To Blog, or Not To Blog ... That is the Question

It has been a long time since I posted ... over a year. And, since my desire was to keep track of all of the fun things our family has done, Drew's milestones and let our extended family and our friends know what was going on in our lives, it can be said that I have missed many, many blog entries. So, I have to ask myself: Do I want to blog? Is it worth it? Will I make the time for it? Right now, I just don't know. But, I am in the blogging mood right now, so blogging is what I will do.

Let's see if I can start with a quick update ...
Drew is ... well, adorable, funny, sweet, into Hotwheels, talking up a storm and an all-around like-able kid. The other day when we were walking into church, one of our acquaintances told us that his wife thinks the Drew is the cutest little boy going ... hey, who am I to argue? He makes us laugh and he is so smart. He started crawling last July when we were on our family trip to Utah, and he took his first steps the day I was at the hospital with my friend Jillian while she gave birth to her son. (Now, in fairness, I am pretty sure he took his first steps the day before when he and I were playing, but since I can't be positive, we have the official day as December 14. The previous day, I was sitting on the floor with him, building. He was by the coffee table and then the next thing I knew he was two steps away from the coffee table. Unfortunately, I was looking down building, and didn't officially see the steps, so we didn't count that.) Since then, he has begun talking and being funny. Just the other day, I sneezed and Drew said to me, "Bless you, mama" ... it was unprompted and so stinkin' sweet!

We also had our first family crisis in June. Around 9:30 on a Monday morning I got a phone call from Christy (our wonderful, fabulous, I-don't-know-how-we-could-ever-live-without, awesome childcare provider) stating that Drew hurt his mouth, and I needed to come right away. Without another thought, I grabbed my purse and was out the door! It ended up he had fallen off of a tricycle and basically landed with his teeth ... not his hands. There was so much blood! By the time I got to him, he was slightly calmed, bruised and bloodied. I couldn't even stomach looking at it. I stopped and picked up Tim from work and we went to a pediatric dentist (which, of course, I highly recommend to anyone with kids!!) appointment that Christy had set up for us. Basically, the outcome was that Drew loosened three of his teeth (and chipped one), had a super fat lip (totally looked like Botox gone bad) and had cut up his gums and his lip. It wasn't life-threatening, but it sure looked it. Word to the wise: head and mouth wounds always bleed a lot! We learned this the hard way. Because he was too little to anesthetize, the dentist didn't want to suture up the large cut on his gums (he would of had to restrain Drew and Tim and I were not up for that). Instead, we just did some major praying that his cut would clot and begin to heal. It did (praise God) and now the only thing he has to show for the whole event are a few slightly crooked teeth and a small chip in one. I even got the blood out of the pajamas he was wearing at the time of the accident! He lucked out and got a cool coloring book, crayons and a Elmo DVD from Grammy Rose (whom Drew calls, "ma Roooose") and Papa Fred.

We have our house up for sale, and have since April. Not much going there, but we just keep waiting ... it only takes one person to fall in love with it, right? We have nothing in place to move to, but are actively searching out new homes in our area. It will be good to have a house with a yard and room for Drew to run. We also have the wackiest things that happen to us here, and it just feels like it is time to move. Just yesterday Tim came home from work and went out to get the mail with Drew and noticed that our table and chairs that were on our porch were gone. Someone actually stole them off of our front porch -- it is so very annoying!! Our house is finally in a finished state ... at least as finished as we are going to make it. You can check out our listing here to see pictures: http://www.jaquarealtors.com/search.cfm?action=listing_detail&property_id=10016546&searchkey=5dac4685-9284-1599-c67a-188970969920&npp=10&sr=21.

Since our last post, Tim has also switch job locations. As you probably know, the Saturn brand was dropped by GM. This meant that Tim's dealership would be closing. In early November, another dealership in town, DeNooyer Chevrolet, called Tim and asked him to consider coming to work for them as their Saturn expert (GM still has to abide by the Saturn warranties and Saturns still need to have general maintenance completed). Two weeks later, Saturn of Kalamazoo announced that they would be closing effecting November 30. On December 7 -- my 30th birthday -- Tim started at DeNooyer. God really, truly provided for us in this, and we are very grateful! Tim has had a smooth transition and is generally enjoying his new place of business.

In other crazy news, I made my preaching debut on July 25. You can here the sermon by using this link: http://www.theriver.info/media.php?pageID=13. It was scary and invigorating at the same time! I was very honored because my family all came to support and my cousin Tina, who was in town visiting came, too. It meant a lot to me to have them there.

My sister also had her baby, Liam David. He is a sweetie! Drew calls him, "Mm". It is pretty cute! Here is a video of her on the day she went to the hospital for her scheduled c-section: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BxZIMFXGc4. Yes, she really is nine months pregnant. Yes, she really is that funny! :)

Well, that is enough for now ... I have to go and wake the Bug up from his nap. Hopefully, I will be blogging again soon!

Love,
Katie