p.s. if anyone has any really good freezer meal's please send my way, I would like to get about 4 to 6 more made before Macie comes, especially if she is late.
Dec 7, 2011
BEEF STEW!!!
I have been a house wife is the term you could use for over 7 years now, and in those seven years I have never made stew, meatloaf, a turkey dinner (have helped with this one though) and probably many other traditional meals. I have decided with my new role as stay at home mother this is going to change. So today I made my first Beef Stew, had to call my mom for one questions, but other then that I did it all on my own and it was crazy easy and as I eat it right now super delicious. I don't know why I hold myself back so much in things and get scared to try new things. Especially when it comes to food and crafts. In these past two weeks I have tried two new meals now and both turned out delicious. The best part is I made enough to get a freezer meal out of it. As of right now I have 7 freezer meals sitting in my freezer and am adding another one tomorrow. Hoping this help once baby comes.
p.s. if anyone has any really good freezer meal's please send my way, I would like to get about 4 to 6 more made before Macie comes, especially if she is late.
p.s. if anyone has any really good freezer meal's please send my way, I would like to get about 4 to 6 more made before Macie comes, especially if she is late.
DOCTOR'S ORDERS!!
Yesterday I had my 39 week Doctor's Appointment. We started off with the usual, checking blood pressure, asking questions. Then we hopped up on the table to see where baby was sitting (and she has dropped, yay) and to listen to her heartbeat. As we were finishing up she told me that lots of walking helps (and I told her we go for a good 40 minute to one hour walk every night) and then she looks at Mark and says "Also Make him happy" at first Mark did not know what she was talking about, but then realized what she said and had this cute giddy smirk on his face. Then the even better news came, if she is not hear by next week we schedule an Induction for the 21st of December. Which means for sure we will be meeting our little one in 14 days. Forever it felt like this was never going to happen, but know with a for sure date in sight I can really start my count down and if she comes sooner great if not I will have about two weeks.
Dec 5, 2011
NOT YET!!!
Well I have had some strong feelings that Macie was other going to come on Dec 5th or Dec 17th. I don't know why such difference in the dates just those have been my feelings. So seeing as it is 5:41 on Dec 5th I am feeling more and more strongly that this baby is going to be late for us. Which I am okay with, Mark has a final exam on Dec 16th, so she other needs to come within the next couple of days or not until the 17th, and because I love that man so much I asked Heavenly Father if I didn't come early I would be more then willing to suffer it out for his sake and be a couple of days late, and it's looking and feeling like I get to suffer it out :) So far it has not been to bad occupying my time. I have got the upstairs of my house almost cleaned to perfection, and have been able to keep it clean, with the exception of Mark's school, teaching, and young mens books. For the last couple of days, and don't see why I can't keep it up until baby comes. Our basement is getting more and more organized every day and getting closer to being totally done. Today I got to watch one of my all time favorite Movie "Newsies" with my good Friends Kristi and start work on a really cute advent calender, and I have something else planned for everyday this week except Thursday. It is next week that I am not looking forward too as I am running out of ideas of things to do to not let time creep by and as well to be somewhat productive with all this time I have off. I am open to any suggestions of what you other ladies did to help time pass well waiting for that first baby to come. Oh and I walk and walk and walk hoping to get this sweetheart out sooner but it does not look like it is working. So again feeling like she is going to be a late one please ideas to help the time to pass would be appreciated.
Dec 1, 2011
SAD, DISTURBRING, PAINFUL, SCARY!!!
This post is not for memory sake but more for venting and hopefully somehow put my mind at ease. I may even delete it after a while so it will hopefully leave my memory forever somehow, but night after night of horrible dreams and getting ready to deliver my first baby I feel I need to talk about it. Also as news is starting to give more information I feel there is no reason why I can't talk about. They never told me I couldn't.
