Laughing at the Face of Danger!

What is it about boys that makes doing something "dangerous" so much fun. It seems like every time I turn around today Mr T. is doing something he knows he shouldn't be doing. First climbing on the phone table to reach daddy's remotes on top of the piano (2nd & 3rd photos). Next he decides to climb in his walker toy (this might not be a bad thing) except he can't get both legs in! To follow up all this great fun, he climbs from the couch into a drawer so he can look at the family's DVD collection. Why look at the DVD collection? Because DVDs make great Frisbees! And this book holds a lot of DVDs. What's next you ask? Time will only tell.

What is good about all this craziness is that it helps pass the time away. I am patiently (not really) waiting for Ducky Girl to start hatching her egg! After a week of off and on contractions she got to be pretty close. I don't know who's more ready, Ducky Girl, me , or Ms.B (she keeps asking is it time to go stay at the Sims yet?). Ducky Girl has got a sense of humor about the whole thing, she has now started a contest to guess when the baby will be born. Check out her blog for a chance at winning! She even has cool prizes! You can use the link on the right side listed under blogs that I love. Good luck!

Normal is just a setting on your dryer!

Isn't this title fitting! What about life is normal? Why do we want to be "normal"? I am truly guilty of wanting to be normal, which just made me feel more abnormal. Lately I have been feeling that God wants me to deal with my issue about wanting to be normal. Why can't I just accept me for what God has made me to be!

First, God had Brady and I take the Financial Peace class at church. Dave Ramsey says, "why be normal?"

Next I'm at a doctors appointment at Perinatal medicine (high risk pregnancy specialist) last week and the doctor's telling me what I'm telling him is not normal. I said, well this is normal for me to start having Braxton and Hicks about now. He says, no it's not Braxton and Hicks. Then God went on to prove the doctor right! (Man I hate that, I want to be right, but I guess that's why He's God and the doctor gets paid the big bucks!!) So now my normal for me pregnancy is not normal for me. The good news is I'm not on full bed rest and the medicine they are having me take seems to be working to stop the contractions.

Then as I am packing up some of my parents books, God brings a new one for me, in the form of a book called "Normal is just a setting on your dryer" by Patsy Clairmont. If you haven't read this book (which I doubt many people my age have) you should! Her humor and honesty will make you laugh out loud (just be carefully if you are reading this book near sleeping kids, you might wake them up) and want to cry at the same time. Okay God, I think this book was definitely one I needed to read. It was a great wake up call to quite worrying about being "normal" and just be the woman, wife, mother, sister, friend,and child you made me to be! If you're you, you're normal! Thank God!! I guess that means I no longer need to promenade out of the laundry room of life trying to appear normal.