Random and miscellaneous thoughts...

I just got stung three times by a bee.  OUCH!   This must be the year of the bee or something.   I haven't been stung in years...and this is my fourth time this summer. 

We have/had a ice cream bucket full of fresh plums.  My moms was giving 'em away as their rotting.  Wish I'd known we would of filled up sooner.  My kids LOOOOOOVE plums.   The had part is cause its already half empty.  *snicker*   I did mention they liked them right?

Visited with my mom for a few minutes before she had to run my brother to the doctor.   My brother whose currently living elsewhere.  He has just been diagnosed with high blood pressure.....at the ripe old age of 17.   Somehow knowing his personality it just really doesn't suprise me.  So I believe their running more tests to find out why.  

Zeria is of the age where she's realizing everybody isn't perfect.   And she really, really, really doesn't like it when people (her older siblings included)  are "mean".   J'dai my youngest sibling who is 10.....is umm mentally a bit slow.  Not tons just a bit.   And we all tend to loose patience with her at times.

Well today J'dai was up to her stunts and Brittany wouldn't help her.  (My 14 year old sister).  Zeria thought that wasn''t very nice.  And couldn't talk about nothing else all the way home.    I'm teaching Zeria that its okay to stand-up for others, and say "Brittany, your not being nice."     Of course this is supposed to be said in as tactful a way as possible   ROFL     Zeria has been trained ad-nauseum to take care of her younger siblings, and just can't fathom anybody else being mean to their siblings.  Apparently I've done at least one parenting thing right.     Of course this doesn't include spatting with Samuel.  Samuel's okay to spat with he's only 10 months younger then her.  *snicker*  And EVERYBODY spats with him occasionally...its in his nature.

Anyhow its intresting watching her realize the people she idolized aren't perfect after all.......

Good morning

Its beautiful outside.  No clouds, blue sky...just wonderful. 

I have some zucchini to deliver to my sister, and some pictures to deliver to my mom.   I can drive without it hurting.  And then I'll find a nice lawn chair at one of their houses and visit for awhile.  *snicker*

Okay so I've slightly modified bedrest....but as long as the contractions stay at bay tis okay.

Last night was wonderful.   Rob lit a loverly campfire and we sat around it and stared at it for hours.   The kids played hide & seek, and visited, and through "poppers" on the fire.  (cedar needles that popped when they hit the fire.)   Just rather idyllic.

No pictures....was entirely too comfortable on my lawn chair to bother with the camera.

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Parenting dilema.  I'm so sick of night time.  My kids will NOT NOT NOT stay in bed.  Every night we fight the battle for several hours.  Last night was no exception.   I've tried every creative means known to man to convince Sam and Jamari they have to be quiet at bedtime.  Any other ideas?

And we upped their bedtime by almost 2 hours thinking that would help...nope just made it worse...cause now we're fighting them until 11 pm.  *sigh* 

I was talking with Munchkin Mommy and she has similar problems.  *growls*  Is it a boy thing?    My brother and sister and I, just stayed in bed.  We *knew* what would happen if we got out.    The boys know...and just don't care.    *GROWLS*   This has got to stop.   Sam is 6...we've been fighting this battle since we moved him out of the crib at 2.5.       Its such a lovely battle. 

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Okay other then that life moves on.  Have a great day all

Good morning

Went for a adventure yesterday.   I could lay/sit in the van so wasn't stressing my body.  And then about a 50 foot walk from the car and we watched the salmon spawning in the Sol-Duc River.  It was a lot of fun.   And I have one or two pictures.   

Oh yes and just for kicks.   The last time we were here?  Well it was awhile ago.  And we took a similar picture on the same rock. 

I have no idea why Zeria's crying in that picture.  *giggles*  But hey its fun to look baaaaaaaaaack.   Ya know like 2.5 kids ago.   Because I do believe I was preggers back then too.  (of course)

Anyhow last night the contractions came back.  And this after I'd spent many hours laying very still.  (go figure)   But their gone again now.  So one step at a time.   They were nasty last night.  Okay they just plain scared me, but the ibuprofen worked well, so this is a VERY good thing.

I got a phone call last night from a friend whom I met first online.  Theirs a scheme in the works for some property thats only about a mile from my house.....it sure would be nice if the scheme worked.  It would mean work for my dad, and a very close fun neighbour.   I'll try not to dream tooooooo much.  But it WOULD be nice. 

On that note its time to turn tv off and go to church.  And pray that I don't pay for going and sitting down.    There's a nice soft rocking chair with foot stool.  I'm planning on walking in sitting down and not moving.   That's bedrest right?????

