The Day I Learned What It Is To Love And Be Loved...
It's The End Of The World As We Know It...
It is official. Aaron and I are moving to Grantsville. We are scheduled to have all contracts signed March 20th. However, we are putting in new carpet/flooring first... so we will still be in the apartment for an extra week or two. We gave our 60 day notice to the complex, and you'll never guess our official "Last Day" with the apartment...
April 23rd.
Yes, that is Baby D's due date.
So, my 8th and 9th months of pregnancy will be spent moving and getting settled into a new location, saying goodbye to Aaron's and my "first home," and getting ready to welcome a new addition to our family of two!
Whew! I'm tired just thinking about it!
Wish us luck!
God Bless The Child
Does this darkness have a name?
This cruelty, this hatred.
How did it find us?
Did it steal into our lives, or did we seek out and embrace it?
What happened to us?
That we now send our children into the world,
like we send young men to war...
Hoping for their safe return, but knowing that some will be lost along the way.
When did we lose our way?
Consumed by our shadows.
Swallowed whole by the shadows.
... Does this darkness have a name?
--OTH--
Word To The Wise...
Things you should NEVER say to a pregnant woman...
--Especially a smart-ass/sarcastic one.
* WOAH!! Your butt, boobs, and belly are HUGE!!
-- I know right! I'm catching up to you!
* Are you pregnant?
-- Nope, I'm just fat and oddly shaped.
* Rub butter or crisco on your belly to prevent stretch marks.
-- Um... I think you are thinking of a different kind of 'bun in the oven.'
* Just wait until labor. You'll never get your hips back. I tore, bad. 12 stitches!
-- Should have used more crisco. I hear it prevents sticking...
* The [..insert place here..] has an excellent gym/workout program. The [..Insert random diet here..] works wonders too!
-- Thanks, but I think I'll stick with my weight loss program. It's called Labor and Delivery.
* Maybe you should hold off on the fries... you're baby doesn't need anything else to eat. You look like you are going to pop!
-- Lady, try and take my fries away from me, and you'll pull back a bloody stump!
* You look a little young to be pregnant?
-- Just doing my part to keep Utah in the top 10% for teen pregnancy.
* You're going to get your GED right? Give your baby a somewhat of a decent example.
-- Is that what you did?
* Isn't pregnancy just 'Magical?'
-- Nope. Oh, by the way Disney called, they want their phrase back...
* So, how did this happen?
-- Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much...
* Is it the same father as the other one?
-- You know, I never thought to check...
(Side note: the person meant my 3 year old baby brother who is sometimes with me...)
Mama Bird Meets A Budget...
My dad says I've hit the nesting stages of pregnancy...
I like to think I am just learning ways to save money, while providing cute clothing accessories for this baby girl!
Example: I am borderline obsessed with baby shoes, and hats.
-- So I am learning to crochet, as the price of yarn and such is usually around $5.00.
Thus saving me lots of monies that otherwise would be spent on shoes, and little baby hats from a retail store. It also gives me something to do while Aaron is at work all day!
Here is one of my methods of learning.
You Tube Videos...
Chunky Style Baby Hat:
Basic Crochet Baby Blanket:
Basic Crochet Flowers:
Mary Jane Baby Slippers:
...And my Grandma Gus. She has always been a phenomenal seamstress! I figure if anyone will know how to read a pattern, and be able to teach me -- she will.
I like to think I am just learning ways to save money, while providing cute clothing accessories for this baby girl!
Example: I am borderline obsessed with baby shoes, and hats.
-- So I am learning to crochet, as the price of yarn and such is usually around $5.00.
Thus saving me lots of monies that otherwise would be spent on shoes, and little baby hats from a retail store. It also gives me something to do while Aaron is at work all day!
Here is one of my methods of learning.
You Tube Videos...
Chunky Style Baby Hat:
Basic Crochet Baby Blanket:
Basic Crochet Flowers:
Mary Jane Baby Slippers:
...And my Grandma Gus. She has always been a phenomenal seamstress! I figure if anyone will know how to read a pattern, and be able to teach me -- she will.
Hoarders Express...
Oh. My. Epicness. Of. Gross!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone knows about the show 'Hoarders' on TLC right? Well, last night Aaron and I sat down and actually watched a full episode of it. I wanted to vomit. Aaron went pale. It was all we could do to not run out of the living room screaming and crying. I had seen glimpses of the show before, but never actually taken the time to sit down and watch a full 1 hr episode, as Althea (My mother's mother...) is a known hoarder. One family was on the brink of losing their 3 kids, the mother was a compulsive shopper, and the dad couldn't let stuff go. The other family was a lady who horded food, and "Hated wasting things." She also didn't believe in the expiration dates. "Well, if it isn't puffy, and it doesn't smell terrible I figure it's still good. What's going to happen to sour cream, it is going to go sour!? You know... Haha!" ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!?!?!? Oh, you should have seen the way Aaron and I would cringe as they cleaned out these homes.
Praise the Lord! I married a clean freak.
We live in a tiny shoe-box apartment so that we can manage rent, pay off loans, and save money to buy a house. Organization is key.
Aaron married an avid organizer.
Brilliant combination!
