Our Christmas Gift

Luke Brian Surowiec

December 20, 2009 9:42 AM

9lbs. 12 oz. 22.75" long

The Little Hungry Patercillar on Thanksgiving

After Thanksgiving dinner Adam decided he would "read" to the family from the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar (which he changes to: The Little Hungry Patercillar).

Then he gets to Saturday where the caterpillar eats a bunch of junk food and in turn he has a tummy ache. But, instead of saying what the book says he reads it as when he ate all that food he then became constipated.

It was so funny, I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

Lesson learned, don't eat too much junk food or you will get constipated!

Thankful @ 37 weeks

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today I'm thankful for health and well-being. Thankful that God has graced me with a uneventful pregnancy, one that hasn't even given me so much as heartburn or a sleepless night. At 37 weeks my life may not look perfect but I'm healthy and happy and will survive the storm.
I wait patiently as we find out when this little person will grace us with their presence.

Growing

27 weeks

On the brink of the third trimester

uh, I have a big baby in there!

10 Things I Learned on Vacation

1. I love northern Michigan (ok, that's nothing new. It was just reaffirmed). The air is cleaner, the people are friendlier, and the water is so clear it looks tropical.
2. I don't need to wash my clothes after only one wear. I wore a few pair of shorts for up to 3 days and since I never got food or dirt on them they looked clean. Shirts are a different story, I tend to spill lots of food on the front of myself and therefore needed to change my shirt on a more frequent basis.
3. Taking a bath in a lake is refreshing but not really cleansing, especially when you have to walk in the sand afterwards.
4. I really like flushing toilets that are close by, not pit toilets that are a block away.
5. A 4 hour downpour accompanied by constant thunder & lightning is not fun in a tent from Target. It convinced me that my next tent needs to come from a outdoor store. (We learned the hard way that our fly has a leak in it and that the bottom of our tent leaks when consumed by water.)
6. My son is obsessed with becoming a Junior Ranger in all the National Parks, sounds good to me!
7. I need a family vacation that doesn't involve tents, cooking outdoors and smelling nasty the whole time. I pray that next year's vacation with a baby will not include these things.
8. I have a hard time saying goodbye to Lake Michigan.
9. The bays on Lake Michigan are MUCH more pleasant that the coastlines.
10. I could live without a computer.

A Home

To say that I want to move is an understatement. I need to move to keep myself sane! I know that God has a plan and He can make the impossible possible. I've been given this "gift" (or so I like to think) of finding great deals on anything I'm looking for. Recently it's been a blessing to find a few really great real estate deals just when they come on the market.
Above is a photo of a house we looked at today and love. Get this, it was just listed on 8/7 and I found it on 8/8. It's a foreclosure, but you can't tell by the looks of it, heck it even has all it's window coverings in it in great condition. It's in a beautiful neighborhood with houses worth upwards of $350k. This house is listed for $210k. Built in 2001, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, 3175 sf, finished basement, and it even has a fireplace in the master bedroom. Minor repairs are needed to the exterior wood trim and some painting needs to be done (the exterior trim around the doors & windows is purple so, um yeah, it needs some help from me).
So now, as we scramble to find an unconventional way to attain a home I ask for your prayers that God will bless us with a new home and that if it's meant to be for us no one will come and snatch it away before we can make arrangements!

New Ride

I don't have a car or a bike. But, my dad works at a bike shop and he is lovingly getting me a new bike! I can't wait to see it in person, they don't even carry it in the shop yet. He just ordered it yesterday and will build it for me when it comes in. I'm very excited for my new cruiser, he said it looks much better in person. It will be especially nice for Adam who loves to ride his bike so much. It's no fun to continually wait for your walking mom when all you want to do is ride really fast.