Or it could even be titled "Worst. New Years Resolution Keeper. Ever." Both are fairly accurate. Fail. I will try not to spend most of my time beating myself up over this and instead focus on today and move forward. After all, it's been 2 months of complete and utter chaos and to commit to making an entry for each of those days is just ludicrous. In my defense (because there always is one), we really did have SO much going on. First was the umpteen number of birthday parties, outside of Skylar and Brycens, to attend to. And then Weddings. And finally the "purchase" of a new home. That's right, I did say purchase and it is in quotations for a reason. But first let me back up by saying that the house we found is in every sense of the word, our dream home. Buuuuuut, in this stage of our life - we are not quite ready for our dream home. We did sign on the dotted line and we did pick cabinets and flooring at the design center but two days before the final meeting, we got cold feet. Well, that's at least when we officially backed out. From the start of this, we never really felt comfortable with our decision and both of us had an extreme amount of stress that neither was conveying to the other. It just happened to be one Sunday afternoon that we were causally talking it over and how we didn't think it was the right decision and how I felt God was really trying to impress upon me that while we are excited, everything happens in HIS time not my own. So I backed out. And the minute we made that decision, it was as if you told us we won the lottery. You could almost see the dark cloud lifting off of us and floating away. Am I disappointed? Sure. But I am trusting that God knows what's best and in His perfect timing, we will stumble upon our dream house again. So there ya have it. With the normal day-to-day stress coupled with trying to sell our current home and keep it "show-ready" with 3 little ones, and then all of the different design center and builder appointments, etc; the daily blogging commitment took a back burner but here I am, back at it. My goal is to "try" and finish out the year but life often gets in the way so I'll do my best. Here goes.
Today...Day number...whatever :)
This morning was a fun filled morning with trying to get our sweet family of five ready and out the door for the 9am church service. It's always funny to me how we can be at each others throats and you begin to feel like this is just not worth it until you walk in those chapel doors and the stress of the morning seems to melt away. And then you pick the kids back up from the nursery... ha ha ha! No really though, it was another typical morning in May-wood trying to get out of the house but we managed it. The sermon was pretty cool as we had a guest speaker with a very thick Russian accent and he made a couple of jokes that really made the environment welcoming. We got the kids a bit early and brought them back into the chapel to hear the closing praise and worship (one of Skylar's favorites) and just then saw my parents turn around, smiling at us. How funny that we went through the entire church service not even realizing they were there. After church we all decided to go to breakfast which is always fun. Poor Matthew was not as amped up about the idea as the rest of us but was eventually glad we went. I adore my dad and have absolutely no way of telling him "no." Maybe all of those years of knowing he couldn't do it to me has now backfired. We had a really nice time and I am thankful for moments like that. Once we finished breakfast, it was off to the house to get chores done and naps in before we had complete meltdowns. My funny for the day was when Matthew and I were arguing over who would go outside to check if Skylar's neighborhood friend was home that she was begging to go see. Skylar stood between us and said "guys. GUYS! Seriously, calm down and no stress. Mama, you go see." Well, yes ma'am! Little stinker. It was a great day!
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