Has it really been since July that I updated this blog?? REALLY?? Are we sure there’s not an entry missing? Cause seriously I knew I’d neglected it but that’s some serious neglect right there. I have even been neglecting my kids’ blog. I’m such a bad blogger!! And it’s sad really because my littles only get more and more interesting with every passing day. But talking about them is for that blog … not this one … which I should probably do once I finish here.
Well let’s see it’s December. This year FLEW by. Crazy. Now it’s finally actually getting cold and will probably stay that way. I’m sitting here after having walked with Aimee for 2 and a half hours so I’ve got all of my cold gear on. My under armor, fleece coat, and sweat shirt on top. We certainly do bundle up!! But then we continue to walk, like loons, in even the most frigid of temperatures. Tonight was nothing. It was 30 degrees out. Last year I remember walking one night, in the snow, in 8 degree weather. Awesome.
I’m actually not feeling overwhelmed with sewing projects lately … which just sorta makes me feel like I’m forgetting something. I still make color outfits for Ellie’s monthly color day at school (and apparently since I haven’t written since well before Ellie even started school this hasn’t been mentioned before). I’m ahead of the game for December, which is green month. Green day isn’t until next Tuesday and I have the pants almost completed. I still have to make the top but I’ve got the pattern picked and the fabric washed and ready. I shouldn’t be scrambling to make it Monday night at least.
I’m insane. There is NO need for me to make her special color outfits every month. But apparently I can’t help myself.
I have to make Christmas PJs for the girls, plus my mom’s gift. But her gift doesn’t have to be done until well after Christmas since that’s when I see her. Which means the only things I have to make between now and Christmas are one outfit, and 2 sets of PJs. That’s hardly a lot. Very doable. Not at all hectic.
I’ve been on a bread making kick lately. Fun times. I’m getting better at it. I use our kitchen aid mixer to do the hard work really. It’s so nice having fresh bread in the house all the time!! I haven’t gotten very creative with it yet. I’ve really only made italian bread and white bread. But it’s still fun. And Ellie likes to help.
I can’t believe the entire summer passed, and Aria turned one, and I didn’t even write about it. I swear there’s an entry missing.
Next summer my family is going to the Outer Banks! We didn’t get to do a vacation this year because we went to Punta Cana in April and my brother and parents went to Florida in January so there was nothing left over. But next year we’re going to Outer Banks! Yay! It’s closer for Amy (as opposed to the jersey shore) and apparently is more suited for humungous groups like ours. I think the house we’re staying in sleeps like 22 people or something ridiculous like that. But then there are 15 of us. There would be 16 if Chuck could come. So we need a LOT of beds and a LOT of bedrooms. And the rooms have to be divided up properly which usually results in getting a house that technically sleeps way more than you need. Both of the girls might end up in the same room as me … but it’s very possible Ellie will end up in a room with her cousins. I’m not sure yet. But I AM sure that it’s going to be a great time! I only wish Chuck could come.
And hey … the way I’m going … that’s probably the next time I’ll update.
…without an entry. Sorry.
It’s just that so little in my life doesn’t also pertain to my kids, you see.
Anyway … my garden is doing really well! You knew I’d talk about that right? Gardening and sewing and photography. Those are my things. Anyway … pretty much everything has sprouted some kind of edible item. Almost. And very few things died. I didn’t get any artichokes and I won’t at this point. But they are annuals so I hope to get something next year. One of the two died. I have 4 pumpkins (one on each plant), 2 butternut squashes, 2 acorn squashes, maybe 6 cantaloupe, a watermelon, peppers galore, a handful of kohlrabi, maybe 10 or 15 tomatoes, 1 little eggplant (but all 5 plants are thriving just not producing) … I had lettuce but it went to seed while I was away. Oops. We also had tons of strawberries and blueberries but both of those seasons are over. Oh and the potatoes. I don’t know for sure that there are potatoes in there but the plant certainly is growing like mad!!
And that’s my garden.
My business is doing pretty well. Still room to grow but I’m happy with the increase in business right now. So yay for that!!
I’ve been pretty actively sewing. I got a TON of diaper fabric a month or so ago so I’ve been making diapers for Aria. Apparently I need to wash the soakers roughly 8 times on HOT before they will be very absorbent. That’s kind of difficult as I don’t wash my clothes on HOT so I can’t exactly just throw them in with the regular wash. So I have to do 8 separate washes and dries for 8 diaper soakers. Awesome. But overall they are turning out cute so I’m happy. I’m not allowing myself to sew anything else until I’m done sewing my 8 diapers (there are actually 10 but 2 of them I completely finished awhile ago). So far I’ve done 4. One per available sewing night!
