Well, it’s the 1st of the September and I’m officially 39 wks pregnant! Had my 39 wk OB visit this morning, but it wasn’t very promising progression wise, though she said I was about 50% effaced as opposed to what I was before (not sure what that was). We aren’t going to induce on the 3rd like I’d originally thought/planned. After much discussion with many people and thinking it through, then not really feeling all that comfortable with any one decision we decided to wait till next week to get induced if I don’t go into labor on my own. We’re supposed to be at the Hospital at 9pm on Tuesday night and we should have Maggie on 9/9/09. But like I said that’s only if I don’t go into labor on my own before hand.
Anyway, I was rather bummed about not having progressed. I had contractions off and on all day Sunday, some yesterday and some today through my back, but apparently it’s only thinning me out. I’d really like Maggie to come on her own; this waiting game however is just driving me crazy!
Sunday we went to the Mile High Flea Market. It was really cool! We arrived a little after 8am to get in with our free tickets, but hardly anyone was set up till about 10. We only stayed about an hour and a half longer once we realized that we couldn’t access our savings account with our debit card, no money, no shopping! It was a real bummer cause I really wanted to keep looking around. We didn’t make it around to everyone, I didn’t really see the point if we couldn’t buy anything. We will hopefully go again this weekend with my Mom!
Speaking of which my Mom will be here tomorrow afternoon! I’m so excited! The morning will progress like usual, but when the kids get out of school I’ll be waiting for them in the van and we’ll head directly to the Airport to pick up Mom! She’ll be here till the 11th, next Friday. Her flight leaves late Friday night, so if we have Maggie early Wednesday morning she’ll have a couple days at least with her before she leaves. I hope to be sent home from the Hospital that evening or afternoon if they’ll let me. Don’t really want to have to stay a whole day if I don’t have to. We’ll see how it goes though…
I’ve spent the last couple days cleaning house; I’ve done a lot. I broke it down into things to get done on different days and am just down to a few more items to check off my list. Today the only remaining things are to have the kids pick up all their toys outside and get the lawn mown, which Jacob will do this evening.
Tomorrow I’m going to sweep the concrete outback and part of the front. I think it may be easier to just spray off the driveway versus sweeping it. Sure wish I had a leaf blower that would be so much faster! I’ll probably have the kids pick up pinecones this evening so that the spraying will be easier tomorrow and so Jacob doesn’t suck any up in the mower. They like doing that for a treat! I also need to wash all the windows and vacuum the main floor carpets if it needs it.
Yesterday I washed the main floor carpets in the dining room and family room, Jacob did the stairs for me so that I wouldn’t be working on that a whole other half an hour. I’ve done a bunch of other stuff to, but I won’t list it. I’m just glad we plan to stay here for a really long time because the thought of having to have the house ready for a showing or ‘Open House’ all the time would really drive me crazy!
Tonight I’m making stroganoff for dinner. Last night I made homemade pizza. I’m hoping Jacob will let us eat out tomorrow night since Mom will be here. I don’t really want to have to do a whole lot of cooking this week or next. I was going to go grocery shopping today, but when I called my Mom this morning to give her the update on the whole baby thing she mentioned that she could go with me. So I’m gonna wait to go grocery shopping till Thursday when Jacob gets paid. I don’t have tip money right now anyway; I only have a bit of change in my wallet.
Not sure exactly what we are going to do once my Mom is here. I know there are a lot of places that I’d like to go and window shop at least. We’ll have to talk it over tomorrow after she gets here. She may just want to spend the evening in since she won’t really have slept that day. I’m hoping she gets a bit of a nap on the plane so she can get some rest!
I don’t really have any other plans other than cleaning today and tomorrow till Mom gets here; just the same old, same old stuff going on.
It’s 8:03 and I need to kill about 2 hours before I head to bed. I’m not tired, I’m too wired from all the work I’ve been doing the last couple hours. I ended up mowing the lawn and weed wacking it myself. Jacob came home and informed me that he is getting sick so he’ll probably be taking Thursday off of work to try and get some rest before we head into our busy weekend, though I’m not sure he’ll be doing anything if he’s sick. I also cleaned off the concrete out front and back so that I don’t have to do it tomorrow. That only leaves washing all the windows, vacuuming the floors, getting fuel for my van and getting it washed, and cleaning up all the extras around that don’t need to be cluttering up the house. That and all the regular things that I do with walking kids to school and back home, fixing meals, etc. I need to go and pick Jacob up some medicine tomorrow while I’m out getting the van done. I need to get fuel and get it washed before heading out the Airport; I think I’ll take it in the morning w/ the boys, they’ll like going through the carwash, they were asking me about going to one about a week ago and since I need the fuel and want the van to look nice for Mom I guess I’ll get it done, even though I have to pay for it. Not sure why a basic car wash is so expensive?! At least it will look better than if I try and do it myself at home, it just never turns out right (I think it's our hard water)!
So the house is pretty much clean now. It will have taken me about 4 days to get it to the state that I finally want it in. Too bad I did most all the work myself! That’s why I’m in such a bad mood this evening! I listed about 3 items (out of 2 full pages worth of work) that I wanted other people to do, but ended up doing almost all of them myself. The kids still need to pick up the playroom in the morning; it’s not too bad, just a few items that need to be put back where they belong.