On November 7th 2011 The Eyewear Place had a new girl start that day (I can not reveal her name) She seemed a little bit cold and distant but I thought maybe she was a little nervous. On her second day of work I tried to open up to her a little and get to know her so asked her questions like have you lived hear your whole life? are you married, boyfriend? do you have any kids? her reply was no never, I hate kids and will never have them. Okay I thought she is a little bit on the cold side, but that is okay not everybody loves kids. The week went on and found I did not get to know a lot about her. I remember always feeling bad though, because both me and Melissa were crazy pregnant and she was a very big boned girl and you could of mistaken her for being pregnant and whenever customers came in the store they were always saying, wow what is with the water in your store everybody is pregnant. The week came to an end, and I was not feeling to awesome about her replacing Melissa as the next receptionist but felt it was not my call to make. I heard some rumors around the office that they were thinking of letting her go because her personality was not very friendly and warm with the patients and even with us girls and Dr.Z. I was not surprised to hear this. Monday Nov 14th was a normal day, then Tuesday the new girl was getting very sick with a cold and you could tell by that night that she was probably going to be sick the next day with how terrible she was sounding. I had the next day off as well so did not now what happened, but Thursday my Manager called me at home saying that Dr.Z was sick, her son was sick and she would not be coming to work, and the new girl was sick yesterday and might not be at work today. I was to get to work early call all the patients and send everybody home as there is not much to do when the Doc is out sick. There was only me and Sara in the office that day and talked lots about the new girl and how we don't see her staying here. Friday morning I was driving to work and my ear was bothering me so when I got to work I grabbed a Q-tip and went to the bathroom to clean it there was some garbage in the can and I quickly lifted it to put my dirty Q-tip at the bottom of the trash when I saw a huge wad of paper towel covered in blood. It immediately grossed me out and I covered it back up and washed my hands. I did not say anything as I new it was someone in the office and did not want to embarass anyone. Around 11:00 Melissa asked me where the new girl was and I said I don't know, Melissa said she has not seen here in like 30 minutes. Joanne went to look for her and found her in the pre-testing room sitting in the dark. Joanne asked her if she was okay, she said I am just feeling light headed. At lunch time Paula took her home. I figured she was the one having her period and it was really heavy and giving her lots of problems. As an office we discussed it and we all thought she was not suited for the office, the manager and the Doc decided they were going to let her go. The day came to an end, the weekend was our Christmas party which she did not show up for, and then Sunday was a day that changed my life a little bit. Mark and I got home from church and there was a message on the answering machine to call Constable (name I will not give out) he wanted to meet with me and discuss "the new girl". I was freaking out and thought for sure she was dead or something crazy like that. He came to my house, asked many questions asked me to discuss my week with her and then the most disturbing question of all came, "Did you know, or suspect that she was pregnant" I said no I had no idea and thought that was almost impossible because of the way she talked about hating children. The Constable left and I was baffled so many ideas going though my mind. They of course were not allowed to tell me anything. Finally around 4:30 I was so disturbed I called my manager and talked to her about it as she was also questioned by the constable. We both felt there was a good chance she other hurt herself to abort the baby, or had the baby and did something with it. We decided to end the conversation and discuss it with everybody at work on Monday. Monday was a very crazy day with one of our co-workers having a friend that lived in the same apartment building and said cops were there all weekend tearing up the apartment, going through dumpsters, and pulling up sewer drains. Her friend was informed by someone else in the building that this girl had a baby that Friday morning, disposed of it and then proceeded to go to work. Us girls at work kept it on the down low all week not saying anything to anybody, and just waiting to hear things from others and the news. Word spread like wild fire around lloydminster and more and more people new what was happening articles were talking about the RCMP searching for something at the landfill but would not discuss in details what they were looking for. Finally this morning there was a clipping on the Booster's website that they had found human remains at the landfill. I have posted the article at the end of my blog if you want to read it. These past two weeks have been the most disturbing two weeks of my life and can not seam to put it past me what horrible thing this girl did. You hear about these things on the news or watch it on crime shows, but you would never expect to know someone or be involved in something so horrific. I can't help but cry as I think of loved ones of mine that have not been able to have children yet, or Mark and I and the struggles we had to get pregnant, and then there is this human being who has such disrespect for life, that she would think of this precious baby as trash. I don't know if I will ever get to know the whole story, but I do hope justice is served and this women gets a punishment she deserves. I hope somehow I can put this whole disturbing memory out of my head and just focus on the birth of our baby girl.
