Busy

Dr.'s appointments, hockey and cubs and soccer and just general errands have kept us a very busy family for the last week!

There isn't much to report.  I've got 34 days left to go of this pregnancy (well, until my due date, I could go longer, who knows) and in that time we have Marryn's 3rd birthday, a wedding, father's day, Marryn's birthday party, exams for James, the end of school, a golf tournament and about 5 more Dr.'s appointments, an eye appointment for Marryn (her first one) along with hockey and soccer (cubs ended on Tuesday night).  So lots to keep me occupied until the end!!  I'm thankful for that, it makes the time go quicker.

I'm also thankful for our central air!!  It was quite hot earlier this week and on the weekend and I was very glad to be a hermit and hang out in the a/c!!  I can sweat just sitting here now!  Yesterday and today are much nicer and yesterday we got a LOT done and we were out virtually all day long.  We went to the union hall to drop off our paperwork for our new glasses, picked up our new glasses, I went and got my blood work done in preparation for my Rhogam shot which I will have either today or tomorrow, we went to our friends house and Jer helped him remove a tree, then we went for lunch at the Smokin' Buddha with him...Marryn loved sitting outside on the patio to eat :)  Then we came home and Jer went and gave blood, then we took Jonah to his soccer practice and after that we came home and had dinner and hung out and watched TV for the night.  It was so beautiful out.  Great day :)

Today we're kind of lounging.  Jer's napping on the couch and Marryn is hanging out in her undies watching Caillou hehe...so cute.  I'm just doing a couple loads of laundry and hanging out on the computer for now.  I'm hoping to go get my Rhogam shot later but when I called this morning they were pretty busy at Labour and Delivery and told me to call back this afternoon so we'll see.

This weekend is quiet other than Jonah's soccer game on Saturday so we'll likely just be spontaneous...if we decide to do something it will be last minute for sure.

Hope everyone had a good week!!!

Plans on hold

So Jer got laid off again on Friday after only being at this new job for 11 weeks.  It totally sucks because now he's at the bottom of the out of work list and there are about 170 people ahead of him with no job.  *sigh*  I thought we were finally getting somewhere...we went from 7 credit cards down to 2 and only one with any balance on it, we had savings, we had a plan.  We went to the bank and talked about a mortgage and it went well but we had decided to wait until he got his raise in November.  Now that raise will not come for an extra however long he's off.

I was pretty disappointed on Friday and in a terrible mood on Saturday.  Took me a little bit to bounce back but I'm ok today.  Our plan is no longer, we have to reconfigure it in a bunch of different ways and it's definitely going to take longer now.  I hate when stuff takes longer!!

Other than that though, our weekend was great!  The weather was incredible and we had the baseball tournament, visited friends at their campsite and Jer and the kids helped open his parents pool while I cleaned the house, then we had a BBQ there and took Jonah to soccer.  James spent all day on Saturday at Canada's Wonderland with his girlfriend.  I'm thankful we had the savings to dip into to be able to buy his ticket and give him $60 for spending money so that it would be a really great day for him.  After soccer last night (where James met up with his girlfriend and took off on us again lol, such is the life of a teenager I guess), we took the kids with Jer's sister and her boyfriend for some ice cream and then went and helped my best friend put up a pool in her backyard.

I feel like I need a vacation from our long weekend!!  It was fun though.  Jer and I did a ghost walk in Niagara on the Lake on Friday night too which was so much fun!!  I love stuff like that and it was perfect weather for it as well.

This week we're not doing a whole lot...cubs tonight, hockey on Thursday as well as a Dr's appointment for me and lunch with baby's mom and her dad who is here from England.  It's her birthday Thursday so it should be a nice lunch :)

Only a month until Marryn's 3rd birthday already!  We're planning to have a small party again at Jer's dads.  I can't believe how fast it's gone!  And then just 2 weeks after that school is out!  This year is flying by!  I'm looking forward to our camping trip in August and our Florida trip in October...I can't wait!!!

Happy "Monday" that's actually a Tuesday!!!!  :)

Happy Long Weekend!

Sorry I've been quiet, things have been up in the air for the last week.  We were bouncing around the idea of possibly not waiting to get a house and finding something now, just a bit cheaper.  We went to the bank yesterday and it is possible to do that but we would likely be settling so I think we're just going to wait.  It's only 6-8 months.  And then we'll be looking in the range that we REALLY want to be looking.  And who knows, maybe we'll win the lottery before then (hey, we can dream right?!).

Other than that it's been a week of cubs and hockey and this weekend is Jer's annual family baseball tournament.  Every year they do it to raise money for breast cancer.  We always have a blast with everyone and we're looking forward to this year because there is absolutely NO rain in the forecast and it's supposed to be GORGEOUS all weekend!!

We're also going out to see our friends who are camping with their brand new (friggin' huge!) trailer at some point and have dinner and a bonfire with them for the evening.  I'm VERY much looking forward to that, I've been dying to have a fire in the last little bit but we've got no wood.  That and it's just not the same in our little chiminea.

Tonight the kids are going to their Aunt's overnight.  Jer and I have a whole night by ourselves!  The first since our honeymoon a year and a half ago!!  We're very excited and totally at a loss for what to do with ourselves lol..."We don't do this often, what should we do??"...  "I dunno, what do you want to do??"  So that's what I'll be doing today, trying to figure out what we should do!

