Pictures

Over Thanksgiving my brother-in-law brought up the fact that I hadn't been blogging lately. Unfortunately while my life has been interesting enough to blog, it has been too interesting to give me time or energy to blog. How about some pictures from last month to tide you over?

My mother's birthday was 10-10-10 this year and she requested family pictures as a gift. Here are some of them. More interesting stories soon.





The Sloths







The Parents



Demand



Mr. Sloth & Happy



Happy & Demand



Me and my bros



Happy




Pax




Me and the Mr

New Digs

Mr. Sloth finally nipped it in the bud and requested a change of roommate. Not with me, with Pax of course. The grunting, snorting, gagging was keeping us up more than necessary so I spent all of last Friday converting our packed closet into a bedroom and beginning a serious home-wide purge. I had decided, excitedly, a few months ago that Pax would never move into the closet. By seven months (the time he'd need a full size crib) Demand and Happy could have a bunk bed. Plans change though.

I'm sure you remember Happy living in the closet, and my mother still has panic attacks just thinking of living in a closet, but remember we have a very large closet and this time Pax has even more space. I moved the dresser/changing pad from the 'kids' room into the closet and gave Pax a night stand as well. He even has a make-shift mobile.

This addition of space unfortunately only gives Mr. Sloth and I 1/3 use of the closet which leads me to my next topic. The house-wide purge. I know you hear of my purging every few months but this one is different. I'm reading the book "It's all too much" and finding it very inspiring. I'm accepting that even if it's in good condition, functional, a gift, or if I once loved it, it's OK to get rid of it if I don't use or love it now. Getting rid of stuff is incredibly freeing and can make even the smallest space seem livable.

So Pax is loving his new "room". I even hung a toy from the closet shelf to it's within his reach on the changing pad and he thinks it's the bees-knees. Best of all we're all sleeping a bit better. It also helps that he's eight weeks old now and starting to get over his painful gas stage.

 

 

 

 

Prayer Requests

For some reason I've been bombarded with depressing news this week. I won't go into all the details but I do have two college friends for you to pray for.

Pray for my friend "G" I don't want to go into details here.

My other friend is Emily. Emily is "G's" best friend and last December 3rd she was in a car accident with her son. Her one year old son is fine but she is not, she's been fighting in the hospital every since. She's mostly likely paralyzed from the neck down and blind. She might have more damage but she keeps getting pneumonia and every time it is life threatening. The constant battles with pneumonia keep them from finding out the real seriousness of her injuries. Please keep her and her family in your prayers as they approach the one year anniversary.

Here is her Care Pages site http://www.carepages.com/carepages/Emily_and_Max

So pray for both of my friends who are truly suffering.

All the depressing news I've heard this week have at the very least mad me realize how blessed we truly are and incredibly easy my life is compared to some....most.