Good Morning!

Today is a good day. I am eating my very favorite breakfast of all time. A everything bagel with garlic and herb cream cheese. Yum-yum. (I LOVE garlic!) The best part of all, it is being joined by a steaming mug of International Delight French Vanilla Coffee. Yeah, you heard right. The pregnant lady is drinking coffee, but what's this? Decaf? I found it at the grocery store yesterday! I am so excited. At Christmas time, my sister and sister in law's sit up and drink a lot of coffee, same as we do at Thanksgiving. I was really missing having coffee at Thanksgiving, but this Christmas, I get my coffee! (We are having my family Christmas this weekend coming up)
We went to Gabe's parent's houses this past weekend for Christmas. Things went pretty good. It is still a little difficult for me to be away from my family at this time of the year, because his family does things so much different then me. At least this year, I get the family thing this weekend. I had to pretty much miss it our first year married, and that was really hard on me. We played some monopoly (did I ever mention how competetive I am?) Because there were too many of us playing, Gabe and I made a team, and we won. Show no mercy...well not in monopoly anyway. Haha, that makes me sound a little crazy. I guess that I am. We did have a good Christmas at Gabe's parent's place. Gabe is back to work, and I am still on my Christmas break.
I have started packing. It is slow going, but I am getting at it. We still have nowhere to move...yikes....but something will show up. I am fulling trusting that.
Yummmmm, I am totally loving my decaf coffee. Now, if I can only find some decaf chai latte, I will be in heaven!

I apologize for my pathetic blog yesterday. I was just feeling a little frustrated.

ANYWAYS, this is just a short blog to wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope that this wonderful time of the year finds you and your family well.

We didn't get the house. I can't believe it. They took the first offer, even though ours was for more. They just took the offer that came in first. I feel devastated. I have no idea where we are going to move. I wish we could have gotten it.

Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the big day! We find out if we get the house or not. I am so excited. I hope we get the house. It will take so much stress off if we do. I promise to blog tomorrow and pass the news if we got the house or not. I will then be on a little blog break because we are heading to Gabe's mom and dad's for Christmas! We will be with his family this weekend and my family next! I can't wait.
Until tomorrow....

House worries...

I am feeling a little nervous about the whole house situation. I phoned my realtor today to see if there has been any more offers on the house. There haven't been. There is just ours and one other. I just wish I knew what the one other was so I could offer a bit higher. We find out on Friday if we get the house, and Gabe and I are just praying and hoping that we will get it.
My application for moving my maternity leave two weeks earlier has been approved (or as I was told, "we have no choice, we have to give you what you request") Can I request a million dollars? Can I request that they provide me with a house and do all my moving for me? Wouldn't that be nice?
I am still not done all of my Christmas shopping. I am pretty much done, but I still have a bit left to go.
Please continua to pray that we get this house. We have to move either way, it would just be nice to have our own place that is OURS to move into. I am not looking forward to moving when I am just 1 week shy of my due date. Yuck!

Stress Has Fallen On Our Home

So for those of you who know, we rent our house. I just got a call today that our house has SOLD. We have to be out of here by the end of January. 9 days before my due date. Yuck. I am just praying that we get that house. Please, say a prayer for us. We really want that house, and now we really need it! I have requested that my maternity leave start 2 weeks earlier, so I will go back for a week after Christmas, and then I will be done. We will see if it is accepted, but even if they say no, I am still going. I kind of feel yucky, because I hate, hate, hate packing. It has to be done though. Gabe and I are going to pick up boxes tomorrow. That's the stress that I have now.

Maternity Leave

I am really getting tired of my job. I have been having a lot of people tell me that I should start my maternity leave after Christmas holidays, and not wait until January 26. You know, it really depends if we get this house or not. If we do, then I will have to work all day, then come home and pack and clean. I know that my body cannot physically handle that.
Today I came home from work and took Buddy for a walk to go get the mail. About halfway to the post office, his feet started to freeze from the snow (I try to put boots on him, but he just bites them off) I had to carry him for the rest of the way, which believe it or not, gets to be a lot of extra weight to carry (him and my belly!)
I came home and I made a big pot of soup, a batch of buns, and a batch of oatmeal cookies. My feel are killing me and I am exhausted. That isn't even that much work, but I am so tired! How the heck am I supposed to move to a new house and work at the same time. My mom wants me to just relax and enjoy this time, because I won't be alone for a lllllooooongggg time after the baby comes.
What to do? What do you think? Go all the way until January 26th, or start my maternity leave during Christmas holidays?

A house?

