Remember this post of mine about baby Harper who had some serious complications at birth? Well now read this post!! Baby Harper got to go home last night after almost a month in the hospital! She is doing so great and she is the cutest little baby! The power of prayer really works and it just amazes me how God uses all things for His glory. Since Kelly has been posting about this whole situation on her blog, TWO people have come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior! How great is that? I'm so thankful that Harper is home now!
I can't wait to have a baby. I yearn for it. I dream about being pregnant. I really hope and pray that we get pregnant quickly after we start trying. I feel that things in my life are being put in line for me to have support for infertility. I love reading infertility blogs and hearing the stories of these amazing girls that have been trying to conceive for years and are going through IUI's and IVF. And just last week, our church started an infertility Bible Study and support group. AND we just had a couple join our Bible Study class that were 22 weeks pregnant and lost their baby. Why are all of these things coming up now, when we are about to start trying for a baby? Is God trying to prepare me for infertility? I really hope not and I hope I am just reading too much into this. I have read so many books on fertility and pregnancy. I am trying to be so prepared and in control, like I always am, and I just feel like God is going to use this time to teach me some sort of lesson. I just don't know what. And it scares the crap out of me! My Mom got pregnant with me and my sister the first month she tried, my sister got pregnant the first time she tried with one of her kid's, one was an accident and she got pregnant with the other ON bc pills! The women in my family are extremely fertile, so I've always assumed I would be to. I'm just trying to figure out why all of this infertility stuff is showing it's face everywhere I turn.
Ok sorry for the rant. Obviously I had a lot on my chest and I didn't even know it was there! And to update you on the stroller, after April and I looked at it a bit closer, it wasn't very soft. The sides were actually pretty hard and not what I want my newborn in! And I'm really trying to NOT buy anything baby until I actually GET pregnant! Happy Friday everyone!
Friday, February 6, 2009
Baby Harper and some ramblings
Why I love my husband
Last night I received several texts from MckMama's tweeter. Three of them were from 9:00-11:00pm. Brad's response this morning was, "If Miss Mary Mack sends you one more tweedle dee dee after I fall asleep, I'm chunking your cell phone into the garbage." :o)
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Stress
In every baby book that I've read so far (probably about 5-6) it states clearly what expecting or expecting to be expecting mothers should stay away from. The main things are alcohol, tobacco, drugs and stress. I'm good with staying away from 3 out of 4 of those things but I can never seem to get away from stress, mainly work stress. And moreso now with the economy the way it's been. People aren't renting houses as much, a lot of people are moving in with other family members, and it gets harder and harder to actually get the rent from current tenants. And when tenants leave houses, 70% of them leave the house completely trashed. So we have to use the money we are NOT getting from our current tenants to pay to have the trashed house redone so someone ELSE can come in and trash it. So all that added to the fact that I'm a 22 year old female bossing around a couple of 40something year old maintenance men that don't want to listen to me. And all THAT added to the fact that my Dad is the hardest person to be around in the business world. And I have to answer to him and explain to him on a daily basis why houses aren't being rented or why vacant houses aren't being readily turned over to being rentable again or why people aren't paying their rent and why the crap my 40something year old maintenance man isn't doing what I specifically tell him to do. How am I supposed to keep my stress level in check and as low as possible with all of this on my shoulders every day?
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
MckMama's not the only thing I'm obsessed with...
Is that not the CUTEST thing you've ever seen in your LIFE?!??!!? I think that even though it's a liiiiittle more toward the girlie side, it could still go either way, boy or girl. So I called Brad to see if I could get it and he said that we could go look at it this week!!! I'm am SOOOO excited! Brad always gives me a firm NO whenever I ask about baby stuff because, well, I'm not pregnant! But I'm scared that if I wait too long, the stroller and carseat will be gone! I think Brad is finally getting used to the fact that we will soon be on our way to a family of three! Hopefully I can talk him into letting me buy it!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Must...Have...Blogs....
I will openly admit that I am completely obsessed with MckMama's blog http://www.mycharmingkids.net. Obsessed to the point where my husband is becoming increasingly concerned about my obsession. Obsessed to the point where I have read EVERY SINGLE POST she has ever written. Obsessed to the point where I known all of her kid's blog names AND real life names (which she doesn't post on her blog, except for Stellan!) Anyway, I have known for a while that MckMama "tweets" on her blog. For those that don't know what "tweeter" is, it's basically telling people what you are doing throughout the day, and if you want it to it will appear on your blog. Well today, I found out that I could receive MckMama's tweets as texts to my cell phone!! I was super excited as I sat on the loveseat beside my husband, explaining the wonderful news to him. "Oh my gosh babe! I can receive MckMama's tweets as texts on my cell phone!!!!!" And then he turns toward me, looks me straight in the eye and says in all seriousness, "YOU are a blog addict." And I replied with, "No I'm not!" as I turned back toward the computer to finish reading MckMama's blog for the day. :o) So please excuse me as I get my next fix...
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Weekend at the Beach
April, Dad and I made a trip down to Gulf Shores Friday afternoon to check out the beach house our Dad just bought for all of us. We are SO excited to finally have a beach house again! The house needs a little bit of work (replacing carpet and touching up paint) so as soon as it's done, Brad and I will have a relaxing weekend alone! April and I are in charge of furnishing the place and we will have FUN doing that! I'm SO excited!!!! So anyway, while we were at the beach, we stayed at a family friend's beach house. Oh. My. Gosh. One word=GORGEOUS. Unbelievably gorgeous. The house was huge and fabulous and I seriously want to live there. I apologize in advance for all the pictures you are about to see. There are a TON but I wanted to show off their fabulous beach house. AND I didn't even take a picture of every room. The pictures you are about to see are really only about half of the house! Here goes:
The kitchen
Stairwell
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Busy Weekend!
So I just realized how flippin busy I am going to be for the next few days! Tonight, Brad and I are treating my Mom and Doug to some PFChangs for Doug's birthday that was back in January! YUM! I am so excited I can hardly stand it! Then tomorrow, my Dad, April and I are heading down to Gulf Shores to check out a house that our Dad is buying. I'm sure we will eat TONS of seafood so I am beyond excited about that! We will come back Saturday afternoon and then April, Mom and I AND our husbands (along with some other people) have supper club at Brooke's house! Woot Woot! THEN Brad is teaching Sunday school Sunday morning and we have a huge Super Bowl party that night! Woooo....I'm tired just thinking about all I have to do! At least it's all fun stuff though! Oh, and to throw in some baby news (who me?) I moved up the date of stopping my birth control from February 8th to January 31st! That's this Saturday! I'm so excited!!!!
