On my mind!

So I want to talk about money! Everyone likes money huh? We all love it but it seems to be something that causes a lot of drama too! Our preacher the last few weeks has been doing a series on debt! I think this is perfect timing considering we just got done with the holidays! It's very interesting and eye opening to learn about what the Bible says about money! Bro. Ed said that money is talked about more throughout the Bible than any other subject! Do you think God was wanting us to take a hint! He knew we would probably not be too smart with money!
Seriously this whole series has opened our eyes! Matthew and I come out of church every weekend telling each other how part of the sermon would really hit at home! Money is something that I have struggled with for along time! It is something I am not proud of but I have come leaps and bounds! It's almost as me and Matthew have switched ways since we have been married. He use to be the crazy saver and watched every dime and I was for sure not that way! Cute shoes? Oh yea I will take them!!! But now he has taught me so much that I am now the one watching what we spend and making sure we are ok.
Several months ago, I did a post on how we make it. For living off of one income we do pretty good. We live comfortable....our comfortable is not going on a shopping spree. Our comfortable is paying all the bills and then I can spend aliitle at Hobby Lobby! :)so we are for sure not hurting for anything but over the last few months we have felt this is not good enough. We want better. We want to be completely debt free-meaning everything but house! All this started when we decided we would love to have another baby, but that is hard to us imagine when we have lots of debt and then we just started paying back my $30,000 student loans!!!! Blah. It makes me sad typing it! But it is what it is. All we can do is know that God is providing for us!
So anyways the sermon has really caused us to ask ourselves a lot of questions, How bad do we want out of debt?, are we willing to make sacrifices?.... I do not think God will just pay off our debt but I feel he will provide ways for us to get out of it, but are we going to be willing to do it!, or are we too worried about what others think? One thing we have truly thought about is getting rid of my car and getting me something that costs less. We can more than afford the one we have but what if we could completely eliminate that $400 payment it would feel awesome, and that would be immediately! I know you are probably thinking we have lost our minds but why stay comfortable and just continue going around in circles with debit or change a few big things and be almost debt free in a year! Wow!
I am sorry to just spill all this but it has been on my mind so much. I am past the whole I have to drive this and wear this. All I care about if I am pleasing our Heavenly Father and if my two boys are happy! So tell me have you done anything major to get out of debt?
Hope everyone had a blessed day!!! :)

What I'm Loving!!

 Well...yesterday I completely didn't have time to do the link for What I'm Loving Wednesday and then when I had time I forgot about it! So today I am going to go ahead and tell you what I am loving!

I'm Loving the Subway Breakfast!!! Oh my goodness....Yesterday I did not have time to cook so I looked on my diet to see if it was something I could eat and yay it was..I ordered the steak and egg white english muffin! IT WAS AMAZING, and it was only $2! You can't beat 2 bucks for something good!

I'm Loving The Scarlet Thread by Francine Rivers! I love her books. They are so awesome!

I'm Loving my new bible study on James!

I'm Loving this Tano Wallet! I saw it yesterday when I was walking through Dillards. I had to go back to it about two times and look at! I have always had a heart for Hobo International (I got my first one in 2004 and haven't used anything since) but I think I may have to put my sweet hobo in the closet! I know I am so weird but I love my wallets! 

I'm Loving my new Valentine Artwork!

and last but not least, I'm everyday Loving my Heavenly Father, and my two special guys -Matthew and Jagger!
Hope everyone has a blessed day!!

Wednesday!!

Yay!! It's Wednesday! This week has flown by for me! I am super excited because I worked today and then I will be working the rest of the week and Monday! This is a true blessing! And the best part I love it! I love being out with people! Don't get me wrong, being a stay-at-home mommy has been the best thing I have ever done but sometimes it's nice to have adult conversation! :)
Monday, our women's ministry started our new bible study. We are doing James by Beth Moore! I am already in love with it! I truly enjoy digging into the "homework" she gives us for each week! I can't wait to see what the study brings! I know it is going to be a blessing for everyone is involved!
Tuesday, jagger and I went and did aliitle shopping! Matthew's sisters and cousin are coming home this weekend to celebrate birthdays! So I decided I had better go shopping or they would not get anything. Jagger and I had so much fun. He was really good which made the day great! I actually got everything done that I needed to! And I got to go to one of my favorite stores- TJ Maxx. My favorite part was I found some really cute napkins for 70 cents!!!!! And a $75 dollar shirt for $5!!! Yes.. I was proud of myself! And then I got another really cute top for $10!! Let's just say I came out of there smiling!
Oh and I have a funny one on jagged! We were in target and he saw this thomas the train tent he wanted and I had told him we would get it but let's get the rest of stuff then come back and get it!! He did NOT like that idea! He was horrible through the whole store.. Crying, whining, we even had to go have a talk in the dressing room. I was so upset with him. Then he kept asking, "mommy why you not talking to me?", " mommy you make me very upset!". Finally I was about to pull my hair out so we went and got the tent so we could hurry and check out! Guess what? I didn't even pull out of the parking spot and he was asleep!! Can we say tired and cranky?? So we get home and go over to GiGi's and she is asking him about the tent (of course we had to take it over and set it up) and he says GiGi, " I saw this Thomas the tent and I bawled my eyes for it"!!! Hahahha!! We were cracking up! I love what kids say!!
Well time to get some sleep! Got a long day tomorrow!
Hope everyone had a blessed Wednesday!

