Okay, so I'm not very good at this "post on blog every day" thing, but oh well. I'm 20 weeks today! Half way there, or, not quite half way there if this little one decides to come almost a week late like his/her brother did... :) I had a weird lightheaded spell just a few minutes ago, though, so that was a little disconcerting. "Head issues" are really the only thing that I've had to deal with this pregnancy. I started taking loratadine (Claritin) a few times a week to help with headaches, since my doctor thought they were most likely sinus in nature. It's helped quite a bit, but I think my blood pressure has been acting up (or should I say low) lately, too. It always runs on the low side (I'm regularly in the 106/60 range), but at the onset of the pregnancy Skip took it at one point and it was like 90/50... pretty low. So I just have to stand up slowly and let my body readjust so that I don't get lightheaded. I suppose if this is the worst symptom I have, I can handle it! I almost forgot to say that I have my big ultrasound tomorrow, so that should give us a nice update of how things are going with little Bean!
I'm looking forward to this weekend, for two reasons. First off, my drywall is being put in!! Yay!! Skip's good friend Bryan and his wife Tamara will be doing the job for us, as they do construction work on the side. As soon as the drywall is done, we can paint, put the floors in, then LIVE up there. I'm SO EXCITED!
Secondly, all of the Hart/Preston ladies (well, most of us) are getting together this weekend up here in MKE to celebrate my aunt Nancy's 50th birthday! My grandma's maiden name is Hart, and there will be 12 of us celebrating: Grandma, my mom, my aunts Nancy, Pat and Emily, my mom's cousin Marie, one of her daughters, Megan (we'll miss her other daughter Caroline), my cousins Amy, Allison and Cate, and me and Sarison. We plan on visiting the Domes, the Milwaukee Public Market, dinner at Joey Buona's and who knows what else! It should be a GREAT time!
Stay tuned for another post with updates from the weekend!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
11/7/11
Calm the crazy! I swear Preston is a total nut job sometimes! Tonight, he decided he wanted nothing to do with dinner, but would rather whine for literally 30 seconds at a time... straight. The kid can hold a note longer that an opera singer! So, we decided to go for a ride in the car to get the crazies out. It sort of worked... until when we got back he started climbing up on the backs of the couches. Scotch is a bad example... Then Preston thought it would be funny to wear Scotch's choke collar as a hat, until I heard him around the corner going "uh oh." Apparently the "hat" fits over his head, which I did not think it did. Oops, Mommy fail. So we fixed that, and he proceeded to whack the hell out of Scotch's face with the now-weapon he had. That warranted a little staredown until he said sorry to Scotch, which he eventually did. I'm so proud of my dog these days, he's so patient. Every once in a while, though, they will be horsing around and he (Scotch) will get Preston's arm in his mouth (soft mouth), and look up at us with this "just a little taste?" look. Stinker...
Then, wham, he decided he'd go to bed. 5 minutes later there was silence in the house. Boy am I lucky to have a little one who sleeps so well!
Then, wham, he decided he'd go to bed. 5 minutes later there was silence in the house. Boy am I lucky to have a little one who sleeps so well!
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Weekend in Review
Welp, let's see. Skip was working both Friday and Saturday night (which he rarely does), so I had P to myself this weekend. So we got up Saturday morning, had some breakfast, then hung with Skip for a little while when he got home from work. When Skip went to bed, Preston and I headed downtown for the Veteran's Day parade. We got a nice spot to sit, and Preston loved seeing the horses, and listening to all the bands. It was a pretty long parade, so he reached his limit after a while, so we came home for lunch. After lunch, we both took a nap for a while, which basically ate up the rest of the day. I had a list of stuff to get done, but have been getting tired in the middle of the afternoon lately, so I just needed the nap (taking advantage of being able to nap on the weekends, since I can't at work, obviously...). Yesterday evening we had dinner, then just vegged for the night.
This morning was an early one, since two-year-olds obviously don't get the memo on sleeping for an extra hour, but I was prepared for that. Since Preston isn't one to eat his breakfast first thing when he wakes up, he played for a little bit while I cleaned the shower and tub. Yep, 6:45 and I was cleaning the shower! By 8:00, we had already finished breakfast, I had washed the dishes, and had even scrubbed the stovetop. Skip got home from work right about then, so we hung out with him for a little bit before getting ready to go to the zoo (should've been going to church, but it is seriously too hard for me to keep Preston still for an hour by myself these days at mass; I give him a couple months to work out his crazies, and we should be okay). We got to the zoo by 9:45, which was perfect since barely anyone was there. We had a really good time, and Preston was ecstatic when we got to ride the choo-choo! I've never seen such a goofy grin on his face!