After the show was over, and we had regained control over our speech capabilities we promptly thanked one another for not being anything like the two families we had just watched empty out their "Dirty Laundry." We were then able to talk about the way we would like to have our home organized, and the de-cluttering process we knew would be coming up when we move. (Hopefully in the next few months.) Thank heavens neither of us has issues with throwing out items we don't use, or need, and we seem to balance out the other's failings in the home cleanliness areas. Example: Aaron get's overwhelmed with papers, and things on the table, so he will just pile them on the counter, or throw them out. I have learned to keep all bill statements and receipts for at least 30 days, and I hate having counter space bogged up with papers and nonsense clutter. We've already talked about the need for a filing cabinet so we are both able to function, but right now we haven't the room for it, so we have delegated one counter corner as our temporary Filing space. Drives us both mad, but it's the best we can do with the circumstances we have been given. However, because Aaron hates having the table cluttered we often go through and throw away old papers, coupons, random items we pick up and have no place for -- where I keep receipts and bill statements, we have been saved several hundred dollars from creditors who have tried to bill us twice, or claim 'unpaid' items and jack up interest amounts. Win/win.
As I do have a few 'hoarders' in the family, I have always tried to be aware of those habits, and make sure those tendencies are not carried over into my own life style. Where Aaron works with truckers, who are notorious hoarders, he too watches himself as he doesn't want to carry those habits either. One day I will take him to a particular family member's house, and record his reaction. Then send it to America's funniest home videos, because that man had some classic facial expressions while watching that show!
Praise the Lord! I married a clean freak.
We live in a tiny shoe-box apartment so that we can manage rent, pay off loans, and save money to buy a house. Organization is key.
Aaron married an avid organizer.
Brilliant combination!
After the show was over, and we had regained control over our speech capabilities we promptly thanked one another for not being anything like the two families we had just watched empty out their "Dirty Laundry." We were then able to talk about the way we would like to have our home organized, and the de-cluttering process we knew would be coming up when we move. (Hopefully in the next few months.) Thank heavens neither of us has issues with throwing out items we don't use, or need, and we seem to balance out the other's failings in the home cleanliness areas. Example: Aaron get's overwhelmed with papers, and things on the table, so he will just pile them on the counter, or throw them out. I have learned to keep all bill statements and receipts for at least 30 days, and I hate having counter space bogged up with papers and nonsense clutter. We've already talked about the need for a filing cabinet so we are both able to function, but right now we haven't the room for it, so we have delegated one counter corner as our temporary Filing space. Drives us both mad, but it's the best we can do with the circumstances we have been given. However, because Aaron hates having the table cluttered we often go through and throw away old papers, coupons, random items we pick up and have no place for -- where I keep receipts and bill statements, we have been saved several hundred dollars from creditors who have tried to bill us twice, or claim 'unpaid' items and jack up interest amounts. Win/win.
As I do have a few 'hoarders' in the family, I have always tried to be aware of those habits, and make sure those tendencies are not carried over into my own life style. Where Aaron works with truckers, who are notorious hoarders, he too watches himself as he doesn't want to carry those habits either. One day I will take him to a particular family member's house, and record his reaction. Then send it to America's funniest home videos, because that man had some classic facial expressions while watching that show!
Murder She Wrote...
If a remedy for our neighbors ridiculous alarm isn't found soon, I am going to go postal and commit murder. Their alarm clock is on my hit list! These two women who live above us are among the most annoying of sorts! They stomp everywhere they go, never leave their apartment, and are incredibly rude/inconsiderate/abnoxious... etc! AND THEY SMOKE INSIDE THEIR APARTMENT!!! Well, they used to. I still catch moments here and there, but ever since tub-a-lub was carted to the hospital the smoking inside has decreased, now it's just outside as I come and go that I have to hold my breath. I can't tell if #2 smokes or not, as she is rarely ever seen.
Anyway... their alarm. It goes off at 7:22am every morning. (What the random right!?) and doesn't stop until 9:30-9:45ish. That is 2 hours of the worlds most obnoxious sound. It fills our apartment, and even permeates the air outside. It's starting to give me a complex, as well as migraines, and puts stress on the baby. Not exactly the ingredients needed to make a happy Jess. Aaron is exhausted all the time, as he doesn't get off work until midnight, and rarely gets home before 12:30am. We usually get to bed around 1-1:30am. 5 hours a sleep, with 12 hours of hard labor is not very healthy and it's starting to show. I typed up a note I am going to put on their door tonight when I get home, as well as complain to management. Though I am not sure what they can do. It wouldn't bother me so much if they turned off the alarm within a reasonable amount of time, but they don't. I can hear them moving. I can hear their water running, and their kitchen being used. I know they are up. Yet they let that stupid noise box continue to interrupt our mornings. I don't know what their deal is, but if this continues... I may just pull out a box of pregnant lady ass kicking!
Starlight, Starbright...
"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream." Vincent Van Gogh
Note To My Pregnant Self...
DO NOT PUT MALLOWS ON THE BROWNIES!!! You will eat half the pan before Aaron gets home, and will most likely end up birthing a 13 pound baby after gaining 50 extra pounds...
(Thank heavens I didn't do that all in one day! Then I'd really be a fatty! Lol!)
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