Worship, Motherhood & Random Musings

I didn’t twitter much today, which is weird for me, but I did it because I wanted to really spend some time with family.  I have less than 10 weeks with Chance being the only child and I really want to savor it.  This is what we did:

1. Woke up & made blueberry pancakes for the boys.  I made Chance “Mickey Mouse” pancakes (just 3 circles… 1 big one for the head and 2 smaller ones as the ears).  He talked about them the first half of the day saying, “I ate Mickey Mouse… remember, Mommy?”
2. Brian left for a meeting and I headed upstairs for a shower.  When I came downstairs, Chance had pulled out every art supply from our armoire and every toy from his toy chest.  It looked like a hurricane had hit my house.  It took us (yes, I always have him help me clean up HIS messes) 30 minutes just to clean it up.
3. Chance and I left at 11am to find the following items at Target: special tiny round battery, stain removal stick (not the spray), journal for baby #2, legos.  None were at Target.  Weird, right?
4. Went to a BBQ with our good friends, Jenn & Matt and their two kids David & Hannah.  Chance got to swim for a couple of hours and I got to sit and chat with Jenn.
5. After the BBQ/swim, we decided to check out Mattress World to compare cost of new king sized beds.  We found an amazing memory foam bed and got them to throw in egyptian cotton 600 count sheets, a waterproof mattress cover and two high end pillows for 2/3’s the cost of the sleep number we had put a down payment on last weekend.  They specially make each individual bed so that’s pretty cool.  I only wish we had ALL the money now so I could have a new bed in two weeks instead of two months.
6. We got home and Chance, who didn’t get a nap all day, decided he needed a nap… AT 5:30pm.  It’s 8:32 right now and he’s still asleep.  I hope he’s calling it a night… but he hasn’t had dinner.  Should I be worried?

I’m not really sure why I shared all this with you.  Today wasn’t any “out of ordinary day”, but overall… it was a pretty great day.

I feel as if I’ve graduated from something after meeting with Chance’s FIRST school teacher.

She is totally awesome!  I’m so looking forward to her working with Chance this year.  She sent us home with paperwork and homework.

The paperwork was for me:  Immunization forms, enrollment completion, emergency contact, blah blah blah.

Homework was for Chance:  she sent home a picture she had drawn about herself.  Her family, things she loves (like Starbucks), and what she did this past summer.  Chance’s homework was to do the same thing.  After I explained it all to Chance, this is what we ended up with.

I promise I didn’t put him up to any of this.  He colored/scribbled in colors HE chose, then told me what they were… so I wrote it down.

My son ROCKS!

Lots of stuff just floating around… so of course… the best way to remedy that is to write a “Floating Thoughts” blogpost.  So… here goes:

• I can’t believe Chance is 3 years old.  Where did the time go?
• Today, my calendar says I’m 29 weeks and 5 days pregnant (if you count November 15th being my due date)… but I’m REALLY 30 weeks and 6 days pregnant (since I have a scheduled C-Section on the 7th).
• My hair won’t hold color as well as it usually does.  My hair stylist says it may be because I’m pregnant.
• Speaking of pregnant - today was my glucose test appointment.  I get the results in a couple of days, but I weigh 146 lbs (that’s 26 lbs more than “normal” but 8 lbs less than the same time last time being preggo with Chance) and my belly measures bigger than last time too.  So, I weigh less, but the baby is bigger.  GREAT!
• We took Chance along to thank our Doctor, Tim Stewart, for taking him out of mommy’s tummy 3 years ago.  Cute.
• Matt and I ordered my new MacBook Pro today in our service planning meeting.  I am SOOO excited for my new laptop!!!  No longer will I be confined to our home office.
• My back pretty much hurts all the time, non-stop, but I only have 10 more weeks so I try not to complain.
• My awesome husband got pedicures together AND he took me shopping for new preggo clothes (though I made sure I could still wear them after I had the baby too) this past weekend.  He actually WENT shopping with me, which hasn’t happened in FOREVER.  I feel like a new woman… sort of.
• I just scheduled our newborn photo shoot with Kimberly for November.  She is SOOO good.  I am so excited, I’m pretty unsure of what to do with myself.
• I really miss my friends and team members at Sunset Pres.
• Pre-school starts in 8 days for Chance… but tomorrow is our first meeting with his teacher.
• Brian and I are finally narrowing down our list of baby names, though we can’t seem to agree strongly on any of them.
• I really can’t believe how long the waiting line is to adopt overseas right now.  I’m a bit upset because children need to be home and times a wastin’.
• We still haven’t started a baby journal for baby #2.  We started one for Chance the first month we found out we were pregnant.
• I know most people don’t like their in-laws, but I think mine are ridiculously AWESOME! I love that I can sit down with either of them and talk, from the heart, for hours, totally being my authentic self and know they love me unconditionally as their own.  I want to be THAT kind of in-law to my daughter-in-laws one day.  Is that weird?
• Here’s a list of things I can’t wait to do once I have this baby:

