Timing contractions.
Hoping for the best.
But it's been 2 hrs of irregular contractions....
So I don't have my hopes up.
Too high.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
A Picture Post
This weekend was an exciting whirlwind of last minute baby-welcoming activities.
My sweet Georgia girls were kind enough to throw me a peach of a shower!
(HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! That was a good one, right???)
And I totally reacquainted myself with the color pink.
(Please pardon the blur, but my photographer was having a difficult time keeping me still for very long after I licked all the sugar off the rim of my glass...mm, mm, good!)
And then there was the adorableness that is personalized diapers.
And then, as if all that love and joy wasn't enough for one weekend....
We followed it up with a little maternity shoot.
And now, it's official.
Baby girl doesn't have to wait anymore.
She can come any time now.
Of course, I say that, and then stop having the contractions that I've been having for 3 weeks straight....
My sweet Georgia girls were kind enough to throw me a peach of a shower!
(HARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! That was a good one, right???)
And I totally reacquainted myself with the color pink.
Yes, that IS tissue paper between my knees...you can never be too prepared, I always say!!!
(Please pardon the blur, but my photographer was having a difficult time keeping me still for very long after I licked all the sugar off the rim of my glass...mm, mm, good!)
And then there was the adorableness that is personalized diapers.
And then, as if all that love and joy wasn't enough for one weekend....
We followed it up with a little maternity shoot.
(Little Man was totally distracted by the choo choo train in the distance, but who cares!!!)
And now, it's official.
Baby girl doesn't have to wait anymore.
She can come any time now.
Of course, I say that, and then stop having the contractions that I've been having for 3 weeks straight....
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Weekly Weigh-In: Week 37 and Counting
It's been a few weeks (3, to be exact) since I was accountable to myself for my preggo largeness...
And in the meantime, I've been chomping on bon bon's and chicken marsala.
NOT.
But I have still managed to put on a little weight.
Despite the fact that I have upped my workouts from 3-4 per week to 5-6 per week.
And in case you are wondering what this moo-cow momma looks like these days and you aren't a Facebook follower, here ya go:
Last week's pic:
And this week's unfair comparison:
Yes, I look way bigger in the Now pic. Thankyouverymuch.
But it's also not zoomed out by about 20 feet.
However, I do have a number for you.
A shameful number, but a number all the same.
As of this week, I weigh 179.2 lbs.
Meaning I have, at 37 weeks, gained 40.6 lbs.
Not on target for my goal, but not nearly as bad as last pregnancy.
I am continuing to workout like a banshee to try to keep the weight off and hopefully, this stuff will come off quickly once Baby Girl finds her way into the real world!
Wish me luck!!!
Either way, it should all be over soon and we can move on to our normally scheduled programming, right????
And in the meantime, I've been chomping on bon bon's and chicken marsala.
NOT.
But I have still managed to put on a little weight.
Despite the fact that I have upped my workouts from 3-4 per week to 5-6 per week.
And in case you are wondering what this moo-cow momma looks like these days and you aren't a Facebook follower, here ya go:
Last week's pic:
And this week's unfair comparison:
Yes, I look way bigger in the Now pic. Thankyouverymuch.
But it's also not zoomed out by about 20 feet.
However, I do have a number for you.
A shameful number, but a number all the same.
As of this week, I weigh 179.2 lbs.
Meaning I have, at 37 weeks, gained 40.6 lbs.
Not on target for my goal, but not nearly as bad as last pregnancy.
I am continuing to workout like a banshee to try to keep the weight off and hopefully, this stuff will come off quickly once Baby Girl finds her way into the real world!
Wish me luck!!!
Either way, it should all be over soon and we can move on to our normally scheduled programming, right????
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Helpful How-To: Putting Some Elbow Behind my Degreasing
It's been a little over a month since we moved into our little rental.
And life is good.
Not perfect, perhaps, but good.
But there are things that come with living in a rental that are never quite what you imagined them to be.
And one of them just happens to be cleaning up someone else's messes.
Not that I enjoy it, just that it came with this territory.
And today, of all days, I could take it no more.
Mostly because the grossness was getting to me.
Let me explain.
In our little rental kitchen, we have a little rental stove top.
And above that is a little rental vent hood.
From 1972.
But whatever.
It's fine from this angle.
But get a little closer and you might notice a dirty little secret this vent hood was trying to hide.
That's grease.
Underneath my vent hood.
Let's zoom out, shall we?
And that's AFTER I scrubbed it for a good 20 minutes.
It's disgusting.
But then I remembered a little something my momma told me.
Not to mention a commercial or two about Dawn dishwashing detergent getting the grease off of pretty much anything.
So I thought I would give it my best shot.
And literally, a couple scrubs and the grease melted away.
Lesson learned?
Sticky, greasy, hot messes really can be cleaned with just a little help from this magical substance.
The helpful how-to here???
Learn from my mistake.
Start out using it.
Don't wait until you are 20 minutes in with a ginormous preggo back ache!!!
Not that you would have a preggo back ache, but still....
And life is good.
Not perfect, perhaps, but good.
But there are things that come with living in a rental that are never quite what you imagined them to be.
And one of them just happens to be cleaning up someone else's messes.
Not that I enjoy it, just that it came with this territory.
And today, of all days, I could take it no more.
Mostly because the grossness was getting to me.
Let me explain.
In our little rental kitchen, we have a little rental stove top.
And above that is a little rental vent hood.
From 1972.
But whatever.
It's fine from this angle.
But get a little closer and you might notice a dirty little secret this vent hood was trying to hide.
That's grease.
Underneath my vent hood.
Let's zoom out, shall we?
And that's AFTER I scrubbed it for a good 20 minutes.
It's disgusting.
But then I remembered a little something my momma told me.
Not to mention a commercial or two about Dawn dishwashing detergent getting the grease off of pretty much anything.
So I thought I would give it my best shot.
And literally, a couple scrubs and the grease melted away.
Lesson learned?
Sticky, greasy, hot messes really can be cleaned with just a little help from this magical substance.
The helpful how-to here???
Learn from my mistake.
Start out using it.
Don't wait until you are 20 minutes in with a ginormous preggo back ache!!!
Not that you would have a preggo back ache, but still....
Grounds for Divorce
Techy has many quirks.
Surprising, right?
One of them happens to be the fact that he likes to act "fancy" every night.
Meaning, he likes to drink out of his "fancy" glass every.single. night.
And now, he can't.
Oops!
I think I may need a place to hide....
Surprising, right?
One of them happens to be the fact that he likes to act "fancy" every night.
Meaning, he likes to drink out of his "fancy" glass every.single. night.
And now, he can't.
Oops!
I think I may need a place to hide....
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Nesting without a Nursery
Today I'm here to talk about something (other than poop and marker lids) that is stealing my sanity.
Nesting.
Only imagine with me an adorable rental with horrid wood paneling and only 2 real bedrooms. (It has a 3rd, but with 2 doorways and only one door, its really more if a hallway with a closet. And an air mattress for your guests.... And no room for your newborn.
Which is totally fine since the first 10 weeks will be spent in a bassinet anyway, right?
Until you realize that nesting is natural. And I have no outlet for all the nesting that is bottled up in me right now.
Thankfully, there's pinterest...
Where ideas like these come from:
Source 1
Source 2
Source 3
Source 4
Source 5
To be honest, I'm not sure which is worse. Actual nesting or pinterest nesting....
Sigh.
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