Busy Being Blessed

i made my own kit, using commercial-use products i’ve been gathering for a while.

http://www.blessedmamacreations.com/store/index.php?p=170

who knows if it will sell, but it sure was exciting. i had fun making it too. and isn’t the ad preview pretty? julie made it for me!!

too late for more today…i will try to pop in tomorrow with a real post.

i am so sorry it’s been so very long since my last post. there is so much to say that i don’t know if i’ll have a chance to post it all. i’ll use a little bullet-type system to help me try to remember everything.

• KC

first, for the dog issue. the owner of the dog that attacked jeremiah and kc came by, and gave us a check to cover kc’s vet bills. this was so wonderful. kc is recovering well. he had a larger sore (about the size of a dime) that we hadn’t noticed before, as it’s under hair. but even that is nearly completely healed. thanks so much for your prayers during that whole ordeal.

• Jamin

he is going to be 9 months old on friday and i am just unbelievably shocked about this. can you believe it? he is crawling all the way now (not just army crawl), he sits up on his own (he likes sitting on his knees best so far), he pulls himself up all the time (i’m posting a video of this in a sec), he is eating stage 3 foods and also mama-eaten meats (yes it’s gross but it’s so much faster than using a processor), he is still LOVING nursing, he has six teeth (4 on top) and is working on another bottom one. he’s been doing this interesting thing that he’s in a crawl position, but puts his rear up in the air. i don’t know what he’s doing. LOL it’s so funny. he is beyond adorable and i love him so much!

• Josiah

he has been going through so many things…we thought he was getting better behavior-wise but all the sudden he is 100% worse again. i am so befuddled with his behavior. he is SUCH a sweet and smart boy, but sometimes his disobedience just wears me down so much. i love him so much and i just want to see the “real” joe. you know, now that i think about it, i really think the food issues play a big part of it, and if we slip and let him have a “no-no” type food for more than a few days in a row, we see problems. yeah, i think it could be the dairy doing it lately. i wish there was a good cheap cheese alternative. he has adapted to having no milk – he loves rice milk and almond milk. hopefully we’ll find something soon.

• Jeremiah

this little man has been thinking he’s much too big for his britches lately. he has a bad attitude, disrespectful tone, and meanness to him lately that we are finding unacceptable and horrible. i don’t know if it’s his age, or something we’re doing wrong, but we are trying to nip it in the bud. jerry and i have had enough of it! now that i think of it, his could be the extra cheese as well…hmmmm. it’s so hard to balance excuses for your kids…i want them to do the right thing, but if their little bodies are out of whack because of something they consume…it’s kind of hard to know how to discipline.

both big boys have really been enjoying coloring/drawing. jeremiah tries really hard to stay in the lines and is doing well. josiah doesn’t stay in the lines too hot yet, and he’s more interested in drawing than coloring. he likes to draw circles and write “letters” some of which are actual letters!

jerry hooked up the boys’ own computer this weekend, and it’s hooked to the internet. jeremiah said today “i’d like to go online”. it was kinda cute. lest you worry, it’s right next to mine, and they can’t be on it unless one of us is on our computer too. but that brings me to a picture and video of jamin:

PLEASE NOTE:
you may not view the video unless you are signed in as a friend on youtube. if you have a youtube account, leave me your username in the comments and i’ll add you as a friend (probably LOL). if you don’t have a youtube account, and don’t want to, leave a comment (make sure your email address is correct so i can reply!) or email me (blest with boys at gmail dot com) and i’ll give you the “family” username and password. once you are signed in there, you can refresh the page and see the video. (and all videos will be this way from now on. )

a very disturbing thing happened today while i was gone. i don’t know if any of you remember, but over a year ago (i honestly think it’s been a LONG time, but can’t recall how long), a creepy guy came to our house and freaked me out. well, jerry thinks that guy came again tonight. jeremiah and i were at the store, and we were using the van. the guy knocked on the door and looked totally surprised to see jerry. he said something about it must not be the right house, and then asked something about the house numbers (someone painted the house numbers on the street this week) and then left. jerry was really freaked out. he has it in his mind that this guy has been scoping our house out (me especially) and knows when the van is gone, jerry is gone…so he thinks the guy came looking for me. now i try not to be paranoid, but jerry is the cool-headed one in our family. so when he’s worried, it really gets me in quite a tizzy. i’m still trying to be calm about it, but i don’t want him to leave for fed-ex tonight. UGH. i hate being so distrustful of people, but it’s a very evil, wicked world we live in. please pray for protection.

i had to leave a group of women (a message board) that i have loved for almost three years. it was really hard to do, and i’m still hurting over it. some things have been done there that i just can’t approve of, and i couldn’t stay and pretend i was ok with it all. i don’t like Christian bullying.

so that is horrible, and i miss so many ladies from there. but in a way it’s kind of good, i guess, because it helped me do something that i’ve been wanting to do for quite awhile: open my own Christian message board! i would love if you could come to join us (sorry rob, for ladies only )! http://ladiesofgrace

i hope that update will suffice. God bless! oh, if i don’t post before sunday, happy mothers day to all the amazing mama friends i know!!!!!!!

oh, i will add the video if it ever uploads!