September 2nd, 2009
Well, I decided to run to the store this morning to get a few medicines. Jacob is home from work sick today and I picked him up some of that stuff that’s supposed to make you get over your illness faster and cut down on the symptoms and severity. Hopefully it works! I also picked up some character Band-Aids for the kids. I’ll probably put some of those in my purse, though I already have a bunch, just not character ones.
I stopped and got fuel this morning, but not a car wash. Everywhere that had a wash was 10¢ more than places that didn’t so I just washed the van when I got home. I just need to wash the interior windows and switch John’s seat to the back and it will be all set for picking up Mom after school today.
In about 20 min I’m going to get the boys lunch, usually by the time they are done eating it’s time to take David to school, so time will move pretty quickly. Then John goes down for a nap and I need to wash all the windows, vacuum the main floor carpeting, and declutter a bit. I might end up watching a couple of my design shows before going to pick up the kids, we’ll see. I might find something else that I’d like to get done before I have to leave to pick up the kids…
September 5th, 2009
We have been super busy since Mom got here! We’ve been out most every day running around till later in the evening. We’ve been all over the place and pretty much gone everywhere on the list we made up of things to do. Today we spent the majority of the day at the “Mile High Flea Market” and unfortunately I got burnt (didn’t think I’d need sunscreen, big mistake). My legs and feet are swollen up like a balloon and my feet hurt. I wore tennis shoes today, which probably wasn’t the best idea in the world, I thought it better to walk around all day in them versus flip-flops. After the Flea Market we went to “Bass Pro Shop” and watched the fish in the big tank. Jacob, Anna, and David climbed the climbing wall. John wanted to, but he isn’t tall enough. After there we stopped at several other places we finally ate something at Fat Burger just before 5. I’m hoping I don’t get heartburn. We are home now and I’ve lotioned myself up with Goldbond that has some aloe in it, plus my feet are up and I’m in a bit more comfortable clothes!
No news on Maggie yet. I had been thinking there was something significant about today and that maybe she would come today, but I’m not having consistent contractions and my water hasn’t broken, so more than likely nothing is going to happen today, even after walking, and walking, and walking all day long! I have been up since 4:30 this morning. Not sure why I just can’t seem to sleep anymore?! I’m debating whether I want to go to Church tomorrow. There really is no reason not to other than that I’ll have to face everyone at 39 wks 5 days prego w/ no sign of going into labor in the near future and my attitude right now just doesn’t want to deal with all the people asking me how I’m doing! I’m not horrible; just don’t really want to comment! We’ll see how I feel tomorrow?! Maybe Jacob doesn’t want to go and spread his illness, which he still seems to be suffering from, not really sure he’s even contagious anymore?! No plans for tomorrow; I guess we’ll have to wait and see…
September 6th, 2009
The week of July 19-25 was pretty slow. Didn’t do anything till Friday (24th). I went to Kid to Kid for their $5 bag sale, but they didn’t have anything interesting clothes wise. I did however find a pack ‘n play for Maggie. It’s a travel lite in a light green color. I also picked up a maternity belt which I haven’t exactly used yet, but will if we end up going walking a lot.
Saturday the 25th Anna, Cindy, and I went to the Friends of the Aurora Public Library 50% off sale. They sell overstock and unwanted books from the Library at super discounted prices. Anyway, I found some great stuff and picked up half a dozen Tom Clancy books for Doug (my Mom’s husband). He’s trying to collect all his books in hardback. After the sale we brought Anna back home and Cindy and I left for lunch. We went to the Cheesecake Factory at the Park Meadows Mall. We even checked out the maternity store in the Mall, but they only had one thing I really liked, but didn’t have it in my size. Then we went to a store called “Bath Junkie”. They have a lot of scented oils that you can mix together to make your own scent. Cindy and I spent several hours there trying out different scent combinations that we liked. We each found one that we really liked and made a lotion. I also got a room spray. It was lots of fun! We plan on going back again soon to make a Holiday room spray. Maybe with my Mom and Anna?!
Sunday the 26th I didn’t end up teaching Sunday School. There was only one other child beside mine and the parents took her to service with them so that we didn’t have to stay. We decided to leave and go and test drive cars for fun. We found some nice cars, but realized after stopping at several different dealers that none were open on Sunday. Jacob got fed up with looking because he really wanted to test drive something so we quit early. Found out later that Colorado has a law that they can't sell cars on Sundays, weird hugh?! We picked up lunch on the way home and watched “Psych” the rest of the evening. Sara got me Seasons 1 & 2 for my Birthday and Season 4 starts on the 7th of August.
Monday morning the kids and I took Jacob to the airport. He flew out to Vandenberg AFB. He’s doing some sort of tour there this week. He’ll be back Friday evening and the kids and I will be going to pick him up. His flight comes in at 7:29pm. After I dropped Jacob off the kids and I came home for a bit more breakfast. We left a little before 10am to the Thrift Store for their 25% off sale. We were only there for about 30 min (usually there about an hour). Then we went to Michaels to pick up some paint colors for the mural I’m doing downstairs. The paints are on sale this week 2 for $1!
