Full of Joy

If you've ever seen Shark Tank, you may have seen the episode about Groovebook.  I tend to get interested in products that we've seen on Shark Tank.  Groovebook is no exception.  If you have a smart phone, and want to try the Groovebook app for free , let me know.  I have a code that will get you 100 pictures printed off your phone for free.  If you want to order more pictures after the first free 100, it's only $2.99 for 40-100 pictures.  I already have 3 Groovebooks and I'm really happy to have pictures from my phone printed out.  The quality isn't amazing because they're phone pictures, but I use them for our albums, to send to family (pictures come perforated), to frame, or keep in the actual Groovebook for memory's sake.  The pictures are also dated, which I have found to be very helpful.  (Don't worry, the date is not on the actual photo.)  Anyway, just wanted to share about a cool product that has been helpful to me!  Again,...

Our "special cable deal" runs out today.  For some reason cable was a lot cheaper in VA (as was everything , except for rent).  The day we arrived in our new town, our very first stop was the Comcast building.  Before we ate dinner, before we went to our house- we stopped to get cable.  Mostly that was my request.  I didn't want the house to feel so lonely.  Chuck even splurged to get us the package that included ABC Family (Gilmore Girls every day ay 11), TLC, HGTV, OWN, and Fox News (for Chuck).  Today we lose the package, my special channels, and On Demand.  I know I don't need  the extra channels, I just really enjoy having them.  I can't believe we will be paying for the minimum basic cable, which is more expensive than the extra stuff in VA.  I guess I'm going to really have to start getting into news and local programming.  Yuck. I realize this will be good for me, and Jase.  He doesn't need to be exposed to too m...

I was invited to hang out with some women and kids from my new church today.  It was a really encouraging morning being with them.  I very much enjoyed chatting with the other girls and getting to know some of them.  One of them asked me when I moved here.  I responded, "A week and a half after Jase was born.  Terrible idea."  Two of the women said, "When we heard about that, we thought, 'Is she super woman or what?' "  HA!  ME?!  Hardly. I had no choice but to share that I came with a pretty bad attitude.  It was a terrible idea to move so soon after Jase was born.  Really terrible.  I think there's a part of me that will regret that for the rest of my life.  Hopefully not in a bitter and angry way, but in a way that I will always remember the pain and loneliness and fatigue and sadness and aching and of course, anger.  I don't need to go into all the details of why we moved when we did, but it has certainly made t...

Yesterday I was chatting with some students while we were waiting for the teen service to begin.  Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw a woman with a baby seat sitting at a table.  Upon closer inspection I realized it was a teen girl with a baby seat sitting at a table.  I asked the girls I was talking to who she was, and if that was her baby.  Before getting their reply I was compelled to talk with this girl.  I could not let her sit at the table alone for one more second and told the group of girls I just had to go over and chat.  It was so exciting to me to have a teen Mama visit our church- how very brave.  As I was walking away, one of the girls said, "It's not a real baby..."  What?!  As it turns out, the student with the baby seat was doing a project for a class at school.  It was an electronic baby. I had a great time talking with "Sarah" about her baby project.  We ended up sitting together during the teen servic...

I'm so tired and I really just long to crawl into bed- morning is going to come quick.  Sunday is approaching, so that means the alarm is set for 6:30am.  Yuck.  I've already mentioned my disdain for our Sunday morning schedule, but I find that the church's ample supply of coffee does help.  I'm still up because I'm waiting for my clothes that are in the washer.  Although it just dawned on me I can throw them in the dryer before my shower in the morning.  Oops.  Anyway, while I'm here I might as well mention our insane evening. Our good friends are moving out of NOVA to far away KT.  We are happy for them, but sad for us they won't be two hours away anymore.  We set up a dinner date in Baltimore, which is supposed to be an hour drive for both of us.  After waking Jase from his nap, changing his diaper twice, packing up all our stuff, and piling in the car we started towards Baltimore.  We drove about 20 minutes only to hit a dead ...