What to do

Brent is sleeping in our bedroom right now that holds my library book and youth lesson, so I guess I will blog. I decided to put Hunter down for a nap today, b/c he woke up at 6:30 this morning and was very crabby. He woke up at 6:30 b/c I woke up then. Brent will get up at 6:30 on Sunday mornings to get ready for worship practice, and he will stay asleep even though Brent isn't quiet. I tip toe downstairs being as quiet as I can and he wakes up immediately. I don't get it. We had to go to Brainerd this morning for Brent's appointment, and it was at 8:20. I wanted to drive him since he didn't get home from work until 4am. We let our van "warm" up before, and drove with it on the highest level the whole way to Brainerd, kept it running while we were in the office and ran it all the way home and it was still freezing in there. I brought blankets for the kids to cover up with. I have been chilly all day since. We are going to need to get that fixed. Brent has been looking on the Internet for parts in hopes he can do it himself.

Yesterday was really busy. MOPS in the morning, followed by directly going to Brainerd, followed by directly coming home to watch our friends kids for date night. I was wiped out by last night. My appointment was uneventful. I mentioned again about my gallbladder, and the doctor didn't say much. He said not to worry about the baby gaining weight, it will be fine. He said I was tall and could still look small with a 10 lbs baby inside. I hope the baby isn't 10 lbs! I will be having another ultrasound on February 8. I think I'll take Hunter along to that one. He is just so into having a baby!

The library book I was talking about has been really helpful. It is called "She's gonna blow!" about moms and anger. I always thought that if I was angry at my kids then I was mad at them or about them and then I'd feel bad about it, but this book has been talking a lot about the real reason we get angry at our kids. She talks about the piling things that get us to the breaking point to where we take it out on those nearest us(my kids) She gave a list of stresses such as laundry, chores, finances, time and so on. I have been practicing lately when I've found myself becoming angry to ask myself what I am really mad about and it has been very helpful. I cut myself some slack AND feel better b/c it is mostly not about the kids. I have really liked the book. That said, I'm ready to be done with it so I can finish Harry Potter!!!!!

Speaking of library books, I am starting to worry that we will be banned from there soon. I don't know why he does it, but Tate rips pages out of the library books. Nice new books that have no rips in them. He can sit for hours and look at our books and not rip a single page, but if he finds a library book, "RRRRIPP!" Of the ten books we got(I am now getting 10 so I know if any are missing) he has ripped 4. It is quiet irritating.

Hunter today was asking me if I remembered going to the park with grandpa BJ and gramma Mary. He said it was by the "story store". It took me a minute but I realized he was talking about the library. I thought that was hilarious. I suppose it would seem like a store to him.

I've been looking over the "Deceptively Delicious" cookbook. It is about pureeing veggies to hide in regular meals so your kids will eat them. I'm excited to try some of them out. Lots of carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, spinach and beet purees. My kids hate all veggies. She also suggests putting out a tray of carrot or celery sticks while she makes dinner b/c her kids usually come and say they are hungry(mine do) and so if they really are hungry they'll eat the carrots. I'm going to try that one, although I'm skeptical.

I lead youth group tonight and I am very nervous. Its my first time doing it by myself in front of both the guys and girls. Its the only time I have to do it, but I'm still nervous. Especially since its in my room with no way to get it to practice.

Tomorrow we have a date night and I am so excited for it. I have no idea what we are doing, but I don't care!!! Even if we come home and do nothing I am still pumped for it. We've been on the go so much lately that it will be nice to have some time to ourselves just the two of us.