I ended yesterday's post w/ the Dr. I saw putting a note on my file and leaving it on my Dr.'s desk. Well, it worked. I got a call from Ester the girl who schedules the C-Sections and she told me that my Dr. B. said that I am to schedule for Nov 20th, but she can't call the hostpital to schedule till the begining of Oct. But she wanted me to know, that everything looked to be on schedule. Even though I did not see my Dr. I still got the main answer I needed. The birth will be on Nov 20th, now to prepair.
One more thing, my emotions are still up and down, I threw up last night, not sure why? All over the living room to the bathroom, I could not control myself. It was really strange, of course that sent me into a crying spell. Lucky for me Baby Bear was the only one awake, because it would have sent everyone else in my house to throw up too.
Woke up this am and cried watching the news. Oh Boy what is wrong w/ me. Oh yeah I am pregnant!
Ok so have you ever been pregnant and had your emotions help you make a complete fool of yourself? Well that is just what I did today. If you remember my original apt's were scheduled for last Tuesday the ultrasound and the Dr.'s apt for Wednesday. The Dr's office called and changed them to last Thursday ultrasound and today the Dr.s apt. I already shared about the Ultrasound. (Having a BOY!) Well today when I got there, I was told I was seeing the Midwife. "WHAT" not that I have a problem w/ the midwife, I don't I just had a million questions about scheduling the birth for my own Dr. So I sat in the Midwife waiting room trying not to cry. When the nurse comes and says you are supposed to see a Dr. not a midwife, due to your condition. "WHAT condition, I thought the Placenta Privia had moved? " I kept telling myself don't cry don't cry don't cry. They take me to another waiting room, (I go to a Big office there are a total of 3 waiting rooms) I was going to see MY Dr. YIPEE!!!!! OK! Happy Happy Happy, Thank you God. I sat there for 10 minutes and another nurse, came out and said I was not going to see my Dr. that I was going to see Dr. T. ???? They take me to another waiting room, I sit down and tell myself don't cry don't cry don't cry. Emotions are trying to take over. 5 minutes there, and they call me back. I go in and do the weight thing and the nurse says pee sample please and shuts the door. I sit down and start to CRY!!!! Oh! Boy I have to stop. What is wrong w/ my emotions. I pull myself together and go out she takes my blood pressure (good by the way even w/ the emotions) I am taken to the room to wait for the Dr. I am still not crying. The Dr. walks in a few minutes later and I start bawling the moment I see her! I could not stop. I just cried and cried. She waited patiently and finally pulled myself together and told her there was nothing against her but I was expecting to see my own Dr. and that this just put me in an emotional tail spin being taken from place to place to place. I am not going to get my delivery questions answered because she can't answer them. She was very nice and understanding. She did tell me that I am off Pelvic rest, hubby will be happy to hear that. That the placenta privia has moved and we are in the clear. The ultrasound looked WONDERFUL all the parts where there, the fluid looked good and the size looked good. She did not see why my Dr. would change my due date or the original date we discussed for the C-Section Nov 20th. She did put a note on my file and laid it on my Dr.'s desk for her to review and have a nurse call me. We will see.
I feel like such an emotional fool. I just can not believe I could not quit crying. This has happened a lot w/ the pregnancy. But not so much w/ my past pregnancies. I wonder if it is because I know this will be my last and I want everything to go right.
Well again I can not believe I made a fool out of myself like that. Hormones!
We went to the Ultra Sound today. God is GOOD! The ultrasound tech said that the placenta privia has moved w/ the growth of my placenta. She said they want my placenta 3 (cm?) away from my cervix and it is 4 1/4 (cm?) away. This is good. We still have to wait till I go to the Dr. on Monday to get the Dr's report. The baby is measuring at 22 weeks instead of 21weeks. If they go by that the due date is Nov 20 instead of Nov 28th, the tech did not think they will change the due date, she said they normally does not unless it is more then 10 days different. The baby was very active and kept moving around. She asked us if we wanted to know the sex and we said yes. She scrolled over my belly and said this baby wants to make sure that there is no pink bought for him. We are having a BOY!! He moved so his little legs wide open and his little equipment was sticking right up. It was to cute. We also saw him swallowing, it was really neat to watch.
So now we have to figure out a boys name. We had a girls name picked out, but now we need a boy's name.
