I can't believe I screwed up my template yesterday. That's what I get for messing around. Damnit! Oh well. I guess if I have time I'll try and re-do the whole site. And I'll learn my lesson... Back the crap up! Geeze, I can't believe I was so stupid. I didn't really like the skin anyway, so now I'm searching for another skin. The other one was really too "girly".
Anyway, so we actually got out of the house today. I totally didn't want to sit in the house all day and I wasn't feeling too bad, so I asked Jonathan if we could head to Durham to visit The Str*eets at S*outhpoint. Its this totally awesome shopping center. It has some great stores, i.e., No*rdstrom, Hudson Belk, Abercrombie, etc. and it also has lots of really neat stores on the outside with a 24 cineplex. I occasionally take Sklyer there for some shopping. I haven't really done much shopping this whole summer though. But we went there and bought absolutely nothing, ate dinner at my fav place in the whole world, PF Cha*ngs. Yum. Gotta love some of the Kung Pau Shrimp. It wasn't as hot today as it normally is. I'm sure Chase will be feeling it here in a few hours. After that we saw a movie The Man*churian Candidate with Denzel Washington. Please people, do NOT waste your money. Now normally I love a good Denzel Washington movie, but this one was just plain weird. It was really crowded for a Sunday night, but as we were about 1 hour into the movie I started looking around and you could just see the looks people were giving this movie. It was like everybody was shaking their heads. Too weird for me and my husband and the ending pretty much sucked. It was a decision between Catwoman and this movie. I wish we had seen Catwoman. We saw Spider Man 2 the other night. I was really surprised at that one. It was definitely more chick flick than the last one. I enjoyed it though.
So anyway, I did get out of the house today. Skyler will be back from TN on Tuesday, so I figured we better do the dinner and a movie thing before this coming weekend. We haven't been to about 5 or 6 movies in the 3 years since Skyler has been born. I'm sure once Chase gets here it will be quite some time before we go again. Oh well.
I have two appointments on Tuesday. Its the pre-op hospital visit at 11:00 a.m. and my last OB appt. at 4:00 p.m. At least they are nice and spread out. I dread the whole surgery thing again. It was a great c-section last time. It went too well, if you know what I mean. I had hardly any pain afterwards and I was up running around in no time flat. Everyone who has ever had a c-section says they didn't have an experience like mine. I think I had so much adrenaline running through me when I had Skyler that I was just on absolute cloud 9 or something. I know I won't be so lucky this time. But we can hope.... Please keep us in your prayers.
Well I guess I better head off to bed. I'll try and mess with the template again tomorrow. I can't believe I was so stupid to screw it up. Just chalk it up to the pregnancy syndrome!
Start all over... Monica;
Screwed... - Saturday, August 07, 2004
Yes, I just TOTALLY screwed up this blog! All the hard work to change my template, down the drain in a matter of a few short clicks... Damnit!!!
Screwed... Monica;
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Deck
Monica; Finally, some work gets done... -
Today is af momentous day! I have had this long list of things that needed to be accomplished for quite some time. You know, those household things that need to be done before a baby comes home. Move the room around, get out bassinet and put together, install car seat, etc. I had made up a list of about 30 things that needs to be done before the baby arrives and Jonathan finally started on it today. There were other things on the list to that needed to be done/finished. A few weeks ago Jonathan had put one coat of sealant on the deck, but he had never finished it. I.e., where we get back to Jonathan starting things but never actually "finishing" them. Well today he and Bruce finally finished the second coat on the deck and front porch! Woohoo! I'll include a pic I took of the finished deck. It looks great! Yeah! Now we just have to put all the toys back on the deck and we are ready to go.
Jonathan has about 5 things checked off the list, so he still has a ways to go, but at least he has started. He knows that we are less than one week away from Chase's birth. I thought he was being all sweet and everything until he says today, "Yeah I was trying to get some of this stuff done today so I can go play golf tomorrow." Wrong! Wrong thing to say to pregnant woman who is practically house bound!!! Not to mention I do not have a paycheck coming in at this moment and golf is not a cheap sport! Then he tells me next Friday is a softball tournament he is supposed to play in. Um, hello. Next Friday is the day your son is going to be born. Now I know he is just messing with me because he doesn't seriously think he is going to attend a 7:30 a.m. c-section and then play a softball tournament that night does he? Not!!! Believe me, if I said it was okay, he would be there in a heartbeat.
