baby dr appt

I did end up getting up at 5 this morning to eat. I chose cereal, Special K fruit and yogurt bites, with half a banana cut up on it. When I got to the dr at 9 I still wasn't hungry, thank God!! By 9:45 I was drinking the orange drink. It actually tasted just like orange pop so I just swigged it all down! Abigail got the hiccups shortly after that, which I thought was funny! I never did feel sick. One poke and hour later, I was done.

Among other news, I only gained 2 pounds this month!! It must have been the two weeks I was sick and just not feeling well. My blood pressure is still fine. I start going in every two weeks now. That will hopefully make the last 12 wks go by super fast. And best of all, I go back on Friday for my 3d/4d US! I can't wait to see her again!!

Thank God for another great appt and that we are both still healthy!!

the things I do for food...

Tomorrow is my dreaded 1 hour glucose test and I can't eat for like 4 hours before my appt, which happens to be at 9:15am.

You might be wondering what the problem is. I can assure you it isn't the blood draws, I'd rather have my blood drawn than get a shot any day. It's not the nasty stuff I have to drink. It never bothered me before and I'm praying it is the same this time around, altho a lot has been different this pregnancy. It's not that I have a guaranteed 1 hour wait, it wouldn't be the first time and I have acsess to facebook. What bothers me is the fact that I either have to get up before 5 to eat my breakfast (I normally get up at about 6:45) or I just have to not eat til after my appt.

Last week I tested out my different options on how I could handle this upcoming appt. Brad doesn't see why I can't just not eat until after my appt. Even when I'm not pregnant, I can not go without breakfast. Not only does it ruin my whole day, but it also makes me feel quite sick. So, that didn't work for me. I gave in and ate by 8:30. Maybe I could handle that if I was going to be done by 9:15 but that is just the beginning of it all!

I stayed up later than normal to eat a midnight snack or a 10pm snack to see if the next morning I was still full from it. Nope, just as hungry as every other morning.

I thought about getting up at 5 to eat breakfast but I just didn't do it.

Normally when I eat breakfast, after we take Hannah to school at 7:35, I am hungry by 11. SOmetimes that changes depending on what I eat (cereal, toast, bagel, different drinks, banana in my cereal, waffles). I ate all those different things lsat week and nothing kept me full past 11. What can I say, I'm feeding two humans!

Brad thinks I'm crazy to put so much thought into a silly dr appt and I'm beginning to wonder that myself!! I have decided to get up at 5 to eat and I'll let you know tomorrow how everything goes!

It's 9pm and I have got to go to bed now!!

stubborn, like her dad....

That may be a matter of opinion. Since becoming pregnant with baby #3, I think a lot about what she is going to be like. We already have one child like me and one child like daddy. I'll let you decide who is like who. How can this one be different, or will she be the same as one of the other two?

I love it when I'm sitting on the couch and I feel Abigail doing her usual gymnastics insde me. In the middle of the night, that's not so cute. For weeks I have been trying to catch her on video as my stomach makes weird movements. I promise you, as soon as I lift my shirt or turn on the camera she stops! It's the same when I'm trying to get someone else to feel her move. And then as soon as we stop paying attention to her, she starts again! Daddy was lucky enough to feel her kicking the other night in bed, finally. He was amazed at how active and forceful she was! She can really do some crazy things in there. And it is non-stop. I don't remember the other two being nearly as active.

Anyay, since we are planning on this being our last child, I really want to get it on video so I can never forget. Seems she wants me to forget, tho!

Chores

Did I just say the dreaded "c" word?! I think I did! All my life I've waited for the day I could torture my kids with the same torture I recieved as a child. Doing dishes, helping with laundry, picking up after themselves. That day has been coming for the 6 yr old of the house for quite some time but I couldn't decide just exactly how to go about doing it. I said that this past summer she was going to have some chores while she was out of school and then my brother and his wife and big german shepherd came to live with us for the summer. They took her room and most opportunity to torture.
I think I snuck it up on her by gradually asking her to do small things for me ocassionally and by calling it "helping mommy." She has no idea when she's doing chores and there has been no mention of wages so for the time she is willing to work for free. =)

Todays "helping mommy" list consisted of:

• She willingly took everyone's plates to the sink after lunch.
• I had a basket full of nothing but socks that needed matched and folded. That is one of the jobs I hate the most. After I matched hers I handed her a huge pile of similar socks and she went to work putting them together in pairs and putting them away, along with all her other laundry that I had folded.
• Her and Ryan, together, took clothes out of the dryer and put them on my bed to be folded and then took the clothes out of the washer and put them in the dryer for me.
• I'm sure there were other jobs done but I can't remember them now.

And then she said something that I'm sure she'll regret one day, hopefully along time from now. "Do you have any other jobs you want me to do?"

Did this pregnant mom mention that she loves having a 6 yr old girl who, for now, enjoys helping mommy?! I added the word girl because the 4 yr old boy is a different story and post altogether. His jobs are much easier and fewer for a reason.

What. A. Trip.

We spent a fun, relaxing weekend in NC celebrating Christmas with my parents and siblings. The whole weekend was a great time but here are the highlights of our trip home. Just so you know, if you can do a post just on the trip home, somthings not right!!

