It's been a few days since my last post and I feel withdrawals and it's time to catch up now. My little monkey learned to clap, clap his hands 2 Sundays ago after church so I claim that new feat to our worship service. He has also learned to make his kissy sounds after watching a video of a dear friends little baby girl doing the same thing. Baby kissy sounds are super cute. (So cute they make the fact he just ground mandarin orange into my couch irrelevant) Not only those two things but he has returned to his skill of standing freely. He's so good at it now he can bend and shake his noggin' and clap while doing it. We wanted to see how long he could last and he made it though an elaborate singing of the Alphabet Song. I was elated and so proud of my strong little man. He just turned 9 months on Monday and there is no doubt in my mind he will be walking in the very near future. While this makes me happy it also breaks my heart. My tiny little baby is literally growing before my eyes. I can't believe how fast the time goes.
We had a play date with his little girlfriend yesterday and it was so fun finally watching them get to play together. Of course they weren't as interested in each other as they were in the others' toys. Kids! HA!
The beach is calling my name and I'm dying to get my sewing machine out and work on a Pinterest project and make a huge beach blanket. Oh the awesomeness of living so close to the ocean. The sand beneath my toes and the wind in my hair and the sun on my face and the cold water rushing up onto the earth...oh how I love it.
That's all for today as little monkey is trying to lay claim to the computer keys. Have a super fabulous day all. :)
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
The Mountain and the Hill
Sitting on the couch watching Braiden in the kitchen swing in his swing about to fall asleep. He's practicing his new trick: clapping his hands. A new trick he discovered yesterday. Not sure if he figured it out during church or not but that's when he first started so that's what I'm going to credit it to. He's so nosy trying to peek out around the back of his swing as it goes. Now he's shakin' his noggin'. Silly boy just needs to go to sleep.
I feel like today should be a pinterest and crafty youtube kind of day. But alas, there is a mountain of laundry and a hill of dishes that need to be done. Clean laundry that has needed to be folded for a week now and clutter to be put away. When it comes to being a rockin' housewife I lack the rockin' skills part. One day I'll get the whole Suzie Homemaker thing down but I'm pretty sure today will not be that day. 15 more days until my family comes to see us and I could not be more excited. My mom is absolutely fantastic when it comes to helping around the house. I don't know how she does it but I don't take after her at all. All before I get out of bed in the morning, she'll have gotten herself up, taken a shower, eaten breakfast, gotten Braiden out of bed, fed and changed him, washed the dishes, dusted and Windexed our tables, vacuumed the floors, done a few loads of laundry, cleaned the toilets, mopped my kitchen floors and saved puppies or something crazy awesome like that. She's amazing at being a housewife and mom and I couldn't ask for someone better. (Even if she didn't do all of that.) I really don't understand how she can manage her time so well when all I seem to ever do is, well, nothing. I'm generally a pretty lazy person when it comes to cleaning and would much rather spend my day browsing the internet looking for simple ways to clean and keep a tidy home. HAHA! Terrible I know! So on that note, I'm signing off to go start the mountain of laundry and the hill of dishes.
I feel like today should be a pinterest and crafty youtube kind of day. But alas, there is a mountain of laundry and a hill of dishes that need to be done. Clean laundry that has needed to be folded for a week now and clutter to be put away. When it comes to being a rockin' housewife I lack the rockin' skills part. One day I'll get the whole Suzie Homemaker thing down but I'm pretty sure today will not be that day. 15 more days until my family comes to see us and I could not be more excited. My mom is absolutely fantastic when it comes to helping around the house. I don't know how she does it but I don't take after her at all. All before I get out of bed in the morning, she'll have gotten herself up, taken a shower, eaten breakfast, gotten Braiden out of bed, fed and changed him, washed the dishes, dusted and Windexed our tables, vacuumed the floors, done a few loads of laundry, cleaned the toilets, mopped my kitchen floors and saved puppies or something crazy awesome like that. She's amazing at being a housewife and mom and I couldn't ask for someone better. (Even if she didn't do all of that.) I really don't understand how she can manage her time so well when all I seem to ever do is, well, nothing. I'm generally a pretty lazy person when it comes to cleaning and would much rather spend my day browsing the internet looking for simple ways to clean and keep a tidy home. HAHA! Terrible I know! So on that note, I'm signing off to go start the mountain of laundry and the hill of dishes.
