Take A Guess!

I know I've got 12 weeks to go until my official due date- August 21- but humor me and take a guess as to when Ali will grace us with her presence! Use the orange and purple button on the top right-hand side of my blog to play along!

P.S. My crib is in at Wal-Mart!!!!!!! I'm going to pick it up this weekend- FUN!!!!

28 weeks and I flunked!

Well here I am at 28 weeks! I went to the doctor today and FLUNKED my glucose test. I failed by 25 points, which I have no idea what that means exactly, but what I do know is that on Tuesday I have to go sit at a lab for 3 hours while they feed me more sugar water and poke my arm a bunch of times. I'm pissed at myself for not passing, even though I'm not sure if I could have prevented it in any way. It upsets me that I have been trying to take care of myself by not over-doing the sweets and exercising on a pretty frequent basis, I've been self-conscious of being a fatso pregnant lady, and now I feel totally unhealthy. I'm kind of worried, but I won't let myself get too worked up over it until Tuesday is over and I find out my true results.
On the positive side, my uterus measured exactly on target for 28 weeks, and our little Ali's heartbeat was strong and regular! So at least I'm carrying a healthy baby, even if my body sucks at breaking down glucose.

The best weekend!

We had the best Memorial Day Weekend ever! We did not have school on Friday, so my mom and I started the day out with mommy-daughter pedicures at one of the local beauty schools. After that, my mom and I met up with KK at our house, packed up the truck with all our cabin stuff, 3 dogs, and ourselves, and headed north to our cabin at the Moyie River. (I will hopefully post pics this afternoon). Later on that day, my little bro and dad met us up there.


We had a blast!! It was so nice to get away from the stresses of every day life and relax with family. KK brought his drift boat and rowed my mom and I around 2 lakes to fish. We caught 15 trout total and BBQ-ed them up one night for dinner- sooooo good. Kris also took my dad and bro down the Moyie River, which was traveling about 15 mph with all the snow melt. They had a pretty wild ride full of beer drinking and rapids!


We also took a ton of walks, and I am reading a great book from the library called The Good Earth, by Pearl Buck. I would recommend it highly!


I love being with my family, and I am so happy that Kris gets fits in with us so easily. We laughed so hard and relaxed together. It was so fun having no schedule, and simply deciding what to do based on what we wanted, instead of work or time constraints.


It made me so thankful for the wonderful life I have been blessed with. I really do have a great husband, great parents, and a great brother. It's not very often you find a group of people who enjoys each other so much. I take them all for granted, but I am so thankful for each person and how much they each bring to my life. I can't wait for Ali to join our crazy bunch!





Now, it's back to reality! Here's the highlights:

• Only 2 weeks left of school- whooo hoooo! Now begins the frantic review days to get my students ready for our district end of course exams, fun times !


• We finally got our tax refund + stimulus check!!! YEAH!!!!!! I ordered Ali's crib yesterday at Walmart.com, thanks to the great head's up from Nanette- it will be delivered next week sometime- I'm so excited to finally get the nursery started! Here's what I got (crib on left, bedding we bought when we found out she was a girl on right):

• I also finally paid the freaking $350 "graduation fee" to my university to get my actual Master's Degree diploma! We are totally framing that sucker!!
• KK is going to start on the landscaping this week- I can't wait to have grass and a patio!
• Tomorrow is my 28 week (!) appointment: I have to drink that awful orange glucose drink before going in to see if I have the dreaded gestational diabetes- keep your fingers crossed it all comes out good!

Holy Crap- only 13 weeks left!

I cannot believe tomorrow is the beginning of my LAST TRIMESTER of pregnancy!!! Really, it has gone by sooo quickly. I find myself thinking more and more of what we need to get done to be ready for our little girl in August- and I feel like we have so much to do !!!!!!! The good news is we are out of school in 12 school days (not that I'm counting) and after doing a little extra work for the school district, I will have almost 8 weeks to prepare for my sweet angel to come home.
Here is a list of what I can think of to do:

• buy a crib
• make husband put crib together
• move dresser into baby's room
• buy new knobs for dresser
• buy a pack n play for our bedroom
• buy a car seat/stroller
• put up decals that match bedding in baby's room
• wash all bedding/clothes and put in dresser
• give mom list for baby shower
• start registry (where ?)
• set up delivery with diaper service
• order blinds for nursery

And I'm spent. I'm overwhelmed and can't think of anything else right now. But don't worry people, I'm not really that stressed about it- I know myself- I'm a doer. It will all get done in plenty of time, then I'll be complaining about being bored. It's the nature of the beast

I'm talking bout boogers

** If you are grossed out by boogers, then do not read this graphic post! You've been warned!

Here is the latest and greatest on the pregnancy front: I am having sinus/nose problems. I have had weird nose dealings for about 2 weeks now. Over the weekend, I woke up and got a bloody nose. Now I seem to have stuffy sinuses all the time, and what feels like huge boogers in my nose at all times! When I wake up every morning, I blow my nose and DO have huge boogers,-bloody gross ones! The only time I can get a productive booger producing blow is in the morning- after that I always feel the need to blow my nose, but nothing comes out. I can press my nostrils together and they will stay shut- that is the severity of this problem, people.

I'm not really sure what to do about this- it is quite uncomfortable and I have never experienced nose problems before in my life. Perhaps I have allergies? Or are my sinuses going crazy because of the baby in my belly?

Thankful Friday

KK and I went in to the doctor to hear our sweet baby's heartbeat yesterday afternoon. I hadn't felt a prominent movement from her since Tuesday. Now this baby usually is movin and groovin all day long, so that startled me a bit and I wanted to make sure she was still a healthy little gal in my tummy. I knew in my heart all was well- but this just isn't something I feel comfortable messing around with- so we went to see the doc after school. I've decided that the sound of our baby's heartbeat is the best sound I've ever heard in my life. I contemplated stealing the giant heart monitor to hook myself up to each day at home, but the darn thing wouldn't fit in my purse, let alone be lifted off its cart :)
The doc's conclusion was that our little babe has flipped herself around most likely, and is now kicking me in the back, which fortunately I cannot feel.... I'm biding my time on that one.

On another note- it is supposed to be in the 80s all weekend- FINALLY nice weather!!!! Waking up to sunshine these past few mornings has been the best way to get up. I hope it lasts through our final 3 weeks of school!
Enjoy your weekends everybody!

The diaper dilemma

My husband and I are trying to decide whether we are going to be cloth diaper parents or throw-away diaper parents. Believe me, I am not an environmentalist by any stretch, but I do live in a beautiful part of America and would like to keep it that way, if not for myself then for my offspring. I figure anything I can do at this point makes a difference.
To me, plastic diapers seem such a horrible thing to put into our landfills. They do not decompose and that makes me nervous. I want to do my part and have a functioning role in making our world as beautiful as I can for future generations. Therefore, I am going to use my plan period today and call the only diaper service offered in my town. Hopefully the price of cloth diaper delivery is something within our meek teachers' budgets and we can factor that into part of our darling baby's routine when she graces us with her presence in 14 weeks.

Because, in reality, if cloth diapers are too expensive for our budget, we will have to be part of the waste-growers in North Idaho and use plastic diapers like everyone else!