Not a lot has happened since December, but I have a lot of random things to talk about!
Carson is moving a lot these days, particularly in the morning & at night. It either corresponds with my sleepiness or those are the times when I am laying around (and not moving). I have yet to feel him when I stand up.
Russell is starting to get excited about having a buddy to do science experiments & build robots with. It's cute to hear him talk about it. I've been whispering to my belly that he needs to like science. A co-worker said he talked to his wife's belly all the time and told his daughter she would be a straight A student and like sports, etc. etc.. and it all turned out true LOL. She just graduated from college in Sports Journalism and is looking at an internship with ESPN, so it can't hurt to try right??
If you watch Big Bang Theory, Russell's ideal world would be that Carson turns out like Sheldon. How fun would that be? Hah hah hah.. not.
I saw Grand Torino on Tuesday, I really really recommend it. I don't know Clint Eastwood except for the name (and I know he did Westerns, but never seen them). Russell & my dad were anxious to see it for Clint Eastwood, but I thought the preview I saw at Valkyrie (another good movie) looked good.. so we went. It was great! I even teared up--and I never cry at movies. It was definitely a drama, kind of reminded me of Boys in the Hood 2.
I am trying so hard to get my candy addiction under control. I've been eating way too much candy. The night we went to see Grand Torino, I made a conscious effort NOT to get candy since they are so big and I'd eat the whole box. I did good, then we come home from the movie to a gift basket at our door. Our friends in New Mexico sent us a late holiday gift, and it was ALL candy. Several huge size candy bars (those big ones the size of your head), a lot of fun-size candies and some boxes of Dove chocolates. Argh!! Russell & I both picked out 1 candy we liked and then I took the rest into work for everyone else to eat.
Tonight I am going to see the Curious whatever of Benjamin Button. I am going with my movie buddy Jeremy.. Russell said it had bad reviews, but nothing else is out we both want to see but the other hasn't seen. I looked up reviews today, I didn't see any bad reviews. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes though, egads. Same writer as Forest Gump--which I liked.. but it's hard to watch LONG movies in the theater. I like being at home without a bra, and in my pajamas for those kind of movies. Oh well. I'll update on how it was, after reading all the reviews, I'm psyched to see it.
My sales report for 2008 was published yesterday, I more than doubled my sales from 2007 and exceeded my "goal" by $200,000!
I just hope I can at least meet (but ideally improve) on sales for 2009. With the economy the way it is, so many customers are merging together so the smaller counts are disappearing and luck of the draw to see whose 'big' customer ate them up. For example, 3 small accounts of mine get bought out by a big account of another sales person--they now get that business. Doh.
Ok, so that's it. I'm showing now, but I am also looking fat. Getting my back fat back. Nooo :(
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Monday, December 22, 2008
Have a Merry (And SAFE) Christmas!!
Don't be a statistic, don't drink & drive! But if you have to tolerate insufferable in-laws, by all means drink.. but make someone sober drive.. hey you're nice to them 364 days of the year, they can drive you this one time!!
Thanks for reading my blog, and making feel all special. I just found out today I have 'followers'. How empowering does that sound?? Now if I could figure out how to follow people back. I am pretty computer savvy, and old-school internet savvy but all these automated programs that do everything for you confuse me very much. I can do html, but figuring out how to click buttons? Derrrr.
Anyways, hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!
The next few days are going to WOOSH past me quickly.. My dad made me promise to make him my (SECRET RECIPE--not) copy cat recipe for Olive Garden's Chocolate Lasagna, since they stopped making it at OG (I protested this, and was not alone).. so I have to go buy ingredients for that, finish wrapping gifts, then Wednesday night I celebrate with my parents & siblings.. Thursday morning will be Dirty Santa with my mom's side of the family if people get over there in time, otherwise off to Russell's parents house in Tennesse.. then we come back that night, and leave for Florida in the morning.. for 5 days. My grandparents on my dad's side have a condo in Florida they stay at every winter, and this year we decided to have a huge family reunion down there. My uncle who I haven't seen in 10 years, my cousin that I rarely see (and has not seen her dad--uncle mentioned above-- in some 15 years), and possibly my aunt in Canada that we never see.. all going down there. Should be fun, I get so exhausted from excitement lately (I feel like an old fuddy duddy) so I am glad to know Russell & I will have our own room in one of the rented condos for me to retreat to.