Friday, March 1, 2013
A Little Background
I have thought this after each posting and never wanted to post multiple posts in the same day so I'll do this now. My name is Rachel, my husband who I've referred to as Sailor Man up to this point his name is Matt ( I will call him Jordan though because it's his middle name and well, that's just what I call him), our sweet little B is named Braiden. He's going on 9 months old and steals my heart in the most unimaginable ways each and every day.
Jordan is a Sailor in the US Navy and Braiden was born while he was on his first deployment. The time apart was difficult but being pregnant really helped me get through that time. I knew stressing and worrying wasn't good for our sweet baby so I just didn't. I made the best of my time alone and spent as much with family back home and my best friend here in California as I could. I graduated High School in the top of my class and then went on a full ride scholarship to college into the states most sought after nursing program with hopes and dreams to finish my bachelors in 4 years work as an RN for 1-2 years an then continue on to get my masters and become a CRNA. College and high school were like 2 different worlds. I had no structure. HS was so easy and I never had to study. College I needed to study and didn't know how. I was never a partier, I didn't drink, the most I did was stay up too late watching stupid television. I made it into the nursing program by the skin of my teeth and from then on out I had my first doses of C and D grades. The Ds classified as failing and then I began to say goodbye to friends I started nursing school with as they advanced on an I was left behind to do the class over again. I became very discouraged but I pushed on, each semester saying I would do better. I would for a while and then I would get discouraged again as an exam came and went with a sub par grade. Fast forward a while and Jordan and I get married and he joins the Navy soon after. We move away in the summer of my Junior year of college. It would take 2 more years to get my bachelors due to the failing classes so I would in no way have my husband all the way across the country without me for that amount of time. I find out a lot of my credits wouldn't transfer so that puts me back farther once we get out here. I begin online classes to start with and then find out I'm pregnant and while I could have kept going, I didn't want anything to take precedence over the studying I would have to do and the last little bit of time I had left with my husband before he deployed. So I stopped with one class.
Long story short, that's why I'm a stay at home mommy. :) One day I'll go back to school and earn a degree in something. Each passing day I'm still unsure of what I really want to do. It changes every day, I weigh pros and cons of each dream and never settle. I don't have to right now so I won't. I'll keep dreaming and when there is one dream that I want to make a reality, I'll have my career choice. Right now, I'm working for an 8 month old and wouldn't have life any other way.
That's a little about me, more will come out over time. If you happen to stumble upon my little blog and have a question, I'm all for answering questions :)
Jordan is a Sailor in the US Navy and Braiden was born while he was on his first deployment. The time apart was difficult but being pregnant really helped me get through that time. I knew stressing and worrying wasn't good for our sweet baby so I just didn't. I made the best of my time alone and spent as much with family back home and my best friend here in California as I could. I graduated High School in the top of my class and then went on a full ride scholarship to college into the states most sought after nursing program with hopes and dreams to finish my bachelors in 4 years work as an RN for 1-2 years an then continue on to get my masters and become a CRNA. College and high school were like 2 different worlds. I had no structure. HS was so easy and I never had to study. College I needed to study and didn't know how. I was never a partier, I didn't drink, the most I did was stay up too late watching stupid television. I made it into the nursing program by the skin of my teeth and from then on out I had my first doses of C and D grades. The Ds classified as failing and then I began to say goodbye to friends I started nursing school with as they advanced on an I was left behind to do the class over again. I became very discouraged but I pushed on, each semester saying I would do better. I would for a while and then I would get discouraged again as an exam came and went with a sub par grade. Fast forward a while and Jordan and I get married and he joins the Navy soon after. We move away in the summer of my Junior year of college. It would take 2 more years to get my bachelors due to the failing classes so I would in no way have my husband all the way across the country without me for that amount of time. I find out a lot of my credits wouldn't transfer so that puts me back farther once we get out here. I begin online classes to start with and then find out I'm pregnant and while I could have kept going, I didn't want anything to take precedence over the studying I would have to do and the last little bit of time I had left with my husband before he deployed. So I stopped with one class.
Long story short, that's why I'm a stay at home mommy. :) One day I'll go back to school and earn a degree in something. Each passing day I'm still unsure of what I really want to do. It changes every day, I weigh pros and cons of each dream and never settle. I don't have to right now so I won't. I'll keep dreaming and when there is one dream that I want to make a reality, I'll have my career choice. Right now, I'm working for an 8 month old and wouldn't have life any other way.
That's a little about me, more will come out over time. If you happen to stumble upon my little blog and have a question, I'm all for answering questions :)
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