Of course tonight I did sew Ellie a pair of underwear. After I’d done my nightly diaper. You see all of her underwear is dirty so naturally I would sew her a new pair instead of washing her other ones. Naturally.
Oh and I’ve been exercising. Yay for me!! I decided to re-start my 60 Day Slimdown that I bought back in February. She has a schedule for 60 days of exercise (obviously) and it even includes rest days that I move around at my leisure. I actually just had two days off in a row. Thursday night our house was just insanely hot (not kidding it was 90 degrees in here) and I could NOT bring myself to jump around and work out in it. And then the following night it was even hotter .. because our power went out and all the fans weren’t working and well obviously neither was the DVD player. Ironically the storm REALLY cooled things off so it was SO nice outside and scorching in our house. It was out for maybe 2 hours. Chuck and I played a board game.
I am very dependent on electricity.
When it came back on I came downstairs, sewed half a diaper incorrectly, ripped it apart again, sweated profusely, and went to bed.
We got a trampoline. And ceiling fans in the bedroom and living room. It doesn’t actually bring the temperature down at all but WOW does it make a difference just to have air movement!! I just have to make sure I don’t accidentally lose a limb while doing jumping jacks in the living room.
Ellie LOVES the trampoline.
My friend Virginia is coming to visit at the end of September. I haven’t seen her for three years (at the wedding)!! Good times ahead.
That’s probably the next time I’ll update this blog.
One thing I REALLY miss when I have a newborn is my night time. Does it make me a terrible mother that I look forward to bed time every day? Theirs, not mine. I’m pretty sure that’s completely normal. Night time (from about 7:30 until midnight) is the only time I can really do whatever I want … other than leave the house … unless Chuck is here (and awake) in which case I often do leave the house and go walking. I have trouble getting myself to go to bed at night. Not just because I’ve always been a night owl (I swear I get a second wind at precisely 11pm) but because I so enjoy my time to myself. I’m sure I won’t cherish it quite as much when the girls are a little older and able to entertain themselves better but I sure do love it now!!
Tonight for dinner I made cherry chicken lettuce wraps. See recipe here. And yum yum they were so good! Plus I think I got healthier just typing out the name. Seriously. Cherries? Chicken? Lettuce? How healthy can you get? Oh and there were almonds too. The whole wrap thing didn’t quite work. They make a better salad. But really go make some right now.
I meant to make rhubarb pie tonight and I forgot. Again. But I didn’t waste my time. I cut out the fabric for the next outfit I’m making. It’s an almost-matching set for both of the girls. I can’t help it. I love to dress them alike. I don’t do it very often though so it’s not too crazy.
Well I must print out recipes and get to bed. We’re going to Children’s Museum tomorrow with Tuesday and Gabrielle. Yay fun times!!
So APPARENTLY I don’t update this blog enough. So I am told. The thing is that I just don’t have anything else to write about other than my garden and my kids (the latter having their own blog already) and I feel like that’s incredibly boring to everybody. But if you really want I will update. And bore you. And maybe I’ll try to mention something else.
But first my garden. Bubka and I put up the deer fencing on Sunday. Uh … almost. We were about 15 feet short unfortunately. So I had to order a whole new bag of it. Booo. It looks pretty cool though. And I transferred all of the peppers, eggplant, kohlrabi, and lettuce outside. I actually put the lettuce and kohlrabi out a week ago and I’m still not really sure what’s happening there. They haven’t died but they haven’t grown either. I just put the peppers and eggplant out yesterday and they already look happier to be out of their little cups. But one of the eggplants was promptly killed by a wind storm we had last night (it looks like something hit it because the stem is broken). But oh well. I didn’t really NEED 6 eggplants. Chuck doesn’t even really like the stuff.
We also plotted the rest of it but we need more dirt, containers, and deer fencing before I can move out anything else! I’m going to be giving away a lot of watermelon, cantaloupe, pumpkin, and squash. I’m growing 2 of each. I just don’t have room for more than that.
