I have a few things to blog about. Not just names.
I am 29weeks and 4days pregnant! I can't believe I only have February and March before my mom is back and this baby will make his or her appearance ~ hopefully not until my mom returns. Mom leaves in 3 sleeps. *sniff*. I'm going to miss her. However I have ensured I'll keep busy until she arrives. Feb is dedicated to Joy's scrapbook. My 2.5 weeks off at the end of Feb, beginning of March, is dedicated to 'nesting'. lol. I am going to go through Joy's clothes, packing unpacking what she now fits for clothing. Going to go through all the boxes of newborn clothes, blankets, toys etc. Organize the kids room so it's all ready. Pack our hospital bags, write out schedules for my mom (she'll be looking after Joy and depending on labor day Gracie as well), and buying anything I need to stock up on. Also doing a 'spring' cleaning so the whole house is ready for my husband, mom, mom-in-law and anyone else who braves entering the house. I'll stock up on groceries (that aren't going to go bad). Cook food and freeze it and all that goodness.
March is then dedicated to finishing my mom's cross stitch. I gave it to her as her 50th birthday present, that was a 'few' years ago now and I just need to get it done! Then April is making some cards etc, April 4th my mom arrives and from then until baby is born is play time with mom and Joy. I think lots of swimming too!
I am addicted to coffee! Yup. ME. I always thought people were messed up (so to speak) for needing their coffee intake daily. I can do without it, just don't want to! And here I am pregnant so not supposed to be drinking coffee. I now (due to Orlund busting his leg) make coffee. Pour it into a jar once cooled. Place jar in fridge. When want a coffee, fill glass 1/2 full with coffee. fill other 1/2 with milk. Add sugar, hint of Carmel. Enjoy. And I do enjoy it!
I have heartburn. nice thing to follow coffee eh? But I eat a tums and I have heartburn. I don't get heartburn from milk, water, and that's about it. Oh and apples. I can eat an apple without getting heartburn, but once the apple is out of my stomach the heartburn hits again. Old wives tale (they say has some scientific foundation) says if you have heartburn in pregnancy your baby will have lots of hair. Joy had lots of hair. With Joy I didn't have 1/3 the heartburn I do this time. This baby is going to come out with shoulder length hair!!! (or watch I'll be the exception and baby will be bald!).
So onto Names ~ Sorry I don't blog much, so when I do I have a lot to catch up on. Back in the day before we got pregnant with Joy we picked out 2 girl names, and 3 boy names. Since having Joy we decided we didn't like the other girl name as much as a new name we just picked. And since Joy 2 of our boy names have been used by close friends (they didn't know our names we kept them all secret). However our baby boy name #1 wasn't taken, still isn't. However recently we've become unsure of it. So I've been looking through baby names. I've found one we both like, and so far like it better than the name we had all along. We still aren't 100% sure though. I still have my 100,000 baby name book to look through. Wish me/us luck! We find it funny that with Joy we were deciding between the two names when she was born, but had the boy name 100%. Now it's the opposite, we have a girl name but not 100% on the boy name... maybe that means it's a boy? I'm tempted to find out, but I wont. this is a surprise I enjoy.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Busy?
So my husband has a broken leg. Read my last post on all that 'goodness'. So I've been put into overdrive. Looking after Joy, my daycare girl, the house, the cat, the car and oh yeah the hubby. Don't get me wrong I love it. Just it tires me out now with this little one growing inside me. Oh and exciting news? I'm in my 3rd trimester!!! CRAZY!!!
