Apr. 16, 2009
Important Note!!!! AND FINALLY - Baby Introduction!!!!!
Ok, Hi everyone! I'm back :) And starting to feel a little more like me again! Finally!
If you read my blog regularly you probably know that I struggle with following through with things! I have SO many blogging posts that are still in draft mode. I can't seem to finish them! But I intend to. What I will probably be doing is keeping all the new posts I add at the top for awhile but eventually changing the date of holidays and things like that to be closer to the date it actually happened.
I will be keeping current info and thoughts on life on whatever date I post them, so if it seems that posts disappear it's probably because I moved them to the archive area. I want to share thanksgiving, Christmas and pregnancy events with you even though those things are now long past! And even if you aren't interested to read it I want to be able to come back to it in time and read my blog and remember the things that happened to our family. So there :)
I'm sorry there are so many times I've posted I would write about and share pictures of xyz and didn't get around to it. I will be working on that but for NOW - on to the good stuff........
Here is a copy of the email we sent family and friends the day she was born.
Anna Hudson P was born Sunday, March 16th at 7:11 am.
She didn't want to wait until her due date (March 26th) She didn't even want to wait for our scheduled induction Friday (March 21st)
She weighed 8 lbs 1 oz, was 19.5 inches and has dark hair and blue eyes. She is SO adorable! I was admitted to the hospital last night even though I wasn't really in active labor yet. But due to a positive Group B Strep test they didn't want to send me home. Plus I have fast labors. They gave me the anitibiotic treatment at midnight. When I wasn't really progressing toward labor they broke my water. Less then 2 hours later she arrived. Labor was fast and I am weak and exhausted. Fortunately she wasn't exposed to the bacteria very long since I received the antibiotic treatment and labor was fast. Please pray though that she doesn't contract the bacteria. Also being anemic before delivery has left me weak, tired and shaking often. Please pray for a quick recovery.
The kids are very excited about their new baby sister that they met today! We will be in the hospital for 48 hours to make sure we are both monitored for complications! Thanks for you friendship and support!
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So far Anna doesn't have any symptoms of contracting GBS though it can still pop up months later. We've had other issues though. My health has been shaky. I will go into more detail on that in my next post. Right now I'm going to post the first pictures of her, then next time I come back I will talk about the things that have happened in the past month and give you more recent pictures!!!!
Right After Birth
Sleeping
Jenna and Thomas Meet Anna!!!
Anna Gets Her Feet Stamped
I'm Crying Because I'm SO Happy She's Here!!!!
Dad And Kids
Ok, that's enough for now. I need to go feed her! Be back soon!
Marie
ps -this is my 200th entry! Cool number to be introducing our baby on...
scroll down for recent posts - birth story, more picts and soon to follow things we've been up to at home!
If you read my blog regularly you probably know that I struggle with following through with things! I have SO many blogging posts that are still in draft mode. I can't seem to finish them! But I intend to. What I will probably be doing is keeping all the new posts I add at the top for awhile but eventually changing the date of holidays and things like that to be closer to the date it actually happened.
I will be keeping current info and thoughts on life on whatever date I post them, so if it seems that posts disappear it's probably because I moved them to the archive area. I want to share thanksgiving, Christmas and pregnancy events with you even though those things are now long past! And even if you aren't interested to read it I want to be able to come back to it in time and read my blog and remember the things that happened to our family. So there :)
I'm sorry there are so many times I've posted I would write about and share pictures of xyz and didn't get around to it. I will be working on that but for NOW - on to the good stuff........
Here is a copy of the email we sent family and friends the day she was born.
Anna Hudson P was born Sunday, March 16th at 7:11 am.
She didn't want to wait until her due date (March 26th) She didn't even want to wait for our scheduled induction Friday (March 21st)
She weighed 8 lbs 1 oz, was 19.5 inches and has dark hair and blue eyes. She is SO adorable! I was admitted to the hospital last night even though I wasn't really in active labor yet. But due to a positive Group B Strep test they didn't want to send me home. Plus I have fast labors. They gave me the anitibiotic treatment at midnight. When I wasn't really progressing toward labor they broke my water. Less then 2 hours later she arrived. Labor was fast and I am weak and exhausted. Fortunately she wasn't exposed to the bacteria very long since I received the antibiotic treatment and labor was fast. Please pray though that she doesn't contract the bacteria. Also being anemic before delivery has left me weak, tired and shaking often. Please pray for a quick recovery.
The kids are very excited about their new baby sister that they met today! We will be in the hospital for 48 hours to make sure we are both monitored for complications! Thanks for you friendship and support!
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So far Anna doesn't have any symptoms of contracting GBS though it can still pop up months later. We've had other issues though. My health has been shaky. I will go into more detail on that in my next post. Right now I'm going to post the first pictures of her, then next time I come back I will talk about the things that have happened in the past month and give you more recent pictures!!!!