Work!

Today has been very different for our family! I had to be at work at 9am this morning! I have not had to be at a job this early in 4 years. Wow...so I had to get Jagger to daycare around 8:30 this morning! He had a few tears but not many, and they ladies said he is doing great! He has come a long way over the last few days! I am so happy!
Not much has been going on in the Cohn family over the last few days! I have had to work everyday so not much else has been happening! Last night we went and spent time with Matthew's grandma and pa. It was so nice to see them and Jagger was super happy to be there! He cried so hard when we had to leave. It was breaking my heart- and Grandma Betty's!
I am trying to get my house ready for Valentine's Day. I do not normally decorate for this one but I am having a church function at our house the first week in February so I thought this would be a reason to decorate, and plus Jagger is having fun helping me! I am having a hard time finding Valentine's stuff. Three stores I went to yesterday said they are cutting back on how much they get this year because they have so much left over! Makes sense but its not making this easy on me! I bought this awesome painted heart for our front door! It is so cute. When I get done I will post pictures! Do you decorate for Vday and if you do what and where do you find it? I need some more ideas?
oh and I am now starting a countdown to Jason Aldean- Kayla I wish you could go with us! :) Tomorrow will be 2 weeks!!! YAY!! I know its going to be amazing!
Hope everyone is having a blessed day!

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

Wow! I have not done this in a long time, but I am glad I am getting to do it today! Please keep Jagger in your prayers. He did not do too good this morning when I took him to daycare :(  It broke my heart, but I know everyday will get better!

I'm Loving the show Once Upon A Time! It comes on ABC on Sunday nights and it is awesome! Its sort of a remix on the classic fairytales!

I'm Loving that I have lost 2lbs.!! Yay! The holidays really did me in this year! I could barely fit into my jeans so I knew it was either buy new jeans and be miserable or loose weight!

I'm Loving several books right now! I am a crazy reader! Last year I read around 30 books! Nuts, huh? My husband things I am insane. He barely reads a magazine! but in the last few days I have read The Hunger Games (AMAZING!! Can't wait for the movie!), The Christian Atheist (super awesome..we are doing the study in our life groups at church!), and some random book I found to download on my kindle.

I'm Loving Jagger's LeapPad he got for Christmas! It is so cool! If you have kids, this is an amazing, totally worth it gift! Me and Matthew almost play it as much as he does. It is just like an ipad for kids! You can buy leappad cards (sort of like itunes) and go online to buy apps! It is cool!

I'm Loving all the new spring and summer clothes that are coming out! I am so ready for summer!

and of course I'm Loving my Father in Heaven and my 2 special guys - Matthew and Jagger!

Link up with Jamie and tell us what you love! Hope everyone has a blessed day!

Post labor & and delivery!!!

