Yay! Yay! Yay! The holiday season has officially begun! I LOVE it! I don't know what it is that makes me so giddy this time of year, but the chill in the air (sorry GA peeps, that you haven't experienced this yet, its coming I'm sure of it!), the Christmas music playing in every store, people going out of their way to consider others, the realization that we are celebrating the most beautiful gift this world has ever received, its just too much!
Today I had so much fun preparing for out Thanksgiving lunch and my kitchen smelled lovely all day long. I'm not saying that I'm the greatest cook, but I have a mother, and she is, so I had some sweet recipes to work with. Tomorrow I will make my very first turkey and make my first pan of dressing that my grandfather always made. I would love to be with extended family on this day but this is a good experience for me, forcing me to make the things that I always just let my mom make. I'm a Gini in progress!
Not only is tomorrow Thanksgiving but tonight we had our first snow that actually stuck! Its beautiful but it was too dark for me to take a good pic... maybe tomorrow. Well, blessings and a happy Thanksgiving to all!
SO in yesterday's blog I wrote about how wasted I was, in the tired way, not the boozing way. Today I am equally as wasted and its not Monday... weird. I have not been feeling my Bekah Best these past couple days, I mean i'm so tired that my body HURTS. So this leaves me wondering if my little fella is wreaking havoc on my body and stealing any and all energy and nutrients that I have. If this little guy is not the reason for my wasted-ness then I could fully be coming down with something unfortunate.
JM has been so good to me this evening. he folded the laundry, forced me away from the dish washer and MADE me surf the net while he did the dishes. We are now watching the Office Season 3 and I'm going to bed by 8:00, yay!
Dang! By Monday evening (now) I am always wasted! You would think that after the weekend Mondays would be the most productive and energy-filled of days. Nope. Not true, not here. Mondays are exhausting.
Isaiah Grace has been a little ball of fussiness today. I assume its because her Pops and Gigi aren't here keeping her entertained at every moment and feeding her whatever her little heart desires. So today she's back in the real world and she doesn't like it too much.I also think she maybe getting another tooth... FINALLY! She's been feeling a bit warm lately and she still only has 4 teeth so i say 'bring on the teeth'!
Ok, many of you know that the Bethany culture is a little different and that it can be a very special experience at times. I heard something the other day that made me smile and laugh a little on the inside. There was a girl coming out of a class and she said to a friend of hers across the court yard, "How art thou?". To which her replied "what?" and they repeated the exchange about 5 times. After he finally heard her comment he said, "Oh, you were speaking in 'King James'." King James? Is that a language or a dialect? It made me giggle. There are more stories such as these and I'll share them along the way.
PS- why do I watch the bachelor? its stupid, it really is.
I have enough stories and good times from this weekend to write at least 3 really good blogs but even then it wouldn't be enough to get across what a great weekend I had.
My wonderful parents came into town for the weekend and we had an absolute wonderful time. I love watching IGN love her grandparents and get loved so much in return. I really am blessed by watching how much they enjoy her and how much she loves the affection and attention. I miss my family a lot but I've realize that the hardest thing for me is that I feel like I've taken IGN away from all the people that love her the most (besides us of course!). After dropping mom and dad off at the airport, we came home so the girl could nap and the apartment felt SO empty and quiet and it took all my strength to fight back tears. I think I just felt very well cared for this weekend by my peeps and I missed the closeness of home.
My mom has a way of blessing people by going WAY out of her way to make them feel important. This weekend was the weekend after HER birthday but she did everything for me to celebrate MY birthday that wain Oct.! I mean she packed up and brought with her the makings of a southern feast. She came bearing squash (we don't have summer squash or the other things up here-sad), okra, self-rising corn meal, white-lily flour, cookbooks and much more all so that I could have my perfect 'birthday dinner'. So we spent the day in the kitchen making sweet potato casserole, stewed corn, fried okra, squash casserole, corn bread, ham and an amazing carrot cake! Can you believe it! Dang it was amazing! This is one way my mom is just darn good at making each of us kids feel important on our b-day, she slaves away in the kitchen creating a master piece just for us. It was great.
