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  • Posted on April 6, 2007 at 11:53 am

I know, I know it’s been ages since I last posted. Often I couldn’t think of much to say, or didn’t have time when I did manage to think of something I could post about. Some things that happened since my last posting….

Baby Shower: On March 18th, my sister-in-law, Kathy, and sister, Andrea threw a baby shower for me. The shower did go well, even if somehow the invitations didn’t include the information of where we registered. Family was wise though and we received many things that we’ll will be able to put to good use. Currently, I need to get stamps to send out the thank yous.

Bardic Madness: Shane and I went to an SCA event last weekend in Wautoma, WI. It was held at a youth camp there, and while we had intended to stay in the camper van, when we arrived they had a heated cabin with a free bedroom with a queen bed near the bathroom. Needless to say, we decided that would be a good choice and stayed in that instead. We also had a great time over the weekend and feast on Saturday night was wonderful. I ate too much, but it was worth it.

Most recent Midwife Appointment: I had a midwife appointment on Thursday. I am now 37 weeks along, and now will be having weekly appointments. While at the last two appointments the midwifes were sure the head was down, this one was not. She wanted me to have an ultrasound to verify it, but my appointment had been at 3:30 and by the time I actually saw her it was closer to 4. So when she went to try an arrange one,there was no one there to give one. Since it’s quite a drive to get to the clinic from home instead I will be having the ultrasound this coming Thursday before my midwife appointment. We do try to make our appointments for days we have other things occurring as well, and since we have plans for next Thursday evening in town that was our best choice for coming in.

Other tidbits: We are going to my family’s Easter get-to-gether at 1 pm on Sunday and then to his family’s at 5 pm. Though his family’s get-to-gether is going to be a bit smaller this since one of his nephew’s has Chicken Pox. That family will not be joining the rest of us. It’s for the best, even though I have had Chicken Pox it’s just so close to when I’m due and I really don’t want my baby to have possible exposure.

My mother-in-law has tried another guilt-trip for her not knowing the sex of the baby. A few days ago when she was talking to Shane she mentioned that she had seen this adorable purple coat, but “couldn’t” get it because she didn’t know if the baby was a girl. Umm, last I knew baby wouldn’t care what it was dressed in just as long as baby was kept appropriately warm. Shane attempted to explain it to me as, “well you wouldn’t want to have your daughter in a base-ball uniform.” Well sorry, I don’t want my son in sports clothing (or sportsman for that matter) either so that didn’t sway my opinion any. And while I may be strange, I do consider purple to be a neutral color since it is made from pink and blue. Or at least that is how I choose to look at it.

One thing I don’t understand about baby stores any more is their total lack of good neutral choices of clothing and other things for a baby. Sure most people take the option of knowing the sex of their baby before it is born, but not all of us want to know. Some look forward to the surprise. Personally I think, I will earn the right for a good surprise after going through labor. His family, my family all want a girl. Me? All I want is a normal, healthy, happy baby, which is what Shane says as well. (Shane does think it will be a girl, that I will share.) I will love our baby, regardless of sex. Yes, I have a personal idea of what baby may be, but it doesn’t matter to me if I’m right or wrong. We have names picked out for both sexes.

Actually I know I’m stubborn, and the more others wanted to know the sex of our baby the less I wanted to find out, let alone tell them. The more quilt trips extended family tried to put on me to learn the sex the more I felt the need to not learn the let alone share the information. And while recently I may have been thinking it would be nice to know, now I’m not going to find out even with having another ultrasound next week.

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Busy Weekend

  • Posted on December 17, 2006 at 8:45 pm

Shane and I had a busy weekend or at least I would call it so. It started on Saturday with us having his family’s Christmas gathering at his mother’s. The party was to start at 1 pm and we arrived about 12:30. Since Karen wasn’t planning to serve any sort of meal at the gathering, we stopped on our way to eat at Taco John’s. It had been a while since we had last eatten there, so it was a nice change.

Earlier in the week Karen had learned that Scott and Charity wouldn’t be arriving until around 5 because Charity worked until 4. The time of the party couldn’t be pushed back until then because others had plans for the evening, Shane and I included. While the party was suppose to start at 1 pm, it was more like 1:45 before we started. The reason for the late start was that Steve, Angie, Cheyanne, and Cody were running late.

