Weekend Update

Okay, no, I'm not trying to be like "Saturday Night Live" and do their version of "Weekend Update". I'm actually trying to be like my stepsister, Amy, who gives her weekend wrap-up on Mondays. I love reading about her weekends. I don't get to talk to her as often as I'd like, so when I get to see what her family did on the weekends, it warms my heart, b/c I feel in some way that I'm a part of it, even though I'm not. Does that make sense?

So, I guess in some way, I'm hoping that someone will care about what I did over the weekend! Anyways, on Thursday of last week, my dad, Sadie, and I all headed to St. Louis to visit my sister. Sadie did super in the car. She skipped her whole nap for the day and was still a little angel. Sorry, I have to brag on her. I just kept popping in different DVD's (which, I ended up laying awake all night for both nights in St. Louis singing songs from Elmo's World, which will leave you feeling like you're in an insane asylum) and she was perfectly happy. We even got a little lost, and didn't get to the hotel until 9:30, which is way past her bedtime, and she was still in the best little mood. Sometimes you gotta just love on your little ones when they are that good.

We picked Rachel up on Friday morning, and when she came running around the corner, she had the biggest smile on her face. It was soooooo good to see her! She has already changed so much for the better, and I can tell that God is doing an awesome work in her life. We had the best time hanging out w/ her on Friday and part of Saturday. We let Sadie ride on her first carousel in the mall in St. Louis. It went up and down and round and round. I was about to puke, but she loved it. Of course, in honor of Dennis, we put her on the deer. Hey, at least it had a pink saddle. I didn't know you could saddle up a deer, but whatever...

The rest of the time, we just talked and talked and laughed and shopped, and ATE! Lordy Mercy (no pun intended) did we eat!!! We ate McDonalds, Chik-fil-A, Nestle cookies from the "Nestle Cookie Cafe (aka - My HEAVEN!)", Cinnamon Roles from Cinnabon, M&M's (which my dad tried to feed to Sadie - um, can we say choking hazard, Poppy???), Cokes, etc. But, it was so much fun. I hated to have to leave her on Saturday. It broke my heart. I miss her. But, she's doing awesome, and it's only been one month, so I can't wait to see what else the Lord is going to do in her life.

Dad, Sadie, and I drove back on Saturday afternoon, and again, she skipped her nap, and was a perfect angel. I can already tell she's going to be a world traveler one day.

Saturday night, we just hung out w/ Dennis and after Sadie went to bed, Dennis went and got dinner for us. A romantic dinner. A dinner like we haven't shared in months! Okay, just kidding. He went and got Krystals. Yes, of all things...Krystals! I'm sorry folks...it sounded so good to me. I'm pregnant. Give me a break here. And, the saddest part is...it didn't hurt my stomach at all, and normally when I eat Krystals, it feels as though a large bomb has been dropped in my stomach.

Sunday, we went to church, and it was a great service. Wonderful music. We sang a song entitled "Thank You, Lord", (not the old song that you sang growing up...this is a new one, and it's awesome!!!!) and I broke down. The Lord has done so much for me and has brought me out of through a lot over the past few years, and has blessed me beyond what I can imagine! It just felt good to say/sing "Thank You" to Him. Many were baptized, and Bro. David had our church do "the wave" for cryin' out loud! Our church was so fired up about the Lord yesterday that we did "the wave". It was amazing. A little strange, but amazing. I think God enjoyed watching His people do the wave for Him. He doesn't think it's weird at all.

Last night, we just hung out and played. Sadie fell asleep on my chest on the couch around 7:15, which wasn't good, b/c it was too close to bedtime, but so precious that I couldn't wake her or move her for a while. It melted my heart to have her lay there on me. It's been so long!!! I can't get her to sit still for one minute, much less curl up beside me and just lay down and fall asleep to the sound of my heartbeat. Luckily, it didn't affect bedtime either.

All in all, it was a great weekend. I think Sadie misses her Poppy though. I had to show her his picture this morning, and she started throwing her arms up and smiling and yelling. It was too cute.

Slow but Steady

Slowly but steadily I am making it through this pregnancy. Some days, it seems as if I've been pregnant forever, and then on other days, I feel as though it's flying by. Today was my 6 month check-up which fell on a day where I feel it's flying by. I couldn't believe I was going in for my 6 month check-up! All was well. Another uneventful visit, but I am not complaining. Today was the day I had to drink the gross glucose drink and have my blood drawn. Last pregnancy, I failed it, and had to do the 3 hour test, so I'm praying and praying that I will pass this time! I don't think I could stand doing the 3 hour test again. But, I left the visit feeling very thankful that all was well. In the next visit or two, we'll set my c-section date. I am looking forward to having a date set in stone.
I took Sadie out to her Grammy's this morning and she got to play on the farm all day. Her cousin McHaney came too. I'm waiting on Rachel to send me some pics so that I can post them. I think it's the first time that Sadie has started crying when I said it was time to go "bye-bye". She was having so much fun. But, everyone else was leaving too, and it was about naptime. She's snoozing away as we speak. I think I might go and do the same!
We're leaving tomorrow for St. Louis for the weekend to visit my sister. It's our 2nd road trip in the past month, but luckily, it's not as far as Tampa! Sadie is becoming our little travelin' gypsy. I went and bought a few new DVD's for her to watch, so hopefully, she'll stay entertained. I think this is the last road trip we'll be taking for a while.
Other than that, our life has been pretty normal the past few weeks. We've started being able to go to the park and walk again at night, and I love it! Sadie just kicks back, throws her feet up in the stroller, and we walk and walk. Plus, it gives Dennis and I about an hour and a half of uninterrupted conversation. Amazing! That doesn't get to happen very often these days! But, it's so nice to enjoy that time together.

