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31 dicembre

Christmas Report

Our Christmas here was very good

I was sick all Christmas day but fortunately for me, all the festivities were the night before

We woke up Christmas Eve morning and went and ran some last minute errands. Mainly:

Go get a puzzle.

Then CR and L came over about 1 to start cooking the dinner

Which was largely unnecessary because it didn't take that long

But I have found that cooking at the Irish house is interesting

With their mother gone

But even with their mother here

The whole family helps to cook

Or rather, the whole family is The Cook and they try to boss each other around

This results in weird arguments about what is best

That if only one chef were present

he or she would just make a decision and whatever, and I'm sure it would turn out fine

But in a committee of Chefs

All of which who think they are in charge

Things go slower

But these aren't angry fights or anything

But more just annoying I think

So we "cooked" for awhile

Which mostly consisted of me putting things in crockpots

While they contemplated what to

Since our oven is retarded

And after a MONTH of working fine

chose Christmas Eve to break again

And refuse to work at all

So welcome to the world of crockpots and

the neighbors' ovens!

After this, we sat down to do a puzzle.

HM and I bought a box of 5in1 puzzles

All neatly in bags with individual pictures

We shouldn't have been so cheap though

Because these puzzles were crap

The pieces didn't really fit

And they fit in multiple places!

So you would be putting things together

And then realize that you were "done" with that section
but why did you have all these leftover pieces???

So you'd have to go back and REALLY LOOK at the pieces

and most of the time, you would find out that a whole section was wrong

And you had to put the whole thing together all over again

After we did the border---several times

We figured this out

And did pretty well on it for most of the time

Until we got to the end and we only have 5 pieces left

And NONE OF THEM FIT!

After much cussing and frustration, L and CR quit and walked away

I sat there for another 10 minutes

And took apart a whole section of the puzzle

And put it back together again

Until it finally worked

Everyone cheered

And I finally went to stand up from the coffee table

And leaned on the table to get up

And heard a loud CRACK

The glass insert in the table broke in about 5 pieces

And I was mortified

Luckily, D's father works at a glass company

So HM assured me he could get it fixed no worries

But I still cried

Even though I tried not to

I cry over the silliest things lately!

I was more mad that our coffee table was ruined

but that didn't help

I still cried but I think the only one who noticed was HM

Thank goodness

Anyway, the food was finally ready

And everything put together

And we all sat down to eat

Well, most of us anyway

The food looked great

But I could only eat a couple bites

And then felt too sick to eat anything else

We finally all sat down to open presents from each other

We were all doing Christmas morning by ourselves

So we opened presents to the people we drew to buy a gift for

I drew HM's brother CR--I got him a nice dress shirt

CR got me as well

Even though I'm pretty sure his wife is the one who chose the present

Because he/she got me a gift card to a store called Motherhood Maternity

Much needed very soon!

The big present that HM finally made me open WAS very exciting

It was a camcorder/camera/voice recorder/MP3 player

It's a really REALLY nice

And fortunately for me, and for him

He got it for free

See, his Uncle Ron, who is one of his dad's oldest brothers

Bought it for himself and spend a good deal of money on it

But despite all its little things

He couldn't figure out how to work it

So after months and months of messing with it

And trying to get other people to help him with it

He finally gave up and gave it to ST, HM's sister, who has a similiar camera

She couldn't figure it out either

And besides, she already has her camera

She gave it to HM

So HM could give it to me for Christmas!

I did figure out how to use it

But it's kinda a weird camera

And the way you have to hold it so the flash will work is kinda weird

So a lot of the pictures came out fuzzy

Because it's hard to hold

But I hope I figure it out soon

and the pictures will be better than these turned out

(pictures soon to come)

Overall, it was a great Christmas

Kinda quiet and sick, but it was good

It's sure nice to be in warm weather for Christmas

26 dicembre

Holidays

I have such a sweet husband

I'm glad when I'm sick and not feeling good

That he is so sweet and nice

Especially when I feel so bad

Because its Christmas

And I am sick

And we have to cancel our dinner with friends

Because I am so sick

And can't stand even the smell of food

And I cry

And feel so bad

And really want to go

Even though I am sick

Because it's Christmas

And I don't want to be at home

Cancelling plans and sitting at home

When I wish I could be out enjoying Christmas

I am so grateful for a sweet husband

who says to me:

If you are feeling bad about any of this, don't.