I'll talk about my pregnancy before I talk about my overdrive. I'm 27weeks preggy. And I feel like this baby is 9months already ~ why? Baby kicks as hard as Joy did in the last month. Now I still have 3 months of this and it's only going to get more painful. But I'm starting to feel more energized (well until overdrive set in). I even stopped taking naps! Unbelievable I know! But I seem to do my best in the last leg of pregnancy. Morning sickness it completely gone, I look pregnant, and I'm excited for babies arrival ~ while trying to enjoy time alone with my daughter as well. I am on a pregnancy forum (where preggy mom's due around me all chit chat). They are all ready and set up for babies arrival...3 months in advance? I dont' think I was even that ready with Joy. Because we had to redo flooring etc, and set up the furniture. This time around? I dont' plan to even look at the boxes of newborn stuff until begining of March. Orlund will have his cast off and I wont have Grace for a few weeks. Perfect time to rearrange furniture and go through all the baby stuff. I'm very excited to set up for baby, but I honestly don't know how we will fit him/her in. Joy has SO MUCH STUFF that I just don't know how it will work out. I have decided I need more shelves in the closet in their room. That would provide enough room, however......I have to remove one of the shelving units from the room to fit Joy's 'big girl bed'. hmmmm... Oh well I'll make it work. I can get pretty creative, might just have to build some shelves etc.
Now onto my overdrive. So Orlund broke his leg on Tuesday. Tuesday night was Mom Norstroms birthday dinner. That's it for the week (besides working on thrusday). Orlund was okay'd to work from home so he worked thursday and friday, I think a bit wednesday ~ atleast setting up the connection to work. Friday we get a call from one of our pastors that the small group we volunteered to host IS happening this sunday. Sure, I was looking forward to hosting it. My house was a disaster!! This is the overdrive. I'd been working on laundry all week (still not done), I got Orlund to do some folding. That's about all he could do. So I started cleaning. Saturday I had a birthday party to go to then we went to dinner out at my parents place. There goes saturday for cleaning. Today, Sunday, I cleaned this house upside and out. I'm tired. I'll sleep good tonight. I was just about to put some cookie dough in the oven (frozen stuff) when the pastor called to say that he didn't think anyone was coming tonight....And no one showed up. That's okay right? My house is spotless, and I still have to move some furniture back to their places (chairs). Orlund said it's good that the house is clean 'cause then I can go hang out with my mom tomorrow and not worry about the house needing to be cleaned......sure....This means he wont be bugging me about things needing to get done, however it makes me realize just how much more I have to do. Laundry. Fish tank. Vacuum downstairs (toy room). Clean our ensuite. Remop the entry (doesn't work moping in the dark). kitty litter. and the list goes on. But at least if anyone was to stop in to say "hi" my house would seem clean :) I love it being clean.
Well I should run, I've got some stuff to research online.
God Bless you.
I'll talk about my pregnancy before I talk about my overdrive. I'm 27weeks preggy. And I feel like this baby is 9months already ~ why? Baby kicks as hard as Joy did in the last month. Now I still have 3 months of this and it's only going to get more painful. But I'm starting to feel more energized (well until overdrive set in). I even stopped taking naps! Unbelievable I know! But I seem to do my best in the last leg of pregnancy. Morning sickness it completely gone, I look pregnant, and I'm excited for babies arrival ~ while trying to enjoy time alone with my daughter as well. I am on a pregnancy forum (where preggy mom's due around me all chit chat). They are all ready and set up for babies arrival...3 months in advance? I dont' think I was even that ready with Joy. Because we had to redo flooring etc, and set up the furniture. This time around? I dont' plan to even look at the boxes of newborn stuff until begining of March. Orlund will have his cast off and I wont have Grace for a few weeks. Perfect time to rearrange furniture and go through all the baby stuff. I'm very excited to set up for baby, but I honestly don't know how we will fit him/her in. Joy has SO MUCH STUFF that I just don't know how it will work out. I have decided I need more shelves in the closet in their room. That would provide enough room, however......I have to remove one of the shelving units from the room to fit Joy's 'big girl bed'. hmmmm... Oh well I'll make it work. I can get pretty creative, might just have to build some shelves etc.
