1. We got to go outside for a walk or at the very least a little walk around the house almost EVERY day this week! It has been amazing! I think spring is here! We have a couple days of rain rolling in now, but you can still find pockets to at least walk to check the mail and stroll around the yard when you want to. Asa is eating it up!
2. I did something I have REALLLLY been wanting to do this week. I've worked through enough of the MUST TRY THIS items on my crafting (sewing) to do list that I worked up the nerve to dig out a scrap of fabric and run it through the pleater. I am now set up with my A-Z of Smocking book and learning different stitches. I am so, so, so excited!! SO excited. It's not as brainless to keep the stitches straight across as I thought it would be, but I am thrilled to be learning something I've wanted to learn for a long time, to be learning/doing something that CREATES something, and to have a little handwork while Matt and I hang in the evenings. I can be creative but not holed up in the guest room away from him. :)
3. Asa's speech is going through a major verbal explosion. I know I keep saying it, but it's amazing. He talks, labeling of course AND providing commentary, alllll daaaaay looooong. Two word phrases are very much a regular thing around here as of the last 1-1.5 weeks and 3 word phrases are popping up more and more all the time. Not to mention that he learns, uses, and applies new words and phrases every day. I LOOOOVE it! It's SO fun to get small glimpses into what he's thinking. :)
4. Matt has a short, one-day business trip this weekend. I'm thankful it's a little jaunt and he'll be back soon. :) While he's gone, Asa and I might check out a little cupcake/bakery/cafe nearby (Alissa, I thought you would approve :) ). I hope it's yummy!
5. As an update on our baby birds, the mother bird is patiently sitting on her nest and tending to her eggs. She stopped laying after 3 eggs, and we should expect them to hatch sometime next week! I try not to bother her too much because I want her to stick around and take good care of her babies. :) But I'll be sure to snap a picture once the baby birds are out of their eggs! :)
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Week/end Rewind
I didn't get any other posts up last week other than the wedding weekend recap. Whew! It's not even that we were that busy, I guess just enjoying some slow days before newborn days begin again and making the most of being in the house while it's still COLD--hopefully spring will arrive in earnest very, very soon. ;)
We had our usual outings: Bible study on Wednesday, the grocery store, etc. I was thankful to see on Wednesday that Asa was so engaged in playing that he wasn't clamoring at the door in distress when moms started arriving to pick up their children from the nursery (like he does on Sundays). Bible study is winding down. This is the last week of study, then there's a week of overview and a final luncheon. It has passed so quickly! I am hoping to sign up for the Fall Bible study and go whenever Anna Reaghan's (& Asa's) sleeping permits. ;) Even if I only get to go a couple times, I know enough ladies now that it would be a blessing to me and not feel weird to just pop in now and then.
The weekend:
Friday: Asa and I had a pretty low-key day around the house. He napped late in the afternoon which turned out to be great. A friend needed help retrieving car seats from her husband's car at the airport, and I volunteered Matt's services. :) It ended up being a bit of a time intensive endeavor, and Matt didn't get home until 10:30! In the meantime, Asa napped late, had a late dinner, had a fun bath , and then went down to bed late (and slept in Sat. morning--woo hoo!). My most significant aversion during this pregnancy has been Italian food--well, Italian food in a tomato based sauce. SOMETIMES lately, I'll think I could probably stomach spaghetti, lasagna, or cacciatore, but I do not write them into our weekly menu because I never know if I'll have an "I could probably eat that" day or a "don't even THINK about it" kind of day. On Friday, I thought I could probably stomach it, Matt's been missing spaghetti for 6 months now, so I surprised him with a spaghetti dinner waiting on him when he arrived home at 10:30. Then we fell asleep watching tv.
