Getting Spiritually Fit

We have decided as a couple to read through the bible in a year. I've never done that before but there are so many parts of the bible I've never read. And there are so many classic stories that I was told as a child in Sunday school but haven't read them as an adult and I want to re-read them.

Well, it's not as easy as you may think to read the bible EVERY SINGE DAY. Time is my biggest enemy. Satan uses SLEEP as my stumbling block on a daily basis. I get up at 4:45 on a daily basis. This gives me JUST ENOUGH time to take a fast shower, make lunch and a good/filling breakfast (cause I don't know how long it will be till I get to eat again...). I then throw on anything laying around and get to work by 6:15.

I can't read at work. Matt suggested that to me and I'm just not in the zone. My breaks are usually pretty rushed and there is just too much going on around me (TV, conversations) to concentrate on reading about Job or Noah and the arch. haha.

If I get home on time we usually go running and I make dinner with Matt when I get home. During this time and after dinner I spend my time cleaning up for dinner, spending time with Addy, getting her a bath....basicly giving Matt a break and some special time with her. By then it's 7:30 and time for her to get ready for bed and me to read her some stories. Believe it or not....after she goes down at 8:00 I am exhausted. Maybe it's just me but I could collapse in bed at 8:30. My poor husband is such a night owl and so going to bed at 8:30 is probably such a let down! I am so exhausted that if we at least try to watch a movie together I am asleep before the movie starts!

Last night we tried reading the bible in bed together. I started reading Job and I swear I read 2nd Job about 5 times. My eyes kept closing and my head kept dropping. Matt just laughed and said I looked pathetic and that I just needed to go to bed. This is so frustrating because as all you moms know....you have VERY LITTLE time to yourself or time alone with your husband. Those hours after she goes to bed are usually the times when moms get stuff done! But with me when she is in bed....I'm right behind her! If only I could stay up till 10:00!!!! I could get so much more done (like my husband...hehe).

At one point I was so tired of being tired I thought about asking my boss if I could change my work schedule to a 10-6 shift just so I could wake up at 6:30 instead of 4:45 so I wouldn't have to go to bed at 8:30!!!! But I decided not to....I love getting off at 3:00 in the afternoon.

Anyway, I have just been praying about my tiredness and my use of time. We have completely cut out all shows that we used to watch on a regular basis ( Biggest Looser, Glee etc). I occasionally watch HGTV and Matt watches the NFL channel but other then that nothing.

If I didn't have an IUD I would have thought I was pregnant! Haha! But Im not tired during the day like I was with that, I just get tired early at night so that really isn't that believable. I can't imagine how moms (working or not) of more more then one child do it! I look forward to Addy having a play mate but I don't look forward to figuring out how to handle TWO children. How did my mom have three kids!!!!!?????? I so wish I could sleep in till 8:00 every morning and wake up to Addy talking!!!

I need to be in prayer about this more often.

Oh that reminds me....a friend from church is at about 20 weeks and on her last sono they found out her baby has two of the 8 signs of down syndrome and other signs of cystic fibrosis. She only has two of the "soft" signs and none of the "hard" signs as they call them.I had to look up on the internet to see what she meant by that cause I didn't remember. She is in great shape and she's only 29. They told her this should probably be her last baby since she's "getting old" haha! What are they talking about???!!! I know the most fertile time in a women's life is in your teens but sorry I don't promote teen pregnancy! Can you believe they told her that? Advanced maternal age is 35! Anyway, I remember being pregnant with Addison and having all those things go through my head...about down syndrome and all those other things that could go wrong for no apparent reason...no matter how good you eat or how good of shape you are in...those things are totally out of your control. I know how helpless it makes you feel. So I wanted to lift Sara and Nick up in prayer that those signs turn out to be nothing and that this little boy is as healthy as a horse! Thanks y'all!