Plus that's a long time to be away!! Luckily, Russell's parents agreed to babysit our dog.
My g'ma promised to make her Kru Ka Ka!! OM NOM NOM NOM. It's a swedish dish (they are swedish), and it takes a lot of work so she hasn't made it in 5 or so years. My brother and I begged her to make it this year for Christmas--promised her if she would make it, we would come down for the holidays hah hah. So she hauled her grinder all the way down there to make it. I'm probably spelling it wrong, but it's hand made sausage, and then you boil & grind up potatoes and form a ball around the sausage.. then you boil them. It's so amazingly yummy, and it's a 'different' tasting sausage, couldn't really explain it.. very potent.
If you watched "Worst Week" this week, that's how I am with being pregnant. I sneak all kinds of food and when I get a disapproving look (from my mom or Russell mostly) I say "The baby needs ___". Heh heh. Russell heard how babies develop taste buds now when I eat, so he said I needed to stop eating sugar. HAHA. Funny man.
Thanks for reading my blog, and making feel all special. I just found out today I have 'followers'. How empowering does that sound?? Now if I could figure out how to follow people back. I am pretty computer savvy, and old-school internet savvy but all these automated programs that do everything for you confuse me very much. I can do html, but figuring out how to click buttons? Derrrr.
Anyways, hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!
The next few days are going to WOOSH past me quickly.. My dad made me promise to make him my (SECRET RECIPE--not) copy cat recipe for Olive Garden's Chocolate Lasagna, since they stopped making it at OG (I protested this, and was not alone).. so I have to go buy ingredients for that, finish wrapping gifts, then Wednesday night I celebrate with my parents & siblings.. Thursday morning will be Dirty Santa with my mom's side of the family if people get over there in time, otherwise off to Russell's parents house in Tennesse.. then we come back that night, and leave for Florida in the morning.. for 5 days. My grandparents on my dad's side have a condo in Florida they stay at every winter, and this year we decided to have a huge family reunion down there. My uncle who I haven't seen in 10 years, my cousin that I rarely see (and has not seen her dad--uncle mentioned above-- in some 15 years), and possibly my aunt in Canada that we never see.. all going down there. Should be fun, I get so exhausted from excitement lately (I feel like an old fuddy duddy) so I am glad to know Russell & I will have our own room in one of the rented condos for me to retreat to.
Plus that's a long time to be away!! Luckily, Russell's parents agreed to babysit our dog.
My g'ma promised to make her Kru Ka Ka!! OM NOM NOM NOM. It's a swedish dish (they are swedish), and it takes a lot of work so she hasn't made it in 5 or so years. My brother and I begged her to make it this year for Christmas--promised her if she would make it, we would come down for the holidays hah hah. So she hauled her grinder all the way down there to make it. I'm probably spelling it wrong, but it's hand made sausage, and then you boil & grind up potatoes and form a ball around the sausage.. then you boil them. It's so amazingly yummy, and it's a 'different' tasting sausage, couldn't really explain it.. very potent.
If you watched "Worst Week" this week, that's how I am with being pregnant. I sneak all kinds of food and when I get a disapproving look (from my mom or Russell mostly) I say "The baby needs ___". Heh heh. Russell heard how babies develop taste buds now when I eat, so he said I needed to stop eating sugar. HAHA. Funny man.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Baby Carson
Ok, well I guess I should explain how it all came about!
Russell was there for the ultrasound, and when it came to finding out the sex the tech told him to cover his eyes--which he did. I stared intently at the screen waiting for her to type it out. She did-- It's a boy!
I couldn't stop grinning after that, I did want a girl but only because of the cute stuff.. Healthy is what I'm really after, and healthy he is!
