This Week's Doctor's Apointment Adventure..

This week I had a Doctor's appointment and I had so many questions I wanted answers to. Well first I got there early, like I always do, and couldn't find parking. I was already annoyed and not being able to find parking at your OBs office when you are 32 weeks pregnant is just not fun. Once I checked in, I had the routine of peeing in a cup, getting my blood pressure taken, and the one I really care about, getting weighed. The past couple of visits, my weight as steadily increased more than I like but I have to tell myself that I am pregnant and this is normal. When I got on the scale this week, I only gained .5 lbs in the past two weeks. I thought it was odd because I have been eating and eating and eating and eating (you get the point). Then the nurse asked me if I was eating and taking my vitamins. Of course I am so I replied politely that I was. I didn't think much of it as I waited for the Doctor to come see me. Like I said, I had lots of questions and I'm an over analyzer so I kept asking the questions over and over in my head while I waited 30 min in the patient room. I've never been a fan of this Dr. I was seeing because I always wait for a minimum of 30 in the room and he breezes in and doesn't give any detail on anything or allow me to ask questions. He finally made it into the room and measured me and then he too asked if I was eating and taking my vitamins. Now something seemed wrong because two people asked the same question; I asked him if something was wrong or could be wrong and he just waved off my question and went on to saying that it was abnormal and maybe Charle is just small. Well the last time this Dr. told me that my baby was "maybe small," I was at high risk for a miscarriage and he didn't tell me. Of course I'm now freaking out and wanting answers but all he would say is that they will see how I progress over the next couple of weeks and if my weight isn't up, they will do another ultrasound. By this time, I was frazzled and he was trying to leave the room... I still had a million questions that I wanted answered before I got in there... no answers. So this appointment was a total flop and as I was checking out, my day just seemed to be horrible (my hormones don't help with this.) I did notice a good thing as I was waiting on the receptionist though, I have had a $5 balance for about 3 months now that I keep forgetting to pay until after I leave but the balance was $0!!! Then she was making my next appointment and asked me if I've seen all the Doctors in the practice and I have, I have seen almost all of them twice and I've seen my favorite one three times. :) Since I've seen them all, I kind of get to see which ever I want and she scheduled me to see my favorite before I could even request him! Double bonus. So my next appointment will most definitely be better because he likes to answer questions and just talk about any concerns for as long as you need (and he never makes me wait more than 5 min!!!) I will finally get answers to all the questions I went into this appointment with and I will find out what is going on with my baby girl.

Goodbye Green Room

When I was 15, my mom told me that I got to choose what color I wanted to paint my room and that I would have to paint it. She had just bought this house about 6 months prior and all the rooms were the color of sand. It took me about a month to figure out what I wanted to do; I wanted something unique and matched my personality. My cousin nicknamed me flamingo when I was younger because I had really long legs and every time he saw me, I was extremely sun burnt.  After I acquired this name, I became OBSESSED with flamingos.  I collected anything flamingo; I had flamingo wall plaques, flamingo Christmas tree lights, flamingo bulletin board boarders, flamingo plant holders, flamingo jewelry, flamingo EVERYTHING. Getting back to painting, I decided since I had so much flamingo stuff that hot pink would probably be tacky so I decided to go with green.  None of my friends had a green room and I picked this apple green color that made my mom want to take back that I was allowed to pick out the color. Once I finally got the paint and got to painting, my mom really regretted  that she allowed me to do this by myself. I decided to make the room look like tall grass. Since the sandy yellow color was underneath, I made some strokes soft so that it was a lime green and some of them I doubled to make darker green (I did the whole room with a tiny foam brush).

This is what it turned out to look like

My mom wanted me to redo it and make it look normal but I told her no, it was my room.  Then my grandmother came and visited... she HATED it and tried to convince my mom to let her repaint it a different color while I was away. Thank you mom for not listening to her, I would have been so heart broken. I became attached to this stupid wall color and the way I painted it and I'm not exactly sure why. When I moved to college, my mom told me that she was going to repaint it but she never got around to it before I moved back in and reclaimed my territory. Then when I moved into my appartment she took everything off the walls and was serious about painting it but I moved back in just in time to save it once more.  Now it is finally time to change the paint. My brother-in-law is in there priming it as I type. 

I decided that I would pass this room on to my baby while we are here.  It is going to get painted Glidden Pink Ballet Slipper this weekend and I can't stand that I won't be able to help paint it.

I chose the color because it is a soft pink and the theme that I'm doing for the nursery is Rainbow Fish. Someone blessed me with the whole bedroom set for rainbow fish. I have two wall plaques, three pictures, a lamp, the whole bed set, curtains, and a diaper hanger.  The set is purple, blue and green with pastel colors so I thought the light pink would bring the pink out in the set.

After it is painted this week, I can finally set the room up and move in all of the furniture!! And it will all be ready for my first baby shower next saturday!

Yard Sale!!!

Every Friday night I get all antsy about Saturday morning yard sales. Am I going to find anything worth while? How many will there be tomorrow? Will I be able to bargain with the sellers? AND Where in the world are the yard sales this week?

