Still Busy...

Well, I probably sound like a broken record, but we're still super busy around here!  With school & working from home & taking care of an almost 2 year old, sometimes I feel like a hamster in a wheel...spinning around and around but I'm not going anywhere.  When I "feel" like I've caught up on one thing, I think something else slips.  SO...to get through it, I keep reminding myself that "this too will pass."  That is what my mom always told me when I was younger.  This phase in life will not last forever.  And, it kinda scares me because when I look back on life at times when I thought I was stressed...I laugh because it's nothing in comparison to now.  Maybe life in the future will be even more stressful, but I'm committed to doing it all "unto the Lord!"  

I hate to use the word "blessed" because to so many people it comes with a somewhat negative connotation, but truly I have been blessed!!  I have been blessed with an amazing husband who works so hard for our family.  He works hard at work, and he works SO hard at school.  I think the Lord knew what he was doing when he made it work out for me to take these two classes...right now.  I have absolutely no idea how Jeremy does it.  When I was in school the first time, I worked through college.  I paid all of my tuition on my own (no student loans!).  I thought I was stressed then.  But now, I have a family, a baby, a job, a mortgage...should I go on??  Jeremy's been in school for 2 years...with a family...and a full time job...and other full time responsibilities.  I've been in school for two months, and I feel like AM belly aching & complaining.  I'm so grateful for a husband who works so hard for his family.  I've been blessed with friends.  Friends who've gone out of their way to bring me dinner because they knew I was having a SUPER stressful week.  Friends who've invited Hadley and me over for a random, spur of the moment play date...just so we could get out of the house and I wouldn't lose my mind.  Friends who've called and given me a listening ear (don't you always feel better when you can get out a good cry and just vent for a second??!).  And, blessed to have an amazing mother...who listens...who helps without asking...and who most importantly prays for me.  Life might be bumpy right now, but I sure am blessed. 

So, with all of that heaviness...here are a few fun pictures...

Hadley loves her morning coffee!!!  Okay, okay, so it's just a couple of tablespoons with lots and lots of milk, but she sure does feel like a "big girl" when she drinks it.  And, by the way, she walks around the house calling herself a "big girl!"  I think it's the cutest thing E-V-E-R!!  

 

Goodness!  Doesn't she look so grown up??  Has it really been almost two years.  Sometimes, as a mother, I think the days are long, but the years F-L-Y by!! 

  On Valentines Day!  She really didn't want to have her picture taken!

 

So, I get the crummy "Mom of the Year" award.  These were Hadley's Valentines Day presents at school.  The one in the middle was just the "bag" that every one put their Valentines Day cards in.  The one on the right & left were actual "cards!!"  Parents went ALL OUT for this...um...Holiday.  ??  They had Valentines Day Cards printed out like Christmas cards...with pictures.  They sent play-doh, little toys, and lots & lots of candy.  This mommy sent the $2.50 valentines day card from Target attached to a sucker, and I was putting them together at 10:30 the night before.  I guess I know what I'm in for now!  Geez!  Anyone else experience this??!   

Hadley making her Valentines Day card for her Daddy. :)