Tuesday July 28th, the kids and I went to my 34 wk OB appointment. It went quickly though my doctor said that I was measuring small and wants to do an ultrasound at my 36 wk appointment (Aug 11th) to make sure baby is growing okay. I only measured 32 cm when I should have measured 34. So I had to reschedule that appointment and made it for later in the day so that Jacob could come and he’ll be able to watch the kids for me while I go in for my exam after! That works nicely! Am really looking forward seeing baby at least one more time before she arrives!
The kids and I left at 11 for a movie at the Cinema Grill (same day). I had invited everyone pretty much that I knew to go with us from around here. As far as I knew I only had one confirmation and received a call a bit after we got back home from my friend Jill saying that they were coming. Then half an hour before we left she called again and said that her kids weren’t being good so they weren’t going. Then about 15 min later my friend Athena called and said that they weren’t ready and her brother didn’t want to go so they weren’t coming. Anyway, we arrived at the movie half an hour early and got pretty good seats. We only held seats for Cindy, who arrived about 15 min before the show started, only she brought her husband, so we had to rearrange seating. Actually we had to rearrange a lot of seating because we had some very inconsiderate people sit in front of us and the little kids couldn’t see unless we moved them. I had to get a high chair for John so he could see properly. Anyway, as the movie started another set of our friends showed up and sat just to the side of us. They never confirmed if they were coming or not, so we didn’t know they were. We watched “Night at the Museum 2”.
We went to the dollar store afterwards and didn’t stay long, then came home. That evening I decided to work on the mural downstairs a little bit. I actually worked on it while watching the movie “Clue”, well more like listening to it. I had to take a break though when the movie was over. The kids and I then watched “Pirates 2” and went to bed when it was over.
~July 30th, 2009
Well, yesterday we didn’t do anything very interesting. I pretty much just cleaned and cleaned and cleaned the house, laundry, and kids! In between all the cleaning I watched a couple shows and in the evening the kids and I watched “Cars” while I painted some more on the mural in the playroom. The kids went to bed a little after 9 and I didn’t go to bed till after 10.
Jacob is still in California till tomorrow. Today is his busiest day down there so he was already at their meeting place when I called at 7:45 (6:45 his time). Not sure what they are doing, it’s probably all classified anyway. He’s gonna call me when he finishes up for the day. He’s been going out with all the people and socializing each evening, dinner, wine tasting, more eating establishments. Not sure what they’ll do this evening, but I’m sure they’ll go out, though Jacob has to be to bed early because his flight back home leaves at 6am from Santa Maria. He should arrive back here at 11:50. The kids and I will take off for the airport at about 11:30 or so to go and get him.
I got my hair cut today. The kids were pretty well behaved considering they didn't really have anything to do there for about 45 min. I just wanted a trim, but I found a picture that I liked and asked the lady to cut it like the picture only longer, but she didn't give me something much longer. She ended up cutting off about 4 or 5 inches off the back of my hair so now I can't really do anything with it. No more curls and frizz, but no more length either. I can't braid it or put it in a ponytail that holds everything. It's very frustrating! All my hair is straight and very heavy despite it's thinnest so it doesn't have any body. I have to pin it back on the sides or curl it up to look half way decent, but I don't like all the maintenance that it requires now. I'm considering getting it cut much shorter just so I don't have to bother with it especially since Maggie is due in about a month. Don't need the hassle of my hair with a newborn!
August 3rd, 2009
Friday and Saturday we went Garage Saleing. Friday the kids and I found a few things; I got a whicker type laundry hamper for Maggie’s room that has a removable, washable linen liner. I also got a couple of knick-knack shelves to put all my little movie characters on. I’m not exactly sure where to hang them though for display?! Saturday Jacob and the kids went with me to the Ptarmigan Sale. It’s the Community kitty-corner from our neighborhood. They always have their annual sale the first weekend of August. Anyway, I got some really cool stuff for the boys. I got them a box and sack full of Imaginext models and accessories. There is a castle, wizards tower, and tree house, plus extra characters. They already have some of these and I found some new on clearance at Target the other day. So this will be the boys presents for Christmas this year, plus some more Lego sets! I gave Anna $5 and she got some Barbie stuff and a couple little babies to go with her set and a Mary Kate and Ashley movie for 25¢. I got a hat and a couple others to decorate for Anna and Maggie. Jacob found a JBL desk speaker set that originally retails for $299 for $15. He’s super excited about that! He also found a back-up Gamecube system for the kids for $20. When we finished there we went over to the Dam Eat CS and the only thing I got there was a porcelain doll. Back in our neighborhood there were a few more sales going so we stopped by. I only found a Spiderman shirt for David for 50¢. Oh I did find a couple PJ sets for the boys at the Ptarmigan Sale for $1 a piece. They always seem to need more PJ’s. David is growing out of most of his, just getting taller! :O)
The kids and I picked Jacob up from the Airport about 6:30pm. He had a crazy morning just trying to get a flight. His morning flight at 6am out of Santa Maria got canceled so he had to ride the bus to LA (which made him miss his morning flight out of LA to Denver). Then the earlier flight got canceled so he wasn’t able to leave on that one and finally flew out at 2:55pm (3:55 my time). We didn’t do much this weekend just pretty much caught up on shows we’d missed during the past week with Jacob gone.