We were leaving and Russell said "The tech said "It's a boy" when she was typing it". What?!? I didn't even notice. I kept trying to confuse him, which I think worked. To this day I make a comment daily that makes it seem like a girl.. and then another where it seems like a boy. My parents wanted to get us a car seat/stroller/swing for Christmas. Since he didn't want to know the sex, it meant gender neutral or he doesn't see what we get for Christmas. I told him he's really putting a damper in things, people want to know the sex and family wants to be able to buy stuff.. Heck, I don't want a bunch of unisex stuff at the baby shower!! So I convinced him to let me tell him.
So I bought a footed set (onesie, jumper? Still learning terminology) that looks like a blue baseball uniform, complete with what looks like cleats on the feet! It says "Daddy's All Star" (and then a small stamp that says "Property of mom" hehe)..So I wrapped that and it's under the Christmas tree from Nattie-Carson, I told him he will open that first on Christmas morning and find out. Glad he let me talk him into it. I know he's a little disappointed, but I want to shop!!!
I bought the nursery set, and fell in love with a discontinued line (of course I did!) Kidsline's Silver Lining, but I was able to find most accessories on E-bay.. only things I couldn't find are wall-hangings & the mobile. But, I found a mobile that will match, and I made my own wall-hangings with an extra curtain from the set. You can see the set & hangings I made on the baby's website!
If anyone is interested, I think Lane Bryant has the best bras, despite not being able to wear their clothes anymore.. and my bra size is going up so last night I went to order some online.. they are having a Buy 2 Get 2 Free sale.. and then on top of that I found online codes for $50 off $150, etc.. I ended up paying $120 for 8 bras! Woot.
Russell was there for the ultrasound, and when it came to finding out the sex the tech told him to cover his eyes--which he did. I stared intently at the screen waiting for her to type it out. She did-- It's a boy!
I couldn't stop grinning after that, I did want a girl but only because of the cute stuff.. Healthy is what I'm really after, and healthy he is!
We were leaving and Russell said "The tech said "It's a boy" when she was typing it". What?!? I didn't even notice. I kept trying to confuse him, which I think worked. To this day I make a comment daily that makes it seem like a girl.. and then another where it seems like a boy. My parents wanted to get us a car seat/stroller/swing for Christmas. Since he didn't want to know the sex, it meant gender neutral or he doesn't see what we get for Christmas. I told him he's really putting a damper in things, people want to know the sex and family wants to be able to buy stuff.. Heck, I don't want a bunch of unisex stuff at the baby shower!! So I convinced him to let me tell him.
So I bought a footed set (onesie, jumper? Still learning terminology) that looks like a blue baseball uniform, complete with what looks like cleats on the feet! It says "Daddy's All Star" (and then a small stamp that says "Property of mom" hehe)..So I wrapped that and it's under the Christmas tree from Nattie-Carson, I told him he will open that first on Christmas morning and find out. Glad he let me talk him into it. I know he's a little disappointed, but I want to shop!!!
I bought the nursery set, and fell in love with a discontinued line (of course I did!) Kidsline's Silver Lining, but I was able to find most accessories on E-bay.. only things I couldn't find are wall-hangings & the mobile. But, I found a mobile that will match, and I made my own wall-hangings with an extra curtain from the set. You can see the set & hangings I made on the baby's website!
If anyone is interested, I think Lane Bryant has the best bras, despite not being able to wear their clothes anymore.. and my bra size is going up so last night I went to order some online.. they are having a Buy 2 Get 2 Free sale.. and then on top of that I found online codes for $50 off $150, etc.. I ended up paying $120 for 8 bras! Woot.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
I know, I know..
I've been slacking with my blog.
Quick run down.. gaining weight, baby is a boy--but Russell isn't going to find out till Christmas, and I made the baby his very first website!
http://www.babyhomepages.net/babybarlow/
I will post more sometime this week with more details, I promise ;)
Quick run down.. gaining weight, baby is a boy--but Russell isn't going to find out till Christmas, and I made the baby his very first website!
http://www.babyhomepages.net/babybarlow/
I will post more sometime this week with more details, I promise ;)
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Gobble, Gobble!