Good afternoon

Quiet day today.  Quiet is good.  *nods*   Went for breaky by myself thats bedrest right???    Well it was restful.  And I had no contractions all morning, so this was very very nice.  

Did about 6 more scrapbook pages today, and took a long nap.  Talk about laaaaaaaaazy.

Kids and Rob built a campfire and roasted hot dogs and apples.  Yes apples.   I didn't taste 'em.  They informed me they were very good.  I'll take their word for it.

Tonight's date night and we're gonna go spend money.  I sold our pony yesterday.   And the money's burning holes in my pockets.  *snicker*   We sold it due to my kids not taking care of it, and us not having a proper fence for it.  The lady who got it is a major horse nut, and I've known her since she was ummm 6?    Its for her 3 year old son.  The pony will be well treated.  (Okay spoiled rotten )

Anyhow gonna go spend the money on a infant car seat.  The one that serviced Kaylin and Rainee DIED.    And a portable baby swing.   I've been drooling over them, but couldn't justify it.  And now I can.  There actually only $39 at Walmart right now.  There basically bouncy seat size, but work as a swing.   I will be ditching the bouncy seat we have.  *cheers*   I'm so sick of storing baby furniture.  LOL

Aren't those exciting purchases?????   I think I'm gonna use one of the Walmart wheelchair thingys......it would be much easier on the contractions. 

DH has left to go get the baby sitter.  so off I get.  ta-ta for now!

Decisions;

I was in so much pain this morning due to contractions I couldn't make the decision to take pain killer.

How's that for a quandry.  The reason being of course.  I know that theoretically ibuprofen is safe.  It *is* a labor-slowing drug.  But who knows what its going to prove to cause to newborns tomorrow, or the next day.

And I have a child with significant birth defects.  Did I cause that?

So I sucked up the pain until I was in tears.  And finally asked Rob to make the decision for me.  He handed me the ibuprofen.   He doesn't like watching pain.

Lets just say I was an emotional pregnant mommy and leave it at that.  Most of the time I can push aside Rainee's birth, and 18 months afterwards of hell away.     But sometimes the monster lurks up in the shadows trying to rule my life.     I can't and won't live in fear.

God gave me this life.  And if its another Rainee.....may he or she smile so broadly, and be as entertaining as he or she's big sister.  

And in the meantime I can't cry for the next 6 weeks.   And I will be if I have to deal with the pain.  I have to function as a parent.  

And someone please remind me of this blog when the decision is made after the baby is born for my husband to get the V.  ROFL

Its always so easy to say I'm done having babies when I'm preggers.  But afterwards....afterwards I start craving a baby pretty dang quickly. 

My midwifes will both be purposefully attending this birth.   They wish to prevent the whole drama of calling the ER doctor up to stop my hemoraghing.

I hemoraghed with Kaylin as well...but it was shift change and Debbie wanted to stay and see the baby born as I was pushing.  So when I began to hemorage they were both there.

Rainee was born at 11:19 at night.   Mary was on her own, and it sucked rather badly to say the least. 

So they are planning to purposely do this birth together...it will be the first time in their three years of working together they've done this.  LOL

Of course...its me. 

Mary asked if she could put my birth up as a request for her prayer group.   That was a easy answer. 

On that note.  Mary has said I'm not allowed to have the baby the 6th of November as her son is getting married then.   Debbie has said I'm not allowed to have it on the 18th as thats'  her birthday.   So there ya have it 7th-17th is safe.  ROFL

Oh God please don't let me go overdue......I haven't yet.  PLEEEEEEEASE!!!!!

And thats the meanderings from a officially insane pregant lady.....

Ghost pictures.

I did umm 6 pages of scrapbooking yesterday.  And a LOT of organizing.    Just as I was feeling cocky thinking I had almost finished the year 2000 (for me)  Each of my kids have a book for themselves and their caught up through 2002.    Anyhow I was getting excited, only 4 more pictures or so.....and then I found about 30 more pictures filed in the wrong place.

*shrugs*  It'll keep me busy right?

Anyhow back to ghost pictures.  Why do I keep taking pictures out of photo albums????   Ya know to scan, or to show somebody, or to loan for a picture-montage for some thing or another special event.   Gah!  Its taken me 2 hours of putting ghost pictures back into supposedly finished photo albums.  And I have at least another hour to go........and its BORING.  LOL

At least their all divided back into the photo albums and stuck inside the front cover.  I promised myself today I could scrapbook.  The organizing bug I had yesterday is DDDDDDONE!   And another day I'll finish that last photo album of pictures that have "ghosts."