The next day she took me out to get all the goods that I need for making my own Thanksgiving turkey... I'm excited! We also got IGN a snow suit and snow boots (adorable), a bunch of clothes to get me through maternity-hood (I feel like a princess) and a few other treasures just to make JM, IGN and I feel important. I just loved BEING with her. I've realized in my old age that my mom and sis are my best girl friends. I mean there is no one, besides JM, that I can REALLY be myself around like I can with those fun ladies. I loves every minute of being with her, laughing, talking, reminiscing, cooking, playing and everything else we did this weekend. It was just GOOD for me. I can't wait for Christmas! I'll get to see my whole fam, the Nysewanders and all my dear friends. I can't wait!
So this weekend I learned alot about 'giftings' after the blessings my parents heaped upon us and then I recieved another one. Lets just say I am not great at sending packages or birthday cards or finding the perfect gift for someone, but there are people out there who are and Katie B is one of them. I got a package this weekend with the cutest stuff including 2 scarves, one for me and one for IGN. It also included cute slippers for the girl and bows for her hair and a cute little package to make a clay print of her hand... fun! It means so much to get things from home. Here's a video of IGN in her fun new duds... she doesn't want to take them off! Check this out:
Although it wasn't as high scoring as I thought it would be, Georgia came out with the win in the end. We were rooting for Vandy to make that last second field goal against Tennessee, but dang it, it bounced right off the post. Now the Bulldog nation will turn its attention to the Tennessee/KY game next week, and hope for a wildcat victory to give us the direct route to Atlanta for the championship game. Im pretty sure that if I were in the ATL and the dawgs went to the championship, I would find a way to be there.
No I am rootin for Texas Tech and Cincinnati to take care of buisness and bump another two out from in front of Georgia in the rankings. Speaking of football how bout Tebow rushing for 20 TDs and passing for 20? Dang.
Pops and Gigi leave tomorrow and IGN will be devastated. She has had an adoring audience since Thursday night. Now she will have to wait for Christmas in Atlanta to see them again.
Well IGNs other set of grandparents have come to visit her in the state of Minnesota now. They got in last night, and today has been good. Work is really slow right now, so my boss told me to just take off the day. We pretty much just stayed home and hung out all day. My daughter walked around (oh yes Georgia peeps, she is walking with authority now) all day like she was an Princess. She felt so special, because well she is, and her Pops and Gigi made her feel that way today. IGNs day consisted of the following... Tickled, put to sleep, woken up, fed, diaper changed, chased through the hallway, picked up, thrown around, Given snacks, Given juice, carried on a walk through the woods, going to the grocery store, dancing, etc. I could go on, but just know that she had to have had an incredible day. From the beginning of the day she has been treasured. We are thankful to have family come visit. (We would also love friends to come visit...hint, hint.)
Tomorrow is another big game for the Dawgs. Though its not on National TV, its a must win for them. Im also rootin' for Vandy to take down the Big Orange. Georgia plays Kentucky on its homefield, and is wanting to not only win, but revenge for last year. This is what Stafford looked like after the game last year...(Got drilled in a helmet to helmet hit, but only problem was his helmet had already come off in the play.) I am predicting another 40+ score for the dawgs. More on the football blog tomorrow.
Boo-ya!!!!! I'm watching the office in my bathrobe and my parents are en route to Minneapolis... life is good! I have been looking forward to my peeps arriving for quite sometime and I'm pumped! We were given their guest room key today for the on-campus room they are staying in and so JM and I figured we'd go check it out. So, w/ key in hand we headed to their guest room and opened their door to find that there was fully someone else occupying the room. Thankfully the individual was not there at the time but the room was a wreck and his bags (I say 'his' because the room was way to messy to be a girls room... and there was just one duffel bag... not a girl) were still in the room. So we sneaked out and laughed about the possibilities of what we 'could' have found but thankfully didn't. So, my parents have now been assigned a new guest room and I have yet to check it out... we'll just hope for the best.
Well, now that Michael has once again said unfortunate things in public and we have all been allowed to witness, I will bid you farewell until tomorrow (thanks to NaBloPoMo).
