Labels: milestones
10:09 PM 10/29/20080 Comments:
I thought the rule of thumb was that everything that could go wrong, will. This weekend was a test on Joe and I. Let's see how much they can handle all whilst having a baby in tow!
Friday night was Trey. Nikki and Marissa and crew were all staying over my house...6 additional people sleeping in my house after Trey! Friday afternoon, as they all arrived and we all feasted, my baby was an absolute DREAM. He somehow managed to sneak past his fussy time and smiled away at EVERYONE.
We left everyone here to meet up in Philly as we went to drop P off at my inlaws and do bathtime down there. I wanted to make sure we got bath in because I knew it would make him chill. I left a nonfussing baby with my inlaws and Joe and I had an AWESOME time at Trey. It was so surreal partly because I'd been very pregnant at Vibes, and this was my first postpregnancy show. After the show, we went back to pick him up, and somehow managed to pull up to our house the same exact minute as everyone else. I gave them a key just in case, but they pulled up the same time we did!
He started to cry when we walked in after sleeping the whole ride home, but I nursed him and put him in the snugglenest alone. Usually he wakes UP if I'm not there, but no! Not Friday night! He slept there without me! We hung out for a while before heading off to bed. At 2:30, I looked at the clock and felt immediate fear for Patrick's love of the 7 oclock hour..
He started to stir at 6:30, but I was able to nurse him quickly and he FELL BACK TO SLEEP..yes, my friends, until 8:40!!
Yesterday, we had a family function. My cousin's little one's 6th birthday..We had to leave at noon..but somehow, I managed to cook breakfast for all our guests, shower, pump, and be out by noon! I don't know how I did it!!
Patrick was a dream baby yesterday as well! I swear, I've got the perfect little buddy right now...my weekend pulled off without a hitch, and I thank god for every second of it!!
I hope you all had wonderful weekends as well!
Labels: Baby Patrick, milestones
9:43 AM 10/26/20081 Comments:
Wow, you're like Wonder Woman
By 
Maria Rose, at
28/10/08 12:05 PM
My goodness! Where has the time gone?! One month ago, I was in sheer bliss over my new little man. Here I am, a month later, cuddling with him as I post! One month goes by fast! He certainly keeps me busy!
Labels: Baby Patrick, milestones
11:28 AM 9/08/20080 Comments:
Well, the baby HAS been moving..for quite some time..and here we are at 26 weeks flat..less than 100 days to go now, and Joe only felt the baby move for the first time on Sunday. For weeks now, he's been trying. I'd feel it move, put my hand on it, feel it again (from both outside AND in), and tell him to hurry before the baby goes back to sleep. He'd send a calming vibes into the belly, and the baby would go right back to sleep!
Well, Sunday evening, we were watching TV, and the kicks have moved north, towards the placenta a bit, so they are more muffled for me, but I told him to try..I said TALK to the baby!
"Kick little one!" *bump*
"Kick!" *bump*bump*
There it was! Joe was feeling the baby kick, and on command at that! So of course, we've got a new game going on. Last night, he was talking to the baby, and it was kicking his hand yet again!
Labels: milestones, Pregnancy
9:10 AM 5/20/20080 Comments:
I know..my life already revolves around baby..I apologize..but hey, this is some pretty exciting stuff..or would you rather hear about our income taxes that we owe (for the first time EVER bleh!) or perhaps how our two cats are handling being a couple again? Things are fine there by the way ;)
Anyway, baby news!
Baby is lookin good! Weighing in at about a pound. Everything looks healthy, still measuring ahead at 21 weeks 5 days (currently 20 weeks 3 days)!! Heartrate was 135, so in the "boy" range, whatever that old wives tale means LOL.
Now, she took all her pictures, never told us to look away, but managed to do a gender scan without us knowing, which drops me in the GIRL boat, because i think boys tend to be more obvious, no?
Everyone else is calling a girl!! Who knows! This not knowing business is kinda fun :)
The baby didn't do a whole lot of moving. I even drank some sugary iced tea before we went, but the U/S tech had to poke to make it move a bit!
My placenta is anterior, which could be why the muffled/lack of kicks! I THOUGHT it was! It is starting though! It's kinda neat, but only in the past few days have I felt really much at all besides two isolated twitch incidents nearly 3 weeks ago :)
I've been feeling really good, of course, minus the minor growing pains. I always feel blessed that everything has gone so smoothly so far. I know my mom is looking out for this baby.
Here are some pictures. She gave us like seven pictures, but the tech herself wasn't very cheery..she had about as much personality as a dish rag! All of the shots are profiles, but one attached has an ARM in front of it's head. We have settled on names, or so we think ;) BUT we are keeping it secret. Joe's taken to calling IT Baby Kenobi..as in Obi Wan? He thinks its funny, and it's starting to stick LOL! Hence, the labeling!
