This will be short...
The kids love their teachers and classes! School is going well. Went to Carol's for George's birthday tonight. As of Thursday I was dilated to 4cm and 75% effaced. Contracted for 4 hours last night, getting worse and worse, and then the contractions stopped at 5:30am. So hoping this baby comes soon! Tired of this contraction/ waiting game.
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
So, my parents came out a couple of weeks ago and it was good to see them. The kids all showed off on their instruments, played games, and hung-out with everyone. Even though school hasn't started yet, Cameron and Errolyn have had their fair share of school events. Cameron (and us) had tennis camp, orchestra camp, an orchestra parent meeting, a tennis parent meeting, and a prep day at school last week. Errolyn had orchestra camp and a prep day. Next week is much lighter, but there are still a lot of meet-the-teacher nights, meetings, and doctors visits for school. I'm ready for school to start, but it will be very difficult having a brand new baby right in the first couple of weeks of school while I have kids at 4 different school. We'll see how it goes... but I'm really worried about the timing of everything and hope my kids will still being able to do everything they need to do at school while I'm in the hospital or recovering.
I've been getting up a bit more now that I'm not on bed rest. I'm still taking it easy, but there's just too much to do to get ready for the baby and school. I'm dilated to 2 cm, which really is nothing, but the doctor is having me come in every week for a stress test on the baby. At my last appointment she didn't say I looked good like she normally does, but instead told me I needed to come in later this week for an ultrasound so she can check a couple of things. So, we'll see how that goes.
Carol has helped out quite a bit with taking Errolyn school shopping. I finished Cameron's on Saturday with him, but had to ride the cart around Target. I feel so embarrassed using the cart, but it was too much walking and I didn't want to spur on my pre-labor contractions again. In one more week I'll be full term and then I don't care if I walk a lot because the baby can come at that point. I've never had problems at the end of pregnancy like this. I'm usually go-go-go at the end; nesting big time. Even though I'm not that old, the doctor said having a baby at my age is remarkably harder on the body and she's not surprised that I've had complications that I didn't have with my other four kids. Oh well.
We got a new YW Presidency today and two new YM leaders... and I'm excited for the new leaders for my kids! Mike and I were just discussing last week how we hoped Errolyn would have good, spiritual, and fun YW leaders. We wanted two specific ladies... and they were called today! Errolyn doesn't go into YW for 5 more months, but I'm so excited that these two ladies will be her leaders. And Cameron's new Teacher's Quorum leader is a cello player... there are only two teachers in the ward, Cameron and Ammon, and they both play the cello too... neat coincidence. :)
I've been getting up a bit more now that I'm not on bed rest. I'm still taking it easy, but there's just too much to do to get ready for the baby and school. I'm dilated to 2 cm, which really is nothing, but the doctor is having me come in every week for a stress test on the baby. At my last appointment she didn't say I looked good like she normally does, but instead told me I needed to come in later this week for an ultrasound so she can check a couple of things. So, we'll see how that goes.
Carol has helped out quite a bit with taking Errolyn school shopping. I finished Cameron's on Saturday with him, but had to ride the cart around Target. I feel so embarrassed using the cart, but it was too much walking and I didn't want to spur on my pre-labor contractions again. In one more week I'll be full term and then I don't care if I walk a lot because the baby can come at that point. I've never had problems at the end of pregnancy like this. I'm usually go-go-go at the end; nesting big time. Even though I'm not that old, the doctor said having a baby at my age is remarkably harder on the body and she's not surprised that I've had complications that I didn't have with my other four kids. Oh well.
We got a new YW Presidency today and two new YM leaders... and I'm excited for the new leaders for my kids! Mike and I were just discussing last week how we hoped Errolyn would have good, spiritual, and fun YW leaders. We wanted two specific ladies... and they were called today! Errolyn doesn't go into YW for 5 more months, but I'm so excited that these two ladies will be her leaders. And Cameron's new Teacher's Quorum leader is a cello player... there are only two teachers in the ward, Cameron and Ammon, and they both play the cello too... neat coincidence. :)
Friday, August 15, 2014
How one decision leads to another.