Saturday: As I mentioned, Asa slept in! That rarely happens, even if he goes to bed late (which pretty much never happens at home, because I admit I'm a pretty big stickler about bedtime... I KNOW my child and he will reverse his sleeping if you extended his waking hours ;)). It was a blessing to get a little more rest before we heard our favorite little boy voice talking over the monitor. :) We had a list of possible things to do and a honey-do lists for Matt. He whipped right through it! First we actually went to a craft show over by where we used to live. Many of the same vendors were there whom we saw at the winter craft show, including the BOW LADY! I was SOOO excited! She makes ADORABLE hair clips, and when we went in the winter we did not yet know if we were having a baby boy or girl. When we walked into the venue on Saturday, I said to Matt, "Oh! I wonder if the bow lady is here again!!" I turned around and was looking right at her booth. Yea! I have been saving pictures of lots of novelty bows to make myself, but we bought two that looked a bit more complicated: a hedgehog clip and a ballerina slippers clip. If Anna Reaghan is born with as much hair as Asa was, she'll be able to wear hair clips right away. But just in case, we also bought a few crocheted headbands the clips can be attached to. :) Our other purchase was two small fabric birds Asa saw and was instantly attached to. One is made of a shaggy pink chenille--it's Anna Reaghan's, the other is made from a yellow cotton--Asa's. Although he held them both, clutched to his chest, the rest of the time we were at the craft show and the next 2 stores we stopped at! After the craft show, we stopped by 3 stores looking at carpet remnants. We want to put carpet down (not installed, but lay it down) in half of the "finished" basement to make it a bit more cozy. The first store had nothing that worked for us, the second had a strong contender, and that strong contender turned out to be THE contender after checking the third store. So when we are ready, we know exactly which carpet we want to purchase. Asa LOOOVES playing in the basement even now, but I'm also looking forward to having a cozy half of the room to play in.
As for Matt's honey-do list, he completed the final step of setting up my car's homelink to the garage door opener (it involved using a ladder which I figured would be frowned upon at 6 months pregnant ;)), fixed a setting on our tv, and collected our local bank's online access information for me (in the busyness of the move, I guess we never added my name to the account he started when we moved here--it's not our primary bank so it's not a significant issue, but I at least wanted online access until we can stop by the local branch and add me to the account).
Lastly, the GROOM from last weekend called Matt to catch up while driving a moving van to his new home. It reallllly blessed Matt to hear from Tyson already and they had a great time talking. Hooray for Tyson & Anne setting up their first home together!!
Sunday: We went to church, ate a quick lunch at home so we could get Asa down for a nap, looked for a fw things in the basement I needed Matt to bring up for me, and enjoyed relaxing (for me that meant prepping some sewing projects :)) while he napped. When Asa woke up, we ran to Walmart for a few things. It is still awfully chilly here, but Asa has been asking to go outside for days, so Matt chased him (and Sammy) around the backyard for a little while when we got home. I started dinner in the meantime, and we all ate a yummy chili dinner. :) Asa is a fan. :) Asa was asking for a bath as soon as dinner was over (he loves baths), but with it still being cold/the heater running, we try not to do a bath EVERY day for him or his skin gets dry. We distracted him with an offer to play downstairs in the basement instead (it was met with gusto!), and I sorted through more baby clothes pulling out gender neutral items for Anna Reaghan's closet while Matt and Asa played rice table, ball pit, and Asa raced back and forth across the room with his firetruck Duplo container. He finished up with some sliding downstairs before we came back up to get ready for bed. With only one nap on Sunday, he was more than ready and we got him all cozy in pjs, read his stories, and got him tucked in. Matt and I cleaned up the dinner dishes, made s'mores (yum!) as a special weekend dessert treat, and enjoyed relaxing as the weekend drew to a close.
We both felt like this weekend afforded us lots of fun family time and a nice, slow pace. :)
We had our usual outings: Bible study on Wednesday, the grocery store, etc. I was thankful to see on Wednesday that Asa was so engaged in playing that he wasn't clamoring at the door in distress when moms started arriving to pick up their children from the nursery (like he does on Sundays). Bible study is winding down. This is the last week of study, then there's a week of overview and a final luncheon. It has passed so quickly! I am hoping to sign up for the Fall Bible study and go whenever Anna Reaghan's (& Asa's) sleeping permits. ;) Even if I only get to go a couple times, I know enough ladies now that it would be a blessing to me and not feel weird to just pop in now and then.