Oh how’s this for a topic? Tiny Toes! Things are starting to pick up a little bit! I did a give-away with my moms group and got 30-some new fans out of it on Facebook. Wee! I’m thinking about doing another one. And ONE of these days I’m going to drive by the location that I want to do the charity shoot to see if it’s actually suitable and then start to really plan that. I REALLY hope that works out as well as I think it should. I’ve also done well … more sessions recently then I typically do. It seems like people are finally starting to come knocking which is great considering I went around trying to find ways to improve my traffic and business, got a bunch of ideas, and didn’t implement a single one of them. Odd.
But I do plan to. Really. I just need a few more hours in the day.
You know it’s funny I look back at my life before kids … or even when I only had Ellie … and I wonder how I could have ever thought I was busy! I must have had SO much free time.
Ellie’s 2nd birthday party is Sunday! Keep your fingers crossed for beautiful weather because we can’t fit that many people in our house!! Chuck and I have been working like mad to get the place suitable for the party.
Speaking of which … I need to be cleaning the basement. So I’m out.
Things are going really well in my garden!! Mostly. Right before my last post I had just planted onions, artichokes, peppers, and eggplant. I got really high germination rates and ended up with 6 of 6 onions, 3 of 6 artichokes, 22 of 24 peppers (think that’s enough??) and 6 of 6 eggplants. They’ve all been transplanted out of their little egg cartons into larger containers and all but the onions are doing really really well. Very exciting! The onions … although they were the first to sprout … I think they’re dying. I’m still trying to figure it out.
Tonight I planted lettuce, kohlrabi, and tomatoes. 6 of each.
We are doing an experiment with the tomatoes this year. Have I mentioned this already?? If I have just skip this. There are several different ways to grow a tomato so we’re going to see which works the best! There’s a tomato cage (and honestly I can’t say I know how that works), the upside down bucket (think Topsy Turvy), and vining it up a stick. Last year we used a straight stick and just tied the plant to it for support but I’ve heard that it reduces the production (though I wouldn’t have guessed it from looking at those things last year!) so you can also use a curly twirly stick thing that it will vine up naturally with no tying involved. Which one do you think will win?
I also have garlic sprouting on my desk. I bought these bulbs to plant and haven’t gotten around to it and one of them is sprouting. It’s weird. It kind of freaks me out like when potatoes grow vines …
I also got a ton of strawberry plants from freecycle. I’m not sure how they’ll do but it doesn’t really matter. I wasn’t planning to buy any so it’s no loss if they don’t do much.
And I’ve made plans for Ellie’s garden! I was looking and looking for things to do with her in the garden this year. She was with me when I planted the strawberries and it wasn’t a very pleasant process. She would see me picking dead leaves off, and she thought she could pick leaves off too. She’d see me digging and she’d want to dig. The problem being that she didn’t discriminate between healthy leaves and dead ones, or where to dig her holes (or whether or not there was already a plant there).
So I’m going to make her a bean teepee. The bean seeds are really big (well they’re beans) so she can actually plant them with me and I think she’ll like that. We’ll vine them up some poles with a little door to make a teepee that she can sit in. Then I bought her some GIANT sunflower seeds and I found an idea to make a little house of them. Plant them in a square so she’ll be able to go inside then I think I’ll put a sandbox inside of the house (once the sunflowers are big enough that she won’t trample them that is). Plus she’ll get a little pot of her own (or maybe a big pot) that will very likely just have dirt in it. Or maybe 2 pots since she so likes to transfer items from one thing to another. She can just move the dirt back and forth.
But for now it’s just a greenhouse garden.
I’m not. Because I decided it was the perfect time for my bi-monthly update!! I know you’re so excited.
Let’s see. Aria is now 5 months old (in a few days anyway) and we are starting to really think about Ellie’s SECOND birthday party. Can you believe that?? So it’s absolutely insane. Kate’s wedding is less than a month away (woohoo!!) and I have so much to do it’s ridiculous but I’m starting to feel like I MIGHT actually be able to get through all of it. I have to make Ellie’s quiet book for the plane which is really the biggest and most time consuming project (she better like it). Anytime I’m just sitting and watching tv I’m also hand sewing her book because a very large part of it is hand sewing. I’ve got the garden to start (which I finally did tonight … more about this later) and the dress to make. Which is actually almost done. There are just a few changes that need to be made. I’d LIKE to make a dress for Ellie and Aria too but it’s just not gonna happen. Plus I’m really trying to re-start my business and am promoting like crazy but it’s pretty much going horribly so far.