Dryer breaks and is old, we’ve fixed it too many times- lets buy a new dryer, our washer isn’t great either, let’s buy a new matching washer and dryer, to fit the new machines we have to remove the giant metal shelf we use for food storage in the laundry room, where will we put the giant shelf- it’s so big, we remove the old washing machine and the faucet is slightly leaking, we replace the faucet but in the process water ends up gushing all over the laundry room floor and flooding it, in the process of rushing to turn off the hot water heater (because scalding hot water is gushing out onto my husband and burning him) paint cans get thrown aside because they are blocking the door to the water heater, we soak up all of the water in the laundry room, we realize in frantically moving the paint cans an entire gallon of white paint spilt all over the garage, we have to hurry and clean the garage and clean up the paint, we decide the giant metal shelf will fit in the garage, we have to clean the entire garage and move EVERYTHING around because the shelf is so tall, while organizing things in the garage an entire jug of coolant begins leaking all over everything, we end up cleaning and wiping down several tools and bikes in addition to the coolant... BUT, now we have a new washer and dryer, our laundry room is mopped and spotless from the flood, the garage is clean and excellently organized, and now we just have to buy a new smaller shelf for the laundry room for our food storage (which we will have to take out of boxes since it was on the floor when it flooded and the boxes are ruined)… and we are exhausted yet somehow satisfied with all of our accomplishments! Lol.
Dryer breaks and is old, we’ve fixed it too many times- lets buy a new dryer, our washer isn’t great either, let’s buy a new matching washer and dryer, to fit the new machines we have to remove the giant metal shelf we use for food storage in the laundry room, where will we put the giant shelf- it’s so big, we remove the old washing machine and the faucet is slightly leaking, we replace the faucet but in the process water ends up gushing all over the laundry room floor and flooding it, in the process of rushing to turn off the hot water heater (because scalding hot water is gushing out onto my husband and burning him) paint cans get thrown aside because they are blocking the door to the water heater, we soak up all of the water in the laundry room, we realize in frantically moving the paint cans an entire gallon of white paint spilt all over the garage, we have to hurry and clean the garage and clean up the paint, we decide the giant metal shelf will fit in the garage, we have to clean the entire garage and move EVERYTHING around because the shelf is so tall, while organizing things in the garage an entire jug of coolant begins leaking all over everything, we end up cleaning and wiping down several tools and bikes in addition to the coolant... BUT, now we have a new washer and dryer, our laundry room is mopped and spotless from the flood, the garage is clean and excellently organized, and now we just have to buy a new smaller shelf for the laundry room for our food storage (which we will have to take out of boxes since it was on the floor when it flooded and the boxes are ruined)… and we are exhausted yet somehow satisfied with all of our accomplishments! Lol.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Ahhh! Disaster! So, Mike was cleaning out the laundry room and getting the washing machine ready to be replaced. We have a faucet in there that doesn't shut completely off. Mike's replaced it before no problem and was replacing it again. He didn't need to turn off the water the first time so he didn't this time. All of the sudden I hear a gushing sound. I figured it was water but he didn't call for help. Then after about 20 seconds Mike starts yelling, "Help, help, help." I grabbed a shoe bucket on the way and dumped it out and threw it to him to catch the water that was already all over the floor. He started yelling that it was the hot water... yikes! I yelled to Logan and Errolyn to grab empty bins and trash cans in the garage while I threw paint cans, bins, and junk off of the shelf in front of the water heater door. The lever to turn the water off was all the way at the top of the closet... luckily Cameron came down right as I was about to climb up the water heater (I surely would have toppled with how pregnant I am and how little ledge there was to climb) and he climbed to the top and I told him which lever to push. The water turned off, whew! But, now there is an inch of water all over our laundry room floor and poor Mike was burned with extremely hot water for several minutes. :( I'm glad this happened today instead of ON his birthday... but it still stinks. Poor Mike. This washing machine better be worth it!
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