Workin' Mama

Well the other craziness around our house, is that I have picked up a part time job at the children's hospital, 2 shifts a week, so that I do not lose my physiotherapy license. It is only temporary, but still stressful. I have lost a lot of sleep over it and struggled, but feel that I am doing what is best for our family at this time. I enjoy being back at the children's with lots of familiar faces and an opportunity to challenge my brain a little more. It is hard though now that I have children, to see some of these very sick children, that are the same age as my children. It reminds me of the blessings in my life. I'm positive that I will learn important things in this short little phase of my life and hopefully help a few people along the way.

Kitchen Saga

Well, we've taken a break from working on the kitchen so that we can focus on Christmas, but we have come a long way since our last posting. We have ripped out almost all the cabinets and put in the new sink. We installed the floor in the kitchen and then decided a month later the floor was not level enough, so we pulled it all up, got someone to come in and level the floor and then put the floor all back in. It's not perfect, but it's close enough and things are really starting to come together. We have all the bottom cabinets in place and functional, but have to wait for an electrition before we officially install them, so we're still a few months off, but it's close and we can function fairly normally now. Aah!

Enjoying Christmas

Last weekend we put up the tree and pulled out all of our Christmas decorations. It took a while to find a place for all of our nativities. The girls are really enjoying playing with the kid friendly nativities and of course love to carry around baby Jesus. Eliza is excited for Christmas, although I don't think she really understands what it is, but knows she will be getting pink chapstick that she saw Daddy buying. We've also been trying to help Eliza understand service and have been adding straw to Baby Jesus' manger every time we help someone. She loves that. Hope all your preparations for Christmas are going well.