Since I was desperate for some organization, and IKEA is a cheaper alternative to The Container Store and World Market, I gave in, a little. I bought some baskets and containers for the pantry, went to Hobby Lobby and got tags, and got started.
After hours of cleaning up our kitchen, gutting our pantry, (finding bugs in a cabinet... YUCK!) and putting it all back together, I now have a clean pantry AND room for my dishes and cups! I had previously squeezed all my dishes, cups and glasses in one, two-door cabinet. Any time you took anything out of the cabinet, stuff would fall out. NOW! Oh Yeah! I have so much space it looks empty!
The best part of it all.... I barely threw anything out! All I threw out was the expired stuff (and the box of expired breading that bugs had decided was tasty... eww....it was tucked in the top back of the food cabinet. NEVER AGAIN!)
So anyways... here is what my pantry looks like now!
I'm so excited that our house seems to be coming together! It gives me time to do other things... like my photography and... oh yeah I forgot to pick the dogs up... later. I'll do it later....
Speaking of photography. I got to take Abby to bluebonnets today. And as usual, nothing is ever simple with me... hence the name of the blog. ;)
So I've been looking for bluebonnets for a while, since in Texas it's that time of year. I look around and didn't really see many areas that had nice thick patches of bluebonnets. A friend of mine wanted to go to Brenham, TX, but that's a day trip... But one day when I was having lunch with my husband, I drove past a really nice patch. Catch: It's on the side of the highway at an intersection with parking only on one corner which happens to be opposite the bluebonnets.
See I told you!
So, here I am, daughter and camera in tow. Crossing essentially 2 highways to get the these darn flowers. Then, as I'm walking through the tall grass, my friends voice pops in my head. She had recently heard that rattlesnakes like to live around bluebonnets! So as I'm carrying a 2 yr old, who wants nothing more than to run into the highway, and my camera, I'm freaking out looking at the ground before every step to make sure there are no snakes!
But after all this ruckus, we made it to the flowers, took some photos and then headed back across the highways. Here are some of what we got.
Now for the news. So I've written previously about infertility. So it turns out that I may have more than I thought. I will find out more on Tuesday, but I will be having some surgeries coming up to remove part of one ovary, which has a cyst. I also have a progesterone deficiency. So basically, not fun.
I've been praying so much lately that God would just let me be pregnant so that I can put off all these surgeries. I kept feeling a voice saying "I've got this" and "God can do anything." So I kept thinking that I could be pregnant. I kept thinking it was the only way everything would be ok. Well, I'm not pregnant. And I will be going to see a doctor about the surgeries on Tuesday.
For now, I don't know how everything will be ok. I'm scared to death about the possibilities. I thought I would be going to the hospital to have a baby by now, not going in to get stuff taken out. And I definitely didn't think that I would be grieving the possibilities of not being able to have any more children.
It's tough seeing, what seems like, everyone around me getting pregnant. Hosting showers and hospital visits are coming up, and I want to be happy for everyone, but I can't help being sad. I know I'll put on a happy face, throw the showers, drive miles and miles to go visit newborns, and aww at pictures of their little faces. I'll do all these things for friends and family, and I'll truly be happy for them. At the same time though, I'll be having surgeries, meeting with doctors, and crying a lot.
If you are reading this, please pray for me and my family. Please pray that God show us what to do and that he give us peace in the coming times.
Thanks for reading!
Keep life unforgettable!
-Cyndy
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