Updates for January

I feel like time is going be so quickly and I wish it could just slow down a bit so I could stop to enjoy every second and then record every second so I could go back and enjoy it all over again 20 years from now. Lets start from the top and work our way down. . . shall we.



Porter is doing great. He just started taking up mountain biking and is loving it. He enjoys the time to himself and away from work, honey do lists or kids screaming. I totally get that. I am so happy for him to get this time because he really needs it. It is so hard to find time for either of us to break away and it usually is a big sacrifice for either him or I to let the other go as we take both kids during the evening hours or weekend mornings but we have both been happier from our time we have each been able to take. Porter is enjoying being a dad. He loves his children and I secretly know he is extremely excited for the day he can wrestle and rough house his boy. Elizabeth is becoming more and more a daddy's girl and he loves this too. Porter usually at some point every night starts talking in his sleep. The other night he was seriously yelling at me on how to do a cat stretch. I wake up to him loudly saying,"Karla no no you put your hands, no and now your knees. . .Karla its a cat stretch!" So funny. It doesn't top the night he said ,"wow" and I said "wow what" and he said," there is a small town with three fire engines." It just proves boys never grow up in their dreams. Oh I married myself a sweet man.



Karla or as I would like to be called Karleigh (karly but if I were named it I would spell it silly like so). I miss hearing my mom call me that. She was the only one who ever did. I make porter call me karleigh. Weird I know but anything that keeps my mom close to my heart is special to me. I am busy busy busy. Trying to balance chores, finances, play time, personal time, spiritual time, hubby time, grocery shopping, dinners, exercise and cuddle time. It is hard to find a good balance in the day. I have a hard time some days being motivated but the days that I get up, ready, exercise, plan for dinner, clean the house and have special time with the kids and hubby I feel accomplished. It is hard and it takes work to be happy and keep yourself going from morning until night. I have lately really been wanting to work on my relationship with Porter. Not that its in any kind of needing work state but its not like an oil change is much good when you just broke down on the side of the road. Maintenance is a must. The ways I am working on our relationship currently is I am trying to be a better helpmate. I am trying to help Porter in ways I usually would not. There are some tasks I label as man tasks. Not anymore, I'm trying to work alongside him and I have found that by lifting his load I am helping him be happier thus him being in a good mood and I love having him when he is in a good mood, not to mention with all the responsibilities a husband has he gets tired. I love how helping he can relax more and spend more time with our family and be happy and awake to do so. This all includes my part of working hard during the day to get as much as I can done so that he comes home to a clean house and the tasks of the day accomplished. It has really been nice all the way around.



Elizabeth. . . . is a sweet heart. Just this week she has really started to be more obedient. I have always been the mom who says do this or I will do that but I NEVER follow through and I have been a huge hush over. This week I have tightened the reins and it has done wonders. She behaves so much better and is so much HAPPIER when she has direction and discipline. She has been listening and it has been wonderful. I will admit I do not like being the bad guy while dad is at work but it is working out well. Instead of being kinda mad mom because she is being disobedient a chunk of the day I am nice mom until the moment comes for discipline then I show her who is boss and she responds well and quickly return to being the nice mom that I try to be. She is also so smart that girl. She is learning new things everyday and I can hardly keep up. Just the other day she took the end off of a battery and said" candle see" and it did look like a candle and she sang happy birthday over and over and over again. Happy birthday to me, to Reed, to the birds to the dog. It was precious. She also now knows each letter of the alphabet and you can show her any letter and she can tell you what it is:)



Reed. oh my son how perfect you are. Some days I wish I just had an extra hour to sit and hold you while you sleep. The days go by too quickly and you are just so happy and independent that I don't get to hold you and cuddle you and love on your cheeks like I want to. You are just so sweet and happy. You are almost crawling, you will scoot all over the floor or roll around. You can get up on your hands and knees every now and then. You love bananas and broke out in a rash recently after eating them:( and you are now starting to sleep from 730pm-4am. Much better then before. Sometimes Elizabeth will be watching you while you two are riding in the car and she will start laughing really loud and this makes you start to laugh. It is really cute to see! I love seeing your little personality start to come out but at the same time I get sad to see you grow out of being the little baby I can cuddle and hold.

P.s. for anyone that doesnt know I have a new blog dedicated to finding something good in each day. . . www.porterandkarla.blogspot.com