Human remains found at Lloydminster landfill - Lloydminster Meridian Booster - Alberta, CA
On November 7th 2011 The Eyewear Place had a new girl start that day (I can not reveal her name) She seemed a little bit cold and distant but I thought maybe she was a little nervous. On her second day of work I tried to open up to her a little and get to know her so asked her questions like have you lived hear your whole life? are you married, boyfriend? do you have any kids? her reply was no never, I hate kids and will never have them. Okay I thought she is a little bit on the cold side, but that is okay not everybody loves kids. The week went on and found I did not get to know a lot about her. I remember always feeling bad though, because both me and Melissa were crazy pregnant and she was a very big boned girl and you could of mistaken her for being pregnant and whenever customers came in the store they were always saying, wow what is with the water in your store everybody is pregnant. The week came to an end, and I was not feeling to awesome about her replacing Melissa as the next receptionist but felt it was not my call to make. I heard some rumors around the office that they were thinking of letting her go because her personality was not very friendly and warm with the patients and even with us girls and Dr.Z. I was not surprised to hear this. Monday Nov 14th was a normal day, then Tuesday the new girl was getting very sick with a cold and you could tell by that night that she was probably going to be sick the next day with how terrible she was sounding. I had the next day off as well so did not now what happened, but Thursday my Manager called me at home saying that Dr.Z was sick, her son was sick and she would not be coming to work, and the new girl was sick yesterday and might not be at work today. I was to get to work early call all the patients and send everybody home as there is not much to do when the Doc is out sick. There was only me and Sara in the office that day and talked lots about the new girl and how we don't see her staying here. Friday morning I was driving to work and my ear was bothering me so when I got to work I grabbed a Q-tip and went to the bathroom to clean it there was some garbage in the can and I quickly lifted it to put my dirty Q-tip at the bottom of the trash when I saw a huge wad of paper towel covered in blood. It immediately grossed me out and I covered it back up and washed my hands. I did not say anything as I new it was someone in the office and did not want to embarass anyone. Around 11:00 Melissa asked me where the new girl was and I said I don't know, Melissa said she has not seen here in like 30 minutes. Joanne went to look for her and found her in the pre-testing room sitting in the dark. Joanne asked her if she was okay, she said I am just feeling light headed. At lunch time Paula took her home. I figured she was the one having her period and it was really heavy and giving her lots of problems. As an office we discussed it and we all thought she was not suited for the office, the manager and the Doc decided they were going to let her go. The day came to an end, the weekend was our Christmas party which she did not show up for, and then Sunday was a day that changed my life a little bit. Mark and I got home from church and there was a message on the answering machine to call Constable (name I will not give out) he wanted to meet with me and discuss "the new girl". I was freaking out and thought for sure she was dead or something crazy like that. He came to my house, asked many questions asked me to discuss my week with her and then the most disturbing question of all came, "Did you know, or suspect that she was pregnant" I said no I had no idea and thought that was almost impossible because of the way she talked about hating children. The Constable left and I was baffled so many ideas going though my mind. They of course were not allowed to tell me anything. Finally around 4:30 I was so disturbed I called my manager and talked to her about it as she was also questioned by the constable. We both felt there was a good chance she other hurt herself to abort the baby, or had the baby and did something with it. We decided to end the conversation and discuss it with everybody at work on Monday. Monday was a very crazy day with one of our co-workers having a friend that lived in the same apartment building and said cops were there all weekend tearing up the apartment, going through dumpsters, and pulling up sewer drains. Her friend was informed by someone else in the building that this girl had a baby that Friday morning, disposed of it and then proceeded to go to work. Us girls at work kept it on the down low all week not saying anything to anybody, and just waiting to hear things from others and the news. Word spread like wild fire around lloydminster and more and more people new what was happening articles were talking about the RCMP searching for something at the landfill but would not discuss in details what they were looking for. Finally this morning there was a clipping on the Booster's website that they had found human remains at the landfill. I have posted the article at the end of my blog if you want to read it. These past two weeks have been the most disturbing two weeks of my life and can not seam to put it past me what horrible thing this girl did. You hear about these things on the news or watch it on crime shows, but you would never expect to know someone or be involved in something so horrific. I can't help but cry as I think of loved ones of mine that have not been able to have children yet, or Mark and I and the struggles we had to get pregnant, and then there is this human being who has such disrespect for life, that she would think of this precious baby as trash. I don't know if I will ever get to know the whole story, but I do hope justice is served and this women gets a punishment she deserves. I hope somehow I can put this whole disturbing memory out of my head and just focus on the birth of our baby girl.
