Dec

30

Double Strollers and Slings

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I’m 5 days away from new baby and still haven’t committed to a double stroller. My dear friend Jordan is bringing by her McLaren that she loved for a time. It is nice, but of course has it’s cons just like EVERY OTHER DOUBLE STROLLER. If it isn’t one thing it is another. The cons in this case are the lack of storage and inability to attach the infant carrier to. But in reality Owen was only in his carrier for 3.5 months before he was too heavy for it. Hmph. There is NOTHING I love. So advice once again is asked for. Those Graco duogliders just seem so heavy withOUT a 30 lb toddler, carrier and baby. HM.

O is still to little for sit and stand…

Also, to my friends that sling. I would like to try a sling this time and know there are good ones and bad ones. I of course want to know which are best, but have no clue on my own. If slinging works for me, maybe it is my solution to the double stroller for awhile. I was really let down by the bjorn. I found it uncomfortable (for me.) That may mean slinging doesn’t work for me either, I’m not sure. I tend to carry lots of milk and for some reason that hurts most the time I’m breast feeding. Having a baby in the bjorn up against that so hard just didn’t work. I don’t know, comments? Suggestions?

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Dec

29

things and such

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Well, 1 week and this baby will be here. It’s some what hard to imagine… but this growing belly that makes bending impossible reminds me it is very much time. It is contracting on and off constantly (but not dilating me) so that makes movement more uncomfortable. No complaints, I will have a sweet little blessing this time next week. One that will absolutely change my life once again.

Jeff’s parents have been here a week. They have been a huge help. Jeff’s mom organized my china cabnint, helped me get the nursery ready, and they hung a ton of my pictures for me too. Not to mention all the cleaning :)

Christmas was wonderful. I have so many pictures to upload but can’t find my camera dock. Figures :) I keep losing those kinds of things. Owen was so precious coming down to his presents. He approached so slowly… he had no clue what to do. I have never seen such true AWE. He kept looking at us quietly with his mouth wide open, then looking back at his new bball hoop and rocking horse… and ride-on truck. That made Christmas for me. Just watching a kid enjoy it like that. So fun.

Politically/ Current events and what not… I’m too tired to say much. I’m praying hard to learn to take opposing views better, not so personally. I’m so passionate about some of the things I believe (I know you have all figured that out by now.) Sometimes I’m so passionate that I have to remind myself when people disagree it isn’t an attack on me. It’s funny, cause I was around people that mostly held similar views for a good chunk of my life. Then at OSU I was in HUGE minority in my classes. I value that time greatly because it really showed me that I hold tightly to the values I believe in. They aren’t just something I have been cloned to believe. In many classes there were times where I was literally the only one in discussions believing whatever viewpoint I believed. I TA’d classes that dealt with Cultural relativism, ethnocentriciy and so on… and I still believe in many of the same absolutes, maybe even more. So I’m not saying all this to toot my horn, at all. I am just saying that I’m not programmed by the religious right in life. I know those people are out there. And though at times I may agree with some of the viewpoints they hold… I may have arrived at my reasoning differently.

What is a newer stretch for me is knowing so many wonderful, God-fearing, walking out their faith Christians with some very different viewpoints than me. Being able to accept that. See at OSU, I could always accept it because for the most part these people didn’t even know Jesus… I expected to have very differing viewpoints than me. But now in church… It is people I share many of my core faith values with… yet disagree politically, or disagree in the action that would produce the best end goal.

Oh well, It’s very good for me. It’s a path God has me on to pray through. Many people I love and respect already that have opposing views I don’t struggle with as much. It’s remembering that as I meet more great people that see things quite differently than me they could be just as amazing as the people I already know that think differently. It’s also remembering that I can accept them as wonderful people and still completely disagree with them.