We came home, had some lunch, then napped again. I've decided I love napping, even though I rarely ever do it! After our naps, we got outside to clear some of the leaves that pile up in our driveway and front. Preston had fun with his little lawnmower "mowing" the leaves up. After dinner, we watched Beauty and the Beast, then the little beast hit the sack. It really was a great weekend!
This morning was an early one, since two-year-olds obviously don't get the memo on sleeping for an extra hour, but I was prepared for that. Since Preston isn't one to eat his breakfast first thing when he wakes up, he played for a little bit while I cleaned the shower and tub. Yep, 6:45 and I was cleaning the shower! By 8:00, we had already finished breakfast, I had washed the dishes, and had even scrubbed the stovetop. Skip got home from work right about then, so we hung out with him for a little bit before getting ready to go to the zoo (should've been going to church, but it is seriously too hard for me to keep Preston still for an hour by myself these days at mass; I give him a couple months to work out his crazies, and we should be okay). We got to the zoo by 9:45, which was perfect since barely anyone was there. We had a really good time, and Preston was ecstatic when we got to ride the choo-choo! I've never seen such a goofy grin on his face!
We came home, had some lunch, then napped again. I've decided I love napping, even though I rarely ever do it! After our naps, we got outside to clear some of the leaves that pile up in our driveway and front. Preston had fun with his little lawnmower "mowing" the leaves up. After dinner, we watched Beauty and the Beast, then the little beast hit the sack. It really was a great weekend!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
11/5/11
I've decided that though pomegranates are delicious, they are just too much work. I just ate one (rather, the seeds from one), and not only did it take me like 15 minutes just to get the seeds out, my fingers are all pink now!
Friday, November 4, 2011
11/4/11
Two posts in two days, sweet. Anyways, I thought I would write about Preston in this one again. We had him sleeping in the pack-n-play in the front room again while the renovations are going on. We are on a full-sized (ugh) mattress in the other room. So, Preston went to stay with my mom and dad one night, and my mom let me know that "the party is over" and that P can get out of the pack-n-play now... uh oh! I was a little worried of him getting out now in the middle of the night at our house, so he was nice enough just to get out for the first time during his nap... stinker. We had the crib mattress just up against the wall down there, and I thought to put it next to the pack-n-play, just in case he fell out. Well one day, after trying for the third time to get him to stay in the pack-n-play at naptime, I asked him if he would rather sleep on the mattress, to which he shook his head yes. Okay... So, I put a pillow and blanket on there, laid him down, then didn't hear him for 2 1/2 hours! Let's just say he's been sleeping on his big boy "bed" ever since. :) We plan on having him in a toddler bed when we get back upstairs, so this will ease that transition immensely!
I, on the other hand, cannot WAIT to get back into our queen-sized bed upstairs. A full mattress is way too small for me and Skip's ginormous legs. Not to mention I don't have space to toss and turn like I am doing frequently these days!
A few pics from P's birthday:
I, on the other hand, cannot WAIT to get back into our queen-sized bed upstairs. A full mattress is way too small for me and Skip's ginormous legs. Not to mention I don't have space to toss and turn like I am doing frequently these days!
A few pics from P's birthday:
Thursday, November 3, 2011
NaBloPoMo and House update
Apparently November is National Blog Posting Month, so I am going to attempt to write a blog post for every day in November (stick with me... no promises). This is an extra long post to make up for missing 2 days.
