Moving

Thats right, I’m moving my blog here – Hope that you will continue to read and follow all our happenings. I needed a change, and i like the set up better there. Hope to see you there!

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Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July! The day our founders finally got the right to be their own persons, to live the kind of life they always wanted, free from the rule of a nation that wasn’t present. Happy 4th Of July Every One! 

Mark is working for a few hours this afternoon, and Kaia is trying to take her morning nap – shes putting up a little fight. We will be getting up w/ Mark in a bit, and then we’ll be heading to some friends for some home made ice cream!I’m looking forward to that. We have no other plans for the day, the firework display is on the Hudson river this year, which is on the other side of Manhattan, too far for us, and late to be out w/ a baby, and too many people. So, no fireworks for us – boo. I’m going to make it a good day – I’m choosing to have a good attitude, and make the best of it. 

Hope your day is a good one – with whoever you are with, and celebrating the day! Happy Independence day!

well then

Here we are – in July! What happened?! Maybe b/c it rained everyday the whole month of June had a dampening effect on the month – or maybe its b/c times really does fly when you have children and 1 minuet your bringing them home from the hospital, and the next they are moving out! Kaia will be 1yr old  in just a little over 1 month! I can’t believe it! She just got her first tooth, and shes moving all over – not yet crawling, but she get around! – and getting so big!

*sigh* 

Speaking of little girls big 1yr mark, I have some ideas as to what to do, but I’m not real sure what I’m going to go with. I know that this big day has nothing really to do w/ her – its about Mark and I and our friends – but I want to do something! We live in a great place – we have everything imaginable available to us and for us. Its a little overwhelming. Any one have any ideas? I don’t want any clowns/ magicians, nothing like that. I would love to do something out side, or @ the park, and of course there’s the cake/cupcakes to think about! Oh, so much to think about, I thought I had plenty of time, and here it is a little over a month away! Ahhh! Really need to get to work on this - 

In other news – the whole MK thing really came @ just the right time for me – I was really wondering what we next for me. Thinking ‘what else can I do in life’, ‘Am I just a mom and nothing else?’ As soon as that came along, I thought ‘This is it! I’ve found what I’ve been looking for!’ I’m glad that I looked into – but even more glad that I didn’t go ahead w/ it. I should just learn to be happy with where I’m @ and quite worrying about what’s ‘not’, or what ‘I want’ to be. I’m a mom right now, and I’m so thankful that I can just be a mom – I don’t have to worry about doing, or being anything else! Plus – now that I remember that little girls big day is right around the corner I a lot to do with that! 

Up and down, back and forth

Life has been all over the place for me the last few weeks! Started w/ my feeling of there having to be something more that I can do and be as a mom and wife and what not.

Then a Mary Kay opportunity came up and I jumped @ it! I was supper excited and really looking forward to doing that and all the free,  1/2 off product I’d be getting. Being able to be and do something other than ‘just a mom’. Then after my first MK party I realize there is much more to this endeavour than I was aware of. I hadn’t asked the right questions up front, before getting into all this, and here I was finding out more to what I was in for than I wanted to be in for! No ones fault, but my own for not asking up front – Oh well. So, as it stands now – and thank you ladies who came, bought, and aren’t getting anything for being so understanding! – I’m no longer a MK consultant. . . . . I’m fine with that!

Marks parents had sent us some info on a cabin they are renting up in Rome NY for the week and invited us to come up. It wasn’t going to work for all 3 of us to go, so I started thinking, maybe Kaia and I would go for a day or so. It can’t be that far, and a little road trip – before our BIG road trip to NC – would get me ready for the next one. I thought I had looked @ the distance before and it was only 3 or 4hr – this morning I look @ it and its 5hr! So, we’re not going, Kaia and I will be here in Queens all week, if your in the area stop by! I was bumbed! A cabin, in the mountains, out in the middle of no where, even Verizon doesn’t reach there!

The good thing is, I do have lots of things planed for this week – a lunch date tomorrow, birthday cup cakes wednesday, possible dinner guest that night, I’m sure a play date w/ our friends on thurs will be in order and then Marks off on friday. All in all, I think I have just enough to get me through, no matter how much fun we’d have if we went up state -

In other news in my life – yesterday was a BIG day for some/lost of people all over the country, especially here in NYC – there was a big parade, and lots of pride being shown/displayed all over the village. I had to go there yesterday and was a little early – so I stood on the corner, w/ the sunglasses on, and BlackBerry in hand, observing the left over entertainment. This kind of thing is something we see all the time here, but it was much more yesterday just b/c of the parade. I was thinking though, as I was watching everything/everyone, that we as the church, have done an awful job @ showing who we are suppose to be. What makes this kind of sin so much worse than the bad thought I just had about the lady that cut me off in line, or the nasty things that I  might say about someone else. Or the bad language we use? Its not, its all sin! We all do it, why do we treat this as some kind of really horrible thing? I’m not condoning this, I don’t agree w/ it, I don’t support it. But, they are people just like us – who need to know that my God, my Saviour – loves them just as much as He does me. When I hear someone say ‘your people don’t like my people’ I cringe! No! My ‘people’ don’t agree w/ your life style, not you! It makes me not want to be associated w/ the ‘christian church’ – we don’t have to be accepting of they way they live their life, but we should accept them and love them just the way the Man we love and believe in would and did! Ok, enough of this -

I’m looking forward to a good week – I’m going to make the best of it that I can!

@ the end

Yesterday – if you read the previous post – was a bad day for me. I really allowed it to be a bad day, I had my mind set that it was going to be bad, and staid in that bad mood all day, until I went to church last night. We went to the village service so that all 3 of us could come home together. I’m SO glad that we did!

The message wasn’t relevant to me – it was about dating – but I did end up making the best of it. I also had a chance to sit w/ someone I hadn’t seen or talk to in a long time, and that was nice. Kaia made it all the way through the service in journey kidz! I was ecstatic! And even though it was raining when we left, and  it had been a long day for Mark, it was great to be w/ my family, all together, walking in the rain, and waiting for the train. 

So – needles to say, my day ended on a much better, and higher note than when it started. I’m ashamed to say that it was my own bad attitude that made it miserable, and instead of being excited about what was going to happen, I was pissy b/c of what wasn’t happening . . . . I know, not one of my finest qualities. 

Today is a new day! And I’m going to make the best of it, even w/ the rain, and over cast skies! Blessings on your day -