Posts from — June 2009

A very significant week indeed.  So significant, it’s blog worthy.  At least to me.

* Our “kids” graduated.  After 6 years of pouring our lives into these awesome students, they have passed one of the most significant milestones of their lives!  It was so much fun to get to watch them receive their high school diplomas and celebrate with them.  I’m so proud, humbled, sad and excited all at the same time.  Alexa, Evan, Julia, Leslie, Linsey, Nicole, and Shannon….I love you all so much, am so stinkin proud of you, and believe in you 100%!  I’m so thankful God brought us together, that through Christ we are sisters forever, and that I am blessed to have each of you in my life.  Keep pursuing Jesus in this next season of life!  He is the ONLY one who can give you the LIFE that you dream of.

* I got on my bike for the first time since before I was pregnant.  Probably about a year ago exactly.  We had a family “workout” with Daniel pushing Savannah in the jogging stroller and me riding my bike. I say “workout” because Daniel is the only one who really worked out.  Savvy slept and my pace was so leisurely that it cannot constitute a workout.  But I did block the scary dogs, provided the water for my hubby, and some good company/encouragement…and we did it together!  This weekend, however, I did work out with my first full fledged ride on my own.  On my own, you say?  Yes, I have never ridden my road bike without Daniel unless it has been at a park.  My hubby is uber cautious about riding on the road…particularly with me (he says he likes me or something and wants me to stick around awhile ) and I think I got so paranoid that I didn’t think I can do it.  Well, giving birth sans drugs kind of rejuvenates the “I can do it!” attitude a little bit so I rode 6.2 miles all by myself.  Granted, I didn’t have to change a flat or put my chain back on and it was a short and fairly easy ride, but I did it.  I think I’m gonna try and figure out how to do that at least once a week…hopefully more…but I’m not gonna set the bar too high since the number of hours available to even attempt it are so short.

* I’m finally into 1 Samuel in my quest to read the Bible in chronological order and I am way excited about it because I get to start jumping around into Psalms and read the historical context for when each one is written.  AND, on top of that, I think I’m going to do my summer Bible Study again and they are doing the Beth Moore Psalms of Ascent which just seems really fitting for God to do something cool like that with the timing.  I don’t know…just maybe He cares about the little details of life.

* And last but not least, we have some Savannah firsts that have me super excited.  We have been on three trips, had lots of company, and in general have been pretty busy for the last, say um, year or two or five.  Well, the last trip to Texas basically did her in for any sort of gaining ground with consistency in sleep, etc.  It was like everything we had worked on, just disappeared and we were back to month 1.  So, I have had to re-figure her out (which I’m finally realizing will probably be what parenting will be as she changes and grows), and last night she slept ENTIRELY THROUGH THE NIGHT for the very first time.  She has done a few midnight-6 am stretches before this last trip but never has she slept from 7:30 – 6:45 without waking up!  And that is just the culmination of the weekend.  She took her first bottle from Daddy after Mommy finally stopped to pump, she rolled over from her stomach to her back, she went to the nursery at church for the first time, had her first babysitter last night (took her 2nd bottle) for Daniel and I to have our first official date night in Nashvegas!

* To top it all off, it has been beautiful….I mean absolutely beautiful for about the last week and today is no different.  Blue skies…yay!  Happy June everyone!  Oh, and one last thing…it’s also a significant week because, in case you missed it…I did, in fact, just blog about it.  Wow.