This morning was rather busy.  Midwife apointment for me, Rob's first p/t apointment.  Rob has three p/t apointments a week for the next month.  I'm soooooooo looking forward to fitting that into our schedule.  (NOT!)

Midwife baby's doing great.  She relaxed the bedrest a bit.   But I think I'll continue on about what I'm doing.   I just don't like pain much.    And every time I get moving the pain comes back to be my friend. 

But I did sneak to Walmart and JoAnn's for a few minutes before and after my apointment to stock up on Scrapbooking supplies.  As per usual I stocked up a bit more then I needed.  It just jumped into my cart honest.  ROFL......

But the big fun score was this HUGE book of background papers.  Probably 100 pages of different colored paper.  NICE backgrounds for $20.   It seems like a bit to spend, but paper adds up very quickly, and the variety in this book is MUCH nicer then I usually get.

Has anybody used vellum in scrapbooking?  I bought a little bit to experiment, but am kinda frustrated in the cutting of it.   Scissors?  Razorblade?  What?   I suppose straight scissors might work better.  I tried using my edging scissors and that was SO not successful. 

I have a page I'd love to scan, but its too big for my scanner.  It turned out really cute.  Its Kaylin in a Whinnie-the-Pooh outfit at about 6 months of age.    I remembered it was one I was doing and found some very cute Whinnie stickers.  *grin*    It was *ahem* a fairly spendy page.

On pay-day I'll get printers ink and can do a few more cheaper pages.  As I like to do my titles for pages on the computer.  

So that's my life....one big long scrapbook.  *grin*   Actually its kind of fun to get into again.  Especially now that I have a set-up where I'm comfortable, and things can be left out.  Oh and my kids know to NOT NOT NOT NOT TOUCH.   They think that all the cutting stamps and scissors are very cool.  But I'm just not gonna share.   So there. 

Although I *might* let one child at a time do one page for their book on their own.   But I'm gonna have to be feeling very, very, very patient when the time comes.  *snicker*  HMMMM how about I let them stay up when the rest of the munchies go to bed and do it then?  It would cure the whole Rainee wanting to do it thing.  She just doesn't accept that she's only 2 and can't do everything.....

Oh and on a none-scrap booking note.  I have as many apples on my trees as Zanzivou has tomatoes.   The kids brought 2 HUGE buckets in to me yesterday.   I sat and used my new e-bay toy.   (A pampered chef peeler/corer slicer.)     The results were one 9x13 apple crumble to eat.   2 zippie bags full of apples for 2 more in the freezer.     I like my new toy a lot.    Although I had to call my sister to figure it out....its well worth the purchase.    And I did that while laying in my recliner.  LOL    With the kids totally thrilled by how it worked.  They each took a turn, even Rainee....which of course slowed the process down greatly.  But hey they contributed to our fall harvesting so it doesn't matter. 

Got this in e-mail from Daylesmilk.   Thought it was priceless....can relate.  Although Rob is not NEARLY this bad....3 bedrests will cure a lot of things.  *snigger*

(Notes pinned to the pillow of a mother who has the flu by
her well-meaning husband.)

Monday A.M.
Dearest: Sleep late.  Everything under control.  Lunches
packed.  Kids off to school.  Menu for dinner planned.
Your lunch is on a tray in refrigerator: fruit cup,
finger-sandwiches.  Thermos of hot tea by bedside.  See
you around six.

Tuesday A.M.
Honey: Sorry about the egg rack in the refrigerator. Hope
you got back to sleep.  Did the kids tell you about the
Coke I put in the Thermoses?  The school might call you on
this. Dinner may be a little late.  I'm doing your
door-to-door canvas for liver research. Your lunch is in
refrigerator.  Hope you like leftover chili.

Wednesday A.M.
Dear Doris: Why in the name of all that is sane would you
put soap powder in the flour canister!  If you have time,
could you please come up with a likely spot for Chris's
missing shoes?  We've checked the clothes hamper, garage,
back seat of the car and wood box. Did you know the school
has a ruling on bedroom slippers?  There's some cold pizza
for you on a napkin in the oven drawer.  Will be late
tonight.  Driving eight Girl Scouts to tour meatpacking
house.