Karen believes in having each child sit in front of the tree to open one at a time, while she video tapes it, and order is either youngest to oldest or oldest to youngest. This year it was oldest to youngest. This year she had trouble with her video camera not recording properly. So she’s going to get a copy from Angie who was also taping it this time.

The only thing to note about the gift opening was that Shane played Santa by wearing a Christmas hat/ball cap, and handing out the presents to the kids. Well he wore the hat until he became too hot that is. Otherwise the children’s gift opening went as expected.

After the children’s gift opening we had the adult gift opening. I received a hand painted picture of unicorns on with a purple sky from Katie, (Shay’s gf) which I really love. It’s quite beautiful, and when we get a digital camera I’ll have to take a picture of it. Shane received a popcorn popper from his sister which is exactly what he wanted. Shane had Shay’s name and we had purchased a leather jacket for him. But Shane had decided that he wanted to try and play a joke on his brother. So it was boxed up in a 3 ream box for paper, with a ream of paper on top. Unfortunately Shay didn’t fall for it. I had Scott’s name, and we purchased jeans for him as he requested.

Shay and Katie were the first to leave, and then after a bit names were drawn for next year. Shane has Angie, and I have Shawnadee. A bit later Steve, Angie, Cheyanne, and Cody left. Around 4:00 – 4:30 Shane and I left, which was before Steve and Angie arrived but we had plans for the evening.

We headed to West Salem, for Neil’s operating session. Since we arrived early we ended up stopping at Furiture Deals and Steals. There we found two matching floor lamps that we liked. Since we needed a set for the living room we decided to pick them up. And we like how they look in the living room, and how they balance the light out so much better than the one floor lamp I had before.

Neil’s operating session went well, and we had a lot of fun. I ran through trains, and during the second half Shane dispatched. It really was a lot of fun as always.

On Sunday, I needed to do the bookwork for our local SCA shire. It would have gone much quicker if I had been able to find the forms I needed for printing checks, but I found one which worked in a pinch. I needed to get that done though before we went to the meeting at 3.

After that was done, it was time to go to Bill & Kathy’s, for Teddy’s party. The party wasn’t suppose to start until 2:30 but since we had to be someplace else at 3 we stopped in early for a bit. One thing I did learn is that I really haven’t spend enough time with my nephews. They are a bit shy around me so I’ll probably have to work on that in the future.

Once we left, we had to get something for the potluck for our SCA meeting. We ended up getting crackers to go with the meat and cheese platter we purchased. The meeting went well. On the suggestions of Chelsey we are going to be changing the format of the meetings and such a bit. Instead of having social hour and then meeting, we are going to flip that. Chelsey had been asking about how to up our membership with some other chatelaines and was suggested that we do things more frequently in garb and in public. So the idea is that we have the business meeting first, and then social time in garb and preferably with a theme (at least to begin with).

Our next meeting is going to be at Wedgewood Commons (not exactly public access friendly but we’ll use it as a practice run). The following meeting will be at LaCrosse Public Library so it will be more public access.

After the meeting we had more social time and enjoyed the potluck. I talked with a few about my ideas for new garb for me. Ariella pulled out some of her recent reference purchases and I enjoyed looking through the books. She also has a persona which is approximately the same time and locale as mine.

Once we left we did the rest of our Christmas shopping. It wasn’t that we had a lot of Christmas shopping left. We actually only had some of my side of the family left, mainly my nephews. We had planned on stopping at Farm & Fleet first, but they were closed by the time we got there, a little after 6 I believe. It’s the Christmas shopping season I had expected them to be open later than that! We knew what we wanted to purchase for Chris so we went on to the next store, and picked up what we wanted for Chris and then found presents for Teddy and Max.

We did have to call Kathy to find out if the boys already had what we found but they didn’t. While we were on the phone I found out how Teddy had liked his birthday gift, and I found out he was playing with it at the time. So apparently it had made a big hit with him. It was a metal Tonka dump truck, not one of those plastic things you find all over the place now. While we couldn’t find sturdy metal trucks for them for Christmas, we still hope they like what they’re going to get.

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