Long Time, No Write.
- At August 15, 2015
- By Morgan Reid
- In Changes, Moving, Updates
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It has really been 3 months since I last blogged. It’s been hard being away! But at the same time, I want to write from a place of substance and creativity – and I’ve been fresh out of both. It’s been a little more like ‘divide and conquer’ with all we have going on at the Reid Establishment these days.
In the past three months I’ve:
- Bought a house
- Started renovations and organizations of said house
- Found someone to re-lease our apartment to
- Started myofascial release coupled with emotional/spiritual counseling (including all the work that goes along with healing physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Even habitually. Oh, and major breakthroughs! I’ve analyzed my life countless times and a stranger is able to give me amazing insight.)
- Started Christian counseling
- Found a church home in an totally new-to-me form of Christianity (The Anglican Way.)
- Started Catechism classes
- Started attending a women’s group
- Started a system-reset diet that’s the most restrictive of anything we’ve ever done. Think paleo but only 7 fruits, no vinegar, and no tea (*sobs*). I call it the “Worse-than-Whole-30.”
- Along with said diet, I’ve been cooking three meals and a snack from scratch. Every single day. If Nate takes a meal or we eat within the means of the diet at chipotle that takes off a couple meals. But I don’t really like cooking, so it’s a bit of a drain each time and takes a lot of time and attention, with a toddler especially.
- Night weaned my 21 month old. Praise God!
- Participated in a Breastfeeding in public photo shoot for World Breastfeeding Week.
All this on top of going to mom meet ups, cleaning, laundry, and the usual toddler teething/nap refusal/ night wake ups.
I’ve wanted to partake in all of the above for quite some time, but I didn’t imagine it all happening at once. There was so much we had to put off in order to save for a house and I was hesitant to start something I’d have to discontinue if our house ended up being too far away. But here we are. The gate has swung wide open and this horse & jockey is going for it. On the other hand, this structured mama needs life to slooooow down, but we’re making it. This is how it’s panning out and soon (if God wills) I’ll be pregnant and sick and tired most of the day and 9 months later I’ll enter into newborn-toddler-survival-mode.
So truly, now is the time. And even in the chaos, it’s been good. Feels like a big exhale and a splash of fresh water. Nathan just finished setting up my computer this week and so I’m excited to start writing about the above and all the other things that matter to me.
Here we go!
Morgan (loves to) Reid
Our 1st Year in Austin: Part III – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- At May 12, 2015
- By Morgan Reid
- In Austin, Reflections, Updates
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Part I was about missing Ohio, and Part II talked about why we chose Texas. My entire blog catalogs our past year in Austin, Tx, but this post is a quick snapshot into what Austin has to offer: the good, the bad, and the ugly. *Spoiler Alert!: I thank Nathan about once a week for leading us here.*
Month 2 Update
- At July 04, 2014
- By Morgan Reid
- In Updates
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If you saw my last post, you know why I haven’t been able to blog a lot this month. But thankfully, even during Nap-agedon, We were still able to grow as people and reach out in Christ.
Socially
-The amount of playdates lessened while we tried to figure out Autumn’s natural sleep time. But we still managed to make some more friends. : D
-Nate and I to a Baby Wearing Meeting, found out there’s an Attachment Parenting group for Dr Who fans and made some friends there too : ) 
Physically
-The first have of the month, workouts took a total nose dive: all of my spare time was spent reading about infant sleep, trying to get Autumn to sleep, and trying to sleep myself. Ha
-Read Every Body Matters by Gary Thomas and it helped motivate me to get back to it. Along with Dr. Sears’ infant sleep book that was AWESOME and talked about the benefits of working out and sleep for moms that I hadn’t considered.
-Nate took an introductory class on Kung Fu!
-Autumn learned how to crawl! And pull herself up! And take steps while holding our arms! This from the girl who didn’t learn to turn over until she was 6.5 months old! I guess she’s kinda like her mama – nothing and then BAM 😀
{We were (quietly) cheerleading}
Emotionally
-As hard as it was to work on not letting my emotions take over before this month, it was *worlds* harder while struggling with sleep deprivation. I know this will always be a process littlered with ups and downs, but I’m comforted in know that change is happening. And even more comforted knowing that God sees me the way He sees Jesus. (Can we talk about how greatful I am that that’s apart of His plan?)
-My biggest hope right now is to get the point were I don’t become so faint-of-heart while facing a challenge. I’ll never be a “go with the flow” kind of person, but I know as a Believer I have access to Power and victory, and am more than a conqueror.
-The boy in this post y’all.
Spiritually
-Read Sacred Parenting by Gary Thomas and it was so good! I love hearing about parenting from the perspective of past Christians during a part of time when they didn’t have as many distractions, but definitely didn’t have more time ( by that I mean, the time that we save by not having to go out and gather eggs, I whittle away on facebook . . . .)
-Looking at Colossians 1:24-29 as if I’m Paul and Autumn is my ministry.
-Digging into how Genesis 3, Matthew 4, and 1 John 2 connect. Seeing how Satan follows a pattern that appeals to our sin nature: Uses our fallen nature to entise us with things we need, but may taken in abudnance or from the wrong places, things we see and strive to taken but aren’t really gifted to us from the Father, and how we use these things or our own ambition to try to impress others.
Kingdom Speaking
-Autumn and I met with the director at a local Pregnancy Crisis Center! I was really worried about how this was going to go (Morgan, are you serious. You can barely see straight some days, why are you adding something else to your plate. You have enough going on right now) – but there’s no harm in trying. And I want to be useful for Him.
Domestic -Alright, I made Juice Kefir (so good and full of probitoics!), Saurkurat (didn’t go well), bone broth in the instant pot for the 1st time (mmmm), and Calendula oil (I am learning so much from this woman’s posts).
Other/Fun
-Have you heard of the store Tree House? We went there on Father’s day and fell in love. Wanted to buy everything, there’s really no point until we have land ; ( But we did pick up some plants for our place : )
And this last one for kicks haha
Happy 4th!
MLTR