I have been attempting to put a big post up about the renovations we've been working on in our house, but I can't seen to get the pictures to upload correctly. So, since most of the 2 people who read this blog are also my friends on Facebook, I'll let the pictures on there speak for themselves, and here's the description of what we did:
Pre-renovation set-up
If you've been in our house, you know we have 2 bedrooms downstairs (the back room has a sliding door out to a 3-season porch, and no interior door, so it's kind of a den; we put a door on the other room, so it's a real bedroom), and technically 2 bedrooms upstairs. You would walk past a lovely array of tan shag carpet on the walls of the staircase, to come to a room at the top of the stairs. A good-sized room with a big closet, but you had to walk through it to get to the 2nd room. The second room had old carpet and weird paneling on the walls, but was otherwise useful. There is also a 3/4 bath up there. When we first moved in, Skip and I were sleeping in the back bedroom downstairs, while Preston was in the front room, the one with a door. After a few months of our ridiculous schedules making it impossible for us to sleep, we moved just our beds upstairs. Ours in the big room, and Preston's crib in the other "room." It worked okay, but every time one of us walked past P, we'd risk waking him up. Not to mention all of our stuff was still downstairs (clothes).
Plan of attack, steps completed so far:
1.) Remove carpet from walls. This was easy. Unfortunately, it allowed us to notice ants were in the walls. Jim and Andy went to town and opened a hole in the wall, only to have hundreds of gigantic carpenter ants fall out (*shudder*). Orkin has since been involved, and the ant problem is gone. We still, however, have a gigantic hole in the wall. At least it's now insulated and vapor-barriered, ready for drywall...
2.) Cut wall at top of stairs down to 1/2 wall. After removing the door and frame from the top of the stairs, this was relatively easy. It now is sort-of a loft space at the top of the stairs, and will allow a lot more light into the upstairs hallway.
3.) Make a hallway and new bedroom walls. We cut out basically all of the existing walls in the walk-through room, and now have framed a hallway, and pushed back where the old walls were so they are more into the attic. The room will be small, but plenty functional for 2 little kiddos. We also rebuilt the closet, which was a necessity to be able to consider it a bedroom.
4.) Pull the weird paneling off the walls in our bedroom, and build a new closet. This was surprisingly easy, since the paneling was very weakly secured to the framing. We have since re-insulated the open space, and put up a vapor barrier. The huge closet is also framed and ready to go. It will be great to have so much storage space in a style/age of house that usually doesn't. Our room will be a little smaller, but still plenty big for all of our stuff.
5.) Drywall everything. This is sort of at a standstill. We're getting professionals to come in, but have been back and forth with pricing. The hope is to have this done within 2 weeks... ha, stay tuned on that one!
6.) New flooring. Thanks to Charlie and Mary, we have really nice new Pergo flooring and quality wood subfloor ready to go as soon as the drywall gets in. We will do that ourselves.
7.) Put in windows. We currently have vapor barrier and plywood nailed up over the gaping holes that were and will be windows. The new windows are waiting in the porch to be put in. My dad says we will be upgrading 5 generations worth of windows with the new ones, compared to the ancient ones that were there before (and by ancient, I don't mean orginal to the house, like most of our downstairs windows are. The upstairs ones were just old, leaky (when they wanted to open) and ugly).
Hey, after all this is done, maybe we can actually get to moving our stuff back up there and living there, just in time to have our lives thrown around some more with the arrival of a new baby!
Speaking of baby, I'm 19 weeks along today! Everything has been progressing wonderfully, albeit a bit faster than things did with Preston. I've been feeling well. I have my 2nd trimester anatomy ultrasound next week, so we are looking forward to seeing the baby again. We'll stay on "team green" again with this one, waiting until March to find out if it's a boy or girl!
Preston is 2. Holy cow! These past 2 years have absolutely flown by, but in the best possible way. We had a few people over for a low-key birthday celebration last weekend, which went well. Elmo was the theme, and Preston loved it. What a laid-back guy he is. He is just spitting out words left and right these days, so we have to be very careful about what we say around him! (Ex: Skip, and his sarcastic potty mouth, said last night "What's up, bitches?!" only to hear 5 seconds later: "Up bishes!" Oops...) Other than that, I think potty training is in the mix now, since it's like wrestling an alligator trying to change that little dude's diapers. He seriously doesn't have an ounce of fat on him! He was 23.5 lbs and 33 inches at his dr. appointment last week, which is still pretty tiny. But back on the charts, so we're happy! Everything else with him is wonderful!
