Strides & Motherhood

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My daughter, Elliana Jean Chambers, was born on February 27th, 2013. She is lovely. Her eyes are blue and I can't help but smile when someone mentions them in connection to mine. Her skin is light like mine as well. Otherwise, she is her father through and through. She has his adorable button chin and his smiling eyes. They might look like mine, but they twinkle like his when she's up to no good.

Elle bell, as I like to call her, has been crawling for a while now. She can really move! Lately she has been attempting to take steps on her own. Mostly, though, she will realize as soon as my fingers have left her hands and plop right down on her tush. She knows she's not quite balanced enough yet.

Adam is now working at Yoder Financial Services for Dale Yoder. I can't even explain what a blessing that has been. Dale is one of the most respectable and honest people I know, plus he is funny and light-hearted and can banter with Adam. Adam needs banter and someone that he can respect to teach him about financial services.

I am still here at Grace Hospice. I really enjoy it for the most part. Often, I feel that my job is too fun to be a job. I would say the major downfall of this job is that it is far from my Elle bell and it makes it hard to keep up with all the things I would like to do with her and around our home.

Keeping life in order has been a bit difficult for us since Elliana was born. Adam and I are what we like to call "closet perfectionists". If you were to look from the outside, you wouldn't think we were. The house can be messy, the cars for sure, and I am certainly not well dressed most of the time. The thing is, we are all too aware of our downfalls and shortcomings and are so very determined to fix them all. Today.

So far we have made major strides in our financial life, organization of the house, and are currently on a crusade to clean up our diets.

For the month of January we are attempting to eat less/no refined flour and sugar. I say less because Saturdays are our big fat cheat days and we intent to full indulge! So yes, less/no.

Financially, we took a class. Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. It was really great and has taught us a lot. Now, I do a budget for us every two weeks. It takes about 15 minutes, but it keeps us on track and makes sure we are paying everything and saving lots. 15 minutes might be wrong... it probably takes me an hour. BUT it's worth it.

Here's the thing, though. We are going to be teaching the class now. This brings me to our next downfall. Time management.

We are doing better... I will say that. AND we are cooking at home more and keeping up with the housework. It just often feels like we are chasing our proverbial tails.

I will say, however, that we watched a movie last night that was quite lovely and made me thing deeply on the subject of time. It is call "About Time" and and is very literally about time. It was, honestly, inspiring.

Watch it sometime :)

Well, I think this is long enough. If you have read all of that, "Well done, you!" (but I think you might have some time management issues on your hands!;)

Be here now,

Korey Anna

Oh my! Also, it is Mary's birthday today! (Mary is my 23 (?) year old little sister.) I could (and probably will) write an entire blog post on this woman.