Stress... the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Mother Ship Laura. It's continuing mission (well, for at least 5 more weeks) is to explore strange, new food cravings, to seek out where I left my keys and my purse and to boldly go... anywhere, because it's getting harder and harder to move around these days! (cue Star Trek music!)
Man, what a day! I had a non-stress test today. No big deal, right? I even left early because an egg and cheese biscuit from McDonalds sounded SO GOOD!! I pulled into the drive-thru and realized I didn't have my wallet. Hmmm... no wallet, no cash, NO credit card, NO DRIVER'S LICENSE! UGH! I quickly pulled out of the drive-thru and pondered my time. Nope, no time to go home and get it. Sigh... no egg and cheese biscuit. (Major disappointment for this pregnant woman!)
I drove on to my appointment. It took 20 minutes, 20 MINUTES I TELL YOU, to find a place to park! Every time I found a spot, someone else took it! REALLY?!?! What part of NON-STRESS TEST did this day miss?!?! I almost cried. I almost lost my witness to Dr. Doofenschmirtz (the little guy from Phineas & Ferb that I have as a mascot in my car.) I called my husband. He heroically decided to go to the house, get my wallet and meet me for lunch after my appointment. He's such a great guy!
All said and done, everything's cool. The baby is extremely active which makes it hard to keep the heart monitor on him. He's getting all of his crazy activity out of the way in utero, right? (Let me have my delusion!)
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Baby Boy, please get your foot off of my cervix!
Hahahaha! Now that I have your attention...
I'm babysitting. Seriously. I really am. OK. The baby is asleep and will be for the whole time I'm here, but still. Call it practice.
All I can think of right now is the boxes of Girl Scout cookies that are in my car. (Are they made with real Girl Scouts?) My favorite are the Tagalongs. God bless the combination of peanut butter and chocolate. Second favorite... Thin mints! But only if they're frozen. My husband and daughter prove their membership in the International House of Plain with their choice of favorite Girl Scout cookie... Trefoils. Really?? The plain butter cookie? I mean, they're good and all, but when you compare them to Tagalongs or Thin Mints... there's just nothing exciting about them. Then again, this is JR and Em we're talking about. Em eats only beige food and JR eats waffles with only butter.
OK. Babysitting, blogging and listening to Michael Buble. Pretty soon I will be done with blogging and will venture into my knitting. I need to finish the sweater that is WAY too big for the baby and then start on the hat I'm making for Em. The last 2 things I've knit were for Jack, so I need to share the creativeness with his big sister. Em loves those beanie hats. I'm going to give it a try. The sweater was my first foray into something other than a rectangle and so far it seems to look like a sweater. Hopefully the hat will look like a hat. More specifically, a hat that Em will want to wear. Am I asking for too much?
Uh oh... the music stopped. Hope the baby stays asleep!
I'm babysitting. Seriously. I really am. OK. The baby is asleep and will be for the whole time I'm here, but still. Call it practice.
All I can think of right now is the boxes of Girl Scout cookies that are in my car. (Are they made with real Girl Scouts?) My favorite are the Tagalongs. God bless the combination of peanut butter and chocolate. Second favorite... Thin mints! But only if they're frozen. My husband and daughter prove their membership in the International House of Plain with their choice of favorite Girl Scout cookie... Trefoils. Really?? The plain butter cookie? I mean, they're good and all, but when you compare them to Tagalongs or Thin Mints... there's just nothing exciting about them. Then again, this is JR and Em we're talking about. Em eats only beige food and JR eats waffles with only butter.
OK. Babysitting, blogging and listening to Michael Buble. Pretty soon I will be done with blogging and will venture into my knitting. I need to finish the sweater that is WAY too big for the baby and then start on the hat I'm making for Em. The last 2 things I've knit were for Jack, so I need to share the creativeness with his big sister. Em loves those beanie hats. I'm going to give it a try. The sweater was my first foray into something other than a rectangle and so far it seems to look like a sweater. Hopefully the hat will look like a hat. More specifically, a hat that Em will want to wear. Am I asking for too much?
Uh oh... the music stopped. Hope the baby stays asleep!
Monday, February 21, 2011
The Frustration of Indecision
I'm not a very decisive person. Well... that's not entirely true. OK. Maybe it is. (See, I can't decide whether or not I'm decisive.) Lately the decisions have centered around food. When you only have 5 weeks left of pregnancy, food is key. My problem is nothing ever sounds good until the moment it sounds good. Prime example... my desperate need for Cinnamon Toast Crunch after seeing a commercial for it.
So why is this so frustrating? Well because planning meals is something I would like to do and can't. And when my husband asks me things like, "Hey. What would you like for dinner?" I can't answer. Poor husband. Along with working full time, putting up with a hormonal, pregnant wife and a pre-pubescent 11 year old daughter, now he has to make all of the food decisions. Sigh... Thankfully I have a WONDERFUL husband and thankfully he still loves me!
Now what will dinner be tonight? Well, he called and asked, I had no ideas, so he decided to bring home some Cheeseburger in Paradise. I think that'll work just fine!
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