• The 4 yr old wild man fell asleep within minutes of leaving. That is unusual but I'll take whatever I can get!
• An hour later the boy woke up, kinda groggy and not looking so good. One drink of gatorade later and every single thing he had eaten earlier that day came back up. Not once but twice!
• We were within minutes from our stopping point to eat but made an emergency stop on the side of the road to remove all soiled clothing, pillows and car seat cover and to scrap what chunks we could out of the truck seat and floor.
• Naked boy sat on my lap up to McDonalds. After carrying him to the bathroom in his undies (it was 35* outside) to get cleaned up he said, "those people were looking at me cuz I don't have clothes on." Poor guy.
• GPS/wife in a box/crazy lady took us on a 2 mile trip thru the country to do a U turn to take us to the nearest Kmart to buy supplies to clean out the truck.
• All the while Ryan was on my lap in the front seat, buckled in with Abigail and I.
• Thankfully we didn't see any cops on the 6 mile trip up the interstate.
• Hannah serenaded (sp?) us with a song she made up about the wife in a box and added a few lines about Jesus and his wings. Don't know where that came from but I got a laugh.
• Half an hour later and one partially clean truck and kid later, we could still smell the chunkage (lots of pineapple--it could have been worse) but we were on our way, again.
• There was NO traffic the entire trip. Unusual but, again, I'll take what I can get!
• Another emergency stop on the side of the road to remove a vomit filled kmart bag from sick boy's lap and to replace it with a trash bag and we were on our way, again.
• The rest of the trip was peaceful while the kids watched a movie.
• McDonalds messed up our food when we finally felt like eating something but what else is new.
• We got back to Charleston and Ryan announced he had to go #2 so we stopped at a gas station.
• 10 minutes later and no BM, we were on our way, again. Thankfully with just half an hour to go!
• Our 4 hr trip turned into about 6 hrs but we made it, safe and sound!

snow day!

Patches

Sammy

Ryan has been begging me for days to let him go play in the snow but I hadn't been letting him because he's sick and I'm trying to get us all well before going to NC this weekend to finally celebrate Christmas with my family. With all the fresh snow we had today, I just couldn't say no anymore!

Things have gone surprisingly smooth today. Usually when Hannah doesn't have school they play great together for awhile and then she gets tired of him and they end up fighting all evening.

I'm suspecting there will no school again tomorrow but I haven't gotten the call yet. They like to call at 5:20am and tell us. It's been snowing basically all day. So far we have at least 6 inches, probably more.

Providence 365

Eph 1:11,"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

The other day I wrote about being thankful for my inheritance that awaits me in heaven. I couldn't think of anything to say about the second half of the verse until I started thinking about his will. I can't help but think of all the things in my life that have happened because of His Will, not mine. So I went back thru some of the pics I have on my computer right now to get a few that represent his will in my life.

Our house. This pic was taken from the railroad tracks so it isn't a very good one b/c of all the weeds and stuff growing. Brad bought our house a few months before we got married from his great uncle and I know it isn't fancy or great but it holds all of the memories we've made siince the very beginning and I love it for no other reason that that! Since everything happens for a reason, I'm assuming it was God's Will for us to have this house.

Family. It was God's Will for me to have the parents I have and the siblings I have. I'm so thankful for every one of them.

My husband. I know I've said it before but I completely believe God moved us both to WV within a year of each other so we could meet in school and spend the rest of our lives together.

I shouldn't even have to say anything about this. I love this unborn child as much as the two children I've cared for for the past 6 and 4 yrs. I'm so thankful God saw fit to let me do it again one more time.

I'm so thankful that God is in charge and knows what he's doing in my life. I know that my will is nothing compared to His Will. Even in situations that I don't understand or when I think he doesn't know what he is doing, I always look back and thank him for what he did!

Providence 365

The verse for this week is Ephesians 1:11, "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:" This week I have been focusing on my inheritance.

Since I can't actually take a picture of the inheritance that awaits me in Heaven, I took a picture of the next best thing! I'm so thankful that I was chosen long ago to have a place in heaven!

baby dr appt

Another month down, only about 4 left! Everything went great today, except that I'm gaining too much weight! The dr didn't tell me that but 20lb is too much when you still have 4 months left! My blood pressure has remained good, baby's HR is still fine, she's kicking me like crazy. Mr dr did say that if everyone was as easy as me, he wouldn't get so behind all the time. (I waited an hour to see him today) I'm so thankful to God that I have had very easy, smooth sailing pregnancies. I have another appt in a month, when I'll have to do the glucose test where you have blood drawn, drink that nasty stuff and then have blood drawn an hour later. Then at the end of that week I have my 3D US and after that my appts go to every 2 wks for about 3 visits and then I'll finally be to every week, when he'll start checking me. It sounds like things are going very fast when you break it down by appts!

A new year

I have so many things going thru my head right now. I just can't believe another year has come and gone already. The Lord has chosen to bless my family with so much. We are all so underserving of everything we have. I often wonder why he is so gracious to us. We continually fail him, yet he continues to love us and give us things we don't deserve. I am so thankful to serve such as amazing God. I hope this year I can pass on the same favors to others around me.

I can remember 10 yrs ago, all the hype about what's going to happen with the world in Y2K. I remember watching the fireworks with Brad. We were only dating then. I remember thinking that I can't imagine 10 yrs from then. What will life be like. And now it's happening. It's been a great 10 yrs. Now I'm thinking I can't imagine what it will be like 10 yrs from now. And before I know it, I'll be there, thinking I can remember 10 yrs ago sitting on the couch, typing this blog and thinking about this minute. Don't know if that makes sense to you but it does me!

I'm looking forward to so many things this year. Of course, the birth of my third child is pretty high on the list. I also want to think of birthdays this year in a posiitive light. I usually hate thinking that my kids are a year older or that myself or Brad are getting older. I want to view it differently this year. I should be thankful for the years that God has given us, not hating the fact that we are getting another year together.

I'm looking forward to living out the next chapter that God wrote in the Palmer book long, long ago.