She has pink eye now. Jer called the doctor this morning and they are calling her in some drops.
On top of that, she also slipped in the shower with me last night and hit her face. Her eye is all swollen today - the same eye that she has the pink eye in... Nice.
We were supposed to get her pictures taken tonight and take her to see Santa. I highly doubt that happens now...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Wow! What a week!
Well, first the exciting news... We are having another girl. Found out a week ago, and it still is sinking in. We are pretty sure we are going to name her Tess Alexandra, but it's not set in stone. The baby is doing very well and is healthy and moving around like crazy.
After we had the ultrasound last week, I started to get really sick. I was so mad because I had planned time off from work to get ready for Thanksgiving and for the big family shopping day and all, and I ended up REALLY sick. What started out as a cold turned into a massively bad sinus infection that spread into my teeth and gums, and then I had pink eye in both eyes on top of it all. It was awful!!! I finally got antibiotics on Saturday, and things are still working their way out. Today is by far the best day I've had in a week.
On top of the sickness, we moved Maddy to a "big girl" bed last week, which means that I spent a great deal of time laying in her bed with her and waking up with her a few times each night. Finally, last night she slept all through the night. And so did I... thank God because I had to come back to work today, and I was feeling so sleep deprived that I seriously had an hour-long meltdown yesterday and could not stop crying.
It was totally hormonal. I had no idea why I was crying, but I couldn't stop. I was crying so hard, I started to feel like I was hyperventilating. It was scary. I took a long bath and a nap after that and felt much better, but wow! I didn't really realize how worn out I really was.
I think so much of the problem was that even though I was sick, I still cooked Thanksgiving dinner and entertained 15 guests, and then went shopping like a crazy woman all day on Friday, and then put up two Christmas trees on Saturday, and tried shopping again on Sunday (only to go home early to crash on the couch). Too much. No resting.
Yesterday I was supposed to come back to work, but the pink eye was in full force, so I just worked from home. I sent Maddy to my MIL's and regrouped. I totally needed that to keep my sanity.
Anyhow, that's about it. Back to the grind now.
After we had the ultrasound last week, I started to get really sick. I was so mad because I had planned time off from work to get ready for Thanksgiving and for the big family shopping day and all, and I ended up REALLY sick. What started out as a cold turned into a massively bad sinus infection that spread into my teeth and gums, and then I had pink eye in both eyes on top of it all. It was awful!!! I finally got antibiotics on Saturday, and things are still working their way out. Today is by far the best day I've had in a week.
On top of the sickness, we moved Maddy to a "big girl" bed last week, which means that I spent a great deal of time laying in her bed with her and waking up with her a few times each night. Finally, last night she slept all through the night. And so did I... thank God because I had to come back to work today, and I was feeling so sleep deprived that I seriously had an hour-long meltdown yesterday and could not stop crying.
It was totally hormonal. I had no idea why I was crying, but I couldn't stop. I was crying so hard, I started to feel like I was hyperventilating. It was scary. I took a long bath and a nap after that and felt much better, but wow! I didn't really realize how worn out I really was.
I think so much of the problem was that even though I was sick, I still cooked Thanksgiving dinner and entertained 15 guests, and then went shopping like a crazy woman all day on Friday, and then put up two Christmas trees on Saturday, and tried shopping again on Sunday (only to go home early to crash on the couch). Too much. No resting.
Yesterday I was supposed to come back to work, but the pink eye was in full force, so I just worked from home. I sent Maddy to my MIL's and regrouped. I totally needed that to keep my sanity.
Anyhow, that's about it. Back to the grind now.
Monday, November 13, 2006
Just call me Martha...
This pregnancy has done something completely and totally bizarre to me... it has given me this intense desire to cook real meals and entertain family every weekend!!
In the past month, I have made homemade Italian wedding soup twice, tacos for 15 people, and a from-scratch lasagna! All of these meals were for either my whole family or Jerry's whole family, depending on the weekend. And, if you can believe this, I volunteered to have Thanksgiving at my house!
Now, let me just tell you that this so far out of the ordinary for me, and I don't quite think the family knows how to react to all of this. They are definitely enjoying all the food I am cooking, but this all just doesn't fit with the "Mandy" they know... It's throwing everything slightly off.
The Thanksgiving thing may or may not happen, depending on how stupid my aunt chooses to be... You see she has 4 kids - one mature 18-year-old daughter, and 3 younger hellion boys. She is not supporting this Thanksgiving move because she "doesn't feel comfortable having her boys in her new house." Yeah, well that's because she doesn't want to have to actually watch her children... because when she's at my grandma's house, she lets them run around and do whatever they want and destroy things and act like idiots until someone else yells at them. They are all extremely horribly behaved, and honestly I completely blame it on their lazy, inconsistent parenting.
