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Feeling A Peace Amidst Anxiety
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for me since my post yesterday. I’ve been feeling a peace since yesterday around noon. I’ve been able to keep busy today, which helps keep my mind off of things. Tomorrow is an important day for me, so please keep me in your prayers. I am sure I will be filled with anxiety until I have some answers.
O God, our help in time of need, Who are just and merciful, and Who inclines to the supplications of His people.
Look down upon me and have mercy on me and deliver me from the trouble that now besets me.
Deal with us not according to our iniquities, but according to Your manifold mercies,
for we are the works of Your hands, and You know our weaknesses.
I pray to you to grant me Your divine helping grace, and endow me with patience
and strength to endure my hardships with complete submission to Your Will.
Only You know our misery and sufferings, and to You our only hope and refuge,
I flee for relief and comfort, trusting in Your infinite love and compassion,
that in due time, when You know best, You will deliever me from this trouble,
and turn my distress into comfort. We then shall rejoice in Your mercy,
and exalt and praise Your Holy Name, O Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen. -
The God of All Comfort
Some days it is very difficult to be the mother and wife that I desire to be. I want to be patient and loving, but when I am struggling with things privately, I tend to have very little patience with those I love.
I’ve had a difficult end to my summer and am once again dealing with uncertainty and worry. I am having a hard time getting through the day without tears or raising my voice. Being a mother is the greatest gift in the world. I am so appreciative that God has blessed with the three wonderful children to spend my days with. But even with all the incredible joy I am surrounded by each day, I am also dealing with some significant trails right now.
I’ve found great peace in prayer. For weeks, I’ve been trying to pray as much as I can. For myself, for those I love and even for those who I’ve never met. Life can be very trying at times. We are all given crosses to bear, whether they be for a long or short while. But we are given strength from God if we just believe and turn to Him in prayer.
My friend, Trish, sent this prayer to me:
Almighty God, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
come to my help and deliver me from this difficulty that besets me.
I believe Lord, that all trials of life are under Your care
and that all things work for the good of those who love You.
Take away from me fear, anxiety and distress.
Help me to face and endure my difficulty with faith, courage and wisdom.
Grant that this trial may bring me closer to You
for You are my rock and refuge, my comfort and hope, my delight and joy.
I trust in Your love and compassion.
Blessed is Your name, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.Like the photo of Punky (above), right now, I am pushing on. I am relying on the grace of God to pull me through, whatever that may mean. I would appreciate your prayers right now. I hope that in the future I may be able to share some of this with you, but that depends on so much. Right now, I will be keeping things private and coveting your prayers. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Fruit From Our Own Backyard
Earlier this year, we bought two pears trees and a cherry tree. Unfortunately, the fruit of the cherry tree was completely eaten by birds- we have a better plan for next year. Our pear trees gave us a lot of fruit for being new trees. We were very pleased.
Punky enjoyed helping us spray the trees with organic, plant-based bug spray and watering the trees with our hole-ridden hose. But I think his favorite part was picking the fruit from the tree. I showed him how to do it, and he did a great job.
When we took the first bites of pear, we were in shock! They were incredible! So sweet and juicy. Immediately, my husband said that I needed to bake a pie with them. I made a Pear Berry Pie with an Oatmeal Crumble on top. It ended up being more of a crumble than anything, but it was really tasty!
I didn’t use a recipe or take a photo, so you’ll just have to imagine a sweet and tart crumbly pie.
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Two Double Birthday Parties
While we were visiting my family, we had a small party for Spunky and Bunky.
In attendance were my family and my cousin’s wife and her daughter.
My mom went out of her way and made a dairy-free cake with dairy-free icing for Spunky.
Bunky really enjoyed his birthday cupcake!
Everyone had presents to open.
Spunky loved ALL of hers.
And how could I leave out Emme…
Isn’t she adorable!
I was really excited when I found this for Spunky:
A child-sized baby sling~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back home, we had another birthday party ON Bunky’s birthday.
We had around forty people at our home for cake and opening presents.
I made Bunky a frog cake because Punky said to me,
“Bunky told me he wants a frog cake for his birthday.”
Spunky requested a marshmallow princess cake, so that is what she got!
I also made my Pink Party Punch.
I set up a table with cookies for the kids to decorate.
I think Spunky made three cookies– and ate them all!
This is one of my favorite photos from the party!
Spunky’s Polly Pocket from her cousins was her favorite gift of the day.
Bunky enjoyed opening his presents as much as a sick little boy could.
He was such a sweetheart even with his high fevers.We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family, near and far.
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New Beginnings
I just posted, and when I looked back at my blog, I realized that I haven’t really posted in weeks. In all honesty, I’ve been in a bit of a funk. Most of which relates to personal things that I am choosing not to share publicly. For several weeks I was struggling a lot, but I am starting to feel better. It is a process, as all things are in life.
In just a short while, Punky will begin Pre-School. This will change much in our home. We will no longer be able to “sleep in” in the mornings because I will need to be loading up all the kids into the car by 7:45am to get him to school on time. This also means that our Tuesdays and Wednesdays will be wide open from 8:00 until 3:00pm– and I will have two kids on my watch. I plan to use this time to focus on Spunky and Bunky. My goal is to prepare Spunky for pre-school. We will take the time while Punky is at school to have “school” of our own for a little while during those days.