The weekend:
Friday: Asa and I had a pretty low-key day around the house. He napped late in the afternoon which turned out to be great. A friend needed help retrieving car seats from her husband's car at the airport, and I volunteered Matt's services. :) It ended up being a bit of a time intensive endeavor, and Matt didn't get home until 10:30! In the meantime, Asa napped late, had a late dinner, had a fun bath , and then went down to bed late (and slept in Sat. morning--woo hoo!). My most significant aversion during this pregnancy has been Italian food--well, Italian food in a tomato based sauce. SOMETIMES lately, I'll think I could probably stomach spaghetti, lasagna, or cacciatore, but I do not write them into our weekly menu because I never know if I'll have an "I could probably eat that" day or a "don't even THINK about it" kind of day. On Friday, I thought I could probably stomach it, Matt's been missing spaghetti for 6 months now, so I surprised him with a spaghetti dinner waiting on him when he arrived home at 10:30. Then we fell asleep watching tv.
Saturday: As I mentioned, Asa slept in! That rarely happens, even if he goes to bed late (which pretty much never happens at home, because I admit I'm a pretty big stickler about bedtime... I KNOW my child and he will reverse his sleeping if you extended his waking hours ;)). It was a blessing to get a little more rest before we heard our favorite little boy voice talking over the monitor. :) We had a list of possible things to do and a honey-do lists for Matt. He whipped right through it! First we actually went to a craft show over by where we used to live. Many of the same vendors were there whom we saw at the winter craft show, including the BOW LADY! I was SOOO excited! She makes ADORABLE hair clips, and when we went in the winter we did not yet know if we were having a baby boy or girl. When we walked into the venue on Saturday, I said to Matt, "Oh! I wonder if the bow lady is here again!!" I turned around and was looking right at her booth. Yea! I have been saving pictures of lots of novelty bows to make myself, but we bought two that looked a bit more complicated: a hedgehog clip and a ballerina slippers clip. If Anna Reaghan is born with as much hair as Asa was, she'll be able to wear hair clips right away. But just in case, we also bought a few crocheted headbands the clips can be attached to. :) Our other purchase was two small fabric birds Asa saw and was instantly attached to. One is made of a shaggy pink chenille--it's Anna Reaghan's, the other is made from a yellow cotton--Asa's. Although he held them both, clutched to his chest, the rest of the time we were at the craft show and the next 2 stores we stopped at! After the craft show, we stopped by 3 stores looking at carpet remnants. We want to put carpet down (not installed, but lay it down) in half of the "finished" basement to make it a bit more cozy. The first store had nothing that worked for us, the second had a strong contender, and that strong contender turned out to be THE contender after checking the third store. So when we are ready, we know exactly which carpet we want to purchase. Asa LOOOVES playing in the basement even now, but I'm also looking forward to having a cozy half of the room to play in.
As for Matt's honey-do list, he completed the final step of setting up my car's homelink to the garage door opener (it involved using a ladder which I figured would be frowned upon at 6 months pregnant ;)), fixed a setting on our tv, and collected our local bank's online access information for me (in the busyness of the move, I guess we never added my name to the account he started when we moved here--it's not our primary bank so it's not a significant issue, but I at least wanted online access until we can stop by the local branch and add me to the account).
Lastly, the GROOM from last weekend called Matt to catch up while driving a moving van to his new home. It reallllly blessed Matt to hear from Tyson already and they had a great time talking. Hooray for Tyson & Anne setting up their first home together!!