At Church Sunday we went to the 9am Service and I pretty much had an emotional breakdown due to a bunch of emotional, physical, and spiritual things I’m going through right now. I probably cried off and on for about an hour and was so drained after that I asked Gretchen, one of the Children’s Coordinating helpers, if the kids (only 2) that I would be teaching could be moved down the Toddler room because I really needed to go home. She worked it out for me and we all just came home. I plan on serving next week. I have a lesson all planned out with a craft and everything, it’s just kind of frustrating hanging around for only 2 or 3 kids when I have 12 copies of materials made up. At the beginning of the summer I had 10 to 12 kids ea service. However, school is starting back up here soon (for Aurora Public Schools) and that should bring a lot more people back to Church more regularly!
My toys!
My cute squirrel basket for baby stuff!
Thursday July 16th, 2009
Well, here’s the update for the last couple days! Jacob is working nights this whole week (that’s 10pm to 6am). On Monday and last night he was called in early and didn’t really get his evening nap, but he seems to be doing all right. Last night he got a couple extra hours of overtime, so that will be nice (over time on nights)!
On Monday I took the kids to the Thrift Store and found some pretty cool stuff. Got Anna a couple pair of pants. She’s going to need a couple more pair for school. We should probably go through all her clothes and see what else she needs before school starts. I haven’t looked through her clothes in about 6 months so I’m sure she’s outgrown a few things. She’s in a size 8 pant right now…
In the afternoon when Jacob was up we took the kids and met my friend Cindy at the Cinema Grill and watched “Up”. It’s such a good movie! I would have been bawling out loud if I weren’t in a theater. I cried twice and almost a third time! Such a touching and funny movie! The kids really enjoyed it too! We’ll buy it when it comes out on DVD in the next couple months.
On Tuesday I had my 32 wk OB visit. It was a routine visit, everything on track. We were supposed to have an RPG that day, but Jill’s son had an allergic reaction to something at school so she had to take him to the allergist. He’s deathly allergic to many things so they get in right away! Turned out it was just a reaction to the allergy med he’s taking and was a normal though rather unusual reaction, the school just didn’t want to take any chances!
We did meet yesterday for our game though we didn’t get started till about 3:45. Everyone left after our first mission was complete. It was over a bit after 5. Jacob wanted to get in more than one mission yesterday, but it’s a good thing we didn’t because he wouldn’t have gotten any nap at all. We’ll have to meet 4 more times to complete everything that he wants to before we stop playing with these characters.
Yesterday I got the laundry/storage room organized. We picked up some large storage bins at Walmart and I got all the kids stuff and linens organized. The room is very colorful with all the different colors of bins in there now and it’s much easier to find what we need.
Today we have absolutely nothing going on. No plans, nothing on the calendar to get done or do. We’ll probably just hang out and relax today. I’ll have to write more about today tomorrow since I have no idea what we’re going to do.
Tomorrow Jacob has Muster Duty for a Military information update. I think he’ll find out about what will happen to our ID’s next year when they expire, if we’ll get new ones or not. It’s really going to suck if we don’t get new ID’s because we won’t be able to get groceries at the Commissary. I’ll have to revamp my shopping style and cut down on groceries since they’re so expensive anywhere else.
Saturday I discovered that there is a garage sale at 8am that is supposed to have lots of little girl stuff, name brand stuff, from ages 0-3T. I’m hoping they don’t have things too expensive and can stock up on things for Maggie! We’ll see… We’re going to the Farmer’s Market afterwards and I’m not sure what else. Jacob is off Friday through Sunday.
No plans Sunday either other than Church and teaching the 2’s/3’s at the 10:45 Service. I’ll be doing that through the 30th of August. We’ll have to see if I can make it that far because I think that I might be fighting with water retention the farther along I get! I’m not going to want to go into public if I’m swollen up like a balloon. One of my friends from Great Falls had that happen to her the last couple weeks of her pregnancy and there’s no way I’d want to go out in public blown up like that. I’m just too big to start out with. Fortunately for her she was a little cutie and it didn’t look too bad on her!
This next week we have nothing going on at all. I’m probably gonna go crazy from boredom. The house is usually pretty clean so that won’t take much time at all. I’m hoping to go to a movie with Cindy, but that will depend on her husbands’ schedule. We might get another game in on Friday, but that will depend on Cindy’s husbands schedule too!
There is a big sale at Kid to Kid on Friday the 24th. You can stuff any $1 in your bag for $5. I’m hoping they have a lot more $1 items cause last time I went they didn’t have hardly anything that I was interested in and nothing in sizes for Anna, David, or John. Saturday the 25th the Aurora Public Library resale shop will be having a 50% off the whole store sale (excluding clearance items). I’ll probably go and check it out, but I’m not looking for anything in particular! Apparently Doug is looking for Robert Jordan and Tom Clancey books. This was Mom’s suggestion for me to get him for Christmas.
