We finally have Internet again and now that I am sitting down to write this blog, I don't know where to start.
We got safely moved in. It took us about a week of making trips with two intensive days of help to move the big stuff. We love this new house. It is just perfect for us. We have four bedrooms, a classroom, a big kitchen, and a living room/dining room combo. We also have a built in pool, but it is much to deep for the kids and we don't want to pay extra for it so the kids play in it with it being dry.
The negatives with this house is that there in no washer outlet and the electricity is not powerful enough to run the dryer (plus there is no hookup). With the washer we just fill it with a hose. It takes a while, but it gets done. I try to do one load of laundry a day. I do the lights on one day and the darks the next. On really sunny days I also wash the towels. I have limited clothes line so the towels must wait until it is really nice out. Not having a dryer means that I have to iron most everything. It has been a little bit of an adjustment, but if I do one to two loads a day and don't let it pile up on me I can get it done in about 45 minutes. Since my house is smaller it is easier to keep clean so the time I saved is now spent ironing.
Our friends, the Jacksons, rented this house a year ago and put the dryer in the kitchen. They used the same outlet that the stove was on (just unplugged the stove) and dried in there. They also burnt out their dryer from the fluctuating power so I decided the I would dry on the line as long as possible.
During the move we were able to get rid of a lot of things that we don't need anymore. We had several things that were just collecting dust as well as three trunks of baby girl clothes that I won't be needing. We decided to have a garage sale at the church and sell everything to make money for the Sunday school's Christmas Party. We have been wanting to buy all of the faithful kids a gift, but since we are also building a classroom there is no money available. I was praying that God would let us raise 2,000 Lempira (about $105.00). We didn't have much time to advertise it, but when we opened the doors of the church to start the sale there were probably 150 people there. We had a lot of theft (we were expecting it as we had to have the sale in the church and it is a high crime area), but we were still able to raise 4,700 Lempira. We have four bags of clothes left, but everything else sold. Praise the Lord we will now have enough to do what we were planning on doing.
The Monday after the sale we went to my normal doctor's appointment. I was 34 1/2 weeks along. I had been having a lot of contractions, but nothing regular so I wasn't worried. My doctor did my exam and decided to change my c-section date. It was going to be for the 20th, but because of the fact that the contractions were making progress and the baby's heart rate was on the low side, she decided that she was going to take the baby on the 4th of December. This is the day I hit 37 weeks. The baby is big and she is afraid if the baby even lets me get to 38 weeks that the heart rate will drop way down because of the size. I, however, am not worried about that. I am worried about the fact that I live further away from the hospital and if the baby decides to come we have a good drive ahead of us. Until I hit 36 weeks (Thanksgiving Day) I can take the medicine to stop labor (and have had to almost every day this week), but after that I cannot. We have another appointment tomorrow and we will see if she changes anything.
The good thing though is that the baby is measuring big and continues to grow. I, however, haven't gained a lb in a few weeks. My goal is to stay under 200 lbs (a feat I haven't achieved while pregnant yet) and so far I am right on track.
Lately I have not been going anywhere. I cannot drive because of the medicine and threat of having to take the medicine. I am so thankful that we got moved in when we did. Who knows what might have happened if we hadn't gotten in when we did.
We are also thankful that our old landlord kept begging us to get out of the house. By law we had to pay rent up to December 15th. She wouldn't leave us alone though and we found out that it was because she already had another client. We decided to move out quicker and give her back her keys and just not pay her last months rent. She didn't mind so we did this and because of that we were able to get out Internet running. YEAH!!!! Thank the Lord for his goodness.
I am hoping that I can find a little time to put some new pictures on here. Unfortunately there is a lot to do before the baby come and not a lot of time. :-)
