No excuses

Oh wow, umm.. someone told me I needed to update my blog. June 11 and only to day 4 of our trip. Oops! I guess so! Well, Day 5-7 will have to happen another day, because there's too much else going on.

In short. I'm 24 weeks pregnant with a... we're not sharing online! ;-) But we have an awesome name that you can all find out about in approximately 15 weeks lol. I know, I'm mean, but we have our reasons. But the name is truly and completely God inspired. I'll share all about it after baby is born. However, I learned the term Rainbow Baby yesterday and I LOVE it. This is such a rainbow baby and fits our child perfectly. It's the term for a baby you have after a loss.

In OTHER news, the majority of our friends have PCSed this summer. That's kept us busy, saying wayyyyy too many goodbyes. That's one of the HUGE negatives about the military. Well, we don't say goodbyes. We say "Until next time" through tears.

In other news that's similar, WE'RE MOVING!!! Ok, we're not leaving Germany, but we're moving off base, PRAISE GOD! Hearing the trashy folks outside talk about every type of sex imaginable at the top of their lungs at 11pm, climbing 2 full flights of stairs with a growing belly, and oh yeah, bringing ANOTHER person in to this tiny little concrete slab of a stairwell apartment and knowing we had to homeschool in it while surviving the dreary winter, just wasn't cutting it any more. So we finally took the step we've been talking about for a year. We found a great house with... A NICE BACKYARD!!! We couldn't be more excited. Plus it's got 4 rooms and an "office" room, so we'll have a spot for homeschooling! And 3 bathrooms. And.. yeah, I could go on and on, but I'll wait. We have less than 3 weeks til we move, but I'm mostly packed as much as I can be. Because...

Next week is VBS. Somehow, before knowing we were going to move, I said yes, I'd teach the Bible stories to the preK kids. HA! So, I've been preparing for that when not packing, and trying ot get as much packing done beforehand so I don't have to pack after VBS each day.

It's finally gotten warm here. Or hot. Some days are pure hot. Like 96 this past Sat. And it's suppose to be 94 this Fri. Do you know we don't have A/C Here?!?! Yeah, ask the pregnant woman how that was!

OH! And speaking of the moving, we applied for an extension. We're now suppose to be in Germany until Sept 2016! Yeah, we're not excited or anything. We haven't done any traveling lately because my PSD (pain in my pubic bones) gets REALLY bad this pregnancy when I walk a lot, so that pretty much cuts out traveling in Europe. But we're making plans for next spring/summer. And instead moving, which doesn't require lots of walking.

Our kids are amazing us each day, in good and bad. Zach is cutting his first adult tooth. :*( Hannah's blowing us out of the water with her amount of reading, and Zach is not far behind her. Her reading has encouraged him to try more, which is awesome. Last night at dinner, I decided to tell them the story of Moses to prepare them for VBS, and he kept telling me parts of it himself. I asked him how they knew and he said "BEcause we have the book over there!" And there is one reason we have 1,000+ books! Hannah is amazing me with her kindness and things of that nature. Today she told my friend her son could go first "Because my mommy says the first shall be last and the last shall be first." I LOVE when I hear them tell someone else the lessons I've taught them! Abby is very much our comedian. Everything is hilarious to her, and she's gotten a bit sassy lately. Definitely a point in our parenting where we're having to work on guiding her to appropriate behavior, which is such a challenge! But she's still so sweet and cuddly, so that makes up for it.

We were suppose to start school up already, in order to give us time around the baby being born, but with a move thrown in unexpectantly, school hasn't started. My new goal is the last week in Aug or first week in Sept., but I'm excited about the coming school year and what we have planned to learn. And I feel like it's going to be slightly easier with 2 readers this year! Well folks, there you have it. A late-night, tired-mama of an update! ;) Tschuss!