Lent

Real quick...I really want to do some special Lenten things with my children this year for Lent. I got some idwas off of different blogs and came up with a few things that are working for us. Here are some pictures.

so a lenten center piece on our table, a "Stations in a box" which i LOVE, and they can earn jelly beans for Easter by doing good deeds. The stations in a box is my favorite because it is so hands on. I read alound the station and the kids take turns looking for the object that matches the station. I got the idea from a knotted life blog -she's awesome! here is a picture of the inside if your interested

oh i also made crown of thorns bread this year with soup for Ash Wednesday and the kids actually seemed to get the idea of what i was trying to represent :)

I am just hoping this lent to foster my children to have a greater love of Jesus by the end od 40 days...or at least a friendship with Him.

diet food

I went grocery shopping for endo diet food...now I have to stay committed!
so todays smothie was interesting! I msde myself drink it although it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be.

tasty and healthy!

finding a friend

This will be a sloppy post because I am typing on my phone. ..I was thinking that maybe I would start blogging more since I have really no friends here. That is besides my husband. Really I have NO friends. It is pretty lonely!  Since I went to college in 99  and got married we. have lived in really GREAT communities until 2013. I now have an idea of what a dessert might feel like.  Yeh, it sucks! But I am glad I have my faith. It teaches me there is a reason. Providence planned this. God knew it would be lonely here. For some reason this is the best place for me right now. I ask myself why? I really have to pray about it. Because it is hard to see why or maybe it is just hard for me to accept why. Perhaps we are here because my husband is awesome at talking about the faith and I am great at smiling and nodding while he talks ( just kidding but kind of serious)! He really does have a gift for talking to people. I LOVE that about him!
Anyways, have I mentioned it is lonely here...maybe I just have cabin fever. I do open up our curtains even during the night and just stare and image warm weather...today was -21 with wind chill....don't cry for us though (I already did).  when we lived in Richmond, VA I remember I asked my dear neighbor if it was ok to take my kids out in the jogging stroller in 40 degree weather...here though it is a different story! I made my kids play outside last week when it was 16 degrees and I have taken them grocery shopping in a blizzard and told them it was "ok" and "we'll have fun"!
But you get desperate when your stuck inside ALL THE TIME :)

Now for a side note Emma just turned one  Jan. 20. She is so smart!  When she learns something it sticks! she just learned to walk and it is all she wants to do. I am soooo proud of her! Charlie, he is strong! He can run and head butt me in the upper thigh and I want to cry! It hurts so bad. Yes, he is all boy! But maybe he will be an actor because he spends all day being Elsa, anna, rapazzel (he's eccentric) or ect. Lucy, she is into crafts like no other!!! Crafts or crap is EVERYWHERE! I really don't know what to do about it. I have a love hate relationship with it!!! At the moment I love it but tomorrow when I find pieces of toilet paper all over the living room as some sort of fairy dust then I will hate it!

Now I must say good night and it was nice to pretend I am talking to a " friend".

Update after a year...yup, still alive!

Ok, I know it has been awhile since I updated. One of the ereasons has been because I just dont know where to start! After I had Emma I just had (have) my hands full...ok, Charlie makes up most of the hand full but that's to be expected. He's 2 :)

Anyways, Emma was born at home like we planned. I knew she was coming the morning I woke up on the 19th of Jan. I rolled over and woke up my husband and said "today's the day". I will save her birth story for another day but let me just mention one of the hardest parts...
after delivering her on our living room couch (in which I screamed a few times I am going to die at one point) my midwife said she was going to stitch me up where I tore without pain meds....I bawled my eyes out! I still don't think I am over that! Obviously I am not if it is one of the first things I have decided to mention.
(Please don't read this next part if you are suffering with infertility!)
Well, now I have to mention cycle news as usual just because I keep it up for my own records :) I just got my cycle back and I am excited to ttc again! I love having my kiddos. Yes, my life is crazy busy, chaotic, and I feel like I am just trying to stay afloat most of the time but I wouldn't trade it for anything. They are such a blessing! The pains of infertility have made me wide open to receiving as many children as possible for us. So, with that I am starting an endo diet again...I hope I can stick to it. I figure Lent is a great time to go for it. Also, I am going to start taking some herbs from the acupuncturist that helped me when I was ttc Lucy and Emma.

In other news, we have lived here in Auburn, NY for about a 1.8 years now and it is cold and grey here. That is all I have to say...still speechless! Hardily any sun here!!! My dh loves his job which is always a blessing. Still it is very lonely here and there aren't many families with young children...

I know I have said this before but I am going to try to make time to read blogs...I just need to get a grip on my life so there is some peace and quiet to read. That. would. be. so.nice!