I have a sling that I got when Biggun was a baby, can you believe 9 years later I still have it. WOW! Well, When Baby Bear came along, I wanted one of these a Sleepy Wrap
But never got one. I am determined to get a Sleepy Wrap before this new baby, as I see a need to have extra hands as often as I can w/ my little Baby Bear running around. So I post this on here to help hold myself accountable for getting one.
Happy 4th of July to all!!!! This was a wonderful 4th of July for me. As it was my 15th wedding anniversary. It is hard to believe that we have been married 15 years.
Yes I married my highschool sweet heart! We met when I was in 10th grade and he was in 12th grade. I turned 18 in May, graduated from highschool in June and got married in July. What a busy year that was.
We got married at 10:30am and my wonderful hubby had a 102 fever and was sick for the next 2 days. So we started our marriage out w/ the through sickness and health. :-)
Last night we were able to go out. This is a rare feet for us. Biggun went to his Nana's for the day and evening. Baby Bear went and hung out w/ her God Father. Next to her Daddy Uncle K is her favorite man.
We were able to go to Carabaa's (not sure how to spell) and went to the movies. I think it was about 3 years since we were able to do this just the 2 of us. It was very nice.
Our waitress was all excited she had highschool sweet hearts and that we still talked to each other. She had another employee come over and sing Best Wishes in Italian.
I got my husband a leather vest to wear on his motorcycle. He loves it, because he also has a concealed weapons permit meaning he carries his gun w/ him. This vest has leather lined pockets. He was all excited over that. You know some years you get a gift that is not the greatest, well this year I hit gold as this was a perfect gift for my hubby he has not stopped talking about it, and wears it w/ pride!!!
Well I bet you all have been wondering if we voted in a new preacher or not. 106 people voted YES, and 0 voted No.
We are getting a new pastor his first Sunday w/ us is July 20th. I am so excited about this new adventure that God has laid out in front of our church.
I have to share how God was involved in this before any of us ever new. Our pastor search team shared this with us....
A year ago this man Pastor D. and his family made their yearly vacation plans that they normally make to visit Panama City as their summer vacation. Instead they made plans to come to Indian Rocks Beach. Which is about oh 15-20 minutes from our town. This would be the first time that their family came this far into Florida for vacation. God lead them to this change 6 months prior to Pastor D even putting his application in for our church. So when it came time for Pastor D's family vacation he realized how close that Indian Rocks was to us and ended coming to visit our church as an out of towner. This also gave our Pastor Search Team a chance to meet him in person and do an informal interview. Normally our church would have to pay to have him come down to do this process. But God had it all planned out a year a head of the rest of us humans.
Well I have had lots of people ask how we are doing. So here is the update.
We went to the Dr. last Tuesday and all went very well. I am still on light duty and am to stay off my feet if I can. The cramping I am feeling now the Dr said sounds like ligement or scar tissue causing trouble. This is something we still have to watch due to my past c sections. She was able to find the babies heart beat right way this time. Granted it was not that loud due to the fibroid, but it was strong and fast about 150.
We are scheduled to go for an ultrasound on July 15th. At this ultrasound we will see if my uterus has growned out enough to have the placenta to move w/ it and get it off my cervix. We will check the size and confirm the due date of the baby and of course see if we hare having a boy or girl.
My hubby will not even talk about baby names till we know what we are having. Even though I tell him that the ultrasound is not 100% and we will need to have a name for both just to be safe.
I am taking any ideas on names, so leave me a comment. Remember I like short names for boys, (not my sons name) an example Luke and double names for girls, (not my daughter name) an example of the double name is Marybeth. I love the name Grace but not sure how to make that a double name, might end up w/ that as a middle name.
I thought I was supposed to get my energry back in the second trimester, well I am still tierd all the time. I can take a nap daily if Baby Bear will let me.
Last Tuesday was my son's 9th birthday. Happy Birthday Biggun!!! We made the whole week special for him in that he did not have school all week. (we school year round) He only had to go do his yearly testing on his birthday. I know mean mom ,right?
