midweek confessions

its that time of the week again...thanks E Myself and I for the link-up

- today's to-do list has gone to the wayside.  i've spent most of the day in the glider in charley's nursery rocking her.  we have officially hit the 2 month fussy peak (at least i sure hope this is the peak!)

- i'm thankful to have an excuse to not do everything on my list and have to cuddle/rock charley all day.

- a friend invited me over for dinner tonight and i offered to make dessert.  because of said fussiness my "homemade" dessert is going to consist of going to publix and picking up a cake. ugh.

- i think "cool moms" use cloth diapers.  i so want to be one of those "cool moms."  unfortunately my "i hate to be wet for more than five seconds" daughter still goes through 16 diapers per day...there is no way i can do that much extra laundry each day.  i'll have to hold off on being a "cool mom" for now.

- i have changed charley's diaper no less than 3 times while trying to write this post.

- the only "perfume" i have been wearing for the last two months is baby milk...and i think it smells pretty good.

- i'm embarrassed i actually wrote that last confession.

- i know i use quotations way too much.  but i have no plans of limiting my use of quotations.

- my shoe size has gone up at least a half size since per-pregnancy.   i almost cried when i was trying on my spring/summer shoes and realized half of them don't fit.  i'm have no intention of giving them away yet...maybe my feet will go back to normal (but probably not.)  here's to hoping!

midweek confessions: infant edition

i'm linking up with e myself and i for some midweek confessions

- fly boy and i have started referring to charley's pacifier as "the plug."  i have no intentions of calling it anything else.

- i give charley the plug everytime she fusses before i actually pick her up in hopes that she will magically calm down.  it works approximately 13% of the time, but i am a die-hard optimistic.

- while fly boy is out of town for some training for 8 weeks, every morning when i hear sweet charley screaming to let me know she has woken up, i sometimes usually roll over and pray that she goes back to sleep for a few more minutes.  it has yet to work, but again, i'm optimistic.

- i count taking charley's two month pictures (coming soon) and folding laundry together as "quality girl time."

- when the plug, rocking, swaying, the swing, the bouncer and the ergo would not sooth charley, i opted for the guaranteed-stop-all-crying car ride today.  i was meeting my brother for lunch, but left an extra 15 minutes early to drive around and make sure that she fell asleep before arrive at the restaurant.

- i have fallen in love with a new blog, and got some GREAT ideas for my future sister-in-law's wedding shower this summer.  for the first time in my life i am ahead of the game in planning!  it.feels.great.  but...i'm pretty sure i will go back to my old ways of procrastination soon.

- i'm trying to finish this post with a screaming baby on my lap...bouncing her with one hand and typing with the other.

i think its pretty obvious i have a new baby...

midweek confessions: pre-baby

i'm going a little stir-crazy, so it seems like a good week to link up with e, myself & i

- baby girl is officially 6 days late.  i swear i am not going crazy-crazy.  i still feel good, just trying to be patient.  

- i'm not very gifted in the "patience" department.  

- my our house has never been cleaner, nor do i think it will ever be this clean again.  i would SO pass my brother's white glove test.  

- though i realize i will be eating my words in a few days once this girl does arrive, i still feel like i should be trying to get some kind of part-time job.  i have too much time on my hands.  and i can't wait to be able to fit into all the adorable spring clothes that are coming out...a little extra spending cash might be nice.

- i have this totally unrealistic idea that baby girl and i are going to get into a perfect rhythm only a few days after we come home from the hospital.  eat, wake/play time, sleep repeat.  i have purposely not factored in the hours of hysterical screaming i blessed my own mother with.  positive thinking.  we'll see how that goes.

 

- i gave up law & order for lent.  sounds ridiculous, i know.  but i've become addicted.  i went on a law & order marathon yesterday, and realized i have become so addicted that i actually got bored of it last night. that's way too much law & order. 

- we did a "baby pool" with friends and family to guess the baby's arrival time and date.  two so called "friends" guessed the 29th because it would be "cool" to have a baby on leap-year.  the 29th, really?  that's 13 days past the due date.  who does that?  who wishes that on your friend?!  i am thinking of not claiming these two individuals as friends anymore.*

- i LOVE this time of year, for one reason and one reason only: cadbury mini-eggs.  not the gross ones with the cream-filled centers.  the straight up chocolate ones with the candy shell.  i could eat the whole bag in one day.  therefore i am cashing in my "pregnancy" card to devour as much of this sweet chocolate as my heart desires.  and i'm not going to feel guilty.