I have been attempting to put a big post up about the renovations we've been working on in our house, but I can't seen to get the pictures to upload correctly. So, since most of the 2 people who read this blog are also my friends on Facebook, I'll let the pictures on there speak for themselves, and here's the description of what we did:
Pre-renovation set-up
If you've been in our house, you know we have 2 bedrooms downstairs (the back room has a sliding door out to a 3-season porch, and no interior door, so it's kind of a den; we put a door on the other room, so it's a real bedroom), and technically 2 bedrooms upstairs. You would walk past a lovely array of tan shag carpet on the walls of the staircase, to come to a room at the top of the stairs. A good-sized room with a big closet, but you had to walk through it to get to the 2nd room. The second room had old carpet and weird paneling on the walls, but was otherwise useful. There is also a 3/4 bath up there. When we first moved in, Skip and I were sleeping in the back bedroom downstairs, while Preston was in the front room, the one with a door. After a few months of our ridiculous schedules making it impossible for us to sleep, we moved just our beds upstairs. Ours in the big room, and Preston's crib in the other "room." It worked okay, but every time one of us walked past P, we'd risk waking him up. Not to mention all of our stuff was still downstairs (clothes).
Plan of attack, steps completed so far:
1.) Remove carpet from walls. This was easy. Unfortunately, it allowed us to notice ants were in the walls. Jim and Andy went to town and opened a hole in the wall, only to have hundreds of gigantic carpenter ants fall out (*shudder*). Orkin has since been involved, and the ant problem is gone. We still, however, have a gigantic hole in the wall. At least it's now insulated and vapor-barriered, ready for drywall...
2.) Cut wall at top of stairs down to 1/2 wall. After removing the door and frame from the top of the stairs, this was relatively easy. It now is sort-of a loft space at the top of the stairs, and will allow a lot more light into the upstairs hallway.
3.) Make a hallway and new bedroom walls. We cut out basically all of the existing walls in the walk-through room, and now have framed a hallway, and pushed back where the old walls were so they are more into the attic. The room will be small, but plenty functional for 2 little kiddos. We also rebuilt the closet, which was a necessity to be able to consider it a bedroom.
4.) Pull the weird paneling off the walls in our bedroom, and build a new closet. This was surprisingly easy, since the paneling was very weakly secured to the framing. We have since re-insulated the open space, and put up a vapor barrier. The huge closet is also framed and ready to go. It will be great to have so much storage space in a style/age of house that usually doesn't. Our room will be a little smaller, but still plenty big for all of our stuff.
5.) Drywall everything. This is sort of at a standstill. We're getting professionals to come in, but have been back and forth with pricing. The hope is to have this done within 2 weeks... ha, stay tuned on that one!
6.) New flooring. Thanks to Charlie and Mary, we have really nice new Pergo flooring and quality wood subfloor ready to go as soon as the drywall gets in. We will do that ourselves.
7.) Put in windows. We currently have vapor barrier and plywood nailed up over the gaping holes that were and will be windows. The new windows are waiting in the porch to be put in. My dad says we will be upgrading 5 generations worth of windows with the new ones, compared to the ancient ones that were there before (and by ancient, I don't mean orginal to the house, like most of our downstairs windows are. The upstairs ones were just old, leaky (when they wanted to open) and ugly).
Hey, after all this is done, maybe we can actually get to moving our stuff back up there and living there, just in time to have our lives thrown around some more with the arrival of a new baby!
Speaking of baby, I'm 19 weeks along today! Everything has been progressing wonderfully, albeit a bit faster than things did with Preston. I've been feeling well. I have my 2nd trimester anatomy ultrasound next week, so we are looking forward to seeing the baby again. We'll stay on "team green" again with this one, waiting until March to find out if it's a boy or girl!
Preston is 2. Holy cow! These past 2 years have absolutely flown by, but in the best possible way. We had a few people over for a low-key birthday celebration last weekend, which went well. Elmo was the theme, and Preston loved it. What a laid-back guy he is. He is just spitting out words left and right these days, so we have to be very careful about what we say around him! (Ex: Skip, and his sarcastic potty mouth, said last night "What's up, bitches?!" only to hear 5 seconds later: "Up bishes!" Oops...) Other than that, I think potty training is in the mix now, since it's like wrestling an alligator trying to change that little dude's diapers. He seriously doesn't have an ounce of fat on him! He was 23.5 lbs and 33 inches at his dr. appointment last week, which is still pretty tiny. But back on the charts, so we're happy! Everything else with him is wonderful!
Monday, September 19, 2011
An update
Let's see...