I’m still hoping to be able to make it to Idaho/Washington for Christmas during the break the kids have. I’d like to stay up there for at least a week, depends on how much time Jacob ends up taking off when Maggie’s born.
Well we pretty much hung out at home today. Watched some TV and the kids played downstairs. Jacob got up around 1 and I started organizing the craft room downstairs. I stopped when Jacob got up. Made spaghetti and salad for dinner.
Jacob suggested that we go for a walk this evening. The weather was rather cool so we started walking through the greenbelt. Stopped at the School and the Pool playground for break. At the Pool playground Jacob and I played a bit with the Frisbee he brought, haven’t done that in awhile. When we got home David fell on the floor and declared, “I thought I was a gonner!” It was pretty funny because we probably went less than half the distance of our normal walks with two play stops along the way so it was just a very leisurely walk. :O)
Anyway, I’ll wrap this up for today. Hope you have a great weekend!
***On Facebook I have a virtual aquarium with several realms and one of those realms I let John pick out the castle style and color (green of course). Anyway, I was tending to John’s realm and he said, “Mom where is my castle?” and I was like, “It’s right there." Then John said, “But it doesn’t have a door.” (It’s a very tiny door for a castle.) I pointed to it, “It’s right there.” And he was like, “Oh, but where is the garage door?”
Anna also said something pretty hilarious the other day. I was sitting in my chair watching a squirrel eating from one of the bowls outside and Anna was sitting on the couch across from me when I said (out loud), “I just want to pick one of those squirrels up and squeeze it. They look so cute and soft.” And Anna chimed in, “You don’t want to do that, it will probably scratch your face off and it might have rabies.” LOL It was so funny because this is exactly what we’ve told the kids when they’ve mentioned something about petting the squirrels! It’s amazing and rather funny at times what they remember you tell them! :O)
Wednesday July 8th, 2009
Well, I decided that I was tired of looking at my lawn looking all long and unkempt outback, so even though I mowed Sunday, I mowed again today only I put the mower on a lower setting so the lawn would be shorter and hopefully I won’t have to mow so often. Not sure why it grew so much in the last three days, but it really didn’t even look like I mowed on Sunday, very frustrating!
I also had Anna retrieve the shop vac from the basement and help me clean up all the sunflower shells that were all over the concrete outback, just looked really messy.
Now John is up in his room with a movie. I’m hoping that he will just fall asleep. Yesterday he didn’t stay down and when I sent him to his room as a punishment around 3 or 4 he fell asleep and didn’t want to get up till several hours later. That completely screws up his night schedule, so I wanted to get him down earlier today!
Anna and David have been playing Legos almost all day. They’ve only taken a couple breaks to eat really. They’re playing in the dining room now!
Thursday July 9th
Well, yesterday when Jacob got home I had dinner ready. I made stroganoff and green beans; Anna actually ate almost two plates full. I had seconds as well, but I really need to stop doing that, though I did only have an apple and some almonds for lunch?! We watched the last movie I rented “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li”. It was an okay plot, but the fighting was really cool! Gave me some really awesome ideas for my character in the Rune Soldier game we’ll be playing tomorrow!
Today I didn’t get up till after 7:30. Had a lot of baby dreams last night. Don’t remember very many details until one of the last dreams when we had baby girl on the floor in a basket and David accidentally stepped on her head. I woke right up after that! Not a good dream to have! That’s exactly why I want to get a pack ‘n play to keep her in when we aren’t holding her so there’s no chance of her getting stepped on or sat on! Still haven’t found the kind that I’m looking for, but I did post a want ad on Craigslist so I’m hoping someone will see it and write me back about it. So far I’ve only gotten advice about how to find one, sights to join or check out.
I think the kids are up in the boys room finishing up a movie that they were watching last night. I didn’t put them to bed till after 10 last night. I do need to get them going for the day though because I have decided that we are going to go to that 20% off Sale at Kid to Kid today. They open at 10, but I plan to be there a bit early for better parking and will hopefully be one of the first ones in the door. Their summer stuff is suppose to be up to 90% off and I plan to get baby girl stocked up for next summer! I guess I could calculate out until age 2 or 3, but I really don’t want to store the stuff that long and they’ll have another sale like this next year, so I can do the same thing next year! I’ll have to check out the stuff for the other kids too, but I think I find better deals for the older 3 at the Thrift Store. I’ll look anyway though!
Well, I better go for now, it’s 8:23 and I’m not sure if the kids are actually up. I did hear Anna come out of her room and she never came downstairs, that’s why assumed that went into the boys room. I need to get them all ready for the day and breakfasted! Will write more later today! :O)
2:39 p.m. ~The kids and I went to Kid to Kid this morning and found a few items for baby girl at 6/9 months. I’m not sure where the 12 mo stuff was, oh well. I was expecting more to be on sale, but I just didn’t like most of the items they had available today. I mostly got onesies or items that I can pair with other things I already have. I got John a Lightening McQueen baseball cap and Anna got an Eric doll w/ accessories. Didn’t find anything for David. I got 20% off my whole purchase, but some of the items were suppose to be 50% off first then 20% off and I didn’t get the first discount so I have to go back and get that fixed before we got and meet Jacob for dinner. I also want to try and find a pair of socks that I bought, but didn’t make it in my bag for some reason. Very frustrating cause they were super cute and I had found two other pair of socks to get them all at 3 for $1 instead of 40¢ ea. So hopefully I can find them! I called the store, but they didn’t see them anywhere. I’m not sure why they didn’t make in the sack cause I saw them on the table before the lady loaded everything in there. Maybe she accidentally pushed them on the floor when she scooped everything up.
