The "Look" He Gives...

After I had been woken up for the third time last night from Garrett, I got to thinking. Thinking in the middle of the night can be dangerous. Sometimes I wake up and wonder "Why did I waste so much of my brain energy in the middle of the night"? I had this whole scenario that it would be fun to install little security cameras in our house. And this would not be for an intruder. It would be for all the crazy things that my kids do through out the day that no one would completely understand unless I had the evidence.
You know how Michael Scott from the Office is a nut case and all Jim can do is give that awesome look at the camera? His look says it all..."How is it that I have a boss that gets away with this stuff?" and How is it that this is my life everyday?" and "Seriously?"..(you have to be a Grey's fan to know the inflection of that one.)
That's how I feel throughout the day when my kids are driving me bonkers about different things or when I hear "ohhhh look what happened"..... So anyway that's all, I miss the Office and wish I had a camera to look into every so often to feel justified with all the actions that take place throughout my day.....

PS I have my own little Office dance that I do every time the theme song comes on, Pete wishes he had a camera to look into every so often concerning me.

And we're live.... or at least I am.

Seriously.....

It has been 2 weeks and 3 days since I have been computerless, phoneless, and dishwishareless and oh yeah ice makerless. The most random irriatating things happen to us. It's never a tragedy, thankfully, just bizarre. One Monday I was upstairs folding laundry(sounds good, huh? I think I was really watching tv for a moment or two). And the lights flickered and all my favorite electronics went kaput. Some big power surge went through our house and broke not only a few very expensive items but broke my sanity too.
Anyway, I learned I can be out of touch for a while and still make it through the day. The hardest part was not keeping up on my celebrity news, had no idea Ashlee Simpson got married except from buying the people magazine last weekend. I have my ways and I will not be stopped.
Anyway, if I email any of you regularly and you want me to be able to stay in touch... will you email me at muber@triad.rr.com. So I can create a new contact list for my new computer and I will add you to the list. We're not sure yet if we can access anything from our old hard drive.
I gotta run for now. I have both boys in a little camp this week at Marschall's preschool. So I get to play in the mornings for a few hours till Friday and then our summer sets in. Long hot days filled with a boy, a toddler and a grumpy pregnant mom. Oh yeah and I think the Lord blessed you with my blogging absence. I have been one complaining, throwing up, and irritated girl these days. Good times.
I will spare you the details.

Houston, we DON'T have a signal....
This is Meredith's sista here (*hi!*) letting the blogging world know she will be out of commission for a while. Wouldn't you know that with all the bad storms lately, their neighborhood got struck and they are down....no phone, no internet, no dishwasher (yikes). So if you see a flare thrown up from Meredith's corner of the world, it is probably just her saying hi ;)

And Baby makes Five....

Yes, you read that right!
We are moving into becoming a family of five. I am almost done with my first trimester. (10 weeks and 2 days, but almost done with first trimester sounds like I am a lot further along!)
We had always talked about having a third baby and a surprise to us... baby came along sooner than expected!
Needless to say why my blogging has fallen off the face of the earth. I go through my day clearing paths just to walk in our house. Pete actually had the gall to say he realized how much I do around here.(Because our house looks like a tornado has hit since we found out about the pregnancy)I think I'll take it as a compliment though because I know someday soon I will feel better and I will pull myself together and life will get back to the way it was. Beautifully clean house with everything in order.... yeah right.
So what does having third baby mean to someone who likes life very ordered and routine? I can't imagine it is going to get easier. But I am up for the task through the help of God's good grace. Who says orderly, routine, and clean is any fun? I think I must change my expectations, to spontaneous, chaotic and messy. I bet I will meet those with flying colors.
I been thinking a lot about this new birth. I am hoping it will change me for the better or I should say that God will use this pregnancy and new life to make me more like Him. I get caught up a lot into my routine and change is very hard on me. I make it hard on myself, to be honest. I like to buck change, flee from it and ignore it. So to think that this new life was unexpected, it's bringing about a whole a lot of change and anxiety. For me, change means I will have stop my agenda and adhere to something new and unknown. I will have to work at it and adapt. A very wise friend wrote the following to me in an email... "There is a microscopic bundle of protoplasm growing inside you and right at this minute, cells are amazingly finding their correct spots to grow to become toes and lungs and hair follicles and eyes. He doesn't need your help to make this happen; He simply wants you to "be" so He can do the work." (FYI, God is the "He")
I don't have to do anything, so to speak, for this new life to grow. I can rest in Him and allow Him to create another one made in His image.
That's all, it's almost my bedtime.

An Almost Spare.....