Blog update from my email: 

So, what has been up with me? Well, a lot I guess. Doing business stuff along with trying to keep the place in order and trying to get pregnant! AHH! 

First of all, business is kind of slow but it's going to pick up here soon. Not necessarily with my stuff but, with David's. We are a part of Allegany Artisans, which has a studio tour on October 18th and 19th from 10 am to 5 pm on both days. We will be with quilt maker Sue Johnson on Proctor Rd in Wellsville. 

I've been trying to keep the place clean but it has been hard as of late because I've been working with my Dad to save up some money to buy an embroidery machine for my dolls. I have a schedule but I don't always stick to it. It's hard because we have all of our stuff crammed into a tiny little space, especially in the living room! 

So, this will be most detailed part of my blog. We're trying to have a baby and it's become quite difficult. How can such thing be so difficult? I have no idea! It drives me nuts! It all leads me to believe how much God REALLY is in control of things. Why do I say that? Because, how is it that a teenager, who isn't married, can have sex once, just ONCE, and get pregnant like that? And they say there's only like a 36 hour time period in one month when it's just the right time to try for a baby!   My MIL said that she knew exactly when she was fertile because she had a pain in her side, so that gave her the sign that it was the day to try. How come I can't have that same thing? I'm not sure but, I think because God is in control. I don't know when I ovulate and I'm so irregular it's not even funny. Is it God confusing me so that I don't know when my most fertile day is? I think so! What is it that I can do on my part? I don't want to take complete control of this because I know when I do, it won't happen but, I do want to take my part seriously. I think my part of this would be to take care of my body as much as I can. A few months ago I thought "I wonder if the food I eat has anything to do with my reproductive system and then I was at a friends house and she had a book called "The Fertility Diet." I wrote down the authors and found a copy online, when I got it I started reading....and couldn't stop! It is so intriguing! 

There's basically like 8 things that could improve fertility or help decrease ovulatory infertility. These things include: 

Eating slow carbs (nothing refined), balancing fats, omitting trans fats and cutting back on sat fats,  consuming more plant proteins than animal protein, choosing whole-fat milk and ice cream, taking a multi-vitamin with lots of folic acid, drinking lots of water, losing weight (if needed), and exercising. 

The book says you can get pregnant by just doing one of these (and it's not guaranteed that you will if you follow these rules) but the more rules you follow, the more likely that you will become pregnant. I'm already almost done with the book but I still have a few chapters to go. What I decided about this was that I want my body, which is His, to be perfect in God's eyes because if he wants to use my body for one of his children, then it needs to be in tip top shape. 

I just thought of something. Is this a giant standing in the way or just not God's will? I have thought for a while that it was just God blocking us from having children because I'm so irregular but, now I'm not so sure. I really need to talk to someone about this! 

Reply if you find this interesting! 

So, yesterday, David and I got to see the same house that we're going to be buying soon! We got to Allegany at 10 am and didn't get home until 4:30...long day! Anyway, we headed to Jamestown with the sales guy Sean around 11. He started using his printed mapquest directions and we kinda couldn't find our way to the house, so, David got the GPS going and we found it! I think Sean was sold on it, he kept saying "Oh, man, I gotta get one of those." So we got to the house and it had a garage so the house actually looked smaller than what we're expecting. The foyer was perfect, so perfect, not too big and not uber small either. I think we're getting a glass window in the door, pretty! The nitch wasn't what I expected, it was kinda cool, we're going to put a globe clock there, or some sort of standing clock. The living room is massive, well, not as big as my parents' but it's bigger than the one we have now! The living room and dining room will have nice large windows, which I love! There was a open arch space in the wall between the living and dining room but we don't like that so we're just going to have it solid because we want a hutch to go in the dining room. The kitchen is so nice! I'm psyched about having a new fridge, stove, microwave.....and....wait for it....a dishwasher! There's not too much cupboard space, which is nice because then I can really find out what I need and don't need. I will have a cabinet thing downstairs for appliances that I don't use every day....crock-pots, hand mixer, food processor, popcorn popper, etc. I will actually have space for spices and utensils...like actual drawers. The spices are in a drawer now but the utensils are actually stored in vases on my counter, which is pretty but I like to have uncluttered counter spaces.....well, unless I'm living here. There is a office/desk/computer area kind of in the kitchen but off from it and we're opting out of that and since the water heater is not going to be there and will be downstairs, we can make that area a little breakfast nook. Oh my land, I can't wait to get our house.....sooo excited! I took Deb for a walk on our land and showed her where the house is going to be...she really liked it. It's so peaceful up there, such a blessing! I wish I could load pictures but I don't know if they'll do the house justice at all! 

