Pregnancy Report

Being pregnant is easily the craziest thing I have ever done. Just tonight (about 3min ago) I realized I was super hungry and since I'd been up for about an hour, I made myself some food. I walked away with a bowl of cereal, a PB&J (grape), Root Beer Float, Cheese Cubes and Water. I wanted ice water but we had no ice. Overly emotional crazy me teared up at this realization and nearly cried over my no ice status. I was too distraught to actually fill the ice tray with water and make ice. I bet tomorrow morning I have a repeat performance.

I must say one of the most frustrating things for me about being pregnant isn't the decreased range of motion, the insane desire to clean things, frequent potty breaks, emotional outbursts (see above) or the sleeplessness and feeling tired at the same time. No, it is the 'pregnancy brain.' Anyone that knows me knows how I feel about having things repeated to me, or me having to repeat myself. (Sorry Econ students, I had to be the worst teacher EVER!) So lately when I find myself telling Josh that same story five times, I just want to kick myself. I can never remember who I have told something, so I may end up repeating the same fact or information to one person three times and never tell the other person I was supposed to tell. Then there are times where I swear I ask Josh the same questions four or five times in the same week, and my brain gets slightly angry when he answers because I know I've heard it before but I just can't remember.

My typical response would be anger but I've learned to just laugh at myself. God sure did find a funny way to teach me patience. I thought it would be after the baby was born, but I guess I needed some preparation and I've getting a healthy dose of 'laugh at yourself daily' before he arrives. Hopefully when I do eventually lock myself out of the house, or lock my keys in the car (I have 'tried' to do both of these things at least once a week), I will have the knowledge to just laugh and move on. It has been kind of fun to just laugh at myself instead of getting angry and has made life so much more fun.

I don't know how my dear husband hasn't had me committed to a mental hospital at this point with all the fun and crazy stories he gets to hear about my day. I love that we laugh now more then ever in our marriage and I hope it is something we never lose :)

And in the end, no amount of crazy forgetfulness would ever make we want to give up my son. I may not have met him yet but I love him so much! He is easily the best gift I have ever been given.

Too Good To Be Threw

My church has this amazing sale twice a year called "Too Good To Be Threw" once for Spring/Summer clothing and again for Fall/Winter clothing. Well this time I decided that hey I'm a stay at home mom that currently has no kids at home so why not offer my time and help out.

WOW! They should warn a person what they are signing up for! Our entire church has been overrun with clothing, toys, bedding, books, furniture, etc for children. I mean the ENTIRE church! From our Sanctuary to our Gymnasium.  I spent 8 hours on Tuesday digging through boxes looking for stains, spots, missing buttons, broken zippers, correct tags, etc. Selfishly I keep thinking wouldn't that be cute in my baby's room? But at $1-2 for outfits, jeans, shirts... how can you say no?

My absolute favorite part are the yellow tags. Those are people who 'get' the ministry the church is trying to do. After the sale all the clothing is boxed back up by seller and sent back, UNLESS they have a yellow tag. Then the church boxes them up and donates them :)

Anyway I really loved being a part of the ministry. And I feel super good when last night they called and said they were way behind and needed additional help. So i went back for 3 hours last night as well. They also want me tomorrow morning, and late evening. Not to mention the actual sale on Saturday from 8:30-12:30.

Today was my take it easy day... clean up my own house, actually make a good dinner. Something I have failed to do much of this week as I've been gone in the evening hours. You can only eat leftovers for so long...

Hope to see lots of people at the sale :) I will be the huge pregnant lady in the yellow shirt :)

Day One

I'm not entirely sure how to start this blog... I just deleted my old blog because lets face it, it was just mean. My first big exciting news in the life of me:  My brother-in-law is moving out this weekend :) I could not be happier about this turn of events! We had told him by the end of the month because our son needed a room to sleep in. Not totally unreasonable really. But, it is finally happening :)

I FINALLY picked a bed set for the baby's room and sent it off to my dad. He and my mom are buying me a crib with changing table and dresser for baby's room :) How super nice of them right? While I know this is not even close to their first grandchild (try the 6th) but it is awesome that they are doing this for me as it is my first. I will say I love that I'm 7months pregnant and have already been asked if I want more... umm... maybe? Can I have this one first?

I think I might be addicted to my computer. Or at the very least the internet. I spend more time then I should on messenger every day. Granted it has drastically reduced the amount of texts I send in a month i would HATE to see the total number of tweets/dm/pm/messages that I send online in a given week let alone and entire month. I have a feeling baby isn't exactly going to allow that to continue. I will go through withdraw -lol-

We just got a new computer today as my laptop officially called it quits Sunday morning... the internal processor died. Which costs more to fix then the new computer we just purchased. Pretty sad since two weeks ago I paid for a new hard-drive to be installed on the old guy. All in all we spent $800 this month on computers. It is really weird to have a desktop again but I can't even remember the last time my comp had been moved off it's spot on the desk anyway.

If you are a computer addict you lose a LOT of links and bookmarks when a computer dies :( I've spent a good two hours or so just trying to remember all passwords and websites that I need/use regularly. The hardest to remember were all my IRS tabs I keep for tax season, things that make my life SO much easier when doing returns. I think I got back maybe 50% of them. So I'll have a fun tax season re-looking up all the info I need. I bet it will be good for me.

Ok... well I just turned this blog onto taxes. Sigh, I'm really entertaining right?

Well folks, that about sums up my life today. Nothing too special just day-to-day life.