Wednesday, August 13, 2008

What was I saying in my last post about pregnancy being pretty easy on me? Oh how cruel the universe can be sometimes...

Seems like just after I typed that I started having stomach pain and it hasn't gone away since. Everyone says its normal, the baby is just moving and growing, my intestines and stomach are being pushed around, yadda yadda. But I have low tolerance for this discomfort that seems to come and go as it pleases. My doc seems very unconcerned with it, but it is the pits.

This is my whiner post.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

solo blogging

So although my side of the family has a group blog, albeit rarely used, I decided to keep using this blog I'd originally started way back when. Since we've actually got some big things happening in the future of our usually boring little lives, I thought I should record it somewhere. And though I do love to scrapbook, I've gotten burnt out and will try my hand at this. I can say already that this takes much less time than my hours of scrapbooking.

The big thing in our future is preparing for our first baby, due on October 20th. We found out about a month ago that it's a boy. Huge surprise, considering all Spencer's family seems to make is males. But I am excited for a little boy. I told Spencer that I'm giving him a son, so he can buy me a daughter. At the rate their family makes boys, we might have to buy a girl! Pregnancy has been pretty good for me so far. I had a little nauseau but nothing near what so many others I know have suffered through. I outgrew my favorite jeans entirely too soon I think, but it was bound to happen eventually, right? It is sad to watch your waist disappear into an oblivion of a belly, but it's also been kind of fun to actually look and feel pregnant. Though I must say, I don't know if I'll ever get used to the constant stomach-rubbing from random people.


We've had fun putting together ideas for the nursery and planning projects to be done before the baby gets here. Spencer loves all that decorating, designing, building stuff so he's had more ideas than I have really.

In preparation for the little dude, we are getting the entire interior of the house painted. When we bought this house, we had the builder paint the interior so that we wouldn't be surrounded by solid white walls. But, they used FLAT paint. Flat paint is the worst! It's impossible to clean and scuffs up so easy. So we are getting rid of all the flat paint and having some more colorful hues added to our walls in a highly durable and washable eggshell finish. I am really excited to have the house painted for some reason. Maybe it's because we don't have to move furniture, tape edges, cover floors or even stir a can of paint and in a few days it'll be like a new house inside!

Once it is painted, I'll have to update this thing with pictures. Cause doesn't everyone care what color my dining room is??

Thursday, April 17, 2008

erin made me do it

So Erin wants to have a family blog...it just occured to me that maybe it'd be easier to set up one gmail account and one general blog for our family to all use? Oh well. Guess I have my own now either way.

Since tax season just ended, and my brain is toast, I will just copy what Erin did on her blog. Here's our latest and greatest...

-Spencer interviewed for a Dean position at my old stompin' grounds- OCallaghan Middle School. Although he's had a few interviews at different schools, nothing has stuck yet, so we're hopeful something will pan out. In the mean time, he is still teaching World Geography to cheerful 8th grade faces each day at Burkholder Middle School.

-Tax season is over! Cannot tell you how happy I am that this will be my LAST TAX SEASON EVER! There's one perk to this pregnancy thing...

-Oh yeah, We're pregnant! Well, I'm pregnant...we're expecting a bebe in October. So far, pregnancy has been ok for me. I haven't been too miserably sick, and what sickness I have experienced has only been made worse by me and my own craziness. Thanks Mom and Dad for those damaged mental health genes, haha.

Right now we are just getting ready for a nice summer and for my retirement from the rat race. I am really excited for that- huge surprise!

That's it for now I guess.