Last night I woke up at 2am like usual and after my routine pee (sorry for the over share), I couldn't fall back to sleep but I knew I was going to get up at 7am to go yard saling.  Instead of watching a movie or checking emails, I decided to look up local yard sales online. I thought this would be much easier than it was but I did happen to find a couple on some websites that seemed promising. FINALLY at 4am, I fell back asleep and was able to get a couple more hours in before I had to get up to go bargain hunt. 

I started off with some of the yard sales that I found online last night and worked my way across town to the signs that I had seen last night. All of the sales I found online didn't have anything that I was looking for or they wanted WAY too much for their baby girl clothes.  I went to one this morning that all of her daughter's clothes were $10 a piece.  The clothes were extremely nice and the style that I like but everything was 2t+ and I didn't think that it would be a good investment at this time.  I finally made it back to the yard sale signs I saw last night on the south side of town and I hit the jack pot.  I spent a grand total of...... $10. I ended up with 22 articles of clothing; 21 for Charle and a pair of Express sweat pants for me (50cents).

I got several newborn and 0-3month onsies and sleepers along with a bunch of 6-9month spring outfits for next spring! A lot of the spring outfits where hand made by the grandmother of the baby and I found that even more exciting.  I love hand crafted items and these outfits have a story to them, plus they are one of a kind and that's always a bonus.

Here are a few of my favorite things that I bought.

Overall, I think I did a pretty awesome job this week at the yard sales. I'm not too sure that there will be many, if any, next week since it is a Holiday weekend but of course I will at least look for them.

Nesting?

Today I am extremely sore.  All day yesterday I cleaned and cleaned and scrubbed and scrubbed.  I couldn't make myself stop and the only reason I did was that I had to go get my mom from the ER (she had a little clumsy fall moment yesterday and everything is ok).  I vacuumed, scrubbed some stains that my sister made in the carpet, bleached the ENTIRE guest bathroom, bleached the hallway walls and baseboards, and swept the kitchen. That may not seem like a lot but when you have a big belly in the way, it becomes quite a task.

I'm not sure if it's too early to be nesting but from everything that I have read, it sounds like I'm in that phase.  I literally can't stop cleaning or thinking about cleaning. Today I have been too exhausted to really do much. I was going to take a quick nap before prayer this morning but I ended up falling asleep at 9am and not waking up until 1pm. BUT I did get to vacuum the entire house again and I'm about to go work on the living room baseboards and walls.

I'm slowly making my way to the baby Charle's room.  Her room was spotless and then we let the dog sleep in there one night and ever since then, there has been a funk smell coming from it. I just need to get in there and find the spot where my Isabelle messed.  I also need to get the walls and baseboards taped up so that it can be painted and we can finally move in the furniture. She's gonna be here anytime in the next 8-10 weeks and I think I need to get on the ball on that. 

I need to get a picture of my belly this week. I have gotten slack and I haven't taken one since I think about week 24... woops. Once I get to doing that, I will post my first official picture on here of me and baby. Until then, I'm off to cleaning. :)

Very First

This is all very new to me. I've never Blogged or thought that my thoughts were blog worthy but I'm about to embark on a very new adventure, becoming a mommy!! I'm pretty sure I will be sharing some stories that will warm hearts, bring tears to eyes, and maybe give some kind of encouragement to other single moms out there.  I never imagined that I would be a single mom or be divorced before I'm 22 but I know that this little girl was worth it all. She's still incubating for a little while longer but I already love her and love every movement she makes to remind me that she's still in there.

I am at 31 weeks and I'm more than ready to get her out and into my arms. This pregnancy has had many complications from an almost miscarriage to chronic nose bleeds for 23 weeks. I was so glad to hear the doctor say that everything was perfect at my last check up. For awhile it seemed like I had a new problem every time I went but Thank You Lord for taking care of both of us and we are now as the doctor said, Perfect. 

Last night I went on the Maternity Tour with my mom at our hospital and after since then, I have been thinking nonstop about her birth. As some of you know, I'm one of those 'I don't take medicine unless I'm dying' people so I have decided to have an all natural, no drug delivery.  To my surprise, I have had many mom's go to war with me over this. I have never put anyone down for taking medicine or said anything negative about it, I just feel that the negatives out weigh the positives for me.  I want to be able to walk around and have gravity help me out but I found out that our hospital does not allow that so I plan on staying at home as long as possible, but that is my plan now. I could very well go in early and want the pain medicine available, but we will have to see.

I'm more than excited to see my little girl and I'm ready to have her on the outside but I'm also not wanting to rush things.  I will have to keep my cool and stay patient a little while longer while she grows to a healthy size.  The doctors have said that she's going to be small (good thing for me) so I don't want her to be too early and be too small. I can't express how much of a Blessing this little one is to me but she is everything to me and she's not even here yet.

I am up way past my bed time so I need to wrap this up.  I hope you enjoy reading about my new journey and if not, that's ok to.