I am just as happy to hang out here with you all night

And when he tries to fix me dinner

And I start to cry again because nothing sounds good

He tells me to not feel bad--its okay that I'm sick

And he eats leftovers across the room from me

So I don't have to smell it

And he spends all day with me

reading to me and letting me doze off

Until I feel better

I sure love him for loving me

And for being there for me

24 dicembre

Merry Christmas Eve!

My husband is so funny

He got me some gift and he is SO EXCITED about it

I have no clue what it is

But since...oh... like Saturday morning?

He has been asking me:

So you want to open a present???

And when I say no, I want to wait

He begs: please! Please? You'll really like it!

No, I say I want to wait for Christmas!

He pouts and tells me, okay well...

I guess we'll have to do lots of other things today to get my mind off of it...

lol....

I am excited for his gifts too though, and for Dudey's and for Andre's even!

It's lots of fun

His whole family will be over tonight for a Christmas Eve dinner and opening presents for each other

Then we'll open our presents to each other tomorrow morning

And then, I thought this was kinda odd actually

We got invited to go over to dinner at this couple's house from church

We like them, they are funny

But we barely know them

It seems odd that they would invite us over on Christmas

They just have one little boy but I get the feeling this is a "young couples with barely any kids" party

Whatever though

It'll be nice to go out on Christmas I guess

Make someone else do the dishes...

And I guess HM's family usually goes out to the movies on Christmas afternoon as well

Sounds like a pretty busy Christmas!

I am most looking forward to just sitting around

And eating food and reading books and watching movies

No work, no papers to grade, and hopefully no being sick... hope hope...

This will be the first Christmas is 10 YEARS

That I have not traveled for the holidays

Usually I am driving all day either Friday or Saturday

And sleeping on couches for a week

And getting my car ready to drive cross country

And packing and cleaning my house

And packing up Andre

And doing my Christmas shopping

I miss my family

But it's nice to be able to just stay home for once

I feel bad though that my parents have such an empty house the holidays

It will be just my parents and my three brothers

I wish we lived closer so we could visit without it being a huge deal

For once, all the program kids are gone

But none of the real kids came home

But maybe they will

We were all there for Thanksgiving though

And I guess that's what happens when your kids get married

But still... I feel bad we aren't there

...wish we could be

Well I guess I am off to run errands!

We gotta start cooking and getting ready for tonight

Merry Christmas Eve!

And Merry Christmas!

21 dicembre

Update

Well, just when I thought I was feeling so much better and that perhaps Morning Sickness was behind me, it hit again, worst ever...

I think it has been building up for the last 2 weeks

Because MAN...

I have been SO SO sick this week! Starting Sunday night I started to feel kinda weird and Monday I stayed home from school because I felt so awful and I honestly spent the whole day passed out asleep, no faking here

I almost think that perhaps I had the flu?

I mean I felt hot and dizzy and of course nauseous

Fortunately school is finally over

But still

I am tired of being sick!

I am officially 11 weeks along now

One more week and I'll be through my first trimester

I hope that means I will REALLY start feeling better

I guess it has been awhile since I updated this though

I went to my first doctor's appointment--did I tell you that?

It went pretty well I guess

I had never met my doctor--the secretary just gave me him because he was the only one who sees patients later in the day so I can go to my appointments without having to get out of school.

He is a nice older guy, very friendly, I liked him so that's good I guess

I don't know that he will really be the one to deliver my baby though because he says he might be on vacation in July when I'm due

And besides he said, if I have it at night, which is very likely, the doctor on call will just deliver it, not him anyway

So whatever

But the only bad thing is he could not find the baby's heartbeat

She (it) is still pretty little though so he said no worries

But I have an appointment to go back on the 28th to try to find it again

If they can't find it then we'll do an ultrasound but he said they probably will

And to be honest, he didn't look that hard for it

I mean he did the little dobler thing for like a minute

and then he's like, huh, well can't find it!

