5 posts tagged “baby”
Okay, I did have this really stupid post in here a few minutes ago about absolutely nothing. So, I deleted it and decided to start over and write about something with substance. Now, in that post, I'd said that I'd left my camera cord at my house, 180 miles away from where I'm currently staying (my parents' house). Well, I lied. Okay, I didn't lie, I was just wrong. I found my camera cord in the bottomless pit that is my purse. So, now I have photos that were taken today, and at my baby shower, and just at various times throughout the past few months. I'm going to start taking pictures more often. That was the point of bugging my DH for my new camera at Christmastime and now I'm going to use it just like I said I would. So, I was looking through the pictures on my camera, and I thought...Wow. Altogether, these would make a pretty cool "About My Life" post. So, if you feel the need and think that you can stand the boring abyss that is my life, read on =].
Okay, moving on. I grew up in Pennsylvania, in a little town that, again I'm not revealing the name of because I don't want anyone to know
I have an amazing family and I love them. I would do anything for any of them. We're kind of a small unit, but we're close. I only have one sibling, a sister. She's a little nuts, but fantastic to have a laugh with, which I do pretty much every day. We're pretty close, we're only a year and a half apart in age, though I can't really say the same about maturity lol. Depending on what day you see us, I'd have to leave it up to you to decide who was the more mature one. We're pretty much alike and we're told that we look like twins. I disagree. My parents both work very hard. My mom cooks and my dad welds. They've always held full time jobs and taught my sister and I, from an early age, that "Money doesn't grow on trees." You get what you deserve. Work for what you want. Of course, there was the occasional gift that we didn't work for...okay maybe not so occasional but I know now that you have to work to get what you need. =] My parents both joke that they are too young to be grandparents (they are quite young, actually...40 and 36). But they are excited all the same.
Our family pets consist of 2 cats. As you can see from the captions on their pictures, their names are Lilo and Klause. Lilo is a 3 (or so) year old fatcat calico that we found wandering around outside our house before we moved to the outskirts. We moved her in because we felt bad and we were feeding her all of the time anyway. So she got
a free pass in our front door and she pretty much just hung around and made her way into our hearts. I will say she is quite vicious though. She goes storming into my parents' room every morning at 6 or 7, sharp (if she hasn't already been in there sleeping all night, and proceeds to bite them on their noses until they get up and feed her. Klause was also a stray. However, he's more of a wildcat. We got him after we moved to the outskirts. He was only a few weeks old (I think 6?) and he was really really sick. We had recently brought in a kitten that was sick as well (Klause's sister, Sassy.) and she died not long after we brought her in. Klause however, as you can see did not die as a kitten. He is an insane housecat who thinks he's out in the wild...probably Africa or something. He's always tearing around the house after someone some toy or other, or Lilo. I'm pretty certain that he thinks that he's a lion. He's a bit nuts too. He's always trying to get someone and he will come out from underneath of the TV stand, out from behind the couch, or down from the top of the refrigerator to bite your feet when you least expect it.
The rest of my family...well there's not a whole lot to tell. Actually there is, but I wouldn't know where to start anyway. My mom has 5 brothers and sisters. My dad has 2 brothers, and their parents are great. My mom's dad died when I was 6, of a heart attack. I can still remember him though, as strange as that is. One of my mom's sisters died a few years back from cervical cancer. Our whole family was really torn up. She was an amazing person, but we'll never forget her. I used to be really close with my whole family, but we've grown kind of distant. My cousins are growing up and they have their own things going on, and they used to be 2 of my closest friends. Same with my sister. She has a lot more going on, but what sets her apart from the cousins is we get closer every day. I will admit that there's some people in my family that I'm not entirely fond of. But I would never say that I hated them or anything like that. Family is Family, whether you like it or not.
As far as interests go, I like crafts and I'm interested in home decorating...but we're renting our apartment so I really can't do anything serious...but I'm always looking for ways to make the place a little homier.
Now, as for my current situation. I am 35 weeks and 6 days pregnant. I'm staying with my parents because I don't know any of the doctors who work near my new home. So, I'm staying at the 'rents house until I have this baby. Then I'll be going back home. Home is a relative term for me these days, as it doesn't stay rooted in one place. My home is wherever my mom, my dad, my sister, my husband, and soon to be my son are. I'd follow them anywhere.
