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post #81 of 155
I made it alive through the wrestling show last night. I got to go to the Olive Garden and I even got a snowcone that I have been craving!!!!

Going to meet a girlfriend and her ds at the park so the kids can play.

Have a great day!!
post #82 of 155
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Originally Posted by bdavis337 View Post
Ok, so are we all done with the falling thing? Nobody else gets hurt this week!!!
I kept thinking about the clumsy/falling trend while I was walking upstairs balancing my cell phone, keys, a plate with an egg sandwich on it (go me!) and a very large, very full glass of vividly red Crystal Light fruit punch that, had I spilled it, would have likely resulted in a huge unfixable stain on my less than one year old carpeting....
post #83 of 155
I tripped on a sprinkler head last night that I very well knew was there.
I landed very gracefully on my broken leg and I was alright. Whew!

I can't keep up with the weekly threads. I read everything, but can't seem to post before the discussion moves on.

My energy level is coming back up (crossing fingers), and I'm sure it's due to the Floridix I'm taking as well as the cal/mag liquid junk. I had to give blood and my midwives were a little concerned I hadn't done it yet, but I just can't stand poking and prodding this time around. They said it was a liability for them, so I went ahead and did it at a lab yesterday. It was a breeze. I still can't stand the thought of anyone sticking their finger up my yoni. Yuck. I think having 3 pregnancies in a row has caused me to be extra sensitive to being messed with now. I'm sure they will want to stick something up there for the GBS test. *shudder*
post #84 of 155
I have had an exteremly busy week at work so far but thankfully it will slow down now and I have Friday off! Yippee!
It is hot here for May, 31C or almost 90F hot and sweaty! Yesterday wasn't quite as hot but I had to drive 5 hours round trip for meetings and it was so sweaty where baby belly sits on my thighs yucky!

Either I'm super klutzy right now or my animals are getting under foot too much. I've never stepped on one of our cats before and I stepped on two cats in two days and the dog the next day. Now the female cat is skiddish and won't come near my feet. I think it's cuz I can't really see my feet anymore!

I am sure feeling huge the last few days and this morning I noticed new strech marks high up on my belly where I've never gotten strech marks before! This babe likes to be head down but on an angle transverse, it must think I need a lot of streching out: !

Does which hazel work for the spider veins too? I have a nasty one that is growing! I haven't worn heels at all this pregnancy and now I'm in barefeet heaven when I'm not at work!
post #85 of 155
This is a fast moving, slow going morning. Here it is noon, and I have showered and made breakfast (finished making breakfast around 11). I decided that today would be a good day to try a new waffle recipe and add some of my freeze dried blueberries. Yum! Benji didn't care for them because the trapped blueberries freaked him out, but that means more for me! I am going to freeze them so I can have one for dinner when everything else sound yucky.

Had a little scare this morning, and I feel like I am still trying to recover. I hate when you know everything is okay, but your body still feels on alert! Sis called because they hadn't heard from her sil in a few days. She wasn't answering phones, emails, or anything. Little sis was on her way to the apartment when the missing sis finally calls. She has had a lot of depression over the years and last month was the 10th anniv. of her mom's death. Needless to say, everyone was kind of thinking the worst. She had just turned off her phones and forgot to turn them back on. Part of being an adult is being responsible and letting people know you are ok. She has gone without talking to someone for a day or two...but never for 3 days.

This baby is driving me crazy today. I know a lot of it is weather and the scare, but my body is not happy today. We got MORE rain last night, 80% chance for today, pretty good chance for the rest of the week, and the air pressure is crazy high! I am once again trying to do nothing. I just got most of the dishes from the waffles in the washer, but I think I should have done a double batch. Think I will next time. I won't have this much energy (not that it is high at all) in the next few weeks I am afraid.
post #86 of 155
we slept in til 10 today!!!!!
i am not working all week, MissJs great aunt took her out of town till friday night so DH and i have three days off together! his schedule got changed to 4 10 hour shifts, so he has three days off midweek. its AWESOME.
so we slept in.
and then snuggled and played tent in the blankets with Addy, and now DH is in the kitchen making breakfast.
i heart him.

tonight i am cutting off my hair.

from just above my crack to above my shoulders.
i have to admit i am a bit nervous.

another sunny day here. its like the weather knows it should be nice for our family days this week.

i am SO loving the pregnancy tea iced that a friend brought by. its so much better than the traditional medicinals. taste and everything. yum yum yum.