Human remains found at Lloydminster landfill - Lloydminster Meridian Booster - Alberta, CA
Nov 28, 2011
HEY BABY IT'S CHRISTMAS ALL OVER, AGAIN!!
Well once again my favorite time of year has come. I posted about it last year, will post about it this year, and will probably post about it every year. I love everything about Christmas, but my most favorite things are the music, decorations (which we put up tonight), how everybody seams so happy, and doing a kind deed for someone every year. I also love wrapping presents and making them all pretty, eating the delicious goodies, tobogganing, using my advent calendar ( I bought it from Jen Isackson a couple years ago and love it), finding ways to hide Mark's gifts and trying to surprise him, and this year of course is going to be the best, with it being my first Christmas as a Mom. I have to say this is the first year I have not been excited about gifts, and am not even remotely interested in snooping, it must be because I already know what the best gift is going to be this year and hopefully she will be unwrapping soon. I am so prepared for Christmas this year and am pretty much all done shopping, have maybe 4 more things to bye, and everything that I have bought is already wrapped. I thought it would be a good idea to not leave it to the last minute as my life is going to get pretty crazy in about two weeks. So Merry Christmas to everybody and hope you all have a great December.
Lily not to impressed with being dressed in the Santa Hat
My favorite part of my decorations, the fireplace where our stockings hang. I truly believe Mark and I have the cutest stockings ever thanks to my wonderful sister who made them for us. (I am hoping you can help make Macie's with me next year)
I got this stocking for Macie at wal-mart, nothing to exciting but thought it would be a cute keepsake. It says Baby's First Christmas 2011
Also believe this is the cutest advent calendar ever. (Thanks Jen for being so crafty)
BABY WHISPERER!!!
Yesterday afternoon I finally finished the book "The Secrets of The Baby Whisperer" by Tracy Hogg. Of all the baby books I read this was without a doubt my favorite. Good information, resources, and helped calm a lot of my fears. I just hope I can understand how to use her advice to make the transition into motherhood easier. As I think about how clueless I really am, this book helped me to understand better how we can hopefully have a wonderful first year with baby. So I am really not one that can give advice yet on how to be a good mother, but advice on books that help, I have to say this has been my favorite.
Nov 24, 2011
BITTER/SWEET!!!
Today was my last day of work at the Eyewear Place for a whole year, well I stay at home and love and care for Macie. It was such a bitter sweet feeling for me as I have loved these past 5 months of my life. I can't begin to express how grateful I am for them offering me my old job back, I think I would have lost all the marballs in my head by now if I was still at Superstore. It has been so wonderful to be excited to go to work everyday and come home from work everyday with a smile on my face. It makes it so much easier to know that when I go back in a year it is to a place I love and enjoy.
These past 5 months have been filled with so much laughter I wish I would have written some of them down in my journal. Paula, Melissa, Joanne, Dr. Zidar, and Sara I will miss seeing your wonderful faces everyday. Please still be there when I come back.
Me and Melissa on our last day of work together. She is due a month after me and was suppose to be done work around December 23rd, but is having some complications with her pregnancy and actually finished a day before me. She is being induced 3 weeks earlier and we might be having our babies on or very close to the same day.
My 4 favorite girls, I still can't believe how well 4 women, especially two that were pregnant at the time got along so well together, and had so much fun working everyday together. Dr. Zidar bought us all Pizza for my last day of work and Melissa stopped in for a visit.
Me and Melissa opening our gifts from our co-workers. They gave me a gift certificate to Charles Lamb Photography so Mark, Macie and I can go get family pictures done. So sweet I can't wait to use it.