I was like, that's it???

Oh well, she's just being shy I guess

So here's

WEEK #10

AKA Why I was so Sick This Week

Week Ten

Baby is now called a fetus in "medical terms". You, however, may have chosen the name "peanut," "angel," "jumping bean" or simply "miracle."
The most critical part of your infant's development is complete. Now you are headed into a period of rapid growth.
While a bit strange to envision, your baby's head is now about half its length - Soon the rest of the body's growth will catch up but this area is prepared to keep up with the rapid brain development!
Eyelids fuse shut and irises begin to develop - Eye color is also determined by this point.
Placenta begins to function this week or next - The placenta is the organ responsible for both the provision of nutrients along with the removal of waste to keep your baby growing strong!
Your baby will be about 1.22 inch long (3.1cm) and weigh 0.14 ounce (4gm) at the end of this week

Last Saturday I got so much done!

For the first time I had so much energy

and I didn't feel sick

So I went out and basically got ALL my christmas shopping done

In one day

Of course I have been sick since then...

So maybe it wasn't so good

But I got everything done

And wrapped

And I am so excited for Christmas!

I love it when you get gifts for people that you know they will love

It's the funnest part of Christmas for me

I mean I like getting gifts but rarely enjoy opening then as much as watching people open theirs

I went early in the morning and I found everything I needed

It was amazing

The only thing I struggled with was this:

I wanted to buy HM a suit coat

He doesn't have one

And he only has one pair of brown pants

But i have no idea how to buy a suit coat without carting the person to the store with me

Which would ruin the whole element of surprise

So I called almost every women I knew

And no one really had any idea

I finally got ahol of my mom and she said maybe he would wear a 46R

This was AFTER I had already just guessed and bought a 44R

GRRRRR

So Sunday, the whole family was over for dinner and HM's dad says to me,

Ya, Cheryl told me to tell you sorry she didn't call you back

She said you had some question about a suit???

STUPID

As HM is standing right there

I just smiled and as soon as HM turned around I mouthed

Ya, SHH! a suit for HIM!

Oh I know, HM's dad says again, but she just said you were going to get someone a suit?

AGAIN, RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM

I was like, are you retarded?!? FOR HM!

Oh I know you are getting it for him, he says again

I could have strangled him

But HM finally left the room and I told him about my size problem and he asked what size

And he said, no worries, that's the size I wear, it'll fit him fine

So that made me feel better

Even though HM might already know his best present... stupid...

So in the future, note to self, ask the dad's about suits, specifically the guy's dad if you want to know about what size suit coat to buy

The only other thing I had to go get for HM was a different book

Because I was with him at Sam's a couple days ago and we go to look at the books

And he picks up the EXACT book I bought him and says:

Ya, I've already read this one, it came out a couple years ago

(I thought I had bought the one that just came out)

He laughed and said Ya, they are just marketing this one along with the new one to fool people

He even opened it and showed me how it was actually published in 1989

GRRR...

08 dicembre

Elf Dance

Watch this! It's hysterical!

This is our family! :) lol... Merry Christmas!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1239688086

You know you want to make one of yourself... it's so tempting

Stuff

I keep checking this and I think, man, I need to update this and then I think about doing it for one more second and I think, nope, I feel like I might throw up if I sat down that long... I think my bed sounds so much better right now...

So sorry friends for not writing

Morning Sickness is getting better...

Today I went almost the whole day without feeling sick

But rather feeling like I was STARVING

So that's a good change kinda huh?

Unfortunately it was a rather rapid change because I didn't even have any food with me because I am usually so nauseaous in the mornings that I forgo making a lunch and just come home to eat during my break...

So I had nothing with me in the middle of 2nd period when I was all of a sudden STARVING TO DEATH.