I am going absolutely bonkers! I am soooo bored. I am so bored, I actually wish Skyler was back home so I could have something to do. I miss the Little Booger to death. She is my world. I still wonder how she is going to handle a new baby in the house. She has never really been around an infant. She seems to really like them when she sees them, but I'm sure it will be a whole different ballgame when its Mommy and Daddy who has the baby all the time. Not to mention the fact that she is a "Go Go Go Girl." The first thing she asks in the morning when she wakes up is "Where are we going today Mommy?" And normally she and I eat our breakfast and get our showers on the weekends and head out the door to some museum, park, water park, etc. At least the day I come home from the hospital is her first day at school. So she will at least have that to look forward to.
I went to the consignment shop yesterday and got Skyler some more clothes. I just love our consignment shop here in town. I don't buy Skyler any new clothes at all any more. The consignment shop only takes really nice, quality clothes and they are like more than 1/2 the price of the new stuff. I love buying the Tommy, Polo, Gymboree, Gap stuff and paying very little for it. I could never afford that stuff new. I can't see paying $40.00 for a Tommy outfit when I can get it for $6.50 at the consignment shop. A few weeks ago I even took some of Skyler's stuff there. I was really surprised that they only took like 30% of the stuff I took. I mean I didn't take anything that was worn or had stains on it, but they are very particular about what they take. I then received store credit for the stuff I took and we bought a few things for Chase and Skyler some school dresses. She should be pretty set for school now. Since I buy 95% of her clothes from the consignment shop, I do buy her good Stride Rite shoes. We usually go to Concord Mills in Charlotte to shop at the Stride Rite outlet, but this year I figured I wouldn't be making any shopping trips for awhile, so I bought her some shoes from the regular Stride Rite store. They had a buy 1 get 1 1/2 off sale. You know me, Ms. Cheap. I can't pay full price for anything.
I couldn't tell you the last time I bought anything for myself. You don't know what size you are going to be for awhile after you have a baby. It was great when I had Skyler. I only gained about 7 pounds (I am overweight beforehand) with the pregnancy and one week post baby, I had lost 19 pounds! I have only gained 3 pounds with this pregnancy. Of course I need to lose about 75, so that isn't saying much. But at least I didn't bulk up another 50 pounds or anything. My dream would be to have gastric bypass surgery and lose all this weight. But I don't know if insurance would cover that for me or not. I read one lady's journal who has had it done. She was even nice enough to write me back one time and give me some of the details of the surgery. Online journalers are so cool sometimes. I really don't have any readers yet or anything (and may never have because I'm not a great writer or anything), but the few I have met online and spoken with are really nice and interesting people.
I know, I'm rambling today, but I just don't have anything exciting to write about. I wonder sometimes how these ladies who are such great journalers who stay at home have so many interesting things to write about. I guess they just have more exciting lives than I do. Or they are more creative writers. I am definitely not a writer.
Well I have wasted enough of your time. Until tomorrow....
Finally, some work gets done... Monica;
Counting Down the Days... - Friday, August 06, 2004
I haven't written in the journal in a few days because....well basically because there isn't squat going on. I am so bored I am about to go bonkers! I feel like total crap and I feel like my stomach is ready to explode at any moment. Jonathan has been working late every night and I can't sleep worth sh--. Complain, bitch, moan, groan... You get the general idea.
Today I actually got out of bed, took a shower and mozied on over to Wal-Mart to pick up my glasses. Since they won't let you wear contacts in the operating room and I am blind as a bat and I haven't had my glasses updated in like 4 years, I figured I better get a new prescription so I could actually see my child in the operating room. I hardly ever wear my glasses, except at night before I go to bed. So I hadn't bothered to have them updated. But when it got to where I couldn't see the clock or even read any writing on the television, I pretty much knew it was time to break down and buy a new pair. One thing I learned... DO NOT buy your glasses from your eye doctor. I bought the lenses for 1/2 price from Wal-Mart than what I would have paid my eye doctor. Geeze. Talk about a rip-off.
Tonight Jonathan and I are going out to eat and to the movies. I guess it will pretty much be the last time we go out for quite some time. Since we don't live near any family or anything, getting a babysitter is pretty difficult. I feel pretty much like crap and can barely walk more than 20 feet at a time, so I'm not sure how its going to go.
I talked with my mom today and she said Skyler was doing fine. She has refused to talk to me on the phone for the last two days. Skyler isn't much into talking on the phone. But of course it hurts my feelings because she won't even speak to me. She would be perfectly happy living with Mamaw and Papaw in TN forever I'm sure. She has been helping Papaw pick the green beans out of the garden.