August 25th was the last time I updated (besides the recent pregnancy posts!), so I've got to look on my calendar to see what's been going on. I guess that takes us to Labor Day weekend. I took Friday off from work, and let's just say that was basically the beginning of the end. I was pretty darn crabby all weekend long, and I feel bad about it since we were looking for a few days of rest up in Algoma/Door County. When we got up there Friday, we bummed around Algoma, made dinner, then went up to Sturgeon Bay to see what was going on. Basically nothing. We listened to some music in the park for a little while, walked around, then went back down to Algoma. On Saturday, there was a festival going on in Sister Bay, so we headed up to Door County... along with the rest of the world. There were just so many people up there that weekend, and it put me in an even more crabby mood than I had already been in. I had been so absolutely exhausted at the beginning of this pregnancy that it was just taking its toll on me. We had a nice lunch in Fish Creek, but I just reached my limit after a few hours in Sister Bay. So we headed back south towards Algoma, much to Skip's annoyance... Once we got back down there, we got stuff for dinner, cooked out, then crashed. Sort of a bust of a day. Sunday, we planned to go to Bay Beach in Green Bay so that Preston could have some fun on the kiddie rides there. Well, after standing in line for 1/2 hour waiting for food, dropping nacho cheese on the ground (and my foot) after a bee landed on me, yelling obscenities following the bee incident, waiting in line for 3 rides and not ending up on any of them and Preston melting down... we left. It was not the best show of family love... but we got over it and had an okay drive home. Preston and I watched Skip in the All City People's Parade on Monday then checked out Laborfest, and that about topped off our weekend... woohoo...
The weekend of the 10th-11th was good, as we got to work on a couple of things around the house as well as celebrate Stephanie's 28th birthday with a walking tour of the Third Ward. After the very interesting tour, we had dinner at Cafe Benelux, which was very tasty. We've had the daughter of one of my colleagues/mentors babysitting Preston occasionally these days, so it was nice to get out just the two of us. Like I said, we made a trip to Home Depot on Sunday to get a few things house-related, which is always fun.
This past weekend my mom and dad came up and helped us with some more house stuff, including cleaning up the outside front landscaping, pulling the nasty carpet off the staircase walls, and general moral support and meal-provision. :) The carpet came off pretty easy, but there is lots of dried glue on the walls underneath, so it will be a little while before that all looks up to par yet. We went to dinner at Joey Buona's to visit with Sister Marge, which is always entertaining. There was no hiding this pregnancy after that dinner - I seriously had a pasta-baby inside after all that food! Skip had a JamLuck fundraiser with his band on Saturday night, which it sounds like went off great. On Sunday Preston and I met my mom and dad at church, then had $12.95 lobster dinners for lunch at the Milwaukee Public Market. Seriously the best offer in the area, it was so good! Skip and I have ended up with so many leftovers now that we don't have to cook for a couple of days. Sweet!
Next weekend is a big house weekend. We will be tearing apart the upstairs and rebuilding some walls, so please pray that all goes well. I'm not going to lie that I'm a little overwhelmed by everything...
August 25th was the last time I updated (besides the recent pregnancy posts!), so I've got to look on my calendar to see what's been going on. I guess that takes us to Labor Day weekend. I took Friday off from work, and let's just say that was basically the beginning of the end. I was pretty darn crabby all weekend long, and I feel bad about it since we were looking for a few days of rest up in Algoma/Door County. When we got up there Friday, we bummed around Algoma, made dinner, then went up to Sturgeon Bay to see what was going on. Basically nothing. We listened to some music in the park for a little while, walked around, then went back down to Algoma. On Saturday, there was a festival going on in Sister Bay, so we headed up to Door County... along with the rest of the world. There were just so many people up there that weekend, and it put me in an even more crabby mood than I had already been in. I had been so absolutely exhausted at the beginning of this pregnancy that it was just taking its toll on me. We had a nice lunch in Fish Creek, but I just reached my limit after a few hours in Sister Bay. So we headed back south towards Algoma, much to Skip's annoyance... Once we got back down there, we got stuff for dinner, cooked out, then crashed. Sort of a bust of a day. Sunday, we planned to go to Bay Beach in Green Bay so that Preston could have some fun on the kiddie rides there. Well, after standing in line for 1/2 hour waiting for food, dropping nacho cheese on the ground (and my foot) after a bee landed on me, yelling obscenities following the bee incident, waiting in line for 3 rides and not ending up on any of them and Preston melting down... we left. It was not the best show of family love... but we got over it and had an okay drive home. Preston and I watched Skip in the All City People's Parade on Monday then checked out Laborfest, and that about topped off our weekend... woohoo...
