Just playing the waiting game

It's been a few weeks since my last update. I have an excuse!

THERE IS NOTHING GOING ON!

June 10th was my last day at work. I didn't quit; I'm just taking an extended maternity leave. We hired one of my best friends to work part time while I was off birthing and raising a baby. She started in March(? I think). At my job we have a full time person (me) and a part time person (cookie monster). We barely had enough work to do with just the two of us there (look at my blog name - I play online at work!) so with the three of us there, there wasn't much for me to do. I was training C.M. to take my over my job and be the full time person and my friend was taking over her job. So basically I wasn't doing much, other then supervising. It got really boring. They both caught on very quickly and after a while I wasn't sure what I was doing there anymore. I started leaving work early (with permission of course) then started planning my last day.

I've had a job (sometimes 2 or 3) since I graduated from High School. So for the past 13 years I've been working pretty much nonstop and now I'm home by myself ALL DAY LONG. It's a boring life. I've made list of things that need to be done around the house. Things that I normally don't get to because I'm exhausted by the time I get home from work. Only to find out being 8 1/2 months pregnant is exhausting too. Bending over is hard, after cleaning a little bit I have to sit and rest, plus I need my afternoon nap! I can't leave the house because if I do I spend money and with 1 less income that's not really a good thing. So I'm pretty much stuck at home for the time being. The only time I leave is when we need grocerys or when the husband is home.

So that is my excuse for my lack of posting. I wish I had exciting news like our baby is going to make his grand entrance anytime now. But who knows when that will happen. Our due date is July 7th but the doctor will let me go over a week at the most. He even said we should set up a appointment to have me induced on the 14th. I hope he's doing that as a precaution to reserve the space and not because he thinks I'll actually need it. I love being pregnant but I'm so ready for the baby to be here in my arms.

I hope others are having a more exciting summer then I am so far. What are you up to? Any trips, fun outings anything? Please my only outlet to the world is through blogs now (and my cell phone) so keep me updated on what you all are doing. I need to live vicarously through others now.

My love of paint

I've always loved remodeling projects. This one isn't so much a remodel as it is just making room for baby.

We still have just under 3 months left but we are getting really excited for our little guy to arrive. The major part of the room is done, all that is left is decorating. And I'm proud to announce that the husband and I didn't disagree on any part of this room. Maybe it's my "delicate" state and he doesn't want to rock the boat. But we painted together and even hung chair rails together and didn't argue about any of it. We also just bought the furniture (well I bought it at from a warehouse that was liquidating a lot of their merchandice) it was a great deal. The furniture is very high end and we got both the dresser and crib for just over $500.

Here is what the room looked like before (we have been using it as a guest room and also where we've been storing everything that we don't normally use). But I took this picture after we'd cleaned it all out to get ready for paint.



And this is what the room looks like after. I think it turned out better then I expected.

People like this should be locked up

I haven't gotten many stupid comments or questions about my pregnancy. The normal ones "How are you feeling" "When are you due" "Are you excited" and before we knew what we were having "Do you want a boy or girl". These questions are just fine - they are normal.

But my stepmom is beyond normal. She asks the dumb questions that you don't know if you should laugh in her face or smack her.

Around December when my dad and stepmom came to our house to visit for Christmas I was just barely 12 weeks pregnant if that. I had barely announced to my family and friends that we were expecting.

The questions she asked AT 12 WEEKS!
"Have you decorated the nursery yet?" Umm... we barely accepted the fact that we were actually going to have a baby. Plus we didn't know what we were having and we still had 6 months to plan and decorate.
"Are you going to wear fat clothes?" First off what type of question is that! And how do you answer that. Yes, eventually I will wear MATERNITY clothes, but they shouldn't be called fat clothes. I was just astounded by her stupid questions.

Yesterday the husband I went to my half sisters Church basketball game. This is the first time I've seen them since Christmas. They don't live very far but from the stupid questions we were asked at Christmas can you see why we avoid them. My dad is great,I really like him... it's his choice in a wife that is questionable.

Before going into the game I stopped at the restroom and my husband went to find us seats. When I sat down the stepmom came over to me and asked: "Where is the baby." I know she knew that we hadn't had the baby yet. She's not that dense. And I knew exactly what she meant. She wanted to see the belly (which I conveniently hid behind my purse) . Playing dumb I looked around, asked the husband if he remembered to bring the Baby, then told her that we must have left him home. She of course moved my purse to see "the bump". I understand she's excited for us. But jeeze does she have to be that annoying! After she sat down in her own seat the husband told me that when he came into the Gym she also asked him 4 or 5 times where the baby was. I told him that he should have said "The dingo ate my baby." Okay lame joke, but we laughed.

I've seriously considered asking her not to come to the hospital when we have our baby.
1) I really don't want her to hold our child. She's not his grandma and never will be (lots of bad blood between us)
2) she says stupid things like this. I'm sure I won't be in the mood for stupid comments in the hospital after giving birth!
But then again she is my dad's wife and I need to respect him for it. I don't want to alienate my dad because I don't want his wife around but it's just SO HARD!

Did anyone else get stupid questions like this or is my stepmom just "special"?

Pregnancy blog

I've started a blog the will be dedicated just to my pregnancy and to our kids. I'll still be keeping this blog to do my regular blogging. I just wanted a place that my friends and family could go to to keep updated on what is going on so far.

So if you want to read about the pregnancy that is where you need to go. I probably won't talk about it too much on this blog.

http://finallyababy.blogspot.com/

Finally some news

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I think this one speaks millions.....

I've been waiting a long time to write this post and here I am and I'm speechless.

I'm eleven weeks pregnant so not quite past the first trimester but I just can't wait any longer to scream my news from the rooftops. Everyone close to me knows by now (family and close friends) and I've finally told my boss. I was going to wait until I was showing but thought better of it.

So far the pregnancy has been going fantastic. I haven't had much morning sickness. There are only a few foods that make my stomach turn. I haven't had any headaches or other "symptoms" so I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

We've had our first doctors appointment a few weeks ago. I was only 9 weeks along so we weren't able to find/hear the heartbeat. But I made them do an ultrasound and we saw our little one move around and the doctor said he saw flickers of the heartbeat when it moved. So he says all is well. We have our next appointment at the beginning of Jan so we should hear the heart beat then.

Other than that I'm always hungry or tired so I'm guessing things are moving along great.

We are very excited and it's an answer to alot of prayers and medical testing. We were given a 5-6% chance of conceiving through insemination and our doctor wanted to go right to invetro but we held out. So instead of a $20,000 procedure we only ended up with a $350 procedure. Much more in my price range and easy on the checkbook.