How was everyone's Turkey day?
Mine was pretty good! The in-laws came early to our house from Tennessee, then we went to my granny's. I was picking at food while we waited, and a deviled egg caught my eye. I took 1/3 bite of it and didn't chew at all (old habit, I never use to chew food when I got hungry), so I swallowed it whole and immediately felt it clog me up. Ran and spit it up. Yum!
But then, somehow, I was able to eat a LOT of food. I take a sampling of everything and taste it, but I was able to eat all my samples, plus 2 whole pickled eggs my MIL brought(man they are sooo weird, and good). Eggs pickled in beet juice. Plus some dark meat turkey & ham. I blame the gravy, I put gravy on 3/4 of everything. I knew my band was letting me eat it, so I tried to be conscious of being 'full' (not satisfied, because it's Thanksgiving and I like food!). Well I missed it. Shame on me, that's what I get. I got this HORRIBLE pain in my left shoulder, like I dislocated it. I vaguely remember people on the forum talking about this pain. I googled it, and it said your diaphragm nerves are in your left shoulder (how interesting is that?) so, I assume that's what it was. I felt it after lunch a few days prior at work and it went away after an hour or so. This bad boy wouldn't stop. I laid in my granny's bed for about 30 minutes, then became a party pooper. Russell & I went home, and his parents left straight from there back to TN.
I'm still waiting for my dad to e-mail me the pics from Thanksgiving, I'm sure they won't be flattering, he took every one of them while we were eating.
Ever since Thanksgiving I feel heavy and uncomfortable, and one morning while rubbing my aching belly I realized.. it's very firm and there's a baby in there, and it's becoming known. Maybe it packed on some weight from my Turkey binge hah hah. I slept a lot on the 4 day weekend, 2 days I slept all day long, then slept during the night too. I would wake up with my belly uncomfortable, so I'm trying to figure out how to sleep to accomodate the baby violet.
I guess that's it.. well I could probably think of more, but it's 5pm which means I'm going home!
Mine was pretty good! The in-laws came early to our house from Tennessee, then we went to my granny's. I was picking at food while we waited, and a deviled egg caught my eye. I took 1/3 bite of it and didn't chew at all (old habit, I never use to chew food when I got hungry), so I swallowed it whole and immediately felt it clog me up. Ran and spit it up. Yum!
But then, somehow, I was able to eat a LOT of food. I take a sampling of everything and taste it, but I was able to eat all my samples, plus 2 whole pickled eggs my MIL brought(man they are sooo weird, and good). Eggs pickled in beet juice. Plus some dark meat turkey & ham. I blame the gravy, I put gravy on 3/4 of everything. I knew my band was letting me eat it, so I tried to be conscious of being 'full' (not satisfied, because it's Thanksgiving and I like food!). Well I missed it. Shame on me, that's what I get. I got this HORRIBLE pain in my left shoulder, like I dislocated it. I vaguely remember people on the forum talking about this pain. I googled it, and it said your diaphragm nerves are in your left shoulder (how interesting is that?) so, I assume that's what it was. I felt it after lunch a few days prior at work and it went away after an hour or so. This bad boy wouldn't stop. I laid in my granny's bed for about 30 minutes, then became a party pooper. Russell & I went home, and his parents left straight from there back to TN.
I'm still waiting for my dad to e-mail me the pics from Thanksgiving, I'm sure they won't be flattering, he took every one of them while we were eating.
Ever since Thanksgiving I feel heavy and uncomfortable, and one morning while rubbing my aching belly I realized.. it's very firm and there's a baby in there, and it's becoming known. Maybe it packed on some weight from my Turkey binge hah hah. I slept a lot on the 4 day weekend, 2 days I slept all day long, then slept during the night too. I would wake up with my belly uncomfortable, so I'm trying to figure out how to sleep to accomodate the baby violet.