Now onto my overdrive. So Orlund broke his leg on Tuesday. Tuesday night was Mom Norstroms birthday dinner. That's it for the week (besides working on thrusday). Orlund was okay'd to work from home so he worked thursday and friday, I think a bit wednesday ~ atleast setting up the connection to work. Friday we get a call from one of our pastors that the small group we volunteered to host IS happening this sunday. Sure, I was looking forward to hosting it. My house was a disaster!! This is the overdrive. I'd been working on laundry all week (still not done), I got Orlund to do some folding. That's about all he could do. So I started cleaning. Saturday I had a birthday party to go to then we went to dinner out at my parents place. There goes saturday for cleaning. Today, Sunday, I cleaned this house upside and out. I'm tired. I'll sleep good tonight. I was just about to put some cookie dough in the oven (frozen stuff) when the pastor called to say that he didn't think anyone was coming tonight....And no one showed up. That's okay right? My house is spotless, and I still have to move some furniture back to their places (chairs). Orlund said it's good that the house is clean 'cause then I can go hang out with my mom tomorrow and not worry about the house needing to be cleaned......sure....This means he wont be bugging me about things needing to get done, however it makes me realize just how much more I have to do. Laundry. Fish tank. Vacuum downstairs (toy room). Clean our ensuite. Remop the entry (doesn't work moping in the dark). kitty litter. and the list goes on. But at least if anyone was to stop in to say "hi" my house would seem clean :) I love it being clean.
Well I should run, I've got some stuff to research online.
God Bless you.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Wow, okay....curve ball!
I've already filled you in on my wonderful surprise New years day ~ Mom coming home. Want to hear how the rest of my days have gone so far? New years day was Friday. Saturday Orlund, Joy and I hung out at home, Orlund did leave for a bit to pick up our dishwasher with his parents. I was waiting to eat lunch with him (until dinner time) to find out he ate with his parents before picking up the dishwasher ~ oops, communication. But I was happy, I had my dishwasher. Sunday was nice, went to church, had my mom and dad over for lunch. Then Mom and I got to hang out for a while. Unfortunately on New years day Joy picked up a cold. And she decided to start teething. So NO sleeping. NO naps. Lots of snot and drool though. Poor girl.
Monday finally arrived. I was excited. 1) I was getting my dishwasher installed. and 2) Orlund was back to work and I could get back to my routines. That sounds bad. However having him home throws off my routine, it throws his off too. I'm sure everyone feels this way, probably why people are excited for kids to go back to school. I wanted to spend the day cleaning and getting organized. Which I did. Didn't do as much as I'd wanted to however got the essentials done.
And I LOVE my dishwasher... what a BLESSING! takes 5minutes to do dishes instead of an hour!! (of my time that is).
Tuesday morning...... I was up with Orlund, actually I was up before him (bladders with a baby ontop do that). We both got ready for work (first day with Grace back). I headed downstairs when I heard him shovelling snow off the driveway. I was reorganizing the toy room (one of the things I didn't get done) when I heard this horendous noise. It wasn't crying, or shouting, just a loud like groaning. I ran outside in my white socks to see a neighbor start down our driveway, I rounded the car to see Orlund sprawled out on the driveway groaning! "I broke my leg" he said. the neighbor and I both looked at his leg, the left one, it was twisted up weird. The neighbor said "looks like a sprain" as he started to reach for it, then Orlund said "I heard it snap" the neighbor backed his hands up and said "it looks broken". The neighbor then helped Orlund to his feet, he asked first if Orlund could put pressure on it at all "nope". Then as Orlund stood up he stepped on his left foot. Both the neighbor and I looked and he asked "you can put pressure on it?" "no, it's my other foot". Here we were both thinking it was the left foot when in fact it was the RIGHT foot! I'm so thankful the neighbor was there, he helped load orlund into the passenger side of our car. NOW WHAT? I couldn't just leave, Grace was due to arrive any minute! And we don't have a car seat for her. So I figured I'd call her parent's cell phone. off. Okay, I'll call Orlund's mom, she can drive here then take him and I can stay with the kids (I wanted to go but this made the most sense). So I called her up, woke her up, and she headed out the door.(and it was Hazel's birthday, new way to start the day "Hi mom, Happy birthday can you drive me to the hospital? I broke my leg!") Grace arrived and it seemed like forever for Hazel to get here (it wasn't). After explaining that we wouldn't be able to move Orlund and so she had to drive our car they were off. And I was left at home watching Grace (Joy was asleep) and wanting to know what happened.
