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Name: wendy
Birthday: 9/27/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: being loved by Jesus, enjoying my husband Wes and little baby Caleb, daydreaming with my husband about our future hopes/dreams, second hand clothes shopping, Goodwill coffee mugs, baking (inc. homemade bread), cooking, canning (fruit jams, tomatoes, etc.), it's my artform!! oh and trying to sew sometimes too. would love to take a sewing class!
Expertise: probably baking
Occupation: missionary
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Member Since:
6/20/2006
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| We actually have our own house! And yard! We've been able to spend a lot of time there the last three days and the weather has been so amazing and perfect. I've mostly been working in the yard, raking up leaves and picking up sticks. It's such a different feeling to do things in my very own yard. Wow, such a blessing from God! So far we've only dreamed of having a yard. Caleb has been running around enjoying the yard, and also running in and out of the house. He totally loves it there. Wes and his dad have been working on the plumbing. There's been some problems but no huge damage to the house itself. Mostly lots of leaks in the utility room. The super nice water softener that was there is busted and so is the water heater. Bummer but, again, no huge structural damage. It's been a pain not to have any water the last few days, no bathroom etc, but they're getting very close to getting it all fixed. Then I'll start washing walls and preparing to paint. I'm still kinda going crazy about choosing paint colors. I'm so worried I'll pick stuff I don't really like. Jake and Dale came over and did a little spackling (is that what it's called?), you know, filling in holes in the walls and stuff. Oh yeah and Wes has been working on the roof leak and bleaching mold in the attic also.
Caleb is doing awesome in his new bed. He's mostly been taking naps at the new house in a pack n play but he's had a couple good ones in the car bed. Bed time is going great. I spend some time reading with him and then put him in bed and read his Bible stories to him, them dim the light and pray with him and he gets himself under the covers and waves "nighty-night" and blows me kisses when I leave. He's even learning to say "I love you." Kinda. Oh and I've been telling him that I love him "very very very very" (and on and on) much and he repeats "very very very...." Oh how I love him!!! He has been doing some two year old tantrum stuff but overall he's such a delight to me. He's saying lots more words now, repeating a lot. He still loves to play with cars and he's crazy about flowers. And he loves animals and saying the sounds they make. Mom and I took him to the zoo a while back and he was in shock! Especially when he saw the first animal, a tiger. He literally stared with his jaw dropped, for a long time! And intermittently roared, then dropped his jaw again. It was SO funny and cute. And when he saw the elephants he made his elephant sound, tilting his head all the way back and looking straight up. Oh how I love spring and all that comes with it!! But I let him get sunburned today- oops! I'm a terrible mom! I got burnt too. Just wasn't thinking about that yet, you know? But he hasn't seemed to notice so maybe it will be okay.
Well, this is a very special time in my life and I'm so thankful and so blessed. Being the mom of tiny little kids is probably one of the most precious stages in all of life and I'm so glad to have a home to do it in. Especially seeing how Caleb loves it and how "at home" he feels. Thank you, Lord! | | |
| Change of plans. Closing is tomorrow. Thanks for the early congrats! | | |
| quick updateLife has become such a whirlwind since we've moved back to the states. I'm hoping that when we get into our own house things will be a little calmer. If nothing else, that I'll be more organized. By the way, we close TOMORROW!! Yes, on April Fool's Day. I wonder if that's a good idea... And then we have quite a bit of work to do before we move in, which we hope to do by middle of May because that's when I'll be 38 weeks preggers and the baby could easily be born then and also that's when training starts for camp.
Caleb turned 2 yesterday and he's as sweet and precious to me as ever. He's picking up words like crazy now. I hope to post more of a detailed update on him and pictures too before too long. Patience, my friends, patience. I'm adjusting to a pace of life much faster than what I've been used to. I guess I need to learn to slow down. Anyway, we got him one of those car beds for toddlers and I think it's so great and he loves it too. But I'd really appreciate experienced tips on teaching him to stay in it, especially at nap time! He's always been a good napper and goes to bed easily but having the freedom to get out on his own is a bit too tempting for him. You know, do I check back every minute and put him back in or do I just shut the door and let him crash when he can't take it anymore, etc.?.?.? Please send advice! Thanks!
