Improved attitude

I am attempting a 180° turn around in my outlook on everything here. So far, I've had a, "well we'll struggle through in spite of the fact that everything sucks" sort of attitude, and that has spiraled into a big pity party full of grumpiness and a lack of motivation to do anything. Not good. In my devotions last night I read about the Israelites complaining because God had provided them with manna, but no meat, and they were bored of eating the same thing every day. I was so quick to judge them for being so ungrateful, and then I realized that I'm exactly like that. God has blessed us with so many things, and I'm still so quick to turn to grumbling and complaining if everything doesn't go exactly my way. I'm definitely going to try to change that.

Furthermore, I have some real things to be thankful for this week! Here's a list:

James and David's "Fußsacks" arrived on Monday. I can now take them out in the cold without them freezing to death. In case you don't know what a fußsack is, it's like a sleeping bag for your stroller. For James it comes up to his armpits, and for David it comes all the way up to his chin! here's a picture (taken inside on the couch, I'm not trekking down the 2 flights of stairs just for a picture):

We've finished all of our pressing errands; applied for health insurance, registered with the police, opened a bank account and stocked our kitchen!

We both have cell phones up and working!

Brendan got us a VPN connection! For those that don't know what that is, it allows us to connect to an IP address in the US, so we can watch US television shows and access american websites like Netflix and Hulu.

I have plans! After days of staying in the apartment, and only leaving for groceries/errands, I have two playgroup type things to go to this week, and a party we're invited to next Tuesday for Valentines day.

David's napping! For the second day in a row, David is napping, and he did his version of sleeping through the night last night! (In other words he only woke up to nurse, and didn't wake up and want to play for 3 hours in the middle of the night)

I have all of you! All of the sweet comments, and facebook posts, and email have meant so much to me. Seriously, everytime I open up an email or a comment or whatever with your encouraging words, I get all teary-eyed, it's really cool to have so many people encouraging us.