maybe i will make smoothies to go along with breakfast. i am out of ripe bananas tho. substituting with fresh mangoes i think. YUM!
post #87 of 155
I am a freakin' mess. Dh and I keep fighting about the house work. I can't stand it anymore. Two days ago, I asked him to paint Jee's room, we got into a fight, b/c he wants to wait for everything (I think I posted about this already). I want to get EVERYTHING done in the house (ALL cleaning, projects, etc.) BY June 1. He's like, "J***S C****T, Keri, what's the rush? Why are you in such a hurry? We have, like, 3 months until Kalia comes." I'm like, "OK, first of all, we don't have 3 months, and she could be here next month, remember Jee came one month early." He's like "Well, you can't go crazy at the thought that you may or may not have a premature baby. " I'm like, "Yeah, I'm not... I'm just saying that it could happen and then nothing would get done and besides, I have the energy now... I'm getting it all done before I get too big to do it all in my ninth month. You don't understand how hard it is for me now to get up and down, scrub floor boards, scrub floors, wash loads of knick knacks in the sink (kills my back, b/c I have to stand so far back and lean over); how am I going to climb step stools, climb on top of cabinets, etc. in my ninth month?!!!" And this is how it's going for 3 days now. Then in a couple of hours, we talk civily, trying to remain civil to each other, and then it starts right back up. : So, now I'm at an impass, where I feel like REFUSING to do ANYTHING more in the house until June, and then doing it all either very uncomfortable/in pain or with a newborn. Either way, the only one I'm hurting is myself. I'm so upset, I can't stand the bickering. My mom tried to help me last night, and moved all of the furniture out of the room (so dh wouldn't bitch about doing it), and there was a bracelet under her dresser, which my mom proceeded to scratch my pergo floors with. Dh saw it and freaked. He's like "If you would just take your time and think things through, shit like this wouldn't happen (b/c I rushed to do the room, instead of wait until the END of JUNE to do it). I'm like "Yeah, the bracelet would've still been under the dresser, even if I had waited until June." (My dh likes to "think-things-through" to death, resulting in nothing getting done, unless we fight about it first.) So, now we have a huge gash in our new floor, all the way across the floor. Instead of getting myself all upset about it, I tried to just "let it pass", which he took as "I don't care." UGH!!! Why can't the world just. leave. me. alone. :
post #88 of 155
Keri I will say nothing more than I'm so there with you mama.. and I hope things ease up soon.


I've been cleaning, cleaning all day.. my dishwasher is still being a bastard so I've been doing all the dishes I've let pile up by hand. My feet are starting to really ache but I just want to get this done and over with. My cluttered (furniture clutter) living room is driving me crazy and I'm trying to configure a new set up in here. I give credit to my dh because he's going with my whims and moving things for me so I can just see how it looks.

I was really nasty to Kyle this morning.. I seem to be nasty to him quite frequently so after I dropped them both off for school this morning I sat down and wrote him a letter. I feel I could more eloquently express my feelings in a letter rather than actually talking with him. I get more irritated trying to have a conversation with him so hopefully this shows him how I'm feeling and he has the option of speaking to me about it or writing me a letter back. I hate that we seem so at odds lately.. puberty sucks!
post #89 of 155
Puberty does suck, and I'm nasty to my 15 yr old a lot more than I'd like to be.

It's crazy here today with the kids. They won't leave anything alone and are off and running to the next disaster-causing thing. It's hot and last night it was 86 degrees in our room!

I'm thinking about taking all of them swimming, but I feel so fat! I think I have left over issues from my mom who is/was so freaking vain, she wears white gloves while driving so her hads won't wrinkle, but she is so unhappy because she misses out on everything in life. She never learned to swim because she didn't want people to see her body. I'm not like that but I still get embarrassed being overweight like I am (yes, I know, I'm PREGNANT). I just keep telling myself that the kids don't care what I look like, my daughter needs to not feel ashamed of her body, and what do I care what others think? It's good for my broken leg and the baby to get into position. Right? Right.
post #90 of 155
Panthira- Oh, I see we are having the same day! Luckily, Benji finally (I hope) fell asleep because I can't take him getting into anything else! I would love to go swimming, but I think the rain cooled everything off a little too much. Yesterday was in the 80s, but we are only in the 70s today. Yes, water is good for that broken foot! Are you having major swelling in that foot, ankle, and leg? I am, and I only fractured a small bone in my foot (back in Nov.). That leg has been really bad this whole time. Last pg, both feet and ankles were like that, but this time it is just the one.

Woo-hoo! Also had to share that I am now a Senior Member. Guess I am on here too much!

Just talked to dh, and he may get to come home early to work from home. That would be really nice. I really get tired of being home with Benji all day...by myself. I guess we really need to get out more!
post #91 of 155
Mel - yes, my ankle especially will always big bigger and more swollen as my joint was totally shattered. Everything in there is metal now. I have some big ugly scars going up both sides of my ankle, and lower leg, though the lower leg ones have already turned white! Some days are worse then others but I drink amazing amounts of water, and I think that makes a big difference in the swelling. Do you put your leg up now and then when it gets bad? I find I have to elevate it now and then.

