July 20, 2008

Guess what I'm supposed to do that day???

Okay, I guess I could wait and make you guess, but this way I can start talking about the things I'm going through and let you know a big part of way I haven't been posting very much! I'll try not to whine too much, but I suppose that's bound to come it at times.

I'm pregnant! We are really excited, but with my history of miscarriages, we didn't want to tell very early. I usually tell at least family and close friends as soon as I know. This time we told at Christmas and surprised everyone. We were going to wait until the second trimester, but Christmastime seemed more fun. Plus, we thought it would be hard to hide since I have been extremely tired and am still getting nauseated as well.

I looked online to find cute ways to tell people that you are pregnant. I thought that since we were just calling on the phone to tell early, we'd be creative. I typed out a message that said, "We are enlarging our home by two feet July 20, 2008" Then I put a picture of two little baby feet in the corner. I put it with the other presents to be handed out at random at "Grandma's" house. I almost forgot to put who it was from. It actually confused about half of the family. It was really fun!



So, there you have it! That's my big news for the year!

If you're reading this, I hope you are smarter than I am.

Does anyone out there know what I am doing wrong? All I want to do is put a picture of myself on my profile so that it will show up when I comment on blogs. I have tried a picture from photobucket (and the link is valid, since I can view the pic from the link) and I tried it from something posted on blogger, since blogger said I could. Nothing works. The link just disappears when I hit save. Help!

Merry Christmas!

I can't promise that I'll be back to blogging until after Christmas, so I'd just like to tell the world Merry Christmas!! I hope you have a wonderful time with your friends and family and that you come to a deeper understanding of the true meaning of all of the celebrations!

White Christmas?

It looks like we just might get a white Christmas this year!!! I am so excited! I didn't have snow growing up, so I LOVE to have snow on Christmas, especially.

I just hope we don't get too much. In about an hour, yesterday, we got about 2-3 inches of snow. It was pretty crazy.

It is supposed to snow from today through Wednesday. They have said that there are several storms heading this way as well. I am excited!

I think the snow may be helping me get into the Christmas spirit. I have been so tired and busy that I have had a hard time feeling Christmas, this year.

Everything has been thrown at us so fast that Christmas is here all of a sudden. We're mostly ready for it, but we haven't had the time to do the traditional things we love to do. We haven't even gone to look at lights, yet.

Isn't it Strange...

When we were worried about $1200, then expected to pay $450 that $230 sounded nice to have to pay to get our van fixed. As if any amount is ever welcome to have to pay to keep doing something you always do. I don't mind buying something new, but when we have to spend money on something old, it is kind of annoying.

So we have the van back and it is wonderful!

I did learn the reason that they usually spray your car with some kind of air freshener. If they don't (like they didn't this time) then your car ends up smelling like grease for days. I keep meaning to go spray something in there, but I don't want to do it right before we go somewhere.

I need to finish Christmas!

We took our van in to be fixed on Monday. Last week, Aaron replaced the spark plugs and wires. It made the van run so much smoother! It was wonderful...until the break light turned on and a few days later the "service engine soon" light came on and the blower for the heater stopped blowing. Why does it all come on at once?

Anyway, the van is in the shop and it is our only vehicle. I need to get some stocking stuffers and a few gifts for teachers, etc. I can't go to the store. It is starting to be frustrating.

I need to go volunteer in Luke's class. I was going to walk but it is raining/snowing this morning. Frustrating! We are hoping to get it back today. It is expensive, but not so much that we are suffocating under the pressure.

We really need to get an emergency fund for things like this. $500 would cover most repairs and problems!

Anyway, enough gripping! At least being stuck at home will give me time to make the angel costume for Luke's Christmas program. The kindergartners are the angel choir. I haven't started, unless you count finding the sheet that I'll adapt into a tunic of some sort.

Giant Rat

Isn't this just the news you were wanting to hear today??

Randomness

It's no wonder I don't have a lot of readership... If I'd post more than once per week, maybe you'd come back to read, huh?

