life is busy...quick update

so much has been going on it's ridiculous! we've done some sea trials, a big helping of sick for me and The Boy, and frantic, anxious preparations for the final step for me to become a Group Leader for the breastfeeding mother-to-mother support organization. I was supposed to get a call tonight, but it's now an hour and 23 minutes after the call was supposed to happen, so I guess not. Just have to do the big part tomorrow afternoon and then wait for a couple more pieces of paperwork and then I'll be finished (and the real work will begin!). Still waiting to hear on The Hubs's OCS application. We have been told we should hear by Friday. It also seems like my body is finally getting itself straightened out and normal, so prayers for another baby would be appreciated! I think that's about it. I'm hoping that after these next couple of days, I will be able to focus and blog a bit more.

Oh, and I've been knitting! I finished my first-ever sweater (pattern here) and it worked! So I'm knitting another one! My good friend just found out that she is having baby #2 so one set will be for her. Now I just hope Mom's dream about me having twins doesn't come true for a while--I'm a little tired of this pattern! Hahaha! Once I get both sets of hat, booties and sweater done, I will post plenty of pics!

Blessings to all!

Home again, home again...

Yay for getting to spend tonight with the Hubs! I've missed him so much these last couple days and he'll be gone again for another few tomorrow. :( I get to see him tonight though and I'm grateful for that!

We haven't been up to much around here. After The Hubs left Sunday to be stuck in his steel tube for a few days, E-boy and I went to church, came home and took a nap, got up and went to a local Mexican place where our church members filled up the room with the big screen TV to watch the Super Bowl. We came home, went to bed, woke up Monday and I got an adjustment as an "I love you" present from my mommy! Just cause she rocks! I've felt so good these last couple of days I just can't even tell you! Then we went to IHOP, Walmart (I am now the proud owner of 5 more pairs of knitting needles! More on that in a minute.) and came home to nap again. I woke up, made sausage and lentil soup (so yummy!) we played, read, and started getting ready for bed again. Our life is very boring.

On another note, I'm knitting again! My wrists have been bothering the heck out of me, probably because my thyroid is being wonky, but they're feeling good and I've made a baby bonnet and I'm starting on another one from the same pattern, Kiah's cutie lace bonnet, which is really beautiful. I knitted it on size 4 needles to make a newborn size bonnet and weaved ribbon through the eyelets for the ties. I'll post pictures soon!

I'll probably be sewing again soon too. All of this goes in cycles. But a friend of mine needs help making a pouch-style baby carrier and I need to learn to do blanket binding, so we're trading sewing lessons tomorrow night. I'm also contemplating sewing a case for my 80-bajillion knitting needles. And possibly some baby stuff, as well. There is a reason behind all of this baby-themed crafting. If you've seen Facing the Giants, you'll know what I mean when I say that I'm preparing for rain. I'm getting my whole life in order so that God can bless me.

Oh, and if you pray, there is a man at a local hospital who was injured Sunday night and he needs prayers. I was a witness and asked him if I could call somebody for him and he said, "No. There's no one in my life anymore." I can't stop thinking about him and praying for him, so please join me. Thank you.

Anyways, off to make myself pretty for the arrival of The Hubs! Blessings to all!

2 good nights in a row...

Last night was so wonderful. Hubs, E-boy and I sat around watching movies, eating pizza and just enjoying each other. Because he has been so busy at work, we haven't had one of these nights, well, pretty much since August. I really love just getting to be with Hubs, because he's so wonderful. Because we are facing a period of separation soon, I'm trying to drink up these moments. Like laying in bed last night before I fell asleep and just having a warm body next to me. I am NOT looking forward to climbing into my cold bed every night.