I’m gonna get the kids ready to leave here in a few minutes. Don’t want to wait too long, I’ve just got the feeling that someone else found them and bought them, they were so darn cute! I’ll let you know when we get back from dinner!
Saturday July 11th
~The kids and I went back Thursday afternoon after John was up. Didn’t find the socks even though we combed the whole store. I did end up getting Anna a really cute pair of dress shoes in pink and three more pair of socks. I don’t need anymore 0-3 mo socks!!!
Friday was very busy! In the morning we got up late, but had to get ready for a trip to the Hospital, where baby will be born, for a tour. This is a new Hospital that we are going to. John was born at a different Hospital with midwives and since the problems last year with the miscarriage and trying to get regulated were taking so long I decided that I wanted to go with OB’s this time around. My PCP recommended the practice I’m seeing now. The tour was at 11 and lasted an hour. So very boring! I already knew all the info, but just basically wanted to find out the layout of this Hospital versus the other one. I also wanted to know what was available in the rooms; they don’t have fans in the bathroom so I will have to bring my own for white noise so I can sleep! Other than that the info wasn’t much different than any other hospital that I’ve been to, so there really wasn’t any need to bring the whole family. Oh well!
After the tour we went and picked up lunch on our way home. We needed to be home by 1 for our role-playing game. We arrived 10 min before 1, but our guests didn’t show up till a quarter after and even later! Not sure why it’s so hard to keep to a schedule. It’s the same one we’ve been keeping for a couple weeks now, but it seems to be getting harder and harder for them! We have another game on Tuesday and hopefully Wednesday then we are probably going to be taking a two week break before starting back up again?! Cindy’s husband is coming back from his 5 wk training course in the Springs at the end of next week and she’s not sure of his schedule yet (neither is he). Jacob will be leaving on the 27th for CA till that Friday (31st) so we can’t do anything that week. The role-playing game lasted till almost 5 and then we had to call it quits because everyone needed to go.
That evening we were expecting the delivery of our new washer and dryer. They told us at Lowe’s that they’d be here after 4. At 5:40 I finally got Jacob to call and find out where they were and when they’d arrive. He got the answer between 6 and 8. Fortunately by the time he got off the phone it was about 5:55 and they called shortly after 6 to say they’d be here in a few minutes. Took ‘em quite awhile to get the washers hauled downstairs and the old one’s upstairs. They didn’t leave till around 7:40ish, but now we have a brand new washer and dryer that are pretty cool! Can’t wait to try them out and to not having to dry clothes for 2+ hours.
Today I was hoping to get to the Farmer’s Market at the Southlands Mall and check things out there, plus a few other shops around there. The Southlands Mall is an outdoor Mall, each of the shops is individual shop that you access from outside. Kind of like an Old West Town of shops would look, but modern! However Jacob didn’t get to bed this morning till 3:40 and he slept till a bit before 10 this morning. It’s now 11:18 and he’s getting dressed and should be down shortly, but the Farmer’s Market ends at 1pm and I really didn’t want to get the leftovers from there. Fresher is better! Oh well maybe another weekend. They only have the really large markets on Saturday there, which are when most of the vendors show up.
I went to Hobby Lobby by myself once Jacob was up and also stopped at a Kids Furniture and Baby stuff shop that I had always thought was a Daycare Center. Everything was way too expensive for me!
When I got back home we ate lunch and then headed to Southlands and got a few things at Babies R Us, Walmart and Sams Club. Jacob had to be back by 5:30 for his RPG and we got back a little after 4. The kids and I didn’t do much in the evening, just watched some movies and they played a bit.
Sunday July 12th
~Today was pretty typical: Went to 1st Service, I taught the 2’s/3’s 2nd Service, though I only had two kids (Jacob came and took the boys home so they wouldn’t have to stay). Then Anna and I went and got groceries at the Commissary. Watched a couple movies. Jacob took a nap to get ready to start his night shift this evening (he just left about half an hour ago) and I just put the kids down for the night. Jacob’s working night shifts all week 10pm to 6am. I am trying out our new washer and dryer. I’m hoping it finishes by the time I’m done with this and I can put everything in the dryer then it should be ready first thing in the morning!
Well I better go, it’s after 10 and I don’t want the kids to get up before me. Anna’s suppose to stay in her room and get it cleaned up, but the boys will probably start running wild through the house and Jacob will be home by then sleeping so I need to try and keep them quite. I’ll write more soon!