Sunday: We went to church, ate a quick lunch at home so we could get Asa down for a nap, looked for a fw things in the basement I needed Matt to bring up for me, and enjoyed relaxing (for me that meant prepping some sewing projects :)) while he napped. When Asa woke up, we ran to Walmart for a few things. It is still awfully chilly here, but Asa has been asking to go outside for days, so Matt chased him (and Sammy) around the backyard for a little while when we got home. I started dinner in the meantime, and we all ate a yummy chili dinner. :) Asa is a fan. :) Asa was asking for a bath as soon as dinner was over (he loves baths), but with it still being cold/the heater running, we try not to do a bath EVERY day for him or his skin gets dry. We distracted him with an offer to play downstairs in the basement instead (it was met with gusto!), and I sorted through more baby clothes pulling out gender neutral items for Anna Reaghan's closet while Matt and Asa played rice table, ball pit, and Asa raced back and forth across the room with his firetruck Duplo container. He finished up with some sliding downstairs before we came back up to get ready for bed. With only one nap on Sunday, he was more than ready and we got him all cozy in pjs, read his stories, and got him tucked in. Matt and I cleaned up the dinner dishes, made s'mores (yum!) as a special weekend dessert treat, and enjoyed relaxing as the weekend drew to a close.
We both felt like this weekend afforded us lots of fun family time and a nice, slow pace. :)
Monday, March 14, 2011
Weekend Rewind
Here's our weekend rewind!
We received about 4+ inches of snow by mid-morning. Matt was supposed to fly out to Phoenix, but his flight was canceled. He and his boss found a later flight that was still on track, booked it, and went on their way. Thankfully, the roads between here and the airport city were clear enough to travel safely and off they flew! After a long layover in Philly, they finally made their way to Phoenix. Meanwhile, Mom, Asa, and I continued to work around the house. I was supposed to have a check-up for Anna Reaghan, but it was still very snowy at that point, and I try to avoid going out in the snow if Matt's not in town to rescue me if needed! I called and they rescheduled me for this week. Instead Mom ran out to run a few last errands for us while Asa napped. By this point, we were completely out of the townhouse as of Thursday (THANK YOU, MOM!!). We had a relaxing evening at home, Asa enjoyed a bath in his BIG new bathtub (well, it's in the master bathroom, but trust me, Asa has claimed it), and Matt's trip was off to a good start.
By Saturday all boxes were unpacked!!! We got to have more of a play day. When Asa got up from his nap we went out for some lunch and to order a wedding gift. We picked up some take out to reheat for dinner later and came back home to let Asa try for another nap. It was a no-go, but that meant he was ready to go to bed at a daylight savings time adjusted bedtime. :) Both nights, Mom and I watched an episode from Avonlea season 1 (girly sigh). Matt always teases me about that show, but who wouldn't love more sweet story lines on Prince Edward Island after reading and loving Anne of Green Gables?!
Sunday: Mom headed out for TN in the morning and Asa and I got ready for church. Matt boarded a plane to come home to us--yea!! I took pictures of the house to upload to Facebook--I'll try to post some here soon, and Asa was realllllly excited to have Daddy home again (it was very sweet). Asa walked around showing Matt various cars he has stashed in different toy places (as if Matt hadn't seen them before! Ha!). After Asa's rest time (he never slept--thank you, time change), we had dinner and then we went to play in the basement so Asa could show Matt the fun rice in his sand/water table downstairs. After Asa was in bed, Matt caught up with his parents and we received a WONDERFUL call from his boss telling him to stay home and hang out with his family on Monday to catch up from the move/his weekend trip to Phoenix! WOO HOOO!