Labels: milestones, Pregnancy
8:53 PM 4/11/20080 Comments:
Well, break is just about over..what do I have left? A mere few hours? It's alright, I suppose. Joe and I made good progress over the week. Although he had a stiff neck that required a trip to the doctor, he managed to help me move the larger things out of the baby's room and into the purple room. In his words, "Maybe you'll have time to set it up when you are home with the baby..." Yeah right! I have every intention of working up there as soon as possible!! After I painted the window ledges and installed the new blinds in the baby's room, I took to the attic, setting up my new sewing area, which will be shared with the likes of Joe's nostalgic video games, the exercise bike, and reading nook that we've so lovingly crafted. It really didn't take me long to do. Unfortunately, my body tells me when to slow down before my brain does these days. Noone ever mentioned how gingerly you'd find yourself moving while pregnant. I swear, I'm carrying a watermelon and I'm not even half way there yet!
I'm hoping this move to the purple room will find me new inspiration. I did head up there today with the notion that I'd be starting on a Waldorf Doll, only to find that my doll fabric isn't exactly what I wanted for this project and I've got to wait until I get some material more befitting of the doll. At least I got the head started!
Labels: Crafting, milestones, Pregnancy
3:50 PM 3/30/20080 Comments:
When she landed on our porch nearly 7 years, never did I think Joe and I would be posed with the tough choice of doing what was right for her. Butterball may have been a fiesty cat, but everyone who came into our house loved her. To Lori, she was the Big Mama Cat. She was sweet and affectionate to everyone who stopped by.
When we got her, she was aging. We never quite knew exactly how old she was. Even last summer's emergency trip to the vet for her teeth couldn't confirm an average age, except confirming that she was indeed "old".
Over the past year, she got worse. Her litterbox habits involved flooding, and eventually not using it at all. She was so matted, her fur looked like felt, and recently, she even ruined her basket by peeing in it. Joe and I decided that it was time.
For someone who has never really lost a pet before, I have to commend Joe. He was the one who took her to the vet. He held her through the whole process. He watched her go peacefully. It's really an honorable task. It's also something that I've never done, regardless of the fact that I've lost two dogs that were near and dear. Thank god for my mom who took one of them to be put down when he could no longer walk.
I hope Butterball is at peace now.
Labels: Cats, Family, milestones
8:16 AM 3/22/20080 Comments:
Joe and i had a bit of a scare this morning. as i was getting ready for work, i went to make a bagel. we don't often eat bagels, but yesterday, we went to wegmans. they make these amazing marco polo bagels, so this morning, there i was, in the kitchen, preparing lunch when i grabbed my bagel. the bagel was cold and hard and i got out the bagel knife. i went to start my bagel cut and i completely missed. the next thing i knew, i was holding my hand over the floor, dripping an immense amount of blood. i've already got the knack for organizing my thoughts in an emergency.
joe, go upstairs, in my drawer, grab my snowchain.
6:37 - call the sub caller...7 minutes late, but its obviously an emergency!
call my vp, now sitting on the floor, feeling light headed.
get in the car, and go. now well into the second paper towel.
mind you i've never had stitches outside of surgery. i've never had some random freak accident that required stitches, that is, until now.
after calming explaining to them that i'm pregnant, thinking that would make them move fast - yea right- they took is in about 8:15. 2-3 stitches inside and 7 outside, i'm now home resting on my couch. thankfully, a second ultrasound is scheduled in 2 weeks. i'm sure it's fine, but the thought of shock mildly began to freak me out this morning!
when are things going to calm down?? i need a BREAK!
Labels: milestones
9:42 AM 1/28/20080 Comments:
Joe and I have become Mac people. I'm proud of this fact. I feel like a PC just isn't quite with it anymore. It lacks something that just comes with a Mac. None the less, we still run one PC upstairs. It was a gift a few years back, yet it seemed that it was quickly outdating itself when we got it. Two years ago, we acquired a PC laptop, a dell..it wasn't much better. Then, I got my new job, and the heavens opened up and presented us with Mac. School gave me one! Granted, it's only an iBook g4, and Joe now has a nice Powerbook, but it's still a mac! And you know what? It doesn't matter how restricted I am, I can still do everything I want or need to do on a mac, regardless of my restrictions! The basic platform is just so complete for us! If I need to do anything special, I just use Joe's.
None the less, we've still got our one PC running. It's more or less a hub. The router connects here as does the printer. With the feat of getting up really early last black Friday, we invested a whole of $20 for all the storage space we could ever want in a 200 gig HD. I even installed it!
