Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
Notes from the Trenches posted this. I wasn’t surprised at all to see I am left-brained.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
Scott relays this conversation him and Emma had on the phone the other day…
E: I love you
S: How much do you love me?
E: 31! How much do you love me?
S: 100!
E: Wow, you must love me a lot.
Last night the girls and I went to a home party featuring Thirty-One gifts (This is NOT a sponsored post, so keep reading :)). It’s a Christian based organization that sells monogrammed purses, bookbags, notecards, etc. It’s really new to our area and I got a cute black and white cosmetic bag with my name in all lower case in lime green. Should be cute. I hadn’t planned on going but Scott was at work, Heather was at a friend’s and Mom was working so we were bored at home and so at the last minute–literally–I loaded them in the van and took them. Turns out SIL and MIL were there and so were the children of the hosts so they had a great time and I had a nice time as well.
Today for lunch I met S at a local restaurant. We had a great time and had so much to talk about we couldn’t hardly get it all out fast enough. We hadn’t talked face to face in about 2 months. It was a great visit and we decided we should do it more often since we both work at home and school is back in.
And now for tonight I just planned a shopping and movie trip with Mrs. J while Scott and Mr. J go to Scarowinds. So if this is any start to my weekend, it should turn out great.
Tomorrow I may go to a craft show–where is it again, Jaynee?–and then tomorrow night we have an outing with the youth group.
Oh and Sunday we have a fundraiser dinner at the church. And you notice I don’t have any cleaning on the schedule. It was cleaned 4 days ago and I don’t plan to do much but straighten up.
So yeah. My weekend is going to be busy. And hopefully good.
There have been times in the past few months where I’ve asked Scott if he wanted to have another baby which is normally followed by a resounding "No!". And normally when people ask me if we’re having any more children, I promptly respond, "No!" as well. Which, why is it that so many people ask me that? I don’t mind it at all but I’m just curious why everyone is so interested in whether we are planning another baby or not. Anyway. Number 3 has never really been in the plans. I’ve always wanted two children and the same for Scott. But in the past few months, I think if Scott even whispered a mention of wanting a third, I’d be on that train fast.
I keep convincing myself if we were to have a third, we’d most certainly have a boy because there’s no way I’d have to deal with lovingly raise another Princess-crazed little girl or pay for 2 more prom dresses or pay for one more wedding. Although I know to be wiser because my previous pastor I think thought the same thing and he has four daughters.
But C is pregnant, due in December and at least 4 different girls my age at church just had babies. Last night at a home party I went to, I spent most of my time holding one of those babies. And she spit up on me and I had to hold her the whole time. And yet, I didn’t mind a bit. And while sometimes I look at them and think THANK GOD I’m not doing that again, there are other times where I wouldn’t mind rocking another baby, watching another baby go through all of those milestones so quickly it makes your head spin and honestly, I wouldn’t mind nursing another baby. And I could have my little Tucker. Or Ian. Or Gabe.
But then I remember all the endless nights, the countless diapers, the feeding of EVERY meal, the guessing of cries, the endless spit-up, the poop, oh the poop. I remember all that and think do I really want to start over with that. And that’s 4 more years older I’ll be when all the kids are out of the house.
And Lord, how would I work with three?? I seriously doubt I could continue working at home like I do now. Of course, Emma would be in school next fall so maybe that work.
And we certainly don’t have the room here. We’d have to move and really I just don’t want to do that.
But then I think of decorating a blue room and buying cute, striped polos and khaki shorts and watching Scott and a little boy do man stuff and watching a little boy grow into a man and I think I might just be willing to stretch myself.
And just for the record, I’m NOT pregnant and in fact I’m on meds right now where I’m not allowed to even think of getting pregnant.
So I am was feeling awfully proud of myself today. I mean, I literally saved over $100 in groceries today. I worked, I got the kids to preschool and back. I even made dinner. So I’m standing in the kitchen making the kids’ plates for dinner to carry them into the dining room and in runs Emma from the living room. She gets on her tip toes to see onto the counter, takes one look at her plate, scrunches her face and says, "Ew, yucky."
Glad I worked so many hours for such cheap groceries and made such an effort to plan the menu and then actually cook it all for that. Welcome to motherhood, right?
Let’s see what I’m thankful for this week…
Coupons! Lovely coupons! Triple coupons!
CVS Extra Care Bucks
Crystal Paine at moneysavingmom.com for sharing all her knowledge about her grocery savings techniques.
Allison for helping me get my blog monetization up and running.
Our safe travels out of town this weekend.
Yes, finances do seem to be on my priority list right now but hey, God calls us to be good stewards of our money so I don’t think I’m out of line–you just might be tired of hearing about it 😉
Today I was one of those people. The people stand in front of you in line at the grocery store with stacks of coupons. By the end of the transaction, the receipt literally has reached the floor. The cashier looks at them and says, “Your total is $50. Today, you’ve saved $69. Thank you for shopping with us.” Woo Hoo!!! I saved 55% on my grocery bill today!
For anyone that lives near me, Lowe’s Foods is having triple coupons until tomorrow. Go buy a Sunday paper and combine it with the in store coupons. You have to use the Lowe’s foods coupons in their flyer to get the extra off even if the item is on sale to anyone with a Lowe’s card.
Look at me giving coupon advice…;)
So a busy few days I guess. Trying to get back into the swing of things since getting back from vacation.
Tuesday afternoon we had band practice. It went well. A youth singer finally came to practice and it was so much better. Last night’s set went really well as well. And one thing I’m really excited about is another youth is completely doing the podcast by herself this week. So yay for one less thing for Amy to do! Also, word on the street is we may have a prospect for a new youth pastor. A musically talented husband/wife youth pastor. Woo Hoo!
Besides that, I’ve been watching all my tv shows in the evening and couponing, menu planning and grocery shopping planning. Yeah, not sure where the real Amy is on that one. Every time I say something like that, Scott is like who is this new person? But today I have plans to go to the store and should be saving around half off.
And since I’ve now referred to myself in third person twice already (I really usually hate that), I may as well say Amy’s gotta go.