Jenn rambles on

Oh my sweet mercy our computer is slow. It needs a new memory stick thing but needing it and actually buying said memory are two very different things. The slowness of it all makes me not want to even use the computer. Which is ok I guess.

Anywho, I’ve managed to dig out some baby clothes, wash them, and put them away. Woohoo! That seems to have satisfied my nesting urge a little bit. Although I really want the room to be organized and cleaned…because, well, it’s dirty. But I can’t really clean fully until Mike gets the twin bed out of there and a couple of other large items that are just sort of being stored in the guest room/play room/ baby’s room. C’s room is about to gain alot of toys just for lack of a better place to put them until we have a recroom in the basement. And God bless my well intended husband but I don’t think that is going to happen in the next 7 weeks or so.

Since I’m jumping all over the place I would like to report that the extreme tiredness and sleeping disease that I spoke of in my last post were short lived. thank heavens. Oh, I’m still tired but I don’t feel the COMPULSION so sleep constantly. And that is good. Just thought you would want to know that.

Rather excited about ultrasound #2 coming up on Tuesday. I still suppose the Dr was probably right the fist time and this is likely a girl and that’s ok but there is this exciting little notion in my head that maybe it’s a boy. A BOY! Imagine that. So far, my parents have 2 grand-daughters and Mike’s parents have 3 grand-daughters. Imagine the excitement a boy would bring to the daddies and grand-daddies!

It’s probably a girl

Oh I hope C will take a nap. I still hear commotion in there but no singing. That’s a good sign. She was up WAY too late last night and didn’t really sleep in too much.

My sis called in the afternoon to see if we wanted to go to the Exhibition. If you don’t know what that is then just picture a million teenagers, a carnival, some horse shows, a sheep rodeo, and some barns filled with animals. In other words, your classic country fair.

Now, we aren’t generally Exhibitionists (teehee) but we thought C might enjoy the animals and watching kids fall of sheep in the rodeo. So once Mike got home we were off the the Valley Ex.

It was ok. I’m pretty sure the 16 bucks we spent on admission was WAY too much but C enjoyed some of the things there. And it’s not like we could stay very long because of bed time and all…and C needed to get to bed at a decent hour too. That “decent” hour ended up being 9:30pm. Too late.

Oh well, if you can’t enjoy a wednesday evening hick parade then what is summer really all about?

well, I suppose should go rest my eyes for a bit. Just a bit…

yes, that’s right, just 7.5 weeks till this baby is due. I can’t wait either. I’m really excited to meet the little one and I won’t lie, I’m really excited to not be pregnant. This one has been tougher than the last as some of you may remember. And apparently it’s getting worse again. I had a VERY rough time between week 7 and week 14 and then things levelled out a bit…at least I felt sort of normal and only sometimes horrible. But with the onset of week 32, things seem to be going down hill again. The last few days have been tough. The extreme tiredness and sleeping disease has kicked back in. I seriously want to sleep. ALL. THE. TIME. Which, of course, is rather inconvenient and impossible when you have an almost 3 year old to look after and a husband who insists on going to work every day like a good man should.

So, even though the last three days have seemed to last forever, I’m hoping that it’s just a stage where the baby is growing or something and it won’t last for the next 7.5 weeks because that will be rough. Sigh.

Anyway, right after the whole bloggy carnival give away thingy my computer died. It must have been exhausted from all the comments and site views and it gave up. We got it “fixed” but the memory card thing won’t go back in so it is super slow. Which is practically as annoying as not having a computer at all.

Well, I better try and be productive before nap time comes around again. A shower is likely a good start. I’m supposed to take c to a birthday party this afternoon. Wish me luck with all of these very difficult tasks.

Well, not all of you, but one of you did.

Yes, I realize that 9:17am is a random time to end a contest but I never did say when it would end and this is a convenient time for me. So, after 172 very un-rude comments I will head on over to random.org or what-have-you and select the new owner and care taker of some of my Stampin Up/card making supplies. I know you will give them a good home. And if you don’t, I’ll never know so I’ll have to trust you on that one.

Hey and thanks for playing. It was fun to hear from all of you even if you did only want my stuff. Seriously, I’m ok with that…sniff, sniff…

Haha, ok, I’m off to select the winner and will be back shortly.

Ok, I’m back….and the winner is!

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

58

Timestamp: 2008-08-02 12:23:58 UTC

Commenter #58 is Mindi! Congratualtions Mindi, I’ll be emailing you post haste with the good news.

Note to the rest of ya, if Mindi doesn’t respond in 48 hours, I’ll pick a new random winner.

CONTEST NOW CLOSED

Hey remember last year when I gave something away? Yeah, me either.

No actually, I remember because I was high on the number of comments I got…but the high was short lived because really they all just wanted to win something. But I’m cool with that.

Last year I really wanted to participate but it took me awhile to decide what to actually give away. This year it’s a no brainer for me. I’d like to give away some of my Stampin supplies. You see, I can’t actually remember the last time I made a card, therefore, there is no need to have the stuff…especially when baby number 2 is on the way. When will I possibly have time to make cards? Besides, I’m over it, it was fun while it lasted.

Here is a pic of of the loot I’m giving away FREE to a lucky, randomly selected winner.

There’s a Stampin Up stamp set called “whale wishes”. There is an unopened package of “Earth Elements” card stock also from Stampin Up. A small box of letter stamps from Image Tree, a package of scrapbooking sticker thingys, and a stamp kit that my hubby picked up for me that has never been opened and I don’t really know how to use it but I’m sure you do if you are into such things. I’m certain it is fantastic.

Anyway, if you want to win, leave me a comment, try not to be rude or I will randomly un-pick you if you are randomly picked because I have the right to do that, it’s my blog. This is open to the US and Canada.

