Today was a good day.. Although, for some reason birthday's just aren't the same as they used to be.. I don't really know why. Is it because I am turning 26? It isn't really a "landmark" year... Maybe it is the 9 pound kid inside of me squirming and kicking me, maybe its just that I'm a grown up and still have to work.. Maybe its that my husband isn't here.. Who knows.. It just didn't feel like my birthday this year... I think it is mostly that I didn't care about my birthday. Didn't expect anything spectacular, and am more concerned about the big day that is approaching.. Hopefully in 20 days or less.. :) It is probably equally that my husband is gone.. He did send me a cute email though! and I am also more concerned with the day he comes home, that will be a couple of weeks after our child makes his grand appearance.
Today was my deadline for the baby though.. He had to stay in until today... I am now 37 weeks and 1 day, which is pretty much full term.. They won't stop labor anymore, and they can pretty much make sure he would be fine if he was born now... No chance of him being born soon though.. I am still carrying him high as a kite... How do I know? Someone told me I would know when he dropped when I "wanted to cut my legs off every time I used stairs." I use stairs a lot, and I have not yet ONCE wanted to cut off my legs... I have however wanted to remove my pelvic bone when I turn in bed... AND I have wanted to have my stomach moved to a different location so that 1) I can eat more than 10 bites of something without wanting to be sick from feeling full, and 2) I can eat something or lay down without getting massive heartburn... My feet are a bit swollen, and my shoes don't fit, but I don't have it nearly as bad as many people have had it. Next week, my sister's birthday. (By the way none of my family other than my in-laws and my parents remembered... I was ignored by BOTH sisters!) I will be doing something nice for her, unless of course, I am in the hospital... Have I mentioned that I am starting to get a bit panicky about that?? Not the labor thing.. I'll get through all of that... If I can't handle the pain, that's what drugs are for, right? I am really freaking out about taking care of another person... It's one thing to restrict alcohol soft cheeses and deli meats, not lift anything over 25 pounds and all, but to take care of a whole person.... I think it has really started to hit me, because I can feel him moving in there, and he is making movements like newborns make.. When they twitch their arms and legs when they are startled, etc. and I can TELL that is what he is doing.... He is that BIG!!
Anyways.. Today was good.. I got a prenatal massage this afternoon.. My birthday treat to myself.. I told my husband that he had gotten it for me for my birthday since he usually does something like that anyways..It was wonderful.. They didn't have one of those beds with a hole in it, but it still was really nice... I definitely reccommend it... If he doesn't appear on his due date, I will schedule another one and beg them to rub the pressure points that bring on labor. I gave a tip, but I am curious if I gave enough.. What is the protocol for tipping people when you get a manicure/pedicure/massage/hair style type thing?? Is it 10%, 20%, a couple of bucks?? I always wonder about that...
Mom and Dad took me out to dinner at Macaroni Grille, where we got the BEST service we've ever gotten there.. The lady was absolutely cute.. She kept reminding my parents that their meals weren't as important as mine because it was my birthday.. I tried the Chicken Rigatoni for the first time.. Why have I never had it before? Beats me... I will definitely get it again though, because it was delish! The only bummer was tonight was the night they ran out of tiramisu.. The entire reason for going there. Bah. We got their chocolate cake though, which was very very good..
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Monday, October 02, 2006
Still Pregnant, Now with NO SLEEP
So... I had some pictures taken by the gal who runs Angelic Creations Photography. She is very nice and took some neat pictures... The great thing is that she puts together a scrapbook for you, so you have something nice even before you have time to put it together yourself, and she'll come to the hospital to take pictures... You can tell I'm getting quite huge now, and that means I can't sleep at night anymore.. Of course, I had just told someone from Virginia that I was doing just fine and was sleeping through the night, minus a bathroom trip or two... So.. I am jinxed. Hopefully not too jinxed though...
I am now officially 37 weeks pregnant, and I can have a baby at any time... And now, I think I may be ready enough.. I still have to finish packing my bag for the hospital, but I'll have a few hours at home to get some final things done before we leave... The longer I can be at home, the better!
I am really pretty much in awe at this point that soon, I won't feel an alien squirming around inside of me, but instead that I will have a little tiny human to take care of... I also am having a hard time actually remembering what I looked like before I was pregnant. I can't wait to be somewhat normal again! I also can't wait to be able to....
1. Get in and out of a car/chair/bed without rolling around like a beached whale.
2. Get that caramel macchiatto without feeling guilty about its caffeine content... (now I am drinking the decaf mostly)
3. Have a margarita, a beer, and a Colorado bulldog
4. Eat fish that might contain mercury
5. Sleep on my tummy
6. Fit into my shoes again.. NONE of my previous shoes fit!
7. See my feet, heck anything below my belly button will be nice.
8. Paint my own toenails
9. Walk around without carelessly crashing my tummy into things
10. And of course, Hold and love and meet my baby
It is my birthday this week, and it will be the first time since I was probably 19 that I haven't had a beer or a celebratory glass of wine, or some other fun beverage with dinner or whatever... Oh well.. I will be able to partake soon enough... I did however schedule a prenatal massage for that day! Not that I really need one.. I don't have a lot of stress since I work from home, and at my own pace, etc. But it will still be nice. My mom wants to know what I want for my birthday... What should I ask for??