Right After Birth
Sleeping
Jenna and Thomas Meet Anna!!!
Anna Gets Her Feet Stamped
I'm Crying Because I'm SO Happy She's Here!!!!
Dad And Kids
Ok, that's enough for now. I need to go feed her! Be back soon!
Marie
ps -this is my 200th entry! Cool number to be introducing our baby on...
scroll down for recent posts - birth story, more picts and soon to follow things we've been up to at home!
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Apr. 29, 2008
Birth Story - And More Picts of Anna
Anna Hudson P was born on Palm Sunday (March 16th, 2008) at 7:11 am (but you already knew that if you read the previous entry) Here are details about when she was born and a couple more pictures.
The plan had been a scheduled induction for Friday, March 21st. I would go to the hospital to receive antibiotics for the Group B Strep that I had been diagnosed with. Then I would be induced a few hours later since I've had fast labors.
But I was having contractions on sat march 8th. They were regular and close together, but without warning they stopped. Then on Saturday, March 15th they started again. They were lasting 45 seconds and were 5-7 minutes apart. Because of my history of fast labors and the GBS they told me to come on in to be monitored. We didn't know if they would keep us so we took the kids with us. We got to the hospital about 10:30 pm. I was at 3 cm , the same as at my doctor appt the day before. Around midnight they decided to give us the antibiotic treatment for the Strep, so we called a friend to come get our kids. She arrived and took our kids home. The nurses told us to walk around the hospital, so that's what we did at midnight! We spent an hour walking. Towards the end the contractions were getting more frequent. When we got back I was only at 3.5 cm so baby and me got in bed to be monitored for a bit and then they sent us walking again. When we came back I'd not made any progress and I was worried they would send us home since we still weren't far enough along yet. The nurse hooked us up to the monitor while she contacted the doctor. By this time it was about 4 am. The antibiotics were only good for 8 hours so I was wondering if they'd send us home or give another dose if we were still there around then. But at 5 am they came in and said babys heart rate was dipping low so they were going to admit us and start labor.
So were were taken from the triage room to the VERY nice labor and delivery room. We got settled in and the doc came to break my water. She said at that point we'd have to stay in bed and be monitored. It was 5:30 at that point. The doc was on until 7 and we joked about whether or not she would arrive before the doc left. My first daughter labor was only about 8 hours (with 3 of that pushing - she was over 10 lbs at birth!). My son's labor was 2 hours and he was 9 lbs...So we were wondered what would happen this time. Baby was a week and a half early.
For the first hour I sat there in the bed and the contractions were more frequent and painful, but in that hour I made no change in terms of dilation. I was a bit discouraged at that. The nurse said that if labor didn't start soon they would consider pitocin. However my back was hurting bad with each contraction. Hubby suggested that I get on the bed on all fours but I told him I was too tired to do that. So we beeped the nurses and begged to let me change postition. Apparently they were listening in and when the next contraction came and I wasn't happy they said - "ok, do whatever feels better." So I stood by the bed (still connected to monitiors and hubby stood in front of me. I put his arms around his neck and it was actually a nice postition :) He noticed I was bleeding and put some towels on the floor.
The contractions were more intense standing but I think it still felt better then sitting in the bed so we stayed that way. I was totally embarrassed though because with one of the contractions I lost the contents of my bladder and intestines and was worried I was getting stuff on my hubby's shoes. The nurse came in to clean it up. She wasn't very nice and hubby was telling me later about how after the delivery she was mad that the staff wasn't doing their job and was leaving it all for her to do....When we thought back on it we were both disappointed in how they treated us. Maybe it was because I wasn't a first - time mom but we don't think it was very professional. I'll explain more in a bit.
Anyways, the nurse said the doc wanted to give me pitocin and I said I didn't really want pitocin, I remembered the constant contractions and thought what I was going through was painful enough. I was hoping she would come without more meds (and she did). The nurse left, probably to talk with my doc about what to do. I had a hunch it would be over soon so even if I had wanted meds there wouldn't have been a point to ask for them! About 10-15 minutes later I felt her drop.
So I told hubby that she was coming. I literally felt her moving down very quick! He buzzed the nurses and said I was ready to push and the lady very slowly comes in the room and is like "What's going on?" They didn't believe I was ready to have Anna because 30 minutes earlier I was just barely at 5 cm. The lady said to get on the bed and they'd check me - I was having a problem getting on the bed though because I was trying to keep her in! When I tried to lift one leg I promise she was coming out. Hubby told me he thought he was going to have to deliver the baby!
