13 Martin's Nest

I have a monkey in my house

2009-09-17T10:30:00.011-04:00

Did I tell you that we are now living with a little monkey? Well, let me just say that my little one is a true girly girl and has never really had any interest in athletics at all. So it has surprised me that she has decided for the 1st time in her life to climb. Even as a baby she was never one to get into anything at all. We never had to worry about her getting on or into cabinets, putting things in her mouth (well except for the time she tried to eat the dog food. Luckily I shoveled it out of her mouth before she could swallow it and boy did that make her mad lol). Anyway, earlier this summer we enrolled her in gymnastics. We did it mainly because she is not the most coordinated child and thought it would help, which it has but now at 5 years old, I have a climber. Not a great climber, but a climber non the less. So far she hasn't hurt herself but she is obsessed with climbing the walls. I wonder what is going to happen when we put her in swimming lessons. Scary!

can this be considered child abuse??

Held by Natalie Grant

2009-09-15T12:13:00.002-04:00

ok-figuring this out as I go. For some reason, I couldn't attach it to yesterday's post, so will just make it a new day, a new post
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2m1HZekCcc

In need of more nights like this

2009-09-14T14:46:00.011-04:00

My Husband and I went to the Jeremy Camp, Natalie Grant & Bebo Norman concert and it was amazing! What a great testimony to God. I had never seen Jeremy or Natalie live but their talents and their Faith certainly shine thru for all to see.

Natalie's song "Held" is really a brutal yet beautiful song to hear. Before she sang it last night she told the story behind it. It is about a couple who dealt with 10 years of infertility and finally had a Beautiful baby boy named Paul. One night at 2 months old, his father was giving him his midnight feeding and he took his final breath. It was a congenital heart defect that they had not known about. Natalie spoke of how or why God gave them this beautiful child just to take him back. Having to keep your faith thru all of this knowing that God DOES have a plan and we have to recognize and trust. The first time I ever heard this song, I could barely get thru it and I hadn't even known the story. Very powerful. I don't know whatever happen to Paul's parents and if they ever had another child but I pray that they did.

I can't seem to attached the video?

Doing nothing today

2009-09-07T09:36:00.006-04:00

Well it is Labor Day and am sitting in a very quiet house right now. DH (John) and DD (Tabitha) have gone to do some errands and I should be upstairs folding my 3+ loads of laundry but decided to stop and post on here first. I realized yesterday that since starting this blog, I haven't posted a thing.

My friend N is coming over in a little bit to help me redo my Master bedroom. I have had a love/hate relationship with this room for a very long time. I have tried new curtains, bedspreads, pics, you name it and it just never seems right. So N has decided to help me with it. She can sew just about anything which I am grateful for since I can't sew on a button. So our 1st project is the curtain valances. I went and got the fabric and materials last night and she will be coming to measure today. Once she leaves I will take some pics so that I can share the befores and afters. I do think that the small changes we will be making are going to do the trick. At least my fingers are crossed.

New to blogging

2009-08-22T10:17:00.000-04:00

And really not sure what I am doing. I started this blog for family and friends so that they could see what is going on our lives (if they really want to know). We had a website set up when our daughter Tabitha was born but we were having so much trouble with it that you couldn't even get on half the time so I thought this might be a better way.