of joy

This past 2 weeks have been a rollercoaster for me. Corban and I spent last Sunday at my grandmothers, along with my dad, great Aunt Jan, Brittny and Connor. I am so glad we spent the day! Corban was his very animated self and cracked grandmother up, playing with her curling iron, waving both hands at her and we can't forget the chater box he has become. Grandmother went down hill fast and last night went home. Dad was there and I got the call around 9:30 and was off to mom's to take her to Clanton. When we arrived the sweet hospice nurse was there and we were waiting on the funeral home to come. I had not decided on the way down there if I was going to see her or not, but curiosity got the best of me. I walked in her room and there she was all cuddled up under the covers with a smile on her face. We all cried tears of sadness and I am sure there will be many more to come, she was my only grandmother and we were pretty close. My parents and I had already been at the funeral home on Friday to make arrangements, the only person missing is Aaron, who is in Texas, and will be home Thursday night. So, we are holding the funeral till Friday, I know that is a long time but it is the only time he could get leave and since Aaron and I are the only grandchildren (dad is an only child, except for his half brothers and sister) the funeral waits.

When people speak of their visions of heaven they often say there are people there waiting to welcome you. I can only imagine my grandmother being reunited with her parents, brother, my granddaddy and my mom's mom standing there thanking her for being her daughter's "second mom." My mom has called my grandmother, mom, my entire life. My mom's mom died from cancer when I was 2. We were also thinking what an awesome first day in heaven she arrived just in time to celebrate resurrection Sunday. Seeing as how if Christ had not died on the cross she, nor the rest of the family would even be there. Please keep my parents in your prayers things have been tough, and to top it all off, next Sunday is dad's birthday and grandmother made him a carrot cake every year. Eric has been super great esp. since I didn't get home till almost 2 this morning......