He was mad that with my history of fast labors that they didn't believe I was ready- they were unprepared! When I got on the bed the lady didn't even need to check. Anna's head was there and the nurse was yelling for someone to get the doc and tech quick. Well, they couldn't find my doc and they didnt want me to push! Now of course that is TORTURE waiting. They said they couldn't find my doctor and I was begging them to find her! They brought in the nearest doctor they could find to deliver Anna. Again, they weren't very professional in terms of helping me. They didn't instruct me on how to push. Hubby said he could tell in my face that since I'd been focusing on NOT pushing that I then couldn't remember how to push when it was time! They didn't tell me what to do. I was gripping his hand pretty hard and I saw he was crying. I thought I was hurting him but he told me later it didn't hurt all that much, that he was crying because he didn't want to see me in pain. I was grunting and yelling while pushing - since I didn't really have any other thing to focus on and didn't know how to concentrate on breathing I was using my vocal cords to help get her out...LOL - The nurses didn't say I was doing a good job or anything or what I should do to make pushing easier. They didn't even tell me when her head was out. My hubby looked and told me so that I would know she was coming soon.
And then she was out! My labor was 40 minutes long! I had a 2nd degree tear - not bad for a 8 lb baby. Her apgar scores were 9 and 9. I was so excited to meet her and hold her. After the difficult pregnancy, a previous miscarriage and the contractions I'd had since 16 weeks I was so glad she was safely in my arms. I cried and cried. The nurses and doctor looked at me like I was crazy and asked why I was crying. I think they thought I was a crazy woman or something. I just kept saying I was so happy the pregnancy was over and that she was here. The first time I looked at Anna I said the same thing I said to my other 2 when they were born "Welcome to the family".
Then they took her and weighed her, dried her up, stamped her feet in our baby book and brought her back where I nursed her - and she did very well! The tech kept coming in and pressing hard on my uterus. I didn't remember so much pain in the past with that, but I'd had an epidural with my first. And with my second I got an epidural, but it didn't take effect until AFTER he was born, so maybe it helped with the uterus pain some.
We stayed in the delivery room 2 hours and then went to my room to rest and they took Anna to the nursery for her bath and to be monitored for 2 hours. Then she came back to the room for the rest of the time in the hospital. Our kids really loved getting to meet her that day and they still love when they get a chance to be near her. The hospital kept us for 2 days to monitor for signs of GBS which she didn't have, probably due to antibiotics and the fast labor preventing her being exposed to the bacteria for very long.
She has nursed well most of the time, though we are still trying to figure out sleep times and all that. Plus we both have colds and coughs now and it's making things more miserable for us. But she is a joy to us and we are blessed to get to know her and share her with our friends and family.
I have had some health problems though, which kept me from feeling up to coming back here more frequently...for now, here are some pictures and then I need to go get some sleep soon!
Anna in the hospital
Anna getting sunlight to help with the bilirubin levels.
Anna less then one week old! We'd just gotten home.
Anna and family at 1 week old - on Easter
Ok, Here is a picture from April 11th!
Other pictures I haven't uploaded or edited yet - later I'll show pictures of the kids with her and other neat things! Have a great day!
Marie
The plan had been a scheduled induction for Friday, March 21st. I would go to the hospital to receive antibiotics for the Group B Strep that I had been diagnosed with. Then I would be induced a few hours later since I've had fast labors.
But I was having contractions on sat march 8th. They were regular and close together, but without warning they stopped. Then on Saturday, March 15th they started again. They were lasting 45 seconds and were 5-7 minutes apart. Because of my history of fast labors and the GBS they told me to come on in to be monitored. We didn't know if they would keep us so we took the kids with us. We got to the hospital about 10:30 pm. I was at 3 cm , the same as at my doctor appt the day before. Around midnight they decided to give us the antibiotic treatment for the Strep, so we called a friend to come get our kids. She arrived and took our kids home. The nurses told us to walk around the hospital, so that's what we did at midnight! We spent an hour walking. Towards the end the contractions were getting more frequent. When we got back I was only at 3.5 cm so baby and me got in bed to be monitored for a bit and then they sent us walking again. When we came back I'd not made any progress and I was worried they would send us home since we still weren't far enough along yet. The nurse hooked us up to the monitor while she contacted the doctor. By this time it was about 4 am. The antibiotics were only good for 8 hours so I was wondering if they'd send us home or give another dose if we were still there around then. But at 5 am they came in and said babys heart rate was dipping low so they were going to admit us and start labor.
So were were taken from the triage room to the VERY nice labor and delivery room. We got settled in and the doc came to break my water. She said at that point we'd have to stay in bed and be monitored. It was 5:30 at that point. The doc was on until 7 and we joked about whether or not she would arrive before the doc left. My first daughter labor was only about 8 hours (with 3 of that pushing - she was over 10 lbs at birth!). My son's labor was 2 hours and he was 9 lbs...So we were wondered what would happen this time. Baby was a week and a half early.
