Great News! and another video!

I have been working for a lady cleaning at the Y... I would get 2 hours one week, none the next, and not more than 4 the next... making 6 bucks an hour.. I didn't want to find something that kept me away from home more than 10 hours a week because I really want to be a stay at home mom.. not likely for a single mom. But God placed it in my heart for me to become one.. I just felt that he didn't want me away from Ava much.. plus in the bible it says a mother's work is in the home.. I just kept leaning on him and trusting that he would provide.. i saved every penny i got and pinched 'em, while i kept on praying... i had several interviews set up with online job employers but nothing ever panned out. i never even got to go thorugh the process. i have been holding on to the thought that this lady from NY (i think) is interested in me as she has been asking me questions a lot about my work but the bid for her job listed hasn't ended.... so that thought has kept me afloat.. then today, i got a phone call...

the first employer i had an interview set up for had his administrative assistant call me! i am HIRED! not an interview but HIRED! i am so stoked. i am not sure of the full details and i won't be fully until monday when he sends me a startup email... but i do know this much:

1. i will work from either 9am-5pm EST or 5pm-12am EST...

2. i will work 30-40 hours per week

3. i will be working for a web design company answering live chats and emails for support

4. I DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE FOR WORK ANYMORE!!!

i will probably continue working at the YMCA for at least a couple more weeks so i can be sure everything is good with my new job... i may stay there... i dont' know yet for sure..

oh i am so excited. the Lord is so good... through prayer and perseverence, He just may give you what you want! really, He does things because He wants them done but i wanted to work from home because of the work He did through me! amazing. all praise goes to God.

and here's another video of my darling daughter (3 months old at the time).... i call it "the adventures of henry the hippo" narrated by aunt kennedi... tune in for the sequel next week!

oh, how i love her...

Here's a post for those of you who live far away and don't get to experience much of Miss Ave...

Ava can already sit upright without support! She is developing too fast yet at just the right pace.

She also wanted to be sure we all knew the train was coming...

a bunch of nothing!

it's been a good while since my last post..

we made it to michigan and back last weekend. visited with granny and grandpa seymoure in kalamazoo. we had a grand time... most of us did anyway. ava did good for a fair portion of the trip; i will not give her a "good" or a "great" grade... she was fussy a lot in the afternoons/evenings... so i thought, she is teething! come to find out, we came home, she cried that night for about 20 minutes straight with no calming whatsoever.... and she's been perfectly fine ever since! she had a case of the i-want-to-be-at-home-again blues. needless to say, we will not be taking another trip for a while.. but during the happy times, it was great to see granny and gpa. their house is beautiful and i told mom i wanted to move into their guest room. she gave me a not so nice look. apparently she likes me and wants me to stay here. ;)

and the week happened. there isn't more to say here other than i got two more prospective jobs... then one got flushed today. got an email saying the position was filled. i still have one lead with a gold buyer out of wabash (i think he's from wabash)... keeping my prayers on this one.

this past weekend was a lonely one. saturday was anyway. mom and dad went to help pat and michelle move. the girls spent the morning with ava and i.. then they left too. so ava and i were home forever without any social interaction with anybody but ourselves. i did get a changing table out of the day though! michelle and pat did not have room in their new humble abode so they decided to allow ava and i to make use of it for a while! thank the Lord for family and generosity! thank you again guys! anyway, so father helped me carry the table all the way upstairs to the third from top step when my back did something very strange. i don't know what happened but i've had slight pain when sitting and standing since! it is getting better though. but poor chuck, he had to stand there and wait for me to pick the table back up, after he had been moving all day! we finally got it into our room. they left to help the seymoures again. i made the changer fit in our room a little bit and then we just relaxed. we later went downstairs (we spent a majority of the day in our room) and ava started looking around and yelling (not really yelling but it was kind of like a "hey!").... she missed everybody. so we waited for them in the chair. they got home, we said hi, and ava decided it was bedtime. sunday we went to church in the morning, stayed for fellowship, and came home. we rested.

today aunt kaylee and i took miss ava on a trip to the post office. i know if i were working behind the counter at the post office i would have thought it was funny to see a 4 month old baby and her mother both wearing sunglasses (matching is what best friends do!). it's probably just me though. too bad kaylee wasn't wearing shades. we would have looked "cool." just kidding.
and that was the highlight of our day.

thank you for reading. sorry for boring!

love,
courtney
and avie baby.

pictures, of course.

"Thank you, Aunt Steph for my adorable dress!"

"momma always takes pictures of me before church!"

Waiting on the porch with Mamae for Momma to arrive home from work...

play time!

here are a few pics of ava during play time! i so love her!

update time.

today is a beautiful day. the sky thunders and pours down upon us. i just love stormy days.

the past few days have been pretty round.. ava and i wake up, feed, play and she sleeps. and the routine continues throughought the day... with a few obstacles in ava's development i must work on training, i have been very busy as a mommy.. see, ava has decided that she likes to scream. not the regular scream a child does when trying to get his/her way, but a high-pitched blood curdling scream. she does it either when she is wanting attention, hungry, or tired... so basically all the time (haha)... she is also starting to try to stay awake more throughout the day.. and it is working. she is really learning how to manipulate and i have to turn the table quickly or i am in for a series of long, hard years ahead! i am getting better at telling her "no," but it is so hard being a first time mommy to tell my little one who i adore so much! i am beginning to understand why so many children are so unruly - because [some of] their parents found it hard to not let them have what they want! oh, how incredibly easy it can be to spoil a child rotten! but i must stand up against these feelings. i refuse to ruin ava by letting her have everything she wants.. it will hurt her in the long run more than i (or anyone else).. i can only do this with our preeminent Lord's help.

somewhere in the middle i have been able to work out with mom. we both feel much more energized lately from pumping all that oxygen throughought our body.. it is so refreshing! we have started to eat healthy again, too. we are trying to care for our temples more than we had been and it can make one feel so good for doing it!

yesterday was a busy day, too. i will not elaborate on it as my mother has posted on the happenings so i will refer you to her page to read up (if you haven't already!).. however, i will say one thing... i LOVE spending time with my mother and sisters (and miss ava, of course).. they are my best friends and i love them all.

i also am still seeking out work that i can either do from home or work that will not keep me away for more than a few hours at a time (as ava will not take the bottle so i must come home to feed her).. (i think) i have an interview with an online company called 1st advantage solutions.. the ceo has contacted me several times but has yet to finalize our interview process. i also have hope that i may be offered a job from a gold buyer from wabash who is looking for an administrative assistant from home.. i really think i am supposed to be home for work now. i just must continue to pray about it. i am still working for a lady who runs the cleaning side of the YMCA. i just have not been called in for two weeks. she did call me yesterday to say she would be needing me soon, so praise Him for providing that opportunity!

ava is asleep so i must move on to some cleaning and bread baking (my new hobby - that i must admit i am very good at - if given the right recipe :) )! thank you for reading.

<3 courtney