Happy Day!

Wow. I am sure enjoying turning 29!

We went out to Biaggi's last night and it was great. I always love going there. Had a fantastic pasta and the most amazing lemon cake. I've had it twice now. It may be my favorite dessert in the city.

This morning, I stayed in bed until 8:00! This is amazing. I didn't sleep the whole time, but it was nice and relaxing waiting for RJ and Henry to bring me breakfast in bed along with a bag full of my favorite current snacks.

I took a long time getting ready and we went all around to pick out my birthday present, which was getting a baby sling. I was pumped! I've wanted to get one this whole time and RJ said that I had to buy it today. He knows I can draw out a purchase for months trying to find the best deal and he would not put up with it. :) So after looking at 4 different stores and all different prices and styles, I picked an adorable one out at Target. I should have known! Target is always the best. Henry took a nice nap and RJ and I just relaxed and finished up the movie, Henry Poole Is Here. (really good!) RJ left to clean at 6:00 and I've enjoyed a relaxing evening alone. Now just waiting for LOST to start!!

Hope you are all having a great week and are getting ready for snow. Can you believe it? I was really starting to enjoy the warmer weather....

My hubby took tomorrow off. Do-dah. Do-Dah.

My hubby took tomorrow off and I'm so excited I don't want to go to sleep.

(you have to say the last half of the second sentence to make the song work, but it does.
believe me.)

Oohhh, I'm finally in the 30-ish day left range. Yes.

My goal is to not be so complainy this week about being uncomfortably pregnant. Cuz I am. But I'm tired of hearing myself whine about it. I can no longer tie my shoes, but hey, I've at least got some shoes, right?

We had a great weekend. I didn't do a thing. Friday night we went to a friend's for a nice meal and Wii. Saturday we got donuts, walked around Valley Junction, and then the boy and I took a looong nap while RJ cleaned. I'm getting towards the end of a cold and it completely zapped me. A nap did me good, especially since I don't get much sleep in the overnight these days. Today we had church and more doing nothing. There's so much that needs to get done, but that can wait until this week.

This should be a good week! I'll be celebrating the start of my last year in my twenties.......

Thursday!

After an interesting day yesterday, I was a little nervous about how today would go, but it's been a goodie. We got pictures taken at Portrait Innovations yesterday and managed to get one good shot through all his nervousness and whining. Poor boy. Turns out he was exhausted and fell asleep in his stroller a little later at the mall which is something he hasn't done in at least a year! I was so proud of myself for walking out with only purchasing the 9.95 package. I can't believe how many pictures you get for that cheap!

We're heading off to meet RJ for lunch. We had bought $50 worth of coupons for My Favorite Muffin for $25 and this is the first time we're using it. I'm pumped! And it's really close to RJ's work so we don't have to rush.

Anyways, hope you're all having a great day. Henry and I are just chillin and putting lotion on our baby sister. Aka our bellies. It must be so confusing for little kids to understand that they don't have a baby in their belly too!

Thank you, Lord, for a fresh new day. Thank you for the chance to get together with some college girlfriends at the last minute. Thank you for a child who was in the best mood ever today. Thank you for a fantastic husband.

What a great day today! So naturally, I regret writing yesterday's post, but it is nice to hear that I'm not the only mom who almost loses it every now and then. Of course I get overly dramatic and emotional sometimes, but I needed to just get it out. I know the actual seriousness of a nervous break down was no where near me yesterday, but you know what I mean. I was so tired and crabby and way short on patience. Henry and I butted heads on too many occasions. And then today he's sweeter than ever and I just want to squeeze him. Like the kind of squeeze you want to give a cute little puppy.

I'm thankful for forgiveness.

And here's the final reveal! I'm done!! Of course I have a few more ideas up my sleeve, but I'm off to start other projects and will get to those later IF I have the time and energy. And yes, I love to over-embellish!

I got this painting idea from Suite Dreams. You can't really see it, but under each dress is one of the fruits of the spirit....still needs a little work though.

The end!
Oh, and if you'd be interested, I have 2 left over pieces that I don't have room for...they're like the matching swirly silver framed birds that are hung over the dresser. They're yours for free if you'd be interested!

Cravings and Tears

Well, Henry is normal today. Yeah!

I am experiencing the strongest craving of my entire life. It started a few weeks ago. ICE. I think about it all the time. I drink glass of ice with a bit of water all the time. We don't have an ice maker and our ice trays make too big of pieces so I actually buy ice in a bag at the store. I read it can mean you have an iron deficiency, which I do right now and did when I was pregnant with Henry, and it can also be a sign of emotional problems such as stress and obsessive compulsive disorder. Hmmmm. Maybe it's a bit of all the above. Regardless, I want ice NOW.

I just read that Domino Magazine is over. I adore this magazine. What a bummer.

We watched a movie last night, but caught that last 5 minutes of the game. Quite exciting!! I would have preferred a Cardinal win, but at least it was a good game.

Speaking of emotional problems, I've been crying a lot lately and nearly had myself a nervous breakdown today. I really think that could happen to me sometime. Do you ever feel that? Like seriously, I get so close sometimes it scares me. I know I seem all laid back and quiet and easy going and what-not, but you'd be surprised to spend some time in my brain. So today I was at Michael's looking at canvases and I just couldn't do it. I left and drove around until I had to babysit and called RJ and cried. I don't want to paint anymore, or think about it anymore. It stresses me out thinking of what I need to get done before the baby and what I want to get done before the baby. I have such a natural urge in me right now to nest and get everything in my house organized and get everything just right, but I feel like that is the stuff that has to be constantly put off. NOW, having said this, please don't be afraid to ask me to do anything or if you have something in the waiting, don't worry! It's not the small projects I have to do that are stressing me out. I'm just being honest and will probably regret having said all this tomorrow because I just want to make everyone happy. I'm just freaking out a little right now. Once I calm down things will all seem easy again. Plus, Henry just now laid down for his nap so I'm going to take one too. I stayed up until midnight last night and Henry didn't sleep well so that may be 95% of my problem today.

Good night.

Super Not-so-much

Little boy is sick so no party for us today. I don't mind missing the game, but it would have been fun to hang out with all our church friends and I'm really bummed that I now have no reason to make my coconut cake. Unless someone wants to invite themselves over for dessert....
Shopping yesterday was great. We found some good deals and literally shopped until we dropped. Henry was home with RJ all day with a fever and just sat in his lap and cuddled. It was actually kind of nice since a 2 year old rarely does that. He didn't sleep very well last night and then threw up this morning, but it was just once and he seems pretty normal now so it was just a quick illness. In fact, I can hear the boys chasing each other around downstairs right now so I'm pretty sure we're in the clear.

I'm off to work on some projects. I'm starting to realize how soon this baby is coming and there is so much I need to get done beforehand for our house and for other people. Yikes!!