We're still alive and healthy, thank God. We moved in the middle of April back to where we were living before we moved in with my parents. It's nice to be settled in our own place again.  We're renting one level of a house right now, it's cozy and works fine. I'm just so glad to be in our OWN place again, and God is taking care of us. The landlords are supposed to have a bigger house open up in the next couple of months that should be better for our growing family.

Chad is interviewing for some positions with the city, and that will help us a lot financially. We're living off of our tax return (and economic stimulus payment!) until he is able to find a good job. I really don't want him to have to go back working low-paying, crazy hour jobs anymore.

In pregnancy news, I am 30 weeks, 4 days today and we are having another BOY!!!! Our third boy in a row! His name is Nathan Isaac.  

My preterm labor problems have started and it's so wonderful to have Chad home to help. Yesterday my Dr. put me on complete bedrest, until my next appointment with her on Tuesday. I switched care providers this past week because my midwife was being so rushed and haphazard with my care. My new Dr. is much better and more attentive, I really like her. I don't know why this keeps happening with my pregnancies.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I must be doing something wrong to go into preterm labor so early each time. So I'm trying to take it easy, I want to make it at least to 34 weeks, that's when Eli was born. After that, lasting until 35 or 36 weeks would be wonderful. I really don't want him to have to be in the NICU at ALL.

I have more time to be on the computer now that I'm on bedrest, so I'll try to update more often than once every few months!  Thanks for checking in on me.  More later.

~*~*~*~*~MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!*~*~*~*~*

Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday season.

A LOT has happened in the past 2 weeks or so. We are going to be packing up and moving out of state to live with my parents (like, actually live in their house with them  ) and we're supposed to leave a week from tomorrow.   We have not packed one thing. Since we just moved 3 months ago, thankfully a lot of our stuff is still in boxes, but there's still a lot to do.  We're both nervous to move, and especially to be so close to my parents, but I think this will really help us get on our feet. Please pray for us if you think of it, we'll need it.

I can't believe we're 25 and 26 and responsible for so much. How did this creep up on us??? I still feel like such a kid myself. I keep waiting for someone to step in and take care of ME, I'm so overwhelmed thinking of everything I'm supposed to take care of! This has very little to do with being a mother as my children are the greatest blessings in my life and I wouldn't trade them for anything. It's more about being an adult and all of the responsibilities that come with that. Having kids is easy in so many ways-- all they need is love, some food, and playtime. I'm realizing more and more that we make parenting so much more complicated than we need to. The hard part of life for me is figuring out what the heck we're going to do with ourselves, how to make ends meet, what we want to do for work, how we're going to construct our family dynamics, how we need to plan for the future, how to relate to family now as adults ourselves, etc. Those are the things that are seriously stressing me out!!! Being an adult is wayyyyy overrated.

I'm trying to relax though and take it one day at a time. I can get myself so wound up about things. What does that accomplish? Nothing. I'm really trying to live more in the moment, since that's all we have. Chad is very inspiring to me in this way because he is so mellow and at peace with life. Very rarely does anything faze him. I totally needed a dude like that.

Speaking of enjoying the moment, may the cutest baby in the universe motivate you....

Please don't pay attention to his dirty jammies. Maybe we are a little white trash after all. Ugh!!