Did I forget anything? I don’t know, I think I covered all the bases. Thanks for visiting and thanks to Bloggy Giveaways for the fun!

One of Mike’s co-workers got C a pink shirt with the company logo on it. It’s an xs and prolly won’t fit her properly until she’s about 6 but she LOVES it anyway.

I told her she could wear it to bed tonight as a night gown. She was thrilled. After a bath I put it on her and made a big fuss about how great she looked in it.

She looks down at herself and says in the most dreamy Cinderella voice, “I’m wearing the gown of my dreams.”

Too stinkin’ cute

I’m aware July is not quite over yet but I’m also aware that it almost is. Um, where did it go? What a busy month. Every since our VBS started on the 7th I feel like I haven’t stopped. Probably because, well, I haven’t. That Friday afternoon after a busy but good vbs I boarded a plane for Ontario, left my family for the first time, and visited with various aunts and uncles and cousins.

My Aunt Grace is terminal with brain cancer but what an inspiring visit. She was happy and bright and not in any pain. This was amazing to me since her prognosis is only a few weeks. I will have a great last memory of her. Her faith is so strong and she knows where she is going and who she will meet when she gets there. Her faith lies in the Lord. I will see her there someday.

I worried alot before I left. I always worry alot. I try not to and it’s an effort to hand over my silly nervousness to God but I really tried to trust Him. And you know what? He came through. As always. I was strangely calm on both plane rides, I didn’t worry about germs too much (but don’t worry, I did have my hand gel with me at all times), and I didn’t worry how C was doing without me. So, small miracles do happen

C was fine. She missed me but not in the freakout, crying kinda way that she would have about 8 months ago. She had a great time with her Daddy who kept her really busy. They did all kinds of fun things together, even crafts! I was glad. The phone calls home each night consisted of her telling me a story about what they did that day and then a “bye, mommy” and quickly handing the phone back to Mike so she could continue playing. It was easier than having her crying on the phone, that’s for sure!

Anyway, when I got home from that trip, C came down with a little cold. Nothing big but enough give me a sore throat as well. That’s ok, we are fine now. But colds and all I had to start organizing for this past weekend. Most of you who read prolly saw the pictures already but for those of you who didn’t, we went to my parents cottage about 3.5 hours away. It’s the community my grampy grew up in and it was his birthday party on Saturday. It was a very fun family reunion kind of time. Staying at the cottage is always adventurous. It was C’s first time and she LOVED it! Fishing and boating are her two new favorite things.

So here we are back home and getting re-settled into regular life and regular bedtimes and regular discipline.

I won’t lie, I’m tired. But all the craziness has been fun. I can rest in the winter, right? Oh yeah, new baby coming, prolly not much rest with it

Yup, I’m boarding a plane and heading to Ontario tomorrow.  I won’t lie, I’ve been having panic attacks since yesterday so if you think of it, pray for me. Thank you.

Flying scares me, germs on airplanes scare me, leaving my baby scares me, getting sick while I’m there scares me…

See? I have all kinds of crazy. Anyone want some of my crazy?

I might possibly be doing that on Friday or Saturday. Apparently our ability to make such a big decision and actually book a flight is a whole ‘nother story. It’s not that I don’t want to go, it’s more that I obsess about every detail and as I may have documented many times in the past, I’m not so good at the decision making. I’m trying to get Mike to just make it for me. He already booked the time off so that’s a start I suppose.

Now let me tell you where and why I might be going. My Aunt Grace, my mom’s oldest sister, just found out that her prognosis is not good. She has been battling cancer for a few years now. First in her lungs and then most recently in her brain. Originally they thought it was very treatable and she might have many years left but since then, new tumors have emerged on her brain and the news we got a few days ago is that she has about two to seven weeks to live. She lives in London, ON.

My mom left this morning for a week’s visit with her to and stay with her other sister that lives close by. If I went, it wouldn’t be until Friday afternoon or Saturday morning and then I would be back on Tuesday.

It’s strange in a way that I really feel the need to go. This aunt has lived on Ontario my whole life. I’ve met her only a handful of times. I really don’t know her that well. But for some reason, I really want to go see her before she dies. Before, I supposed I would go to her funeral when she passed away. But then I got thinking, if I am going to make the trip, why not do it while she was living?

Seems like a no brainer in some ways. In other ways, it’s a tough decision. Flying is expensive. Flying ALONE is, uh, SCARY! And, I’ve never left my daughter over night. Ever. I suppose there has to be a first time but that just might be the hardest part for me. Separation. As much as a little mommy break might sound tempting, I know I will miss her the minute I get on the plane. She really isn’t old enough to understand why the mommy who NEVER leaves her has to be gone for 3 or 4 days. That part will be hard.

Anyway, so I suppose I might actually have to get to booking some flights if I really intend to go anywhere.

Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30

My burdens may not be as heavy as other peoples but I struggle with them just the same. And just maybe last night I cried out to God for a little help…and just maybe this morning this was the verse on my scripture flip calendar thingy on my kitchen window sill.

I think He heard me.

So I realize my birthday post was boring at best. But really, I wasn’t feeling terribly excited about the whole event. I suppose the better choice would have been to just not bother writing about it.

Anyway, on to the topic at hand. I need some healing. I’ll admit it, I have dry, cracked heels. Usually in the summertime they get a little bit better but lately they have been worse. Maybe it’s the extra weight I’m carrying what with the baby and all. My point is, last week my left heel pretty much split open. You can probably guess that it’s pretty painful. And it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Should I bandage it? Should I put something on it? I guess the other option would be to stay off it.

Yeah right.

Well, if anyone has helpful heel tips, bring me in to your circle of healing.

Because…well, ouch.