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Football makes Isaac smile

Sick

Ethan is sick. He was up several times last night. We finally set him up on a mattress on the floor in our room. Hopefully, he will feel better soon.

Happy September 9th!

It’s 09/09/09 and it’s 9:09

Happy Birthday to Chloe(yesterday)

The List

I changed my mind. I don’t think there is anything embarassing on here. I edited some of the financial goals for privacy though .

1. Run 5k Race
2. Finish Couch to 5k Program ( 10/31/09complete)
3. Down 20 pounds from pregnancy weight
4. Down 30 pounds from pregnancy weight
5. Be to my goal weight
6. No fast food for 1 month
7.Log all food for 2 weeks
8. Complete 30 Day Shred
9. No eating after supper for 1 week.
10. Floss every day for 2 weeks.
11. Drink at least 64 oz of water a day for 1 week.
12. Read Entire Bible
13. Go through Believing God study again. (in progress)
14. Join a small group.
15. Find a new church
16. Join a Bible study.
17. Go through a study/book with Nathan
18.Get Life insurance for Nathan(paperwork and bloodwork done 10/10/09)
19. Get Life insurance for me(paperwork and bloodwork done 10/10/09)
20. Teach Ethan to write his name
21. Start a reading program with Ethan
22. Assign chores to E&A.
23. Decide on guardians for the kids
24. Host a family holiday
25. Write Nathan a love note 5 different times
26. Go to the park 12 times in the summer
27. Read Getting Things Done
28. Make a blog schedule (in progress)
29. Submit something for publication
30. Have 10 subscribers to our blog
31. Have 20 subscribers to our blog
32. Have 50 subscribers to our blog
33. Finish Isaac’s 1st year scrapbook
34. Start a personal scrapbook for me
35. Make a photo book online
36. Have $x in savings
37. Have $xx in savings
38. Use only cash for purchases for two weeks.
39. Start Roth IRA
40. Figure out what to do with my 403(b) and pension money from Crown
41. Set up a budget
42. Stick to budget for 1 month
43. Buy nothing but essentials for a month
44. Finish estate planning with Kylene
45. Create 4 week menu rotation
46. Create a house-cleaning schedule
47. Finish A&E’s closet
48. Finish Master BR closet
49. Finish LR wall
50. Finish heat/air runs
51. Finish Master BR
52. Create Family Cookbook of favorite family meals
53. Paint E&A’s letters
54. Isaac and Audrey swap rooms.
55. Invite friends over 4 times by 2010 (3/4 done)
56. Make cinnamon rolls from scratch
57. Send out 5 handwritten letters
58. Write a letter to myself for the end of this project
59. Play a video game with Nathan 5 times.
60. Play a video game with Ethan 5 times.(in progress 3/5)
61. Host a Court Whist Party.
62. Visit Nathan’s Grandmothers
63. Family vacation Fall 2009
64. Go somewhere warm in the winter
65. Set up a will or a trust
66. Write a health care directive
67. Get a manicure
68. Write a letter to Isaac
69. Write a letter to Audrey
70. Write a letter to Ethan
71. Plan my funeral
72. Eat 5 servings of fruit/veggies a day for 1 week
73. Get new carpet for upstairs
74. Start taking kids to the dentist
75. Nurse Isaac for 9 months (Not achieved. Isaac was done at 5 months)
76. Teach Ethan to ride a bicycle
77. Teach Audrey to ride a bicycle
78. Go to a coffee shop with Nathan 5 times
79. Teach Audrey to write her name
80. Potty train Isaac
81. Have a garage sale
82. Finish list of 101 things
83. Lower blog bounce rate to 70%
84. Have 200 unique visitors on our blog in one month
85. No television for 1 week
86. Set up allowance system for kids
87. Paint Deck
88. Fix Driveway
89. Kids stay with Nana and Grandpa Fritz 4 times (1/4 done)
90. Buy new van
91. Set up a daily schedule
92.Invite friends over 12 times in 2010 (4/12)
93.Make a blog button for this list
94. For one day, say “no” only when necessary, to Ethan.
95. Get up at 6:00am every day for a week.
96. Go to bed by 10:00pm every day for a week.
97. Create a Household Notebook
98. Buy and use The Elf on the Shelf book/kit to use for Christmas holidays
99. Run for an hour without stopping.
100. Take the kids to the Children’s Museum.
101. Memorize a chapter of the Bible (at least 15 verses)

Photo caption winner

I kept forgetting to post our winner.

