Last weekend my husband took a weekend to go fishing with the guys.  He doesn't do this very often so I highly encourage it when the opportunity presents itself.  And that's why, even though he is not much of a fisherman, he jetted off to Oklahoma to go spoonbill fishing.  Neither one of us really knew what a spoonbill was or how you fish for them.  Imagine my surprise when he texted me this picture on Saturday

So that's what a spoonbill is!!  Each of the three guys caught four of these huge fish.  You catch them by "snagging"  which is basically dragging a fishing line with a bunch of hooks on it through the water hoping you'll "snag" one of these big puppies.  They can only keep one fish each according to state law and the state cleans them for you because they harvest the caviar for themselves.  Works out for everyone:)  I'll have to update this post after we have a fish fry and let you know how they taste, although I have heard they aren't very good.  I'm sure the guys will be walking around with their chests puffed up that day though because they actually caught our supper for us.  And before you get to feeling too sorry for me, the kids and I spent the night at my parent's house.  The girls got to play with their cousins and Baby Bubba got Grammy and Auntie snuggles.  I got some much needed girltalk with my mom and sister.

Nursing in Public

This topic has come to mind since I am nursing a newborn and don't always have an extra 30 minutes to blow sitting in the car feeding my baby when we are out-and-about.  With my first baby, I would have died at the thought of nursing in front of anyone other than my husband, mother, and sister.  Then with my second, I was okay nursing in front of all of our family (covered of course).  Now that I am much wiser and much more comfortable with myself, I will nurse in a public place.  I am still self-conscious about it, but I decided I shouldn't live my life a certain way because of other people's opinions.  Then my friend told me a story about her friend.  She was nursing in a restaurant near here and their waiter I'm sure very innocently asked her if she would go to the restroom to nurse.  He thought he was being so nice by adding that they had put a chair in there for her.  Apparently the people at the table next to them had complained.  Part of me gets furious when I hear this because 1) she has every legal right to nurse there and 2) there is nothing gross or unnatural about nursing your baby.  The other part of me makes excuses like, "They've just never been around a nursing mother." and "They're probably just really young."  Luckily this woman's husband stuck up for her and she was confident enough to handle the situation.  I probably would have gone crying to my car never to return.  So now I'm trying to prepare myself with something to say if I am ever in that situation.  I decided I should tell the waiter to tell the people complaining that they are welcome to eat their meal in the restroom because my baby will not be eating in there.  Have any of you ever been put in this situation or something similar?  What did you do or say?

Sissyisms

Grandma is staying with us while we await the arrival of Baby Bubba so she can stay with the girls while we are in the hospital.  She has been knitting a blanket for some friends of ours for a wedding gift and Sissy was full of questions.  Now, according to Sissy, grandma is knitting a "napkin" which translates afghan.  Grandma keeps correcting her but she finally just told grandma that she knew what it was, but she was going to call it a napkin.


She also always talks about being "born."  She has said this enough that the whole family knows she means that she's bored and we have given up on correcting her.  Well, the other day, Precious was talking about the baby being born.  Sissy said with a confused look on her face, "I don't think the baby will be born.  He'll be having lots of fun."

My 'push' playlist

Have I mentioned that I am really nervous about delivering this baby?  The anxiety keeps increasing as I get closer and closer to my due date.  One of the things I am doing to try to relax during pregnancy is putting together a playlist of some of my favorite songs that will hopefully take my mind off all the PAIN.  Here are the songs I have so far:

Better Than A Hallelujah - Amy Grant
Blink - Revive
Born Again - Third Day
Butterfly Fly Away - Miley Cyrus (I have two young girls.  What else can I say?)
The Climb - Miley again
By Your Side - Tenth Avenue North
City On Our Knees - Tobymac
Finally Home - MercyMe
Free To Be Me - Francesca Battistelli
Give Me Your Eyes - Brandon Heath
God of Wonders - Rebecca St. James
Holy Is The Lord - Chris Tomlin
Gone - Tobymac
Hope Now - Addison Road
How He Loves - David Crowder Band
Human - Natalie Grant
I Can Only Imagine - Steven Anderson
Lead Me - Sanctus Real
Light Up the Sky - The Afters
More Beautiful You - Jonny Diaz
More Like Falling In Love - Jason Gray
The Motions - Matthew West
O Praise Him - David Crowder Band
Praise You In This Storm - Casting Crowns
Realize - Colbie Caillat
Sea of Faces - Kutless
Song of Hope - Robbie Seay Band
Sweetly Broken - Jeremy Riddle
To God Alone - Aaron Shust
Untitled Hymn(Come to Jesus) - Christ Rice
We Fall Down - Kutless
What Faith Can Do - Kutless
What Love Really Means - JJ Heller
Word of God Speak - MercyMe
The Words I Would Say - Sidewalk Prophets
You Are More - Tenth Avenue North
You Reign - MercyMe

Let me know if you can think of anything to add.

What do you do on a snow day?....Fashion Show!!!

The girls put together this fashion show for me yesterday.  When it was over I even got to purchase some of the merchandise.  How is a boy going to fit into this??  Here is just a taste of the show I got.

 

 

 

Shower

Here are some pictures from the shower that my awesome friends threw for Baby Bubba and me. 

Here's a little back story so you will be in on the joke.  When my friend had her baby, she decided to use cloth diapers.  I know crazy!  Then, my other friend thought she would try them and ended up loving them.  Apparently the insanity was contagious and another friend that is due soon is using them too.  Two of them had cloth diaper-themed showers.  So I jokingly told the girls that I wanted an anti-cloth diaper shower.  Fast-forward to the shower where they made tiny picket signs.  Sorry the picture didn't turn out the best.

One of them gave me a diaper cake and put a sign on top as the center piece.  Down With Cloth Diapers!

I love that they can share in my sense of humor and not be hurt that I call them crazy.  The truth is I admire them for being so dedicated.  Not enough to join the madness though.  My sister even made the trip, despite the threat of bad weather, to be there for the shower.

I had a great time at the shower.  There's just something about a group of women getting together to celebrate one of the greatest blessings God can give. 

Sensibility

Since I tend to post all of the crazy, outrageous things my kids say, I thought I better post something they said that was actually sensible.  Recently, we had another girls-night-out, so we went to our favorite restaurant, Olive Garden.  We have had many meaningful conversations there and this evening did not disappoint.  As you know, Precious has, we'll say, a fascination with boys.  She always has.  Normally she talks about whether or not they like her or think she's pretty.  The conversation started pretty much the same with her telling me that her friend D(the one she has planned to marry since preschool) now wants to marry a different girl in her class.  I was bracing myself for where this conversation was going to go, but she continued to tell me that that was okay because she could marry someone else.  "After all, mom, there are lots of boys I haven't even met yet!"  Praise the Lord, she is making some sense.