1. Watching: Gossip Girl, once in a great while. In the winter we play mostly kids shows round hur
2. Crafting: words in my journal
3. Baking: garlic bread
4. Reading: Capture The Moment and Together is Better
5. Craving: carbs and sugar. Help me!!!
6. Organizing: no organizing projects underway at the moment
7. Sipping: aqua
8. Loving: chubby baby thighs and squishy, kissable baby cheeks
9. Dreaming: of new creative photography projects
10. Chopping: soup veggies
11. Laughing: at my boys- they're so quirky!
12. Picking: nothing, everything is DEAD
13. Humming: A Friend Like You by Andy Grammar and End Game by Taylor Swift
14. Wearing: leggings and sweaters
15. Scrubbing: who has time to scrub things with four kids? They're lucky if they can find clean matching socks right now.
16. Teaching: my boys the art of respect for others, and myself the art of patience.
17. Diffusing: Hm. Actually we haven't used our diffuser in awhile!
18. Learning: how to hold onto myself whilst caring for four children
19. Remembering: simpler days and trying to revive similar joys from those times
20. Praying: for strength and wisdom to be a good mama
First Post of 2018!
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Let me tell you, that blog post title is sure to rank high in the search engines! Lolz.
So it's been a couple months since I've posted last and guess what- I had a baby!!
Isaiah William VanKeulen was born December 22, 2017, 8lbs 13oz of chubby sweet deliciousness. I had an ELEVEN HOUR LABOR. Let that sink in...I still am. I had a wonky epidural that only took on one side, so that was fun. But honestly, it really wasn't bad, I shouldn't have even gotten the stupid thing. All I had to show for it was a dead numb chest wall and droopy eyelid (that apparently only happens once in every 12,500 or so epidurals, give or take???). And people wonder why I'm a hypochondriac.
Anyway. :)
I'm currently sitting at my coffee table and just looked over at Isaiah in his swing and he's smiling the sweetest little smile at me... I sure am glad we have him. <3 He is SUCH a good baby. He's only six weeks and has already slept one 8 hour stretch, so I'm thinking that's a good sign! I've felt pretty tired lately obviously but not depressingly so, and I've been feeling pretty solid emotionally and surprisingly energetic so I'm grateful!
I'm going to be a totally horrendous blogger and not leave you with any pictures in this post but I will very soon- promise!
I wanted to say, to whoever might be reading, that I'm working on a writing project in the form of another blog! Right now I'm working on writing content and to be honest, I'm struggling to find my voice and get into the groove of "writing". So like here I can write as things come to mind because it's my own personal blog that nobody reads but me and some family and close friends, so I don't really worry about focus or writing all that well, you know? This new blog is more curated so I'm trying to find a way to still stay authentic through it and it's proving to be a struggle. Add to that that I don't have, like, hours of time alone to focus on it, and mainly write in stolen moments or when the boys are whirring around me like little tornadoes. Like right now. Actually I think Julian is pooping. And Gabriel is in the bathroom with him and they're talking about it and it's all echoing down the hallway to where I'm sitting. Man, am I feeling inspired right now.
I'm going to sign off because Zach just got back from dance class and is in my face asking me questions like what are you writing and how do you type that fast, and I think he just asked me something about the "f" word. Gotta go!
Lindsay
So it's been a couple months since I've posted last and guess what- I had a baby!!
Isaiah William VanKeulen was born December 22, 2017, 8lbs 13oz of chubby sweet deliciousness. I had an ELEVEN HOUR LABOR. Let that sink in...I still am. I had a wonky epidural that only took on one side, so that was fun. But honestly, it really wasn't bad, I shouldn't have even gotten the stupid thing. All I had to show for it was a dead numb chest wall and droopy eyelid (that apparently only happens once in every 12,500 or so epidurals, give or take???). And people wonder why I'm a hypochondriac.
Anyway. :)
I'm currently sitting at my coffee table and just looked over at Isaiah in his swing and he's smiling the sweetest little smile at me... I sure am glad we have him. <3 He is SUCH a good baby. He's only six weeks and has already slept one 8 hour stretch, so I'm thinking that's a good sign! I've felt pretty tired lately obviously but not depressingly so, and I've been feeling pretty solid emotionally and surprisingly energetic so I'm grateful!
I'm going to be a totally horrendous blogger and not leave you with any pictures in this post but I will very soon- promise!
I wanted to say, to whoever might be reading, that I'm working on a writing project in the form of another blog! Right now I'm working on writing content and to be honest, I'm struggling to find my voice and get into the groove of "writing". So like here I can write as things come to mind because it's my own personal blog that nobody reads but me and some family and close friends, so I don't really worry about focus or writing all that well, you know? This new blog is more curated so I'm trying to find a way to still stay authentic through it and it's proving to be a struggle. Add to that that I don't have, like, hours of time alone to focus on it, and mainly write in stolen moments or when the boys are whirring around me like little tornadoes. Like right now. Actually I think Julian is pooping. And Gabriel is in the bathroom with him and they're talking about it and it's all echoing down the hallway to where I'm sitting. Man, am I feeling inspired right now.
I'm going to sign off because Zach just got back from dance class and is in my face asking me questions like what are you writing and how do you type that fast, and I think he just asked me something about the "f" word. Gotta go!
Lindsay
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