Day 4, April 5, 2010

Ahhh Monday! They are so much better now that I'm a full time mommy and Monday doesn't mean "back to the grind". I suppose though that my life now means that weekends no longer exist and I'm "on the grind" 24-7. Lucky for me I do a job that I truly love so its pretty easy. Matty told me again today what a great mom I am and that he had been right in thinking I would be when he fell in love with me. It really makes me feel great to hear things like that. Most of the time I feel like a pretty good mom, but Harley is such a wonderful baby that I'm not sure if its me or her that make it go so smoothly. It feels good to be recognized and complimented though. I sure hope that I'm a good mom and that she feels like I am, especially later in life.

So this morning was pretty uneventful. The whole family is coming down with colds and I think that was what was making Harley a bit more fussy than usual. She was having what I like to call a "look at me" day. I couldn't break eye contact or she would scream. She has learned to fake cry and it gets pretty loud. I would break eye contact for a five seconds and she would let out this scream like she had just been stabbed. However, when I looked back at her a big smile would light up her face. It was so precious that I couldn't even be annoyed. I suppose facebook can always wait when you have a sweet little baby who is so deserving of your attention.

After Matty woke up we went over to my parents house to get his phone and wallet that he left there the night before. On the way over he told me that he thought that perhaps we had been fighting more because he had been prideful in thinking that he was beyond reproach. It was true that he had been acting like that somewhat, but I just respected him so much for saying that. I know that pride is one of my biggest weaknesses and often I don't take criticism well and feel "beyond reproach". One day I will get to that point and I'm excited that Matty will be my guide in that. At my parents house the landscapers finally started on the backyard project. I'm really excited to see how it turns out. From the plans it looks like it will be really neat. We played Wii with Sean for a few hours before heading home to make dinner for the missionaries and Travis and Leah who have been taking the lessons from the missionaries. It was a pretty good lesson, but it gets so frustrating when all we do is pick apart the differences in beliefs and interpretations of scripture. Today we talked about the idea of the Trinity and the idea that God wanted Adam and Eve to partake of the fruit. I just wanted to yell "it doesn't matter!! If you don't pray about the book of Mormon and learn that its true then we will go in these circles forever!" I think Travis wants to be a BoM scholar before he will chose to believe it. I don't know that he is ready to humble himself enough to pray to God to know of its truth. Well now I'm tired. Harley is asleep, I got my Spanish homework done before midnight and I'm ready for bed. If only my sore throat would go away and the apartment would cool down below 80 degrees. I forgot to take a picture of Harley all day so I snuck into her room and snapped one while she was sleeping. It will have to do for today.

Day 3, April 4, 2010

HAPPY EASTER!!! Sunday was Easter Sunday and it was also the second day of General Conference. I suppose its my Methodist roots, but I was a little disappointed to not have an "Easter service" to attend today. Nonetheless we did dress Harley in her Easter dress complete with oversized flower. Unfortunately she had an accident all over the back of it during our stroll around Creekside before I could get any pictures. I will stage some later though. My mom made some nice Easter baskets for us and we had the traditional "hunt". It was much milder than most years, meaning that no one bled or cried. Sean and I tied with 10 eggs each, Matty had 9, and Jenny was pretty overwhelmed by the violence and only managed to find 6 or so. Next year Harley gets to hunt eggs all by herself and the era of Sean and I as the children will officially end. It's pretty exciting! So that was our Easter Sunday. Very relaxed and happy. I'm excited for Conference to come out on MP3 so we can listen to each talk at a time and have time to ponder it before the next one.

Day 2 April 3, 2010

Ok so I'm officially really really bad at keeping a journal every day. The good thing is that I have remembered to take a picture every day which I will be posting. Saturday was really great. Well it didnt start off very great. Matt and I have been snippy with eachother all weekend which is really starting to stress us out and making us more snippy. It's such an awful cycle. I think its over now. It gets harder and harder to communicate when we are both frustrated and even though we talk about it we don't quite get over it completely and end up snapping at the other one again. Luckily it only ever lasts a couple of days. I'm so lucky to have Matt as an amazing communicator for our relationship. He has taught me so much about healthy relationships since we have been married.
So Saturday was the first day of General Conference. I really enjoyed sustaining the General Authorities. It's really neat to be given the opportunity to say "I believe that President Monson is a prophet and I will head what he says because it is direct revelation from God." with a simple raise of the hand in my jammies. On Saturday afternoon we all went on a picnic. I made some homemade chicken nuggets and we went down by the Scioto River. Unfortunately it was really really windy and started to get kind of chilly so we couldnt sit and enjoy the river completely. Saturday evening we went over to my parents house and just hung out. We watched a few episodes of Project Runway that was DVRd and played Wii Super Mario until about 1am. We spent the night and woke up Easter Morning!! What a fun day!

Day 1 April 2, 2010

Oops almost typed 2009 there! It always takes me until about October to figure out that the year switched! So today was awesome! Unseasonably warm weather (about 75) and not a cloud in the sky. Harley and I spent the morning hanging out (well mostly she slept in the jumper, the crib, and the swing) and doing spanish homework. It's so great to be back in school but I'm finding focusing after being out of the game so long a bit of a challenge. The quarter didnt start off very well either. On Thursday night I rushed to drop Harley off at grandma's, fought rush hour back, fought for a parking place, power-walked to class in flip flops, and finally sat down in class 5mins late. Unfortunately right after I sat down I looked at the syllabus the professor gave me and the top said Creative Writing 210. Sounds like a fun class, but I was signed up for Comparative Religion 270!! I thought I just wrote the classroom down wrong so I stepped outside to call Matty. He confirmed that I had been in the wrong room but informed me that my class was actually on TUESDAY not Thursday. Both start with a T and it was an honest mistake in scheduling. I was really really bummed because I had been looking forward to that class and its only one day a week so I missed a good portion of the lectures already. Oh well though. I'm back on track now I suppose.

We spent the evening at my parents house decorating easter eggs with Sean and Jenny. It was a great time! Sean also made an amazing pizza that we all shared. Who knows what we will do tomorrow, but it's Saturday and we have all day off!!! Now I am very tired and I want to go read my book The Shack. I'm only about 10 pages in so I have nothing interesting to say about it just yet. I should also probably wake Harley up from sleeping in the carseat (where she has been since we got home) and nurse her so she can go to bed. Goodnight until tomorrow!

The beginning of the blog

So I'm not so much blogging as much as journaling. At this time I don't plan on telling anyone about my blog. I'm kind of just using blogspot as a dumping ground for my thoughts and an online storage facility. I want to get good at journaling not just for me, but for Harley. I want her to be able to look back and know about me and her family and have a refresh recount of the early days for when my mind begins to slip and I fill in the real details with a little bit of imagination. I also want to post some pictures of my pride and joy Harley Kathleen. I'm totally stealing this idea from Felicia, but I've decided that I too am going to take a picture of Harley every single day, for 365 days, and post them here. If a picture is worth a thousand words then I'm sure I will have said a lot when this year is up!