So here it is

So we are moving. Pat's job is moving him to Spokane WA. We will most likely be moving in June of this year after the baby is born. This is a big change for our family but we have complete faith in God that He is guiding us on His path. This is going to be a good thing for our family. I'm not looking forward to moving away from all our friends and family, but I am looking forward to the next chapter in our lives. I will write more about details as we know them. But for right now we know that we are going to Spokane WA in June.

God is good.

So there is a lot going on in our little family, most of which I can't talk about just yet. But wanted to update something on here. We are hopping to know more tomorrow. Pat and I both feel that God is guiding this 100%. We have full trust and faith in Him on this possible change in our family. He is laying out the path He wants us to follow and we are walking down that path holding His hand. So I hope this is enough of a small update for right now. Like I said I hope to add more to this by some time tomorrow but we will see.

Knowledge is power, but when is to much going to do more harm then good?

Knowledge is power most of the time. But I have heard about people who look up medical information online and end up going way over board and freaking themselves out for no reason. We this past weekend I ended up at labor and delivery for an infection. I was treated and sent home with instructions on what to do at home to take care of myself. While I was there I had to give a urine sample and was told that they would call if they found something but did not feel I need to wait the hour for the results.
Well today I get a call from the doctor that I saw this weekend. My urine sample came back with GBS+. Now for those of you that don't know what that is, it's Group B strep, or Group B Streptococcus (GBS). Most pregnant women will get tested between 35 and 37 weeks of pregnancy. This is done by a swab of your girl parts and the other end :) a urine sample is not common practice of testing for GBS. I feel very lucky that I was tested and they found this. After doing some reading online today, and being told by the doctor that I'm now at an even higher risk of passing this on to my baby girl I'm a little freaked out. I have seen first had what can go wrong with GBS in an infant during birth. I used to care for a little girl who contracted GBS from her mother during birth and developed red meningitis, she will never be able to care for herself. She is severely  mentally retarded and physically handicapped.
After doing more reading online today I found out this is more common then Downs Syndrome, Spinal bifida, and the number one cause of life threatening infections in newborns since 1960. I feel that most doctors and midwifes blow this off, they will tell the mom that they are GBS+ and will need antibiotics during labor and birth and leave it at that. When really there is so much more to it then that. Please if you are readying this and are pregnant or know someone who is pregnant show them this information, not to freak them out that something WILL go wrong, but so they have the information to make the best choice for them and their baby. Knowledge is power, and in this case more knowledge the better since most health care professionals don't seem to give that much information about this.

http://www.groupbstrepinternational.org/info_main.html
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/GBS.html
http://www.givingbirthnaturally.com/group-b-streptococcus.htmlThese are just a couple of the web sites that I have gathered some information about GBS on, there are lots more out there.

Our debt update

So I sat down the other day and went over all our bills and debts. I then added everything up that we still owe, right about $62K in debts still. But the great news is that since July of this year we have paid off about $3,800.00 worth of debts. To some that may not seem like a lot and others that might seems like a great deal of money. But for us, a single income family with two kids and one on the way, that is a big deal. We are so proud of ourselves to have paid that much off in that short amount of time.
I look forward to next July when we have been paying things off for a full year and can see how much we have paid off.

It's true what they say

Before you have kids most can sleep through the night all night long. Once you have kids forget it! Everyone says that you will never have another good nights sleep until the kids are 18. But ya know I think even then I wont have a good nights sleep.
I used to sleep like the dead, but not since I have had kids. The littlest things will wake me up now most of the time. Even if my kids are staying at their grandparents house I still don't get a good nights sleep, I get a little better nights sleep but not great.
I'm a worrier. I worry about everything all the time. I try very hard not to and to pray about everything that I'm worrying about. But I'm only human. So I worry. For some reason my head always starts to think the worst. I can't stand that about myself really. But that's who I am so I deal with it.
Before I had kids I stayed up late, when out with my friends. Went camping and would stay up until the sun was up then go to bed. Now 8pm rolls around and I'm beat, I'm ready for bed.
So yes it's true what they say, when you have kids you will not have another good nights sleep for 18 years. Well I think longer then 18 years but I'm not there yet to be sure.

Need, Want, Give me, Why?

So this year I have been doing a lot more praying and thinking. I have been listening more to the Christian radio station in my area and it's really got me thinking about how much stuff we get every year. How much of that is a need. How much is just a want. I hate how I hear my kids always saying I want this I want that give me this give me that. I try so hard to teach them to be thankful for what they have, and that there are others out there that don't even have the basic of what they truly need to make it day to day.
So I have decided that next year I don't want anything for Christmas. People had already been shopping this year when I decided this. But next year I want anyone who was going to get me a gift to donate that money to someone some where who really needs it. Someone who does not know where their next meal is going to come from, or an origination that will give live animals to those in other countries to feed their families.
We have been blessed in so many ways from God, and we know that he will keep taking care of us know matter what. God also wants us to give to others and I know for me and my family we can give a lot more then we already do.
I don't want my kids growing up thinking that Christmas is about who gets the biggest gift, or who's list is the longest. I want them to want to give to others. To have that warm feeling when you have helped someone out, but do it because it's the right thing to do and because it's something that you want to do.
So what does your family do for the holiday's each year? Is it all about the gifts or is it all about God and his son's birth, and the message of God.

Priceless memories

So Pat and I have been talking about trying to buy his great aunts house over in Idaho. She passed a little over a year ago this year. The house has been on the market for almost two years with no bites on it yet, he keeps telling me how much he would love to own that house and to be able to live in it with all his memories and to pass those on to our kids and possibly pass the house and land onto them as well.
After doing some thinking tonight I have decided I'm jealous, jealous of his memories. Jealous of the fact that he has a house like that to go to and even possibly own someday. See for me I don't have anything like that. I have family, but not close family like he did, they have passed on now. I had a cousin like him growing up that I hung out with, but she no longer speaks to me or anyone outside her family unit. I wish I had some sort of land, property, or house in my family that had those memories to go with it. But sadly I don't, and really that's okay. That's part of the reason I think it would be so great for us to be able to own this house and it's memories for Pat.
So we have to pray, and pray a lot. We both feel that Idaho is where we are meant to be for some reason, some calling I guess you could say. Right now we have no idea how we would make it happen to be able to buy a house like that. It's not in our budget at all. We are a one income family because we both feel it's important enough for one parent to be home and raise the kids. But if God wants us to be able to move into that home then He will make it happen no matter what.
So this I pray, that God guilds us in His ways. Shows us the path that He wants us to take. He has blessed us in so many ways already and shown us so many things. I trust him, I know sometimes I lose my trust for moments but it always comes back. I'm only human. But I do have faith in God that he will guild us and show us what He wants for us in our life here on earth.