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Torture? No such luck!
This is what happens when I TRY to torture my dog by putting her in the baby's high chair... I think she wanted dinner!
Ready to Go!!
Soooo sorry it has taken me the entire summer to update this page.. I have been really busy this summer... Here is a recap.:
June, I moved to Nebraska to live with my folks because my husband, his parents and my parents teamed up and told me I had to because he was going to be gone for well over a year, minus a few weeks to visit over the holidays and I am pregnant. (Due Oct 24 ). We spent every weekend at the lake, playing and camping and having a good time. I got settled in, we moved everything into my storage space, and I got my room finished and started working on the Nursery.
July, Gretchen came to visit from Australia which was an absolute blast. The baby got to hear his first fireworks (which I am not sure if he liked or not). He bounced around in there almost like he was having a siezure. If he is deaf or very skittish I will be blaming it on sitting at Oak Lake watching them. I got hit on by some high guy downtown using the line.. ."that's a nice top, and your shirt is nice too." To which I responded.. "Yah? The top is new.. It goes with the bottom." When I moved my purse and it became obvious that I was pregnant.. It still took me a while to convince him that I was happily married and planned on staying that way. July was also the Cornhusker State Games. Waterskiing was involved for the first time this year. I announced the event. It was fun, even if it did feel like the gates of hell had opened up on Nebraska. It was well over 100. At one point I took a break, even though there were still people skiing, to swim because I was dying.. and someone had the audacity to complain about it.. It's okay.. They complained to my mom who told them to shove it.. Only in a nice way. :)
August was more waterskiing, camping at the lake and fun stuff. Jim skiied at Regionals this year, and got 2nd place Overall and 4th Place in Jump. That is awesome! Regionals was quite the ordeal, they had relegated all of the people with RVs to the far end of the lake, where there was no access to the activities without walking a mile around the lake, and they were pretty downright rude to most of us.. But that was okay, because we all made friends because of it. Mom's birthday was a pretty scary day for all of us... Jim came home from Menards one day, and said he'd had to stop by the side of the road to "catch his breath." He did walk, but it is less than a mile to Menards, and he shouldn't need to stop for that short walk. Anyways, we told some people at the next waterski tournament because we had been harrassing him to go to the doctor for weeks.. They told him they weren't going to ski with him until he went.. So he scheduled an appointment and they sent him to the hospital with an aspirin. They wanted to send him by ambulance. At the hospital, they determined they needed to do an angiogram to see what was going on in his heart... They scheduled it for two days later... Mom's Bday was the day before the angiogram.. We went out to dinner and it was great, except my Mom didn't get her dinner and then I made the waitress feel bad because I told her it was Mom's Bday... The next day was the angiogram. The doctor wasn't sure if they'd be able to fix his 90% blockage with angioplasty or if they would have to do open heart surgery, but there had been no heart damage, so he hadn't had too many mini-heart attacks.. They were able to fix it with 3 stents, but things were pretty scary around here for a while.. When I was at the hospital, nearly every nurse I saw thought I was there to deliver, and the only OB doctor I saw thought the same thing.. so I must have been getting 'large.'
September has been a good month.. I am still pregnant, as I should be but many of my friends who are due near my date have had their babies already. The nursery is finally complete, and really the only thing I need to add to it is a baby!! I will be 37 weeks in a couple of days, so he is allowed to come at any time.. I have decided that he needs to wait until after my birthday, but that's it.. I got some professional pictures taken while I was pregnant.. I really like the photographer.. She has a package where she'll come to the hospital and take pictures and then a week later she'll come to you or you go to her, and take some nice pictures as well.. I begged to switch the hospital session for one with my husband when he comes home. It will be our chance to get a couple of nice family portraits taken.. and some good cute artsy fartsy ones done of the three of us too if we want to..
http://www.angeliccreationsphotography.com/Mary/index.htm
These are untouched up, but I like quite a few of them... At any rate, I am ready for this little bundle to make his escape plans... I would really like him to come sometime mid-October.. Even though I panic everytime I think about being a parent.. An actual parent... That is crazy.. Some of the things that you go through are insane when you are pregnant.. I am finally used to the fact that I am pregnant, and I finally got over my body changing (my girls have swollen to about 3 times their normal size, and my tummy, well, if you saw the pictures, you saw the gi-normosity of it) and don't care much about the weight that I am, considering it is one I thought I would NEVER see on a scale that I was standing on by myself... And now that is all going to go away and I'll have a whole new set of things to get used to...