For the first hour I sat there in the bed and the contractions were more frequent and painful, but in that hour I made no change in terms of dilation. I was a bit discouraged at that. The nurse said that if labor didn't start soon they would consider pitocin. However my back was hurting bad with each contraction. Hubby suggested that I get on the bed on all fours but I told him I was too tired to do that. So we beeped the nurses and begged to let me change postition. Apparently they were listening in and when the next contraction came and I wasn't happy they said - "ok, do whatever feels better." So I stood by the bed (still connected to monitiors and hubby stood in front of me. I put his arms around his neck and it was actually a nice postition :) He noticed I was bleeding and put some towels on the floor.
The contractions were more intense standing but I think it still felt better then sitting in the bed so we stayed that way. I was totally embarrassed though because with one of the contractions I lost the contents of my bladder and intestines and was worried I was getting stuff on my hubby's shoes. The nurse came in to clean it up. She wasn't very nice and hubby was telling me later about how after the delivery she was mad that the staff wasn't doing their job and was leaving it all for her to do....When we thought back on it we were both disappointed in how they treated us. Maybe it was because I wasn't a first - time mom but we don't think it was very professional. I'll explain more in a bit.
Anyways, the nurse said the doc wanted to give me pitocin and I said I didn't really want pitocin, I remembered the constant contractions and thought what I was going through was painful enough. I was hoping she would come without more meds (and she did). The nurse left, probably to talk with my doc about what to do. I had a hunch it would be over soon so even if I had wanted meds there wouldn't have been a point to ask for them! About 10-15 minutes later I felt her drop.
So I told hubby that she was coming. I literally felt her moving down very quick! He buzzed the nurses and said I was ready to push and the lady very slowly comes in the room and is like "What's going on?" They didn't believe I was ready to have Anna because 30 minutes earlier I was just barely at 5 cm. The lady said to get on the bed and they'd check me - I was having a problem getting on the bed though because I was trying to keep her in! When I tried to lift one leg I promise she was coming out. Hubby told me he thought he was going to have to deliver the baby!
He was mad that with my history of fast labors that they didn't believe I was ready- they were unprepared! When I got on the bed the lady didn't even need to check. Anna's head was there and the nurse was yelling for someone to get the doc and tech quick. Well, they couldn't find my doc and they didnt want me to push! Now of course that is TORTURE waiting. They said they couldn't find my doctor and I was begging them to find her! They brought in the nearest doctor they could find to deliver Anna. Again, they weren't very professional in terms of helping me. They didn't instruct me on how to push. Hubby said he could tell in my face that since I'd been focusing on NOT pushing that I then couldn't remember how to push when it was time! They didn't tell me what to do. I was gripping his hand pretty hard and I saw he was crying. I thought I was hurting him but he told me later it didn't hurt all that much, that he was crying because he didn't want to see me in pain. I was grunting and yelling while pushing - since I didn't really have any other thing to focus on and didn't know how to concentrate on breathing I was using my vocal cords to help get her out...LOL - The nurses didn't say I was doing a good job or anything or what I should do to make pushing easier. They didn't even tell me when her head was out. My hubby looked and told me so that I would know she was coming soon.
And then she was out! My labor was 40 minutes long! I had a 2nd degree tear - not bad for a 8 lb baby. Her apgar scores were 9 and 9. I was so excited to meet her and hold her. After the difficult pregnancy, a previous miscarriage and the contractions I'd had since 16 weeks I was so glad she was safely in my arms. I cried and cried. The nurses and doctor looked at me like I was crazy and asked why I was crying. I think they thought I was a crazy woman or something. I just kept saying I was so happy the pregnancy was over and that she was here. The first time I looked at Anna I said the same thing I said to my other 2 when they were born "Welcome to the family".
Then they took her and weighed her, dried her up, stamped her feet in our baby book and brought her back where I nursed her - and she did very well! The tech kept coming in and pressing hard on my uterus. I didn't remember so much pain in the past with that, but I'd had an epidural with my first. And with my second I got an epidural, but it didn't take effect until AFTER he was born, so maybe it helped with the uterus pain some.
We stayed in the delivery room 2 hours and then went to my room to rest and they took Anna to the nursery for her bath and to be monitored for 2 hours. Then she came back to the room for the rest of the time in the hospital. Our kids really loved getting to meet her that day and they still love when they get a chance to be near her. The hospital kept us for 2 days to monitor for signs of GBS which she didn't have, probably due to antibiotics and the fast labor preventing her being exposed to the bacteria for very long.
She has nursed well most of the time, though we are still trying to figure out sleep times and all that. Plus we both have colds and coughs now and it's making things more miserable for us. But she is a joy to us and we are blessed to get to know her and share her with our friends and family.
I have had some health problems though, which kept me from feeling up to coming back here more frequently...for now, here are some pictures and then I need to go get some sleep soon!
Anna in the hospital
Anna getting sunlight to help with the bilirubin levels.
Anna less then one week old! We'd just gotten home.