The tester/evaluator was wonderful as this was the first time Biggun had been tested. She told him he passed w/ flying colors. He was so proud of himself when we left. Now here is the truth. He did great w/ his math, as I expected. but we are not as far along in reading as I thought he would be. So we are bukling down. A dear friend of mine Ms. K. is a teacher and she is off for the summer, I asked her if she would tutor him in reading. As I don't have money to pay her it would be a favor. I could offer to feed her dinner here and there. Being such a good friend said no problem and started tutoring him on Monday. They will tutor 3x a week for 30 minutes. I will give an update on that in a few weeks.
Next week Biggun goes to Cub Scout Camp for a week. This is a prayerful thing for me. As I was a Den Leader the first year he went to camp and I know how HOT it gets in Florida weather. I know that the water at the camp does not taste good and if he does not have a good Leader then he could get dehidrated. I wish I could be a Leader again but of course w/ Baby Bear and the new little one on the way and all I can't. I know God will protect him.
At our church we have been w/o a paster for about 3 years. We have had a wonderful interem pastor but it is time to get a regular pastor so we can grow. This weekend the pastor search team is bringing a new man forward. On Thursday my hubby gets to meet him when all the Deacons meet him, then on Friday evening I get to meet him and again on Saturday and he will preach on Sunday. A plus with this pastor and family is they are homeschooling family, granted they are new to homeschooling but they are a homeschooling family. This is important to me as in the past we have had issues w/ a leader in our church telling my hubby and I that we need to put our son in school, private or public. That is a whole other post.
We will be taking a prayerful vote on Sunday after am service. Please pray w/ us that if this is the Man that God wants to lead our church family that we as humans do not stand in God's way.
Ok I have a Dr.'s apt this afternoon for a check up on this little life growing in me. I will give an update on that later and hopefully upload some really cute pictures of Baby Bear helping Daddy in the kitchen cook from Father's Day.
OK! So I am growing this wonderful life but my life does not feel so wonderful. Since being told I have placenta privia, and put on light duty. My husband will not let me do anything. I had not been to the store in over 6 weeks. I finally talked him into letting me go if I rode on the cart thing at the grocery store. I did this and was able to go w/ my hubby to the store. The down fall is that when I got home I was having pains from sitting up to long. :-(
To add to my not so fun life. My mother in law, who is a wonderful house keeper, she does this for a living too, is here helping my husband clean my house. She has been in my bathroom for 45 minutes if not more. Not that this is a bad thing but it makes me feel like a failure in doing my job as a Mother and wife that I am not able to take care of my house the way it should be done.
We had meals coming about every other night for 2 weeks and they stopped becuase well it was a lot to ask our friends to cook for us all the time, much less complete strangers who signed up to help. Well we have not had a home cooked meal in a week since that stopped. My hubby has either gone out and purchased dinner or we have had cereal or peanut butter and jelly for dinner. I wish I could stand long enough to cook a meal for my family but if I stand to long I have camping.
Biggun's schooling has been ok since he does most of it on his own on the computer. I got his new Abeka math workbook to start after he has his testing done on Tuesday. I am thinking we will take a week off from school. And start our new year on June 16th. I am terrified over his testing coming up. That he has not improved enough. Praying daily over that.
So here I lay in my bed growing a baby while I feel like my life is moving with out me. But I have to keep leaning on the Lord when I feel this way and remember as my own Daddy says often, "This to shall pass."
The Dr. told me to keep doing what I am doing Laying a lot, and staying off my feet. Not over doing it. Hubby has been insisting on that. I don't get to do much. We did spend the scariest 5 minutes I have ever had. I joked w/ the dr. when she went to listen to the heartbeat, "Make my day lets hear a heart beat." She responded w/ "I will do my best." Then she tried and tried and tried to find the heartbeat. She ended up having to go in internally and push up and we finally heard a heartbeat. It was fast and strong just not loud. The Dr said that the reason for this is most likely the fibroid is blocking the doppler waves from the heartbeat doppler.
The Dr. said to keep doing what I am doing and come back in 4 weeks and call if there is any bleeding.
So that is where we are.
*** Warning might be To Much Information coming ***
Well I finally was able to puke. Now my throat is so soar that I can barely swallow. I was hoping that this yucky feeling would have passed by this week, 12weeks. But I had eaten dinner and was laying on my couch and the next thing I know I had to go. Well of course our dinner was not a bland food it was Mexican Soup a friend had brought, since I am not supposed to be on my feet for extended period of time. So it was a little spicy. Thus now my throat is so soar. My hubby was at church but my son was home w/ me and he took care of Baby Bear while I recovered. God is so good that my hubby came in soon and I was able to jump in the shower.
