Creekside Garden

There are so many things that have happened since I last posted here on my blog, I’m not even sure where to begin.

Within the last 5 months, we unexpectedly had to move. My husband quit his job and is now 100% self-employed as a mechanic for Regier Repair Field Service. And the biggest news of all: we are expecting a baby in March of 2025 ❤️. To say that our life has turned upside down is the understatement of the year.

I am thankful for how God has provided in this season of life that I was not prepared for.

We found a house to live in that is only a temporary situation, but allowed us to move quickly. The house is old and had sat vacant for a while, so we had to do some work before moving in. This included ripping out orange carpet, redoing floors, and cleaning out someone else’s garbage. But now it’s pretty clean and a roof over our head for the winter. Far from perfect, but liveable for now.

Ben’s work has been steady even though it’s not the busiest time of year for mechanicing. It was simply time for him to be done working for John Deere. His long commute was slowly killing us in so many ways, and there was a change of management with a new supervisor who should have never been put in that position. We had been preparing to leave his old job for a while now and planned to do it next May, but Ben was ready to take the leap early October and I was tired of him never being home.

This pregnancy was the only thing that we had planned for in this whole mess, and it has been a rough one. First trimester just about put me in the grave. I am 20 weeks right now and still battle morning sickness occasionally. I basically didn’t leave bed in August and September. I couldn’t eat anything and had no appetite, thin to begin with, I wasted away until I was so weak I had to sit down to shower. It was a very, very dark time for me physically and mentally. How I kept Caleb alive for those two months is still a mystery to me. We had no internet until October and very poor cell service, so I couldn’t even distract him or myself with a tv show. My being sick definitely had something to do with Ben quitting his job so he could be closer to home. When he told me he put his two week notice in, I wasn’t anxious at all, I just wanted help.

Thankfully, my body allowed me to eat again, and slowly I have gotten energy back. The day I finally got on top of dishes for the first time since moving in was a very good day. I’m still weaker than I’d like, and I take a nap almost every day. Next week we will find out if Baby is a boy or a girl ❤️ and I am excited about that. I’m guessing it’s a girl from how badly I’ve felt this whole time, but I could be wrong.

Recently, I was reading through my old blog posts, and it made me miss how simple life was. Being stuck in survival mode killed my creativity and appreciation for beauty, I am just now beginning to feel like myself again. I had to leave my garden by the creek, but someday I will have a home to surround with flowers again.