I know I blog about events and politics more often then most my blogger friends. But believe it or not… I try to hold back. One of my friends in Florida was actually surprised at how little I blog on it compared to what a big part of my interests it is. But I haven’t wanted this blog to be a political blog. I want it just to be a blog that is sometimes mommy, sometimes shopping, sometimes silly and random, and at times activist oriented.

Sorry for the long one. Just thinking out loud.

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Dec

21

Wanna Talk Civil Rights Violation?

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Please PLEASE Go to THIS LINK and read about some things going on in Uganda. I was pretty horrified. And keep in mind this article was from 1997, and this army is still around doing the same things. That makes 8 years, 8 YEARS that this type of stuff has been allowed to continue, yet I personally have never ever heard anything in the media spoken of this army.

What I do hear in the media? Americans (especially President Bush) is so completely evil that we are not always serving 1st class food in the terrorist prison. That we are so horrible we took defaming pictures of captured enemies in Iraq. That our horrible government is tapping international phone calls of suspected terrorists. We hear this stuff over and over and over again. Almost like “Pink is the new black” programming us in shopping malls so we buy what they want us to. These sick political agendas are all that seems to matter to the media. I’m not justifying the stuff that is reported on…. I’m just saying PLEASE REPORT THE EMERGENCY NEEDS OUT THERE. What is being done in Uganda is a far greater civil rights offense than tapping a phone line or putting underwear on a terrorists head. If I hear one more person go off about our treatment of terrorists I think I’m going to need a punching bag. Even at 9 months pregnant. Please before you vent about that to me, go to my friends post and read about Uganda. If you want to see the original article you can click THIS LINK. The first link is an easier read though.

Let’s talk about real civil rights violations. What is going on outside our pretty little worlds where we just get to complain about these things on the news. God, I feel so helpless. Please save these people. Please use someone to liberate them. Bless the nation that does that. God, I don’t understand how someone feels so violated walking past a Christmas Tree or people who can’t hear the words Merry Christmas without feeling personally attacked, and will sue over it when things like this that are true offenses are going on. Why are we so messed up here in America?

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Dec

20

My Delicious Husband

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Owen has had some major daddy separation anxiety lately. So when we went to take him to Santa it was not happening unless dad got in the pic too. So the morning of Jeff’s birthday he got his picture taken with Santa!

Jeff’s birthday was fun. I will have to upload some photos later. For his birthday night my dad and Susan (step-mom) watched Owen and we went to a nice restaurant called M. It was DELICIOUS! Then we went to Narnia. I really liked the movie. I heard complaints it was too much “trying” to be like Lord of the Rings… but I didn’t see it like it. I just liked it. I love the story and thought they played it out well.

So my man is 35. I love it. He’s so young at heart, hip, but mature in a way that comes from seeing life, 35 years of it. He’s all I dreamed of and more. I remember being in Columbus before I ever moved to Nashville and feeling like I would never find “that guy”. All the guys who were attractive and fun, liked cool music and had similar interests were younger than me and it made me feel like a mom or big sis to them most the time. But all the older guys I knew were boring, set up in life, had no clue what bands were out. I remember saying, God can’t I have a mature guy who still likes cool music and playing video games? So I move to Nashville and BOOM there was Jeff Jackson. I didn’t know he would be the guy I would marry, but I certainly knew he was a picture of the type of guy I was made to be with. So though I may tease him for being older than me… I love every year of him. Every year that has shaped him and made him who he is today. A man who can lead me, challenge me, yet still love me the way God made me to be loved. MMMM he’s delicious!

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Dec

19

Update on Dad

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He is home and doing great :) Thanks again again and again for your prayers.

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Dec

19

Christmas Greetings for the ACLU

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:) HEHEHEHEHHEHE (notate evil laugh)
Do this:

Please add one more card to your Christmas Card List ! This is a great idea !

I’ll Spend $ .37 To Help make the point please - do the same!

Wanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS?!

Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD!
As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this
holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN, card to brighten up
their dark, sad, little world. Make sure it says “Merry Christmas” on it.