I do feel better, except for my throat being soar. I have been going to work all this week. As I have said before my office is only like 2 minutes from my home, my son even rides his bike or scooter sometimes. I go from my house to another home w/ my office in it. I have been sitting in my computer chair at my desk 30 minutes and lay down on the couch 15 minutes. It keeps the cramps away and God is good I have not had any spots in a few days. I did go out for dinner last night for my birthday, we sat at a restraunt for 2 hours and by the time I got home I had cramps. But I went right to bed.
Biggun has not really improved on his attitude. But we have put our foot down w/ him, he has been grounded from multiple things over the last week or so. I am praying that he is slowly coming around. Biggun did get an award at Awana's last week. Then he got grounded from scouts for his mouth.
Baby Bear is not sleeping good at all. She is not wanting to sleep in her own bed for more then 1-2 hours at a time. So she sleeps w/ us. This is not a major problem, our son shared our bed too. Our problem is she is waking 3-5 times a night. She wakes crying like a bad dream or painful. Tonight she is laying on the couch next to me sleeping and she just woke crying, I normally don't get to see her face when she is crying due to the room is dark. I got to see her face this time and she looked like she was in pain. She is not teething right now, at least not that I can see. This has been going on for a few months now. My husband is over it and ready to sleep through the night. I keep telling him that will happen when our kids are grown and out of the house. :-)
Well, since Wednesday I have done NOTHING! I sit around my house and I go to my office which is a house, just like being at home. When I am at work I am either at my desk or on the couch, waiting for the phone to ring. Nothing hard about that. No over doing it. Well when I got home from work last night , did I mention it takes me exactly 2 minutes to get from my house to my work house, I sat down on the couch, my hubby had made dinner, so I did not have to. I all of a sudden got a cramp in my lower stomach and went to the bathroom. More spotting! I don't know what started this one. My husband grounded me to my bed last night.
Today I have been sitting in the reclyner most of the day. I did run to my work for about 30 minutes to get the phone and calendar so I could work from home. So here I sit. watching my son play w/ my daughter.
Speaking of my son. I don't know what to do w/ him. My husband has explained to him what is going on and what could happen. We have asked him to behave and he just keeps being very disrespectful. We have had to ground him from his bike for a week, he even missed Cub Scouts last night due to his mouth. I have to a million times to do something. This just all of a sudden started in the last week or so. I am at my whits end w/ him.
Well life has been very busy for us. Our local support group had its Used Curriculum Sale this past weekend. This is MY event. This is the event that I organize. I really enjoy putting it together. I have been involved in this sale for 4 years. I have run it for 3 years. This is the best sale we have had. It ran soooooo smoothly. This is the first year no one complained at the sale about not being able to bring their children in to the sale. (There are reasons for that I don't want to go into right now as I am short on time.) So far only one person has had issues w/ books going to donation that were not supposed to go. Hopefully those books were caught before they got dropped off at the donation sight.
The only bad thing that happened was that I, personally, over did it on Saturday. As I did not sleep good the night before and was up at 6:15am and was going none stop, somewhere around 2-3pm I went to the bathroom and realized I was spotting. This is not good. I sat for the rest of the day w/ my feet up. Except at the end of the day when we were separating books I did get up again. Well at that point I helped and of course over did it again. Later I was not just spotting but a good bleed. So I spent the evening and Sunday resting, doing nothing. The spotting has stopped but now I have cramps. I am not sure if they are baby cramps or bladder cramps. As I was told at my last dr's apt that my bladder is not adhered to my uterus c-section scar. And I was warned I might have issues in this pregnancy. I did call the dr. today and they said unless it gets worse I am to come see them on Wed. I am to rest, keep my feet up, no lifting if I can help it and not intercourse. So that is what I have done today. We will see what happens.
