Undone

So I am a planner. I like to have things work in my orderly way. Which makes having a c-section really good in a lot of ways (haha, I went like five words without talking about the baby! AHAHAHA!) because i know exactly what day I’m going in and having a baby. Or at least I will. Once I get to the point where I can schedule that. I need to ask my doctor “Oh hey when am I scheduling that?” tomorrow. I wish I could know right now. LOL. But It has started to occur to me that unlike the last time I went to the hospital– this will be quite different.  Before, Scott and I slept restlessly (or at least I did) until the alarm went off, and we drove our car to the hospital and I got all ready for surgery… at 6 am.

This time, we will wake up, get ourselves ready, and hopefully have someplace, or someone to come watch Katie while I go to the hospital and get all ready for surgery. I am planning that I will get her ready before I go. It’s weird though, to think that I have to have a plan in place for her until I go to the hospital. I guess (in thinking about it now) she will at least have DQ here until 10:30, and I’m guessing that DQ will probably just take the day off the day I have the baby…. well maybe LOL. at the very least she’d have someone here for her to scream at.

It’s kind of funny that I often forget that DQ lives with us. It seems like a weird thing to forget, but she is often doing her own thing with our friends, or hanging out with family. She’s pretty dang socially active. LOL.

I think that’s it for now. I cannot believe that it’s almost May, Katie is almost 2, and I am almost a mom x2! WTH?!

Derringer Meryl [Soon to be chorused by MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY!] Out

I have been trying for … a while now ( a great while, since November) to read Terry Brook’s The Wishsong of Shannara
I have come to the conclusion that it’s not really my cup of tea. However the deal is that Scott will read Twilight if I read Wishsong. So I am starting today… with a renewed effort to read it. Magic and Elves and Such belong in Movies and video games… and table top games. Books, I prefer to have kissing and romance, or something.
I’m TAKING IT BACK!

I do (as a pregnant woman) really have to go to the bathroom once an hour. Sometimes I can make it two…but not often. How annoying.

Things have been good here in lala land. I’m pleasantly suprised how much easier (JINX) that this pregnancy has been for me. Don’t ask me why. I can’t imagine everyone has harder first pregnancies. I think not gaining so much weight has really helped. I htink I’m up to like 6 or so lbs, which is good.

This month is crazy. Work has FOR SURE been crazy.  It’s been so stressful and out of whack that my co-workers are dropping like flies that have just been sprayed with heavy duty pesticides. We’re all tired, we could use a week or two off, that’s for sure. I don’t know what’s going to happen to everyone else when I (and another co-worker) go on maternity leave. It’ll be BIZZARE to be here, and probably pretty stressful. I hope our temps have the hang of things by then. I too have been a temp before. So I feel their pain. On the other hand… I wish they knew more. All with time I suppose.

Do I talk about baby stuff too much? Probably. I don’t care. it’s what’s on my mind the most. I can’t help it.  Katie is starting to kind of, sort of grasp that there is a baby in my tummy. We were looking at pictures online today of one of my online buddies that just had a baby, and she had a pic of prior to labor and her baby afterwards, So I showed Katie that she had a baby in her belly like Mommy and that then the baby came out, and i showed her the pictures of the baby. She said “AWWW baby!” and then i told her Audrey is in my belly and will come out soon too. Katie pointed and said “baby!” and I asked her if she wanted to kiss the baby, and she gave my tummy a kiss. She can be so pleasant sometimes…. othertimes NOT so pleasant.

I am trying to kick my crafting into high gear and finish Audrey’s quilt. You should be laughing becase A) I just found my presser foot for my sewing machine earlier this week (or was it last week) and I haven’t even pulled out the material to start working. HAHA HAHAHA. The funny thing? This quilt I had planned for Midori’s some day baby. I bought the fabric because it was cute, and I can’t resist cute. I’m stealing it from Midori though and Audrey is getting it. i guess it’s not really stealing since I hadn’t given it to her yet. LOL.
There was some fabric i was In L-O-V-E with. I cannot find it. I don’t know the maker, i don’t know the name of the pattern. I do know that it was light blue background with yellow cows (jumping over the moon, of course)  pink cats, green dogs, etc etc. It was beautiful. I loved it. I cannot find it anywhere now. I found it originally when Carebear was preggo with squirt. I wanted to get it, but it was one of those fabrics that you see, fall in love with, look at the price, and put back. LOL. Designer, for sure. I would LOVE to have a nursing cover out of it, or … anything. Seriously, anything out of that fabric would be magic. LOL.

