goodlikeamedicine dot com!
Hooray! I finally have my new website up and running. Please come visit, look around, and tell me what you like and don’t like if you wish. If you are someone you know would like for me to do a freelance job, feel free to contact me!
I have put many hours at night into this and my first project – www.ecbcwomen.com. Web design isn’t easy; (I never thought it was, but I didn’t realize how much reading I would have to do up to this point)! I am excited about how God may want to 
use me to help the ministries and families in the future, and I finally feel confident enough to say that I can work on a site for someone should they ask. Please pray that God would give me wisdom and what I need to help others. I’m not completely finished with my site (Lydia’s closet will start stocking items soon, and I’m working on some of the articles and links for the family page), but I was bursting to share it with my blog friends because you know my heart and how excited I get at new opportunities to be creative and do something fun and hopefully very meaningful.
So that’s why I haven’t blogged so much in the last several weeks. And you thought I was pregnant!
Har, har, har!
Sheesh – Okay, I’ll stop. Have a good week as we get ready for the biggest Lord’s Day of the year!
Baby Eli
My cousin and his wife just had a beautiful baby boy! Isn’t he a dream?!
Clap for Mommy!
We started Meredith on “solids” this week, and every time she will get a big bite in her mouth and swallow, I say to Lydia and Steven, “Okay, clap for Meredith!”
“YYYYAAAAAAAY, Meredith!” They exclaim. Steven especially goes wild with his clapping and happy dancing as best as he can while strapped into a booster seat. Meredith eats it up (pun totally intended).
Like some moms, I can dread lunch time. It has the potential to be one of the day’s most hectic segments beginning with ALARM of hunger, transitioning to impending whining on the verge of CHILD MUST 
HAVE NAP – NOW, and scurrying around to get everything we need out and on the table and into our mouths. I like to tell my mom I’m usually out of commission, out of range, out of contact 
during the “zone” from 11 am to about 12:30. Now I like my structure like any ‘ole mom, but I also like to play hard. I spend the whole morning doing chores and running around with the kids like a silly head, so I’m usually signalled by one of the kids’ aforementioned behavior, “Oh. Look! It’s 11:30 am!” Dinner is usually much more relaxed; daddy is home, I like to use my crock pot in the afternoons so I won’t be rushed, and everyone has rested and been able to play outside or play whatever they want to for the last hour or two.
Today we were out and got home around 11:45. I had already fed Meredith a bottle and put her in her high chair. But, of course, she was SCREAMING. (I hate to brag on my kids, but mine has yours beat. I bet you a box of crayons that my child can scream louder than yours.) I knew the neighbors probably heard her because this child has superenergizer lungs. The other two got into their seats, on the brink of an argument over a tissuepaper-pipecleaner-butterfly, and I was rushing around with the bread, meat, veggies, and cheese going back and forth from the fridge to the counter and the toaster oven. Water on, fridge open, “ding!” toaster oven, silverware drawer slamming open and shut…..Do any of you other moms ever wonder what kind of laughter would come from someone watching you in “kitchen + little kids” mode? I think we should submit some good youtube stuff. No one would get it except us, but we’d be laughing so hard. (Oh, that reminds me of a video my husband emailed me the other morning… check THIS out! * I am not personally endorsing any of the video’s product content)
Anyway, I rushed around for at least 5 or 6 minutes while Meredith screamed and screamed, and you know the phone would ring twice. When I finally sat down, I sighed and whispered, “Haaa. Did it.” Lydia looked at Steven laughing and said, “YAY! STEVEN, CLAP FOR MOMMY! YAY, MOMMY!”
I felt the love. The warm feelings of gratitude for being appreciated rose within me! Not for long, though.
“Mommy, can you take me to the potty now?”
Majestic
This was in my view on the way home tonight . . .
“In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being ‘the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person.”
STEPHEN CHARNOCK
Destination: Detour
Wow, hasn’t this weather in the South been remarkably beautiful the last few weeks?! It felt so great today that I could have spent hours outside. OH WAIT. I DID.
Yes, she strikes again… the curious hand of my little sweet Lydia. I don’t know if I would call it curious this time or not, but I’ll be nice and give her the benefit of the doubt. SHE LOCKED US OUTSIDE FOR TWO HOURS! I kept saying that I wanted to spend more time outside with the kids, but this wasn’t exactly on my mental agenda. I had just made sure the back door was unlocked and started playing outside with Steven, Lydia, and Meredith after a snack around 3 pm today. I went to the door to grab something and “CLICK,” there went the doorknob – locked as tight as a third-grader’s diary. “Ohhhhh, well.” The part that made me upset was that it took me four times asking her calmly (though not with a laugh or smile, lest she think I approve of this action), “Lydia, did you lock the door?” for her to affirm the truth. I didn’t remember her going behind my back to do it, but she finally confessed that she thought it would be fun to lock it.
“Well, it’s fun, I guess, if you want to stay out here until Daddy gets home.”
“Whatttt, Mommy?” asked Steven. (I need to video him talking; it’s absolutely adorable these days!)
“Well, Mommy and Daddy haven’t seemed to get around to making those spare keys, so we’re locked out for a few hours.”
We just played, ran around, and thankfully I had just given Meredith a bottle, so she drifted off to sleep in the outdoor infant swing. Thankfully she wasn’t inside alone, and thankfully I wasn’t outside alone. Eric unlocked us around 5 with a chuckle and said, “You’re locked out, huh?” “You have no idea,” I said.
Alas, it was a BEAUTIFUL afternoon. It was so close to perfection with a clear, blue sky and a mild, whispering breeze.
Mental note: Get spare key….and it’s obviously not smart in more than one way to go outside with three littles and no game plan….
Family Vacation
‘Twas our first family vacation, and like most vacations, it seemed too short. We’re so thankful Brian and Emily invited us to come with them. We had a fantastic time with no real agenda. We slept in (as much as you can with 5 kids three & under – ha, no they actually did pretty well!), we watched movies and swam in a wonderful kid-friendly pool. We got to see our friends the Schreibers, who we haven’t seen in several months, and we saw the sights of Saint Augustine, FL. If you have never been there, I’ll plug it for you; it’s a fabulous place to visit in the Spring. The weather was pretty close to perfect, and we really enjoyed the trolley rides downtown (we stayed on for almost three rounds of the tour because our kids crashed and took naps while riding)!
We saw the first school house, the oldest house, and the old fort of the “oldest city in the nation.” Basically everything was old. ha. There were even lots of old friendly snowbirds, too. Flagler College was also a nice treat for us to see. There is some really awesome history in the city, and it’s a great place for kids to visit, too.
I was kind of sad last night thinking that it will be months before we see our friends again. Even though Emily and I talk on the phone almost every day (and that says a lot for me – I am not a phone person!), I still miss her “in person” friendship. Lydia cried yesterday when we said good-bye. I could be wrong, but more and more Lydia strikes me as having the even-kill temperament, which she inherits from her daddy. She is a female (and a toddler), which we know naturally causes her to be a little more emotional, but most of the time she is pretty “go with the flow.” When she saw me hugging Emily and saying, “bye,” she burst out into “real” tears. That is one of the few times I have seen her get really sad and show emotion like that. At first I thought she just wanted a toy and thought Emily was taking it away, but she said, “Mommy, I didn’t want to leave Emily and Mr. Brian,” and my heart sank at how sad she really was!
Anyway, I am so glad we could go on this trip. It took us five years and three kids (haha), but we finally took our first “family vacation.” It’ll be one for our family books, one we will always remember and cherish!
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