Mental notes and meat loaf

I had the day off yesterday which was spent on curriculum work and washing the floors in our house. In our apartment I had to wash a little kitchen floor and a couple steps wide hallway. The rest of the apartment was carpet. In our house everything is hardwood floors, or tile except for the bedrooms. This makes for a lot of washing! It took me forever to wash the floors, but after they looked amazing and I was exhausted! Today we went back to school and it was nonstop. When I got home I was so tired I was starting to feel sick, so I chilled in bed for 20 minutes or so. I felt better and had to get going on dinner and making sure the dogs were fed because we had small group tonight. I started making hamburgers and realized that I had a ton of ground beef for hamburgers. I decided that I would make hamburgers for tonight's dinner and then make a meat loaf for tomorrow's dinner. I was excited because that means I didn't have to cook tomorrow (for the record Luke would do all of this if I wanted him to. I am not helpless yet..). :)

I don't know where my energy came from, but by the time I was done cooking I had made a meat loaf, hamburgers, egg salad, potatoes, and even fed the dogs! I was pretty proud of myself. After we got done eating I cleaned up and made a mental note to put the cooling meat loaf pan in the fridge before we left for small group. That was my mental note...ok side note here.... Pregnancy has been a blast! Being sick and throwing up the first 21 weeks was not my favorite, but it was so worth it to know things are going well. I love feeling our little one moving around and cannot wait for her to get here. The part that is really bugging me is the lack of being able to remember mental notes! It is horrible! I can walk into a room and totally forget why I am there. I forget everything! Ok, done with my side note... back to my mental note; after I got everything cleaned up I went to the office and sat with Luke talking about what time we were leaving. We decided to leave then so that we could make a stop before going to small group. We left the house and started on our way.....Did you catch it?!?!? I totally forgot about the meat loaf cooling on the stove!!!

We have a 100 (or so) pound Golden and a 55 pound mutt that LOVES food. They were very excited over the fact that I left them a wonderful snack! That is right, when we got home the meat loaf pan was upside down on the floor completely empty :( I was so upset, because I worked hard at that, yet couldn't blame the dogs for leaving the food out in their reach...My awesome hormones made me cry, and then I realized that there is no use crying over spilled and eaten meat loaf.

So much for mental notes for now :) Maybe after I give birth I will get my mental ability back?!?!?

Almost there

In a couple weeks (less then that actually) I will be in my last trimester!! How did that happen?!?! I cannot believe she will be here soon, and Luke and I could not be more excited. We had a surprise baby shower over Christmas break while we were in NH. It was so sweet to get together with our church friends and family and celebrate my sweet little girl. I am proud to say that we got LOTS of clothes so my fear of this baby being naked for the first few months of her life are gone. Although we live in Texas where is gets to a bagillion degrees in the summer so she very well may spend the first few months of her life in just a diaper.

The day that I hit 5 weeks I started feeling incredibly nauseous and it was pretty much that feeling all the time. I didn't actually start getting sick until a few days after that. It was pretty rough at first, but then you just know what is going to set you off and you just stay home and get ready for it. My amazing, wonderful husband would run to the bathroom with me and hold my hair back and rub my back as I threw up the contents of my stomach (sometimes it felt like much more), and as I was about done getting sick he would ask me if it is still worth it.....ABSOLUTELY!! It took some getting use to getting sick so often, but it was so comforting to know that everything was going ok.

It took me 21 weeks to get over the whole "morning" sickness thing, but once I did I started to get nervous about the well being of our little girl. I couldn't feel her kicking or moving yet, and just prayed everything was ok. With each doctor's appointment we were comforted to know that things we going great and the risk of another miscarriage (or still born when you are that far along) had drastically decreased.

Christmas Eve Luke and I were standing in church singing when I felt the biggest movement ever from our little girl! I knew that if I was looking at my stomach I would have seen it move. I told Luke who immediately put his hand on my belly and kept it there. I wasn't sure she would move again, but she did! She did it again a couple times and Luke could feel it too! It was so neat! That following Sunday I was sitting in church and felt her move again where I looked down and could actually see my belly move where she was kicking! I poked Luke who actually saw it too! It was awesome. So now that I can feel and see her moving I am a little bit more comforted that our sweet girl is doing fine and getting stronger so that in three months and two weeks we can kiss her sweet little face :)