Ok I’m distracted now. Must go insearch of that fabric… beauty.

Derringer Meryl [search search search….] Out

• Boxes in Dining room/Clutter in dining room put away, tossed, or Sent to DI (whatever is appropriate for said item. (Half done, thanks Mom
• clean out clutter in bedrooms (Katie’s room, CHECK!)
• De-clutter laundry room, figure out some sort of organization to work for the four of us living there LOL
• Unpack boxes in the garage
• find Katie’s old clothes, wash them, and put them in new chest of drawers for Audrey
• get chest of drawers for Audrey
• Find a place for sewing stuff, pref UP from Katie.
• Freeze some pre-made dinners for us for after the baby. Take out or ramen noodles… i can’t live on that like I did last time LOL.
• OK this isn’t house work, but it’s one of Scott’s MAIN duties… Find stuff for me to watch while I nurse at all hours of the night

And then….

• Re-arrange furniture…. (goes hand in hand w/master bedroom declutter)
• big trash haul (all trash OUT)
• Plant my tiny tomato planter for the back yard. I think I might put it up on the swingset, to keep the dogs at bay. Still, Tomatoes.
• File and sort through old files. I don’t think I need bank statements from 1996 anymore.

Tonight’s Task? LAUNDRY! BWAHAHA. Oh and moving clothes from drawers to drawers that kind of thing. Scott’s in Boise (on the road technically) and DQ is at a play with friends. So I am cleaning on up. WAHOO. Hopefully they wont’ come home to find me collapsed in a heap. I’ll keep a cell phone with me. 😉 If I collapse, expect a Call. Except… how would you get in?
Derringer Meryl [Help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!] Out

Nothing happened to me. Lucky me…

Oh except my legs decided to pull a Christopher Reeve and stop working.

Too soon?

Seriously though. I was walking down the stairs, happy as a clam to be getting Katie’s PJ’s for her, and eating a Little Debbie’s snack when i hit the landing (thank goodness) and my foot landed on some DANG toy that Katie had left there. Normally when you step on something your foot says “OW, stop stepping on that” and you recoil, and walk around it. For some reason when i’m pregnant, my body says “Oh that’s no fun. I’m just going to send a signal to stop working” and my whole leg collapses and I fall. It’s like I’m a rag doll… or possibly Woody from toy story. Depending on which you prefer. in any case, I lay in a heap on the landing. I hit my back slightly on the door into the laundry room and I think my shoulder is a bit sore from it. Otherwise I’m fine– and Audrey seemed to be a bit startled, but she’s been active, so I’m not worried. I was worried a bit last night. Audrey is a much more mellow baby than Katie, Which is STUNNING to me, because Katie was very mellow once she was born, so maybe the opposite will happen here? As far as I can see though ladies and gents, Audrey is due to arrive any time from June 10th on. That is to say if I spontaneously go into labor at that point, they’ll let me go. WAHOO. Right? right? Anyway.  And then anytime from July 1st to 8th, I’ll have a c-section if I don’t pop first. 🙂

Crazy right?

The month of march was…. well it was BAD. Healthwise anyway. Katie and I were pretty much rockin’ a sickness every weekend (and sometimes during the week) I’m hoping April changes that. Right now i’m still trying to kick the end of a cold, that is trying very desperately to be some sort of sinus infection.  Mostly I find it annoying. Everything I eat tastes like… Snot. Gross right? yay for grossness. Poor Katie is recovering from the cold too. Plus we gave it to Drama queen, cause we’re sharing people like that.

I’m still searching my house for Katie clothes, soon to be Audrey clothes. I cannot think of where they might be. I am not the most organized mom in the world, apparently.

My Boss at work is helping me think of different things I can cook and freeze (yes!) and store for when i have the baby. Scott made this AWESOME Soup last night that is SOOO yummy (Seriously!) that I ate it for dinner last night, and lunch again today. I will be having it for dinner tonight as well. I love me some soup!! I will probably have him make a bunch of it, and then freeze it in Ziplock Bags in our new freezer.

Derringer Meryl [Good days and bad] Out