The weekend of the 10th-11th was good, as we got to work on a couple of things around the house as well as celebrate Stephanie's 28th birthday with a walking tour of the Third Ward. After the very interesting tour, we had dinner at Cafe Benelux, which was very tasty. We've had the daughter of one of my colleagues/mentors babysitting Preston occasionally these days, so it was nice to get out just the two of us. Like I said, we made a trip to Home Depot on Sunday to get a few things house-related, which is always fun.
This past weekend my mom and dad came up and helped us with some more house stuff, including cleaning up the outside front landscaping, pulling the nasty carpet off the staircase walls, and general moral support and meal-provision. :) The carpet came off pretty easy, but there is lots of dried glue on the walls underneath, so it will be a little while before that all looks up to par yet. We went to dinner at Joey Buona's to visit with Sister Marge, which is always entertaining. There was no hiding this pregnancy after that dinner - I seriously had a pasta-baby inside after all that food! Skip had a JamLuck fundraiser with his band on Saturday night, which it sounds like went off great. On Sunday Preston and I met my mom and dad at church, then had $12.95 lobster dinners for lunch at the Milwaukee Public Market. Seriously the best offer in the area, it was so good! Skip and I have ended up with so many leftovers now that we don't have to cook for a couple of days. Sweet!
Next weekend is a big house weekend. We will be tearing apart the upstairs and rebuilding some walls, so please pray that all goes well. I'm not going to lie that I'm a little overwhelmed by everything...
It has begun...
... welp, I know I'm pregnant because I am officially craving rediculously salty, unhealthy, spicy flavored snacks. With Preston it was Jalapeno potato chips (which, sadly, the CHW deli no longer carries). Just now, I downed almost an entire bag of Snyder's Hot Buffalo Sauce pretzel pieces. But, they're pretzels, so that means they're healthy... right? ;)
I'm also DYING because I'm so tired. I don't remember feeling this exhausted with Pman. Maybe this is my girl...
I'm also DYING because I'm so tired. I don't remember feeling this exhausted with Pman. Maybe this is my girl...
Preston's going to be a big (well, at least OLDER) brother!
I am sitting here writing this post on July 25th, less than a week since I found out that I am PREGNANT!! We are expecting our next little bundle of joy on March 29th, 2012. I just had to get something down now to capture the emotions I've been feeling, but I'm not quite ready to share with the world yet...
So, I took the first test last week on Wednesday, and it had the faintest faaaaiiintest second line on it. Skip and I were both totally confused. Were we or weren't we?! I called my sister the next day and told her what was up, so she and I met in Brookfield that afternoon so that she could give me the extra tests she had at home. Preston was with me, but we actually decided to go ahead into Charcoal Grill to have one "last" drink (both in case I was PG, and also since they were going to be moving and we wouldn't be able to meet). Slap my hand if you want, but I had wine. And a good pour it was. :)
As we were sitting there, Sarah says, "oh just go take the test already!" So, I actually went into the bathroom and took it. I brought it back out in the bag, waited a few minutes, then took a peek. Hmm... Sarah says, "it says pregnant, doesn't it?" Yes it did! Holy crap! Maybe TMI, but I have only been off birth control for less than a month, and we TOTALLY didn't expect it to happen this fast! We're totally prepared and excited, but just surprised at me apparently being Fertile Myrtle!
I drove home with a bajillion thoughts going through my head, and when I showed Skip the test at home, he goes, "yeah?!" He was so happy. :) That's when I started crying :)
We are just SO happy that this has worked out the way it has. I'm feeling pretty good, albeit pretty tired. I am looking forward to the next 9 months of anticipation, but most of all to be able to add another little member to our family in March! (Well, probably April if this little one is anything like his/her brother!)
Now to get the house ready... lord help us!
