Sighs & Smiles

*SIGH*.......HUGE sigh....because Paw-Paw Doc's apartment is finally all packed up and moved int our garage......what a relief. Sad it was to all of a sudden realize we can't just go hang out at "Paw-Paw Doc's place" anymore.........but thankful he's getting taken care of.

*HUGE SIGH* of thankfulness to all these sweet men above sitting around our kitchen table.
They literally blessed our socks off last night by helping us with the move...IN THE FREEZING COLDNESS! Yesterday 4 of our big muscle guys called and said they were sick and my pregnant hormones caused me to panic and start "spazzing" as Jase would say ;) We needed Doc's stuff out by 31st and there was a holiday in there too.....what if we didn't have enough help???

I called his landlord and thankfully he was gracious and said just do what we can and they wouldn't penalize us. However, the Good Lord blessed us tenfold more. Mom and I made a couple calls and 4 more guys replaced the ones who got sick. Wow....God is so good like that.
So Mom and I (and a huge thank you to her for all she did.........she is now home with the flu ;(
fed all the guys afterwards and I realized how much I love doing that. Fixing it up and serving it.....so maybe someday, we'll have to get a coffeeshop/diner up and runnin!

BIG *smiles* today too.......The world's bestest babysitter gave us a certificate for Christmas for 1 whole day of babysitting!!!! Woohoo!!!! We were super excited!!! So we spent the morning finishing up at Doc's apartment, then headed out to Applebees for a late lunch (with another certificate) some shopping and watched our first 3D movie together. (Avatar.....great movie!!!)

In the midst of all that.....our babysitter texted me and said she got Ellie to poop on the potty!!!! Woohoo again!!!!(I would be sooooooooooooooo thankful if we could just get this stubborn lil girl day-time potty trained by the time monkey #3 comes along!)
This exhausted, back-hurtin', preggo monkey mama is smiling big tonite!!!!
God has blessed us abundantly in so many ways.....and as you can see above.....our kiddos are super blessed to have the best and funnest sitter ever!!! Look at all that snow!!!
We love you Karla!!!!!