It was wonderful to have Mom's company and help during the move and unpacking, and she even stayed a couple extra days when we found out Matt was booked last minute for the Phoenix trip. But we are thankful she made it back home and that Matt is back home with us. We get an extra day with Matt today to boot! What a blessing all around! :)
We received about 4+ inches of snow by mid-morning. Matt was supposed to fly out to Phoenix, but his flight was canceled. He and his boss found a later flight that was still on track, booked it, and went on their way. Thankfully, the roads between here and the airport city were clear enough to travel safely and off they flew! After a long layover in Philly, they finally made their way to Phoenix. Meanwhile, Mom, Asa, and I continued to work around the house. I was supposed to have a check-up for Anna Reaghan, but it was still very snowy at that point, and I try to avoid going out in the snow if Matt's not in town to rescue me if needed! I called and they rescheduled me for this week. Instead Mom ran out to run a few last errands for us while Asa napped. By this point, we were completely out of the townhouse as of Thursday (THANK YOU, MOM!!). We had a relaxing evening at home, Asa enjoyed a bath in his BIG new bathtub (well, it's in the master bathroom, but trust me, Asa has claimed it), and Matt's trip was off to a good start.
By Saturday all boxes were unpacked!!! We got to have more of a play day. When Asa got up from his nap we went out for some lunch and to order a wedding gift. We picked up some take out to reheat for dinner later and came back home to let Asa try for another nap. It was a no-go, but that meant he was ready to go to bed at a daylight savings time adjusted bedtime. :) Both nights, Mom and I watched an episode from Avonlea season 1 (girly sigh). Matt always teases me about that show, but who wouldn't love more sweet story lines on Prince Edward Island after reading and loving Anne of Green Gables?!
Sunday: Mom headed out for TN in the morning and Asa and I got ready for church. Matt boarded a plane to come home to us--yea!! I took pictures of the house to upload to Facebook--I'll try to post some here soon, and Asa was realllllly excited to have Daddy home again (it was very sweet). Asa walked around showing Matt various cars he has stashed in different toy places (as if Matt hadn't seen them before! Ha!). After Asa's rest time (he never slept--thank you, time change), we had dinner and then we went to play in the basement so Asa could show Matt the fun rice in his sand/water table downstairs. After Asa was in bed, Matt caught up with his parents and we received a WONDERFUL call from his boss telling him to stay home and hang out with his family on Monday to catch up from the move/his weekend trip to Phoenix! WOO HOOO!
It was wonderful to have Mom's company and help during the move and unpacking, and she even stayed a couple extra days when we found out Matt was booked last minute for the Phoenix trip. But we are thankful she made it back home and that Matt is back home with us. We get an extra day with Matt today to boot! What a blessing all around! :)
Friday, October 15, 2010
Five on Friday
This is PERFECT! FIVE on Friday for our FIFTH anniversary! That's right, today marks FIVE years since our wedding October 15, 2005. :) I thought for today I'd do a quick recap of highlights from the past 5 years.
Before our first anniversary rolled around, we got married (woo hoo!), honeymooned on the Gulf of Mexico (did you know the US has white soft beach sand and turquoise water??) in Destin, Matt worked his first job post-grad school, I got MY first job, we bought a house, and we adopted a dog. WOW. That first year was PACKED. We also went to a Christmas party, Valentine's party, found our church home in FL (we miiiiiiiiiiiss CCC with all our hearts!), visited family, set up our first home together, wore tshirts and flip flops in February, visited St. Augustine, started our own Christmas traditions, and had countless adventures together. :)
By our second anniversary, we bought and moved into our first house. I started my 2nd year of teaching with was the first year of an unofficial magnet class for 3rd grade at my school. We settled into life with our Sammy dog, completed obedience school with her, and took a trip to Orlando and Downtown Disney.
By our third anniversary we'd had some ups and downs with Matt's work but at the end we found out about my pregnancy with Asa! We found out we were pregnant just 2 weeks before our 3rd anniversary, and Asa was born 3 months before our 4th anniversary. Learning about parenting together was a major part of our 3rd year. :) I loved finding out our baby was a boy and knowing I would have the express blessing of having a mini-Matt running around our house. :) TOO FUN!