I ended up digging some change out of my desk to buy some fruit snacks from the traveling fundraising kid

(that's the only thing they can sell in school these days what with the ban on candy around here)

And even though I gave about 1/2 of them away to my class coming in right before lunch

Who apparently were also starving

It helped

God bless fruit snacks

But I feel bad really because so much has happened around here that I have not shared

We decorated our house for Christmas:

put up the tree,

We all decorated the tree together

We wrote our names on our new stockings--even Andre got one--and hung them on the mantle

put up lights outside,

and set out all the decorations we have

The house looks cute

I would still like to add some things, but for now, it's very cute and cozy.

The day after these festivities

was Shawn's birthday (Dec 1st)

So all of his family came over

Plus all two of his best friends

And two of mine

And plus some other random people...

About 20 people total

Shawn's request for his birthday dinner was Chicken Dumplings

It's his ABSOLUTE favorite

His mother always makes it for him on his birthday

But she's in Alaska with SC helping with her new baby

So I said I would make it for him

On his last birthday, as we were eating it, he tells me

If you ever expect to be my wife, you have to learn to make this.

He was kidding of course, but still... some truth in it...

I was very nervous

I started cooking it about 3 hours early

And the soup part wouldn't thicken

I think I used too much water in the first place

Because after a lot of cornstarch and soup cans later

It was how it was supposed to be

It came out really good

Everyone loved it

At least that's what they said

And I was very tired that night

It was a very good night though

Everyone had a really good time

We ate

Had Shawn blow out candles and open presents

Then we all played games and watched movies

It was nice

See, normally...

His family likes to take the birthday person out to dinner

Which usually means you go to some resturant for a couple hours

You spend at least (usually more) $50 on dinner

Plus getting them a gift

And everyone leaves feeling broke

And you barely spend any time with the birthday person

So for Shawn's birthday I suggested

Why not just have a dinner at our house?

Dinner, cake, presents and games?

Everyone feels broke these days anyway

Why make it worse???

I think everyone was pleased

Shawn said it was the best birthday he has had in a long time

Awh...

Also, that previous Thursday

We were all very nervous

Because Shawn's dad was going to go take his Contractor's License Test

Basically he did it for Shawn and I

Because you have to be able to prove your employment in your trade for 4+ years

Basically, you have to have your "boss" sign a paper that says,

yes, I have been working in this trade for this long

That's hard to do when you work for yourself...

We couldn't figure out any way to make that work

But Shawn's dad has worked for the church doing maintenance work

For the past 12 years... so his was easy!

He will benefit from it too, of course

But mostly, it was for us so that Shawn could bid bigger jobs...

By using his license

Thereby making more money....

And hopefully that will allow for a certain person to not work next year

And be able to stay home with the baby

So this was a very important thing for us

Something that we felt our whole future was relying on...

But his dad wouldn't study very well

And kept putting it off

Even though we found these handbooks

made by the guy who helps make the test

that has every possible test question

You just have to study them

But he would wine and complain

And say he couldn't do it

So we were worried

Shawn rode up with him to Fresno to take his test

The whole way there they studied

Whenever his dad would miss one

his dad would cuss loudly :)

And sulk

and Shawn said,

he acted like a baby the whole way up

He was so nervous

But he went in and took the test

There are two: one for the trade, and one for the Law.

You take one, then you take a break, then the other

So Shawn tells him:

Go in and take one,

Then come out, we'll review a little bit

You can go take the other one

So the "break time" comes:

No dad

Finally an hour later, here he comes

Waving some white papers over his head

running for the car

with tears streaming down his cheeks

yelling

I did it! I did it! I passed!

Shawn and him both cried

So yay for us

That was such a relief

And his dad was also very proud of himself

I guess he didn't take a break

He just took both together

and then at the end, they print your scores

and the rest is history!

One of the bigget benifits to having a husband who

according to him

"can fix anything"

Is that he CAN

And so when he goes to paint apartments at this complex

And he finds stuff that is broken

That is left behind by the previous tenants

He takes it, fixes it

And you would never know that there had every been anything wrong with it

So that means we get a lot of cool stuff

Without having to pay for it

And it's cool stuff!