Now, just so you know, when I volunteered to do Thanksgiving it was driven by this weird pregnancy cooking thing, but also because my grandma really doesn't want to do it anymore. She has Lupus and she had a bad heart attack a few years ago, and she just doesn't feel up to it. And when she was out at my house last weekend for tacos, she hinted around about having it at my house. I, of course, am not keen on having the yellion boys at my house either, but Jerry and I discussed it and said we would make some changes down in the basement and hook up a TV down there so they could bring the X-Box and whatever and we would make it work... I am completely annoyed at my aunt for thinking in such selfish terms and for the fact that she cannot control her children and that they are so badly behaved that she cannot bring them to a civilized Thanksgiving dinner. I'm sure this debate will continue until it is decided on whether or not we will have it at my house...
In my old house, we had Christmas there a couple of times and she was always the same way about it, and it was always fine. Pain in the ass. Learn how to control your children!
In the past month, I have made homemade Italian wedding soup twice, tacos for 15 people, and a from-scratch lasagna! All of these meals were for either my whole family or Jerry's whole family, depending on the weekend. And, if you can believe this, I volunteered to have Thanksgiving at my house!
Now, let me just tell you that this so far out of the ordinary for me, and I don't quite think the family knows how to react to all of this. They are definitely enjoying all the food I am cooking, but this all just doesn't fit with the "Mandy" they know... It's throwing everything slightly off.
The Thanksgiving thing may or may not happen, depending on how stupid my aunt chooses to be... You see she has 4 kids - one mature 18-year-old daughter, and 3 younger hellion boys. She is not supporting this Thanksgiving move because she "doesn't feel comfortable having her boys in her new house." Yeah, well that's because she doesn't want to have to actually watch her children... because when she's at my grandma's house, she lets them run around and do whatever they want and destroy things and act like idiots until someone else yells at them. They are all extremely horribly behaved, and honestly I completely blame it on their lazy, inconsistent parenting.
Now, just so you know, when I volunteered to do Thanksgiving it was driven by this weird pregnancy cooking thing, but also because my grandma really doesn't want to do it anymore. She has Lupus and she had a bad heart attack a few years ago, and she just doesn't feel up to it. And when she was out at my house last weekend for tacos, she hinted around about having it at my house. I, of course, am not keen on having the yellion boys at my house either, but Jerry and I discussed it and said we would make some changes down in the basement and hook up a TV down there so they could bring the X-Box and whatever and we would make it work... I am completely annoyed at my aunt for thinking in such selfish terms and for the fact that she cannot control her children and that they are so badly behaved that she cannot bring them to a civilized Thanksgiving dinner. I'm sure this debate will continue until it is decided on whether or not we will have it at my house...
In my old house, we had Christmas there a couple of times and she was always the same way about it, and it was always fine. Pain in the ass. Learn how to control your children!
Friday, November 03, 2006
Relieved
My dad does NOT have to go to India. They found someone else to go who is single and doesn't have a lot of family.
I talked to my dad yesterday, and I could tell a little bit of him was sad about not going because he doesn't really get to travel out of the country much and I think he was slightly excited to go, but then he said he knew after about 2 weeks he would've been horribly homesick and wouldn't survive the rest of the trip. He admitted the worst part for him would've been not seeing Maddy for that long... I am so happy and relieved that he is NOT going!!
I talked to my dad yesterday, and I could tell a little bit of him was sad about not going because he doesn't really get to travel out of the country much and I think he was slightly excited to go, but then he said he knew after about 2 weeks he would've been horribly homesick and wouldn't survive the rest of the trip. He admitted the worst part for him would've been not seeing Maddy for that long... I am so happy and relieved that he is NOT going!!
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Surprising and Upsetting News
I found out last night that my dad might have to go to India for 3 months for work. They want him to leave in January, which means he wouldn't be back until the end of March/beginning of April, and will likely miss the birth of our new baby. This would also mean that he will miss Maddy's birthday and be away from all of us for 3 whole months!!!
This news totally bums me out, and seriously can bring me to tears at the thought of my dad missing everything.
It's not a definite thing, as they are trying to find someone to go in his place, but it doesn't look good. He will know for sure around Thanksgiving. I'm praying and keeping my fingers crossed that he does NOT have to go!
This news totally bums me out, and seriously can bring me to tears at the thought of my dad missing everything.
It's not a definite thing, as they are trying to find someone to go in his place, but it doesn't look good. He will know for sure around Thanksgiving. I'm praying and keeping my fingers crossed that he does NOT have to go!
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