By our fourth anniversary, Asa was in our arms... and we were not getting so not much sleep ;). There were lots of tears (Asa AND Becca... whew those postpartum hormones are something else and drag on and on...), but TONS of laughs and smiles and about a million pictures (seriously) already at 4 months old. Asa was baptized shortly before our anniversary. We spent a lot of that year dreaming and preparing for Asa's arrival. I will always remember the hours (and hours and hours) we spent planning and putting together Asa's nursery, watching Matt painstakingly paint vertical stripes on the wall for me, having him at every prenatal appt. with me. What a year of anticipation!
By our fifth anniversary (today), Asa is almost 16 months old! Our lives are so full with this little (but getting bigger every day) bundle. He is a JOY! :) We had our scare with Asa's health last winter, but God faithfully walked us through that and graciously and mercifully gave us a very happy ending. :) We have had our somewhat unexpected move from FL to OH. This year has had some really hard points. The last 6 months we have spent more time apart than the previous 4.5 years combined (by far). But even with the distance, Matt has been an incredible support. I'm so thankful he calls me into this adventure, lifts up my face, kisses away my tears, loves me so incredibly fiercely, and brings before the Father in good times and in hard times. I love, love, LOVED our wedding day, but I am definitely at the point where I would MUCH MUCH rather spend time dwelling on life as it is now than life as it was even on that INCREDIBLE day. Life is sweet. Matt is sweet. Asa is sweet. I am BLESSED beyond measure!
Before our first anniversary rolled around, we got married (woo hoo!), honeymooned on the Gulf of Mexico (did you know the US has white soft beach sand and turquoise water??) in Destin, Matt worked his first job post-grad school, I got MY first job, we bought a house, and we adopted a dog. WOW. That first year was PACKED. We also went to a Christmas party, Valentine's party, found our church home in FL (we miiiiiiiiiiiss CCC with all our hearts!), visited family, set up our first home together, wore tshirts and flip flops in February, visited St. Augustine, started our own Christmas traditions, and had countless adventures together. :)
By our second anniversary, we bought and moved into our first house. I started my 2nd year of teaching with was the first year of an unofficial magnet class for 3rd grade at my school. We settled into life with our Sammy dog, completed obedience school with her, and took a trip to Orlando and Downtown Disney.
By our third anniversary we'd had some ups and downs with Matt's work but at the end we found out about my pregnancy with Asa! We found out we were pregnant just 2 weeks before our 3rd anniversary, and Asa was born 3 months before our 4th anniversary. Learning about parenting together was a major part of our 3rd year. :) I loved finding out our baby was a boy and knowing I would have the express blessing of having a mini-Matt running around our house. :) TOO FUN!
By our fourth anniversary, Asa was in our arms... and we were not getting so not much sleep ;). There were lots of tears (Asa AND Becca... whew those postpartum hormones are something else and drag on and on...), but TONS of laughs and smiles and about a million pictures (seriously) already at 4 months old. Asa was baptized shortly before our anniversary. We spent a lot of that year dreaming and preparing for Asa's arrival. I will always remember the hours (and hours and hours) we spent planning and putting together Asa's nursery, watching Matt painstakingly paint vertical stripes on the wall for me, having him at every prenatal appt. with me. What a year of anticipation!
By our fifth anniversary (today), Asa is almost 16 months old! Our lives are so full with this little (but getting bigger every day) bundle. He is a JOY! :) We had our scare with Asa's health last winter, but God faithfully walked us through that and graciously and mercifully gave us a very happy ending. :) We have had our somewhat unexpected move from FL to OH. This year has had some really hard points. The last 6 months we have spent more time apart than the previous 4.5 years combined (by far). But even with the distance, Matt has been an incredible support. I'm so thankful he calls me into this adventure, lifts up my face, kisses away my tears, loves me so incredibly fiercely, and brings before the Father in good times and in hard times. I love, love, LOVED our wedding day, but I am definitely at the point where I would MUCH MUCH rather spend time dwelling on life as it is now than life as it was even on that INCREDIBLE day. Life is sweet. Matt is sweet. Asa is sweet. I am BLESSED beyond measure!
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