Today would have been

Today would have been the day we found out if it was a Sammy or if it was a Hannah.

So instead of going to my 20 week ultrasound; my half day off of work will  being spent shopping for the menu for my sisters baby shower this weekend. I might get some shoe shopping in too.

Here's a picture of my cute nephew, Brady, who at 13 months is practicing his tight rope walking skills in the port a crib. This is what he does instead of sleeping at my house.. but alas he's not screaming & eventually will fall asleep on his own.

This is my nephew Ethan's snowman-- he made it all by himself. That's how independent 3 year olds roll..

Not easy

We found out last week, that our little peanut was a boy. We named him Samuel  (Sammy).

I have been having very vivid dreams with my dad in them. He's was joking before we named Sammy, that we'd better pick a name soon, or he'd make up a "good" nickname for him. ( we all had nicknames that only my dad called us growing up). It sounds like my dad is taking good care of Sammy.

Thankfully the testing they did, came back with no genetic abnormalities that we have to be worried about in the future & no chromosone issues.  So our fine doctor says: "we don't know".  He started into this speech about how he's so sorry, that we don't have a definitive reason WHY you miscarried, but that the good thing is of the bad things that could have caused it, didn't. I told him, in my lifetime, it's just another "thing" that I will have to trust God knows what he is doing. He tried to go on & on, to make me feel better, I told the doc; I get it, I accept it, so lets move forward. I told him I have had many!! things happen for unknown reasons, so this will be just another to add to the list. 

So he set the timeline of March 1. to start taking medication again, if I don't start a cycle on my own. I haven't had an unmedicated cycle in about a year prior to conceiving.  Surprisingly AF started this weekend ! Although this guy is not the Na.Pro doc, so I'm not sure when/if I need to check w/ the Na.Pro doc to see if he recommends anything different.  We'll see how this plays out in the next month.

Jury Duty !!

I had the pleasure, to serve our judicial system, last week.

There were about 200 people in the jury pool. I got picked randomly, but immediately after listening to the jury instructions for the day. We were marched to the court room on the 3rd floor. We were introduced as the jury pool to the case. My juror # was not called initially, but as people were excused. I eventually made it to an open spot on the jury & they asked me a couple of questions & were satisfied w/ their jury.. I thought to myself Oh NO! What did I get myself into.

I spent the next 2 days, listening to testimony & evidence in a Civil case, from an automobile/injury case. We live in a NO-Fault state, so we weren't determining fault. We were only to determine did this passenger (plantiff) in the automobile, sustain injuries in the accident or  were her supposed injuries result from something else. If we felt she was injured in the accident, we were to put a monetary value on her Emotional damage, Embarrasement, Lack of Enjoyment in Hobbies, and Lack of "Wifely" duties.

After listening to testimony & questioning thru interpretors( she didn't speak english). We the jury found that her "injury" was not a cause of the minor car accident.

When the jurors were allowed to talk among ourselves about the case, everyone had different stories to relate to not being able to do this or that, because of something, but never did we dream of suing anyone for it.  I never spoke up about IF, but I thought long and hard, about what monetary value, could we put on IF. Thank goodness we never got to the point in the case of having to assign a value to her Emotional damage, Embarassement, Lack of enjoyment & wifely duties. But if I had to put a value on IF. that would be hard. Would it be more for emotional damage, embarrasement, lack of various things??

Our Christmas Gift to us

In early December we worked on re-doing our master bedroom. When we moved in many years ago, we never really did anything to the room.  So we finally painted, the walls, installed floors and finally hung pictures on the wall.  The walls are " dune" from Val.spar. and the trim is craft white from them also. We finished this early in December, but life got busy & I didn't get to downloading pictures til now.

at this point the walls were painted & we were installing floors.

 

 

 I love this rug.

 

 

Hallway before & after.

 

 

 finally a picture of us on the walls in our bedroom.

baking

I was feeling very.. "auntie" ish over the Christmas break. So I invited 2 of my nieces over to make cookies & sweets for the snow plow drivers, and for the family Christmas party the next day.

