Little Okie Homestead

So the packing has began and it's time to get through all our stuff and pack it up and get it into our new place. We are moving just to another townhouse in our area and I gotta say that I'm not enjoying this packing stuff.  I'm so tired from not sleeping. I go to bed right after I put Rex to bed around 8pm and then I'm up at 3am no matter what. I stay in bed most days and think and drift in and out of sleep until about 6am and then I'm just up. Well that makes the days very long and it doesn't help that I crash around 11am when nap time is at 1pm. I can't sleep at nap time. It's really frustrating.  Then after all this lack of sleep I have to pack. Lift things. Move things. Go through things. UGH! I am able to pack one or two boxes at a time and then take about a 30 minute break. Then I do it again or cook lunch or whatever I need to do for my family and then another break. This pregnancy is taking everything out of me.  Yep! Moving is going to...

Now that I knew I was pregnant I knew I had to get the IUD out asap. The problem no health insurance and my midwife clinic closed down so I had no idea where to go.  I googled doctors in the area and started calling around. I figured this is how I would start. Find a place we could afford to go, see when they could get me in and then I would check reviews on the office and make sure that I wanted to go there.  This plan didn't work well at all. I couldn't find a doctor that I could afford that could see me right away. The morning that I took my test was a Tuesday so I had Bible study so I went and we prayed and they knew that I had a long and stressful day ahead of me.  While I was calling and crying and freaking out because I thought it was hopeless and I would end up at Planned Parenthood, which was the last place I wanted to go. Knowing that they support abortion I was terrified that they would in some way end up hurting my baby. Rational thoughts or...

So with my pregnancy with Rex I had almost no symptoms and that's part of why it took me 6 months to know that I was pregnant. ( My Pregnancy Story ) Well with this one I had my first ultrasound when I was only 5 weeks. I already had and still have breast tenderness. This is actually horrible. It's so bad that wearing a bra hurts but not wearing one hurts even worse. Then I was nauseated. M's Grandpa had gotten a bug while we were staying with them so I just thought it was that until we got home and it didn't go away.  This is when I figured it wouldn't hurt to take a pregnancy test. I really wasn't expecting it to come out positive because I was getting close to starting (I have PCOS so it's never regular but I can normally guess around the time) and I also had the IUD in. All the odds were against the test coming out positive but nope that's not how it turned out.  The morning of November 29th I woke up really early, like 5am, and really had to p...

We have exciting Christmas news to share with everyone! We are expecting another little one! I'm only 9 weeks (very close to 10) and very excited!  This is how we announced it to M's family. We decided it would be worth the surprise to keep it a secret for a few weeks so we could have an awesome Christmas gift to give. My parents live 10 minutes from us and are around a lot so we figured there was no way we could keep it a secret from them. They also have been very helpful with the first few doctors appointments I have gone to with babysitting Rex.  I will have lots of post to share everything we have been through the past few weeks now that I'm able to share the news on the internet! That's why I disappeared for a few weeks. We have had a ton going on but nothing I could share so come watch me see what a full 9 month pregnancy is like! (If that doesn't make sense you need to read  my pregnancy story  that I had with Rex).

I just wrote several post to share with everybody starting Christmas day and all through the following week! Check out what's coming up on my blog and in our lives. 

I just got the best oatmeal recipe ever. We don't buy the prepackaged flavored stuff instead we buy the big container of oats. I make it all the time and as brown sugar or fruit and normally cook it in milk. Rex doesn't normally like it so its normally just for me. Well that has changed this morning because he loves how I cooked it today. First instead of milk or water I used apple juice. Yum! It added so much flavor. Then add some raisins. The recipe says you can also add brown sugar and some yogurt too. I didn't try that this time because the yogurt just sound gross but maybe next time. I'm s...

I feel like I'm Missing In Action these days from life. Things are so crazy plus I'm sick and have so much to do I feel like I don't have anything going on or I have a ton of things.  Because of my cold I not able to do much during the day. Between getting the regular cleaning done and taking care of Rex I have no energy to get anything else done. I can only do so much and then I'm coughing so I have to sit and take a break. I feel ridiculous not being able to do anything. I also feel like a slug just laying around all day watching TV or reading books. Really I need to get up and get moving.  Maybe just a few more days and this cold will at least be under control and I will have more energy to get more things done. Once I get more house cleaning done I will post about our Christmas decorations (which are out just not picture worthy at the moment). I'm sure I will have more to write about when my brain isn't mush from TV all day.  Please stick around I h...

This month is a hard month for us as a family. We have been hit with every obstacle that could come our way and it just seems ridiculous. Most of them seem completely out of the blue and something that we are not prepared for and others are things that we knew were coming up but thought we were prepared for them except when you add everything together. Seriously I'm not sure what else we can take on.  Not all of it is bad but still adds stress. Needless to say I have been on my knees a bunch this month and it's only the 6th! I'm praying and trusting God with everything that is going on. He is the only one that can see the big picture and knows where we are going. He's going to lead us to the right places and He will provide everything we need as long as I'm asking for it. I know because He gave me what I asked for but it just seems like He did it at the wrong time.  There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. -E...

Now that it is December I can start thinking about what Christmas traditions we want to have for our family. With Monkey getting older he can start to understand what Christmas is all about. I want to make sure that we aren't easily swept up in all the gift giving and the commercialization that our culture has for Christmas. Even though M is not a 'believer' at the moment he has always said that if we celebrate Christmas he wants to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas. I'm thankful for this because it gives me a chance to bring Christ into our home! We don't have any traditions set up from my childhood so we are able to be open to anything we want. One thing that we do is make Christmas cookies at M's grandparents house the day after Thanksgiving. Also we have dinner with my family on Christmas Eve and then we go to church.  Hubby and I have talked and decided to give the WISE MEN'S presents to Monkey each year. If you haven't heard of thi...