Hi Everyone! My name is Amy. I am happily married to Eddie, my husband of 5 1/2 years. We were married in 2005 and have thoroughly enjoyed our life together so far. In January of 2007, we had our first child, Heather. She has never met a stranger! She is a happy, loving child who is always eager to meet people. She is rarely shy and makes friends of all ages very easily. She is 3 1/2 years old now and she is tall and slender for her age. Many people think she is older than she is due to her height and verbal ability. In November of 2009, we had our second child, Mikayla. Our daughters have two very different personalities. Mikayla is very cheerful but has very serious expressions most of the time. She loves to just sit and watch everything going on around her. While she loves having people around her, she tends to be more clingy than Heather was and prefers to stay close to Eddie or myself and doesn't go to others as easily. Eddie works at Advance Auto Parts as an Assistant Manager. He's been working there for about 6 months now. I am a certified Elementary & Special Education Teacher. Unfortunately, jobs are tough to find here this year due to proration and I am currently staying at home with my lovely daughters instead. While I enjoy my time with them, I must admit that I miss teaching and hope to find a teaching job soon!
We are a semi-crunchy family and use cloth diapers for the girls. Heather used cloth diapers from the time she turned 1 until she started potty training last year. She still uses cloth diapers for night times. Mikayla has been using CDs since birth! Newborn diapers are SOOOOO cute! ^_^ I miss the itty bitty stage! We chose to CD for health reasons. Heather had terrible rashes in disposable diapers her first year, so we switched to cloth and her bottom has been so much better ever since. Mikayla also has sensitive skin as well as mild eczema and while she generally is ok in "sposies," we now prefer CDs and use Heather's stash (plus a few more ^_~) for Mikayla. We also use cloth wipes. I also breastfed Heather for 6 months before she weaned herself (latch issues mostly) and have been breastfeeding Mikayla full-time since she was born. Mikayla has taken to BF'ing much easier than Heather did and I imagine she won't completely wean for quite some time. I try to use kitchen towels instead of paper towels (although we keep those on hand, but they last a good while since we rarely use them) and have been gradually switching over to "green" cleaning products.I love to crochet and try to make a few pieces for the girls each year. I love to shop at consignment sales for gently used clothing for the girls and often sale clothing and toys that the girls have grown out of each year.
We are a Christian family that believes in a strong relationship with God. After all, it's not about religion...it's about relationships! We build our relationship with Christ through prayer, study, fellowship with others in relationship with Christ, and doing our best to reach out and show people Christ's love (even though as humans, we often fail miserably at this...but we try our best! that's the key!) ^_^
Well, I guess that's it for now! Hopefully, I'll keep up with this one! ^_~ I'm generally terrible with blogs but since I'm at home now, I'm hoping I can manage to keep up with it! Plus, having babies at home tends to give good stuff to talk about ^_~
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