Four Days In

It’s already four days into 2011.  So I guess this is my “Happy New Year” post.  Sorry it’s a little late!

I hope you all had a marvelous holiday and New Year celebration.  Our weekend was pretty much…um…uneventful.  We did not stay up until midnight.  We did not spend New Years with anyone but our little family.  We had no plans or big dinners or parties or anything.  

And it was really relaxing, for the most part.  Eric worked on his new hobby: baking.  He made three kinds of bread and tried making crackers over the weekend.  I guess it’s not a bad thing that he went back to work today…we’d have to start a bakery and sell what he made if he was home much longer!  As for the rest of us, the kids played and generally enjoyed our attention.  I have started on a new writing project and did laundry and caught up some of my chores.  I got to go grocery shopping all by myself on Saturday.  And we enjoyed a more relaxed Sunday morning because our church did a single 10 am service instead of two morning services.  So, overall, it was a really nice weekend.

As for things like resolutions…I don’t really make them.  But I have started my pen-n-paper journal again which I do at bedtime.  I realized how much I missed doing that because it lets me decompress and pour out my day before I go to bed, thus helping me sleep better (usually).  And while it often does overlap with this blog or my FB updates, I think it’s just good to empty my head of all my crap at least once a day.  It makes for a less stressed Shannah…and that is always a good thing. 

I’m also trying to just focus more on the Good News.  My MIL’s pastor made a point the day after Christmas that has really stuck with me.  If I don’t tell people about Jesus…it’s most likely because I’ve stopped seeing Him and the gospel as “GOOD NEWS” – it’s become an agenda, a checklist, an academic exercise.  But it isn’t good news anymore.  So this year, I want to regain the sense of just how good that good news is…for myself…every day.  And then, I’m hoping God uses that to inspire me to be more eager to share that good news with those around me – Christian and not.  So that’s my sense for where the year is starting out.  We’ll see how it goes.  

And, since it’s been been a few days since I blogged, I thought I’d include a “normal life” update as well… 

Megan is really moving forward these days.  She’s added laughing and grabbing to her repertoire recently.  She was actually pulling the loop that makes the music play when she was in her bouncy seat yesterday.  It took me a minute to realize that Erin wasn’t doing it for her!  And we did get her on video laughing.  Maybe I’ll try to post that…since baby laughter is one of the best things in the entire world!

So Alex was up again last night.  I realize that is not necessarily unusual.  But this time…he was laughing and playing and bouncing in his crib like he was waking up from a nap, not awake in the middle of the night.  In fact, when I heard him, I thought it must be like 5 in the morning.  Nope…midnight.  Thankfully, they both laid right back down when I told them to (he’d gotten Erin up by that time), and I covered them with their blankets and went back to bed.  I didn’t hear much else.  But still…it was little weird to be woken up by laughing, not crying!

I got $75 in gift cards for Christmas.  I think I’m going to spend them on clothes.  Now if I can just get to a store sans children…

We went to Home Depot yesterday.  You know…I can remember being dragged to stores like that by my parents when I was a kid and HATING it.  But now…I get surprisingly excited about buying a new garbage can (for taking to the curb) and lightbulbs for our halogen stand lights.  I guess I’ve officially become an adult!

And on one final note…as much as I love having Eric home (and I do), I am very much looking forward to getting back to a normal routine.  So, on that note, I think I’ll get my day started and see where it goes!  Happy Tuesday!

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