Jingle Bells

Well my sweet Ian is 26 weeks along now. He is very much in the Christmas spirit. He likes to move around and it feels like he is dancing sometimes he is moving so much. The mornings are still his favorite time of the day but he is getting more and more active as the weeks progress, or maybe I just feel him moving more. Sadly, the cold weather illness has not stayed away from me. Sunday morning I woke up with a really sore throat. Today the sore throat has subsided some but a stuffy nose and sneezes moved in to replace it. I am hoping it goes away quickly instead of getting worse but we will see. Ian is definitely taking up more room and making mom make more frequent bathroom trips. Sunday morning I went before Sunday School, after Sunday School, during greeting time, and again during the offering. Ridiculous! Oh well, guess I better get used to it.

Well along with pregnancy and dealing with continued marital issues, I decided to embark on a new adventure with a company by the name of Initials Inc. This company is mainly bags, purses, organizational type bags, etc. They also carry a few baby products, lucky for me. I made my first order a couple weeks ago and found a diaper bag and baby blanket I wanted to get for Ian. I used some money that Jonathan's grandfather gave me to get a gift for Ian. The blanket is crazy soft!! The bag is cute but still somewhat boyish which is exactly what I was looking for. Boys are great and all but it is so much harder to find cute things that are boyish. My mother-in-law wanted to get me a diaper bag from Vera Bradley but I couldn't find one I could see myself passing off as a boy's bag. So I was pleased that my new venture led me to this cute stash, and the personalization is free! Happy momma!

My mom, sister, two nephews, and I took in some Friday afternoon football last week. My alma mater, a small Christian school in Ga, made it to the state championship for the first time. They have only had a football team for a little under ten years so it is very cool how much God has done through this small school that has done nothing but grow since I graduated in 2004. It has been a real treat to substitute there the past couple months and see how the people that work there are dedicated to God's calling and sharing that with those kids. The nephews were a little less excited about the football game and a little more excited with the idea of sugary cotton candy, popcorn, nachos, and trying to sneak as many sips of soda as they could.

While the boys were focused on their extreme eating, the football team played a very solid first half and went into half time trailing 7-0 against a very large football team. Unfortunately, being from a small school means that the majority of the boys play both offense and defense. That means that come the second half most of those boys were physically drained from playing so hard the first half of the game. They got their tails handed to them in the second half but we were all still proud of the season they had and the way they put everything they had out there on the field. All in all, it was a good weekend.