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This pregnancy I have experienced a lot more than I experienced with my other two. It started out with morning sickness (ok all day sickness), continued with exhaustion and depression and now we are dealing with a tired achy body (but not exhaustion).

My 3rd trimester brought insight and energy (thanks to nesting) and I realized that the reason I was so depressed was because I wasn't doing things for me, I spent all my time, cleaning, babysitting and taking care of my kids (which is a great thing) but all women need them time, we need to have our own identity besides being mommy... (though it is the best name in the world)

So beginning the 3rd trimester, I started doing things for me.... or at least things I LOVE to do. I started on little princesses costume.... which is almost done,,,, I have been sewing other things, I have been planning, creating, reading and doing things for myself. Of course when I get my projects done I will post them on here. But there is lots of baby things, a few costumes, and some other things.

I also realized I getting depressed cause I was doing nothing for this baby girl. It's my 3rd so no baby shower, no getting presents for her, and honestly I haven't felt like anyone else is happy or excited for me this pregnancy. There are a few that have told me they can't wait. But honestly the reaction I got from some people was that they seemed less then thrilled. Even when I was always happy about their events in their lives. So I changed my attitude. I was done caring about how others were reacting and I started washing and getting things ready for this little girl. No one but Buzz, Myself and the kids need to be excited for our new little family member.

I am excited to see all the things we have planned come together! I am excited to work on projects and sew for all my kids. I am excited to meet this little girl in a few months and I am excited to be happy again, to find myself again and of course still be a mom!

I promise to update soon!

Love,
TT

Goal Update!

Wow it's been a super long time since I last updated this blog and my goals....... life has gotten busy and crazy and I wasn't spending a lot of time working on things for myself.... I was focusing all my time on my house and my family and it wasn't a good thing for me.

So how am I doing on my goals? Not as good as I would hope!

Debts: Well, we are still making payments on our debts, but I doubt we are going to have the next one paid off before this little girl gets here. We are making more than double the minimum payment on our smallest debt which is good, but we are saving a lot of our money for hospital bills for this little girl so we don't have to go into debt to have her.

Cleaning: It was bad for a while. I had not energy and was in a huge depression state not wanting to anything. So my house kind of took a big brunt of the depression and was never really cleaned. But then the 3rd trimester hit.... I started remembering my identity and the depression went away and I started "nesting" the house isn't perfect but its cleaner and I still have yet to create a schedule, but my house is staying cleaner!

Spice up the married life.... this is one thing that pregnancy has taken a toll on. David and I get our us time each night and I love spending time with him. We rarely go on dates.... but we enjoy our evenings together. I know once baby gets here the first few months will still be rough but we still have time to work on this.

Write in my Journal..... I have majorly slacked on this one. I was doing great till we went to Colorado and then because of the craziness of that trip I dropped off the map and haven't been able to get back on board. I guess I need to get back on track with this one. I can do this!

Yup we have 5 months to get on top of this! I can do it!

Love,
Tt

New Years Goal Updates!

Wow, its been a while since I posted last. Sorry… life has been busy and crazy and fun, and hard and many other things. But we are here and making headway!

So how have I been doing on my Goals……

Debts: Well….. we got two of our debts paid off! Our two smallest Student Loans are gone and it feels nice! We got a nice tax return in which we paid off 2 debts and then finished our fence out front. We are making good headway on our 3^rd and hope to have it paid off before Baby Greenwood #3 arrives. We will have to see how that works out though as we have a Colorado trip to pay for Gas, a baby due to arrive in the later end of the year.

Cleaning: has gotten pushed under the rug. I am exhausted all the time and I can clean one room and then am exhausted for the rest of the week. I wish I had more energy and fewer headaches so I could do the things I need to.

Spice up the married life….. well pregnancy has put a damper on this one. I wont go into details. But I have no energy anyways.

Write in my Journal: I am still rocking this one…. There are still times when I miss due to headaches or sickness….. but I catch up the next day. We even finished a journal the other night. It was cool….

Have Faith in the Lord…. Still struggling but doing better. We will get there.

Love,

TT

New Year Goal Updates!

How are we doing??? 

Debts: We are still working on them. It would help if Buzz would get the raise he was told he would get and if he would get the money from his wellness assessments that we did last year. We hope that will all be worked out this month and to get our taxes filed this month and a hopefully good return so that we can really hit the debts hard. As of now we are still only paying minimum payments. But we will get there.

Cleaning: Having a hard time with getting the house clean in the first place. I got sick for a good portion of the month, and started watching new kids, but I am finally better and we are getting into a routine with these new kiddos. We hope to be on top of this goal by the end of the month.

Spice up the married life…. I will spare you the details of this one. That’s for me and my husband NOT for you. We are still working on going on dates every week without the kids, but we do spend time together after they go to bed. We did have an amazing anniversary around the middle of the month.