Anna and family at 1 week old - on Easter
Ok, Here is a picture from April 11th!
Other pictures I haven't uploaded or edited yet - later I'll show pictures of the kids with her and other neat things! Have a great day!
Marie
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Apr. 3, 2008
I'm a Bad Blogging Friend!!! Baby Update!!!
Ok everyone, I'm typing this fast because the baby is crying in the background. Yep, she's here :)
I'm going to be cruel and make you guys wait just a bit longer....she wants to eat! I've been pretty tired and have been napping as much as I can, so have been bad in not updating y'all on us.
I promise I will come back real soon to share pictures, give you detail and all that! Don't be mad at me ok!
(we are doing well - just so you wont worry in the meantime!)
miss you all lots!!!!
Marie
I'm going to be cruel and make you guys wait just a bit longer....she wants to eat! I've been pretty tired and have been napping as much as I can, so have been bad in not updating y'all on us.
I promise I will come back real soon to share pictures, give you detail and all that! Don't be mad at me ok!
(we are doing well - just so you wont worry in the meantime!)
miss you all lots!!!!
Marie
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Feb. 29, 2008
Quick Update....
The shower was fun. It was smaller then I thought. Several people told me afterwards they didn't know about it but we had a wonderful time. I took Jenna with me and she had fun. We got lots of neat things and are in the process of trying to reorganize the house before baby comes. We are making progress getting things put together, I've been decluttering and have taken many boxes of things to goodwill recently.
Who needs 5 glass pitchers that are tiny and only hold about 3 glasses of water!!!????
Today we went to the Botanical Gardens. Remember the picts I posted last year of the butterfly exhibit? We went again. A butterfly landed on me, here is the picture Jenna got of my belly and the butterfly.
Here is the picture of what it looks like when open - the Blue Morpho Butterfly
I'm not feeling that great so this is short. I think baby might want to come soon. My back hurts and I'm having some sporadic contractions! Thomas was born real fast so I could potentially have our baby before midnight tonight!
Wouldn't a leap day baby be interesting! I have about 3 and 1/2 weeks left. Gotta run get some rest
Marie
Who needs 5 glass pitchers that are tiny and only hold about 3 glasses of water!!!????
Today we went to the Botanical Gardens. Remember the picts I posted last year of the butterfly exhibit? We went again. A butterfly landed on me, here is the picture Jenna got of my belly and the butterfly.
Here is the picture of what it looks like when open - the Blue Morpho Butterfly
I'm not feeling that great so this is short. I think baby might want to come soon. My back hurts and I'm having some sporadic contractions! Thomas was born real fast so I could potentially have our baby before midnight tonight!
Wouldn't a leap day baby be interesting! I have about 3 and 1/2 weeks left. Gotta run get some rest
Marie
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Feb. 14, 2008
Baby Shower
Hi Everyone! I hope you all are well. I've been bad about blogging because I've been trying to do things at home before my life gets turned upside down :)
We are 6 weeks away from the due date!!! Things are going pretty good.
I'm supposed to have a baby shower this weekend through my church - since this will probably be our last baby I was looking forward to how special it would be. Especially with the rough pregnancies I go through. But I've come to find out that one of my good friends won't be there - she's going out of town that week. Another one of my friends didn't know about it because they can only come to the night service at our church.
So then I found out that they didn't make an announcement before the worship service about the shower. In the past few months they've always announced the showers from the pulpit the week before. There were no invitations sent - They only put a message in the church bulletin, which a majority of my friends have admitted to the fact that they rarely read the announcements. So I think it will be a small shower. I'm kinda bummed about it. Is it silly for me to be sad that my friends won't be there to come celebrate my baby?
Well, I'm going to try and not think about it and go start planning our nice family dinner for Valentine's Day today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Marie
We are 6 weeks away from the due date!!! Things are going pretty good.
I'm supposed to have a baby shower this weekend through my church - since this will probably be our last baby I was looking forward to how special it would be. Especially with the rough pregnancies I go through. But I've come to find out that one of my good friends won't be there - she's going out of town that week. Another one of my friends didn't know about it because they can only come to the night service at our church.
So then I found out that they didn't make an announcement before the worship service about the shower. In the past few months they've always announced the showers from the pulpit the week before. There were no invitations sent - They only put a message in the church bulletin, which a majority of my friends have admitted to the fact that they rarely read the announcements. So I think it will be a small shower. I'm kinda bummed about it. Is it silly for me to be sad that my friends won't be there to come celebrate my baby?
Well, I'm going to try and not think about it and go start planning our nice family dinner for Valentine's Day today. I hope you all have a wonderful day!
Marie
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Jan. 24, 2008
Long winded!
I went back and looked at the posts I'd written since July and saw that I really didn't share a lot about the pregnancy while I was so sick...So I've been working on a post about all the things that happened. It's getting longer then I thought it would be! So it will take me a bit longer to finish it. But I will be posting it soon, along with some pictures of my medical supplies and stuff like that.