These past 5 months have been filled with so much laughter I wish I would have written some of them down in my journal. Paula, Melissa, Joanne, Dr. Zidar, and Sara I will miss seeing your wonderful faces everyday. Please still be there when I come back.
Me and Melissa on our last day of work together. She is due a month after me and was suppose to be done work around December 23rd, but is having some complications with her pregnancy and actually finished a day before me. She is being induced 3 weeks earlier and we might be having our babies on or very close to the same day.
My 4 favorite girls, I still can't believe how well 4 women, especially two that were pregnant at the time got along so well together, and had so much fun working everyday together. Dr. Zidar bought us all Pizza for my last day of work and Melissa stopped in for a visit.
Me and Melissa opening our gifts from our co-workers. They gave me a gift certificate to Charles Lamb Photography so Mark, Macie and I can go get family pictures done. So sweet I can't wait to use it.
Nov 22, 2011
EVOLUTION OF A BELLY
I am almost done my third and last trimester and can't believe how fast the whole pregnancy has gone, even the third trimester has flown buy, thank goodness. So thought I needed to post one more like and dislike before I forget everything once Macie comes.
Third Trimester Likes:
- Feeling baby kick, move, punch and jab everyday.
- Getting endless good results from my Doctors, this one has been so big. Everytime I have a Doctor's appt (like today) they have nothing but good news for me. example: today I got to hear again that Macie's head is still down and is getting lower, her heartbeat is excellent as always. My results for a Bacteria that I might have were negative, and the best part is the Doctor thinks that there is a sweet little baby in me. His exact words (you have got a little one in there for sure)
- Having her Nursery almost finished
- How my complexion and hair keeps staying so nice
- Still being able to exercise almost everyday
- Maintaining a healthy weight. My goal was to stay under 30 lbs so far I am at 24 and only 3 weeks left to go I am thinking I am good to go.
- How everybody looks at you and thinks how cute she is having a baby
- How everybody asks me about the baby, name, sex, due date, how I feel. I light up every time I get to talk about her, it does not bother me at all.
- Getting all the books read I want read to hopefully help me be a better mom, or maybe a good word to use is a less stressed mom.
- Having an excuse to not do something if I don't want to do it. example: clean the shower
- Being done work on this Thursday and having a couple weeks to rest, relax, get my house ready, read lots more books and just enjoy some time to myself.
- anticipating the arrival of our sweet baby
- watching Mark and I freak out sometimes because we still can't believe this is happening
- going into her room everyday and picturing her playing in hear, looking at her clothes and thinking of her wearing them, and looking in her crib and picturing her sleeping in it.
Dislikes:
- The back pain from never being able to find a good bra
- sleepless nights, from struggling to get comfortable
- how hard it is to do most things: bend over, shave, put on shoes, get pt files, and many more.
- I can't decide if this is a like or a dislike, but how funny I look when I walk.
- feeling over heated about 90% of the time
I would still do it all over and over again, and go through it for a longer period if I had to to have this sweet baby, but you really come to realize how much you take a healthy body for granted. It makes me want to be even that much healthier, and in shape once Macie comes. I don't want anything to hold me back.
Now for the Evolution of the Belly
12 WEEKS
16 WEEKS
18 WEEKS
ABOUT 24 WEEKS
28 WEEKS
30 WEEKS
34 WEEKS
37 WEEKS and probably the last picture of the belly, next picture will be of Macie!!!
Third Trimester Likes:
- Feeling baby kick, move, punch and jab everyday.
- Getting endless good results from my Doctors, this one has been so big. Everytime I have a Doctor's appt (like today) they have nothing but good news for me. example: today I got to hear again that Macie's head is still down and is getting lower, her heartbeat is excellent as always. My results for a Bacteria that I might have were negative, and the best part is the Doctor thinks that there is a sweet little baby in me. His exact words (you have got a little one in there for sure)
- Having her Nursery almost finished
- How my complexion and hair keeps staying so nice
- Still being able to exercise almost everyday
- Maintaining a healthy weight. My goal was to stay under 30 lbs so far I am at 24 and only 3 weeks left to go I am thinking I am good to go.
