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It has been almost 10 months since I have blogged. That really sucks. I am determined to make this at least a weekly habit and have made some changes to help me do so. I have changed the settings so that the blog is now public not private, so that you do not have to create a google account to read the blog. This means that I will not be posting any private information, especially about anybody else.
I have a few friends who blog and I read theirs' religiously and always enjoy it, so they have gotten me excited again about blogging!
What all has happened in the last 10 months? We had baby Henry in February. Ben took a new job in January and travels almost every other week if not more. Cadence finished her 3 year old year at Kirk of the Hills and we are moving on from that school and will be attending a new one next year. I have a hard time believing that she will be in Pre-K next year. I am once again working on the same fundraiser that I was the last time I posted, we decided to move it to a different time of year to see how that works. This year our Mystery dinner will be June 19 & 20 in Catoosa. Email me for specific details. Cadence has finished her first year of dance class and will be having her first recital this Saturday (email for details!). Liv made HS cheerleading as a soon to be freshman. My mom has FINALLY given up smoking for good! My in laws moved into a new house with a fabulous backyard. I know lots more has happened, but those are the big things. I hope all of you will check in with this blog and keep me determined to keep it up. I really love blogging, but the past year has been so busy. I am sure you will all forgive me. Till next time....
Wow! It has been a month since I have posted. I am very sorry for that. I usually post at work, due to not having internet at home anymore, but work has been incredibly busy. For the few of you that read this, I am sorry, I will be better! As I said before, work has been really busy. I finished training a new set of volunteers and am working on another training. I am also planning a fundraiser, our Mystery Dinner. This fundraiser was our big one with LNGC and Pregnancy HopeLine and since I am the only one who has done it before, I am the head of the fundraiser. It is alot of work and pretty stressful. I have also been keeping up with the regular weekly duties on top of those extra jobs.
When pregnant, you usually hit a point in your second trimester when you suddenly feel 100% better. You are no longer tired, you have energy, usually sickenss goes away, etc. My second trimester has so far been worse than the first. I have all of the same symptoms, but they are all much worse and now I have dry heaves. Nope, I don't get sick, I just heave. It is awful. I am also dead tired 90% of the time and can't seem to do much besides go to work and pick Cadence up from school and then I am in bed the rest of the day. I am ready to feel better. I was really thinking this baby was a girl, but I am starting to think boy, because I had none of these symptoms on this level with Cadence. Plus, a girl would never torture her Mama like this!!!
Ben has taken and passed the first of 4 tests to get into the Fire Academy. I am so proud of him. He has also been taking the practice physical tests and is doing so well! The first round of interviews should be in the next week or so. I will keep you updated.
Mom and I are getting ready for a garage sale next weekend and are making leaps and bounds at getting everything cleaned out. We are for sure selling a chair, bakers rack, and Fooseball table on top of all the clothes. If you know any girls who are in middle school, junior high or really tiny women, my sister is selling tons of Abercrombie, Holister, & Aeropostle clothes! Please come by.
So that is how life has been going right now. I will work at updating at least weekly. That sounds like a do-able goal!
I have been tagged by another blog I read to post 7 things that make me happy. Here goes:
1. My daughter. Every day she lights up my life and adds more to my life than anyone. She makes me laugh, cry, and loves me unconditionally.
2. The pool. Right now, our pool is about the only reason we go outside anymore and after a long day of work and errands, it is perfect.
3. Old Navy flip flops. The most comfortable and most affordable flip flops make my whole summer great.
4. My job. I am finally where I wanted to be in my organization and I am getting to grow it and make such a difference. Everything is coming together.
5. Pregnancy. Although the first trimester of pregnancy is never fun, I am just so thankful to be pregnant that most of the time I can overcome the general feelings of sickness. Between the heat and a still undiagnosed sickness that causes joint aches, my pregnancy symptoms are stronger than previously, but there is still not alot than can bring me down about this pregnancy.