We did go swimming. It was 85 here today and I had a lot of fun in the water. It's the only place I can be "on" my belly. The kids really enjoyed it, even the teen, so that made a big difference in moods, plus the little ones are exhausted! Hahaha! The only part I hated was changing in the locker room. The stalls were all soaked, so I dressed out in the main room right in front of teenaged swim teamers. Embarrassing, with their perfect, perky bodies and me with my big baby belly. In the long run it means nothing though. Baby to be was quiet the WHOLE time in the water and coming home. Once I got home he started moving around again.
post #92 of 155
Addysmama - I need to cut my hair off too... I just can't keep up with it! It's down to my waist right now and I think I'll cut it to just below my shoulders. You can do it! It'll grow back I hate cutting my hair, but it dreaded up terribly when I was pg with dd and though I like dreads, I don't like them on me So... it has to be done... You're not the only one : I'm glad I'm not the only one too!

love and peace.
post #93 of 155
i LOVE my hair!!!!!
i am uploading pics to my photo bucket if anyone wants me to post a link. WOW i LOVE my hair!!!!!!
its so short and sassy and works perfectly with my face, and my hair texture, and everything, its just.. wonderful. i LOVE my new stylist!

so sorry everyone is having rough days
post #94 of 155
of COURSE we want to see pictures! Post away! :
post #95 of 155
Tiffany~ Your excitement is contagious! I want to see a pic too!

Well, things are better on the home front. We're back to being nice to each other. I've decided to keep doing my own thing, plugging away at the house, but not to involve dh in any of it. That way we're both happy.
post #96 of 155
Tiffany I want to see pics.. hope you post them up SOON!

Got a busy day today.. I volunteered at the boy's school book fair and I'm hoping to get some more cleaning done around this house. I FINALLY got all my dishes done last night (I did dishes ALL DAY) and now I'm hyper vigilant that everybody does their part to help in that area.

There's quite a few interesting threads that popped up this morning.. I wish I had time to respond to them but I will later this afternoon.

Hope everyone has a good day!
post #97 of 155
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Originally Posted by Mumof3Nic View Post

I was really nasty to Kyle this morning.. I seem to be nasty to him quite frequently so after I dropped them both off for school this morning I sat down and wrote him a letter. I feel I could more eloquently express my feelings in a letter rather than actually talking with him. I get more irritated trying to have a conversation with him so hopefully this shows him how I'm feeling and he has the option of speaking to me about it or writing me a letter back. I hate that we seem so at odds lately.. puberty sucks!
Good idea! My mom and I got through my moody-girl stage by writing letters. It helped me a lot, because I couldn't even hold a normal conversation with her without freaking out and screaming! I could sit down and write my letters after all my emotions settled. I hope hope hope my daughter isn't like me!!

I have friday off of work, so I'm praying that I have some energy to get something accomplished! My big family baby shower is at the end of the month, and I need the baby's room ready to be filled with all this stuff we are going to get! I still need to clean out her closest, and move some of the other "junk" that has accumulated in there. DH decided last saturday at about 5pm that he wanted to rip out the kitchen bottom cabinets and install new ones. : I raced around trying to get the dishes washed, and finding somewhere to put all my stuff that was in my cabinets. We thought this would just be a 2 day or so project, but no! Once we ripped out the cabinets we found some major mold on the wall and floor, so we had to rip out that too! We are still in the process of putting the kitchen back together. We should be all settled by this weekend! I had my apt. yesterday with my midwife, and things are still looking good. She said she thinks I will have a small baby, maybe 6 or 7 lbs. Fine with me! I hope everyone has a good end to their week! (And no more falling!!)
post #98 of 155
I've long ago given up hope of staying up on this thread . But today I have an announcement: . My little sister had her baby this morning--1st baby, 5 days overdue, 27 hours of labor (poor thing), and all completely natural! He was 9lbs. 1 oz., 22 inches long. I could hardly sleep last night thinking about her in labor and worrying about how she was doing. I have such a distrust of hospitals I was sure they were going to drug her up and section her . Her DH, my other sister and mother were all there with her so she had a lot of support. I wish I could have been there too . I hate living out of state. I was on the phone with my mom during the pushing and delivery so I did get to hear his first cries at least. I talked to my sister only briefly. She's exhausted of course, but says the baby took to breastfeeding right away and they're both doing really well. I'm eagerly sitting by my inbox awaiting pics.
post #99 of 155
Dh and I are going back to Pittsburgh tomorrow to see Alison Kraus in concert. So, I am going around tonight divvying out kids. Going to take ds2 and my niece to my mom's today. I'm excited to see her, at least for a little bit of a visit. Gotta get back cause ds1 has a ballgame. Dh's aunt (she's like the godfather of his mom's side!) well she had to go to the ER last night. Was in ICU all night and today they are doing a heart cath and stint at another hospital. You would think that she tells people when to use the bathroom cause everyone falls apart when she gets sick! So I don't know if we are going to see her or not tonight.

Have a great day!
post #100 of 155
Congrats Cindy!!
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