Today, I had an appointment to see the midwife. The visit went well, they aren’t worried that I haven’t really gained any weight, only around a pound so far. (I am actually slightly down from what I was after Thanksgiving, so obviously I ate more for Thanksgiving than I did for Christmas.) All she said was to make sure that I’m getting my fruits and vegetables. Baby was also extremely active while I was there. When the midwife went to listen to baby’s heartbeat, baby moved so much that in about 5 minutes or so she had to relocate the heartbeat 4 times. But the heartbeat was strong and sure (when found) and beating about 140 times a minute.
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Christmas!
On the 23rd, we went to his nephew’s birthday party. Drew turned 10 and everyone had went in on purchasing him a bike for his birthday.
On the 24th, we had intended on going to my brother and family’s for the family Christmas Eve celebration. Unfortunately my nephew Max had the flu so we decided not to go. We ended up joining his sister’s family for a Christmas Lunch, (yes at his mother’s). After we had lunch there we stopped in for a short visit at Bill and Kathy’s. Kathy had made goodies for us and wanted to make sure they didn’t spoil before we could get together when everyone there was healthy.
On Christmas day, we slept in and had a leisurely day. We watched some tv together, played several games of Age of Empire II (yes I know it’s an older computer game, but we enjoy it). After about three games of that, we played Empire Builder (a board game). In the evening we played Trivial Pursuit DVD Pop Culture edition.
We had a small gift for each other, our big gift is a Pentax K110D camera. It’s a digital SLR camera that can use my older Pentax K mount lenses (with limited capabilities). It’s a good decision with the baby coming. Yes I know we have camcorders but they don’t take good stills. And as much as we will want video after the baby we will still want good still pictures as well.
While so many things went well that day, there was one down. At about 10 minutes to midnight we received a wrong number phone called. Which naturally didn’t make me very happy.
Then we received two more in quick succession at 3:50 am. When I answered the phone, I must say was annoyed enough to tell the person, that if they’re attempting to call someone at that time of night to make sure NOT to dial the wrong number. Luckily that was our last wrong number.
Unfortunately, they woke me up, and that’s when I started to become very uncomfortable with gas and such. So I decided to do something about it. I went and mixed up a bit of soda bicarbonate (aka baking soda and water), knowing that will normally make short work of gas. Unfortunately it was an extremely bad choice in this instance, as it did not sit at all well. Instead it turned my stomach to the point I was praying to porcelain as the saying goes. Unfortunately my hair wouldn’t stay out of the way so then I had to take a shower to wash it, before I could go back to bed. I should note that I didn’t have that icky acidic taste in my mouth, and I believe that was from the soda bicarbonate.
When next I woke (after finally going to sleep) I found that my supper just didn’t want to stay with me, what didn’t come up earlier was now running out later. So basically the 26th was spent taking it easy between trips to the bathroom and resting. Really didn’t feel like eating much, but made sure to get a large glass of OJ, some cottage cheese, cheese and crackers and as much water as I wanted.
Maybe stopping in at Bill and Kathy’s wasn’t a great idea in the long run, since I appear to have picked up that stomach flu from just that short exposure. Shane also had it as did my Dad and Chris (who had gone to Bill and Kathy’s and stayed longer than we did).
One year tomorrow
This evening I was reading some of the forums I’m in. In them some people are going through family crises with loved ones. While I try to wish them all the best, it reminds me of where I was a year ago. As I type this, 364 days ago, we were leaving the hospital for the last time and driving home.
While it was good to be with mother until the very end even if she was in a coma, it was also hard to say good-bye and know it was going to be the final one. Sure a few good-byes to follow (at the visitation, at the cemetery) but none were particularly easy. This year, we are having Christmas as Bill & Kathy’s rather than dad’s. It will probably be easier for everyone. Nothing would have made last Christmas easy, for any of us, but we survived it. Life always goes on for the living. The trick is to find the way to allow it to go on for you.