- How everybody looks at you and thinks how cute she is having a baby
- How everybody asks me about the baby, name, sex, due date, how I feel. I light up every time I get to talk about her, it does not bother me at all.
- Getting all the books read I want read to hopefully help me be a better mom, or maybe a good word to use is a less stressed mom.
- Having an excuse to not do something if I don't want to do it. example: clean the shower
- Being done work on this Thursday and having a couple weeks to rest, relax, get my house ready, read lots more books and just enjoy some time to myself.
- anticipating the arrival of our sweet baby
- watching Mark and I freak out sometimes because we still can't believe this is happening
- going into her room everyday and picturing her playing in hear, looking at her clothes and thinking of her wearing them, and looking in her crib and picturing her sleeping in it.
Dislikes:
- The back pain from never being able to find a good bra
- sleepless nights, from struggling to get comfortable
- how hard it is to do most things: bend over, shave, put on shoes, get pt files, and many more.
- I can't decide if this is a like or a dislike, but how funny I look when I walk.
- feeling over heated about 90% of the time
I would still do it all over and over again, and go through it for a longer period if I had to to have this sweet baby, but you really come to realize how much you take a healthy body for granted. It makes me want to be even that much healthier, and in shape once Macie comes. I don't want anything to hold me back.
Now for the Evolution of the Belly
12 WEEKS
16 WEEKS
18 WEEKS
ABOUT 24 WEEKS
28 WEEKS
30 WEEKS
34 WEEKS
37 WEEKS and probably the last picture of the belly, next picture will be of Macie!!!
Nov 20, 2011
WHAT A WEEKEND!!
This weekend was full of busy fun events. Friday night started off with our Branch Chilli Cook Off. This was the first year I entered a chilli and unfortunately did not win, the Cha's got the privilege of taking home the trophy for the year. Then after the chilli cook off a bunch of us sisters in the ward headed to the movies to watch the new Twighlight Movie Breaking Dawn. I am not a huge fan of these movies but have seen the first three and more so was excited for a girls night out. It was a blast and glad I went. Then Saturday was a totally jam packed day, Super Saturday from 10-2 where I made a Family Home Evening Board, and a mog podge picture of Christ and the Women at the Well. I love the colors of my FHE Board and idea but I did not do a perfect job on spacing the lettering and wood pegs. For my first big craft project for our house I am happy. Then that night Mark and I headed to my Work Christmas Party. We had a blast and enjoyed every minute. It was fun getting to know my co-workers husbands and boyfriends better. The entertainment was a comedian Trent something (can't remember his last name) from New Foundland and had me busting a gut. Then we had a live band the Prairie Dogs they were better then I thought but was not in much of a mood for dancing, actually none of us at the table were so we played a game of trying to bounce these round silicone balls that were of course a part of the decorations into glasses. The coolest part of the night was my boss "Dr. Zidar" bought $100 worth of 50/50 tickets and won. He gave all of us girls each $50 each just cause he is awesome. What a great weekend full of fun exciting events, I must say though it definitely wore me out, and I was feeling it at church today. Tired sore and ready to relax.
All dressed up for the Christmas Party (Almost 37 weeks)
All dressed up for the Christmas Party (Almost 37 weeks)
Nov 14, 2011
THE NURSERY!!
We'll it is pretty much finished except one wall, which I think I have figured out just need to buy the stuff for it and white frames for the two pictures on the one wall. I will honestly admit I am not great at decorating, putting colors together and making my house look like it is out of a magazine. I feel the nursery is the same thing. I wanted that teal wall with white wainscotting (however you spell it) black and white accessories and everything to be modern and perfect. However as I walk into Macie's room every day and think about her playing in hear and sleeping in hear and just calling it her room it just seems perfect. I don't even know her yet, what she looks like, her personality, nothing but I just feel so warm and peaceful when I walk in hear and feel this is what was meant to be. So I do I love her room, others may not but I think it is going to be so perfect for her. One month today and I will hopefully be laying her to sleep in her bed.
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