Just one of them days!

Woe is me!!! I have to first admit that's what I've been saying all day long. It's just been a bad day! I literally woke up this morning not wanting to get out of bed. For no reason. I began to pray, and I did start to feel better. But, then I start to try and feed Sadie something for breakfast. Well, my child is eating basically nothing right now. She has gone from the BEST eater in the world to a child that will not eat anything! So, every single meal, we sit down, and I try a million different options to see what I can get her to eat. It's become very, very, very frustrating. She won't eat baby food anymore, but yet, she won't eat real food either. Anyways...after breakfast, we head off to Target and Kroger. I'm still having to pray constantly, b/c I just can't seem to shake the feeling that I just want to burst into tears. One of my favorite Christian songs comes on the radio, and as I'm singing along, the station starts to get static, and I can barely hear the song. Of course....anyways, normally, Sadie is a great shopper. I don't ever have to worry about it. But, she whined the whole time in Target. So, I whizzed through and headed to Kroger. It was even worse then. So, I gave her some juice, which normally will keep her quiet for the time being, but she just kept throwing it on the ground. She wasn't trying to be mean, she thought it was funny. So, finally, she threw it and it rolled under a shelf. I was all on fours trying to get this stupid cup out from under the shelf and it was disgusting when I pulled it out. So, no more juice, which made the rest of the shopping trip so much fun. We make it through that, and as I'm putting my groceries in the back of my car, some lady has a horrible wreck right before my eyes. Bless her heart. I think something happened with her wheels or something. But, I kept thinking...what if she had run over me and Sadie??? So, God definitely had His eyes on us during that part, and trust me, I was thankful, despite the crappy day I was having.
We get home, and it's lunch time, so you know what that means. Another round of "what the crap to feed Sadie!!!" So, after who knows how long, and only one piece of cheese bread, I give up, and she goes down for her nap. I forgot to mention, she's had a HORRIBLE diaper rash for the past 5 days, which has turned into blisters, so I had ended up calling the doctor this morning and making her an appt. for this afternoon. Luckily, Sadie's dr. had an appt. open at 4:15.
She gets up from her nap, and we head to the doctor. After waiting in the waiting room for 20 minutes, and then in the actual room for about 35, the doctor comes in. Notice I said "the doctor" and not "Sadie's doctor". The one dang doctor out of this 10-doctor practice that I cannot stand, which made me cry my eyes out when Sadie was 2 weeks old b/c she was such a jerk, comes walking in the room. I just give Dennis "the look". I'm like "you've got to be kidding me". She said that Sadie's doctor was still seeing patients, but that she was all done, so she told our doctor she would come in and see us. Gee, thanks...she was fine though, and prescribed an ointment for us to put on the rash, blah, blah, blah. She redeemed herself by giving us a "coupon" for the ointment where it would supposedly only cost us $10. Notice I said "supposedly".
So, I take the prescription to Walgreens and tell them I'll be back in an hour to pick it up. When I go to pick it up, the Pharmacist tells me that the "coupon" doesn't work at any of the major pharmacies, and she has no idea where we could use it. She wondered why our doctor hadn't told us that...I thought, "oh well, no coupon, no big deal". Well, she then goes on to tell me that the co-pay will be $100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, I had to pay $100 for this ointment, which for most people might not be a big deal, but when I'm already stressed to the max about our financial situation to begin with, and...well, there's more.
I come home, and it's dinnertime, so by now, you know what that means. What to feed Sadie...we try about 4 different things, and I think Dennis finally got a thing of yogurt choked down her. I don't know what the deal is...
I go upstairs to fold Sadie's clothes in the dryer and discover our upstairs air conditioning unit has frozen up and is not working. Thank the Lord the weather people have said this week will be the hottest week of the year so far. What perfect timing!! Especially for a fat pregnant person who is sweating all of the time already anyways!
Whew! What a day, what a day. I feel like I may need to just go on and get in the bed before any other bad things head my way. But, in order to get in the bed, I have to go upstairs, which means "LET THE SWEATING BEGIN!"

The Most Amazing Video

I was told about this video on UTube by my hairdresser a few months ago, and I've been dying to get my hands on it ever since. She couldn't even tell me about it without crying her eyes out. My stepsister sent it to my mom, b/c she said that it reminded her of what my sister has been through. Wow...I just watched it, and I can barely breathe. Please, please, please take the 5 and 1/2 minutes it takes to watch and listen to this video/drama. It's amazing. That's all I can say. If you've ever been in a place in your life before where you feel like this girl...Where you feel like you're being pulled away from God by all of the "worldly" things. Just know that God is always there, fighting right along side of you to get you back to Him, right where you belong...safe in His loving arms.
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ee73e63418003b47d7d5