Biggun is doing great on his Headsprout program. He is really enjoying it. He ask me about every 2 or 3 episodes if he can do an extra one. That is always good to know. I also see him trying to read more and more. I have been giving him so worksheets to do daily to on different math concepts and he seems to be doing them w/o any complaint. I also found the math I want to use. I never realized that ABeka math was work book form. Which is what Biggun likes to do. He is not a text book type kid. So we will be doing ABeka math. Even though he is in 3rd grade to go into 4th in June, we will get the 3rd grade book as it seems to be at a 4th grade level anyway. If that makes since.
Baby Bear is full of herself these days. She is not wanting to sleep at night. She does not want to go to bed. She is also not liking water all of a sudden. She used to love to take showers w/ me, to take baths she even went swimming w/ me once in a friends pool. Since my hubby has taken her into the pool twice and she flipped out both times. She also is flipping out when she is in the bath too. To night she refused to sit down in the bath. I did a fast wash and then out she went. She is crying at the drop of a pin. Strange I know. She does not seem to have a tooth coming in right now. But maybe I am just not seeing it yet. Still no explenation for the water fear.
Oh I almost forgot. I got my CAR back!!!!! I got it back on Friday. It is good as new, w/ the exception it smells like PAINT on the inside. I am trying leave the windows down as much as I can to air it out.
Oh if I could just puke. Life would be so good. I know that might sounds strange but I am so tired of being right on the edge but nothing comes out. It seems to happen on and off all day. But it is worse from dinner time to bed time. I just wish it would pass. I still have about 2 or so more weeks till the 2nd trimester. I am hoping it will all end then.
I was nursing Baby Bear when I found out I was preg. She started to wean herself soon after, She totally stopped about 2 weeks ago. Normally your chest is tender when you first get preg., well mine is very very soar. I thought my milk had dried up but in the shower tonight I started leaking, which explains the pain I have been having.
Did I say I can't wait till the second trimester. That is when the fun stuff starts, You can hear the baby's heartbeat and you can start to feel the movement. And best of all the tiredness and icky feeling should stop!!!
Well if you have been watching the widget on the side that shows the babies growth you will notice the baby went backwards. I have never had an internal ultrasound, wow was it neat. Did not hurt at all, just uncomfertable.
We got to hear the heart beat and see the heartbeat. OH how I love that sound and sight. The tech asked why we were there. I explained that the midwife was not sure my dates matched my size. She thought I was further along then what my dates said.
Well the tech said you are NOT as far as you think. You are only 7 weeks 3 days. Meaning I found out I was preg at about 3 and 1/2 weeks. So now our new due date is Nov 28th. Knowing my Dr. we will be give birth the week before Thanksgiving.
After some long talks my hubby and I decided to switch from the Clinic Dr. to the same Dr that delivered Baby Bear. I really liked the Clinic and felt very comfertable but they give birth at Bay Front Hospital. But Baby Bears Dr. delivers at St. Pete General. Bay Front is about 30 minutes away w/ very bad parking due to being down town. St. Pete Gen. is only about 10 minutes away and parking is easier. We figured w/ having the two other kids that the closer easier parking hospital would be easier on all of us.
Let me just say that God is so Good. He takes care of our every needs.
When the mail came today I was disappointed that my assistance letter did not come. I went to Dr. and when I checked in they ran my social and my birthday and it still said pending. I then went into the Dr. spent about 45 minutes talking w/ the Healthy Start Cord. she left me to check my status for her self, while I got my blood preasure and was waiting to see the Mid Wife. The HSC came back at the same time as the midwife and she said she had good news and bad news. Oh great, what is it?
The good news is in that 45 minutes I had gone from pending to active, meaning I have been approved for assistance, God is so Good!
The bad news the Pap Smear they were going to hold off on doing until my next visit was going to happen today.
I was so excited I jumped up gave her a hug. I can handle that bad news!!! So I ended up getting the whole first prenatal appointment. When the midwife was doing the internal exam she felt that my uterus is larger then my dates are saying. Thus she normally would not have checked for heart beat, to early. But since it was larger then she expected she tried to hear one. After she pushed my c-section scar inside out. OH she pushed so hard it hurt. She said we will step over the ultrasound machine to "See" a heartbeat. At that point the pain she had caused in my stomach sorta disappeared as I was excited to see what ever I could see.
We went across the hall and again she pushed very hard on my c-section scar to see this little blessing. Finally after about 3 of 4 minutes, I got to see the most beautiful heartbeat. You could not make out anything other then it was really neat as the shape of the baby was the same as that little widget on my blog. Very neat. Granted she did not stay my uterus for long. Just long enough to see a heartbeat.