I started my garden tonight! Very exciting. I planted the pepper, artichoke, onion, and eggplant seeds. I’ve never started from seed before so this is all new to me! Chuck built me a grow light (from outside our house now looks very very suspicious) and I started the seeds in egg cartons that I’ve been keeping FOREVER. Seriously I have a ridiculous amount of them. Anyway … it’s amazing to me that an entire plant and lots of food is going to come out of a teeny tiny seed! At least hopefully it will.
The girls are doing good. Obviously I keep up with their blog much better than this one. Aria is starting to sit up and she’s really doing pretty well for her age! My goal is to have her sitting really well by the time we go to Punta Cana so I can put her down without worrying she’ll topple over and bonk her head. We had moved Aria up to the nursery the day she turned 4 months but it just didn’t go very well. It did at first (after the initial difficulty) and then something happened. I don’t know what. So now we have them falling asleep separately and before I go to bed I bring Aria up and put her in her crib. If it doesn’t work out … I have the bassinet set up in our room again (cause I was honestly sick of sharing a bed with her night after night and not being able to move at all). Despite the difficulties … once she is asleep she has been sleeping quite well. Actually that never was a problem for Aria. But she’s been going all night without needing to eat which is BIG. Of course now that I’ve proclaimed it to the world (and by “world” I mean the 3 people who read this), she’ll stop.
Chuck has been laid off from Port Authority as we expected. He got a new job with Turner (the dairy company … they may just be local I’m not sure) as a delivery driver. He hasn’t started yet. He had to go for a physical on Friday and now he has to wait for them to send the results to Turner and who knows how long that will take. So it’s awesome that he got a job so quickly but there are some small complications too. Namely … for the first five months the pay is AWFUL. Seriously really really bad. Once you get through those five months it’s not bad but it’s gonna be rough! Plus there’s no insurance for any of us during that time … and he doesn’t make enough for us to just buy individual insurance plans so oh well. Hopefully we won’t get hurt. We’ve already filled out the paperwork to get the girls on CHIP so at least we don’t have to worry about them. And we’ll be seeing what other kinds of government assistance we’ll qualify for including, potentially, partial unemployment because the pay is so drastically different than what he made before. And to make it even harder, the hours are completely wonky and unpredictable. It’s not even the same days from week to week so I can’t even go out and get a part time job or anything to help pay the bills. I have been trying to find something I can do from home though.
It just kinda sucks. I mean things were going really well for awhile there and then it just kinda all went to crap. But I try to look on the bright side of things and I know we’ll be okay. I can be super thrifty when I need to be!
I think everybody is napping … cept me of course.
Ah what’s new in the past month and a half? I realize there has been an even longer gap between posts this time! Well I started working out on a regular basis with two friends from the momtourage! Two days a week we take a bitter cold walk around the nearby middle school. Seriously it’s FREEZING. I invested in some Under Armour before it all began and I’m SO glad that I did. That stuff is way expensive but it was WORTH IT. Seriously all I have to wear is my under armour, a big hoodie, and fleece sweats (and in this bitter cold I also wear a head band, a face mask type thing and gloves). And really I am perfectly warm. Last night it was 8 degrees out and we walked for 2 hours (7 miles … the one woman has a tracker). The really weird thing is that when I get home and take off the Under Armour and put on PJs … I’m FREEEEEEEZING. And it takes me forever to warm up. Chuck says I emit cold air and won’t sit near me. Very strange.
We also mall walk one day a week and do exercise videos 2 days a week. Those three days we have our kids with us. My favorite is the ice cold school walking though.
Today the three of us got together and did crafts with the kids. They made paper mache balloons and then made their own pizzas and ate it. They were in awe of how fast Ellie could jam pizza into her mouth. The girls all got SO messy they had to take a group bath. There are three girls not counting Aria (since she’s little and doesn’t participate). Ellie is the youngest at 20 months, then Gia is 21 months, and Shay is 2.5. So they’re all pretty close in age and HOPEFULLY they will be good friends. At the moment Ellie and Gia don’t get along very well though.
