Mathew Wilson Eis was born at 1:59 PM, weighs 7lbs 4oz, is 19 1/4 inches long and is perfect as can be!!! ♥
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Exciting News!!
Mathew Wilson Eis was born at 1:59 PM, weighs 7lbs 4oz, is 19 1/4 inches long and is perfect as can be!!! ♥
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Wordless Wednesday - Last Date Night Before Baby
On Sunday Mathew and I were able to get away for a few hours without Samantha. We took a trip down to Sedona and here are some pictures from our trip.
For dinner we ate at the Silver Saddle. This interesting plate of food has Burmese Python from Vietnam (the light colored skewers), Buffalo (the dark colored skewers), and cactus fries. First time for snake and cactus fries but they were really good!
Here we had a Buffalo Steak! Buffalo is my all time favorite meat and I would eat it all the time if not for the price.
Just one of the amazing pictures my Dearest took.
For dinner we ate at the Silver Saddle. This interesting plate of food has Burmese Python from Vietnam (the light colored skewers), Buffalo (the dark colored skewers), and cactus fries. First time for snake and cactus fries but they were really good!
Here we had a Buffalo Steak! Buffalo is my all time favorite meat and I would eat it all the time if not for the price.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
My Strong Willed Child - Update
I thought that I would give a little update on how things have been going in learning about my strong willed daughter and what we have been doing.
After reading through the books that I had picked up (you can see what I got here) to help us out with Samantha I figured out that most books are geared toward older children. Some of the ideas like time outs work on her but ideas like reality discipline (which is something I really want to use on my children) do not really work on a child as young as Sam. This was a little frustrating as I need to get a handle on thing now before the baby came and I was chasing her around with a newborn. Sam had learned that she could get away with things with me because I did not know how to handle her.
Thankfully God knew that I needed help and just when I was at the end of my rope Family Life Today came out with a new program that they decided to share highlights of last week.
Some of the best parenting advice that I have come across yet was this program done by Dennis & Barbara Rainy. Their program focused on childhood discipline and training from the ages of newborn up to five years which no one else had really talked about. They hit all the questions that Mathew and I have been having in dealing with Samantha.
Right From The Start: A Biblical Approach to Early Childhood Discipline
You can listen to parts of the Right From the Start program on Family Life Today - Dennis Rainy .
This is one of the best programs that I have heard from Family Life Today since it focused on what I am facing in my life right now. Thankfully after applying what we learned through this program things have been so much better with Samantha. This of course was after a few really rough days of her pushing back just as hard as we were pushing. There have been more spankings and time outs in those few days then I had ever had to deal with and I was having such a hard time pushing so hard 24/7 but I was told to stick to it and things would get better which was very true. Once Samantha learned that she could not get away with things that she was told specifically no on (she got a spank right away if she decided to do it after being told no instead of me saying no five times) and that we were not going to be easy on her she decided that she could live with not getting her own way all the time and now she is being her sweet self again. There are still time when she still tries to get her way but if I am consistent in disciplining her the problem gets dealt with right away and we can go back to having a good time.
I seriously encourage those with children between the ages of newborn to five to listen to this series because everything is based on the Bible and works to get things under control!!!!
I will continue to update on what I am learning in the future. I am sure I will need to learn lots more once we have two children under two in the house!
What about you? Have you found or have any good advice for disciplining really young children?
After reading through the books that I had picked up (you can see what I got here) to help us out with Samantha I figured out that most books are geared toward older children. Some of the ideas like time outs work on her but ideas like reality discipline (which is something I really want to use on my children) do not really work on a child as young as Sam. This was a little frustrating as I need to get a handle on thing now before the baby came and I was chasing her around with a newborn. Sam had learned that she could get away with things with me because I did not know how to handle her.
Thankfully God knew that I needed help and just when I was at the end of my rope Family Life Today came out with a new program that they decided to share highlights of last week.
Some of the best parenting advice that I have come across yet was this program done by Dennis & Barbara Rainy. Their program focused on childhood discipline and training from the ages of newborn up to five years which no one else had really talked about. They hit all the questions that Mathew and I have been having in dealing with Samantha.
Right From The Start: A Biblical Approach to Early Childhood Discipline
You can listen to parts of the Right From the Start program on Family Life Today - Dennis Rainy .
This is one of the best programs that I have heard from Family Life Today since it focused on what I am facing in my life right now. Thankfully after applying what we learned through this program things have been so much better with Samantha. This of course was after a few really rough days of her pushing back just as hard as we were pushing. There have been more spankings and time outs in those few days then I had ever had to deal with and I was having such a hard time pushing so hard 24/7 but I was told to stick to it and things would get better which was very true. Once Samantha learned that she could not get away with things that she was told specifically no on (she got a spank right away if she decided to do it after being told no instead of me saying no five times) and that we were not going to be easy on her she decided that she could live with not getting her own way all the time and now she is being her sweet self again. There are still time when she still tries to get her way but if I am consistent in disciplining her the problem gets dealt with right away and we can go back to having a good time.
I seriously encourage those with children between the ages of newborn to five to listen to this series because everything is based on the Bible and works to get things under control!!!!
I will continue to update on what I am learning in the future. I am sure I will need to learn lots more once we have two children under two in the house!
What about you? Have you found or have any good advice for disciplining really young children?
Monday, October 26, 2009
Marriage Monday - Get A Good Book
Today for Marriage Monday my tip is to pick up a good marriage book and read it together with your spouse. Yeah I know there is not much time these days for anyone to just sit down and read but I know from experience that reading a good book together can help out a lot in marriage. If you want to some recommendations on good marriage books check out my page On My Book Shelf.
Do you have any good marriage books that you would recommend?
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Winner of Swelly Belly Band!!!
Sorry to be getting this out late but my little family and I have been under the weather :(
Here is the image from Random.org
Comment 13 was Andrea!!! You do not know how excited I was to see that it was her because she is a close friend here on the NAU campus that is just getting started out in the blogging world (as you will see from her blog) because of me ;)
Thank you so much for all the entries and don't for get about the Shower Hug giveaway!!
Here is the image from Random.org
Thank you so much for all the entries and don't for get about the Shower Hug giveaway!!
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