6. Thrift & Discount stores. I am very thankful for two stores especially: Value Thrift & Ross. Ross has allowed me to purchase a couple of cheap maternity shirts, a pair of shorts and a pair of khakis to get me through the rest of the summer. For those who don't know, maternity clothes are expensive. And since most of my time being pregnant will be in cooler and cold months, it is not smart to spend alot of money of clothing items I will only wear for a month or two. Cadence starts school next week and I knew that she would be needing some fall clothes before I knew it. While it is fun to by your kids cute clothes, it can also be really really expensive! At two thrift stores this weekend, I found a gymboree top, Children's place jeans, a gap wrap sweater, gap jeans, two pairs of gap pink cords, and a motherhood maternity shirt for me. Along with 4 books. Between how expensive kids clothes are and how hard they are on them, there is little reason to spend so much money on cute clothes, especially when you can find them just as cute for really cheap. Another favorite of mine is the JBF sale, which starts this Sunday here in Tulsa. I hope to finish up KK's school clothes shopping next week at this sale, as well as stocking up on maternity clothes.
7. My husband and family. I have an incredible family who loves me and supports me. I am so thankful for all of them and have so much fun with everyone.
Okay, for anyone who reads this, Tag, you're it!
My darling daughter acts like she is 4 years old. Yes, she is only 3 1/2 but lately, she sure sounds and acts like a 4 year old. Her speech is becoming more articulated and she is using very mature words. The other day while talking to my mother in law, she used the word "speak" instead of "talk". This morning her heightened maturity bordered on attitude. I passed by the bathroom as she was finishing and reminded her to wash her hands. She replied, "Momma, you just don't need to worry about this, you just go in the living room and leave me alone". When I proceeded to explain that we have to wash our hands, I was met with her new phrase of the month, "That's not fair!". Seriously, does that sound like a three year old?
On the other home fronts, I have entered the world of maternity clothing, elastic waste bands and baby doll shirts. After your first pregnancy, it is like your body knows when you are pregnant and your stomach muscles just stop working! I am ready for the first trimester to be over for many reasons. I will feel a great sense of accomplishment and security when I hit 12 weeks. God is good to us and has blessed us with this third pregnancy. After a miscarriage you never view pregnancy the same, which is kind of a curse. I am just thankful to be pregnant again. Thanks to all of you out there for your prayers and well wishes!
The rumors are true: I am pregnant! I am 8 weeks pregnant, due March 12. We have waited this long to tell most people (and post a blog) after our experience with the miscarriage earlier in the year. Although I am still in my first trimester, I have heard the heartbeat and seen my doctor and feel confident to post a blog and let the world know! I appreciate all of the prayers I received at the time of the miscarriage and after and all of the support from everyone who knew how much we wanted another baby. Cadence is very excited and says the baby is girl. We have know idea yet, but as soon as we know the world will also know. Everything is going great so far. I am very tired and worn out, but not really that sick. I am not really starting to show, but with second and third babies, it is like your stomach muscles say "Oh, you are pregnant now? Good, because we are done working!" And suddenly you have a fat belly that is not really baby. So I am already wearing some maternity clothes and using my belly band. (Belly band is a great idea, a large band that you can put over your pants so that you do not have to button them and it holds the pants up so you can wear your regular pants longer!) With Cadence, I used my Old Navy credit card to but maternity clothes, but with this one, we are no longer using credit cards, so I am searching for cute, cheap clothes. Ross has been great! Plus, the babydoll style that is in right now helps to find clothes to wear. I see my doctor again in two weeks for another ultrasound and checkup. Hopefully with that ultrasound I will have a picture to scan in that looks more like a baby than the bean picture I have now! Also, Jenny, I am glad you are back in Tulsa!
