Blessings

Pregnancy Diary: The Third Trimester (so far!)

January 2025

It’s hard to believe we’re in the third trimester! It feels like just yesterday I was at a local creek with the kids when I had a weird taste in my mouth and Sadie threw pieces of a leaf into the water and said one was each of our family members and one was her baby sister without any of us having a clue I was expecting!

So much has happened between then and now: morning sickness, life, homeschooling, holidays, work, and more. Through it all–every up and down–God has sustained this sweet baby growing inside me. I cannot give Him enough thanks. It has been nothing but a blessing, a gift from the Lord, and a privilege to carry our daughter since June. I still can’t believe God has entrusted three children to Jimmy and I. What a calling and responsibility to love and raise them for Him.

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Our Homeschool Room

Ever since I began homeschooling Sadie, I always thought it would be cool to have a room solely dedicated for doing school. Did I feel like it was necessary? Absolutely not! We’ve done school at the kitchen table (and everywhere inbetween) and it works just fine. I thought it would be cool to have a room where all our things were accessible and there were no distractions.

We (sadly!) knew this could never happen at our house because it’s 900 square feet and every room is used up for sleeping or living. We’ve been so blessed that Jimmy is a co-owner of his family’s steel fabrication business. Their shop is located about 15 minutes from our house and just so happened to have an extra room in the office that was empty. I would often take Sadie there to do school just so we could get out of the house and see Jimmy.

Over the past few years, Jimmy and I started dreaming about renovating the room and we finally made it happen!

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Before we can truly appreciate the room, I have to show you what it used to look like and all the work it took to make it look like it does now! (more…)