Chuckles and I are in a bit of a predicament right now. He is almost definitely losing his job (boooooo) but has known it was a possibility for awhile and so he’s been applying to jobs for awhile. But as we get closer and closer to the lay off date (end of March) and he doesn’t have a new job, or even an interview for one, we begin to wonder what the best idea is. Kate’s wedding is at the end of April. If he were to get a new job at the beginning of April there’s a very good possibility they wouldn’t be happy about him taking off a week for a vacation 3 weeks later. But at this point he needs to come with me … it would be ridiculous for him not to from a financial stand point. We’ve already put down a deposit and while we may get some of it back … it wouldn’t be all of it. And then I would have to transfer to fly out of another airport because I can’t fly with two kids by myself (I’m pretty sure one adult can’t have 2 lap babies) so Ellie or Aria would have to be transferred to somebody else’s ticket. All of this would probably cost as much as it would for him to come with us! So no there’s no way he’s not coming. So the question is … should he simply tell people he’s not available for hire until May when we get back? Be up front in an interview (if he gets one) and say he NEEDS that week of vacation? And what if they say no? I don’t know what to do. Are companies usually pretty understanding about that stuff?
There’s also the possibility that the lay offs will get pushed back and then it will be a non issue and he will just keep looking without having to worry.
I am starting to get some new Tiny Toes business these days. It’s odd because I was saying that I want to really start building up again, come Spring, but suddenly people started contacting me and I just figured out why. I googled it. And while I have sank down in ratings (I’m like #7 now) … everybody ahead of me is more expensive. After a lot of thinking I decided I wanted to only do CDs and drastically lower my prices … and there’s nobody above me on the google list that is cheaper than me now. But I’ve only ever heard of one of them and they’ve been around for years.
And my garden!! You know I’ve got to talk about that! I AM attempting it again this year despite how frustrating it was for me last year. This year I’m starting from seed so I’ve ordered my seeds and I got some shelving with PVC covering (protection from kids and kittens) to start the seeds inside. I’ll be starting my first plant (onions) inside at the end of the month. I start the rest of them at the end of next month. Then they’ll be transferred outside at the end of May. I’m getting fencing (like a mesh fencing) to keep animals out so HOPEFULLY I will have more success this year!! I’m going to continue to use my raised beds but also grow in pots as I have quite a lot to grow and it won’t all fit in the pots but I don’t feel like digging up any more ground when we only want to stay here for a few years. I already got a lot of pots on freecycle and I’m going to put up another request to get some more soon.
Okay that’s it. My life in a nutshell.
This seems to be a trend. My monthly post. Maybe I should resolve to write more in 2011. But I won’t. Cause I have two blogs and I’m much better at keeping up with the other one so at least there’s that.
Well it’s New Year’s Eve so of course we have resolutions to discuss. I think I did pretty well with last years! I just checked what they were: be more organized, be a better wife, and go to bed at a reasonable hour. I still have room for improvement on the organization but I think I’m doing MUCH better. I don’t do FlyLady anymore but I typically clean up my living room every night (although you can’t tell cause it’s a disaster again 2 seconds after Ellie wakes up), and dishes get done most days. Chuck has taken over the laundry so it’s no longer my domain. There is rarely a night that there isn’t a dinner planned … and this is really what I’m most proud of. I love that I cook dinner for my little family every night (or have leftovers). Bed time? Well … I definitely go to bed earlier though maybe still not as early as I should. As long as I’m not drop over exhausted I think it’s good enough. I’m pretty much always in bed before 1 though and that was the resolution so go me!
So now I need new resolutions!! I’m going to be really typical and boring and say my resolution is to get in shape. But honestly it’s very well planned. It’s not just a “because it’s the new year” sort of thing. I just had a baby and I’m done having them at least for now if not forever. The holidays are nearly over and I want my body back!! Okay I know that’s virtually impossible but you know the saying, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? That is ringing so true in my head right now. So I have to be realistic. I’m never gonna look quite like I did before. But I’m gonna get as close as I can!! I have a workout partner and we have scheduled 3 work out dates a week and will hopefully have a fourth worked in but it’s not set in stone yet. The other days I will do something short and basic (like The Firm which is my all time favorite work out video but my copy of it is on VHS and I no longer have a VCR …). I bought some Under Armour last night so we can run outside in this cold cold weather. I’ll get back in shape yet!
That’s really the only resolution I have. Hopefully I can accomplish it.
See you in a month!!
Obviously I don’t write enough. That much is pretty obvious. But hey I’ve got kaminskikids and I write there often enough. This one is only really about ME and most of what I have to say about me involves the kids anyway.
Yeah finally. Kids. I had Aria on November 5th! But of course you all know that because I don’t think there’s anybody who reads this that doesn’t read the other one.
