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Name: Andie
Location: North Carolina
Birthday: 5/20/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: my marriage, my Lord, watching my baby change a little each day, my church, learning, theology, reading, good conversations, theatre, music, dancing, art, buhddies, museums, acquiring a good collection of children's books to read to rachel, big hunks of chocolate (milk or dark), my dog, movies, not going grocery shopping, learning to be a godly wife and mother, collecting as many diapers as humanly possible, c. s. lewis, candles, autumn, fires in fireplaces, knitting warm things, making jewelry
Expertise: changing poopy diapers and sticking a thermometer up my baby's butt
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AIM:  andielu2000
Member Since:
9/21/2005
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look! here i am!
i'm tired of posting in 2 different places. it's pretty dumb that i'm doing it in the first place. so check me out on the other side. | | |
| i truly enjoy staying home with my children. it's a lot of work, it's very monotonous, dora the explorer insanely gets under my skin, but it's the best job in the world.
i try to get us out of the house every morning, if possible, to some degree. i had a fun morning planned today. i turned on the nick jr. cartoons for rachel while she was eating her breakfast. i try to not rely on the tv too much, but in the morning it's invaluable. it gives me a chance to get lucas up and dressed and fed and (some days) myself ready as well. plus, cartoons in the morning are just fun, right? this morning i got rachel dressed in her bathing suit b/c we were going to the mall to play in the squirty water fountain things. there were a lot of kids there already, but it wasn't too crowded. it took rachel a while to warm up to the idea of running around with a bunch of kids she didn't know, so she watched from the sidelines for a few minutes (a trait she definitely got from me). after about 5 minutes she was running around, getting soaked, and having a blast. i held lucas in my lap so he could watch the fun water and the big kids. i think he was a little bitter he couldn't join in, though we did get included at one point when this big kid was standing on one of the squirters, thus making it squirt lucas and me in the face when it went off. it was refreshingly cool, though lucas wasn't a huge fan.
after all the squirty water fun, we drove to a nearby starbucks (while listening and singing along with rachel to caedmon's call. yes, she sings in the car. she got that from me too!) where i officially sold my first piece of furniture to a nice lady thanks to craigslist. (this made the whole moving thing incredibly real.) i had a little starbucks gift card so we went inside to get rachel a chocolate milk and me a caramel mocha frappuccino (first one of the summer! mmmmmmm!!!!!). it was a fun mommy-and-kids date (though lucas slept through it).
when we got home it was lunchtime (actually past lunchtime) so rachel ate her new favorite for lunch, apple slices dipped in peanut butter and i fed lucas his big boy rice cereal.
then it was storytime and naptime.
now my babies are sleeping and i'm amazed that such a simple day could be soooo much fun (for me too not just rachel!). i love giving my kids a fun day (even though lucas doesn't care much yet). when you're on a tight budget it's pretty hard to think of things to do that don't cost money, but i'm working on it. luckily, it's pretty easy to entertain a 2 1/2 year old.
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i took the little man to the doctor this morning to celebrate his 4 month birthday... by getting a couple shots. but he was a trooper and only cried for a few seconds. he's now 16 pounds and 26 inches long... basically, a big boy.
our nights have severely gone downhill, however. he had a growth spurt at around 3 months and he just doesn't have his nights back to normal yet. we're planning on putting his pack n play downstairs tonight and just leaving him alone... b/c I NEED SLEEP! we'll see if i don't chicken out :)
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| i forget that people don't know every facet of our lives... and all the people asking "where are you going?" is reminding me of this. so here's what' up.
we've been in the process to go overseas with the international mission board for about a year now. it's been a very long and irritating journey, but we've definitely learned and grown a lot through it. our church is working on its next church plant. this one is in central asia (for our safety we're advised to not say the name of the country... but don't worry, there are no wars going on where we're going). one family has been living there for a while and another family is getting ready to leave for the training in august. we we'll be there with some friends that we can speak english with. we are scheduled to start the 8 week training in richmond, va at the end of january '09 and we'll deploy the beginning of april '09. "then why are you selling your stuff now?" you may ask. well, our lease is up at the very beginning of november, so we'll most likely be moving in with chuck's parents for a few months. so we need to have our stuff gone by then. the scary thing is we'll have to sell our stuff and become basically homeless before we're officially appointed to leave in april. at this point, there's no reason we should be held back unless something drastic happens, so we're basically acting on faith that nothing drastic will happen and come november we won't find ourselves homeless, carless, and possessionless. yeah, it's a little scary, but this is something we've known we've wanted to do since before we got married.
(we also need to find a new home for our dog, nan. she's a husky and is probably the laziest, sweetest dog there ever was. we don't want to give her to just anybody. we want it to be someone we know b/c we hate the thought of giving her to some random dude and turns out to be some kind of animal abuser. so, those of you that know me, want a lazy, house-trained, fixed, snuggley dog?)
i put a couple items of furniture on craigslist yesterday and when i finished entering the information and uploading pictures and all that, i got to the point where the ad was done and i just needed to post it. i had this really scary moment that went something like this... "when i click this, that means we're leaving america and everything we've ever known. when i click this, it means all our stuff is going to become someone else's stuff. when i click this, all of this is real and it will never be the same. if i don't click this, nothing has to change and we can go on as we always have." needless to say, i clicked it. so i guess that means this is all real.
so that, my friends, is where we're going.
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