- i found this picture of lucy on my camera.  it's not in focus nor a "great" picture by any means, but i can't help but laugh when i look at it.  i am still hoping that we do not become one of those families that neglects our dog once we have a baby.  fly boy is adamant that lucy will not become a "second-class citizen."

- i am hoping my next post will be to announce the arrival of baby girl.

*disclaimer: both "friends" are boys.  one of which is not a father yet.  i will be patiently waiting his apology once his own wife goes through 40 weeks of pregnancy.

post-christmas confessions

i'm linking up with e myself and i for some post-christmas confessions...

- on december 24th i shamelessly sent my dad out to go get my brother's christmas present for me...and ended up having my brother pick out his own present.  i still haven't paid him back for it yet.

- i cried when i left lucy in pensacola for christmas.  i'd like to blame it on the crazy hormones that come with pregnancy, but really, i would have cried anyway.

- sometimes i look at fly boy's flat stomach and get jealous.  then feel ridiculous for feeling jealous.  then envy him even more when he can so effortlessly bend over to tie his shoes.

- i have spent more time than i want to admit standing in our closet, looking longingly at my per-pregnancy clothes and wondering when we will be reunited again.

- part of me still believes that if i buy a new pair of shoes, it will make everything wrong in my life right again.  (even though i know the feeling will only last a few hours while i wear my new shoes, i am still tempted to go out and buy new shoes for the few hours of careless bliss.)

- i have been daydreaming about getting back to florida and taking down all the christmas decor.  i LOVE getting the house back to "normal" after the holidays.

- i've eaten christmas cookies for breakfast the last three days.

- i almost got away with avoiding doing dirty dishes before i left for our christmas vacation, and fully intended on leaving them in the sink for fly boy to deal with when he got back before me.  much to my dismay, my flight out of florida got delayed four hours, and i had no choice but to wash (and dry) the dishes.  i hate doing dishes.  with a passion.

thanks e for the link-up!

midweek confessions

my friend over at e, myself and i started a weekly confessions post. 

love it.  count me in.

-  i found a new blog to obsess follow, and it made my morning.  when i tried explaining to fly boy how excited i was, he dismissed me like i was crazy.  (check out jones design company)  it's totally normal for a new blog to change the trajectory of your day.  especially when it's a good blog that offers fun free printables.

-  the pictures of little ava in front of her christmas tree with her dad here makes me want to fast forward the next two years until our own little girl will be decorating our christmas tree with fly boy. 

-  i'm becoming boarder-line addicted to facebook on my iphone.  and i not so secretly, secretly love making fun of crazy people's posts to fly boy.  generally this includes people who divulge way too much information about their personal lives for the world to see.

-  after i found out i passed my glucose test earlier this week, i may have celebrated by eating an eggo waffle topped with strawberry & vanilla icecream, chocolate syrup, maple syrup (the real stuff, not the fake watered down imitation maple syrup like aunt jemima) and a cherry. 

-  i stand by my claim that i am NOT having any weird cravings so far in the pregnancy.  i totally would have eaten the perfect meal like last night (a baby bell cheese, cinnamon toast, meatball with spaghetti sauce, and piece of chocolate) BEFORE we got pregnant.
 
-  i've been wanting to put up pictures of our christmas decorations since december 1st, but have held off because i keep finding more things i want to add to the house.

-  i'm 30 weeks pregnant and just getting around to signing up for birthing classes at the hospital.

-  we haven't started the nursery at ALL.  case-in-point.

-  i had a nightmare over thanksgiving that i went into labor in while we were in syracuse.  i woke up in tears because we haven't bought a car seat and though we've ordered the crib, it hasn't come in yet. 
(ps: though we don't have a crib, car seat, pack-n-play or any other "essentials," baby girl does however, have a good start to her wardrobe...)

-  i'm banking on this girl making her debut at least a few days late so we'll have over 10 weeks to get everything together.


that's about it for now.
thanks e for a great idea!