Well, I intended to write on here sooner then this but as you can see i didn't. It seems like it's been a very busy three weeks. It hasn't been that busy for me but being mommy and wife as made it busy.

I've tried to get back into exercising more seriously trying something a little different this time, extra motivation! Rewards at the end of a successful week of exercise but only doing it for 7 days at a time I am aiming for doing a 50 minute hard workout for 7 days in a row, or 6 days if for one of them i do at least 20 minutes more on the eliptical or something like that. So far it's working...I did 6 days in a row but then got sick. I missed a day then did a day and now i've missed two days but plan on starting on a new 7 days tonight.

We've all been sick except for Judah so far, a very weird cold/flu this time around. First Josiah got it, then I got it, then Enoch and then Jaelle none of us at the same time which made it seem longer then it was.

Judah got Lasik on Thursday, which went very well and he has recovered from mostly already.

However with everything going on I've missed going to the women's bible study (which is only once every two weeks anyways) and going to lifegroup (our church's version of home fellowship)
so it seems aside from Judah and seeing a few of the moms of kids in Josiah's class when i pick him up in the afternoons i've been pretty isolated. I must say i do miss being connected a little more to a church body then we are now. Anyway, not complaining but that's been my life of late.

Til next time then!

silly paranoid house wife??

Well, I haven't blogged in a while life has been full! So tonight seems like a good night to start writing again. I feel silly yet would rather err on the side of caution then have something happen which i could have helped prevent.

So i was sitting in my living room watching a movie, the kids are all sleeping, the house is quiet and Judah is at work when i start getting this strong smell of smoke. So i jumped up thinking oh no maybe i left something on the stove or i had left some fake flowers touching one of those desk lamps in the kids bedroom maybe it got to hot and is smoking. But after a quick walk around the apartment i knew it wasn't coming from anywhere in here. I then called judah, called the manager (who didn't anwser) and then called the fire department. Then I called the manager again just to tell him that the fire department was sending some guys out to check it out.

Well, three firemen and the manager walked around my (partially cleaned) apartment. Saying it smelled like food, maybe it was coming from upstairs. I felt silly mostly cause by the time they got here it didn't smell that strong anymore and the haze was mostly gone so i felt like i called them for nothing.

Ah well, better safe then sorry and thankfully the kids slept through it all I love how sound sleepers they are!

Well goodnight for now!

in christ or in sin

i was just listening to a message by Ken Ortize (definitely my favorite pastor to listen to) he has been going through 1 John and although it has been a month or maybe even a little more since i last listened to a message not even 10 minutes into it and i was struck by something he said. I don't think i can exactly quote what he said but this is the jist of it.
We only become significant when we are in the will of God for our lives. He used examples of Moses and Abraham where the bible doesn't record huge chunks of time in there lives but only the times when they were doing, acting, in God's specific will for their lives.
Anyways, there were a few other things that stuck out but that was the main one and i need to go work out and then off to bed, i have to get up and take Josiah to the bus in the morning...it's been a lazy week of vacation with many days of sleeping in so I am praying i get up in time tomorrow.

Yesterday Judah let me buy a jogging stroller off of craigslist. It's a Schwinn double jogger with the swivel wheel in front. WooHoo I am so excited to have it. Compared to the the joovy sit and stand i had this stroller handles so much better, so easy to push and both Jaelle and Enoch can sit (and nap!) So we took it out for a test run I was able to walk around for about a hour and a half without the kids whining or fighting about sitting in the front seat it was great. Enoch slept for most of the time then he woke up crabby super crabby so we ended the walk and went home. But I am so very thankful for the new stroller!

On a different note, the kids are finally started to feel a little better today. Josiah I noticed being extra tired and a little listless, last Thursday and Friday and then on Saturday is when he came down with the fever. So he has been ill for about 5 days and today I got an email from his teacher (sent to all the parents) saying that in his class 13 kids (out of 24) were home sick on Monday and today there were 11 home sick. All with the same thing, fevers with stomach aches and/or a cough. But he hasn't had a fever today so long as he is feeling okay in the morning I am going to let him go to school.

Josiah read to me a book called My "K" book all on his own and as his reward he got a new nerf sword. (all his other swords are in pieces or already thrown away) I also found this big book of poetry at the thrift store the other day which i am enjoying a lot it is a treasury of poetry, selected and commentary-ed by Louis Untermeyer from 1959. It's great!

And the last bit of news with us is Enoch has officially been weaned from his nuk! It has been about three weeks or so that he has gone without it! He still asks for it on occasion when he's really crabby or tired and is chewing on other not as badly as I thought he would. After the first two days without it he had woken up the middle of the night screaming and crying a little bit very mad because he didn't have his nuk but wanted it But thankfully it only happened once and hasn't happened since then. Now if only I could get the other two to stop sucking their thumbs!

Tears

Coming home from the thrift store tonight Jaelle was whining about Josiah not sharing some candy he got. As we came into the house she went over to the couch and sat down next thing I hear her say, "uhhh, grrrr...I can't cry, I can't make any tears..." I then asked her "what? did you just say you can't cry? Why do you want to cry?" Then she told me, "Well, cause Josiah wouldn't share his gummies! I can't make the tears come out."

I then started laughing at what she said and she then moved to the dinning room floor where she sat down crossed her arms leaning against the wall and tried looking grumpy and cross till we tickled her and got her to smile and laugh!

ahh, i remember trying so hard to make myself cry when I was upset at something Chad did and I wanted to be angry at him! HaHa!

Chicken Pox

I just got an email from Josiah's teacher saying they sent home a little girl in his class with a confirmed case of Chicken Pox. She has had the Varicella Vaccine (so has Josiah) and the nurse said she didn't feel sick because of that until now that she broke out with the pox this morning.
Interesting, I have wondered about this I remember when I was younger that is was such a big deal to make sure your kids got the chicken pox, (chicken pox parties, expose siblings if they hadn't gotten it yet, etc.) now a days because of the vaccines I hardly ever hear of kids getting chicken pox.
I know i've had it twice and when Luke was younger is when it started changing, when the vaccine was becoming more popular. According to Wikipedia the vaccines started to be given in 1995. We have entered a period where the effectiveness of the vaccine can be gauged. If you are interested in this check out Varicella Vaccine in Wikipedia. Well, hopefully Josiah won't get chicken pox!

Vegetate

The dictionary's definition of vegetate is
1 live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way : if she left him there alone, he'd sit in front of the television set and vegetate.

2 dated (of a plant or seed) grow; sprout.
• [ trans. ] cause plants to grow in or cover (a place).

3 Medicine (of an abnormal growth) increase in size.

ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin vegetat- ‘enlivened,’ from the verb vegetare, from vegetus ‘active,’ from vegere ‘be active.’

I was contemplating this as i was attempting to overcome the feeling to "vegetate" How did
veg, vegetable, vegetate words that sound like they should define being healthy, active end up being used to mean be lazy, dull, inactive?

So next time i am tempted to ("veg", as in be lazy and do nothing productive) i shall remind myself that it comes from a word meaning enlivened, active and BE ACTIVE!!