So, I've been thinking a lot about money making opportunities (from home) because I don't know if the nursing pads are going to take off or not. At Hot Dog Day, I didn't sell one pair! David made all of the sales, maybe because I'm not all that great of a salesperson the way David is. I've never been very good at trying to convince someone to buy something, even when I worked at Kmart and I had to ask customers if they wanted to buy the stupid replacement plan for a something as simple as a toy, I kid you not! Anyway, I've ran numerous ideas through my head, even selling my pies to restaurants, but that is a lot of work because you need certain things, like permits. Sometimes it means you have to have inspections and I definitely don't need to be doing that sort of thing! The last thing I've thought of is selling a sort of food but I might not need anything like a permit to do it, we'll see, I'm going to look into it, especially if the nursing pads don't do something. 

Another post from my email, which will probably be much more regular now that I can only be online twice a day for 30 minutes. I can do email pretty much whenever I want. 

So I tried a different recipe for hair shampoo. It's got lemon juice, water, four, and mayonnaise in it. I tried it yesterday and it worked! It just doesn't later, so you really have to work it into your hair. I told David that I used homemade shampoo and he said that he was really happy that I'm being so frugal and trying to save as much money as I can but I don't need to go that far. :/ Oh well! I was trying to find things that were all natural, guess that idea is thrown out! He does like that I've been cooking in the crock pot as much as 3 nights a week! That saves so much time and actually money too because I'm not using the oven as much. I think I'll be using it a lot during the summer because then I won't be heating the house up with the oven on. 

One of my classmates (from high school) had her baby this week. I guess she didn't know the sex until she had "baby A" because that's what they were calling the baby on facebook. She had a girl and named her Lexi. I guess that's a pretty name, but I wouldn't choose it. Although, people are probably going to say the same thing about the names we choose for our children. 

Speaking of babies, I am so set on having our children at home. I really hope that I don't have an at risk pregnancy (whenever I do get pregnant). I just love the idea of being home while having my child, without nurses all around and having to pay a lot for having a baby! There's a website called the business of being born and that's exactly what childbirth is, the baby and the mother's body know exactly what to do. A lot of people will ask me "well, what if something goes wrong?" and I have to say "I'll put that in God's hands." I also love the idea of "rooming in" with your child. I think there is too much of the idea of the independent child, because I don't think children should be independent. They are to be dependent of their parents, that's what parents are for. Anyway, I should probably stop here before I get into too much of a rant. Haha! 

So, this is actually being posted from my email because I've abused the internet and now I have time restrictions because my husband is amazing and is holding me accountable. So I will actually be posting more on my blog because of it, as well as sending more emails and calling people more often (really that's such a better way to communicate!) 

I'm kind of on this natural everything kick (as far as products for my body). I've been using my natural bar of soap I bought from Wunderbar Soaps from the Shongo General Store. Yesterday I used it on my hair and it washed fairly well. I'm going to attempt to wash my hair with baking soda today. I've heard that it takes a while for your hair to get used to it (like a couple of days). Tara inspired me to try it because she asked for a hair gel recipe and she's been using the baking soda recipe as well! I was going to try the homemade hairspray too, which I guess is just lemon juice boiled down and then with a little water, you spritz it on your hair, the only negative is that you have to use it within a week! Hmm. Anyway, I'm going to switch out the laundry! 

Random thoughts!

So, here I am sitting at the kitchen table, once again on my computer! Meh, I do need to work on how much time I spend on this thing, it drives me nuts because I know I could be doing so many other things. For example, I could be finishing my menu for the week and the grocery list. So far, tomorrow we're having ranch chicken and on Thursday we're having chimichangas. Tonight, I'm going to Alfred for a birthday party and David is having minute steaks. :( I feel bad for leaving him behind to go have some girl time but he doesn't usually have guy time (because I'm with him and I enjoy the guy stuff he does, haha!). He would rather spend the time by himself anyway. 

So, I've been trying to make myself more Christ like, a few weeks ago I gave away 8 movies that were dog poo in the brownie movies. If you want to know what they are here is a link. I'm finding myself ridding my life of things I know Jesus would not expose himself to! Anyway, I think I will be doing a lot more of that. Even stuff like borrowing friend's cds and copying them. That's considered stealing (no matter how much the artist makes). I think the Lord is doing a work in me so that I can be an example to the unsaved and my future children. 

Here's some photos from the past week or so! 

This was the conference we went to in Liverpool NY last weekend, it was so amazing, but, only because God was so present! 

This was our group minus I think one person, well, and Matthew was in it too! What a great group of students we took, they've changed sooo much!

This is what happens when someone falls on the rest of the group, it's called the domino effect, lol!