Sadly, over the past few days, it's been dieing on us. I'm going to be very honest with you. For once, I'm not nearly phased by this computer conking out! Yes, I have a lot of music and pictures stored on the second storage drive, but that drive is just fine! It's the master. It needs replacing..I realized today that if I wait until Thanksgiving, I can go out and get another HD for pennies and fix my computer for LESS than the cost of recovering all of the info on that second drive. I still don't quite want to let go of it just yet. We may never use it. It may just be a go between, but I still feel like I can spend 20 bucks to repair it..but definately no more than that!
Labels: milestones
4:26 PM 10/03/20070 Comments:
Do you ever wonder that? I mean, how much is too much? When do you start to take all the bad luck and group it into a giant blame on the universe? When does it go beyond being just hokey and superstitious? Nothing has ever come easy for Joe and I. We started our marriage with a plan. We'd both get teaching jobs. Then we would work for 3 years. When we both had tenure, we'd start a family. It seemed like a novel plan, but the universe didn't agree even then, 6 years ago.
The road has been quite bumpy, but you know what? We are still here. We are still together. We are still very much in love. And whether or not the universe agrees with our current baby plans, we aren't going to give up. One thing we've learned is that if we DON'T give up, we usually end up where we want. After all, we are both (finally!) in public school and we own an amazing house!
Know of any good ways to trick the universe? If not, at least pray that it works this cycle, mmmk?
Labels: milestones
6:22 PM 10/02/20070 Comments:
It seems that when Labor Day rolls around each year, we find ourselves dragging our feet, not wanting to move on, and rather sad that the summer is most officially behind us. This year, we spend much of our time trying to achieve something of a miracle. Of course, nothing has really gone quite smoothly ever in our life together. This little miracle project wouldn't be any different..so keep us in your thoughts as we continue to work on it.
Joe and I just had a wonderful weekend in Turin, NY with some of our nearest and dearest friends. Although they'll never be my favorite band, going to moe.down every year has sort of been a tradition. It's like the last hurrah of summer, where the days are warm and the nights chill you thoroughly. The leaves in the north are already starting to change. We were fortunate this year in that we had no rain! It was truly a gorgeous, yet dusty weekend.
Tomorrow signifies the start of fall for us. Entering the classroom yet once again to a bunch of young faces with yet to be known personalities. We're just as nervous as they are, of course! Ahh well, another year to begin!
Labels: Live Music, milestones, School
9:37 PM 9/04/20070 Comments:
Living alone for a few days is always one thing..Joe goes away every year to the NWP convention from usually a Thursday through a Sunday, leaving me home alone..Two years ago, he whisked off to Silverthorne, CO for the Key Issues workshop, leaving home for a week. Fortunately, at the same time, I headed on a road trip myself with my best friend Lori to Atlanta, Georgia. Last year, I headed off to Silverthorne for the very same workshop. So it's been quite a while, if ever, that I've ended up alone for an entire week! Joe headed out to Chico, CA for a National Writing Project Technology Matters conference for the week leaving me to my own devices!
It's going to be nice actually..some quiet time without the guitar, a tv that doesn't run nonstop video games, and the idea that I'm going to just relax for the whole week! I took a walk today to start it out after my workshop. I also cooked myself dinner. I promised Joe I'd eat all the bananas, apples, and grapes that were around before he got back. It's really just an attempt to eat well for the week. Unfortunately, the grapes, that I JUST bought on Sunday, were covered in MOLD today :( I think I'll have to buy more grapes just to show him I didn't just junk the old grapes in the composter..In lieu of the grapes, I ate one of the organic bananas.
Denali is already off on the wrong foot. He decided he wasn't going to let me know he was locked in the back room when I got home last night. If Joe were around, of COURSE, Denali would have let his voice be heard. Unfortunately, he spent the night alone!
Here's to a retreatful week!
Labels: milestones, weekends
8:27 PM 7/17/20070 Comments:
Joe graduated from RU GSE today! Hooray! I'm so excited! We can finally move on with our lives! Congratulations Joe! I'm so proud of you! I love you so much!
Labels: milestones
8:04 PM 5/17/20070 Comments:
I think sometimes that I cut my hair because I feel like I'm entering a new era in my life..I'm crossing a milestone of sorts..Two years ago, I let it grow out..Hell at the Catholic School amongst other factors led me to make huge lifestyle changes..When my mom passed away, I decided to give RED a try..until of course, a red headed bitch decided to stab us in the back and I wanted nothing to do with red ever again..
So here I am:
I'm 31, Joe is finally graduating from Rutgers, my public school job is working out fantastic, and summer is on it's way. Perhaps this is the doorway into the next phase of my life, which only summer will prove to tell..
Another haircut, another day:
It's only hair right? It grows back! What fun would it be otherwise?
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8:34 AM 5/16/20070 Comments:
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