The midwife is still not convinced that my dates are right. Not sure how, because I have only had 1 cycle since Baby Bears was born and that started on Feb 1. So she is having me go to a have a internal ultrasound done, It is scheduled on Friday. Did I mention the larges size could be twins? We will have to wait and see.
So tonight I am very SOAR from all that pushing and pulling on my skin and c-section scar. So I skipped going to help out at Children in Action at church, I laid in bed and watched TV until hubby went to bed and I tried to sleep but could not so here I sleep updating all of you. :-)
This could be something or could be nothing. I had a few spots w/ Baby Bear too, When I was preg w/ Baby Bear the Dr. said it was my bodies way of saying I am doing to much and to slow down.
It was easy to slow down when I was preg, w/ Baby Bear but now I have Baby Bear who is 13 months old and it is hard to slow down.
I am not due to see the Dr. for a little while. I am hoping my assistance comes through before my apt. We are praying about that. If I have more spots then I will go to the Dr. sooner.
All of you Mom's that remember what it is like to be pregnant, might understand what I am about to explain.
Yesterday we, hubby and I, cleaned my sons bedroom, while he was away at a friends house. (11 Big Black Trash Bags later) then we went to a WWll thing at Heritage Village. I think I over did it as now I feel very BLAH. So much I did not even go to church this am.
I am feeling just blah. I am nauseas yet hungry, I wish I could just puck, I might just feel better. I have heartburn from anything, milk and water can give me worse heartburn then red sauces. And I am thirsty and need to drink yet it causes heartburn. Nothing taste right but I know I need to eat. I have no energy and sooooo tired. But yet can't sleep soundly.
I am only at week 10. This is going to be a long pregnancy if it continues this way. I am praying for relief in the second semester.
I am so blessed to have a dear friend Ms. D. who has stepped up and helped me out w/ new skirts. Even though I am only 9 weeks preg. my skirts are tight. I am guessing it is from bloating, but all my skirts are uncomfy, These skirts will be for me thru out this pregnancy. She has made one w/ scraps and one w/ material a friend gave us. I love both of them, they are both COMFY!!! Thank you Ms. D.
We are growing again. We will be having another Blessing sometime in early Nov. This is exciting and scary at the same time. As Baby Bear will only be 21 months older then the new little blessing. I am feeling very nauseous and tired. I can't wait till the first trimester is over and I have energy again. So celebrate in our news. Pray for good health and all the other things that come w/ a new little blessing.
If you have not given control of your life over to God, or if you say you have and you really are holding on. You should just let go. God is all knowing and will take care of you.
We have been having issues w/ finances. And I am doing my best to turn it over to God and let him be in control. Well this past week I was able to give my husband and I a check. As for the last two weeks only my husband has gotten a check and it has been small.. We were able to pay my car payment and his rig payment. YIPPEE well I miss figured about $200 w/ the taxes. Remember we are self employed and use a payroll company to do our paychecks, When I called in checks I did not figure the right amount of taxes that would come out for both checks, mine and his, We did not bounce anything but we now did not have money for groceries. We had enough to put gas in my husbands truck and maybe enough for milk and bread and still have a little in the bank..
The day after I figured that out, I received a letter in the mail from a dear friend whom we had helped about 2 years ago. She said she had been blessed w/ extra work and felt God leeding to share w/ us. It was a check for $100. WOW, there is my grocery money. W/ coupons and that money I only spent $17.00 at the store. GOD is sooo GOOD.
Well, today we got a call from the insurance guy, saying my car has about $13,000 worth of repair needed. Hubby went by to have a look at all that needed to be done. They took him through it all. They are not repairing any parts they are replacing parts. We think it will be OK. They told him it would be over a month before I would get my car back. So now we are in a rental until my car is fixed. I must say that I like it, I have a Nissan Quest, 2008.
Today was the day after, Baby Bear was very restless last night and cranky this morning. But as the day went on she seems to be fine. Busy, busy, busy.
When we started our day calling the Collision place, it turned out our car was not there. Then we had to call AAA to find out where our car was taken. It was taken to another Honda dealers collision place. Whew that was a stressful hour looking for the car.
