june

well, june was pretty much a blur for me. my last day of work was the last week of may, and that came as such a relief. i could not wait to be home with my children every single day. and i could tell they missed my full-time presence, too. all i can say is (sigh)...thank you, Lord, for carrying us through this past year.

while the end of may brought a huge relief to be a full-time mom again, it also brought on a month of hazy-first-trimester-constant-motion-sickness. my poor kids. i was so excited to be home, and then i spent a month on the couch, miserable! don't get me wrong, i was very excited to be pregnant, but i did not expect to feel so horribly! the thought of food was enough to put me out of commission for a few hours, so i really don't remember what my family ate for dinner in june. i think we ate a lot of chick-fil-a. and i'm pretty sure my kids and i ate lunch every day. but i couldn't tell you what!

i have been feeling much better over the last few weeks, but i still feel like i'm catching up from june. catching up in so many ways... housework, time with the kids, etc. i was surprised to see that i wrote 8 blog posts in june, only to realize that only two of them were actually about june happenings... the other 6 were catching up from our beach trip in may! but we did do a few fun things in june, so i do want to catch up on here soon...

-eric and kristi and the kids came down to visit the first week in june...at the peak of my queasiness... it was a nice distraction and a wonderful extension of our fellowship a few weeks before that.

-in the middle of june, i traveled to atlanta with the kids for my annual college friends' reunion. we went to stone mountain, the aquarium, and did our usual hanging out! the kids did great, and it was a blessing to see my dear friends again.

-we left for atlanta on father's day and gave brian a gift of a niiiiiiice, quiet day with no hurried trips to the potty, no spilled anything, and no diaper changes. what more could a dad ask for!? but i know he missed us. :)

-i drove home from atlanta on my birthday and had a nice quiet celebration with family, and i got a great birthday surprise from brian! (you'll have to wait and see!)

and then i realized that i only had two weeks till ethan's birthday! ahhh! i was not in party-planning mode!!

-the last sunday in june marked the first sunday for our church's new pastor and his family to be with us. i will definitely write more about them later. in the few weeks that they have been here, God has blessed us through them in countless, countless ways. to God be all the glory.


so stay tuned to rewind with me. i look forward to reliving a little of june... but most of it i will happily leave as a first-trimester memory! :)