Baby overload weekend

Well on the calender was a baby shower for my friend Crissy on Saturday. The shower was awesome, she got some great stuff and she's so big!!! But also she was totally glowing! She looked beautiful for 8 months pregnant! After the shower I went to my mom's... Eric had went to the mall so I had to wait for him, we sat and talked, then Eric showed up and we talked a bit longer with my parents and then we left to go see my sister and her new house. She is a divorced mother of two and I'm so proud of her! She just moved into her first home with the kids 2 weeks ago! The house is a cute 3 bedroom cape, the kids have taken over the 2nd floor and their bedrooms are HUGE! We stayed the night with her and then on Sunday we headed to Cape Cod to spend some time with my niece and great-niece! She is just over a month old and completely adorable! We got to spend a few hours with them before we headed out for the 3 hour drive home! during that three hour drive DH & I finally decided that this will be my last pack of birth control pills. We will spend April, May and June getting my cycle back on track, taking prenatals and then in July we will start baby dancing!

1 month 12 days

My world is filled with dates, meetings, appointments, deadlines and personal wants. Tomorrow is 1 month until my 30th birthday and damm I feel old. I'm tired, and it's more than just not getting enough sleep the past few days. My bones are tired, I feel burned out. My shoulders and back are killing me, my feet are either sweating or they ache or both. I'm constantly hot lately, I've gained almost 10 pounds and the pants I bought to fit my larger thighs no longer fit anymore, I have one pair of pants that fit me right now, a couple fit skin tight... but i'm not about to wear skin tight clothes to work! I have no idea what i'm wearing to work tomorrow... maybe my yoga pants! I just wish I could suck 2" of fat outta my thighs so all my pants will fit me again! Don't get me wrong, I don't mind having curves and whatnot, but when your thighs are ever expanding and you hate clothes shopping, it's not the best motivation. It's 12:32, my husband is home sleeping today, which he did all day yesterday (he got up at 6:30pm) he's supposed to do a lot of errands crap and I don't think he'll get a single one done. I can't do everything... I'm tired, so tired.

Laughter is the key to happiness!

So it's Valentine's Night and DH & I are on the couch watching a movie. DH had put his coat on the back of the couch, where it doesn't belong... he should have hung it up. So sometime during the movie we hear it fall down, neither of us wants to miss the movie so we don't move. Shortly after I can hear one of the cats playing on the coat. I didn't want it to get scratched or ripped so I get up to go hang up the coat where it belongs. I get up and go around the couch and see my boy cat sprawled over the coat, thinking he's playing with a toy I go to shoo him off the coat and I touch the sleeve, it's full! I poke at the sleeve and I hear a MEOW! I look up the sleeve and there is my girl cat STUCK IN THE SLEEVE and the boy is sitting on top of the coat so she can't get out! I was laughing so hard I could barely see! LOL After snapping this photo I got her out of there finally, poor thing kept wanting to go forward out of the sleeve but she just wasn't small enough to fit so it took a few minutes to get her to fall out butt first!

Febuary 2007

Well yesterday was the day, I hit 1 solid month of no smoking. Can I say I'm pretty darn proud of myself??!?!? I've also been trying to cut down on my gum chewing since it's starting to bother my jaw! :-) A few people have asked me what my weekly rewards have been and I must say, I don't have any... I decided I want a new pair of shoes. That will be my reward to myself.

I'm going to get a pair of Birkenstock London shoes!

I can't wait! I just hope I can find a store that sells them around me! I'd rather not buy them online if I don't have to, just incase, I like to try on shoes first! But this way I can wear these to work since they have a heal and I won't get into trouble!

So much is going on right now, I feel a little overwhelmed at times! I'm in school doing 3 classes 4 nights a week right now. Photography 2 on Monday, Drawing 2 on Tuesday and Thursdays and Principles of Sociology on Wednesday nights. I also have my friend Jenny and her wedding to help her plan and we're currently making her invitations and we're going dress shopping for us girls this weekend or next. Then my friend Crystal's baby shower is March 3rd and Katie, my niece had her baby on the 29th of January I have yet to go see! Let alone my friend Spencer who's baby was born just before Christmas I have yet to go see and I never mailed out the congradulations card and I feel very awful about that! It's been so long I can't mail it out now! I sometimes wonder if she thinks I'm a horrible person b/c I haven't called to visit them? First it was the holidays, then Eric got sick, then school started and now I feel awful and feel weird just calling her up and saying hey wanna go for coffee? I really need to though, I feel worst everyday!

5th day...not to bad

well I put on the patch again for what I hope is the last time. In the 5th day now and still going strong. I only had 2 dreams last night, I don't remember the first one anymore, Eric keeps telling me to write in a dream journal but every night I go to bed and forget. The second dream we were all flying overseas, my family and Eric's family. Going on vacation together I guess and we had to be at JFK airport by 11pm but we needed to leave at 4pm to get there intime and Eric was still out shopping for stuff at 4:30pm and I still hadn't packed. LOL it was pretty funny. I remember at one point our friend Josh was in the dream and him and Eric were play fighting with light sabers. In real life I've started to crack down on the extra spending. Eric has one more expensive thing he can buy which is a Wii and that's it! But he has almost 1/2 in gift cards already so it won't be THAT MUCH. We were hopeing to go to Poland sometime this year but the prices are insanely high during the summer and we just won't be able to afford it at all! Really sucks if you ask me, I wanted to go again!

New year, a baby???

Well so 2006 was not the year to get pregnant... my husband lost his job and was out of work for 4 months. Obviously that is not the best time to get pregant! We are now looking to buy a house later this year and I went back to school for fall 2006 semester. I am going to be a matron of honor in a friends wedding this June and she wants me to get pregnant shortly after the wedding so we're pregnant together! LOL I would love to be able to, just not sure if it's in the cards though. DH does talk about babies once in a while, the newest is he wants a May Day baby... umm excuse me let me just say to my eggs, fertilize and go into labor on May First thank you very much... okay crackhead! But I did tell him we can start trying in July of this year and hope for a May 08 baby... I'll be 31, that's not too old. Personally I would want a late may or June baby... then I can just skip summer 08 for school and it'll give me 2-3 months before fall semester starts back up. Now that would be ideal. But we do not live in an ideal world.

Aunt flo has arrived...

And i am surer than sure that there is no baby growing inside me... Eric won't be convinced until we go to the doctors on Monday and I ask for a pee test. Which I will because who knows! I called my Gyno on Monday and they told me to start my new pill pack, which I did that night, Tuesday morning I started my period... it's not a normal one... I have had little to no cramps but I have been moody... it's a very light cycle and I'm now on day 4 with no signs of stopping which is making me irritated since there is almost nothing there but it's still red and looks like my first or second day... Eric once said to me "Never trust something that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die" it makes me laugh. Cycle of life, gotta love it.