Since the curricula for each class at the Latin School is accelerated by a year, Spunky will need to be ready for kindergarten-level work only a month after her fourth birthday. Whereas Punky is two months shy of his fifth birthday as he is about to begin school. I feel like he has been educationally prepared for pre-school for a long time now, but Spunky still has a lot to learn since she has just turned three years old. I am looking forward to spending that one on one time with her.
It is going to be nice to have a quiet home at least for a little while each week. Punky is certainly the noisiest and most energetic of our brood, but when Spunky joins him, she has no trouble keeping up with him, which adds to the choas. However, when Punky is not around, Spunky is much calmer and quiet. It will also be interesting to see Bunky’s personality begin to show through. So far, it is easy to tell that he is an intelligent, curious, stubborn kid (more to come in his one year post- can you believe he will be ONE on Sunday?!).
I am looking forward to seeing how school will shape Punky. I hope he is able to learn how to channel his energy into his work and into positive interaction with the children in his class. I am thankful for the opportunity to send our children to this school. It is going to be the catalyst for many big changes in our home, big changes we are all excited to see.
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Who Has a Mustache?
When both Punky and Spunky were little, whenever they would see a picture of a man with a mustache
in the book, they would point and say, “Papa!”Then a few days ago, we were talking about how Punky will grow a mustache when he grows up.
We asked him, “who do you know that has a mustache?”
And his answer?MOMMY!
Oh boy….. Fortunately, I do not have a mustache,
but why would he think of me?! -
All Anxious and Stupid
UPDATE: Everything went amazingly well.. and I didn’t even use the nitrous. It just made me feel like the room was spinning, so I stopped right after the shots (which actually don’t scare me at all). My real problem is with the way the Novocaine makes me feel: heart beating too fast, hard to breathe, etc. I made it through that and was completely fine.
I know that your prayers definitely helped.So thank you!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It is 11:30pm, and I need to go to bed.
What is keeping me up, you say?
My dreaded dentist appointment in the morning.
You see, I went to the dentist a couple of months ago for some routine work. Nothing too major. Realizing that I have been through many events in my life that were much more dramatic and painful (including the two inductions of my babies without the use of pain meds, no pain meds for the littlest guy either), I expected that I would handle the appointment ok. Not great, but ok would have been adequate.
Well, ok was no where near how I behaved.
Let me put it this way:
I was apologizing to the dental hygienist on my way out the door.
I was pathetic!This time around, I’m going for the nitrous oxide because I don’t think I can handle another appointment like that. I was ridiculously anxious and paranoid. It was embarrassing.
I think my dentist is going to be very happy to hear my change of plans, too.
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I just told my husband that I am going to bed “all anxious and stupid”.
Yep, that’s me… tonight.
Hopefully, I’ll be calm and quite intelligent by tomorrow afternoon.
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Feel free to say a prayer for me in the morning, around 9am.
I’ll take all the help I can get! -
Laundry Troubles
A while back, I posted my cleaning schedule on Facebook. It worked well for several months, but then, after Pascha, I fell out of the habit. I still, typically, keep the house somewhat neat and clean. Obviously, some day are better than others. However, there are two areas in the house that I have trouble keeping clean: the laundry room and the Master bedroom. The root of the problem in both of these rooms is one thing:
LAUNDRY.
The combination of cloth diapers and regular laundry forces me to prioritize, and if I am going to do this, the diapers come first. We reliably have clean, cloth diapers ready to go at any moment. Clean clothes… not so much.
It is not that we never have clean clothes. The problem is that the clothes live in the laundry basket.
The kids and I spend most of our time downstairs during the day, and the bedrooms are upstairs. This is one of the major deterrents for my being able to efficiently put the laundry away. But it is still no excuse… I could be doing it now instead of blogging, right? But I dread it…
I am writing this because
I NEED HELP.There.
I admit it!
Please leave a comment with the method that you use to do your laundry and put it away.
I would appreciate any advice at this point.
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Wordless Wednesday: Mama & Her Babies
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Multitude Monday: Week 5
It has been months since I last did a Multitude Monday, but I really want to get to one thousand. I have a long way to go.
41. My husband’s return after a week-long trip to Canada.
42. Seeing him cuddle on the couch with all three kids.
43. Hearing Bunky say, “All Done!” at only ten months old.
44. Watching Bunky go from sitting to crawling,
to standing to pulling up, all in about a week!
45. Learning my husband’s trick for calming
Punky down when he is getting too wild.46. Watching Punky build castles.
47. Hearing Spunky say, “You’re my sweet Mommy.”
48. Seeing my little girl pretending.
This time it was “going shopping”:
49. A sunny day after several gloomy days filled with rain.
50. My first, not so perfect, tomato:
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O God, our heavenly Father, who loves mankind and are a most merciful and compassionate God, have mercy upon Your servants for whom I humbly pray to You to care for and protect. O God, be their guide and guardian in all their endeavors, lead them in the path of Your truth, and draw them nearer to You, so that they may lead a godly and righteous life in Your love as they do Your will in all things. Give them Your grace, and mercy so that they may be patient, hard working, tireless, devout and charitable. Defend them against the assaults of the enemy, and grant them wisdom and strength to resist all temptation and corruption, and direct them in the way of Salvation, through the goodness of Your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
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