7 Quick Takes – Pies and Pumpkins, Finger Paints and Finger Puppets

Posting up the Quick Takes without photos for now. Hope to have them in later today, but the baby book is also a priority.

1. Small possible insights as to why God would want me living here with my in-laws: Having DMIL take over some of the baby’s care and especially seeing him so attached to her has given me a greater desire to do the little tings like feed him and change him, even though they can be a pain. Since doing that I have finally started to feel like a mom, sometimes.
The other reason my be so I can learn to be more forgiving. I didn’t think I had too much trouble with this, but the daily frustrations of living with the in-laws build up and sometimes I tend to hold onto anger and or resentment. Guess I still need some work in this area, but hoping God will let me pass this stage by next summer/fall.

2. On Sunday I went to Mom’s as usual for Brunch etc after church, but the meal didn’t go exactly as planned. However, my in-laws were somehow the saving grace. Most days I don’t need a break from my mom etc, it’s usually the other way around, but for some reason today I did and God had sort of already arranged for that break It was just what I needed that day.

3. That day we’d already planned for them to pick me up on their way to visit some of their family friends. These friends had a cottage about an hour away but had to tear it down for the mold, so instead they built a house on the property, and moved there. Before they had been living in an apartment.

The house was really nice, I especially fell in love with the turquoise curtains in the kitchen/dining room.

I didn’t remember seeing half the stuff before, but they probably had it all in the apartment. Their house now showcases all their nice things.

4. Monday was Thanksgiving here. I had two dinners, one at home, and one at mom’s. Since I figured we’d be out a little late I brought baby’s pajamas to get him ready for bed there. In honor of Thanksgiving I brought his new pumpkin ones We also had a guest for dinner, which I hadn’t expected, my friend’s mom came too.

5. Yesterday we drove up to Kentville to see the pumpkin people. It was cold out, colder than I had thought it would be, but I was dressed fairly warmly (but I didn’t have straw insulation to keep me warm!) On our little outing we also came across a playskool? firetruck by the side of the road for the trash but it wasn’t broken, so we took it.

Check out the leaf in mid fall

Apples

I thought this looked like it could be a fairy glen

The theme for the pumpkin people this year was the 2010 Winter Olympics being held in Vancouver. I found the ski jumping pumpkin I’d seen on the news at the cute little Inn, along with many others so that was one of the places we all got out.

They also had one of those tire horsey swings, so baby and I sat on it, and he got to swing a bit.

6. I decided that THIS WEEK I would pack my bags for the hospital so I’m ready. Unless it happens really soon I don’t want it to be till after Halloween but God probably won’t keep baby from coming till I’m ready and since 2nd babies come faster I can’t be scrambling around packing while in labor. One of the big hold ups has been that there were still a large number of baby clothes at mom’s because she hadn’t had the time to go through and sort them out by size. I was going over to help yesterday evening and she already had it done, so no excuses today, as soon as baby gets up and out of the room I’ve got me some packing to do!

7. Baby tried finger painting this week. I don’t think he was in the right mood to enjoy it as much as he might another time, but he did give it a chance for a little while. He was mostly unhappy about being kept in one place and not able to roam free!

Setting up

Getting progessively mrore covered in paint

He also got 3 finger puppets from the IWK when I went to get bloodwork…. :S Those are for the kids that have to get blood taken….he didn’t… where’s my finger puppet!?