 

They had a blast.. but after about an hour tuckered out very quickly & vegged out on the couch while things were in the oven. (kid 2 is hidden in the sherpa blankie -- I will agree it is very comfy)

We made Fudgy brownies, Chocolate cookies with M-n-M's , and  magic bars. The moms enjoyed the afternoon with 2 less kids running around grandma's house.

and let the Race begin

Tonight begins crazy week.

I am thankful we are off from CCD for another week, although I just got an e-mail that the boiler went out at church, so there would have been no class.

The monkeys, arrive tonight, to stay until Thursday. Mommy has to travel to a warm destination.. we are all kinda jealous.. Well I am. The boys like the snow..
I have a cute picture of them in the snow.. but b.logger won't let me upload any of them.

I have a notice to appear for jury duty tomorrow.. ( well I hope my # doesn't get picked )
If it does, It will be an early morning & the monkeys will likely be traveling in PJ's.  I live on the west side, have to drive the monkeys to the east side to go to the North to Jury Duty.. Tomorrow is one of those days I wish I drank coffee.. ( Note, Dr.'s office is North of me. very close to JD ) they however don't have any openings till nexxt week... Arrrghhh !

If I get any pictures to upload I'll try to put them in soon.

could you say a prayer

My dear father in law, had surgery yesterday. He had tumors removed from his kidney. (they took the bad part of half a kidney). We were lead to believe it was going to be minor surgery & he would be home the following day after surgery.


Not the case.  Hopefully he might come home Sunday. He made it up out of bed & was walking a very short distance today. We went to visit, and he did not look good, he was just eating his first soft food meal tonight, also he's been complaining of pain when he eats. He  is super drousy and he is in a lot of pain  & they are having a rough time controlling his blood pressure, blood sugar, and pain meds.  My mother in law is staying at the hospital w/ him, cuz she feels she needs to be his "advocate". I honestly think she needs to go home & let the doctors & nurses do their jobs for the night & herself get a good nights sleep & he might too.   She is very bad w/ the medical terminology & over dramatizes situations. Lets just say, we got a frightening call yesterday & were freaked out, cuz she said he flatlined.. well aparently she doesn't know what that means & thought that could be used interchangable for his blood pressure was low.

Please pray for his quick recovery & speedy return home.

**UPDATE** still not headed home, they are doing an x-ray this morning to find out if he has a blockage somewhere.. long story short, he should have passed a lot of gas/air yesterday & hasn't.  So they need to find out where it all is hiding.. + he has to have a blood transfusion, cuz he has lost too much blood. He is in a lot of pain..

Baby shower ideas.. anyone ?

Yeah.. so if you've been following my story. You'll know that I just suffered a miscarriage. My little sister, is preggo, & due a month before I was. She is coming home the first of February for her baby shower. ( she lives on the East Coast now ) She is having a little girl.

My other sisters consider me to be the creative one. ( well normally I am ) but not really feeling it right now..

You understand !! I knew you would, you get the whole miscarriage thing!

Well I (me & the other 2 sisters) have to throw the baby shower.. Invitations were ordered ( i don't know what they look like , except they said they are grey w/ pink& purple on them )

Okay! Anyone have any cute, unusual or trendy baby shower ideas..  it will be 2 weeks before valentines day too(if that gives you any extra ideas).   So i'm looking for decorations, favors, games, gifts for the shower guests, food suggestions.. ( it's a 2pm shower).  If it were up to me ( and in the next week, i'd be ordering mc.donalds & slapping some stickers on a bath & bo.dy works soap & calling it a day) But I know she deserves more, I just don't have any creative juices right now.

The last shower I hosted, it was in the summer & we had an array of fresh salads. mini sandwiches. lemonade & iced tea..cup cakes & lots of desserts.  The room was decorated w/ little baby clothes on a clothes line. Everyone took home " teas" that said a baby is brewing, - - - - ya da ya da.  the tables had flowers on them. the people who won games, got big gift baskets of summer stuff.

Thanks for your ideas in advance..