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| I guess it's about time I update and tell you that.... WE GOT THE HOUSE!! Woo-hoo!! Ok, that was how I felt the first day. Since then it's been a bit stressful trying to figure out what we have to do to actually get it, that is close on it and get keys and make it truly ours. Since it's a HUD home it's complicated and could take a long time. But it turns out to be better than we understood in the beginning. We have to get quotes from contractors or suppliers of materials for all the work that is required to be done on the house and submit them and then we wait for HUD to process their end of the deal, which as we understand could take a couple months. All I want is to be in before camp starts cause if we don't make that then it might not be til fall. And this summer is going to be SO busy with Wes at camp all the time that it's just so important to be in the house, where we'll be super close to camp and also alone in our own space. We would get a lot more family/ couple time in together that way. So before we move in, we've got to get the floors down (hard wood so it could take a while), paint, fix roof, replace windows. Those are the main things. There's a few details like replacing kitchen sink and stove, oh yeah and tile. Maybe not just details. Well anyway, we're really happy about the house. It just might be really hard to get the work done in Wes's free time between the time we close and the start of camp (training starts middle of May). Me and my big belly probably aren't going to be down on the floor nailing wood in but I should be able to paint!!
Right now we're housesitting for a family in church that lives in a beautiful log home which happens to be near Wes's parents. That's nice cause we see them a little more for these two weeks and it's also nice to see what it's like to be a family where the wife stays home during the day with the kids and the husband comes home in the evening. Ah, sounds so picture perfect. That actually only happened once! We have so many plans in the evenings. Oh well! It's a farther drive too so it's really making us eager to get in that house that's CLOSE!!! Especially since we're driving separately all the time.
Do I sound too negative? I really am SO thankful. For the house, for our time here at the cabin, for everything that God is doing, for Wes's job... I'm just growing, as usual, in trusting God and handing worries to Him. Interestingly, our Bible study this week was about worshipping through times of waiting. I guess this is a time of waiting for me. Waiting for the house and being thankful today for what I have today. God is so good!
Please pray for us! (Wisdom for decisions, adjusting to working out of home husband, etc.) Thanks!! | | |
| This week we are making an offer on that house, the one that leaks into the living room. The price went down another 10,000. We were planning to offer this week anyway but now that they relisted the new price, they are accepting offers for 10 days and only view them at the end. So that may or may not be good for us. We'd be really glad to get the house. We haven't seen anything that we'd consider at all other than this one, so... I guess that's why we want it! We really do like it though. We'd be busy fixing it up for a while.
Pilates turned out not to be for me, not while pregnant. Too much lying on my back and too much to adjust for me. So I'm sticking with water aerobics. I tried the deep water class today and I was surprised how hard it was! I definitely got a work out!
I have been so busy and I'm not even sure I could tell you what I've been doing. I guess between the Y, and church stuff, Bible studies and all, I'm just busier than I was in Ukraine. Oh and midwife appointments and all of that. We had an ultrasound and it was SO sweet to see the baby. I could see such detail: fingers, toes, lips, eyelids. We never got to see Caleb at that stage. At least I didn't cause they didn't let me see the monitor when I had an ultrasound in Ukraine. Plus we got it on video so I can watch it all I want. I had no idea I'd be so into it! And no, we aren't finding out "who" the baby is.
A wonderful couple in our church bought us a bed and it is SO nice to sleep on it! We had been sleeping on a double size futon that slopes to one side. When we stay at Wes's parents', we sleep on his old bed that sags badly in the middle from him running and jumping onto it (not as a kid either). So we are really enjoying sleeping on a solid queen size mattress! We have been very blessed by people helping us with stuff as we transition back to life here. Thank you Jesus!! | | |
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