The first time I laid eyes on Jagger I have never felt anything like!! There is nothing like holding a 3 hour old baby! In between tears I thanked God over and over! So after staying up with Jagger for a few hours I finally decided I needed some rest!
The next day I do not remember anything! I was so drugged on pain meds I don't even remember who came! Matthew said the room was full all day! It's funny because in all the pictures I look pretty cute! Apparently someone brushed my hair and put makeup on me! Hahahh so glad they are taking care of me! Sometime that night I finally started coming around..mom had decided it would be good for me to get out of bed and try to take a shower! Once we got my legs around to the side of the bed I was in horrible pain and I swear I didn't know how to walk. It was the strangest thing ever! My legs were like jello! Somehow we got me to the bathroom and Matt decided this would be a good chance for him to get some food! :) mom told him to go that she could handle it! While I was on the toilet I was feeling very strange..sick and weak! Mom got the water going and got me in. I started crying and told her I couldn't do it and I needed to get out. One step out and I was going down. Mom said I turned ghost white and eyes rolled in the back of my head! She panic and
Lulled the nurse cord!! The next thing I know I am waking up to this very strong smell of ammonia. One of the nurses had broken her stick and put it under my nose. They get me back to bed and I don't remember anything else. The next morning all i know was coming in my room telling my family I was going to have a blood transfusion. I had lost a lot of blood! What?? When did this happen? It was very scary! She said we would start immediately. I don't remember any of it because of drugs.
The blood transfusion was on Monday and Thursday I was finally getting to go home! I was in worse shape than Jagger. He was perfect, and everyone was so ready to go home! I think mom and Matthew were about to go loopy having to stay in that room all week.
The drive home was pretty awful too! I was in so much pain I finally told Matthew to pull over and let me out! We always get a laugh out of that! Once we made it home, it was still interesting. Mom stayed with us the rest of the week then Matthews mom came over. His sisters were huge help too. It was tough on everyone because I was still in bad shape. I was having to use a hospital chair toilet and I was still so drugged up for pain.
I am so grateful for a wonderful family that could help us. There are times I get so sad thinking about it because I feel I missed out on so much from the delivery and then that first week of his life! It is all just a blur! I only remember bits and pieces so I am more than grateful my sister-in-laws took a ton of pictures!!
I just hope and pray that the next one will be completely different, and that I will enjoy it! The whole experience for me was insane, and for me to have just a great pregnancy makes it even more weird! I love Jagger so much I would go through it over and over again just knowing that I have him!
So did you have a good labor and delivery??
Hope everyone had a blessed day!!

Labor & Delivery part 3!!!!!

So sorry I had to leave you hanging again!! Just a busy day of spending time with family! I figure blogging can take a wait for that!!
Ok.. We left off at Dr.Graham telling us to start thinking about a c-section! I was immediately in a panic!! This was just shocking but she told us this around 6 and said we would just wait and see what happens.. And they had also already given me my next dosing or whatever of the epidural so the pain was starting to go away! Dr. Graham came and checked at 730 and still nothing so finally at 8 she told me and Matthew a c-section would probably be best!! I was so sad, but the only concern was since they had given me the epidural we could not the spinal drip thing needed for c-section so she decided they would test and see if the epidural was strong enough! They did the test on me and I didn't feel a thing! Everything was ready to go! She came in the room and explained what would happen and had us sign some papers! I was beyond nervous but ready to get this baby here! At 830 they took us back to the OR and when they were wheeling me to the room all 30 of our people were cheering me on!! Yay!! So close now! No turning back!! The OR was kind of scary, but I was ok because Matthew was there with me! They got us all ready and dr.graham said it was go time! I heard all kinds of noises and then the most awful pain ever! Dr. Graham stopped and said, "Megan do you feel this?" and yes that was what I was feeling! She tried it again and it was awful!! I felt the cut and all.. She immediately yells stops and says daddy you have to leave the room! I go into a full blown panic attack! I can't breathe. I'm screaming and crying! You would have thought I was dying! All I remember was this really sweet guy coming over holding my hand and asking me questions and then he ask me to count back from100! I made it to 98 and I remember nothing more!!
Matthews story- he walked out and stood with his head on the door. He said it took about 5 minutes and he heard the baby cry and he just broke down crying in hall! They let him in to help clean and get Jagger ready! After they got him ready Matthew got to walk him to the room and let the family see him!!
So back to me! It took me about 3 hours to come out of being put under! And when I came out it was horrible! I barely knew who I was and mom kept telling me that I had a baby! Momand Matthew said it was 3 hours of hell! Matthew mom and jagger were the only ones in the room! Matthew said I would grab him by the shirt collar and say that I was dying and to give me a drink but of course all he could give me was ice chips! He said I was start crying and say that if I didn't get sweet tea I was going to die!! Hahahah it's quite hysterical now! They said I would just scream out in pain and that I was so disoriented! I hate that I put them through that! The next thing I honestly remember is around midnight waking up and be so excited to see Jagger. Everyone had gone home except mom and Matthew, and the were both asleep! Matthew called the nurses so they could bring in Jagger! When they brought him in I have never in my life had a feeling like that! My heart was exploding with love! Tears were flowing while I held this precious blessing! All I could was stare at him!!!! The rest of the night was spent holding and getting rest!! But little did I know that the next few days would be worse!!...
To be continued!! :)


Ok so tomorrow I will finally finish the story!!!
Hope everyone had a blessed Sunday!!