I guess that's it.. well I could probably think of more, but it's 5pm which means I'm going home!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Biggest Balls
Yeah it's random, some song I heard on the radio the other day that my husband was singing along with.. my jaw was on the floor, really.
Then it turned into being a catchy song.. Weee for old AC/DC. Still can't believe they played this on the radio, but when a song says "heroin" they bleep it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B9pMJYXGBs
Went to lunch today with my childhood friend, who has a 6 month old. Her baby is actually how old my baby will be this time next year, so I have a lot of fun getting together with them. He is such a good baby, he may spoil me. I've NEVER heard him cry. We go to restaurants and he's just big grins, wiggling his fingers & toes. He likes to eat my shoulder too (I don't mind!). She had him dressed in this teddy bear outfit I got her for the shower. Hah hah hah. It was cute, little paw print feet and teddy bear ears on the hoodie. I keep thinking "I want one!", and then I go "Oh yah..".
This pregnancy thing takes forever, I want to play with my baby now! I want to eat its toes and kiss it and hug it.. and call it MINE. Teehee.
I'm also anxious to have the baby so I can get another fill and get back on track. I'm not starving all the time anymore (thank goodness), but still eat more than I should. My fill doc is 3 hours away, so I kept debating what I should do. I only need a small fill, but if I do it and then I get more swelling (since pregnancy started out with bad swelling) I don't care to run back & forth to the doc during this time. Plus, I still have 4 free appointments and I don't want to waste them doing this. I'm resigned to the weight gain, I'll do my best not to go overboard (anymore, right?) but I'm not going to kill myself about it.. my OBGYN does enough of that. But I know the band works great for me, and up until I got pregnant I was still losing steadily. Post-baby I can get it filled back up and not worry about making sure I eat all the good nutritious stuff for my little one. So I'm going to get to goal slower, I'm ok with that.
I also took it upon myself to plan my friends' 30th birthday bash. She's going to be throwing my shower, so when she said her 30th birthday is coming up and was lamenting about how she never gets a b'day since it's so close to Christmas, a lightbulb went off. I've never planned a real party like this, so I ran into a few issues..
She gave me a list of friends that hypothetically if I threw her a party, she would want there ;)
I've finally called them all as of yesterday, looks like 25 will turn out. I only knew about 5 of them, and I called 40ish total.. I got to hear some funny things, she has some comical friends. Several single friends who don't like being single, so I let them know other singles will be there.. ya never know what will happen!
So then I came up with a cute casino night theme.. she wanted us to all go to Tunica, but with holidays that just won't happen.. so bringing it to her! Bought a blackjack felt and stuff to play hold 'em. Going to raffle 2 gift baskets at the end people can spend their 'money' on that they play with. My next issue was where to have it.. then I realized we have someone with a big enough house, who likes to hold parties, and it wasn't too faux-pas because I had already invited him before I asked him to use his house. He was real excited about it, and said if the casino night works out he wants me to hold casino parties at his house more often. WE SHALL SEE. The last thing, was paying for it. I realize I can't ask people to pay me for the party, so I resigned that I will be buying decor and the stuff to make the casino night happen.. but I can't foot the bill for 25 people to get drunk and I know most of her friends (and her) like to PAR-TAY. So I figured out doing BYOB. It may seem a little tacky, I found about 50/50 on tackymeter when googling about doing BYOB.. But I'm not made of money and they can all get over it.. I plan on having a fun partay alcohol or not! It gives her, her first real birthday party too.. so.. yay.
Russell woke up bright & early this morning to vomit a lot. I ended up coming to work early to get away from him. I do NOT want to get sick right now. Nooooooooo. Sneezing & coughing makes me pull muscles in my belly, I can't imagine vomiting.. plus the pain of vomiting with the band is miserable enough. Glad I didn't have morning sickness.
