Life and Maisie and Other Things Too

Sometimes when I get overwhelmed with something I like to ignore it altogether.  A perfect example of this is my blog.  I have made empty promises in the past to try to post everyday, specifically a picture.  Well, I just can’t do it!  Sometimes I will just draw a blank and have nothing to say.  Then, as far as a picture goes, my batteries are dead on my camera.  Yeah, I should get new batteries, but I am lazy bones. 

So lots of new things happening in our family!  At least lots of new things happening with Maisie!  Thanks to my mom, she is now using a fork and spoon!  I can’t even believe she can poke her little organic raviolis with her plastic fork.  It is really cute.  She also scoops up yogurt and other fruit puree type things.  It is precious, except for the fact that it gets everywhere. 

Maisie is officially a walker.  She was determined to leave California a walker and has been successful in that mission!  She walks everywhere now.  It is pretty cute. 

She has a little baby that she loves so much and she kisses and hugs it like there is no tomorrow.  How do they know how to do that???  It is really amazing.  She already has those nurturing instincts.  Amazing.

Something sad that I do to her, is once in a while I will ask her where Bandna is (one of my friends in Sacramento) and she will look around a bit distraught.  I am just curious if she remembers (which obviously she does), but I think it is probably sick and wrong that I do that.

It snowed on Christmas, which was amazing.  We had a fun time with Justin’s family, just relaxing and eating. 

I miss my family.  It was hard to be away from my mom on Christmas.  I am thinking this was the first Christmas I have ever spent away from her.  Sad.  It is hard living far from family, but at least I am not a whole ocean away this time. 

We are still processing what is next for us.  We are very open to whatever God has for us.  We are just waiting.  A lot of waiting. 

Some other important news (not really) for this post is that I have allergies.  I woke up in the middle of the night with the worst itchy throat ever.  I had to take a Clariton.  Hopefully that is ok while nursing!

Some exciting news (for real) is that we are going to be heading to Denver in a couple weeks to get some counseling to process where we are at in our lives (with some really great people who work with Christian Associates) and also to visit with my sister and her family.  Then we head back to Paris!!!  YAY!!!!  We are really looking forward to seeing old friends.  It will be tough because we are also going to be selling a lot of our things and saying a more permanent goodbye to some of the people we know there.  But by permanent, I mean we won’t be seeing them in the next year.  Or who knows actually.  We are just really looking forward to being back in Paris for a couple weeks. 

So that is a lot of random information, but I felt like I needed to share it all, so there it is!

And of course, a picture of our little nugget!!!  She is amazing!