I am so excited about being home! We've barely been here all month and I have missed it. It's also interesting watching how our son is so different than last time we were home. He seems to understand so much more now, and I can ask him to do things, or not do things, and he'll adjust. He still doesn't speak English, but he clearly understands! He's changing from baby to toddler really fast! 😱😬

😭 our son is running out of baby!!! 😭🥰😭

Hubby: I wanna live in a neighborhood without any stop signs. Me: like we do now! We don't even have a speed limit! it's just "not 35mph" 🤣💪😎

Our son already has a "middle name", you know, one of those with "-" that only really cool or known people get. It's "So Cute", his name is John, "So Cute", Johnson 🤣🤣🤣

I'm pretty sure I look more pregnant this time around than I did with my son at the same weeks pregnant. One reason might be cause with my son I started off the heaviest I'd ever gotten just before, and then a couple of weeks after I found out I was the lightest I'd been since my early 20s! I've stayed pretty slim since then so I think that might be part of why my belly is more visible this time around! Then there's the fact that my belly now already knows what's about to happen so it's not trying to resist it as much 🤣🤣🤣

If you want exercise, don't go to the gym, just have a toddler who loves walking and take them to public places where you need to chase them around and keep them from getting into everything! Then try holding them while they wiggle to get free. You'll lose weight and grow muscles in no time!

Our son came over and started climbing up, so I picked him up feeling loved! Then he got a hold of his waterbottle and slid down on the other side of me.... 😳 Well, I'm glad he got his need met 🤣🤣🤣

Our son keeps trying to infiltrate groups of customers here at Panera Bread to convince them to get him something too, like "Hi, I'm totally a part of your group, I want something too, get me something, I'm adorable!" 🤣🤣🤣

Being misunderstood my people who have authority over me is one of the most painful things I know. It has happened a few times in my life, and all of those people have tried to derail me or hold me back, while others who know me are chocked and confused and can't make sense of their decisions, and they advocate for me, and those people have all ended up losing out on what they were trying to do because God knows better, and God has made my path straight, or straighted out what they were trying to limit, and I've been on my way, usually showing the miracle of God's hand on my life! I look forward to seeing that in this situation as well, as God is the same, and I'm still being lied about and those lies won't hold me down! Anyone with eyes to see are very confused about this whole situation! Thank you God that you are on my side! and I am on yours!

I love our son! He's the best! He had a reciept in one hand and a cup in the other, and then he saw the wall plug for my phone charger and my laptop cord, and instantly upgraded what was in his hands! 🤣🤣🤣

Wow, I now have 1010 followers here on Nostr. I wonder how many are real and active 🤔 I know it's at least one handfull 😎🥳 Maybe even two handfulls???

We were driving around and all of a sudden we came across a Buc-ee's?!!?🤯😱🥳 I started wondering if we had somehow translated to Texas or what was going on! I didn't think they had any locations other than Texas and one of the neighboring states! But here one is, in Goodyear, Az! We got gas there for 3.899$/g instead of 4.199$/g like the "cheap" gas was over at Sam's Club! We didn't actually need gas yet, but totally worth it!

Had an interesting conversation with a guy today who asked my husband and me if we could ask only 5 questions to determine if someone was potential spouse material for us, what would we ask. I mean, I literally wrote a book about "How to Prepare Yourself for Marriage", that covers a lot of his other areas of questions, but it was an interesting thought experiment. 5 years in and we still match! Pew 🤣🤣🤣

😬😅 My son just walked over to a tall table and reached ove to pet some random dudes pantsleg 😳🤣🤣🤣

I got 2 bagels to share some with our son while we're hanging out at Panera. I had barely finished cutting one in half when my son snatched the bottom half up and put it in his mouth! I thought it was funny, but so did this older couple who was sitting in line with us, but outside! They started laughing as they saw it happen, and my hubby noticed them laughing towards our son. Another older man had previously commented that our son was the entertainment for everyone here. Clearly, he was correct! 🤣🤣 Our son loves getting down and walking up and getting eyecontact with random people at the different tables! He loves people! We all love him!🥰

I made a joke from someone's comment in a dream I had last night! 🤣🤣🤣 I was in a thrift store trying on a maternity winter jacket. The lady working there asked someone else: "Does winter come from the east or the west?" I answered: "It comes from the future" 🤣

One of our sons favorite things lately when he's in the car seat is to turn his water bottle upside down and then smashing it against the lock, letting water out! I've found him plenty a times looking like he peed himself but he's wearing a diaper and sometimes the inside of that is still dry, but the outside is wet 🙄🤣🤣👶

"Where's my husband? Wha'ts taking him so long to find me?" spoken from single ladies is why they're still single.

High chairs come with straps to keep the kids from climbing out... they don't work on our! it took him about 3 seconds to stand up despite the straps, and there was some belaboring noises, so I guess they work more like a warning mechanism than an actual way of stopping the standing!🤣😅

So, I didn't get to sleep until around midnight, and then our son was fussy on and off for a while, and then at like 6:35am he decided it was morning and time for ALL OF US to be awake... We tried to go back to sleep, I gave him crackers to occupy him but they only lasted just long enough for me to start falling asleep before he complained he'd finished it and needed another one. I tried giving him 2 at a time but he ate them faster so not much longer before he complained again 🙄 Eventually we decided to head to a Panera Bread and he slept for a few minutes in the car but woke up as soon as I opened his door. Now, just before 2pm, I finally managed to rock him to sleep!!! He's been fine, I'm the one who really has been needing sleep this whole time 😅 I look forward to the day our books make enough income so we don't need to travel to make money. Passive income is definitely the way to go so we can make money while we nap whatever time of day it might be!! 🤣😎