I have found that since I have a baby, for some reason I tend to be on the computer much more often, so I will hopefully be better about updating, but we'll see how that goes.
We've *seen* how it's gone in the past...
So a little bit more of the updates.
Since the post announcing my pregnancy, me and my husband (and our two dogs) have moved! We're now located about half an hour away from where we were previously, and let me tell you, the move was crazy.
We found our current house the 21 or so of August, and our landlord at our trailer was going to up the rent the 1st of September. Well we wanted to move anyways so that seemed like a good deadline to move by, and in a week, we had signed papers, packed up our (meager) belongings and moved! We had loads of help from family and friends, which we really needed, because our house was not clean at all. There were multitudes of dead roaches and dirt everywhere, and it looked as if someone had fried chicken in the kitchen and then splashed grease all over the cabinets and counters. It was nasty.
So we cleaned EVERYTHING, and moved all our boxes in on Wednesday, cleaned more on Thursday, let off some bug bombs, and spent the night at our friends' house on Thursday, and then I came back and unpacked.
Oh, and this was the same week that my sister gave birth (which I had the pleasure and honor of attending), and I was 16 weeks pregnant. That was the longest week of my life!!! Besides the week leading up to my Butterbean's birth, of course. My sister went into labor early Monday morning, called and let me know that it was the real thing around 1 PM Monday afternoon, I went to her house (where she gave birth! So cool!), and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening there with her and her husband, and their midwife until baby N was born at 3:58 AM. Baby N had to be sent to the hospital though, because she had inhaled some meconium while in the womb. That was scary, but she was okay, and it wasn't nearly as bad as the midwife had suspected. But she did have to go in an ambulance and spend 2 days in the hospital. So I didn't get to sleep that night until it wasn't night anymore! I went to sleep about 7 AM and only slept for 3 hours.
Then that day I was packing my house up (read; staying up late packing the last minute items), and then Wednesday was full of moving! It was a long and stressful few days.
Whit and I basically cruised through the remainder of my pregnancy, but his retail job was terrible. Although he worked in the afternoons (so we could both sleep in), he worked until at least 9:15PM and since we'd moved he was even farther from home, and wouldn't get home until around 10.
UNTIL, the pastor of our church offered him a part-time job working for his gold store. They buy gold and silver and give you CASH, but they're not like the cheesy places you see on TV. They have an "A" rating from the BBB, and their scales are actually calibrated once a year by an expert to ensure you get the best price! (Can I work for them too? I can do advertising!!!)
That was great, but then we was working both jobs. And that meant he left at 9:45AM and didn't get home until 10PM.
It was tough for him to be gone all day. And I hated it. I tried to keep myself busy (that's what friends and family are for!!) but I still missed him. And it went on like this for 4 months.
UNTIL, our pastor offered him a full-time position! We knew it was a possibility in the future, but it was dependent on whether they had a spot for him, and we didn't think they would for several more months. It was such a blessing that he was able to get this better job, because once he started working there full time, he worked for only 8 hours a day, and he now gets EVERY Sunday off consistently, and an additional day off every week. He gets home from work at about 6:30, which was very important to me, because I wanted him to be able to spend time with Butterbean before she went to bed at night, and I didn't want to be putting her to bed at 10:30 every night!
And icing on the cake is that now we have health insurance through his work! I was on Medicaid for the duration of my pregnancy, because my parents' health insurance didn't cover me for maternity benefits, so I would have had to pay for EVERYTHING out of pocket and when you see the doctor 17 times it gets pretty expensive.
All in all, we've been extremely blessed. We were provided with the major appliances for our house (most of them for free!), a load of furniture that we never had room for, a wonderful house that (although in the sketchy area of town) has been our home for these last few months (double the space for the same amount we'd been paying before), a well-providing job, working with and for great Christian people, and a beautiful, healthy, baby girl!
God is so good!
My next blog I'll actually get into the nitty-gritty everyday stuff, and I'll stop giving the update-style posts!
Look forward to it!
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