Shawn did two apartments this last week

And I swear

It's so weird to me

How could you leave a place without taking your stuff with you?

Shawn has been painting these apartments for years now

He is responsible for getting them ready for the next tenant

And honestly

It is MORE COMMON

for people to NOT PACK

and to NOT CLEAN

They go into places to paint them

that are still FULL of stuff

The people

As far as we can tell

Just take a few clothes---if that

and walk out the door

Crazy... how do you do that???

I couldn't do that!

I've thought of doing that before...

but I don't think I could ever do it for real...

I mean, if I had to leave all my stuff behind

I think I would at least straighten up a little...

But hey, whatever I guess...

To each his own!

So this last time,

Shawn brought me back a rocking chair!

It was a little broken but easily fixed

it's one of those slide deals

So cool

And he also got this chair

Looks like a card table chair

wider than normal

with padded back and seat but kinda squatty?

He loves it

Funny though

He was telling me that when he was loading it up

D was complaing about how this was all junk

And why was he taking it and ya ya...

Until finally,

ST--his girlfriend and Shawn's sister

snaps at him:

Look, he needs it because his wife is pregnant and she's going to need a rocking chair soon!

So stop complaining and help him put it in the truck!

She's funny sometimes

I had no idea that being pregnant and having kids necessitated a rocking chair

But apparently it does... or at least it would seem! lol...

And last but not least, this is the baby this week:

fetus, 9 weeks 3d Ultrasound - 9 weeks 3d ultrasound, 9 weeks

Week Nine

Baby has begun movement - While still too small for you to feel, your little one is wriggling, shifting, and dancing already! Makes you almost wish for a window to peek in whenever you want!
Most joints are formed now - and trust that your little one is practicing bending and flexing.
Fetus will curve its fingers around an object placed in the palm of its hand - This is amazing to see! At only nine weeks, if you happen to have an ultrasound, you may observe your infant fascinated by everything he or she can lay their fingers on (mainly other fingers, toes, ears and nose!
Fingerprints are already evident in the skin
Average size this week -- length 0.9 inch (2.3cm), weight 0.07 ounce (2gm)

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02 dicembre

Week #8

Man, another week has gone by and my baby is still growing...at least I hope she is.

This is what the site says my baby looks like right now. Still cracks me up. We had a bunch of people over last night for HM's birthday party and my friend B came and she was asking about the baby and all and I said,

"Want to see a picture?" She was like, "Sure...?"

So I brought her in here and showed her these and told her, Look, I am having an alien

She laughed and looked a little concerned lol... So here is

Week #8 a.k.a.

Why I was So Sick This Week

3d Ultrasound - 8 weeks

Week Eight

Cartilage and bones begin to form - At the end of this week your baby will have already completed 1/5th of the journey 'til his birthday!
The basic structure of the eye is well underway - The position is more "newborn" like already!
The tongue begins to develop
Intestines move out of the umbilical cord into the abdomen.
Body grows and makes room (aka you feel like you will puke all the time)- Two months along and this little one is growing inside and out by leaps and bounds!
The fingers and toes have appeared but are webbed and short
Baby's length (crown to rump) is 0.61 inch (1.6cm) and weight is 0.04 ounce (1gm)

This just seems like such an interesting time of the pregnancy... I mean it'll be cool when I start to show more and when I can actually feel her moving, but what other time can you say "Hey, my baby grew eyes this week!" It's like I'm growing a car and every week it gets an upgrade!

Other interesting things I learned this week:

If you have bad morning sickness (like I did starting at 2 1/2 weeks along) that means you:

Could be having twins...yikes... cross your fingers THAT isn't true!
You could be having a girl! Hope that's true
You could get motion sickness easily (check) so you get it worse--this is probably the only true thing

My first doctor's appointment is on the 13th so we'll see about the twins thing, but mostly I think it'll be nice to know that something IS actually growing!