It's been a long time...

Well, I haven't made any posts for a while. Not because there hasn't been anything to write about, but because I'm suffering from extreme exhaustion!!! This pregnancy has me soooo tired! Thankfully my husband is awesome and really going the extra mile and picking up my slack, and my kids are beyond understanding! I take naps EVERY DAY!!! If it weren't for Heath my house would surely only be suitable for swine habitation. Pure insanity. And then all of a sudden out of nowhere I get a burst of energy and feel great, so I go pull weeds for half and hour or do a load of laundry, or sweep my floors, or stand up....and I'm exhausted all over again! So needless to say blogging hasn't been at the top of my to do list. But life is going on wonderfully here. Spring is arriving a little more every day and that has me thrilled. We go out every day and look for signs of spring that weren't there yesterday! And our vacation is scheduled for just a little over 9 weeks away, so thoughts of vacation are beginning to consume me. There is sooo much to do with spring cleaning and vacation coming and the daily life of homeschooling and park trips and library trips and SO VERY LITTLE ENERGY! But I'm so excited and visions of babies swirl through my head and our family talks about "baby little" all throughout the day. And life is very good on the Newcomb home front....

Every Day

Every day my children say and do cute, funny, wonderful things. It makes me sad to think that I am going to forget almost all of them. At least I can write some of them here! These have to be the best days of my life!!

In a conversation about thunder. Londyn: "I'm scared of the funder." Levi: "You don't need to be scared of the stunder. The stunder can't hurt you."

Londyn:"Daddy I have a joke." Heath:"What?" Londyn (giggling): "Coke makes you die."

"Daddy, you have webs in your nose."--Londyn

Londyns' version of Little Bunny Foo-Foo "Little Hoppy Hoppy in the forest, bopping on the head. Down came the Tooth Fairy and said, Poof you're a frog."

My Silly Girl

Londyn bumped her nose on the refrigerator and it hurt her. She was crying for a while so I held her. After she stopped crying I made her a sandwich. I told her to come and eat it. She said, "I'm hurt. I can't walk or run or crawl." She wanted me to come and carry her to the table. I told her if she wanted that sandwich she would come and eat it. She said, "I can't walk or run or crawl. I can only sliver like a snake." So she got down off the couch and slivered to the table because of her injured nose. I love being a Mother!!!

Well I haven't posted anything in quite a while. I've been too busy being excited about our fourth baby. That's right. We are having another one!!! We found out about a week ago. I took a pregnancy test and the line was so faint Heath didn't even believe it was positive. I knew it was though. And I kept telling him that the rule of pregnancy tests is that if any pink shows up at all, it means you have the pregnancy hormone in your urine. (lovely I know) The next morning when I took it again it was darker. Then Heath told me that he had believed me about the first one the whole time. Sure he did.

Wrinkle Cream

The other day Heath and I had just woke up and we were still laying in bed. He began to rub his eyes vigorously. Something I certainly would never do! I wouldn't want to encourage wrinkles and sagging skin! Since turning 30 I have started applying wrinkle cream at night before bed. As I lay there I began to more closely examine his face. Heath is one year and three months older than me. He has some wrinkles around his eyes and on his forehead. Nothing noticeable but definitely there. Just like me. He continued rubbing is eyes stretching and pulling the delicate skin around them despite my warnings about premature aging. I secretly envy the liberty Heath takes with his skin. He rubs it any ole time he wants to! And he NEVER puts anything on it! No moisturizers, no masks, no exfoliating scrubs and NO WRINKLE CREAM!! Then it hit me, like a lightening bolt straight from Heaven. What if wrinkle creams don't work? I thought of my parents. My Mother uses wrinkle creams and my Daddy does nothing. They look about the same. The same goes for Heaths' parents, and my Grandparents, and my Great Grandparents, and almost everyone else I know! As a matter of fact I can't think of anyone who looks 10 years younger due to creams and "proper skin care". Holy Moly. What if my body just gets old despite bathing my skin it in nourishing and protecting creams? What if the wrinkle cream companies are just out to make a dime? What if when I'm 70 I look 70? Huh. Interesting (and grotesque) thoughts to wake up too. Guess what I did? I considered rubbing my eyes too...and throwing away my wrinkle cream. But I didn't. I got up out of bed, took my shower, applied my moisturizer and went about my day. When I retired that night I smoothed wrinkle cream over my face and neck. I guess some people never learn.

Well, I haven't made a post in quite a while. Mostly because I've been so busy!! But also because I've been busy doing stuff that isn't interesting enough to write about. But I will catch you up anyway. This week I have: gotten a haircut, taken the kids on a nature walk (see above pic) where they found some "amazing treasures" (rocks, leaves, a clump of moss, a pipe cleaner, a string of Easter grass, some branches, a bolt etc.), went to eat out with Chris, Jill, Nick and Jessie, broke out in an awful rash, went to Krispy Kreme, got a monstrous splinter, met Amandas' beautiful new baby girl and weeded my flower bed. So not too much blog worthy stuff, but a whole lot of stuff none-the-less! But hopefully I will do something in the near future that will inpire me to write witty and interesting stuff! Wish me luck!

Snowy Days in Florida!!!

A few days ago it snowed. This is a VERY big deal to us. We had several flurries and some sleet. It was supposed to stick here in Milton but it didn't. It did however stick a mere 30 minutes north of us! So we drove up to Brewton to play in the snow! It was so much fun! We made snowmen and had snowball fights and rolled snowballs and made snow angels! I think that if I lived somewhere where it snowed a lot that I would NEVER get tired of the snow.