Thursday A.M.
Doris: Don't panic over water in hallway.  It crested last
night at 9 P.M.  Will finish laundry tonight.  Please
pencil in answers to following:
1. How do you turn on the garbage disposal?
2. Why would that rotten kid leave his shoes in his boots?
3. How do you remove a Confederate flag inked on the palm
of a small boy's hand?
4. What do you do with leftovers when they begin to snap
at you when you open the door?  I don't know what you're
having for lunch!  Surprise me!

Friday A.M.
Hey: Don't drink from pitcher by the sink.  Am trying to
restore pink dress shirt to original white.  Take heart.
Tonight, the ironing will be folded, the house cleaned and
the dinner on time.  I called your mother.

Good morning

Getting set up for the next month.  Rob brought a desk out and placed it next to the recliner/rocking chair my mom donated to my cause.  Its a old lazy boy.  And extremely comfortable.  It had been in my grandma's house, but was my moms.   With the desk set up  I can begin my pregnancy project that is apparently tradition.   

Each pregnancy while on bed-rest I get all my scrapbooking caught up.   

Have been collecting stickers, etc.  So now that he offered me the very small school desk to put stuff on I'm prepped.

Contractions are still being a bugger.  Although they completely stopped last night while in bed.  *cheers*    Its beautiful today, so I think I will spend some time out on the swinging hammock as well.  But am currently waiting until the sun hits it.  I've been sitting upright too long, and need to get flat soon.  

Although I did manage to get online long enough to realize Shutterfly is having a buy one calendar get the second half off thing.    As this is what the grandparents and great-grandparents get for Christmas each year.  I was psyched.  I had already "made" the calendars.  (13 digital pictures of my family)   So I went ahead and ordered them.   *score*

I am shopping early this year, planning on being flat for awhile AFTER the baby is born as well.   

Other then that I'm already tired of being flat.....Although I seem to recall the first three days are always the worst.  And then I just resign myself to it.....

Morning!

Its been a bed-kind of weekend.   The contractions I mentioned on my last blog.  Reappeared Saturday.  And wouldn't go away.  They were strong and consistent.  Finally at 5 in the evening I called my midwife and spent the next 3 hours at the hospital getting tests.  

My cervix is soft, but no dialation.  I passed all the tests.   But am in a fair amount of pain.  So the baby's safe...I'm just miserable.  I'm officially on bed-rest.  Not the modified kind.      So my internet time is stolen minutes.    

I'm taking 800 mg of ibuprofen every 6 hours in an attempt to keep the pain at bay, and slow the contractions down.  I've so been here done this before.    Coming after a three and a half week break of no contractions however was a TON discouraging.  

I'm watching the kids by myself.   Their old enough to "help" with meals etc.   And the mid-wife is okay with me being up for a few minutes at a time.   PBJ's are about to become our friends.  LOL   Actually the kids can also do ramen, mac & cheeze, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets.   *snicker*     So we won't starve.  Just get rather tired of kid fare. 

I have chicken chimichangas hiding for me in the freezer as "real" food.  

The baby at the moment is taking priority.  I hope to sneak onto the boards a few minutes now and then.  But at the first contraction I'm disappearing...........So I beg everybody's endulgance.

Good news is baby is quite safe.   But we'd all rather it stay inside for at least 5 more weeks.   Good news is I've done this with each of my pregnancies so its "normal."   But at the same time the contractions WERE registering on the monitors.  The nurses could feel them.  I'm not making em up.    And we don't want to encourage them.....

Prayers as always are appreciated.

Good afternoon

Had a lovely nap.   I needed it badly.  My contractions after a months reprieve started last night.   (HARD!)  It happened on my short-walk with my kids last night.  They were so bad I laid on the lawn unable to get to the house as I rode one out.     So I'm taking it easy today...which is good its my birthday LOL.   They then started up again this morning on the way back home.  So I'm gonna be good...honest.

We did however go for a lovely drive up to Hurricane Ridge...and Obstruction Point.   Didn't take a ton of pictures....I've been frustrated with my camera and how they've been turning out recently.  But here's a couple.

Was really hoping this picture would show how pregnant I look...Instead I just look even fatter then normal.  *snicker*   Oh well....it shows my purdy coat, and my purdy kids.    And my 30 week pregnant body.

I guess I'll have to get Rob to take a side-profile.........everybody assures me I look pregnant these days.  *snicker*

And more pretty munchkins. 

And one last picy of this fellow a marmot that we found lookin' at us.  He of course didn't want me to take a picture.  So this is as close as I could get with the zoom lense, and takin' baby steps.   He was my kids high point of the trip.