I guess it's the season to be busy and I've been really tired, so I'm just trying to keep up and I haven't been very creative.

I had some ideas in the middle of the night that would be fun to blog about, but of course, I didn't write them down and they probably were more interesting when I was half asleep anyway.

I did have a random dream, though. (Surprise!)

In my dream, Barack Obama decided to choose a republican running mate. He chose Scott Bakula. I don't even know if Scott Bakula is a republican, probably not. My brain makes up weird stuff.

One rant: I hate obligatory Christmas gifts. You know the ones. You wouldn't get them a gift unless they got you one. I mostly like to give gifts to people that I know well, friends and family. Some years we get around to making plates of treats for our neighbors, but it doesn't go much further than that.

So, that's enough randomness for one day. I hope to be in a more creative mindset, soon!

Superpowers

I've discovered why I am so exhausted all the time!

Chasing kids?
Dogs?
Cleaning? (Probably not, I don't do that enough.)
Not enough sleep?
Sick?

Could be, but the real reason is that Luke has discovered his superpowers. One of them is to make people sleepy. It could be useful in a superhero battle, don't you think? I mean, there you are, fighting the supervillan and all of a sudden you can make him fall asleep. Fight over, you tie him up and send him off to jail! It's perfect!

But why would he use it on his sweet mother???

Kids Say...

Last night, we had our church Christmas party. We were on our way out, when Aaron saw someone he needed to talk to. Belle was in a run away mood, so I was holding her captive on my lap.

A little girl came up to us and asked if Belle was her brother's friend. I told her that they probably played in nursery together (Sunday school for 18 mo-3 yrs).

Four Yr Old: They do.

Me: Um, Okay. (Or something equally lame.)

Four Yr Old: I think they're in Love.

And what do you say to that? It was pretty cute! Kids can be so funny. It is amazing the things that they notice, pick up and repeat to other people!

Defended!

Aaron defended his thesis yesterday!! He passed and will be able to graduate in May!! We are so excited!

It also feels really weird. He has been working on it for two years. The last six months or so have been especially stressful. We almost don't know what to do with ourselves! We have been saying "no" to so many things due to lack of time or stress that we don't know how life will be.

We've only had about 6 months (not counting summers, but some of those had school as well) in our married life that one or both of us were not in school. We won't know what to do, without trying to save for tuition and books and then dealing with student life.

We'll find places (like hopefully a new house) to put the money. I'm sure the time will get filled up as well!

I am really proud of Aaron for all the hard work he put into this Master's degree!

I'm also REALLY glad to have him back! We have missed the family time with him!

Enchanted

We went to see Disney's new movie, Enchanted. It was so cute! It was sweet and refreshing and clever. I really liked it.

We don't go to see movies in the theater much, especially with the kids. The last one we saw was Superman Returns. Belle and I spent most of that one out in the hall, since she thought she should cry through the entire thing.

We thought this one would be better. At least I was the one to spill a ton of popcorn on the floor! And we should have gotten a larger bucket. Belle got bored and started to wander around the theater. At least she wasn't too loud, most of the time.

The best part was Luke. He decided that he needed to teach Belle how to go to the movies. He held her hand in the parking lot and into the theater. Then, he showed her how to push the seat down to sit on it. He was SO cute! He is a great big brother!

High School Reunion Dream

My HS reunion was this summer, but I wasn't able to go. It was in Florida and that is an expensive trip that we need to make when we aren't moving, selling a house, having a baby or going to school. We need to stop doing expensive things in the summer.

Anyway, I had a long and weird dream that I was at my HS reunion the other morning. I saw lots of people I knew and I even knew a lot of their names. (Which I wouldn't be able to do in real life!) It was really vivid and I woke up wanting to know what some of my old friend were up to.

I got out my yearbook so that I didn't have to guess on names and spellings. I found a web page set up for the reunion and it had links to lots of the people I wanted to know about. I emailed several of them and I have already heard back from one.

Since I moved 2000 miles away from where I grew up, there have been very few people that I have kept up with. I really tried for a while, but I got discouraged when no one wrote back.