Pack pack pack

Who wants to come help?!?! If I don't even want to participate I guess I can't expect any one else to jump in on the fun! It has been a pretty rough past week or so, I can't lie. Being a stay at home mom is not all peaches-n-cream. It is TOUGH. Sometimes you just want to go out of your mind when your teething toddler throws his lunch on the floor. Even better when he smashes it into the carpet and/or couch. (I definitely wouldn't know anything about this, it's all hypothetical). :-/ I am sure that Cliff wonders what I did all day when he comes home to me waiting at the door with no dinner on the table. I find that I lose my patience too frequently but I am imperfect- God made me that way! I strive to do better and I feel like I was more patient today than last Friday... thank God for that.

Lacy is still in the hospital in intensive care on the ventilator. It's so tough seeing my friend go through this. She is the model of a (near) perfect person. She is patient, kind, loving, nurturing, and has always dreamed of becoming a mom. I know she could have never thought up this situation she is now in. She has been a mom for 3 weeks and has only held her baby 2 times. I pray that she will remember when she held him for the first time but we definitely have pictures to prove it at least. If I think about her situation too much I just find myself in tears. She will get better and has been making vast improvements but I just wish I could give her the first 3 weeks of her baby's life to have in her memory. He is a precious little boy. I have held him and loved on him for her. He is so perfect and is doing amazingly well. He will probably get out of the hospital very soon- before his mommy. (don't worry, I offered to babysit) I have been emotionally drained. I can't imagine what Lacy and Ben's families have been going through. They are so faithful and it is so obvious every time I see them. They have held up better than I would ever expect anyone to under these circumstances. If you pray, throw one up for Lacy, Ben and baby Andrew!

TOMORROW we get the keys to our new (rental) house! We are so very very very excited to get out of this apartment complex. We cannot wait!!! Sam is going to stay with his Grandma Haynes Wed-Thursday and my parents are going to pick him up Thursday and come to LR to help us move on Friday morning! I am so thankful to have their help. I am also thankful that the weather forcast is expecting temps to be in the high 80's!!! We are so thrilled. This will help with our move so very much. A far cry from the 100's of this weekend and last week. YEAH!!

We are also ridding ourself of cable tv and our home phone. Tell me that we are crazy but we are going to try it out and see what we think. I think it could be good for us. I don't watch it that much anyway so why not save the $$?!? We will keep the tv and watch movies frequently, I am sure. Don't worry, we will still have the internet, we are not THAT crazy.

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