Just another ordinary day....

So...here I am again : ) No pictures. Just a plain old post.

I did something this morning that I think is really going to help me. I really struggle with reading my Bible. It is something I know I should do. It is something I want to be better at doing. Yet somehow, I will make a resolution to read it everyday..for a month...or even a week...and somehow I always fail at it. Then, when I realize that I've failed once again, I get discouraged and frustrated with myself because somehow I found time to check Facebook and my email and talk to people on the phone...yet I couldn't even fit in 15 minutes of time in the book that really helps me KNOW the God I am serving each day! How pathetic is that? I have time to make cookie dough or watch some stupid show on TV, but I couldn't even look up one verse to meditate on throughout my day. So today, I realized something else. I have tabs across the top of window of my internet browser. They start with email...then facebook..then twitter...and my blogger dashboard...etc. When I sit down at my computer I go through them one by one. So today....I put a new tab at the beginning. My new tab is Biblegateway.com. So now, when I sit down at my computer, I can start off with a time in God's word. Not only that, but I also made it my homepage. There is no avoiding it now. I will have to choose NOT to read, instead of having to choose TO read. I am really excited about it and hope it will help me start my day the right way. (And will give me times with God throughout the day too...instead of automatically turning to one of my other online social outlets first.)

I can't write for long. My house is a mess and so am I. I need a shower and to get things cleaned up around here. I am somewhat tired, as I worked until 2am last night, but I got a 20 minute nap that has helped freshen me up : )

My little Rykie-boy just got up from a nap and Kenzie is still asleep. Ryken will probably go down again before Kenzie wakes up. But I need to try to get as much done as possible before they are both up and ready for dinner.

Chip let me sleep an extra hour this morning. He does this for me often. I am so extremely blessed to be able to call him my husband. He does so much for me and our family and I know he loves us with everything in him. He seeks to love us with Christ's love, and it is apparent in everything he does.

Let me start with some background....since I am nursing, it is pretty hard for him to get up in the night with Ryken. When Kenzie was a baby, I tried pumping a few times for him to give her bottles in the night...but the first problem was that he doesn't wake up from the babies crying. And I wake up right away. So we'd find that I would have to wake him up....he'd have to go heat the bottle up which would take a good 5 minutes...all while Kenzie was getting more and more worked up (and while she is getting more worked up I am getting wider awake). By the time he had her ready to eat she'd be wide awake and mad and would not want to take the bottle. So I'd be lying wide awake in bed, wondering how things were going. He'd be trying to feed her, and would be frustrated since it would take 2-3 times longer than if I just nursed her and she'd be fighting him the whole time. Plus she'd be mad at the whole process and it would be harder to get her back to sleep. When I'd just get up and nurse her it was a painless 15 minute process.....I'd hear her right away, before she'd even be fully awake. I'd stumble into her room half asleep...scoop her up....take her back in my room and plop down in my nursing chair. She'd eat and I'd doze and about 10 minutes later I'd take her back into her crib and lay her down. I'd crawl back in bed and be asleep immediatley (I have been blessed with going to sleep very easily and I am SO thankful for that!) Chip would never even budge. SO...after 2-3 times of trying out the whole daddy/bottle thing with Kenzie we realized that most likely I will always be the one who gets up for every feeding with every baby we ever have : ) Lucky me. But really...it just makes sense.

So back to why my husband is amazing.....since Ryken was born, there have only been about 2 mornings that I have gotten up when Kenzie has gotten up, while Chip stayed in bed. Every other morning, he has been the one to get up with her each morning. He changes her and makes her breakfast and reads her stories. If Ryken gets up and it isn't time for him to eat, Chip gets him up and takes care of him too. He never complains...never comes and gets me. Even this morning...Ryken was hungry for about 30 minutes before I got out of bed. Chip was just keeping him occupied and Ryken was going to town on his pacifier. Chip knew he could come and get me. He knew I wouldn't mind. It would have been much easier for him to just come get me instead of having to work at keeping Ryken distracted and happy. But he let me sleep : )

It really means so much to me that my husband does this for me. He doesn't have to do this. He knows that he could stay in bed and I would get up and take care of the kids. But he also recognizes that I get less sleep each night than he does and that it means so much to me that he cares that I get the rest I need to take care of our family. I know there are many others out there who have husbands who would do this if they could, but their work schedule just doesn't permit it. But I also know many others who aren't blessed to have a partner when it comes to the job of taking care of the kids and who have a husband with a work schedule that allows extra help, but they just aren't willing to do it.

Thanks Chip, for being my partner in life...in everything : ) Love you babe!