Then tonight my parents invited E-boy and I out to dinner and a movie. Hubs wasn't available and Mom knew I was really getting down about how the next months will go for us. We had a blast! E-boy and his Pop-Pop are SO funny together and dinner at OG we were laughing constantly. Actually some of our funniest moments were in the car. My kid is too smart for any of our good, he just figures stuff out SO quickly. That boy is going to be a handful just a few years from now! We went to see "Mall Cop" which was pretty good, and the Boy actually behaved. Then home again, home again, doing homework for my breastfeeding support group Leader accreditation (not too much longer!) eating Ice Dream from Chick-fil-A, yummmmm, and catching up on my DVRed shows as I nursed the Boy down.

Just looking forward to talking my mom into making a Trader Joe's trip in the morning, lots of photo organizing tomorrow afternoon, maybe a little knitting thrown in there and a Birth Matters meeting tomorrow night!

Good night to those who rest their heads, in big steel tubes in tiny beds...

After 3+ years of marriage...

Today, I finally felt like a Navy wife. I've done the ironing of utilities, occasional duty days (gotta love that hubby is an LPO), learning some words in a language I didn't realize existed (is there a dictionary on Submarinese?) and 21 days of notice to move 4 states away, but today really made it hit home. Maybe it's because I met my husband when his then-boat was in the shipyard and then we went on 2 1/2 years of shore duty and it's just always seemed like he just had a job. So what pushed me into the full reality of my life? Having to hunt down my ombudsman after being at the command for over 5 months? No. Learning how to properly fold a poopy suit? Nope. Finding that my husband is still at work 8 hours after he expected to be home? Nope. It was packing his sea bag. Placing his t-shirts, socks, MP3 player cord in his sea bag and praying for the safety of Hubs, the boat and the crew has made me a little weepy. At some point in the not-too-distant future, my hub-kins will have to take his place in a big metal tube and be away from me. It won't be long (if I told you how long, everyone on earth would laugh at me), but it sure will be real. I've been so spoiled these last 4 years and now I get to really realize how challenging our life is going to be. In the next 2 years, we are looking at 13 weeks of separation for OCS, another 10 for sub school, and possibly months of being separated from him by a 9 hour drive because it's just not feasible to move a family of 3 that far away when we don't know how long he's even going to be there. (Please, Lord, let it be less than a month!) I have a feeling I'm gonna be spending a LOT of money on gas and/or airfare. It would almost be easier if he was on a 6 month deployment, because then at least I would know it's not possible to reach him. And then I think about how E-boy is gonna handle this. As far as he's concerned, his daddy hung the moon. I know we'll make it and we'll be fine, and I wouldn't trade an ordinary life for the moments I have with him. Because as far as I'm concerned, a more difficult life with an extraordinary man is much more precious than a life of seeing an ordinary man every day.

And Hubs, if you read this...I love YOU!

Here We Go...

I have a feeling over the next few months, I'm gonna need a place to vent. Since 3 year old little boys have no respect for the written-on-paper word, I figured I'd better go for something a little more technological.

I'm a wife. I am blessed by God with the man He has given me and am so grateful to Him for my Hubs. I choose to submit my life and my will to God by submitting to my husband. I believe in God's holy plan for marriage and my life is so much better for it. (If you want more information, read Created to Be His Help Meet by Debi Pearl.) My husband is a submariner in the U.S. Navy and we are waiting to hear if he has been selected to go to OCS. Because our future is so up in the air right now, with waiting for that and his current boat's crazy schedule, I am very likely to lose my mind!

I'm a mom. My little E-boy is a sweet, shy, intelligent and hilarious little 3-year-old person. I'm one of those moms: we co-sleep, cloth diaper, gentle discipline, child-led wean from breast and diapers, babywear, decline vaccinations and homeschool. We are hoping to be blessed with another little one soon.

I'm a future midwife and, possibly, a lactation consultant. These are slow going right now. My first commitment is to my family and these fit in as I can. I apprenticed under a midwife for about 2 years before Hubs and E-boy came in the picture and can't wait to get back to it some day. I'm working on the first step of becoming a lactation consultant by becoming a group leader of an international breastfeeding mother-to-mother support organization. I'm almost finished! I've been working on it since August.

Back to laundry, dishes and toddler kisses,
Have a blessed day!