Then I realized I left my house keys in the car, along w/ a CD from the library. Hubby had to go by later to pick them both up.
Next we called the at fault ladies insurance, she had not called in yet and could not be reached. I prayed HARD that she would call in or be reached before the end of the day. Again God answered and I got a call around 3:00 and they said the at fault lady called and they were moving forward to get my car looked at.
When my husband went by to pick up my keys, he talked to the mechanic and he said he was very surprised no one was hurt. She hit so hard that the frame is bent. He was also concerned that the air bags did not go off.
We were able to get a rental car. Since my car is a SUV they told me that I could have a SUV, but I would have to wait for one to come from another store. They had a Nissan Quest mini van. I told them that was fine. So that is what I have until my car is fixed.
My Mom wanted a family photo for Christmas. It included my family, my parents and my sisters family.
I had to take a picture of a picture to be able to share it. The color is not as good as it is in person. Take note of the skirt I am wearing and the dress Baby Bear is wearing. I made those w/ help from my friend Ms. D.
The game is called scattergories. Use the first letter of your name and find words with that letter. The number of letters in your name determines how many people you can tag.
What is your name?: B
4 letter word: Ball
Vehicle: BMW
City: Birmingham
Boy's name: Brad
Girl's name: Brenda
Movie: Bambi
Occupation: Bee Keeper
Something you wear: Bra
Celebrity: Balowgirl
Food: Banana
Something found in a kitchen: Bottle
Something found in a bathroom: Bar of Soap
Reason for being late: Bad Hair
Cartoon character: Buggs Bunny
Something you shout: Bye
Animal: Bear
Body part: bottom
Word to describe you: big
I am choosing not to send this on. But was fun to do come up w/ the B words. :-) Thanks Steph for sending it to me.
Now, the fun part is coming up with 6 unimportant things about myself.
The rules for this meme are:
(1) Link to the person that tagged you. √
(2) Post the rules on your blog. √
(3) Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself. √
(4) Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. √
(5) Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website. √
Now for the tag:
1) I am usually on line between 10-midnight each night.
2) I used to have a cow themed house.
3) You can not go anywhere in my home w/o seeing a picture of one of my kids.
4) I love Borne hand crafted footware brand shoes.
5) I only wear dress/skirts.
6) I HATE housework, laundry is the worst.
If everyday where like this for Baby Bear oh my life would be so wonderful. Baby Bear woke up from her nap this afternoon just full of herself. She spent the afternoon jabbering, happily but jabbering. She was all over the house that I work at. It has been a great afternoon to watch her grow.
Just when we get back into school there is a holiday that throws us all off. Most of our friends are public school kids. They were off on Friday and Monday. So we took a long weekend. Biggun got to play w/ his friends. :-) So when we sat down to do school today and he finished his math, he asked "So I am done? right Mom" Oh what a funny boy. I told him no you only did math. He says but but but, oh I hate that word and the whining that comes with it. So he had to do more then just math. I had to remind him that all his friends were doing more then just math. :-)
Once he was done he enjoyed his day. Just getting done is the fun part.
What do you think of my present. Isn't it cute! Thanks to Nancy, I now have the most adorable new blog theme. I love bee's, my nephews and some kids in my life call me Aunt B. and this blog design just shows my personality. I love the personalization she did in the title, by having the bee family along w/ our family motto.
I can't thank Nancy enough.
I feel so blessed by this wonderful gift she has given me.
In my world I am surrounded by positive people. But as like all of you I have 1 or 2 people who are negative. I have one person who is so very negative w/ me about my daughter. This person is always telling me that Baby Bear wears dresses that are to long or I should put a pair of pants on that baby, she will crawl better.
First let me say that my husband and I have both agreed that we feel that God has lead us to the point in our life that we feel, my daughter and I should be wearing dresses. I don't have to justify our reasons or even explain them. As long as this is something my husband and I have decided as a family then that should be the end of it.
Second my daughter can crawl just as fast in a dress as she can not in one. She crawls just like any other baby. I don't see it being a problem.
I am just so tired of dealing w/ this negativity. I can't cut this person out of my life because of who this person it to our family. I don't know if this person will read this post and I don't want anyone else in my world to be upset over this. That is why I am not sharing how this person is connected to our family.