Nathan and I voted and decided Erica’s comment took the cake.

Get it? Cake?

Nathan and I are partial to cake.

101 Things in 1001 Days

I was reading some different blogs a couple of days ago and ran across this. It’s a project to make a list of 101 things that you plan to try to accomplish in the next 1001 days. I decided to give it a shot. When I did the math, 1001 days from today came out to June 2, 2012. I love that the end day would be my birthday. So, here we go!

I’m not going to list everything on my list (because some things are private), but here is a sample:

Run a 5k race
Weigh 150 lbs by 12/1/09
No fast food for 1 month
Go through a Bible study or book with Nathan
Finish Isaac’s first year scrapbook
Create 4-week menu rotation
Put together a cook book of our favorite meals
Send out 5 cards or handwritten letters
Play a video game with Nathan every night for a week
Join a small group
Make cinnamon rolls from scratch
Buy nothing buy essentials for 1 month

Saturday Roundup

There he is. My 3 month old baby. Isaac has been so easy lately that I sometimes forget we have three children. Ethan and Audrey still adore him. They get excited whenever he wakes up from his naps. He still wakes one time at night, but I feed him and he goes right back to sleep. He goes down for the night at about 7:00 and doesn’t wake until 4ish to nurse. That’s a super long stretch of sleep and I’m very happy he’s doing so well. He smiles at us when we talk to him. He loves to lay on his back and hang out in the same room as his brother and sister. Being where the action is makes him happy! I can tell his weight gain isn’t nearly as fast as it was early on, but he seems happy and healthy so I’m not worried. I like him more every day!

On an unrelated note, our family is just wrapping up one the hardest and most stressful months we’ve ever experienced. We’ve also made a pretty big decision recently. I mentioned in an earlier post that I had stepped down from my responsibilities at our church. What I didn’t mention then was that Nathan and I decided that it was time to look for a new church home. The decision was new enough that I didn’t feel comfortable mentioning it. I have a couple weeks of distance now and it feels like this isn’t a passing phase.

Lots of different things factored into this decision. I’ve been a part of this church for more than 10 years and it has been my church home for my entire adult life, but when I mentioned the idea of leaving to Nathan we both agreed that we really didn’t feel all that connected. I do have some specific hurts and disappointments (again, that I probably should not go into here) that I’m dealing with. I’m not sure what to do with these feelings. There really isn’t anyone to blame and it may just be God’s way of moving us to the next phase of our lives. It’s also been hard living 30 minutes away. Perhaps if we really want to experience community at our place of worship we need to live in a closer community. Does that make sense? I used the word “community” two different ways in that sentence.

There you have it. Just one of our “big things” that is happening.

My Children are the Cutest Children in the World (and so are yours)

My kids are not perfect (more on that later), but they are rather cute. See?

It’s only natural that I tell my kids how much I love them and how they are the cutest children in the entire world. As a mother, I believe it’s perfectly acceptable to believe this. My niece, Chloe, is the cutest child in the entire world to her mother, Erica. And Erica is right too. Mothers can live with this sort of incongruence. The laws of the universe bend to the power of mothers.

It’s a complicated thing to grasp so it’s no wonder that my preschool son would find the concept a little difficult.
Example:
Two days ago we went for a walk to get the mail. The post office is only a couple blocks away. It’s a nice walk for Ethan and Audrey’s little legs and my “not-as-little-as-I-would-want-them-to-be” legs. As we were walking back home, we passed a woman with a new baby. Ethan announced that we had our own baby and that he was very cute(Ethan also announced his own age, that Audrey was “Princess Audrey” and that we were the Fritz family, but that isn’t really relevant). As we walked away, I mentioned to Ethan how cute that baby was. Ethan responded by saying, “But that baby isn’t as cute as our baby. Our baby is the cutest baby. Right Mom?”

I guess someone was listening to me when I was gushing over Baby Isaac. Time for a lesson in “baby cuteness”.

My "Bigs"

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