He BROKE his leg! That's right, just above the ankle. Luckily it was a clean break. So no resetting etc. Just casted ~ for 6 weeks. So now, after my excitement of getting into routine, I have my husband home. Unable to do pretty much anything! It's actually kinda interesting. I find anyway. I feel more like doing things (cleaning etc) now that he's here. Kinda like he doesn't expect me to do it (preggy etc), but he can't so I feel more like I'm doing it for him and it seems to motivate me more...SHHHHH, don't tell him that though ;)
So now I have to get up everymorning to drive him to work (he's off for this week though). I don't mind getting up earlier, I just don't like getting Joy up earlier. Oh well you do what you have to do. I don't know if I'll be able to ever get her back to sleeping in until 10am, but this is what has to happen.
Still after the broken leg we convinced Hazel not to cancel her birthday dinner (we had been waiting for it, dinner out). So we got there, Orlund hobbled about, and it was good!
Well that's all I'll blab about for now. It's bedtime. I need my rest for tomorrow (Grace is here), I was out today and it sure wears me out!
God Bless you!
Monday finally arrived. I was excited. 1) I was getting my dishwasher installed. and 2) Orlund was back to work and I could get back to my routines. That sounds bad. However having him home throws off my routine, it throws his off too. I'm sure everyone feels this way, probably why people are excited for kids to go back to school. I wanted to spend the day cleaning and getting organized. Which I did. Didn't do as much as I'd wanted to however got the essentials done.
And I LOVE my dishwasher... what a BLESSING! takes 5minutes to do dishes instead of an hour!! (of my time that is).
Tuesday morning...... I was up with Orlund, actually I was up before him (bladders with a baby ontop do that). We both got ready for work (first day with Grace back). I headed downstairs when I heard him shovelling snow off the driveway. I was reorganizing the toy room (one of the things I didn't get done) when I heard this horendous noise. It wasn't crying, or shouting, just a loud like groaning. I ran outside in my white socks to see a neighbor start down our driveway, I rounded the car to see Orlund sprawled out on the driveway groaning! "I broke my leg" he said. the neighbor and I both looked at his leg, the left one, it was twisted up weird. The neighbor said "looks like a sprain" as he started to reach for it, then Orlund said "I heard it snap" the neighbor backed his hands up and said "it looks broken". The neighbor then helped Orlund to his feet, he asked first if Orlund could put pressure on it at all "nope". Then as Orlund stood up he stepped on his left foot. Both the neighbor and I looked and he asked "you can put pressure on it?" "no, it's my other foot". Here we were both thinking it was the left foot when in fact it was the RIGHT foot! I'm so thankful the neighbor was there, he helped load orlund into the passenger side of our car. NOW WHAT? I couldn't just leave, Grace was due to arrive any minute! And we don't have a car seat for her. So I figured I'd call her parent's cell phone. off. Okay, I'll call Orlund's mom, she can drive here then take him and I can stay with the kids (I wanted to go but this made the most sense). So I called her up, woke her up, and she headed out the door.(and it was Hazel's birthday, new way to start the day "Hi mom, Happy birthday can you drive me to the hospital? I broke my leg!") Grace arrived and it seemed like forever for Hazel to get here (it wasn't). After explaining that we wouldn't be able to move Orlund and so she had to drive our car they were off. And I was left at home watching Grace (Joy was asleep) and wanting to know what happened.
