www.youravon.com/sgedde ~Fall clean out begins!

My poor husband has been working like crazy, and decided to take some (about 10 hours) for today, so the kids and I are heading to Nixon park, since the other kids that live in our building aren't around and we don't have the broken Jeep! Nothing too much going on... Working really hard to improve my business with Avon... So, I opened a new website that you could check out ;)
www.youravon.com/sgedde
First order = Free shipping!!!

Anyhow, the kids are doing great. Adalai is 18 months now, and Wyatt is working on potty training. We also have started a workbook for him. He is super smart, and understands the directions that I read to him, and we do counting and coloring activities. It is really fun to be able to really help in his understanding, and learning. I enjoy it so much! Tomorrow we are going to my Mom's for another birthday party for Wyatt. We haven't actually had a b-day party with our family since we were in PA for his birthday. Adam and Kel move this weekend, so I wish we could blink and go to PA to help them! I have cleaning to do around this place as always, so have been keeping busy with getting situated since our trip. I have been wanting to do the spring-cleaning-in-the-fall type thing... I need to get rid of the clutter! Any ideas on how to go about doing that? OH my gosh most people are probably thinking to themselves, well get rid of the junk! Well yeah easier said then done! We are always really clean, just have too many things, we both think~ So the fall clean out begins!

Happy Birthday Kira!

Happy Birthday, dear sister.

You have always been one of my best friends, someone I can always count on! I am so thankful to be able to share in her birthday celebration tonight...

Happy 22nd birthday, Kira~!

We love you!

Psalms--All done!

Well I made myself a little challenge to be done with the whole book of psalms by today... and I completed my little task~ Yay!
I really loved the book of psalms and how the psalmists always ended up praising God... Some of my recent favorites are Psalm 121, and Psalm 139.

Psalm 121
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—
he who watches over you will not slumber;

4 indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;

6 the sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.

7 The LORD will keep you from all harm—
he will watch over your life;

8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going
both now and forevermore.

Thought I would share that with you on this beautiful day!

Vacation

Our vacation was wonderful. We had a lovely trip to visit Michael, Elizabeth, and Christopher, and it was wonderful to be greeted with such excitement and hugs!~ We had birthday cupcakes for Wyatt and had a lovely dinner to catch up... The next morning we rushed off to finish the rest of our trip. Only had one instance of Wyatt not feeling well. We took the opportunity to pull off the freeway and visit a Harley Davidson store ;) We got to Adam and Kelly's, and it was like we had never left each other! It has been 6 months since we saw our best friends and we were right back into the swing of things! :) Their apartment is super cute, and we were able to just hang out together and eat and laugh... joke and enjoy... Such an amazing blessing from God that we could be reunited with Adam and Kelly, and the other family that we have in PA! ;) We enjoyed seeing Nichole, Chris, and the girls, and Ron, Donna, and Andy. So amazing. We got to eat Thai with them too! Yay. Kelly had off while the boys were in school, so we got lots of time to spend talking and reading together and fellowshipping with each other. We shopped together and visited a couple of malls, baked just a bit and just enjoyed each others company. The class was really good for the guys too... So all around it was an amazing time that won't be forgotten. We had some issues getting home (flooding in Chi-town... thanks Becky for getting us outta that mess ;)) but are home now, and getting cleaned up around this place! We came home with some extras since it was Wyatt's birthday and we had about 3 parties while we were away! So, now we are working to unpack and enjoy. This week is going to be busy, but trying to remember the peace I felt while away and dwell on that....

9/4/08

I am so excited because we decided that we could go to Ohio to visit our pals Michael and Elizabeth. I can't wait to see them! Today was actually a lot less stressful then I anticipated. Had a great meeting with JoAnn. LOVE my time with her everytime. She is so wonderful. So helpful in every way and so encouraging. I shared my stress and anxiety issues with her, and she made some really wise recommendations. One of which she really stressed was focused exercise. I discussed with her my desire to get a YMCA membership this winter because I get the winter blues every year. It is something that sounds exciting to me, that I could perhaps take a yoga class, or whatever while the chillins play in the nursery and stuff... otherwise they provide jogging strollers, so I could run on the track, and swim with the kids. I would LOVE that, and frankly, even though it is super expensive for the membership for the family, it would still probably be what it would cost me for perscription meds for my super anxiety! I am so blessed by her suggestion, and the way she talked to me. She is so wonderful. Then my pal Becky came upstairs and totally blessed me by buying Pizza Hut (WINGS!!!) and watching the kids while I took little Grams home. She really blessed me too by helping with the kids for awhile... it was really nice. Doms came by this morning to visit quick and say goodbye... so much fun to see all the special people in my life today... Didn't get to see my sis though :( Anyhow, I am so thankful that packing didn't end up being the atrocity that I anticipated, and that I could get some other work done in the process!
Tina decided today that she wants to sell Avon...
JoAnn suggested to me to get all of my Avon catalogs out to people that live in the buildings around me... great suggestion! I had like a ton that I handed out to all the people that live here, and next door... yay! (so if you live around me, you were probably greeted with a Mark catalog. Love it!). Anyhow, want to get going with a bigger customer base for my Avon. I love this business seriously.
The kids are feeling better. Sorry to my friends around here that caught their cold! :( Don't worry it will probably happen to me that I will get it while traveling! I am going to pray that doesn't happen!
The kids and I are all tired tonight, and I am excited for my finishing off of Adi's blankey. Almost done! YAY! Wyatt picked out the green that he wants his blankey to be, so probably will be starting that somewhere along our trip tomorrow... I am alos praying that max handles that boarding well... We have Sherry/Beck as a back up just in case Thanks so much guys~!

Peace

Going to PA~!

We are kind of unprepared for this trip at the moment, but I am confident that the Lord will work with us to work it all out! We found out yesterday afternoon that Ben will be able to complete his class, so we are making the trip east! I am so excited to see our family that lives there! We are going to be away for one week and celebrate Wyatt's third birthday while away. We are going to take the potty chair there, because we need to work on potty training regardless of if we are on the go or not. We seem to always be on the run and I don't want that to hinder his progress. I am working on a few projects while away. Almost finished knitting Adi's blankey, and then making a green one for Wyatt. I love these projects, keep me busy. And I am also going to read "Gorgeously Green" and "Diaper free Before 3" at the same time. I am actually going to kind of skim them I think, but try and read anyhow. So, today we have a few errands to run, one of which is to thoroughly clean our Jeep so we have a nice comfortable and clean 14 hour ride to PA. We may end up seeing Michael and Elizabeth at the same time, because they are going to PA for a wedding this week, I am pretty sure. Anyhow, excited but anxious. Please pray for safe travel for us. And that the kids don't wig out on our long trip in the car! Also it would be helpful if gas prices don't rise before we come home (if at all for that matter!). We are still trying to decide what time to actually venture out, because we are boarding Max at a boarding facility while we are away and need to coordinate dropping him off and whatnot. We are working on getting his shots updated this afternoon along with running crazy errands, so needless to say, I have had an extra cup of coffee this morning to help! ;)
Have a good rest of the week! Not sure how much I will be able to be online to blog, but still will be trying to take some time outs to rest, so we'll see!
Peace

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