Well, that's pretty much it. If you think I left anything out that should have been in there, please let me know =]
Okay, so it's been a while since I posted I know. Where have I been? I don't think anyone really checks this on a daily basis or anything but in case you were wondering. We thought we might have been having some troubles with the babe when I started having contractions at 34 weeks. Well, good news! No dilation, no effacement, no nothing, so that's a good end to a bad night. I had another ultrasound on Tuesday which confirmed that yes, this baby inside me is most definitely a boy. Definitely. So, after hearing that I was a little relieved and less worried about what I was going to do with all of those boy things when I knew this baby was going to come out a girl. Oh, and the ultrasound also told us that my son is breech, and then my doctor told me, based on that ultrasound that there is a good chance that I'll be having a c-section instead of the natural birth that I wanted so badly (seriously..). Now, onto other things.
First, where is shenuts? The Sarcastic Journalist? It's been a couple of weeks since I checked out my reading list and she is just not on her website? I love that blog it always makes my day a little brighter to read something funny and she never fails to fill that. Second, OMSH, is definitely on my favorites from my reading list now. Such good things going on over there. You should definitely check it out. Also, on the subject of other bloggers, I am always looking for new blogs to add to my reading list, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. More writing tomorrow. =]
On a lighter note, there are only 7 weeks from today until my due date. Which means, I only have 4-7 more weeks before this little boy comes out =]. I can't wait to be done being pregnant and have my son. I have almost everything done, there's some more stuff that still needs bought. A lot of stuff that still needs bought, actually, but nothing really that expensive. The big expensive stuff is bought and already in my apartment. I still have to get a travel system though. I can't bring him home without a car seat =\. And I still have to buy some things that I'm going to need to pack my hospital bag. 2 weeks from today, I think that I'll probably pack his bag and mine, just to make sure that I'm ready. I'll go out that day and buy all of the stuff that we still need.
My thought for today is: Why are people so stupid when it comes to driving?
Seriously. If you make a wrong move, just because you're being impatient, you could make it so the person in that car behind you or in front of you, doesn't make it home to see their family. Some retard today with out-of-state plates cut me off on a VERY busy road, to the point that I had to come to an almost complete stop, so that she could wedge herself between me and the large SUV in front of me. Ugh. I hate people like that. What kind of officiants do we have handing out driver's licenses?
T-14 hours and all of this baby shower nonsense will be sorted out =]. As I posted before, I'm excited that people have taken the time to organize a baby shower for me and I'm glad that we're taking time out to celebrate Nathan's birth and stuff. But I really think that I'll be happier when I don't have to worry about how many favors we still need to make or what food needs done or what running we need to get through to make sure that everything gets there on time. It's driving me insane. I hate stress. I love planning stuff like this though -- maybe I like this kind of pressure? I like having something that needs done. It keeps me motivated. 14 hours and this will all be done, and I can move onto the next step in the list of getting ready for him to get here =]. Hope everyone else is having a good day. I'll post pictures and all of that fun stuff tomorrow. Hubby is coming in tonight =D
I'm realizing that I have a lot going on. Lots of projects that need done, some that are and some that aren't near completion. The baby shower is near completion. That's my first goal. In 2 days, all of that stress, headache, and all of the problems that go with it will be gone. Then I can relax for the remainder of Saturday. Then it's back to my husband and my apartment on Saturday night, and then up on Sunday morning to start on the nursery. That's my next project. One of my mini-projects this week will most likely be cleaning my house...most likely it's neat, but not clean the way that I like it, so I'll go down there, sort that out and then, as I said, the nursery. Then, my next big project that I'm waiting on finishing is ongoing. Pregnancy. Sometime in between the end of May and the middle of June, Nathan will be here, and that will be one more thing to cross off of my to-do list. Then, the 18 year project of raising my son. Note that all of those projects, are just the ones that I have going on with the boy. I have TONS of mini-projects going on all of the time, and now I'm finally starting to get them coordinated, straightened, and sorted.
Off to do my mini-projects for tonight. Wrapping baby shower gifts, making baby shower favors. And preparations for tomorrow's baby shower preparations. yay. I'll share pictures after things are rolling. Hope everyone is having a pleasant day =]
