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Family Date Night

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Another day, another sleepless night.  I am having the hardest time sleeping these days. I can't ever get comfortable. We actually had all of the kids in bed by 9pm and I laid down to go to bed myself... and 3+ hours later, here we are. I'm just chomping on ice and watching The Great British Baking Show. Today was a good homeschool day. We started our Dinosaur unit study, and Evelyn has enjoyed it so far. The most difficult thing I am running into with her schooling in general, is that she just always wants to continue on. For instance, I have a week of lessons planned out to cover Dinosaurs, but she wants to just do all of it in one day. We are also reading a book together for her Language Arts - 1 chapter a day - and she wants to just continue reading and gets frustrated when I tell her we have to stop. I love that she loves reading and learning, but I wonder how they do it at school in a way that doesn't frustrate her as much. I did have my 37 week appointment today, and...

Life Lately

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A few days ago, Janesse and I were talking about back in the day when we used to blog and it made me want to start it up again. I do love handwritten journals, but sometimes typing is just easier, honestly. So here I am. It's 11:30pm and everyone is sleeping. I was just in the bath (when I'm pregnant I am obsessed with taking baths and usually take at least 2 a day haha) and thinking about how this baby is going to be here soon. I am 36.5 weeks pregnant and will likely have this baby in the next 3 weeks. While I'm so beyond excited, I'm also really sad. I'm sad because Grayson won't be my baby anymore - yeah, now I'm here on the couch sobbing - and I'm sad because this will likely be our last baby. Which means I'll never get to be pregnant again, never feel the little kicks and rolls inside of me, never get to have a cute snuggly newborn, etc. I know I'm getting ahead of myself, because I will literally have a cute snuggly newborn in a few weeks,...