Well a lot of things are changing in this household both ones that we are excited for and ones that we are knowing God is going to shine, but we may be not excited for :) Allie is officially in the potty training process. Yesterday was our first day of no accidents and using the potty all day. Today she went to playgroup in her big girl panties for the first time and had no accidents either. Its very exciting to watch her be so happy to be out of diapers! She is always sad when she has to go to bed to put on a diaper (sleeping potty training is for the future). We have really seen a lot of progress this week and it is really encouraging since I had NO idea where to start when it came to potty training and I wasn't in the mood to read a book on it :) so Lord willing this sweet little girl of ours will be in her big girl panties for good (during the day of course).
The other side of everything is that starting today we have one week left with my hubby and with allies daddy. He leaves a week from today for SOS training in Alabama for five weeks. Thankfully we will head to his sister brittany's house for a week where we hope to see him over the weekend. We are wanting to ease allie into not having her daddy around so hopefully seeing him end of sept will help. He gets back from training on october 18th and will be home for a week and will deploy on oct 26th. He is gonna be gone till the second week in january so its definitely gonna be a transistion for allie since he hasn't deployed since she's been born. As our family has done this four times already before allie was born I am prepared for it I am just sad for Rob as he will miss out on so much being gone all the holidays and everything allie will be learning. But God is good all the time and works in amazing ways. I am reading this really great book called Authentic Faith and this week just happened to be on the discipline of contentment... funny how God teaches us exactly what we need to learn at the right times. So I do truly feel content. I know it can always be worse as I always think with everything, but that doesn't make it less sad. I just don't look forward to the days that allie constantly asks for her daddy since she always does already during the day. Thankfully Skype has been invented and she will get to see his face every so often :) A quote that I am putting up on my mirror from the book is, "Contentment is about resting, about removing ourselves from the vain strivings of the world and thus finding peace and quiet in God's will. We will never catch up to the incessant desire to better our situation, but we can immediately find satisfaction by accepting it." So on the day I read this I chose to find peace and quiet in Gods will and not worry, anxiety, and frustration that can come with anything military related especially deployments. So I continue and ask you to continue to pray for our family as we go through this transition and as I get more pregnant, and as we continue to wait for news on where and when we will be moving after rob returns probably this spring. Gonna be lots happening in the beckenhauer house come spring!
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