My Life

Note to self: Must make more time to blog. Ya know, because I have so much free time.

I figured since it's almost Monday again I should post something.

We're still waiting on this baby. I'm not really sure what's going to happen there. You know the feeling when you are pregnant and at (or for those who have gone there...past) your due date and every night you think, "Maybe contractions will wake me up tonight!!!!" and then you wake up still pregnant? It's kind of the same feeling for me as a doula/apprentice. I go to bed thinking, "Maybe I'll get a phone call tonight!!" and I wake up and realize my phone never rang and she's still pregnant!

Big week in our house....Emily turns 10 on Saturday!!!!! :) Un-freaking-believable!!!!! She's having a sleepover Friday night. We decided that it would be fun to not do cake and ice cream until Midnight...when it's really her birthday. ;)

Our church is participating in Lent again this year. The theme for it is "Making Room For God". And this is the first time Kev and I are giving something up for Lent. He is fasting from his online video games and we are both fasting from processed sugars. Well...as much as we can since even things like bread has sugar in it. Mostly the obvious things like soda, sweet snacky stuff (called "yummies" in our house), and.....you guessed it.....*SIGH*.....chocolate. And no, my head hasn't started spinning around. Yet. I only agreed to this because Kev wanted to do it...so I said I would too. Seemed like a good Christian thing to do at the time. LOL It hasn't been a week yet and we've both done pretty good. I did break down and had a hot chocolate/coffee yesterday on the way to be with this client (thought she was going to have that baby) and Kev accidentally ate a donut at church today (lol..said he realized it 1/2 way thru and decided God would understand if he finished the other 1/2). We are making one exception during the six weeks and that is Emily's birthday party. I told him there was NO way I was giving up eating cake and ice cream on my baby's 10th birthday!!! I think God understands.

It has been pretty neat because when, out of habit, you start to do the thing you are fasting from, it makes you stop and remember why you are fasting from it. It really does make you stop and seek God a little bit more when you really really really really really want just a little nibble of chocolate or a sip of Coke. And since I quite often really really really really really want chocolate....you get the picture. ;)