Write in my Journal. I wrote in my journal every day this month, and it felt so good. I used to be so good and then phased out after having kids. We hope I can keep it up!

Have faith in the Lord. Still working on this one, we aren’t perfect but I can’t change overnight. I know the Lord is there for me and I need to trust him more!

It has been a good month. We are excited to see how we do in February!

Love,

TT

Life As We Know It

I realize that I haven’t updated this blog, with the happenings of my life. The last few months it has been all book reviews.  So here is a update. Life is going well, there are some things that we wish could happen that aren’t and others that we wish wouldn’t be happening.

Buzz still loves his job. He recently got a transfer/promotion… (though we are waiting for the pay raise, Human Resources have been SLOW) he is also the ward financial clerk in our ward. It makes for LONG Sundays but he loves his calling and he feels happy to do it.

TT still loves being a stay at home mom. She is keeping busy watching other kids. She has 2 part time and 2 full time kiddos. It has been an adjustment having fulltime kids besides her own, but we hope with the New Year and the new kids it will help us pay off our debts faster. She doesn’t have a lot of time to do crafts and sewing but hopefully once she gets into the swing of watching so many kids she can get back to that. She is currently teaching the 6 year olds in Primary and it comes with it own struggles. But she loves it.

Little Princess turned 4 in December. She loves all things girly and is a joy to us. She loves, My Little Pony, Princesses, Frozen and being mommies little helper. She is a joy and recently moved into CTR 4 this year in Church.

Little Prince is 18 months and is all boy. He is adorable and a joy. He LOVES Cars, Planes and Monsters University. He is super sweet and a big mommy’s boy. He recently entered Nursery in, the church, and if he could stay without people thinking he was sick, I think he will be great.

Life right now has it goods moments and it hard moments. I am starting to get a small glimpse of what it is like to struggle with infertility. *DISCLAIMER- I am not trying to compare myself to those who have truly suffered from infertility, but I kind of am getting the feeling of what those who do struggle with infertility go through* With Little Princess we chose to go off birth control and I was pregnant within two weeks, with Little Prince it took longer around 6 months , maybe 7. But I don’t remember it being this hard. This time we have been trying since around Little Prince’s first birthday. So June and it seems like every time I log onto Facebook or turn around someone is announcing their pregnancy or having a baby and its getting harder and harder. Every time I reach a certain time of month and I have that visitor I struggle for days. When certain people close to me announce their pregnancy I cry for hours afterwards. I am trying hard to put my faith in the Lord and his plan but that is hard, I am super happy with my two beautiful kids, but then I think that there is something missing. Its hard, I am torn, but I am strong so I will just “Let it Go!”

We aren’t making as much headway on our debts as we would like, but we can see the end in sight for one of them. We hope to have it paid off within a few months. I will let you know how that goes.

Life is good, God is good, and even with trials and tribulations with God’s help I will be able to overcome anything!

That’s my life right now. Its not perfect, but its good and we are super blessed.

Love,

TT

2014 Goals

 My goals this year are more family oriented, in some ways….. I am trying to better our family life and our situation.

1^st- get at least 2 of our debts paid off. This will be our hardest one. We will really have to focus on our finances and be strict on our finances. But we can do it.

2^nd Clean the entire house and then make a cleaning schedule and stick to it. This might take a while as I have started watching new kiddos and they are full time. So getting the house clean in the first place is hard.

3^rd Spice up the married life.!I won’t go into this too much, but let’s just say having kids has really put a damper on this…. We are still happily married we just need to spice it up a little. More dates, more us and more …..

4^th Write in my journal everyday!  I was so good before having Aurianna, I have slacked off a lot but we are going to get back on track this year.  

5^th Have more faith in the Lord and in myself. I struggle with wanting to know the answers to everything right now, and not thinking I can do things. I am going to change this part of me that doubts so much!

I have my work cut out for me, but I can do this!

Love,

TT

Goals 2013 , How did I do?

Well last year some of my goals I did wonderfully on and others not so well.

My first goal was to Read and Finish a Book each month, This one I ROCKED at. I read a ton this last year and I loved it. What a great goal.

My second goal Create a Menu each month and stick to it. We did ok on this one. Some months were better than others but still we tried. This year we plan on doing better.

Third Organize the house….. well it is a lot better than last year! But I missed the deadlines and there are definitely still more things that need to be done, but we are getting there.

Fourth Have a date with David each week….. we kind of stunk at this one. We spent time together and put the kids to bed early so we could snuggle on the couch after they went to bed, but we still weren’t so good on this one.

Fifth, attend the temple each month, we  didn’t do this one quite as well as I would have liked. We need to do better.

Sixth, Have more patience. I am still working on this one but we are doing better.

2014 should be better!

Love,

TT