Odds and Ends

I found a house I like. It has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, a larger garage, family, living and dining room. The kitchen has more storage than ours and the doors from the kitchen go directly our to the back yard! The yard is large (for Oregon) and has enough space for a garden and play structure. It's over forty years old in an established neighborhood. It's for sale as a short sale meaning the owners sold it back to the bank for a loss and a hit on their credit score. And the bank is dying to get their money out of it. The only thing is that I'm not sure that I want to move. I want to and I don't. I really like our neighborhood. We can walk to all kinds of places. A couple of parks, the grocery store, drug store. Joanne Fabrics and during the summer we always walk to the farmer's market which is held on Sunday here. And though I don't walk to New Season's much lately it's also within walking distance. But you see our house is great! It has so much sunshine coming through the nicely placed windows. It's new. We have a green space behind us and an office building in front of us (but far enough away that they can't see in our windows). We don't have to deal with mowing the lawn because there is barely any lawn to mow. All the exterior work for our house is covered by the HOA. What it really boils down to is that I don't want us to make a bad decision and move to a place we don't really like and for what? A yard that we can use %30 of the year.

For three nights in a row I've spent about a half hour putting Noah to sleep. Nursing bouncing pacifier in mouth and patting. And we've had three nights of him going to sleep without screaming. I'm so glad! I really couldn't take the screaming anymore. Hannah screamed when we cried it out but not that much.

I think I am the clothes Nazi to Robert. I was rubbing his shoulder the other day and noticed his favorite 'blanket' or button up shirt had a hole in it. He acted paranoid (jokingly) and said it was fine because he knows that I'll throw the shirt away and look for a new one. He hates getting new clothes.

We went to church today again! It's a wonder what a pacifier will do for our kids. Noah can sleep on me if I need him to and really doesn't make much of a fuss with a pacifier in his mouth. We were asked to help out in Sabbath School but declined because it's so hard to tell if we'll be able to make it there regularly. I really hesitate doing anything before Noah turns 1 and we know he has a regular schedule. I feel a bit misunderstood lately by women who have lots of children and didn't seem to have any problems taking them everywhere or getting them to sleep. I'm just not willing to go through the stress of taking my kids somewhere that takes a long time to get to and having Hannah just stick by my side because she feel uncomfortable and also have Noah freak out crying or more likely decline to nurse because he's overstimulated and then have to drive over 15 minutes to get home. No thanks.

Hannah's been begging to wear underwear to bed. I've been putting it off because I'm afraid she'll wake up crying from wetting the bed. I also need to buy a mattress cover so it's not ruined by pee. Most days Hannah wakes up with a dry diaper. She's doing such a great job.