Finally.

We have been living in an apartment for 5 years this coming June which will also be our 5th Anniversary. Crazy how time flies! I am in no way complaining that we did it. There is no way we could have afforded anything in the Chicago suburbs. Which is one reason why we are here in Nashville. However apartment living gets a little nuts with a toddler and then the prospect of having another baby in an apartment seems to make it shrink to a studio apartment. No! I am not prego but we will be trying soon. Which leads me to where we are going.

We have been or I should say I have been looking for the past 2 months. Adam would come and look at any pictures or hop in the car to make it to an appointment. We found the place that fits us.

Before I write more, there is another reason we are wanting to move away from where we are. Most of Adam's clients are no longer right across the street.

Ok, this new place is a rehabbed duplex in the West Nashville area. ( we currently are also considered West Nashville). It has 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths and 2 floors. Everything has been redone. From flooring to new roof. They also are willing to hold it for us until we can move in. WE can't move in until the end of June. That was a major answer to prayer.

Playdoh?

This morning around 530 am, I feel a little tap tap. It is Adam. He says" I can't find my keys." We look all around the apartment and even the Elizabeth's room. We tried not to wake her but Adam needed these keys to open up Climb Nashville where he teaches an early morning class. He leaves without keys and teaches his class in the parking lot. Oops. I try to go back to bed and Elizabeth decides she wants to stay up. Ahh Man. She comes into bed with me. She lies down however continuously puts her fingers in my mouth, eyes and nose. We finally get out of bed and I search once again for the keys but nothing. We eat breakfast and I try to retrace my footsteps. I remembered Elizabeth played with playdoh the night before I shake the containers and nothing. She sees me do it and asks to play with it. Ok. sure. I open it up and dig out the playdoh and lo and behold, the keys.

VICTORY!!!

He did it!It was a crazy day. He made his time and then some. His goal was 3:56 and he came in at 3:44. WOW!!!

The day started off rough minus getting up at 4:00 am. A thunderstorm has just started and I had to get Adam and another runner across town to LP Field and then back to the start. We sat in traffic and then chinese fire drilled it. He hopped into the other runner's car and I jumped in the driver's seat of our car and headed to the start. I went to pick up Aunt TT and Elizabeth and then somehow made it in time to see him come down mile 4 and then around 7. We went for coffee and my poor sis and her hubby were still lost. We went to the finish and waited. Jen and her hubby finally caught up and we planted ourselves right at mile marker 26 and waited. We saw some pretty excellent finishes. A man ran probably totally on will alone. He was running and you could only really see the whites of his eyes. Spooky. The usual tear jerker, a father running in with his daughters. Adam finished right where he needed.

His goal like I said in the previous post was Boston. For those of you who don't know, not just anyone can sign up for Boston. You have to have a qualifying time. Only some marathons are certified where a time will count for Boston. Nashville is one as well is Chicago and some more. Adam wanted to make Boston running at Chicago. However, Chicago is already full. YIKES! Now he is looking into doing the Marine Corp marathon in D.C. We shall see. We are proud of our running man.

IronMan

On April 26, 2008, at 7 am, Adam will run in his 3rd marathon. The first 2 he did not train as he should. He never ran further than 14 miles. This training program he was able to do through work and ran a great 21 miler. I am extremely proud of him and the training he has done. He has taken time away from his family and time away from sleeping in Saturday mornings. I am in no way complaining. Half the time he ran when we were having nap time. His long time goal is to qualify for the Boston. He is thinking that he probably won't make the cut here in Nashville but will try for Chicago.

We have a lot going on for him this coming weekend. His family is coming in and we are throwing a pasta party, making t-shirts etc... Totally cheesy but we want him to make his goal too. This blog is really no more than a brag on my hubby. We are off to the races, (no pun intended) from extra cleaning, lots of cooking of noodles and loving on this running man.

The Joy of Laughter

Last summer I taught swim lessons on Tues and Thurs. The season of lessons has started once again. I enjoy teaching the lessons because it is easy and good money. However there are other reasons I enjoy it. I have had the priviledge of watching a 5 year old boy overcome his fear of water and actually learn to swim. I had never started a lesson with someone that green. By the end of last summer he could swim part of a length of the pool. It was a great joy for him to be able to keep up with his older brother.

This season I have 2 little girls that bring joy to me. The first is a 3 almost 4 year old who smiles throughout the whole lesson. Even when she goes under and struggles to reach out for my hand, she smiles. Too bad that when life makes us feel like we are drowning we do not have a smile on our face as we reach out for our Saviour. We wonder why the Saviour was not there to prevent us from drowning or at least to keep us from going under further than we felt comfortable with. Nonetheless, we still smile when we are once again brought up from the bottom.
The second girl is 4 year old girl. Our first lesson was pretty silent except for her sweet voice singing O Channukah, O Channukah. Too bad I don' know those words. The lesson we had today was a very different lesson. She was laughing while letting go little by little of her extremely hard grip on my arms. The joy she was finding of the freedom of letting go. The little girl was yet another example to me in the joy she found of letting go. Do I ever find that freedom? And if I do ,do I laugh with joy or cringe in fear? More than likely letting go and Trusting , I cringe. But I have a teacher who is very capable and loving to help me laugh ,one day ,in that freedom.
A couple weekends ago we decided to get out Elizabeth's golf clubs. Of course they are plastic but her daddy sure had fun trying to teach her.

Umm, we are still here

February was the last time I wrote. I visit many other blogs and realize I really don't need to always have something really deep to say.


Here is a run down of what has been going on with us.

In March, early March it snowed. It stuck for almost a whole day. Elizabeth only liked it a little.We felt like we were back in Chicago.
However a couple weeks later we were able to have a picnic in the park and then take a hike. Elizabeth walked for awhile but ran out of energy.
My bro came to visit. This is his last visit before he officially starts seminary.We had a great time. If you know him, ask him about the bunnies that came in the mail.
The following weekend was Easter and we flew to Chicago. It was cold but a great visit.


I really don' t have any pictures of me because I am more than likely the one behind the camera.

Lastly, as we wait on April fool's day, my sis and her hubbie have moved here to Nashville. It does not seem like they are really living here because it has only been one day. It seems more like a visit. We bought a second car seat to go in her car. The weather has been great since the beginning of March. We have had a lot of rain so the grass is very green.

Adam has had an influx of clients which we are praising God for.Swim lessons have started back up and I am still tutoring. God is good!

What is up with the Lee's!

Happy Belated Valentine's Day!!

We did something. We played BINGO at church and no we did not win. Oh well. Let's rewind to see what else we have been up to.

January was not anything special. We had answered prayers of more hours for Adam at work and tutoring for me. YEAH GOD! In case you did not already know but my sis and her hubbie are moving here April 1st. Super excited. They have been down a couple times to house shop. A couple weeks ago when they were visiting the great tornadoes hit. MY sister and Jason had to spend some of their time in the basement of a hotel. My family was fine really didn't realized it was that close until we got home. Anyways, we were fine. The following another storm hit one called stomach flu. Elizabeth had it.She really was only sick for 2 hours. But they were horrible. I can't believe that she will probably get it at least once a year from here on out. Yikes! Adam and I somehow escaped it. We are so thankful. I heard it was real bad.

Nothing to spectacular is going on.