Wordy Wednesday

arosepast tense of a·rise (Verb)

Verb:

Emerge; become apparent: "new difficulties had arisen". Come into being; originate: "the practice arose in the nineteenth century".

It was reported to me that Pastor Husband used this word at Young Adult Camp last weekend when he spoke to the group. The informant and I both did not believe it was an actual word. Pastor Husband proved last night that it's real! Apparently, I don't read enough of the KJV of the bible so I was unaware that it uses the word 173 times! To compare, the NIV only uses "arose" 11 times.

You learn something new every day!

On the Menu

Is it bad that I've only had a few, day-old donut holes to eat today?

It's one of those days where the only food in the kitchen is food you have to prepare and cook.

Don't worry, dinner will be nutritious for all!

Field Trip

Baby Girl and I had quite the adventure today! We live in not-a-mansion, nut it's in the best area for public transportation. Baby Girl and I use it a lot, but we don't go far. Our bus rides are around ten minutes at the most. Today we went to the very end of our line and after an hour and thirty minutes we were at the beach! You have to love southern California weather...end of October and it was a perfect beach day.

Our day was filled with beautiful weather, a free lunch, a giant turtle, speed walking on the pier, a soccer game, watching boats, and eavesdropping on all the extremely unique people on the us.

It was a very fun trip!

Cute Baby Girl

So, I'm kind of running out of pictures of things on Baby Girl's head or things that I put her in, meaning, Friday might just end up being Cute Baby Picture day. Either way, I will do my best to make sure you get a new, and cute! Baby Girl picture to end your week. Is there any thing better?

Reading & Bedtime

Reading while in bed is probably my favorite thing to do in life! I love to do this during any time of the day, but I especially love reading at night. It's really fun when you have a great book and you read one more chapter, try to sleep, and then turn the light back on to keep reading. It's been awhile since that has happen, but I always hold out hope.

Now, since the nursing days are done, we have a new routine - Baby Girl and I...and Pastor Husband too! She usually has her last cup of milk about a half-hour before bedtime. Then we play or watch some Backyardigans. After that, when the time for bed has arrived, we sit together on our glider - either Baby Girl and I or Pastor Husband and Baby Girl - and read a couple of books. When I read to her, Baby Girl plays with her hair and turns the pages when it's time. It took awhile to teach her this part, but she now has the hang of it. I basically hold on to the pages and let it go when it's time to turn. She never misses a turn.

It's just a sweet, nice, quiet time that we get and Baby Girl seems to enjoy it too. It'll be a neat moment when she is able to read to me.

Here are some pictures from our day today at the park. Hope everyone else had a special Monday too!

Friday (though it's actually late Sunday night) = Things I Put On My Baby's Head

Thank you Granma for my winter hat!

Vote!

No, not for the presidential election...at least not yet! This vote is for something else, something that will benefit soon-to-be-mommies in need - The Morning Center. If they get enough votes they will receive a huge contribution that will literally get the wheels rolling for their cause.

The Morning Center wants to provide mobile, prenatal care FREE to urban dwelling moms. I think this is awesome because I now know it's true - when you don't have a car, your life does become the few miles that surround you and if one of those places does not consist of prenatal care then it's out of the question. Also, without insurance, your choices of medical care narrow themselves down to almost nothing. The Morning Center wants to change that and like their motto says, they are "pro-woman, pro-hope, and pro-life".

What can we do to help? We can vote and spread the word. Click the link below to vote and remember you can vote once a day!

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