We just put in a bid on a house. It isn't even the house we were looking at! Yesterday morning, I remembered that my realtor had called me about an open house for a house that is in the same town that Gabe works in. We went and took a look at it and we fell in love with it! It is small, but it is super cozy. It was built in 1992, and it has new windows, new kitchen cupboards, new flooring. Oh, everything is so neat and tidy and perfect to bring our new little baby home too. We will find out if we got it or not on Decemeber 22. There is another offer on the house, so there is no way for us to know if we bid higher or not. It is all in God's hands, if we get this house or not. It is less then a block from where Gabe works. Do you have any idea how much we will save on gas alone? I will be home with the baby and Gabe can walk to work! We are pretty excited and anxiously awaiting to see if we get the new house. The one thing is, the move in date would be no earlier then January 25. That is cutting it pretty close with a new baby due on February 9. But it is kind of nice that is coincides with the day I go on maternity leave, January 26. I am so excited that I couldn't sleep last night. Now I am so tired!

31 weeks

I decided to finally pull out my camera and take a picture of my pregnant belly. I apologize, though. Gabe isn't home so I took the picture of myself looking in the bathroom mirror. In this picture, I am 31 weeks and 1 day pregnant. 9 weeks left!

The Snow!

I don't know if these pictures actually allow you to see how much snow we have, but we do have a lot.

This first picture is what you see at the bottom of the steps to the entrance of our house. We have five steps coming into our house, and the snow is almost as high as the top step!



This picture is the snow on one of the huge trees in my backyard. I thought it was cool how there is so much snow that it is just piled up on the tree like that.



I will take better pictures soon. I promise1

Why is it so hard to think of an appropriate title?

Okay. Well yesterday was a good day. I took the day off school. (That alone in itself makes it a great day!) My mom came in and picked me up and we headed into the city for my appointments. We went to walmart and did a bit of shopping. I headed over to my chiropractors office for my appointment. I love my chiropractor. He is an amazing man, not to mention he's really cute. Don't worry, Gabe is okay with me calling him cute. Anyway, he is a miracle worker on this pregnant body of mine. I have been having problems with my one hip ever since I became pregnant (which my mom and my sister also had throughout all of their pregnancies) My sister just dealt with the pain, which I was unable to do because I was in tears many a night because I was unable to sleep due to the throbbing that was occurring in my hips and lower back. Then, I went back to see my old faithful chiropractor. I have been seeing him every two weeks, and the results are amazing. I have no pain while walking, and I have very little pain when I roll over in bed. He told me yesterday at my appointment that my hip looks really good and then when it comes time to have my baby, I'm going to "pop it out like a pez dispenser". I thought it was funny.

I had my doctors appoitment a little later. I was a little nervous about it because 1. my regular doctor wasn't there, he is always for all of December and 2. last appointment they told me that my baby didn't seem to be growing as quickly as it should. I went in and met my new doctor for December who is super nice. I liked her a lot. When she measure my stomach, she said there is absolutely nothing to be concerned about. She said the baby may have slowed growing for a bit there, but it has more then made up for it in the last two weeks. She said it is a good healthy size, and everything looks great. What a relief!

Okay, blogger sucks today. Everything I type is taking about 30 seconds to show up on screen and every 3 minutes, the screen goes completely blank and then comes back to where I left off. It is annoying and frustrating so I am going to stop writing for now.

I promise I will have pictures of all the snow here and a picture of my belly soon.

Boy, oh boy

I am so pathetic at keeping this updated. I find myself overwhelmed with everything right now. I am so forgetful. I have never been a forgetful person and I have always had a really sharp mind. Ever since I have been pregnant, I can't remember a thing. I forget things at the grocery store (once I forgot milk and eggs!) I forgot who just talked to me, I forget who wanted me to call them back, I forget where I put my things, I forget everything! It is so frustrating to have to take the time to right everything down.
The countdown is on. I have less then 10 weeks left until baby arrives. I am excited and nervous at the same time. I am not sure how I will be able to handle the pain. I am hoping to have my baby free of any drugs, but I am going in with an open mind. I am worried, though. I can't even handle period cramps without some painkillers!
At my last doctors appointment, my doctor told me that he was a little concerned about the my baby's growth. He said it wasn't a big deal, but the baby seems smaller then it should. I had to go for an ultrasound on Thursday, and I have another doctors appointment on Wednesday. The only thing is, my doctor is gone for all of December! I have another doctor in his place. When the doctor first told me that he was concerned, I was out in my car crying. I am not worrying now, though. I don't even want to worry about anything until I have too. I just pray that God will take care of my little one and I.
I think we are putting in an offer on a house this week. We like this one a lot.
The snow here is crazy! I have been meaning to take a picture to put on my blog, but guess what? I forgot that too!