I hope to be on here more posting things a bit more often.. :)
June, I moved to Nebraska to live with my folks because my husband, his parents and my parents teamed up and told me I had to because he was going to be gone for well over a year, minus a few weeks to visit over the holidays and I am pregnant. (Due Oct 24 ). We spent every weekend at the lake, playing and camping and having a good time. I got settled in, we moved everything into my storage space, and I got my room finished and started working on the Nursery.
July, Gretchen came to visit from Australia which was an absolute blast. The baby got to hear his first fireworks (which I am not sure if he liked or not). He bounced around in there almost like he was having a siezure. If he is deaf or very skittish I will be blaming it on sitting at Oak Lake watching them. I got hit on by some high guy downtown using the line.. ."that's a nice top, and your shirt is nice too." To which I responded.. "Yah? The top is new.. It goes with the bottom." When I moved my purse and it became obvious that I was pregnant.. It still took me a while to convince him that I was happily married and planned on staying that way. July was also the Cornhusker State Games. Waterskiing was involved for the first time this year. I announced the event. It was fun, even if it did feel like the gates of hell had opened up on Nebraska. It was well over 100. At one point I took a break, even though there were still people skiing, to swim because I was dying.. and someone had the audacity to complain about it.. It's okay.. They complained to my mom who told them to shove it.. Only in a nice way. :)
August was more waterskiing, camping at the lake and fun stuff. Jim skiied at Regionals this year, and got 2nd place Overall and 4th Place in Jump. That is awesome! Regionals was quite the ordeal, they had relegated all of the people with RVs to the far end of the lake, where there was no access to the activities without walking a mile around the lake, and they were pretty downright rude to most of us.. But that was okay, because we all made friends because of it. Mom's birthday was a pretty scary day for all of us... Jim came home from Menards one day, and said he'd had to stop by the side of the road to "catch his breath." He did walk, but it is less than a mile to Menards, and he shouldn't need to stop for that short walk. Anyways, we told some people at the next waterski tournament because we had been harrassing him to go to the doctor for weeks.. They told him they weren't going to ski with him until he went.. So he scheduled an appointment and they sent him to the hospital with an aspirin. They wanted to send him by ambulance. At the hospital, they determined they needed to do an angiogram to see what was going on in his heart... They scheduled it for two days later... Mom's Bday was the day before the angiogram.. We went out to dinner and it was great, except my Mom didn't get her dinner and then I made the waitress feel bad because I told her it was Mom's Bday... The next day was the angiogram. The doctor wasn't sure if they'd be able to fix his 90% blockage with angioplasty or if they would have to do open heart surgery, but there had been no heart damage, so he hadn't had too many mini-heart attacks.. They were able to fix it with 3 stents, but things were pretty scary around here for a while.. When I was at the hospital, nearly every nurse I saw thought I was there to deliver, and the only OB doctor I saw thought the same thing.. so I must have been getting 'large.'
September has been a good month.. I am still pregnant, as I should be but many of my friends who are due near my date have had their babies already. The nursery is finally complete, and really the only thing I need to add to it is a baby!! I will be 37 weeks in a couple of days, so he is allowed to come at any time.. I have decided that he needs to wait until after my birthday, but that's it.. I got some professional pictures taken while I was pregnant.. I really like the photographer.. She has a package where she'll come to the hospital and take pictures and then a week later she'll come to you or you go to her, and take some nice pictures as well.. I begged to switch the hospital session for one with my husband when he comes home. It will be our chance to get a couple of nice family portraits taken.. and some good cute artsy fartsy ones done of the three of us too if we want to..
http://www.angeliccreationsphotography.com/Mary/index.htm
These are untouched up, but I like quite a few of them... At any rate, I am ready for this little bundle to make his escape plans... I would really like him to come sometime mid-October.. Even though I panic everytime I think about being a parent.. An actual parent... That is crazy.. Some of the things that you go through are insane when you are pregnant.. I am finally used to the fact that I am pregnant, and I finally got over my body changing (my girls have swollen to about 3 times their normal size, and my tummy, well, if you saw the pictures, you saw the gi-normosity of it) and don't care much about the weight that I am, considering it is one I thought I would NEVER see on a scale that I was standing on by myself... And now that is all going to go away and I'll have a whole new set of things to get used to...
I hope to be on here more posting things a bit more often.. :)
Thursday, July 27, 2006
New Nebraska Life
I'm officially, well, I have been for a while, but NOW I'm officially living in Nebraska again. My husband is in the Navy, and of course, he has to be gone for the birth of our child, who is due in October, so he and my mom teamed up and made me move back here. It's been fine, except for the lack of beaches and free concerts (which I probably wouldn't have gone to many this year anyways). I will be getting this site up and running since it is easier to work on than my old Angelfire site!
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