The Parker Party written by Julienne

Random thoughts

2009-03-08T15:38:00.000-07:00

Here I am sitting in my messy house full of packed boxes and memories. I have lived in this house for over 5 years now. Bill & I bought it for our one year anniversary. Seems like we have been here forever. We have done so much to make this little house our home. I think it looks amazing. Sadly we will be moving out at the end of the month. Bill has been doing a lot of praying the past few months about his job. He has been very unhappy with it and prayed for change. He asked God to help him with his decison on what to do. He said "if I am suppose to go in a different career path, you are going to have to take my job away. I can't do it on my own. I won't" Here we are with a jobless husband. We have talked about renting the house out and moving in with our parents so that he could go back to school, but who thought that would be reality? One day I decided to sell all of Faith's old clothes (because we are having a boy and he is just not going to wear all that pink. I posted them on Craig's List (which I love by the way) and everyone who came over just commented on how adorable our house was. Randomly I asked a lady if she wanted to rent it. SHE DID!! I guess you could say, she got the ball rolling for us. We started packing and getting ready to move out. Turns out she didn't pass our criteria on the background check, but we did find another renter who did. Now, here we are all ready to leave our precious home. We are starting to clean out some space at my mom's house so we can move all our stuff in. We have a lot more work to do. I guess if this is what God wants, everything will continue to go smoothly. I just hope my mom and I don't bash heads and rip all of our hair out!!! PRAY FOR ME! :)

2009-01-17T14:18:00.000-08:00

Today we went to my in-laws to pick Faith up (she spends the night every so often on Friday nights). It's amazing how you don't realize how much you miss her until she's been gone a night. She runs at you like she hasn't seen you in years screaming "I missed you and I love you". Being a mom is so amazing. When we got home, we thought we would play in the backyard on the swing set while slowing cleaning up the yard. It amazes me how just watering the lawn with my 2 year old can be so fun. My heart melts at every giggle. I am so blessed to have the amazing family I do.

I NEED CHOCOLATE

2009-01-15T14:00:00.000-08:00

So the other day Faith comes running down the hall "I NEED CHOCOLATE!!!" I told her, we don't have any chocolate "yes you do" she says. "No, we don't" confindent that we didn't have any chocolate (I would have already eatten it if we did). So she says "come on, get up". I told her, if you can find chocolate, you can have it!! She takes me to the refridgerator and says "lift me up".... low and behold, the girl must have sniffed out a See's Candy Chocolate Lolipop from Christmas up on top of the fridge.
Lesson learned - unless you know what your talking about, DON'T TALK!

Helpless

2009-01-06T14:15:00.000-08:00

It's hard knowing your little one is suffering and you can't help her. As most of you already know, Faith hasn't been feeling well lately. The Dr's (her Dr and the ER) all say she is fine, but it's hard to believe that 104 temp for 5 days consistantly is fine. She woke up yesterday morning with a temp that almost reached 105. Faith came running into our room saying "I can't take it anymore" She was burning up. I feel so helpless. I guess all we can do is pray (which I have been doing a lot of). She hasn't been sleeping much lately, 10 minutes or so off and on, but today she is actually taking a nap. I just checked her temp and it is NORMAL! :) So I praise Jesus for that. I am going to check her again in a little bit. I think I am going to let her sleep as long as she wants today - then she can catch up on some of the 5 days she missed! Please keep her in your prayers!

I get the baby out of your tummy

2008-12-17T13:37:00.000-08:00

We were walking around Target today looking for Christmas presents when the baby in my tummy decided to use my bladder for a pogo ball. I said to Faith "Mommy has to go potty again". Faith said "No mommy, you can't go potty again." I replied " I have to, the baby is bouncing on mommy's bladder". She said "Well, I help you mommy. I get the baby out of your tummy for you". A smile appeared on my face - I love my daughter. She's such a sweet hearted person. Always willing to help! :) I told her "we have to wait till May" and she said "May? I don't want to wait till May". - - She's so cute!!!

New to this....

2008-12-17T09:37:00.000-08:00

I am new to this blogging thing. I enjoy writing, so this should be fun. It's fun to read the blogs of my friends. It's nice to hear all of your thoughts from the day.

I am just about 5 months pregnant now. We are going to find out what the baby is on January 6th. I can't wait!! I am hoping for a boy, but would be just as happy with a girl. We have decided to name the baby either Grace Jeanette (Jeanette is my favorite Aunt's name who passed a while back. She taught me so much about life. It's because of her that I like to send cards out to everyone. She used to send me cards all the time. I loved it!! I guess that's why I like to flood your mail boxes with cards. She is also the one who got me in to crafts. She was a very crafty lady. She was absolutely amazing. I miss her) and for a boy's name, we will name him Cameron Emmett (Emmett is a family name on Bill's side. Bill's middle name is Emmett as well as his grandfather - and many other's in the family). I will be sure to let you know if we have a Grace or a Cameron in my tummy!!! :)

My Husband

2008-12-16T16:15:00.000-08:00

My Husband

It's always been a mystery to me, how two hearts can come together and love can last forever. But now that I have found Bill, I believe that a miracle has come and God has sent me the perfect one. So gone are all my questions about why, I have never been so sure of anything in my life. I wonder what God was thinking when He created Bill. I wonder if He knew everthing I would need, because He made all my dreams come true. When God made Bill, He must have been thinking about me. I promise that wherever he may go, wherever life may lead him, with all my heart, I'll be there too. I will let nothing come between us and I will love the ones he loves. God made the sun, He made the moon. One can't do with out the other, they just have to be together. Bill is the one for me and I the one for him. God must have heard every prayer I've been praying. He must have known everything I would need. When God made Bill, He must have been thinking about me.