Maisers
Some ramblings from my heart
I just want to be settled somewhere. We have been “on the road” since the end of August. We have been living out of a suitcase for that long, over three and a half months. I feel very unsettled. We don’t know what our future looks like and it is a bit unnerving. All we know is that we will be in Portland for a year. After that? We have no clue. We are waiting to hear from God. Waiting for some BIG sign or answer. Waiting for peace. Waiting for unity. Waiting. Lots of waiting. Reminds me of when I was waiting for Maisie, but she took her sweet time. Two weeks late is REALLY late for a huge pregnant woman! I feel like things are taking their sweet time right now. Justin and I have different feelings about the future, but I have complete faith that we will…
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Justin wrote the sweetest post about our first year with Maisie. Read about it HERE!
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It is Maisie’s birthday today and I can’t believe how “woman” I can be sometimes. I got emotional at her party yesterday when we sang her Happy Birthday. Then sitting in Starbucks today, listening to sad music, I started to get teary again. I just can’t believe how amazing this last year has been. It has flown by! I am so thankful for my little Maisie! So her party…. We had a great time! It was “Rock Star” themed as you can see in the above invitation! It really should have been punk rock, but whatever. Sort of the same, right? We had a few friends over. The kids made fruit loop necklaces (all my mom’s idea there) and we just sort of hung out. It was so fun to be with friends! Maisie had a blast! The only stinky thing was that she was sick. She was pretty chill…
Read MoreLoud Baby in a Mini Van
I felt very much like a typical mom today. You know the ones you see on television that are driving in their mini van and freaking out at the kids for being loud and obnoxious? That was me today. Justin wanted to make a “quick” trip to some electronic store to see about a dead battery in his computer. Let’s just say that there is no such thing as a quick trip for Justin to any electronic store. So I waited and waited and waited and waited for what seemed like an eternity. Maisie was screaming her head off. Not necessarily crying, but screaming as if someone was torturing her. It was not pleasant to the ears. By the time Justin came out, I felt like doing something horrible to him. Maybe screaming loudly in his ear or punching him really hard, just to get some aggression out from waiting…
Read MoreLeg Warmer Obsession (Yes, It’s True)
A couple of my friends have little girls around Maisie’s age and they have the cutest little teeny tiny leg warmers. For some reason, seeing these little leg warmers excited something inside me to the point where I just felt like I had to have them for Maisie! I wonder if my love of leg warmers began as a child when my mom would get me all dressed up in my leotard and leg warmers for my junior jazzercise class. All I knew is that I had to have them for Maisie. I literally could not stop thinking of them and it only got worse after we actually did drive to the place to buy Maisie her own little precious pair of leg warmers. I was convinced she needed them and then as soon as she had her own pair, I couldn’t stop thinking of how she needed more colors. …
Read MoreWhite Trash Mom?
You would think that I would question my parenting skills once in a while, and I guess I do, but not the same things that other people question in me. I am not the mom who has the high chair cover for the restaurants or the covers for the shopping carts. I just think that it looks strange. I get the idea of it, but to me, a few germs on the shopping cart or high chair are the least of my concerns. I also just throw food down on the table without cleaning it off. Ew, I know that is sort of gross. Another thing that I get a lot of, “you better not do that!” comments to are when I set Maisie down on the floor of a restaurant to crawl around. I know the floors are gross (not compared to floors in Paris!!!), but she is past…
Read MoreWhy Mean Childcare Worker….WHY?!?
Sometimes I just gotta ask, "Why?" Is it really that hard to come and get me when my baby is in hysterics because she wants her mommy? Is it really necessary to think you have it under control when someone else’s child is crying so hard she can’t breath? Is it necessary to only get the mom once that child has thrown up from crying so hard? THIS is why I don’t like to leave Maisie with strangers! We left Maisie at the childcare at church last night and let’s just say it didn’t go so well. The rest of the night Maisie was clingy and insecure. Poor thing. I am not one to let her just cry and cry and cry, so it bothers me when other people do. And on a side note: I had asked the lady to please come get me if she started to cry,…
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