I did give Russell the anti-nausea meds my OBGYN prescribed when I first found out I was pregnant.. I'm assuming it's all generic anti-nausea, and nothing that's going to help him hormonally hah hah. He said it's been working, and he's not dead (he has medicine allergies, so that was a toss up.. I was half asleep when I handed him the bottle, so I just vaguely thought about the suffix and if that sounded like a sulfur).
Good times. Where are ya'll?!
Then it turned into being a catchy song.. Weee for old AC/DC. Still can't believe they played this on the radio, but when a song says "heroin" they bleep it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B9pMJYXGBs
Went to lunch today with my childhood friend, who has a 6 month old. Her baby is actually how old my baby will be this time next year, so I have a lot of fun getting together with them. He is such a good baby, he may spoil me. I've NEVER heard him cry. We go to restaurants and he's just big grins, wiggling his fingers & toes. He likes to eat my shoulder too (I don't mind!). She had him dressed in this teddy bear outfit I got her for the shower. Hah hah hah. It was cute, little paw print feet and teddy bear ears on the hoodie. I keep thinking "I want one!", and then I go "Oh yah..".
This pregnancy thing takes forever, I want to play with my baby now! I want to eat its toes and kiss it and hug it.. and call it MINE. Teehee.
I'm also anxious to have the baby so I can get another fill and get back on track. I'm not starving all the time anymore (thank goodness), but still eat more than I should. My fill doc is 3 hours away, so I kept debating what I should do. I only need a small fill, but if I do it and then I get more swelling (since pregnancy started out with bad swelling) I don't care to run back & forth to the doc during this time. Plus, I still have 4 free appointments and I don't want to waste them doing this. I'm resigned to the weight gain, I'll do my best not to go overboard (anymore, right?) but I'm not going to kill myself about it.. my OBGYN does enough of that. But I know the band works great for me, and up until I got pregnant I was still losing steadily. Post-baby I can get it filled back up and not worry about making sure I eat all the good nutritious stuff for my little one. So I'm going to get to goal slower, I'm ok with that.
I also took it upon myself to plan my friends' 30th birthday bash. She's going to be throwing my shower, so when she said her 30th birthday is coming up and was lamenting about how she never gets a b'day since it's so close to Christmas, a lightbulb went off. I've never planned a real party like this, so I ran into a few issues..
She gave me a list of friends that hypothetically if I threw her a party, she would want there ;)
I've finally called them all as of yesterday, looks like 25 will turn out. I only knew about 5 of them, and I called 40ish total.. I got to hear some funny things, she has some comical friends. Several single friends who don't like being single, so I let them know other singles will be there.. ya never know what will happen!
So then I came up with a cute casino night theme.. she wanted us to all go to Tunica, but with holidays that just won't happen.. so bringing it to her! Bought a blackjack felt and stuff to play hold 'em. Going to raffle 2 gift baskets at the end people can spend their 'money' on that they play with. My next issue was where to have it.. then I realized we have someone with a big enough house, who likes to hold parties, and it wasn't too faux-pas because I had already invited him before I asked him to use his house. He was real excited about it, and said if the casino night works out he wants me to hold casino parties at his house more often. WE SHALL SEE. The last thing, was paying for it. I realize I can't ask people to pay me for the party, so I resigned that I will be buying decor and the stuff to make the casino night happen.. but I can't foot the bill for 25 people to get drunk and I know most of her friends (and her) like to PAR-TAY. So I figured out doing BYOB. It may seem a little tacky, I found about 50/50 on tackymeter when googling about doing BYOB.. But I'm not made of money and they can all get over it.. I plan on having a fun partay alcohol or not! It gives her, her first real birthday party too.. so.. yay.
Russell woke up bright & early this morning to vomit a lot. I ended up coming to work early to get away from him. I do NOT want to get sick right now. Nooooooooo. Sneezing & coughing makes me pull muscles in my belly, I can't imagine vomiting.. plus the pain of vomiting with the band is miserable enough. Glad I didn't have morning sickness.