~I was brushing Anna’s hair yesterday afternoon because she wanted me to put a ponytail in her hair, as I was brushing it out I told her she had a lot of rats in her hair and when I was finished, John, who had been sitting next to me the whole time watching, came closer to her hair and ran his hand through her pony tail and said, “I don’t see a mouse in there!”
He’s has some of the greatest comments sometimes and almost the best timing of the kids of coming up with hysterical comments, though I don’t know if he realizes that what he’s doing.
Also yesterday evening, Jacob, John, and I were sitting around the dining room table. John was playing with one of his Lego people and the Lego castle Jacob glued together and started doing the breathing like Darth Vader does in ‘Star Wars’, you know the raspy throaty breathing, usually before he says, “Luke, I am you’re father!”. Anyway, he was doing a really great job, breathing and making his character do a dialogue when all of a sudden he started choking on his own saliva because he just had too much in his mouth.
He was okay, recovered very quickly, but it was just so funny because that’s a very similar situation to what happened in the movie “Space Balls” when their version of a Darth Vader character couldn’t breath in his mask, sounded just like what happened with John! LOL :O)
So that’s something a bit different to read about for once. I’ll try and put more stuff like this in from the kids. Stuff like this happens all the time I just forget to write it down. Actually there was one other instance yesterday with John, but I can’t remember exactly what he said, but it was just perfect timing to something Jacob said and again, so very funny! Maybe he’ll be our family comedian?! :O)
Well, it’s the 6th already. Yesterday we didn’t do anything too interesting. None of us got up till after 8 because we stayed up late Saturday night watching fireworks. (Didn’t get home till a little after 10.) Jacob made pancakes for the kids and I had potatoes and ham. Jacob installed the new ceiling fan, but discovered that one of the glass covers for the lights was broken. We installed 2 of the 4 light covers and then used 2 covers from the light fixture that we didn’t use from the ceiling fan in our room. It looked alright, but I wanted to see what they had at the Hardware Store and since we needed to go anyway to order the new washer and dryer we went and looked at Lowe’s. I ended up getting a smaller cup with beaded glass tinted a very light amber/gold color. It looks better with the gold details on the ceiling fan than the white frosted cups did. Jacob also purchased a duct cleaning system and decided to clean out the dryer vents to make sure that wasn’t the reason behind our dryer not working (then he could go back and cancel our washer/dryer order), but turns out the vents weren’t hardly dirty at all, so we are getting a new washer and dryer Friday evening! Yay! :O) This new set will really cut down on my washing/drying time and also save lots of energy due to the sensing technology that it has when you load the washer. It can tell how heavy the load is and only provides enough water for their weight. It’s pretty cool! It’s a top load washer and front load dryer like we already have only maximum capacity. It will make doing bedding and 6 persons worth of laundry so much easier!!! I’m really excited! :O)
I did a bit of work myself yesterday. I just mowed the lawn outback and hooked up the new fanning sprinkler head to the hose for the kids to play in. I also started working on the dragon part of the mural downstairs. I mostly got the outer body part of the dragon done, but had to stop because I didn’t have the picture with me to tell what all I should paint. This is just the first coat for the dragon body. It’s a really large dragon. She’s about as tall as me and 4 times as wide at least! She’ll be super cute when I’m done with her. I’ll take pictures and post them on my blog!
Today I’m doing a lot of cleaning. Already washed two loads of laundry, put a load of dishes away, and made a large pot of sweet tea. Stripped my bed and re-made it. David’s been bathed and the kids are dressed and have eaten breakfast. I cleaned all 3 of the bathrooms and washed down a portion of the kitchen counters and the garbage compactor. Took out the trash too (though the main garage will need to be taken out this evening for trash collection tomorrow morning). We will be leaving here in about 10 minutes to go and meet Jacob for lunch. We’ll be arriving a bit early and ordering his food so he’ll be able to eat when he arrives. We’re going to BJ’s, it’s a really yummy restaurant here!
Tuesday July 7th, 2009
~Well, we met Jacob for lunch yesterday and the timing of everything arriving couldn’t have been better because he just sat down as they brought out his food. He wanted a mini pizza and the lunch version comes with a salad so he ate that too! He was stuffed afterwards. Anna ordered chicken strips with wedge fries and the boys had a mini burger with wedge fries too, though between them all they only ate one meals worth (it was their snack later when they got home and realized they were still hungry). I got the half sandwich with salad and fries. I probably won’t get another sandwich combo because the sandwiches just aren’t as good as the burgers and open face meatloaf sandwich, that one is my favorite! Used my last $5 off coupon so that brought the price down, which is always nice! We might get out one more time Thursday w/ another printed off coupon if I can find it. I think I printed off quite a few, but am not sure where they all went?! Maybe Cindy will go with us this time, I’ll have to ask when she comes over for dinner and a movie tonight!
After lunch we basically just lounged at home till it was time to go to the movie I was going to see with Cindy. We arrived at a little after 4 and waited in the lobby until Jacob arrived to take the kids back home. Jacob is working a regular shift this week so he gets off at 4 every evening through Thursday. Anyway, Cindy and I watched “Land of the Lost” at the Cinema Grill. The food was good, but the movie was awful! I wouldn’t recommend even renting it; it’s just a waste of time. If you’ve seen the previews you’ve seen all the funny parts! We talked out at my car for a bit before heading home. Jacob had called about his possible Jury Duty today and he was excused so he went into work today like usual. Though he got another Jury summons in the mail yesterday for August 5th I believe. It’s a one day trial thing, so I’m not sure what’s going to be up with that?! I guess we’ll have to wait and see?!