This weekend an incident happened that left me feeling incredibly betrayed and in shock at how I was treated by two of my close friends. I am not sure if either of them read this, but I will keep the details at a minimum to protect their privacy. I would like to think that this was a misunderstanding, but when no one answers your calls or returns them, you realize that you are being avoided for a reason. I was and am terribly upset, I have been friends with these two a long time and I gave up something very important (tickets to go see Jerry Lee Lewis) in order to be with them. Then I was ditched and I turned down many other plans for this one event. It has been a long time since a friend has hurt me as bad as this did. If you guys are reading this, I am incredibly hurt and confused. If it was a misunderstanding, then you should have answered my calls or called me back. I am not sure where to go with this, especially because with one of these girls, this is not the first time and I feel like I have gone out of my way to try to do things with her, only to get hurt. I think I am done reaching out.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have thought of a dozen or so different blogs that I wanted to post, but never managed to find the right amount of time to post the "perfect blog". So, instead of being a perfectionist, I finally realized that my main goal for this blog was to journal, and journaling is not perfect. Today is the Friday after the 4th and I have been off work since Tuesday. I started work today ready to go and get lots done, but then I realized I was alone in my suite today. Usually this is fine, but the last three days I have worked, Cindy has been in the Tulsa office helping out, so it has been quiet in my suite. I guess the silence has gotten to me, because I have had a hard time concentrating. I hope once this blog is done, I will have enough off my chest to get busy until time to go get stuff ready for our garage sale tomorrow. This will be our second garage sale of the summer. I started putting stuff aside for a garage sale in December when I found out I was pregnant, in order to make room for a new baby. So I have had boxes stacked in closets and rooms through out the house all year. After this garage sale, everything that is baby related or child related, will go the Pregnancy Center and everything else will go straight to Goodwill. My mom is also using the garage sale to clean out her house and the storage building she rented after my grandma passed away to keep her stuff in until we had time to go through it. I know how hard it is to get rid of my grandma's stuff and I am proud of my mom for being able to do it!
I finally heard back from my doctor today on the tests I had done last week. For those of you not up to date, off and on for years, I have experienced some health problems, some minor and some not so minor. Two years ago, I was finally diagnosed with Raynaud's, which causes the blood vessels in my hands and feet to constrict and basically my hands get no blood flow. It is incredibly painful. At the same time I was diagnosed with this, I was experiencing ulcers in my mouth and blisters on my hands and feet. I was tested for Lupus and other connective tissue and rheumalogical disorders, but nothing came back. I was back at the doctor in March with a sore throat that had blisters that lasted for over 2 months. Once again we did tests, but I was told this time that sometimes you can have symptoms for years before the lab work catches up. The doctor and some friends with Lupus advised me to keep track of my symptoms. So, last week, after 3 weeks of painful TMJ, I was back at the doctor. This time I had a list of every symptom I had had recently. This time the doctor suggested I get tested for Celiac's disease. People with Celiac's are basically allergic to glutten, but when your body tries to protect itself from glutten, it does so by not allowing any nutrients to be absorbed, which causes intestinal damage and alot of the symptoms I am having (joint pain, back pain, TMJ, headaches, IBS, miscarriage, infertility). My test for Celiac's came back with one of the markers to be positive. Now they want to schedule my for an intestinal biopsy to for sure determine if I do have Celiac's. I am thankful that I have finally found doctors who will listen and are taking steps to help me feel better. However, if I do have Celiac's disease, it is a life style change. Glutten is in soo much food! However, I have realized that if I do have Celiac's I need to take it seriously because if my body is not absorbing nutrients, it could cause more miscarriages, birth defects, lymphoma, and could explain why I had the miscarriage and why I have not become pregnant yet. It is alot to digest, so I am trying not to worry too much about it yet. But I am going to watch my diet closer from now until the biopsy. The two biggest things I am worried about with having Celiac's is beer and pasta. These are two foods that are not commonly offered in a glutten free variety, especially at restaurants. I don't like liquor, I am okay with wine, but I genuinely like the taste of beer. I usually only have one or two at a time, but I do crave the taste. It does look like you can brew your own gluten free beer, maybe I will have to get Ben started on that!