He BROKE his leg! That's right, just above the ankle. Luckily it was a clean break. So no resetting etc. Just casted ~ for 6 weeks. So now, after my excitement of getting into routine, I have my husband home. Unable to do pretty much anything! It's actually kinda interesting. I find anyway. I feel more like doing things (cleaning etc) now that he's here. Kinda like he doesn't expect me to do it (preggy etc), but he can't so I feel more like I'm doing it for him and it seems to motivate me more...SHHHHH, don't tell him that though ;)
So now I have to get up everymorning to drive him to work (he's off for this week though). I don't mind getting up earlier, I just don't like getting Joy up earlier. Oh well you do what you have to do. I don't know if I'll be able to ever get her back to sleeping in until 10am, but this is what has to happen.
Still after the broken leg we convinced Hazel not to cancel her birthday dinner (we had been waiting for it, dinner out). So we got there, Orlund hobbled about, and it was good!
Well that's all I'll blab about for now. It's bedtime. I need my rest for tomorrow (Grace is here), I was out today and it sure wears me out!
God Bless you!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Start of the New Year
New Years Eve wasn't what we had hoped it to be. We rented a movie. After watching 15minutes (or less) we shut it off. Gross. Luckily we had a few episodes of 'friends' so enjoyed that for an hour or so. then went to bed around 11pm.
New years Day we wanted to head out to my Brother's house to have dinner with him and my dad. My Dad had just returned from Thailand from visiting my mom and their 20 other kids. We wanted to be out of the house at 10am to ensure lots of sleighing time with Joy. We got out at quarter to 11. By the time we got to my Bro's house it was almost noon and we were hungry!
My Dad was all excited and wanted us to open our Christmas gifts, which both Orlund and I found strange but went along with it anyway (who say's no to gifts?). My dad ran downstairs and returned carrying a suitcase. "you have to open it" Dad said. We started to open it and try to get Joy to help. I then noticed my brother in the corner of my eye at the top of the stairs with the camera. Next to him stood a lady. I stared at her for a good few seconds (felt like minutes) trying to decide if it really was her. How could it be? MY MOM?!?!?! I jumped to my feet and gave her a hug. I screamed when I got up, scared Joy ~ poor girl. I couldn't contain the tears, I was getting the hug I'd longed for for so long. Every person you love has a specail way of hugging. Not one is the same. And Mom hugs just always seem at the top of the list (especially when you don't get them all the time).
Mom had flown home with Dad and is home for a month. Unfortunately she's staying a good 40minutes out of town. I love winter but I hate winter driving... and I booked my entire next week full! Next week I am definetly keeping it open! ('cept work of course).
Well that was the most wonderful start to the New Year I could have ever asked for. I pray yours was as good, and your year be filled with wonderful moments just like this one. God bless.
New years Day we wanted to head out to my Brother's house to have dinner with him and my dad. My Dad had just returned from Thailand from visiting my mom and their 20 other kids. We wanted to be out of the house at 10am to ensure lots of sleighing time with Joy. We got out at quarter to 11. By the time we got to my Bro's house it was almost noon and we were hungry!
My Dad was all excited and wanted us to open our Christmas gifts, which both Orlund and I found strange but went along with it anyway (who say's no to gifts?). My dad ran downstairs and returned carrying a suitcase. "you have to open it" Dad said. We started to open it and try to get Joy to help. I then noticed my brother in the corner of my eye at the top of the stairs with the camera. Next to him stood a lady. I stared at her for a good few seconds (felt like minutes) trying to decide if it really was her. How could it be? MY MOM?!?!?! I jumped to my feet and gave her a hug. I screamed when I got up, scared Joy ~ poor girl. I couldn't contain the tears, I was getting the hug I'd longed for for so long. Every person you love has a specail way of hugging. Not one is the same. And Mom hugs just always seem at the top of the list (especially when you don't get them all the time).
Mom had flown home with Dad and is home for a month. Unfortunately she's staying a good 40minutes out of town. I love winter but I hate winter driving... and I booked my entire next week full! Next week I am definetly keeping it open! ('cept work of course).
Well that was the most wonderful start to the New Year I could have ever asked for. I pray yours was as good, and your year be filled with wonderful moments just like this one. God bless.
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