If you have any questions about what it's like leave a comment or PM me and I will include some of that info in my post, or make a complete separate post. Meanwhile, we are still working on names for our little one but maybe we'll have one soon. I get another ultrasound in a week and a half so I'll post the old pictures before I go to the next one :)
Gotta run do some schooling with Jenna - she's working on her handwriting right now!
Marie
If you have any questions about what it's like leave a comment or PM me and I will include some of that info in my post, or make a complete separate post. Meanwhile, we are still working on names for our little one but maybe we'll have one soon. I get another ultrasound in a week and a half so I'll post the old pictures before I go to the next one :)
Gotta run do some schooling with Jenna - she's working on her handwriting right now!
Marie
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Jan. 21, 2008
My New Best Friend - Another Cool Toy!
So, this is kinda a cool aside...I have 1,111 comments :)
(But don't stop commenting)
On to the topic.............
We actually bought a Hoover steam cleaner around 8 - 9 years ago when we were first married. We usued it every few months over the years and were recently having problems with it....so I'd been probably 6 months without steam cleaning our floor. Well, hubby took the cleaner into a repair store and they said it was completely dead! They recommended he go to the Hoover repair store and talk with them about hte new machines. He said that we had one of the best ones - that Hoover is really good. In fact, the steam cleaner we bought so long ago hasn't changed much.
They made the containers more clear - easier to see the water levels and there is another scrubbing brush moving the carpet around.
Anyways, hubby came home to tell me at the Hoover store one of the steam cleaners was 169.00. I pulled up the info of this one at Lowes and Home Dept and it was normally priced at 239 dollars! SO hubby went back to the repair store and bought it! That is the picture I posted above.
So yesterday I vacuumed our floor with normal vacuum - to get up a lot of the dirt and dog hair - we have one of those cleaning light that goes from red to green when the floor is "clean".
Then I steam cleaned the floor. Prepare to be digusted.....This is what the water looked like when I dumped it into the tub.....
Yuk!!!!!
I should have taken a picture of how BEAUTIFUL my floor looks! All the stains came up. I love my new steam cleaner! I had to share with y'all!
Unfortunately the exertion was too much for me pregnancy wise and I was extremely sick all the rest of the day.
But I sat on the couch enjoying my wonderful clean floor 
If you've thought about getting one I would highly recommend it! Of course as things always go....It happened to be raining that day without me knowing it. When I opened the door and Fido ran in....I had some tiny paw prints on my clean carpet. Sigh.....When the dirt was dry I was able to vacuum most of it up, but it was still annoying!
(edited to change some of the words....I typed up this post several days ago and didn't get around to putting it here)
(But don't stop commenting)
On to the topic.............
We actually bought a Hoover steam cleaner around 8 - 9 years ago when we were first married. We usued it every few months over the years and were recently having problems with it....so I'd been probably 6 months without steam cleaning our floor. Well, hubby took the cleaner into a repair store and they said it was completely dead! They recommended he go to the Hoover repair store and talk with them about hte new machines. He said that we had one of the best ones - that Hoover is really good. In fact, the steam cleaner we bought so long ago hasn't changed much.
They made the containers more clear - easier to see the water levels and there is another scrubbing brush moving the carpet around.
Anyways, hubby came home to tell me at the Hoover store one of the steam cleaners was 169.00. I pulled up the info of this one at Lowes and Home Dept and it was normally priced at 239 dollars! SO hubby went back to the repair store and bought it! That is the picture I posted above.
So yesterday I vacuumed our floor with normal vacuum - to get up a lot of the dirt and dog hair - we have one of those cleaning light that goes from red to green when the floor is "clean".
Then I steam cleaned the floor. Prepare to be digusted.....This is what the water looked like when I dumped it into the tub.....
Yuk!!!!!
I should have taken a picture of how BEAUTIFUL my floor looks! All the stains came up. I love my new steam cleaner! I had to share with y'all!
Unfortunately the exertion was too much for me pregnancy wise and I was extremely sick all the rest of the day.
But I sat on the couch enjoying my wonderful clean floor If you've thought about getting one I would highly recommend it! Of course as things always go....It happened to be raining that day without me knowing it. When I opened the door and Fido ran in....I had some tiny paw prints on my clean carpet. Sigh.....When the dirt was dry I was able to vacuum most of it up, but it was still annoying!
(edited to change some of the words....I typed up this post several days ago and didn't get around to putting it here)
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Jan. 19, 2008
My Weekend
Hi. these last few days have been busy and tiring for me. I've been working hard at home, trying to catch up on things and do school and other normal things too. I'm getting over a cold and cough. I've also been pretty emotional these last few days, so I'm drained. I will come back on monday and post - I just can't motivate myself to write much right now!
