Happy New Year!

It's 2010!  Hard to believe my due date approaches faster and faster now that I'm finally in the right year to deliver lol.  My first baby was born in 1990 and this due date is 20 years later in 2010.  Hard to believe I've been pregnant for much of that time!  Anyway, it looks like we are approaching the final addition to our family and I'm ready to move on I think.  This pregnancy is wearing me out.  My hair is a frizzy, dry, tangled mess and I just showed Derk split ends today that were over an inch long!  I lost a foot of hair with Kyla-Dawn's pregnancy and am praying that doesn't happen this time.  I feel quite dehydrated and exhausted although this should be my good time.  With the weather outside beautifully sunny but extremely cold (-33 with windchill -45C) I'm glad I can stay inside and glad this pregnancy thing makes me feel warmer than normal.

Derk and I intend on changing a great many things in the coming year and it's going to take hard work and sheer determination to do it but we are sure going to give it our best shot.  One thing that is going to change, is the events we attend or don't as the case may be.  We have often gone to things we could not afford to go to just for the fellowship or because we felt obligated. This year, things have to be different.  One reason is financial, but the other one is my pregnancy and when things are scheduled don't agree with my fatigue or due date etc.  Looks like our kids will miss youth retreat this year due to the fact it's been upped to my due date unless the ultrasound changes all that.  We'll see...  I'd sure love to deliver earlier!!!

There are things I really want to attend but due to how pregnant I will be at that time, I doubt I will get to.  Besides, that, we are putting all our extra money (yeah right... family of 10 and more on the way and we have extra money?? ha ha) into our house and our extra time (same thing applies but we're trying anyway) too.  It's got to be done.  We are suffering in this dumb house and never have the time to deal with anything.  We need to completely gut our bathroom roof to floor this spring and that's going to have to be a non-stop job until it's done.  yippee!  lol

Oh well... those are a few of the changes... maybe good maybe not so good that we are making.  Another one is the next 5 months before I deliver are going to be marathon schooling especially January and February since those months are cold, dark and kids are inside more.  We usually do this to some degree, but this time, I have 3 littles learning to read and one son graduating in June, plus the other son and two girls who are in the middle.  So... with 7 kids in school and only one prego mother who has a business meeting to get ready for and year end work to accomplish... it's gonna be interesting to say the least.  I hope I'm up for it all!  Well... no choice really lol.

So with those things already on my list of things to work on, and many more to come, never mind church decisions, I'm going to be a super busy lady this next 5 months and I'm sure the time will fly by!  This both good and bad I guess.  I want it to fly by but at the same time need it not to really fly by that fast lol.

Well, hubby just made yummy homemade pancakes for brunch.  We're going to have another turkey dinner later on around supper time.  If I feel energetic, I'm going to make my carrot cake with my coconut pecan sauce for it.  Right now, I'm waiting for my men folk to finish eating so I can cut hair and then I want a shower myself!  I can't stand the hairy feeling I get after cutting hair!

Happy New Year everyone!
I hope 2010 brings blessings of the financial nature and good health to all who read this.