So, I took the first test last week on Wednesday, and it had the faintest faaaaiiintest second line on it. Skip and I were both totally confused. Were we or weren't we?! I called my sister the next day and told her what was up, so she and I met in Brookfield that afternoon so that she could give me the extra tests she had at home. Preston was with me, but we actually decided to go ahead into Charcoal Grill to have one "last" drink (both in case I was PG, and also since they were going to be moving and we wouldn't be able to meet). Slap my hand if you want, but I had wine. And a good pour it was. :)
As we were sitting there, Sarah says, "oh just go take the test already!" So, I actually went into the bathroom and took it. I brought it back out in the bag, waited a few minutes, then took a peek. Hmm... Sarah says, "it says pregnant, doesn't it?" Yes it did! Holy crap! Maybe TMI, but I have only been off birth control for less than a month, and we TOTALLY didn't expect it to happen this fast! We're totally prepared and excited, but just surprised at me apparently being Fertile Myrtle!
I drove home with a bajillion thoughts going through my head, and when I showed Skip the test at home, he goes, "yeah?!" He was so happy. :) That's when I started crying :)
We are just SO happy that this has worked out the way it has. I'm feeling pretty good, albeit pretty tired. I am looking forward to the next 9 months of anticipation, but most of all to be able to add another little member to our family in March! (Well, probably April if this little one is anything like his/her brother!)
Now to get the house ready... lord help us!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Three Illinois weekends!
We have had a whirlwind of driving to various things lately, all in Illinois. Not that I mind, though, because we have a nice vehicle that gets pretty darn good gas mileage (actually, the Mazda gets the best, but it hates me right now for not keeping up on necessary maintenance... so it stays within an hour-and-a-half drive of home). Anyways, the weekend of the 13th-14th of August was the first IL weekend. Skip unfortunately had to work, so P and I were on our own.** We rode down to LaSalle with Steph and Mike for Jes's baby shower. It was nice visiting with the Hackers on the way down, and seeing everyone at the shower. I am so excited for Jes and Charlie and to meet that little one when he/she decides to make his/her entrance!
After the shower, Preston and I transferred our stuff and rode into Chicago with Shay and Lindsay. A couple hours and some nasty weather/traffic later, we arrived at our hotel downtown and met Sarah and Andy and the girls. Preston and I weren't up for going out to dinner, so we just hung at the hotel while the Harrisons went out. We all pretty much crashed really early that night, especially since Sarah had to get up at the crack of dawn Sunday morning for the Rock & Roll Half Marathon she was running. She woke me up to say bye at about 5:30 that morning, then Andy and me and the kids got up and moving around 7. We had a nice breakfast at the hotel, then walked down to Grant Park to meet Sarah at the finish line. She finished in about 2 1/2 hours, which she was very proud of! We were proud of her, too! We hung around the hotel for a little while before heading to Union Station to catch our train home (thanks, Linds for keeping the car seat overnight!). Preston absolutely LOVED the "choo choo," that is, until we both totally fell asleep. Something about the chugging of a train just lulls you to sleep... (Thanks to Sarah and Lilly Weseloh for picking us up from the train station in MKE!)
This past weekend, Skip and I dropped Preston off in Racine to spend some time with Mannings, while we went down to Morton for my friend Rusty's wedding. It was great to get a chance to catch up with a great friend and some other folks from my band days at Augie! I am so happy for Rusty and his new family. After Morton, Skip and I decided we would come back up north via Chicago, which ended up totally sucking in terms of weather. I don't have issues driving on Chicago expressways, but thunder, lightning and torrential rain don't make for much fun. So we stopped for lunch (and respite!) at The Parthenon. It was super quick, but as always, a wonderful meal! The weather had stopped by the time we got back in the car, so it took us no time to get back up to Sturtevant (to get Scotch from Meshenkys) and Racine. Preston and Mannings had a wonderful visit together!! We pretty much took it easy for the rest of the weekend...
As for this coming weekend, P and I are back down to IL, and Skip is back to work :(. My uncle Steve and aunt Jill will be in CL, so we're going down there for a quick visit. Hopefully we'll get a chance to see the Dwyers as well, as it's been too long since we've visited! We'll be back up in WI by Saturday evening, and plan to hit up a cookout with our good Knightwind friends Roger and Kathy, then maybe do some house stuff. We had some informal "estimates" from Skip's buddy Nikolai on what we can do to our upstairs, so it looks like we're going to get the ball rolling on that sooner rather than later! How exciting!
