It has been a fairly productive week in many respects. We are finally settling into a decent schooling routine. I have decided it’s a very challenging thing to have a baby, buy a house, pack and move, homeschool, and work part time. Acknowledging that helped me to see that we are doing pretty good to do school every day (in varying degrees of thoroughness, but always math and reading), to be wearing clean clothes most of the time, to have groceries in the fridge, and a mostly clean house (either the bottom floor or the top floor, but not usually both).
The big highlight of this past week has been the library. Upon moving into this house, I decided to make our formal living room into a library. (I guess the reading geek in me is coming to the forefront). We have made do with 5 mismatched white bookshelves, but this past week we got to go to IKEA and purchase 5 bee-yoo-ti-ful Billy bookshelves, and five lovely little lights to sit on top of them, casting down a warm illumination on each shelf. My dh stayed up late Wednesday assembling them for me. He hefted the old bookcases out of the way, and I reloaded the new ones. They look wonderful. I find myself just walking out to the library to stare at the pretty shelves. What a goof! 
Bit by bit, this house is feeling more like us. We have some curtains to hang in the library, master bedroom, and dining room. This was an unexpected expense, as I thought we would be able to recycle some of our curtains from our other home, but the windows are very tall here, and I need 96″ panels to hang from the top of the windows down to the floor. Today, we were also thrilled to go buy a dishwasher. The little, low end dishwasher currently in our home was inadequate to meet our needs. I found myself running the dishwasher a couple times a day just to get all our dishes washed. It only had a spinner on the very bottom, so there was always some residue on the items on the top shelf-yuck! The new one will be here on Tuesday-woo hoo!
Overall, I am in a celebratory mood right now. It is clear we are experiencing some delightful gifts from our sweet heavenly father, who gives good gifts to His children. I never thought I would consider a dishwasher or bookshelves as good gifts, but I am so thankful…..
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Running Update: I bumped up to running for 3 minutes and walking for 1. That one minute sure goes fast! The first four cycles weren’t as hard as I’d expected, but the last two were tough! But, I just kept running.
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Noah Update: Sweet boy is now rolling his way across the family room. He has only figured out how to roll in one direction, though, so he gets stuck. He is also pulling his tummy up off the floor. I think crawling is in our near future!
On a good note, my good friend gave me a jogging stroller that she had no use for any longer. I cleaned it up, and walked using it today. It worked wonderfully.
