Harlan House

Well, our water is back on… what a huge blessing running water is! Now I can try to catch up really quick before I have the baby! I’m officially 37 weeks now, so once again the Lord has answered our prayers! Since Hannah and Erin were born at 37 weeks, I have absolutely no idea when this kiddo will make his/her appearance. I am huge, though- so at least we have a nice sized baby to look forward to.

Katy drew our neighbor Lyn a thank you card for letting us use his water while the past 3 days, but she was too shy to give it to him in person and wanted to surprise him. So, she crept over to his house and put it on his front step with 3 rocks on it to keep it in place. Then she ran home. After about 2 minutes she looked at me anxiously and said “Momma, I think that Mr. Shipley won’t find my card. Can you sneak over there and ring the doorbell and run back really quickly so he won’t see you?”

Needless to say, I am not “quick” these days, and I can just see all of my other neighbors wondering why the very pregnant lady across the street was playing pranks on her neighbor. Thankfully, we saw Lyn drive away a few minutes later and I was spared that embarrassment.

Hannah has been especially cuddly, sweet and encouraging the past few weeks. We like to say that she is our Hannah Bear, and she loves it. She even has started to (pretend) pour us some honey from her hive of bees every morning on our breakfast. It’s so cute! She’ll even come up and whisper “the bees are making more honey for you” and give you a kiss sporadically throughout the day.

Erin is big on compliments lately. She comes up to me and says “Beautiful Momma- you more beautiful than a live red rose/ tulip” and she says “Handsome Poppa- you my lovey dovey Daddy.” Very sweet, right? Now, can you guess the flip side of these comments? When Nate or I point out something that she doesn’t like (usually it involves bad behavior) she calls Nate “beautiful” and me “handsome” in a pouty voice or says I’m as “beautiful as a dead rose.” How do they come up with that? I have to try not to giggle when I’m disciplining her for being cheeky.