Then on Monday we're going to Jer's dad's to help them open the pool and have dinner.  Should be a good weekend :)

I hope you have a wonderful 4 day weekend if you are in Canada, if not, hopefully you have a lovely normal weekend!!!  :)

32 Weeks!

Well, we turned 32 weeks pregnant yesterday!  This has gone by SO fast!  We have a Dr's appointment today and then dinner with baby's mom and dad this evening, we're going for sushi :)  I can't believe there is only 8 weeks left of my absolute last pregnancy!  (And I'm so done too, I didn't think I'd ever get sick of being pregnant but I do NOT want to have anymore babies after this!!)  This has been such a good pregnancy too.  I haven't had a lot of the pain I had with Marryn and I only had the one episode of bleeding (which was scary and had me off work but luckily it was that my placenta was low and it has since moved and everything is perfectly fine now).  I've been active and not too miserable in general lol.  It's a good ending to my reproductive years :)

This weekend is supposed to be BEAUTIFUL and I'm so excited because Jer FINALLY has the weekend off!!!  We're going to celebrate Mother's Day for me on Saturday because on Sunday we're going to make his mom dinner (and something else during the day that I can't remember.....I hate when that happens!).  I bought some steak and pork chops for over the weekend as well because it's supposed to be so nice that I figured maybe we'll do a BBQ on Saturday (if not Friday too!) and maybe invite some friends over and have a fire (the first of the year!).

Then next weekend is Jer's dad's cousins annual baseball tournament that we go to every year.  James is old enough to play this year so he's pretty excited about it!  The kids are off on Friday AND Monday of next week too so it will be a very nice long weekend :)

Things are moving along with our down payment and I've been checking out the Realtor.ca website now and then.  There are some REALLY nice houses in our price range and I'm SO looking forward to finally moving to a home.  Not just an apartment, but a place where I'll actually want to paint and hang things on the walls and have plants outside!  And a GARDEN!!  I'm so excited for a garden!  We do a lot of local fruits and veggie shopping here when it's in season and I'm really hoping to be able to grow some of my own and can it.  We had GREAT success with the strawberry jam we made last year (it only lasted a couple of weeks!!) and I plan to make that again this year.  Our Sunday drives are about to resume too, our local stands that we go to almost every week are just opening up (one last weekend and one this weekend) and I've been craving fresh peas!

Anyway, even though it's only Thursday, Happy Weekend!!  It's going to be gorgeous, enjoy it!!  :)

May the Fourth be with you!

Whoooo it's humid!  Marryn and I have ULTRA frizzy hair the last two days!!  It's been beautiful though :)

Yesterday was WAY too hot to do anything but already today I've made up for it since it was a bit cooler this morning despite the humidity.  Everything is done but the dishes and the kitchen floor and I have to start a load of laundry.  I love it when I feel productive before noon!!

Marryn and I have a playdate today as well.  We're going to have some lunch and just hang out around the house but I'm excited that she'll have someone to play with for a couple of hours!  She plays really well by herself but it's always nice to have someone else to play with :)

Not much is up for the weekend.  Jer is likely working (and today is day 19 in a row)...I asked him to take Sunday off just for a break but he said that this overtime is not going to last forever and he doesn't want to say no to it.  We've already got quite a bit saved for a down payment and every little bit helps so I can't argue with him there.  I'm just trying to make life at home as easy for him as possible!  He hasn't had to do much around here but cook dinner once in a while which he likes doing.  I've made sure he has clean work clothes whenever he needs them.  I'm hoping when he does get a day off that I can let him sleep in too.

Other than that, James has another ball hockey game tomorrow (he won yesterday :)) and that's about it.  Our local fruit and veggies stand opens tomorrow too so we'll likely take a drive out there and see what they have!

Happy Weekend!!!

Where are you Mr. Sun??

These last couple of days have been blah.  I haven't been sleeping good due to indigestion and it's been either cloudy or rainy :(  Normally I love the rain but it just makes me more tired and WAY less motivated when I don't sleep good.  Today is supposed to be much warmer than the last couple and the sun seems to be trying to peek through but it's just not quite there!

Last night was pretty rough sleeping wise, I had horrible indigestion that was making me feel sick and not even my Tums were helping!!  I had to stay sitting straight up!  Lesson learned:  don't eat coleslaw with onions for the rest of this pregnancy!!

I'm tired but it's not as bad as yesterday.  I slept ok the night before but for some reason I just could not get moving!  I even took a nap with Marryn!  Needless to say I did absolutely nothing yesterday so I have a bit of catching up to do today.  A few loads of laundry and a few dishes and of course, the floors are sticky even though I just washed them on Sunday (joy of little children who spill things and don't/can't wipe it up properly!) so I hope to get around to that today as well.

Dinner is easy tonight, we bought some frozen Chinese dishes in the states last week and I also am making Jer this because it's one of his favourite dishes when we go out for sushi and since we're working on a down payment we don't have much extra for sushi dates!

Like I said on Sunday, this week is pretty quiet.  No appointments or anything.  Jer and Jonah had cubs last night and James has ball hockey tomorrow but other than that nothing is going on.

I think Marryn has been going through a growth spurt lately, she's eating so much!!  The other morning she had a banana, grapes, applesauce, cheese and some fruit snacks and was still asking for cereal and more applesauce!  I made her wait a little bit but she ate a good lunch that day and then asked for seconds at supper as well.  This morning is the same breakfast minus the applesauce so far, she'll likely ask for some of that in a bit!  Normally a bowl of cereal goes unfinished in the morning for her!  It's almost time to measure them again I think!!!

Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful Wednesday!!!  :)