I have been wanting to update my blog all week, but I have not had any time to do so until now. I hope you can all appreciate that I am doing this instead of trying to catch some zzz's! Things have been going pretty well since we brought Adrian home and I want to thank all of you for your support with this. It makes it easier for me to know that I will not be attempting success in the world of mommys alone. The saying "it takes a village to raise a child" comes to mind. Not because I think it is a shared responsibility to care for each child like that, but because it takes the women of the village coming together to keep us from harming ourselves or our children in times of high stress and lack of sleep! I will be the first one to admit that patience is not one of my strengths. I learned a long time ago to never pray for patience because then I am blessed with opportunities to learn it! And those blessings are never easy or fun. But, give me strength I am seeking it now.
In case none of you have ever noticed I tend to be overly organized and I like things to follow a certain routine (almost to the point of being borderline crazy :). Case in point: check out the links on my sidebar and you will find one for meck mom, when I discovered all of her organizational tips it was one of the best days of my life. I have been seeking to make my house a house of order ever since! As all of you know, kids don't follow this same line of thinking. At least none that I have ever known. Especially those who are used to chaos and no structure at all. I know that it will take patience, time, patience, lots of training, and did I mention patience? for us to get Adrian used to a consistent routine and schedule. However, I wish it could happen a little faster sometimes! Here is where that pesky thing called patience comes into play. I just have to take time to recognize the little moments and the small victories that come with each day and learn to replace thoughts of frustration with memories of those times. This week has had its trials, but it has had its victories as well. Here are some of our victories for the week: 1)an established bedtime routine! (In fact I am the only one up right now.) 2) only 2 movies and no T.V. for the whole week, and no complaints about it either! 3) family scripture study almost everyday (we missed twice, I would be lying if I said everyday) and 4) Adrian has started school and is doing well, got 100% on his math quiz today!
I have to say that one of the best moments of this week was when we had family home evening. Since we didn't get to spend any of the holidays together as a family and Adrian's Christmas presents were all sent back, we decided it was time to have Christmas in March. Adrian thought that it was the coolest thing in the world. It was his first March Christmas. Here are a few of the pictures I got from that night, you can see his nice new haircut and his happy smiley face. He seems to be really happy to be here with us.
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We are so glad that he is here. It will take lots of patience and it will seem to great at times but we are all here for you and Andrew to do what you have both wanted to do and that is have your family with you. You have always been a little to organized and children seem to have a way of putting that into balance... there is always things to get done but there is only today to share the memories and love that you will have with your kids...something that took a few children to learn. Love you all...
Christmas in March sounds fun!!! I'm glad that you finally got to celebrate as a family, no matter the month. So happy for you :)
Christmas in March, too fun! Sad though that the gifts were returned at Christmas time!
No TV all week??? Does that really work? And I'm with you, I have a hard time praying for things that I don't want the trials on like patience.
I've got to hand it to you - it sounds like you have got your stuff together. I'm glad that things are working out so far. I have come to learn that for most people patience seems to be a lifelong lesson. And thanks for the meck mom info - there are links to other awesome websites too! I have become a bit of an organizing freak as I have gotten older - Jeff calls it OCD, but oh well.
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