Jonathan has really been getting on my nerves here lately. The other day my parents weren't home at like 10:00 p.m. with Skyler and being pregnant and neurotic at the same time, I'm thinking, "Have they been in a car accident?" Jonathan was watching tv and I was trying to talk to him and instead of hitting the mute button and listening to what his 9 months pregnant wife had to say, oh hell no... He turns up the volume on the tv to drown me out! Now mind you, not only is that RUDE, but its even MORE RUDE when its your grouchy, bitchy, cranky 9 months pregnant wife! He really pisses me off sometimes. He was definitely raised in a barn. You read all these stories of these ladies who say their husbands treated them like queens while they were pregnant. Not my husband. Its the same ole same ole for him. He hurts my feelings in one way to, he isn't considerate of me being pregnant and feeling like sh-- and he hasn't felt the baby move or kick one single time. Its not surprising though because he didn't with Skyler either. But when you watch A Baby Story on TLC or something and you see all those daddies to be cuddling up to their wife's stomach and talking and feeling the baby. Well it just hurts my feelings. I don't think Jonathan can relate to the baby whatsoever until it actually gets here. He basically thinks it doesn't exist until its out and breathing on its own. Whatever.
Well I know I have at least one reader, hello Jenni! I haven't figured out how to write back to her yet, so if your reading this, forgive me. She is pregnant to and with 3 other kids, so I'm feeling for her. Here I am bitching about being pregnant and I only have one other child to worry about.
Well I have run out of things to say for today. Enough of the bitch session for this Friday. I'm going to lay down and rest awhile. Until tomorrow....
Counting Down the Days... Monica;
- Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Shake it!
Monica; Is It Ever Going to End... -
So FINALLY after I went to the doctor yesterday my OB/GYN put me off work. I was really beginning to wonder if she was actually going to let me work up until I had the baby. This pregnancy was so different from the last one. Last time she basically wanted me on bed rest at about 7 months. But, of course, I didn't have any short term disability then, so I had to truck on and work 1/2 days for the entire remainder of my pregnancy. But this time, when I actually have short term disability, I get to work all the way up until approx. 2 weeks before I deliver. I guess if I wanted to "force" the issue, she would probably have let me work through the rest of this week, but I am so exhausted and the contractions are so bothersome, I'm actually glad she finally took me off work. I'm just hoping I left everything in order at work so everyone can take up my slack. I know it really sucks when someone goes on maternity leave and a co-worker has to do my job. But this should be the last time I'll be taking a maternity leave.
As far as I know, Jonathan still plans on having a vasectomy a few months after Chase is born. He really wants me to just have my tubes tied, but he is the one who is adamant that he doesn't want any more children. So my philosophy is, if you are the one who is hell bent on not having any more kids, then you can go get your "nuts nipped" as he likes to call it. At least he isn't one of these fraidy cat men who says no one is touching my "jewels". Get over it. Its like hardly any pain at all from the men who I have talked to who had it and your walking out the same day and back to work within a couple of days. Men!
Skyler left with my sister the other day to head to Tennessee. She loves going home to see her mamaw and papaw. I miss her terribly, but it is nice to have the house to myself. No work, no toddler, etc. I don't know what to do with myself! Sleeping in is definitely at the top of my list. I just hate it though because I sleep in and then I can't fall asleep until 1:00 a.m. I think 5 - 7 hours is about my maximum of sleeping. Jonathan requires 8 to 10 daily. He is in for a world of hurt when Chase gets here. You forget about those long months of no sleep and getting up 5 or 6 times a night for diaper changes and feedings. He was very helpful with Skyler, but I wonder how he is going to be this time. He has basically been sleeping downstairs in Chase's room since I was about 6 months pregnant. I think/know he prefers it. I really got to tossing and turning and he snores something awful, so to save peace in the house, he moved downstairs to sleep. I know he gets a lot more sleep down there. He did the same thing when I was pregnant with Skyler and after she was born he moved back upstairs with me. He would get up with her at night, change her diaper and then bring her to me to feed. It was very helpful and I hope he will do the same again this time. At least Skyler will be in school 5 days a week, so Chase and I will have lots of alone time together. I'm already dreading going back to work and leaving him with a babysitter and he isn't even hear yet!
I just can't wait to see his sweet little face. I can't completely relate to him until I see him. I have all the fears and probably more that most new moms have. I wonder how am I ever going to love another child as much as I love Skyler. Everyone says it just comes naturally and you will love them both the same. I also worried about having a boy. I have always been around little girls and I know NOTHING about little boys. Jonathan keeps telling me that all the women he works with say their sons are always more special to them. Skyler and I are so close. I'm sure Chase and I will be to. I think a lot of it also has to do with Chase was a "surprise". We weren't trying to have a baby or anything, it just kind of happened. With Skyler we actually planned her. And we were fortunate enough to get pregnant on the very first try! Not that we didn't want a second child or anything, it just wasn't planned. Of course, I guess 75% of pregnancies aren't really planned. We had been married for 10 years before we even decided to have Skyler. Definitely too long to wait to have kids that's for sure!