I did give Russell the anti-nausea meds my OBGYN prescribed when I first found out I was pregnant.. I'm assuming it's all generic anti-nausea, and nothing that's going to help him hormonally hah hah. He said it's been working, and he's not dead (he has medicine allergies, so that was a toss up.. I was half asleep when I handed him the bottle, so I just vaguely thought about the suffix and if that sounded like a sulfur).
Good times. Where are ya'll?!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Nothing Special Here
Nope, nothing. No changes. I have finally plateaud on that steady weight gain. I have bounced between 227-229lb for a couple weeks now.. whew!
I have been stressing about Thanksgiving.. My in-laws don't do anything special for holidays.. Ok, I think it may be special to them, but compared to my redneck (hah) family, it's very tame. They have them, their kids, and sometimes my husband's grandmother there for dinner.. that's it.
My family has a big gathering with like 30 people, plus any friends we can manage to get to come with us.. for a full day of par-tay-ing (and eating).
So every year we do Turkey day with my family. Christmas, we spend Christmas eve with (some of) my family and Christmas day with his. This year he mentioned doing Turkey day with his family.. I had to bite my tongue not to throw a tantrum like a little kid. I already miss the big Christmas gathering with my family because they celebrate on Christmas day and I'm not there. I don't want to miss this one too!! Luckily, quick thinking.. I invited his family to come, and now we're waiting to find out. They want to come, as long as his dad's leg surgery isn't planned around then (they can't plan it till he heals or something).. I dunno.. I just know my fingers are crossed and I am hopeful they will finally say "Yes we are coming down". :/
I really am a big baby with these things, holidays give me that magical warm fuzzy feeling and I'm like a kid again. Russell doesn't even care, except that he wants his parents to feel equal. If it wasn't for me, we wouldn't celebrate any holidays in our house!!!! He makes fun of all my decorations.
And luckily for me, I don't give a crap.
In fact, I put up my tree this weekend!! I already finished all my Christmas shopping, and have some presents under the tree (for the cats to play with/sleep on of course).
That's about it. Still can't tell I'm pregnant. I did buy a fetal doppler heart monitor.. So almost every night I find the heartbeat and listen to it.. pretty neat, can tell it's moving around because it's real loud, then real faint, then moves, etc. Most the time the heartbeat is in my right hip area..
Dec. 11th I find out if it's a boy or girl!
I have been stressing about Thanksgiving.. My in-laws don't do anything special for holidays.. Ok, I think it may be special to them, but compared to my redneck (hah) family, it's very tame. They have them, their kids, and sometimes my husband's grandmother there for dinner.. that's it.
My family has a big gathering with like 30 people, plus any friends we can manage to get to come with us.. for a full day of par-tay-ing (and eating).
So every year we do Turkey day with my family. Christmas, we spend Christmas eve with (some of) my family and Christmas day with his. This year he mentioned doing Turkey day with his family.. I had to bite my tongue not to throw a tantrum like a little kid. I already miss the big Christmas gathering with my family because they celebrate on Christmas day and I'm not there. I don't want to miss this one too!! Luckily, quick thinking.. I invited his family to come, and now we're waiting to find out. They want to come, as long as his dad's leg surgery isn't planned around then (they can't plan it till he heals or something).. I dunno.. I just know my fingers are crossed and I am hopeful they will finally say "Yes we are coming down". :/
I really am a big baby with these things, holidays give me that magical warm fuzzy feeling and I'm like a kid again. Russell doesn't even care, except that he wants his parents to feel equal. If it wasn't for me, we wouldn't celebrate any holidays in our house!!!! He makes fun of all my decorations.
And luckily for me, I don't give a crap.
In fact, I put up my tree this weekend!! I already finished all my Christmas shopping, and have some presents under the tree (for the cats to play with/sleep on of course).
That's about it. Still can't tell I'm pregnant. I did buy a fetal doppler heart monitor.. So almost every night I find the heartbeat and listen to it.. pretty neat, can tell it's moving around because it's real loud, then real faint, then moves, etc. Most the time the heartbeat is in my right hip area..
Dec. 11th I find out if it's a boy or girl!
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