April

Wow, where has the time gone?

I don't have, or so it seems, any new pictures of Katelyn. Maybe I haven't downloaded from the video camera, but she is just a busy ball of fun! Last Saturday it was so nice outside, that I sent her out with her daddy to play in the backyard so I could get some cleaning done. She spent the whole morning outside and didn't want to come in for a nap. She loved it! And it was nice enough for a light jacket and then no jacket. She totes her pail and shovel around, picking up rocks from the garden or dirt from my flower boxes. I was in the front yard and could hear her singing behind the house. She was just loving it. It's so nice that the yard is fenced and we can let her run around, of course someone is always with her. I packed up a simple lunch and had our first picnic outside. Just didn't want to mess with having lunch inside when everyone was outside already and the clean up is so easy. She loved the idea of sitting on the blanket and sneaking our dog Tucker some morsels of bread. When the dog is around food, she knows he'll eat it if it's dropped, which is just a thrill for her. She loves her dog, "Ducker". She's caught on to how we talk to him when he's being annoying or he barks outside. She's taken on that commanding tone of voice with him too. It's kind of funny! If any dog barks, "dog, no" or some other babble. We've definitely got a talker on our hands.

Last week, I started helping a girl from church with her daycare, in Cody. It's only for 3 hrs a day and it means that both Jason and I are going to Cody. Jason has been driving with our Pastor's wife, Diana, since she has to drop her son off at the high school which is across from the hospital, so jason can walk. But that means I'm getting Katelyn up early to drop him off at the pick up spot and then heading back home and then driving to Cody at 12:45pm. I'm doing it because we need the extra money. Even though everything I make is going towards the fuel that we use. It's nice that Jason has steady income, but with our bills, everything is pretty much gone with no money for fuel. So hopefully this is going to help. Sometimes it doesn't really feel like it and I'd rather just stay at home, but is has gotten me out of the house which is something that I need and Katelyn can learn to interact with some kids. She's not charging me to bring Katelyn, other wise it wouldn't even be an option if I helped her or not. I'm just sick of the runny noses of the younger ones. And I'm so anti-daycare. Germs are just crossed way to easily and no one gains in it. I've been reading a book called, Home By Choice, and it's a psychotherapist who talks about the needs of children in the first years of life and how they bond to their caregivers, which relates to how they may perceive their relationships with the parents. It's from the 90's but it makes so much sense. Our society has gotten it backwards, putting children last and job first. Of course there are those cases where there is only one parent, but I'm saying in a healthy 2 parent family, why can't the mother stay home and do what God has designed her to do? We've gotten into the selfishness of wanting more things or bigger homes that we think we need to incomes, but the children suffer from lack of parental attention.
I'll get off my soap box now.

Other than that, it has been a quiet month. We've got a few things we're trying to sell, with some bites but nothing has been sold. Jason had his tool trailer sold, but the other party couldn't get the money they needed to buy it. So that was a blow and it's sitting for sale again. We just need to get out of a hole that having no work has put us in at different times. We are so over debt! Debt or mortgage, I can't remember, means "in death's grip". And yes it is. God knew what he was trying to protect us from when he told the Israelites not to owe a man anything because they own you. That's my paraphrase.

Thanks for reading this novel. Sorry it's not much but that's where we are at.
Have a good day