** A little disclaimer, here, in case you are thinking to yourself after reading through my posts: "gee, Skip seems to work a lot and is never around..." Not true. Not at all. Our schedule is totally weird and atypical, I'll give you that much. It's not one that many people could handle, and to be honest, it's not what either of us prefer at the moment either. However, we do what we have to do. I work over 40 hours per week, and only get nights and weekends off. The only thing is that it's constant and predictable. On the other hand, Skip works an average of 60 hours every two weeks, occasionally more or less depending on his on-call hours at the ER or when he's on the ambulance. So technically, he's home more often than I am! On days after Skip's shifts (which are typically from 7pm - 7am), Preston will be at the babysitter so Skip can sleep. Otherwise, Skip is a part-time stay-at-home-dad, which is wonderful. The only problem is that weekends are free game for him to work, which means that a lot of the time I'm on my own with Preston on the weekends. It sucks, because Skip does miss out on some fun times with friends and family, but we're doing what we have to do right now. Skip absolutely loves his job, so there's no changing it for now. We will handle what comes to us as it happens!
After the shower, Preston and I transferred our stuff and rode into Chicago with Shay and Lindsay. A couple hours and some nasty weather/traffic later, we arrived at our hotel downtown and met Sarah and Andy and the girls. Preston and I weren't up for going out to dinner, so we just hung at the hotel while the Harrisons went out. We all pretty much crashed really early that night, especially since Sarah had to get up at the crack of dawn Sunday morning for the Rock & Roll Half Marathon she was running. She woke me up to say bye at about 5:30 that morning, then Andy and me and the kids got up and moving around 7. We had a nice breakfast at the hotel, then walked down to Grant Park to meet Sarah at the finish line. She finished in about 2 1/2 hours, which she was very proud of! We were proud of her, too! We hung around the hotel for a little while before heading to Union Station to catch our train home (thanks, Linds for keeping the car seat overnight!). Preston absolutely LOVED the "choo choo," that is, until we both totally fell asleep. Something about the chugging of a train just lulls you to sleep... (Thanks to Sarah and Lilly Weseloh for picking us up from the train station in MKE!)
This past weekend, Skip and I dropped Preston off in Racine to spend some time with Mannings, while we went down to Morton for my friend Rusty's wedding. It was great to get a chance to catch up with a great friend and some other folks from my band days at Augie! I am so happy for Rusty and his new family. After Morton, Skip and I decided we would come back up north via Chicago, which ended up totally sucking in terms of weather. I don't have issues driving on Chicago expressways, but thunder, lightning and torrential rain don't make for much fun. So we stopped for lunch (and respite!) at The Parthenon. It was super quick, but as always, a wonderful meal! The weather had stopped by the time we got back in the car, so it took us no time to get back up to Sturtevant (to get Scotch from Meshenkys) and Racine. Preston and Mannings had a wonderful visit together!! We pretty much took it easy for the rest of the weekend...
As for this coming weekend, P and I are back down to IL, and Skip is back to work :(. My uncle Steve and aunt Jill will be in CL, so we're going down there for a quick visit. Hopefully we'll get a chance to see the Dwyers as well, as it's been too long since we've visited! We'll be back up in WI by Saturday evening, and plan to hit up a cookout with our good Knightwind friends Roger and Kathy, then maybe do some house stuff. We had some informal "estimates" from Skip's buddy Nikolai on what we can do to our upstairs, so it looks like we're going to get the ball rolling on that sooner rather than later! How exciting!
** A little disclaimer, here, in case you are thinking to yourself after reading through my posts: "gee, Skip seems to work a lot and is never around..." Not true. Not at all. Our schedule is totally weird and atypical, I'll give you that much. It's not one that many people could handle, and to be honest, it's not what either of us prefer at the moment either. However, we do what we have to do. I work over 40 hours per week, and only get nights and weekends off. The only thing is that it's constant and predictable. On the other hand, Skip works an average of 60 hours every two weeks, occasionally more or less depending on his on-call hours at the ER or when he's on the ambulance. So technically, he's home more often than I am! On days after Skip's shifts (which are typically from 7pm - 7am), Preston will be at the babysitter so Skip can sleep. Otherwise, Skip is a part-time stay-at-home-dad, which is wonderful. The only problem is that weekends are free game for him to work, which means that a lot of the time I'm on my own with Preston on the weekends. It sucks, because Skip does miss out on some fun times with friends and family, but we're doing what we have to do right now. Skip absolutely loves his job, so there's no changing it for now. We will handle what comes to us as it happens!
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