The Malloys

An Update at 3:30am

I figured that since I was up, I might as well throw down a few items on the ol'blog.....To keep it updated...get my money's worth out of the thing ya know??  

Why am I up at 3:30am???  Both Owen and Tracy are sick or in the process of getting sick.  Owen has an ear ache that seems to have come out of no where tonight...so he is flinging his body around and crying. Naturally I turn to my Doctor on the web to find remedies for earaches in children....I go to our medicine cabinet to see if we have the items to help solve the problem...of course the stuff is out dated...does this happen to anyone else?   It seems as if when we need something....we find that it's been so long since we have used it that it's gone out of date....maybe that's a good thing??  It says we don't have as many issues as we could have?  Who knows....  So I gave my  kid the outdated meds and now hope he doesn't react from it....KIDDING!!   Atleast the heating pad doesn't outdate...that's the current remedy for him now....

Tracy mean while has ben forced out of the bed...mostly by Owen and the flinging...but also due to the cough she has....currently....she is forced into the upright position in the recliner....cough meds..here we come!  Hope it's not outdated....

It would appear that Gabe is the only one sleeping soundly right now.....That's good!  He has been sleeping through the night now!!  THANK YOU LORD!!  

On a lighter note.....I follow a few blogs..while I stink at updating mine recently...I do read others quite frequently....so if you don't follow some of the links on the right side of this blog....Click Here to read a most funny blog post. It will have you rolling....

More later~

Thanksgiving Day 2009

Ok...So it's Thanksgiving. Currently we are watching the Macy's Parade. Or forcing Owen to watch it is what he would say....however, he is currently yelling AWESOME at the TV in seeing the size and types of the balloons. I think he's gonna like it more than he is letting on.

In other news...today is the day we will put the Christmas lights out in the neighborhood....My goal is to be the first house with them up....I think it will be accomplished this year....Last year I was second.

So to everyone who reads this..Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. May it be a GREAT DAY for you all!

Matt

It's been over a month!

Hey readers! Yes, I know I made this commitment to get back to blogging....that was pre-Gabe.....I find my time being split in different directions these days....While I love technology and keeping up with the times...I'm not sure how fruitful it is....

I am seriously up in the air about keeping this thing going.....On the flip side there is still some decent traffic to this sight from my perspective...I thought people would have given up on me by now....maybe not.

Does anybody have a way to add a few more hours in the day to get done the things we all need to do??  

HAHA...I just remembered that this Saturday we turn our clocks back one hour....AWESOME, I just found an hour!  

More later...maybe

Matt

A Mobile Post : Overdue

So....When people ask me how life is with a newborn in the house, I usually
respond with "My house has been rewired" Meaning changes have taken place
on all levels. Our routines have been disrupted. Sleep patterns, eating
habits, our quiet times, superdudes days, shopping trips etc.

Our strength of communiation, listening to each other has been magnified.
Owen has even stepped up his communication to us. His tender heart has
shown through in so many ways....we are so proud of him!

As we are "rewiring" it is very exciting seeing the changes in and how our
family is evolving. I can't wait to share more.....

An Update: one week in

Back in 2003 we went on a beach vacation with Tracy's side of the family. Upon returning, we learned shortly there after that we were going to be able to adopt a baby boy, whom most of you know is "Owen" or "O" as we call him.  

Soon after we moved, to SC and began life in a different role and setting.....once again we put our names on an adoption list, thinking it would be neat for Owen to have a brother or sister.  It has been two years since we've been on the list and waiting, and waiting and waiting....During this waiting period there have been times where our book was looked at and the adoption agency has called to inform us that it could be our time...only to find out that we were not chosen a few days later.  While painful, this is how life formed itself for us.

Shift gears.....

Being so close to the beach in SC, affords us the opportunity to have lots of visitors!  Which we ALWAYS WELCOME!!!  (hint hint)  Anyway, we recently have been on a beach vacation with Tracy's side of the family yet again...(you may have seen some pics)  And a few weeks before the beach vacation hit, Tracy and I were talking about how long we were going to stay on the adoption list...after a long debate we decided that if by the time Owen turned 8 and we still had not adopted, we would take our names off the list.  

I remember while being on this beach vacation thinking to myself as I watched Owen and Tracy playing about how good God was and how he has blessed us so much as a family.  I remember thinking that I don't deserve to be blessed this much.   

The vacation came and went, we got tan, we got to spend time with family and just relax.  It was awesome!!! 

Speaking of AWESOME, As I was thinking of the ways we have been blessed on this vacation, little did I know that God was going to bless us again in another way.....He is good!  

The post below gives you a glimpse of our newest edition "Gabriel (Gabe) James Malloy"  He was 10 Days old in this picture....  We have officially had him in our home for 10 days now, so that makes him 20 days old....(good math I know)  This first 10 days has been incredible.  Things that we had forgotten about when Owen was a baby and how to handle them, had to be unearthed from the vast emptiness of our brains recently...sometimes it took the both of us to try and recall some things.  Sometimes it hurt trying to pry that information out of our brains.   Lots of sleepless nights for both of us.  We have seen Owen transform into a loving brother right before our eyes.  We learned that Owen has a kind and loving heart for his little brother in many different ways.  I love how Tracy interacts with Gabe and Owen together.  We have had our neighbors, our friends and family reaching out and helping in anyway they can...for which we are blessed by them. There is so much going on in my head, I can't get it all out on here.  Sorry for the randomness of this message....

I'll have to re-configure the blog again....

Thank you everyone who has prayed, and cried with us along the way....Stay tuned for more updates...