My daughter has a name that has two names in one. (Not her name) but like MaryJo and this is the same person who calls her just Mary. Even though I have mentioned it multiple times not to call hear by only half her name. She does not even answer to just the first part of her name.
I am praying that God will touch this person with understanding to have be respectful of our family choices in dress and in name of our daughter.
Ok I feel better now that I have gotten that off my chest.
Here are the pictures from our Christmas. So many I did not know what to choose from.
Both Kids got there own Dragons
Biggun got 3 total, (I need to get a picture of the handmade one Ms. D made.) Biggun got his updated wardrobe. His Aunt C. has gotten him about 10 dragon shirts 2 years in a row. Thanks Aunt C. We had to hide this from Baby Bear to get her to open other Christmas Presents. The ball moves on its own. Baby Bear chased it everywhere. Biggun got Moon Sand. What fun!!! We played it outside to keep the mess down. Baby Bear openign her stocking presents Baby Bear watching Biggun help her open her presents Look at Bigguns Tshirt. Perfect for Florida Christmas (This Is My Chistmas Sweater) I made Baby Bears dress. Took a t-shirt and added red material at the end. Here is the top Love this picture.
For more pictures from our Christmas check out the web page Strouse Family Life
Well I was going to post pictures of our Christmas. But for some reason there is not a box at the top of the the entry box. MMMmmm strange.
I will just tell you about a few things. As most of you know we purchased a Big Rig back in Oct. Our accountant recommended we get a laptop before the end of the year. So we purchased a Mac. It has been really neat to learn on. We can use it for school work too. That is on reason I have not posted recently. I have been playing w/ the computer. I am waiting the Quickbooks program to come that I ordered from Amazon. Then I have to stop playing and actually start using it for work. (yuck)
One great thing it Mac checks your spelling. You don't have to worry about things being done wrong. Since I am a horrible speller this is a wonderful feature for me!!!!
If you want to see what I have been working on you can go to the mac website that I have for a trial basis.
http://web.mac.com/strousehouse93/Site/Welcome.html
There are pictures from our Christmas there that I was going to post here.
Hope everyone is having a great new year.
We take formal pictures at 6 weeks, 4 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months then every year till school starts then we move to school pictures. We did this w/ Biggun and we have done it w/ Baby Bear too.
Well at the 9 month pictures we had family pictures done too. I have been eyeing this picture layout that Olan Mills has. I got it for myself for Christmas. I had to take picture of it, so I don't know how well you will be able to see it. I will post two one w/ flash one w/o. So you can get the complete idea on how wonderful it turned out.
We had a "What God Wants for Christmas" Party today. I made one suger cookie of each part of the nativity for each child. That included Mary, Joseph, Jesus, Shepard, Wize Man and a star. We had 14 kids come. Every child had a blast decoating their cookies. They all shared supplies nicely.
Then they all sat on the floor while the adults took turns reading the story. While the youngest 7 had the boxes to open as we read about each part of the nativity. All the kids were on the edge of heir seat when they got to box 7 that was mentioned at the end of each page. They all wanted to see what God Wants For Christmas. When you open the last box there is a mirror in the box. Because God wants YOU for Christmas. All the kids took the box and looked at themselves in the box. It was very neat. After this we prayed and went back the table to eat ONE of the six cookies they decorated. (I had asked each person to bring a container to carry home extra cookies.)
I only got picture of the cookie decorating. If my friends who took pictures send them to me I will post more but we had a blast!!!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
I don't know what started this one. My husband grounded me to my bed last night. 
Here are my parents!
Biggun got 3 total, (I need to get a picture of the handmade one Ms. D made.)
Biggun got his updated wardrobe. His Aunt C. has gotten him about 10 dragon shirts 2 years in a row. Thanks Aunt C. 
We had to hide this from Baby Bear to get her to open other Christmas Presents. The ball moves on its own. Baby Bear chased it everywhere.
Biggun got Moon Sand. What fun!!! We played it outside to keep the mess down.
Baby Bear openign her stocking presents
Baby Bear watching Biggun help her open her presents
Look at Bigguns Tshirt. Perfect for Florida Christmas (This Is My Chistmas Sweater)
I made Baby Bears dress. Took a t-shirt and added red material at the end. Here is the top
Love this picture.
