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Lack of sleep has really been getting to me lately. I find myself more and more frustrated when I have to wake up 4,5 sometimes 6 times a night. I wake up in the morning feeling as tired, if not more tired than I was when I fell asleep. Samuel doesn't seem to understand or even sympathize. This is the worst part of the whole thing... he sleeps through the night and most of the time gets at least 7 hours of sleep. I "sleep" for about 9 hours but I am woke up ever 2 hours and when I wake up I am up for 15-30 minutes to feed and soothe Alice back to sleep, then I have to get myself back to sleep. He acts like I sleep all that 9 hours and have no reason to be tired. So I find myself praying for patience- and lots of it.

Our Realtor is in a meeting today with the Tribe and a non profit organization that is hopefully going to help make our home buying experiance even more exciting than it already is. The idea is that we will find a foreclosed home and the non profit organization will then purchase it. They will rehab the property to make everything up to code so that it can pass the home inspection. We will then purchase the home from them. I am not sure how much updating will be done or how much say we will have in the process, but I am excited to find out if the Tribe will allow this. If so we should be meeting with our realtor shortly to get filled in on the details and hopefully we will be looking at properties within a week or so!

I am still praying that God shows us the home He would have us live in and make this process as smooth as possible.

My nephew, Solomon, turns 1 this week. I can't believe it. It seems like only a few months ago that me and Esther were walking the shopping plaza to try and jump start her labor. Then a day later I was holding that tiny little baby in my arms... now here he is walking and he even says "dada" and "hi". He is such a cute little kid!

This is one of my favorite pictures of Solomon



Alice is borrowing Solomon's old Bumbo. She really likes it. It has been a blessing to me and Samuel because we can put her down for a few minutes to get stuff done. I need to get better about putting her down and cleaning the house. This is my husband's largest complaint. Is that I do not do enough around the house. I try to explain that is is because I am tired but he writes it off as an excuse. He works 40 hours a week and is often the one to clean the home as well. I do need to find the energy to clean up and keep it up. It has always been one of my biggest hurdles. I hate to clean but I need to do it and do it joyfully.


Scripture: 


Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Prayer:

Lord today I find myself wearier than the day before. I pray that you supply the energy I struggle to find. Help Alice rest Lord. I know that you know better than us what is wrong with her little body and you have the ability to heal it. I pray in your name that she be healed. Father teach me to be a better homemaker. Remind me to keep up with the house and do it joyfully. I continue to pray for those in Japan and those effected by the events. Thank you God also for the rain today. It is just what we needed after such hot weather. 

Amen