Marie
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Jan. 16, 2008
Schooling Update
So how is school going for all of you? I really haven't been keeping up very well. We took a long break while I was sick. Every now and again I read some stories to Jenna and Thomas on a good day...A couple days we asked our nanny to read some stories to them - though we didn't ask her to quiz them on comprehension or such - it was mainly just to keep them interested in books.
Well, in November I picked up the school again and did good for a couple weeks and then ended up slowing down again. I'd hoped to finish the school year in March before the baby came and take a couple months off before starting her next year - we usually school through the year. Well, it seems I won't be making that goal...not with needing to do taxes and catch up on how terrible our house looks right now. My goal is to go room by room and reorganize and get rid of things we don't use and make systems that work better for everything else. Trying to do that and school and normal house stuff (and some crafts too) will probably mean that I will be able to make progress in all the areas but not actually complete anything!
SO - last fall when we were all starting new school years I had intended to post this pdf file I found on the web of encouraging Bible verses.....I never got around to it since we had so much going on back then.....
But now is as good a time as any right? Especially since it's a new year and most of us are looking around and trying to figure out what we can do to improve our situation, emotional and physical health, etc....
So here is the encouragement for us.....
I will keep you posted on my progress in all the things we have going on here. I hope so far this New Year has been filled with many blessings for you!
Marie
Well, in November I picked up the school again and did good for a couple weeks and then ended up slowing down again. I'd hoped to finish the school year in March before the baby came and take a couple months off before starting her next year - we usually school through the year. Well, it seems I won't be making that goal...not with needing to do taxes and catch up on how terrible our house looks right now. My goal is to go room by room and reorganize and get rid of things we don't use and make systems that work better for everything else. Trying to do that and school and normal house stuff (and some crafts too) will probably mean that I will be able to make progress in all the areas but not actually complete anything!
SO - last fall when we were all starting new school years I had intended to post this pdf file I found on the web of encouraging Bible verses.....I never got around to it since we had so much going on back then.....
But now is as good a time as any right? Especially since it's a new year and most of us are looking around and trying to figure out what we can do to improve our situation, emotional and physical health, etc....
So here is the encouragement for us.....
I will keep you posted on my progress in all the things we have going on here. I hope so far this New Year has been filled with many blessings for you!
Marie
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So since I didn't blog for months there's a lot of cool stuff I did that I'd like to share with y'all. Then there is the health updates and cool stuff going on now....
So - my plan is to post past stuff every other day. In the between days I will post current stuff. Will that confuse y'all???
Yesterday I posted Thomas' Birthday party that was in August - if you didn't see that post go read it and look at the cool pictures :) I assume since I haven't blogged in awhile you have forgotten about me and might not know I've posted more over the past week. So don't forget to look at those and keep in mind I'll be posting lots of info and pictures, trying to catch up!!!
So right now I am 30 weeks! Can you believe I'm in the last trimester!!!!
Here is the official countdown ticker.
So, anyways....I have to share my cool story of what happened last week...Consumer Reports says you shouldn't use a carseat after it's older then 6 years. Ours was - so I was realizing we probably needed to buy a new one. They are pretty expensive though and I'd hoped we could find one of the new infant car seats to strap into our old stroller. I was pricing things, doing research on how expensive things are for car seats, changing tables (we don't have one) and other things. We have a wonderful working crib and baby swing (though I wish they'd made them without the bar over the top 7 years ago when we bought Jenna's.) I checked ebay to see what used things were selling for. I would never buy a used car seat though - I'm not comfortable with that.
So I checked craigs list for our town and found lots of good deals for baby items......
Do you want to see what I bought?????
Do you want to know how much I got it for??????
a 6 piece crib set - the dust ruffle, fitted sheet, quilt, bumper, window valance and diaper stacker!
This collapsable stroller (only needs one hand!) It's much smaller then our old one - which I didn't want to have to upgrade, but the new carseat wouldn't strap into the old one...I was going to take the old stroller to a used clothing store that takes clothes and baby gear. I do that often and get more stuff for the kids and me....Well the stroller strap was broken so they wouldn't take the stroller. Goodwill took it though. Someone could easily fix the stap.
And I got this car seat. All these items were still in their original box - unopened!!! This was a small baby store that had gone out of business. They moved all the unsold items to a warehouse and listed them on craigs list.
I had contacted them about looking at the items, but didn't hear from them for a couple days. While I was waiting to set up a time to go look at the items they sold out of this stroller, that matched the carseat.
I was kinda bummed that they didn't get back to me quicker, but it worked out fine. The stroller we got is nice, is even smaller then our first stroller and doesn't clash with the carseat (though for the price I don't exactly think I'd mind much if it did)
We have a pretty good baby bathtub that I think I can find the pieces too - and a walker and such, but our bouncer broke so we will probably get a new/used one of those.
