An awesome week!

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This has been a good week for me and I mean a really good week!  The Lord's been teaching me so much about stepping out in faith.  It's been a week full of letting go of fears and watching God just show up!

The biggest two highlights of the week?

#1--Sent Alyssa to her very first VBS ever!  It was the first time I'd ever left her with strangers for any length of time.  She was nervous and so was I, but you know what?  I'm so glad we did it because she had SO much fun and it gave us some good prep for Kindergarten which starts exactly a month from today!  Crazy!!!  It was definitely a change of pace getting all of us girls up and out the door by a specific time and I'm hoping it won't be too much harder for us when Alyssa starts school.

Here was my big girl today on her last day at VBS...

and yes, we do have some work to do before she starts school!  I thought she had the hang of spelling her name already, but I noticed today that she started to change things up a bit.  Added and extra letter, switched up a couple of letters and has her s's backwards!  Oops!  Mama's got some teaching to do!

~#2--Took the leap and finally connected with a MOPS group here in town!  Met some super sweet mommies at our little county fair here on Wednesday morning!

Audrey got to see the animals...

while I got to chat with the mommies.  It was so much fun getting out and I'm super excited about making new connections.  I seriously can't believe I waited this long to get out and do this but I'm so glad I did!  Thank you so much to Trisha and Lindy for encouraging me to do this!

On my way out of the fair, I took a picture of this...

These two people were working on this amazing sand sculpture!  Pretty neat, huh? 

I also snapped this picture of me and Miss Livivie because I'm cheesy like that!

And can I just tell you how much I'm still loving my Moby?  I'm find myself wanting to tell every mommy I meet that they need one of these when they have a new baby.  Seriously, it's been my lifesaver and it helps me make up for the times when I'm not always able to hold her! 

Well, it's been an amazing week and my heart is seriously so full!  I'm looking forward to a relaxing weekend and getting to visit a new church on Sunday!  It's been almost a year since we've been to church and my Hubby and I decided we needed to finally get back out there and stop making excuses.  I'm super excited to see where the Lord takes us!

Just as a reminder, don't forget to enter into the two giveaways I have going on still...

Go HERE for the Glowing Mama Giveaway and go HERE for the LAWRY's Giveaway

and...

if you want the chance to win a $10 gift card to here...

Just leave me a comment on this post telling me something good that happened to you this week!  Why the extra giveaway you ask?  Because believe it or not, this is my 300th post and I think that calls for a giveaway.  I am so thankful for the friendships I've made through blogging.  Seriously...you guys are awesome!

Thanks so much and hope you have a great weekend!  I'll be back on Monday to announce all three giveaway winners!!!

Hitting the wall

At Alivia's first check up a couple of weeks ago, her Nurse Practioner asked me how I was doing.  It was only my fourth day in as a Mommy of three and I told her I thought I was doing pretty good.  Sure, I had barely made it to the appointment on time and I never did get a shower that morning, but I was feeling like I had a pretty good handle on things!  She asked me if I was getting enough help and reminded me that I needed to make sure to get plenty of rest and to sleep when the baby slept.  I thought that was pretty funny considering that I have two other little ones that sometimes have their own agendas which don't always involve napping.

And then she said something that stuck with me.  It's important that you get your rest when you can because if you don't, by week three you're going to hit the wall.  I told my Hubby about what she said when I got home so he could make sure that I never got to that point.

I at least made it into week four but let me tell you, today I felt like I was close to hitting that wall.  The girls were extra rambunctous today and I had a little baby girl who just wanted to be held. 

It didn't matter that today I felt like actually styling my hair and trying to look decent for once or that I had chores that needed to be done.  She just fussed and fussed until I could hold her.  When she started getting fussy again tonight I just sat in her room with her and cried.  I told her I was right here and felt so frustrated that I just couldn't figure out how to comfort her.  I think it was also the tired me just feeling a little beat down.  I've been thinking I can do it all and I don't need to rest, but boy have I been wrong.

Well, I'm thankful that it's the end of the day!  I'm also so grateful for my wonderful Hubby who's been working his regular job and comes home and helps me make dinner and do the dishes even when he's dead tired.  I am so blessed and even though today was a rough one...I am so thankful for this life we have.  I wouldn't want it any other way...