1. Go hiking
2. Play the guitar without the “slope”
3. Go snowboarding
4. Work out & run
5. Go camping
6. Wakeboard
7. Breathe a deep breath again

• Here’s a picture of me at 29 weeks and 5 days (and yes, that’s one of the cute new shirts I got this weekend - it’s organic cotton, if you care):

And there you go.

Comment away!

He’s come out with a statement.

My opinion was posted on an older post.  Now that some times has passed…

… what are your thoughts?

So, Chance’s birthday is September 1st… Labor Day.  It truly WAS my labor day.

What rocks is that he’s actually ON the cut off date of everything school, camp, kid-wise here… but what sucks is that all his friends will ALWAYS be out of town the weekend of his birthday.

This year was no different, so we planned his birthday party for the week before. 

I know this post is a week late, but… well… I don’t really have any good excuse

Here are some pictures from that:

Chance may think he has week long birthday celebrations for the rest of his life.

Thanks to all who helped make his third birthday his most memorable… so far

Brian’s parents came into town for Labor Day weekend to spend some time with us and celebrate Chance’s 3rd birthday.  This will also be his LAST birthday as an only child.  LOL!

One of the big things we did this weekend was go to Rockaway Beach.  Here are some pictures:

I had to include the ONE picture of me, even though my hair is everywhere.  Oh well.  That’s what happens when YOU’RE the “picture taker” of your household… you have a limited amount of pictures of yourself.

Some of these pictures are really sweet.  I’ll have to photoshop some a bit, blow them up in black and white and hang them in our house somewhere.

I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them.

I realize I haven’t posted in a week or so.

I have SO much to post too.

Promise to do it today… when Chance goes down for his nap

So, I teach lessons all afternoon on Thursdays which usually works well because that’s when Chance naps.

However, after my first lesson today, Chance was still awake (probably because of the gigantic poop in his pull-up… GROSS!).  

Here was our conversation after I changed his pants:

Chance: Mommy… I’m awake now. No more nap.

Me: Oh no, honey… you’ve only been up here for an hour and I know you haven’t slept.

Chance:  But I’m awake. No nap.  Please!

Me:  I need you to sleep because you’ll be grumpy later if you don’t.

Chance:  *tears starting* I’m not grumpy. I’m awake.

Me:  Mommy still has lessons to teach.  You need to sleep.

Chance: *tears*

Me:  If I give you some Veggie Chips and water, will you go to sleep afterwards?

Chance:  *tears stop* Yes.

So, that’s what I did.  A small cup of chips and sippy of water helps me get on with my day. 

I can hear him crunching away in his room right now.

What have you resorted to in order to get your child to nap???

Just saw this in my Facebook inbox from my old high school friend, Greg.

Thanks for the reminder, jerk!  LOL!

Seriously though… Greg has never forgotten a single one of my birthdays.  As long as I can remember (which isn’t saying much right now), Greg has always shot me a “Happy Birthday” note BEFORE my birthday since I’ve known him.  That’s over 10 years.

But I’m pretty sure he doesn’t read my blog.

Meh… no one’s perfect.

Portland, Oregon is one of the least churched cities in the United States.  The purpose of the church is to win, build and send people for the glory of God.  It starts with introducing the unchurched to Christ.

Matt has been hard at work figuring out some great and inexpensive ways to advertise so we can not only get people through the doors of our church, but to KEEP them.  We are using postcards to invite people to our October series - “WITH”.

Who are you with?

Come check us out if you’re in the area