So Friday is going to be Freaky

I hate traveling.  I love to visit new places and old ones, explore new surroundings, smell different air.  But I HATE traveling – the act of getting from point A to point B.

On Friday, my parents, my husband, my dog and my baby will squeeze into my suddenly seeming-very-small SUV and travel 600 some miles away to my grandparents, Boyd and Phoebe in Northwest Ohio farm country.

My grandpa is 96 as of April, my grandmother 90 as of July.  Grandpa is in a nursing home due to the small but insurmountable sorrow that he got old, couldn’t walk well, fell and broke something and they supposedly were only going to keep him long enough to get him walking again.  Ha.  We all know “they” in nursing homes tend to be full of crap.  Anyway, he hates it because he’s still got his head and just lacks his legs – well, they’re there in body, just not in spirit.

My grandma spends her days at home watching TV, eating chocolate and visiting my grandpa.  She is quite lonely but there are lots of relatives and friends and distant cousins thirty times removed who visit her often.  She paints china, a lost and dying art that I am actually good at and will pick up soon as she is giving me a small kiln that she never uses so I can doodle with some small projects, vs. the bigger ones she does like vases and such.

Anyway, we are leaving on Friday and will get there probably around midnight based on the time we will probably leave and the many stops we’ll have to make to ensure that everyone arrives with full mobile capacity and all their toes.  Oh and there will be a hungry baby every two hours approximately and a dog that will need to be walked…..

Oh boy.  This is going to be an adventure to say the least…..  I shall chronicle it upon return.

Life goes on…but the thrill certainly ain’t gone!

Standard days go something like this now:

11:30 pm – wake up to viciously-grunting-with-hunger baby. Crawl over snoring dog and husband.  Sprawl in chair with head hanging low half asleep as baby, now grunting with happiness eats.  12:00 am – flop back into bed on top of snoring dog….

2:30am – repeat.

5:00am – repeat.

6:00am – Joe kisses me goodbye and I mutter things about lunch and work and time and he tells me it’s all taken care of and I’m asleep again before he leaves the room.

9:00am – viciously grunting baby begins to scream bloody murder.  She has apparently taken lessons in torpedo launching and has done so several times in small diaper.  Then of course, eating must commence as quickly as possible.  

Basically this is repeated all day.  I’ll stop boring you with the same details over and over.

Life is Like Beer – It flows so fast but tastes so good

Ok that was lame.  :-)

So I’ve had this baby around for almost three weeks.  It’s fun!  A few dozen diapers and feedings a day, keeping up with the house, dishes and laundry consistently, a few hours of work here and there remotely, I even read a magazine front to back!  Haha.  Seriously though, the past few weeks have sincerely put fire in my heart to get us out of debt so that I can be a stay at home mom completely.  My goal is by our anniversary next year.  This means an even barer bones budget than we’ve managed this past year, and being extremely careful with the necessities.  But I think we can manage it.

That being said, I found out Amazon is now delivering (free over $25 of course) household goods.  I will be looking into that for price comparisons.  That would be fantastic if they were cheaper (for those of you who know and those of you who are about to know, I HATE SHOPPING with a passion) or at least comparable in price.

I did pretty good with my last run to CVS – I had coupons for $4 off some razor and its refills which happened to be one of the Extra Bucks items so I got like 3 packs of refills and the razor for like $12 instead of $24 and got $10 in EB which I then bought stretch mark eraser (hopefully lol), dry skin moisturizing shower gel stuff for Joe, and some other stuff which now escapes me…..  ?  Oh well.  In any case, I got like $40 worth of stuff for like $15.  Just wish CVS was on the corner here and not Rite Aid – I have to go out of my way down to Dallas for a CVS.  

In the midst of this busy life I have passed the milestone of 24.  Why is 24 a milestone? Because it’s one year away from being 1/2 way to 50 which is a milestone.  :-)  In any case, Joseph surprised me with a Falcons game – Pre-Season #2, first in Atlanta, against the Indy Colts who won, darn them.  But it was a blast.  We had Reese in her Falcons onsie and there were some big ole guys who saw her and freaked out at how cute she was.  lol  

Yesterday I moved two bookshelves double stacked with books from the office to the guest bedroom, dismantled, moved and reassembled the crib from our bedroom to the office, rearranged so the changing table is next to the crib and the other bookshelf is where the changing table was, and hung some picture frames differently.  It felt so good to move stuff!  Honestly, just to be able to move myself more freely has been fantastic. HA!

Later…….

  

 

  

I’m a mommy! :)

Well, Reese came on Sunday the 3rd!

Started early labor at 9am on Saturday.  By 8 they were getting a little harder….  My water broke at 4:45 am.  The doula came in and we went off to the hospital.  Got there at 6.  26 minutes of pushing and she was born!  :-)

She was 7 pounds 15.3 ounces, 20 inches long.  She has Joe’s nose and fingers and feet but my chin.  :)  She is the cutest little puddin’ and hardly ever cries whatsoever.  We’re all in love with her.  :-D

Joseph has been the sweetest and most endearing and considerate husband ever.  He is so good with her and with me and I’m more in love with him than ever before.