While it’s been not always been an easy year, we have survived it. Life will never be the same as it was before, but that’s to be expected. We’ve needed to find a new way to continue some of the traditions we’ve had for years. And we’ve found some, they may still be refined before they are considered prefect I’m sure, but we work at it.
What I’m regretting most of all this evening though, is that my baby will never know Grandma. Sure baby still has one grandma left, but it won’t be the same as knowing my mother as grandma. I admit there is nothing I could have done to change. I didn’t have any say in what happened to my mother. There was no way, I could have prevented her aneurysm from rupturing when I didn’t know it existed. Even if I had become pregnant last year after the wedding, baby still wouldn’t have known my mother. But none of this changes the fact, that I wish my baby could have grown up knowing my mother. While not the same as knowing grandma baby will be able to know grandpa. I am thankful for that at least.
2 days in a row
Well, I’m posting for the second time in two days, so I guess some might fall over in shock. If you do, be careful not to hit your head.
Today has been mainly quiet, I’ll admit that. Earlier I ended up going to town to get some distilled water for my plants so can hydrate them all in their new home. Earlier today Shane worked hard at putting his kitchen in order, (yes his kitchen not mine). I’ve spent some time on organizing the living room, but we still have a ways to go before all is done. We still don’t know where many of the things are going yet but we are slowly getting closer. We will have many totes to go through, and several to repack and put into storage.
Oh, and if anyone is really observant you’ll see that I have changed the weather info on my page, and now it not only fits into the column, it’s also for the right location.
Another month slipped by
I didn’t realize how long it had been since my last post, until my husband mentioned it last night. Today I looked, and my last post was the end of October. It’s not that a lot hasn’t happened since then, because it has. A glance at my husband’s blog has hit some of the highlights in our recent lives.
In November, we found a new apartment, and moved. Our new place is smaller than our last one, but we just couldn’t remain any longer with the cigarette smoke, no heat in one of the bedrooms, and a front door we couldn’t secure. Well, shortly before we moved out the landlord finally put a cheap sliding lock on the front door so it could be secured. It only took them 9 weeks to do that. We couldn’t afford to wait around until he finally thought about doing something about the cigarette smoke.
The new home is actually a townhouse, with the living room, kitchen, laundry in a half bath on the first floor, and two bedrooms and full bath upstairs. It means that baby and office are going to be sharing space for a while, but there weren’t a lot of options available in our price range.
Also in November of course was Thanksgiving. We had two large dinners that day. One on each side of the family, we had 29 on my side of the family and 17 on his. It was wonderful seeing my cousins again, especially Jean and her family. Unfortunately their trip up was quick because Scott had to be back at work on Friday. At least now they’re only one state away rather than on the West Coast, so it will be easier to see them more frequently.
Also on the 28th, I had my first ultrasound. It was really nice to see baby for the first time, and very reassuring to know that baby is right on track and doing well. We do have a VHS tape with pictures of baby, and plan on changing it to a digital format, but things like moving and income have been taking priority. Not yet sure if we’re going to put the video on the web, or if we’re going to make a dvd but we’ll do something with it, maybe both. And it was also good to know that even with Thanksgiving, I only gained about 1.5 pounds since my last visit 5 weeks prior.
We moved the last of our things out of the old place yesterday. Yah, nothing like waiting until the last day, but we kept delaying the moving of the 55 gallon fish tank, which we finally did about 6 pm yesterday. Anyone who’s moved a large fish tank knows it’s quite a big production and this one was less, but luckily Shane had a friend of his help with the moving of the tank an stand. Even without the fish and water it still weighted 100 lbs or so, since Shane had left the 50 lbs of river rock in the bottom.
We had to move the fish back into the tank quicker than expected since the heater wouldn’t stay submerged on the side of the tote we moved the fish in like it needed to. So basically we ended up filling up the tank with most of our hot water (and then cooling it a bit so it would be the right temp) and moving the fish right in. It will take longer for the tank to get properly established, but we have a biowheel filter that’s wonderful in helping it along. Besides we have real hardy fish, they have been through this a time or two before so it should be fine.
It’s hard to believe that this year is almost over, but it is so I’ll leave it at that for now.