Five whole minutes, just for me!

That is probably all I have to write this blog post! I just got Levi to sleep, for the second time in the last half hour, and Josiah has been sleeping for about 45 minutes already, which means he should be waking up pretty soon. Whew, so here I go, attempting to take advantage of the few minutes to myself that I may have...and may I add, the first few minutes that I have had to myself probably all week, haha.

Sigh. Life with two boys has really got me running lately, I think it must just be the stages that they are both at, at least, that is what I am hoping :) With trying to potty train Josiah and with Levi who has decided to actually be attached to me wherever I go and in whatever I do, I have found myself having no privacy at all...and that is even including my bathroom time! The other day I actually shut the bathroom door tight when I went in, so as to just have a moment to myself, LOL, (can't believe I am actually writing about my going to the bathroom, I guess as we have spent so much time in there the last few weeks I feel that it is my second home, lol) but within seconds Josiah was banging on the door yelling "MUMMY! WACHA DOIN??" that followed by a few bangs on the door which then startled Levi (who I had just put down sleeping in his crib) so then he started to cry, which then made Josiah start to cry, saying "no Baby guy, no cry! Mummy, Baby guy cry!" ..and there I was, just trying to have a moment to pee by myself, how silly of me. *sigh* I must admit, it made me smirk...I guess I am just at this stage in my life where privacy has flown completely out the window, so on with life I must go.

This past weekend I decided to try and do something new with Josiah, as he has been pretty bored being cooped up here in the house with me and Baby guy, and I made him some play dough. I thought that I needed some different things that I didn't have in order to make it, but then I found a recipe online that was really simple, just flour salt and warm water..sweet. I made it and was pretty impressed with how simple it was to make, should have done it sooner. I used some beet juice that I had to colour it, but it didn't work all that good, it made it more sticky, which was not a good idea...but in the end Josiah had a blast playing with it all afternoon. We must have made at least 12 planes and 10 "owies" (for those of you who forgot, "owie" is the tiny gecko Josiah and I found a few months back, he still remembers him and asks me often about owie and his mummy, LOL). Anyways, The next day, Sunday, I tried my first attempt at make Cinnamon buns! I had been craving them all week and couldn't wait any longer to give them a try. I really wanted to make the ones from a recipe that Shelagh gave me on FB but it had vanilla pudding mix in it, which I didn't have, and I wasn't sure if I could substitute it with something and still have them taste good, so I decided to go with another recipe that I found online. Well let me tell you, they may not have been cinnabon cinnamon buns, but they were pretty good, if I do say so myself. Granted, I didn't have as must yeast as I needed so they didn't come out too big and fluffy, but they were decent, and for someone who hasn't eaten one in I don't know how many months.. they were amazing, LOL. I took a picture of them to put on my blog here but now for some strange reason I cannot upload it, so I may have to try again later. I have been typing for almost 15 minutes now and neither of the boys have woken up, so I'm jut gonna keep going and not waist any of this precious time that I have, haha.

Nevermind, there goes Levi..guess this will have to wait until later..bye for now!

Life with the boys....

Well I know it has been a long time since I last blogged...I have tried many times to sit down and type, but when I do something always seems to "come up", and I am not able to even begin typing. Sometimes I think it is a conspiracy, the boys can be relaxing, watching a movie and/or playing, being as good as gold... but as soon as they here me start to type, they act up or wake up or scream or something, anything to stop me from doing what I would actually like to do, lol. I remember Tanya once said that her kids did that when she would talk on the phone, they would be all calm and not doing anything and then as soon as she gets on the phone they start to cry or fight...Josiah now does the exact same thing! It's frustrating at times, but I guess they may see these things (computers and telephones) as something that takes your attention off of them, so maybe that is why they do it, who knows. Anyway, now I'm just rambling...

Today it is just me and the boys again. Jorge left yesterday morning at 5 am to drive Nelson, a young guy from our church to Pichilemu, as he is going to do his DTS there in YWAM. I was a little jealous, I have to admit, because I really wanted to go and see some of our old friends there, but with the two boys we couldn't all fit in the car...so I opted to stay home with the boys. It isn't as easy now either, for us to just pick up and go with the kids..Josiah doesn't enjoy long car rides much anymore and with the baby we have to stop ever little while for feedings, so it makes the trip a lot longer. We are hoping to go to Pichilemu though, in the last week of October as Lauren Cunningham is coming for YWAM's 50 anniversary here in Chile, so I am excited about that.

I was a little nervous about staying home by myself with the two boys overnight, so Digna came and stayed over last night, which was really nice of her. I felt kind of silly, but people have told us that there are people "watching" the house at times, and it appears that they may be planning once again to break in, whenever they get a chance, so I felt a little vulnerable staying here by myself. Unfortunately, this house is so big that it really calls the attention of the people here, especially because there is a "gringa" living in it, lol, which to them automatically means 'money'. lol if only they knew. Anyways, I felt a lot better having Digna here with me, we watched a movie and ate some chocolate before going to bed, lol, what could be better?? haha. I am feeling a lot more comfortable with her now, not just as a worker, but as a friend...and she is so great with Josiah and Levi, so I feel very blessed to have her here with us.

I talked to Jorge this morning and looks like they (he went with two other guys from the church too) will be back late this afternoon...they probably havent even left yet, and it is a six hour drive, so I'm guessing they will be home around 6ish or so. I don't have much planned out for the day...maybe I will take the boys out for a walk this afternoon as the sun is shining again today :)

Well I would love to keep writing, but I have a feeling something is going to suddenly come up, Levi is sleeping and will most likely wake up in the next few minutes or so. And Josiah is watching a movie but I need to try and lure him into the bathroom before he goes #2 in his pants....we are not having much luck with that yet. lol. But that is a whole other blog post for another day, ahhaha. Either way, I am back to blogging, I will do it when I can, I have a lot of things that I think about and always long to write them out on here, but I lack the time to do so. I guess this stage of my life is just going to be that way..at least until our kids are older and I have more time for such things. But until then, I will blog when I can :)