Here’s the Address, just don’t be rude or crude.
(It’s Not the Christian Way ya know?)

ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10004

Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations because they
wouldn’t know if any were regular mail containing contributions.. So spend
37 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone. Also tell them that
there is no such thing as a Holiday Tree. . . . It’s a Christmas Tree even
in the fields!!

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Dec

17

Overheard…

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…coming out of my husbands mouth while watching INHD TV, apparently a beaver special.

“Look at that, beavers are amazing.”

I laughed so hard it’s strange I’m not in labor. My husband LOVES animals. He is fascinated by them. And this is something I have always found endearing! When we were dating he told me once that he loves movies with animals in them, especially ones where the animals talk. In 6 minutes he will be 35 and he says stuff like that. Love this guy. (By the way, he just informed me that some people may take that quote wrong, perverted.) Sorry, not what I meant :)

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Dec

16

SOLD!

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Yay our house finally sold :) The Florida one of course. The buyers got a deal (they have a house that they couldn’t have built today with the same upgrades for the same price). And we made a great profit. So everyone is happy :) I’m just so glad it is one less thing we need on our mind. They will be closing sometime between Jan 1-6. Thanks for the prayers!

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Dec

16

Addresses NEEDED

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Hey my cards are finally going out on Monday!
Please send me your address if you haven’t already… which means if you have my email you know me well enough :)
Thanks All, Jess if you see this could you send me Brandi’s as well!
Thanks!

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Dec

15

Risk Factor

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We had our ultrasound today and as suspected, I have a big boy. We went ahead and scheduled a C-section for the 4th of January. My doctor started me on a lecture about how it is hard to be this pregnant during the holidays because of the stress level most people are in. Then he added with moving, having gotten so sick, and so on I’m really pushing it on risk factor. He said Humans can only endure so much so I have to take it super easy in these next few weeks. I didn’t even tell him we are negotiating a deal on our Florida house and that my dad was in the hospital. But you know, there was a time all this would have made me collapse, or better yet, crumble. I don’t know if I’m just in denial and it will just take a straw to break this camel’s back? Or if I’m in shock? Or If it’s just God. But I’ll choose God :)

I think this year has changed me so much. It has been one of the most stressful years of my life (1994 aside). Maybe this is something that happens every 10 years. You get pushed to your limit over and over and over till it HAS to stretch, grow, change. I still am no super woman. But I’m stronger. I do truly hope this season of craziness ends soon. But that is up to God. I surrender that. Truthfully, God never promised me some idea of “normal” that I may have dreamed of since childhood. He promised to love me always, to never leave me,to provide me with everything I need, and to never put me through more than I can handle. Crap! There are people all over in 3rd world countries surviving on barely anything and suffering constantly. People who have no clue what comfort is. AND ME? I hate a hospital bed! Some people just wish they could get to a hospital some how. Some don’t even know how to dream of a hospital. Yes- that is all extreme. For me this life has been stressful compared to the life I’m used to. But I’ll make it. If something new comes up tomorrow that we have to go through… I have to trust God. I have to trust I won’t crumble to the ground, that He will hold me up.

The good news? Baby Boy looks so healthy. His heart is perfect and strong. His brain looks great. Even the umbilical cord he said is flawless. Jeff’s birthday is coming and I love birthdays. Christmas is coming, I love Christmas. I’m home. I’m surrounded by amazing friends and family that have been so helpful. This year is almost over. 2006 brings a new baby and some new fresh starts (again). God is preparing me for something. Not some great lofty something. But something to be used more for him. If stressing me out all year helps me get there, then I’ll get there.

Trust me, I’m not always so bright, happy, and encouraging on all this. There are moments I’m painfully aware that I’m 8 months pregnant and I complain over the lack of comfort, endless poddy breaks and need a nap. But I just keep thinking how he said my risk factor is really getting up there with the stress in my life, and I think, I really really think, I’m okay despite all that.

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