Perfect Pairing - Sweet Baby

Today Lexi will only fall asleep in my arms. I have things to do but I am savoring every moment because I know that in the blink of an eye she won't sit still long enough for me to hold her.

Psalm 127:3 NLT

Children are a gift from the Lord ;
  they are a reward from him.

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Looking In The Mirror

This is so funny!!! In March of 1997 I was on the front page of my school newspaper. I only went to Jenks for a year but this was my big moment :) For some reason I volunteered to be photographed and interviewed about wearing an empathy belly. Well now, 13 years later I'm doing the real thing. My favorite quote in the article "I thought it was fun because it really made you feel like you were pregnant. It was such a relief, though, when I got to take it off." LOL!!!! Here for your viewing pleasure:

God is the Architect

Real quick - this in my new blog. I have another one but it is set to private. I will keep this one public and the things I can't post here I will post there :) Is that clear as mud? Okay then.

Now, on to today's story......

The reason I decided I need to have a public blog is because I married a remodeler. What that means is that my house is never done nor will it ever be done. The things that are finished are beautiful and wonderful and usually over the top. I will take the time over the next few weeks to fill you in on all of that!!

That being said, I want to start on our upstairs (currently all attic). ***Problem*** NO STAIRS!!!! When my hubby added the second floor (post fire) he did not want to take up any of the downstairs square footage to put in stairs. Fair enough, it's only 1400ish square feet and I didn't really want to give up any either. But now, with 2 kiddos sharing the only extra bedroom downstairs and a baby due in September, I'm freaking out!!!! Matt-man (that's the hubby) wants to do a room addition off of the back of the house to add stairs, so were talking a major build here. Like I said, most things are over the top!

Sooooo, I woke up Tuesday morning at 3am with complete anxiety over this. I immediately started praying that God would send me an architect. My prayer then shifted to me asking God to show me where to put stairs in my existing house.....FYI, I majored in Finance not building. God started showing me, it is amazing to me how immediately He gave me ideas. I've been trying on my own for 2 years to come up with a solution to this problem. I think I finally fell back asleep for a little while but then I was up again by 6:30am taking measurements. I then started praying that Matt-man would hear me out. He is the builder here, not me. Then it occured to me, God is the architect!!!

Long story short, he is hearing me out!!! He will have to loose access to the backyard from his garage but there are 3 other ways to the backyard :) I told him I have sacrificed and suffered a lot over the years (more on that later). However, I will not only gain access to the upstairs from inside the current house but I will also gain access to the laundry room. No longer will I have to open 2 doors and go through the garage just to get there!!! So I'm not taking up any of the existing house space, just some of the laundry room, I'm okay with that.

I was up again this morning at 6:30am checking my measurements and layout. Now if I could just get a crew over here to help me build these stairs :)

This has turned out longer than I thought so I will just leave you with a pic of all my planning and then I will keep you updated on my progress.