I wonder what I am going to have to write about over the next few days. I'm not working, Skyler isn't here, not much going on here at the house by myself. Jonathan is working and Bruce leaves for work every afternoon. I will probably go stir crazy by the end of the week. I called my mom today to check on Skyler and of course, she is having a blast getting her complete way with mamaw and papaw. God they spoil her rotten. Not that we don't spoil her to, but you know how it is with mamaws and papaws. Especially ones that don't get to see their grandbabies but every few months.
Well I have ran out of things to say. I'm going to go finish up some laundry and rest a bit. Hmmm, sounds really exciting!
Is It Ever Going to End... Monica;
- Sunday, August 01, 2004
Styling
Monica; -
Grocery Shopping at the Children's Museum
Monica; What a Week.... -
Man, what a week we have had. Lets see, where to begin. Well it all started about 2:00 a.m. Friday morning. I had laid down to go to sleep around 10:00 p.m. Thursday night and for some reason I tossed and turned for hours. At approximately 2:00 a.m., I started having contractions and they were coming pretty frequently. So I finally woke Jonathan up and we headed to the hospital. Once we got there they hooked me up to the machines and the contractions were coming about every 4 minutes, but they were fairly mild. To make a long story short, we ended up spending about 5 hours at the hospital and then we were sent home. My doctor was actually on vacation last week, so I'm kind of glad we didn't have the baby. The doctor that was on call is the ONE doctor in the practice that I really don't care for. She did my post work when I had Skyler and also saw me when I had the stitches bust open at about 7 days after Skyler was born. She never even came in to see me the whole time I was there. The nurse just kept calling her and asking her questions, etc. So anyway, no baby Chase yet. I do have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. I'm wondering since I've been having all these contractions over the last few days if maybe she might move up my c-section? We can only hope. I feel like I'm about to explode!!!!
This has been a busy weekend and I have really overdone it I'm sure. My sister, her husband and their daughter came from TN for the weekend. My brother-in-law had a chess tournament here in town, so Becky and Sienna stayed with us. Yesterday we took the girls to the Children's Museum here in town. I'll put up a couple of pics with this post. We spent about 5 hours at the museum and Skyler was pooped by the time we left. We had a great time, but its just getting really hard for me to walk around. I basically walk a few feet and then sit down and rest. I feel like a beached whale that's for sure.
I can't believe Chase's birth is less than two weeks away! Today Becky, Sienna and Haskell headed back to TN. They went ahead and took Skyler home to TN with them so I could rest next week. They are going to take her to my mother's house tomorrow and she will spend the week with her mamaw and papaw. My parents will be coming back to NC on Saturday or so and stay through the following week to be here for the birth on the 13th. That is if I make it to the 13th. I will be 37 weeks pregnant on Tuesday. This has been the longest pregnancy in history. It seems Skyler's pregnancy just flew by, but this one has taken forever. Maybe its just that second baby syndrome. I have been so much more tired, etc. I guess because not only have I been working full time, pregnant, but also taking care of a toddler. Don't get me wrong, Skyler is actually pretty good. I am really going to miss her this week. But it will be nice to have an entire week to myself to just rest, pick up the house and basically prepare for the birth. What the hell am I going to do with myself this week?
I have so much stuff to do, its pathetic. I still have lots of things I really need to get for Chase. I have most of the major things already since Skyler is so young. But I do need some more boy clothes, a new changing pad for the changing table, cover, etc. I also need to get prepared for Skyler to start school on the 16th. I'll probably still be in the hospital, so it will be up to either Jonathan or my mom to get her to her first day of real school. She has been going to summer daycare at the school all summer, but "actual" school starts on the 16th. I dread having to put her in a dress every day. They were allowed to wear shorts in the summer, which was really cool. We already have her new Tinkerbell backpack and lunch box. I just need to go buy all of the school supplies from the list they have prepared for us.
Also, next week I have to get Skyler registered for dance class. I am really excited about her starting ballet. I think she is going to get a real kick out of it. I wish I could find her some kind of music class, because she loves to sing so much. She definitely thinks she is an entertainer. We were at the Olive Gar*en the other night and were waiting for our table and she decided to give her first singing concert. She began to sing the in the lobby and everyone was standing around looking at her and when she finished, everyone clapped. I almost cracked up. Then this lady comes up to her and gives her a $1.00 bill and tells her that she knows she is going to be an singer/entertainer when she grows up and she wants to give her her first dollar for her first performance. We put it away and if she ever becomes an singer, we'll have it framed for her. I thought it was hilarious. If only your kids could stay so innocent for so long. I dread the teenage years that's for sure! I'm sure she won't be this sweet and innocent for long.
Well I about pooped, so I better head off to lie down for awhile. I'll try and write more tomorrow. Sorry for the 3 day delay!!
What a Week.... Monica;
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