I put the kids to bed at 8 because I wanted everyone to be up early in the morning to go and rent the new movies for today. I was actually able to reserve my top choice on-line. I rented 3 movies, though we’ll only be able to watch 2 tonight probably. Jacob has to go to bed about 8 every evening when he’s working days, so we’re gonna start the first movie as soon as he arrives home this evening. I have Cindy coming about 4 so that she’ll be here when Jacob arrives. I haven’t decided what I’m going to make for dinner yet, but I need to get some meat thawing or we’re just gonna have to eat cereal or something?!
Have been working more on getting the house clean today. The family room where we spend most of our time is clean as is the kitchen pretty much. There are only a few items that still need to be put away, but I need to make another pot of sweet tea so they’ll go away when I make that! The front room has been straightened a bit and I dusted and wiped some wood protector on the nicer wood furniture in there. I still need to do a bit more dusting, but at least I got the major items done already. The kids helped a lot with running stuff to different parts of the house, that’s how I got the kitchen pretty much cleaned up! There always seems to be items with no place around here and it’s very frustrating just having them lay around out in the open just cluttering up surfaces. I also went through my coupon drawer and cut up the coupons I wanted to keep and threw away all the outdated ones, so that’s not such a mess!
I still need to go up and clean my room a bit. Put away clothes and two baskets worth of laundry; one of which is all linens that I need to organize into our extra clothes closet behind our bathroom. Anna will have to help me fold the sheets so they all fit! The other basket is full of mostly the kids clothes and I think I decided that it will be easier to take it in their room and get it all put away! I have one more load of laundry to do downstairs some time this week. I kind of wanted to get it done before the new washer and dryer arrived so that it’s not so cluttered down there when they install it!
It’s currently 1:28 and John didn’t stay down for his nap so I’m going to go and finish the vacuuming upstairs and get my room cleaned, plus everything else I wanted to get done. Was thinking about washing the windows on the sliding glass door to the backyard and front door so there aren’t hand prints all over them?! We’ll see if I get to that today, it’s not a bit deal…
I might just need to send this letter off before the weekend since I’ve already written so much. Not really a whole lot interesting going on, just routine stuff. Though today I am 31 weeks pregnant, only about 9wish weeks to go. I’m hoping that little lady decides to come earlier than later since I’m already over my total weight gain at the end with John and I’m pretty much expected to gain about a pound a week near the end. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen cause baby girl will be over 9 lbs if that happens. I’m hoping for more around a light 7. :O) We’ll see and I’ll keep ya’ll posted!
Wednesday July 8th, 2009
~Well, I got everything done yesterday that I wanted to get done, cleaning wise. My friend Cindy showed up 20 minutes earlier than I expected, which was okay since I was just hanging up with Sara and getting ready to start on dinner. Made chicken curry for dinner, Cindy had never had any before and said it was good. Jacob got home at 4:15, which is a lot earlier than usual. Dinner was almost ready so we went and ahead and started the movie. We were able to watch the two movies that I had planned to watch. Tonight we will watch the last one I rented and I’ll have to take them back to the Redbox.
This morning I didn’t get up till about 7:30. I stayed up till after 10 with the kids and watched a couple shows that I had recorded. John watched “America’s Got Talent” with me. He took a late nap so I didn’t think he would go to bed at 8:30 when his dad did so we all stayed up. When we do that the kids sleep in till almost 8am or later. It’s nice to be able to get a few things done in the morning, if I get up before them that is…
I’m not sure what we are going to do today other than the movie this evening with Jacob. No plans really. I got all my cleaning done yesterday so I don’t really need to do anything in that department. I’m rather tired today. I think we’ll all just take it easy cause tomorrow we are going to probably go and watch “Kung Fu Panda” at one of the Cinemas in town for free. We’ll see though, I really wanted to make it to this sale at Kid to Kid, which starts tomorrow at 10, but the movie is at 10 on the other side of town. I was hoping to stock up on summer stuff for baby girl for next year and possibly some stuff for Anna maybe. They carry kids clothing sizes from 0-14 I think, so Anna’s in about size 9-10 right now. Though their clothes tend to be on the pricier side than Unique Thrift where I usually shop. However, they just had a 50% off sale for the 4th and I’m waiting a week or two for them to get restocked before I go back there. I think Anna is going to need jeans for school this Fall. I’ll have to do an inventory of the kids clothes and figure out what they will need for School and this winter. We didn’t have much winter stuff last year, but they didn’t really go out much to play so it wasn’t that big of a deal if they were wearing jackets. I think Anna needs a new winter coat though. The one I bought her last year was really getting on my nerves with the whole poofy hood thing (only paid $10 for it at Walmart) so it wasn’t a big loss to donate it to the Thrift Store this summer after our garage sale. Will update this more this evening after stuff happens...
