Thursday, February 28

busy, busy, busy

we're always busy at the Konietzki house, but, the past few weeks we've been very busy trying to get the rental house all fixed up and ready to go!! Took all 4 kiddos over there a few days ago for the first time and they all enjoyed helping daddy and checking out every crack and crevice! I think the twins are gonna be "bunking" in the kitchen cabinets ;)
 sorry about the not so great picture quality...my phone doesn't take the greatest pictures- especially of incredibly fast moving children ;)
"where you go, I will go; where you stay, I will stay; Your people, shall be my people; and your God, my God." Ruth 1:16b
This was a verse that we had read at our wedding and at the time my incredibly smart mother in law said to me, "you know you have to mean this if you say it". At the time I was so in love and so enamored with her son that I didn't think anything more about it...but, the few times that our life has either been uprooted or there has been a potential for uprooting...I have always been brought back to this verse and my mother in law's wise words pop into my head. I wonder if she knew her son so well that made her say that or if she knew me well enough to know that following is not something that comes super easy to me. Either way, the momma is always right- and this time she was right on. I do have to mean it!
 Moving is not easy. Moving twice in the span of 4 months with 4 little kids is just plain crazy- not to mention incredibly stressful. But, I truly meant what I promised on my wedding day- where Korey goes, I'll go. Where he stays, I'll stay. Whether he likes it or not, he's stuck with me! Even in small, incredibly cramped quarters. Even on the very crabby, all 4 kids melting down in a small house days. Especially because there'll be no room to go anywhere away from each other :) We're about to embark on our new adventure...Saturday is the big day where we move all our big stuff!! woohoo! We'll be sleeping in new quarters this weekend :) Pray that the kids would just love their new surroundings so much that they sleep like sloths...never did get that sleeping like a baby- none of my babies were that awesome of sleepers!! 

Monday, February 25

the bottom?!

Before I had the twins I had an idea of what "the bottom" for me would...the ultimate show that I'd given up and just embraced the crazy. At that time I figured if I went to a store (even Walmart) in sweatpants without makeup that would be the ultimate bottom for me. The one sign that I needed to wake up and get my life together. The thing is...I already did that and surprisingly it didn't seem so bad. At that point I figured I just didn't care anymore, I'd already just accepted the fact that time alone was such a premium that given the chance to get out of the house I wouldn't even stop or think twice I would just run for the door :) 
But, today I realized that the ultimate bottom wasn't going to the store without make up and in my sweatpants- it's wearing un-matched socks- not just some of the time, not just once in a while, not just on the spur of the moment...but, ALL the time! I sat down today to match up socks and realized that I haven't done that in a long, long, long time. Hailey's never been one to match or care about things like that and I think she's been wearing off on me (or I've just gotten incredibly lazy) because I've been wearing un-matched socks a lot lately. Yikes! I even wore unmatched socks to Minneapolis with a group of girls, without even thinking twice about it. I think this is the ultimate bottom...the true sign that I need to get my life together...think I'll work on that next week :) tonight I'm just gonna sit here with my unmatched fuzzy socks and watch the biggest looser! (Korey's not home, so I get to watch whatever I want) :)
 Maelle's got some good style, too :) Must run in the family, huh?!

Sunday, February 24

our life these days...

has been a little crazy...
has been filled with boxes (or should I say "filling boxes")
has been different...
to say the least.
the rental house is almost all ready. our house is almost all packed up.
I'm happy to say that we're all still smiling. we're all still happy. we're all still excited.