My World

It has been a long time and I can't guarantee it won't be a long time until the next post. It's been so long I had to set up anew password because I couldn't remember mine.

I feel like all I have done since January is battled Gestational Diabetes. It seems to have become my life. I think about what I can eat, can not eat, when I need to eat and what time a ate so I can check myself and hour later. In the very beginning I was scared to death, I have had to see a specialists that comes from another city on Monday's. The first time I saw him I was scared I had some how caused this baby to have some sort of birth defect because I didn't know I had GD. I asked my family to fast and pray and for this little one on the way because I could not. What a growing experience for me. I don't think I have felt my Savior's love so much as I think about what He has done for me because I can not do it. I thank my family for being so unselfish and putting my babies needs above there own. The ultrasound showed and still shows a perfectly healthy baby girl. She is growing right one schedule so far. I have only gained 15 pounds with this pregnancy so far with 2 months left as opposed to 43 to 63lbs so there has defiantly been some blessings coming my way. I can tell you where to by the best low carb soy milk, low carb yogurt, ice cream bars, bread, hamburger buns etc. I sometimes have to go to 3 different stores for my grocery shopping so I can get all the food a I can eat. If this kid comes out looking like a vegetable I know why, I have always been a veggie eater but sometime I have two salads a day and lots of other veggies.
For the next 8 weeks I go to the Dr two times a week, once for an appointment and a None Stress Test to make sure the baby is active and once for an ultra sound, I could make a photo album of all the ultra sounds I have and will have. Today I could see that she has lots of hair just like the others. So that is what I have been up to Dr appointments and controlling my GD, which I have to say I have done a pretty good job at.

As for everything else we have been having a wonderful summer. We wake up get dressed, make beds, eat, do reading. And then the kids usually play until lunch, we eat lunch, lay Brooklyn down for a nap the kids watch a learning video and then they each have workbooks they do and then more playing until dinner time.
Things we have done this summer so far is , going to lot's of parks, the splash pad, lot's of bike rides, hikes, camping, gone to the lake, the Dinosaur Museum, B-day parties, BBQ's with friends, we have had water days with friends in the back yard. We celebrated 2 B-day's. We go to the library often, we have done bowling and lazer tag, 4-H, planted and weeded out the garden, gone to the local zoo, have gone to the community pool. I also got to spend a weekend with my sisters and sister-in law in Park City which was a nice fun get away. I feel like we have had a good summer, we have done a lot around town and I have tried to keep the kids up to grade level in reading, math and writing. One of my favorite things this summer is watching my children interact, I love standing at the kitchen sink doing dishes while all four are outside playing together, they have had so much fun together this summer, from playing in the water to building fairy houses. It's great when they all get along so well.

I have also discovered that I could home school. I really love being home with my kids and teaching them. I have enjoyed these last 8 or so weeks with them. I love being a Stay at Home Mom, when Jeremy got a HUGE pay cut a few months back we laughed because it never even crossed our minds for me to go get a job. Instead we tightened the belt. We do things more locally we find good deals or free deals so we can go do things (if you know my I always am finding good deals so it was not that hard). I make breakfast every morning now instead of cereal, except for Sunday, I am grateful for our year supply of food I don't know what we would do without it. I am grateful I always but the kids clothes a season ahead when they are on sale for such a good deal so that my kids can be fully clothed in cute clothes, like the $4 old navy jeans I got them.
I know that not everyone can do this or wants to but I feel lucky that I can. I love my job it's the best, I always worried that I would hate being a SAHM when I had my first because all I had done since High School was work 40 plus hours a week and went to school. But I can't say I will ever regret choosing to have my family when I did. I have heard many say to wait until you are done with school or been married for so many years but honestly I am glad we did not wait. Hadley was the break I needed when going to school, when I had Madelyn in the middle of semester I was able to take her to class with me where my teachers loved to carry her around as they taught. I feel so blessed and grateful for each of my children even though sometimes I struggle with them and I smell like throw up because Brooklyn woke up for some unknown reason and threw up all over everything including me, they are my world I love them and even though I am scared to have 5 kids I know that I will love her as much as the others and I am so grateful for a Heavenly Father who is willing to let me raise one of his precious spirits.

So if this blog doesn't get updated for awhile it is because I am busy being Mom and I can't seem to find the balance in everything I want to do. I am grateful for those who update their blogs because I love to sit at night and read them.