Our only big purchase I'm trying to figure out how we can afford is this: (it's 120 dollars)
It's the changing table that converts to a desk!!!!!!! So by the time the baby starts potty training we will be able to convert it to a desk for Jenna to do her school work at! I like that it has an open area under it where we can put the diaper pail, and maybe the laundry hamper too. Isn't it pretty! And cheap compared to other changing tables - we just have limited funds with grad school and are trying to figure out how to make it happen....maybe they will mark it on clearance soon - (it's an online only purchase so I'll just keep looking every few days I guess)
At any rate - did I ever tell you that we are having a girl? I'm not sure what I've posted over the past few months. I will post ultrasound picts soon. We are working on names right now....back to the post though -
So brand new the crib set, stroller and car seat would cost:
430 dollars
I got those items (UNUSED - UNOPENED) for............................
150 dollars!!!!
I hope the store is able to sell all of their items. I am just glad I was willing to check online and go check out the warehouse. They had great stuff there! So at least we are a little prepared in case baby comes early!
Gotta run, it's lunchtime here - I'll try to be back tomorrow!
Marie
Jan. 15, 2008
New and Old....Baby Info included :)
So since I didn't blog for months there's a lot of cool stuff I did that I'd like to share with y'all. Then there is the health updates and cool stuff going on now....
So - my plan is to post past stuff every other day. In the between days I will post current stuff. Will that confuse y'all???
Yesterday I posted Thomas' Birthday party that was in August - if you didn't see that post go read it and look at the cool pictures :) I assume since I haven't blogged in awhile you have forgotten about me and might not know I've posted more over the past week. So don't forget to look at those and keep in mind I'll be posting lots of info and pictures, trying to catch up!!!
So right now I am 30 weeks! Can you believe I'm in the last trimester!!!!
Here is the official countdown ticker.
So, anyways....I have to share my cool story of what happened last week...Consumer Reports says you shouldn't use a carseat after it's older then 6 years. Ours was - so I was realizing we probably needed to buy a new one. They are pretty expensive though and I'd hoped we could find one of the new infant car seats to strap into our old stroller. I was pricing things, doing research on how expensive things are for car seats, changing tables (we don't have one) and other things. We have a wonderful working crib and baby swing (though I wish they'd made them without the bar over the top 7 years ago when we bought Jenna's.) I checked ebay to see what used things were selling for. I would never buy a used car seat though - I'm not comfortable with that.
So I checked craigs list for our town and found lots of good deals for baby items......
Do you want to see what I bought?????
Do you want to know how much I got it for??????
a 6 piece crib set - the dust ruffle, fitted sheet, quilt, bumper, window valance and diaper stacker!
This collapsable stroller (only needs one hand!) It's much smaller then our old one - which I didn't want to have to upgrade, but the new carseat wouldn't strap into the old one...I was going to take the old stroller to a used clothing store that takes clothes and baby gear. I do that often and get more stuff for the kids and me....Well the stroller strap was broken so they wouldn't take the stroller. Goodwill took it though. Someone could easily fix the stap.
And I got this car seat. All these items were still in their original box - unopened!!! This was a small baby store that had gone out of business. They moved all the unsold items to a warehouse and listed them on craigs list.
I had contacted them about looking at the items, but didn't hear from them for a couple days. While I was waiting to set up a time to go look at the items they sold out of this stroller, that matched the carseat.
I was kinda bummed that they didn't get back to me quicker, but it worked out fine. The stroller we got is nice, is even smaller then our first stroller and doesn't clash with the carseat (though for the price I don't exactly think I'd mind much if it did)
We have a pretty good baby bathtub that I think I can find the pieces too - and a walker and such, but our bouncer broke so we will probably get a new/used one of those.
Our only big purchase I'm trying to figure out how we can afford is this: (it's 120 dollars)
It's the changing table that converts to a desk!!!!!!! So by the time the baby starts potty training we will be able to convert it to a desk for Jenna to do her school work at! I like that it has an open area under it where we can put the diaper pail, and maybe the laundry hamper too. Isn't it pretty! And cheap compared to other changing tables - we just have limited funds with grad school and are trying to figure out how to make it happen....maybe they will mark it on clearance soon - (it's an online only purchase so I'll just keep looking every few days I guess)
At any rate - did I ever tell you that we are having a girl? I'm not sure what I've posted over the past few months. I will post ultrasound picts soon. We are working on names right now....back to the post though -
So brand new the crib set, stroller and car seat would cost:
430 dollars
I got those items (UNUSED - UNOPENED) for............................
150 dollars!!!!
I hope the store is able to sell all of their items. I am just glad I was willing to check online and go check out the warehouse. They had great stuff there! So at least we are a little prepared in case baby comes early!
Gotta run, it's lunchtime here - I'll try to be back tomorrow!
Marie