Anyway … the subject of this post is MORE. Yes I love being a mom but I want to do more. Something that involves leaving the house occasionally. Alone. Is that horrible? There are some things that I would love to do. Organized activities. Like basketball. I’d like to join a team. And today I was thinking it would be really nice to join a choir or something. But I’ve never been able to find adult female basketball teams. And I think choirs only exist in churches and high schools. And besides … even if I could find these things … I can’t join them because my husband works weird hours and those hours change every 3 months or so. So the timing may work right now but in 3 months he may not have the day off that I do basketball or choir or whatever it happens to be. And that sucks. Cause all moms should have some ME time and I think I’m really lacking that. Chuck has agreed to let me have a moms-day-out sort of thing … and before Aria was born he would occasionally take Ellie out for the day and let me do whatever I wanted by myself … but that’s just a day here and there. So this need to get out of the house just builds and builds and the random day out isn’t really enough.
Of course now I have a wee one that is dependent upon me for food so it’s not like I could leave her anyway. I’m still trying to figure out how to go get my hair dyed because it DESPERATELY needs it but it takes several hours to do …
Not to sound like I’m whining. I don’t mean to whine.
So let me tell you about Aria. She is a great baby. And Ellie is a great older sister! So far Aria is still in her sleep-all-the-time mode but she’s 3 weeks now which is about when they stop doing that. So we’ll see how it goes from here! And the birth, which I wrote about in great detail on the other blog, was pretty much ideal. I mean other than being a week late (again), it really couldn’t have gone better. My labor even started exactly when I wanted (right when I put Ellie to bed), I didn’t have to have an IV for my GBS, she wasn’t posterior like they said she was, the contractions were extremely manageable right up until the end, and I didn’t get to the midwife center until I was ready to push her out! It really couldn’t have gone better. I’m very happy.
But now she is awake and screaming and likely hungry (though I think the screaming has more to do with the farting she’s doing) so I should go and feed her.
Cause apparently it’s been like a month and a half. Oops. This blog gets sorely ignored over the kids blog.
Lots of changes around here! Although I’m still pregnant. That hasn’t changed!! It is now 14 minutes away from my due date. Wooo. Anyway … I had been nesting. We got a couch! We finally got rid of the old broken chairs that were in our living room and put in a nice new-to-us couch (craigslist). We moved the entertainment center and got one of those bin organizer things for Ellie’s toys. We kept the pink man chair. You can’t get rid of that! Well I could … but only if I were replacing it with another just-as-comfortable recliner … and I wasn’t. So our furniture is mismatched but I don’t care because I love the new setup. Oh … and we moved my desk to the basement. That’s probably the biggest change of all!! So now I sit down here in what will soon be VERY cold. But I’ve got my computer and my sewing machine. They’re both right here. And to be honest I’ve been much more productive than I had been before! Now I can chat/browse AND sew at the same time!! Okay not EXACTLY the same time. But still. Every night that Chuck is home I spend some time upstairs with him before I come down here. We watch TV and I usually have some small thing I need to do while I’m up there. But I plan my evening ahead of time so I am almost always doing something during tv time. Then I come down here and I sew and chat and browse and research and I love the new set up. Our living room looks SO much more like a living room now. There’s more space. It’s less cluttered. And Ellie has less to get into.
That was a long paragraph.
I have managed to finish sewing Ellie’s halloween costume. Finally! It is SUPER cute. I love it. There were some hitches along the way but overall it went pretty smoothly. And I think it’s pretty clear what she is as long as she has her Noodle with her. I will be sure to get photos on Sunday.
Beam is coming for a 2 week visit arriving tomorrow. Yay!! I love it when Beam visits. She is starting a new job on the 15th, Pinto or no Pinto (of course by then they’ll have forced her out of me if she hasn’t come on her own) so she decided that she’ll spend 2 weeks with us even if our little bean hasn’t yet arrived. And I love having my mom around even if she’s not helping to take care of a new baby (and even more when she is)! It’s really always nice to have some adult company.
So apparently ALL of my intuition about this pregnancy was wrong. I thought it was a boy. WRONG. I thought I’d have her on the 17th. WRONG. I thought I’d have her early. WRONG. Well I’ve got one left. My original hunch was that I’d have her on Halloween so I guess we’ll see! If she were to be born at the exact same gestation as Ellie, then that would be Monday, November 1st. Only time will tell …
And that is all!