Friday, October 17, 2008
A Prenatal Patsy- if you will
I know everyone who reads this has seen me recently except for Amy, so here Amy, this is for you. I have become a prenatal patsy. My stomach has become a huge round bulge that protrudes a LOT. This is me at... 30 1/2 weeks or something like that. Bulgy, huh. Well it's inevitable I suppose.
For some reason a real frosty glass of Lemonade is perpetually appealing to me and has been for my whole pregnancy. Refreshing.
Not last week but the week before I had the wonderful pleasure of an impromptu visit from Bethany and Ben. Ben came to work for Evan and Kyle and Bethany came to hang out. Ben only ended up working one day, so I'm not sure it was a worth while trip for them, but it was worth while for me. They got here late late Tuesday night, or you could say early Wednesday morning. On Wednesday we got to work and made a list of all the things we wanted to fit in while she was here. Im not going to lie. A lot of them included food. On Wednesday we went to my midwife appointment, watched Friends, made our infamous tunamelt for lunch, had naps, went to Costco and came home and let Ben make dinner for us. It was yummy. Ben makes a mean perogy. Kyle has since requested that I make them like that. It involves lemon juice. (there may have been a kripsy kremes glutton that took place at some point, what of it?) Then I had Young Women's and B&B went to a movie. After all that we played Canasta. I have to say I didnt feel like cards that night, especially learning a new game and it was really confusing for me. Not the most enjoyable time, but that's what everyone else wanted to do, so who was I to say no? Thursday I had to work. Which sucked. In my mind, originally, Ben and Bethany were staying until Friday early evening so I thought at least we'd have wednesday and friday to do things. This wasnt the case. They ended up leaving Friday morning. So, I really only got a day and a half with Bethany. Anyway Thursday morning Ann took Adriel so Bethany and I could go out together. Ben stayed home from work. We left him behind, which I felt somewhat guilty for because I know he was bored in our house. Poor Ben. We went for our "tradition" to the Buzz coffee house on uplands. It was one that we had been meaning to go to for a long time, since we realized its existence. It really didn't disappoint at ALL. It was so big and spacious with lots of nice places to sit. And all their treats looked yummy, and the hot chocolate was really good and we shared a ham and cheese croissant. Like I said the treats looked yummy but we didn't get any that time because we weren't in the mood for that much sweet. We did not regret our choice. We left feeling quite satisfied with our experience. We want to go again. I really miss tradition with Bethany. It was a fun thing to do in the winter months. Now Bethany will never live here again and we'll never have tradition again on a regular basis. That makes me feel sad. Why do things have to change? We then headed to the mall where we browsed around and bethany may or may not have found a something for a fub whose name she has for Christmas. Whether or not it was something cute is information I cannot divulge at this time. For all you know it could have been a hairy handbag. We stopped quickly for some sushi at seto sushi by my house on the way home. We have a favourite there. It's the tuna roll. We also shared a dynamite roll which was also rather tasty. Bethany kindly told me about how many calories one california roll has and it didnt sit well with me. We came home, gobbled and I set out to leave. As I was leaving, I picked up my shoe, which was sitting on the bottom shelf of my shoe rack. They are the cute black plaid flats that Amy gave me with a little bow on the toe. (as a side note, Amy, you should know that I LOVE them and get a lot of use out of them, especially for work.) There was what I thought was a bit of a dust bunny-ish stuff on the toe, that I quickly brushed off...when out came a HUGE UGLY spider!!!!!! I totally freaked out, threw the shoe, screamed several times and went into hysterics. Ben of course came running thinking something terrible had happened. Well something terrible DID happen, and it was very traumatic for me. Thank goodness he was there, and he killed it for me, and wiped up it's remains. Kyle would never have done that. He thinks he's more entitled to his fear of spiders than me. It will ALWAYS be my job to kill the spiders in our house. It's not even a matter of negotiation. This, I failed to find out before promising to be his wife forever. May I recommend to those of you who are single and not in a lega and binding agreement- find out about the spider thing before you bother getting serious. It still pains me to think of that experience. To think I could have innocently put my foot in that shoe....!!!!
When I came home from work, Martha was visiting. Bethany and I set to work, creating a dinner of spaghetti and dough boys. I had the specific role of the dip and flip, until it proved too high maintenance to do that and make spaghetti at the same time. That's when Bethany took over. Ben didnt want any seasoning salt on his. This astonished Kyle. I believe he called it blasphemy or sac religious. We had a feast. Martha stayed a while and helped me clean up which was nice because it created a big mess. Then we watched so you think you can dance. Kyle went to bed. I stayed up talking to Bethany and Ben for a long time after. One of those nights where you know it's late and you're going to be tired, and yet, don't want to move, and then things to talk about keep coming, so you keep talking. There was a point where I offended Ben in asking him about the crib he's planning on making for their unborn child. He had to get up and leave the room for a minute to calm down. Who knew the crib was such a touchy subject??
The next morning Bethany said she wanted an omelet. I spoke of my favourite omelet from Ricky's with tomato, prawns, pesto and goat cheese. In fact I couldn't get it out of my head. So we went to Ricky's for breakfast. Going out for breaky is something I love to do, but don't do very often due to lack of money and people to go with. It was as good as I had always remembered, and I don't think Bethany was disappointed. Ben just got whatever the biggest breakfast was and even though I ordered for Adriel, he was always more interested in what Ben was eating. So Ben was obliged to share. We were supposed to leave straight from there to the ferry but Ben forgot his cell at my house. So we doubled back (sort of- I was planning on taking the park way from the restaraunt) and picked it up. And then she was gone. Just like that. She came, she was here for not nearly enough and then gone again. I thoroughly enjoyed her stay and we managed to surprisingly get a lot into the small time she was here, and I'm glad about that. More change is in the wind what with babies on the way, and I'm not sure impromptu visits from her will be likely. I know the idea of my driving up there with two kids isn't all that likely either. Why do sisters have to move far away??? Bethany, you better visit me more before that babelet comes!!!
Halloween is coming and I'm excited. Adriel is going to be a bear and not to sound like a biased mother, but it's SO cute on him!!! Also, we leave that night to go on an over night temple trip with the stake and youth. They're putting us up in a hotel. We haven't been to the temple since Bean's wedding, so it will be nice to get the chance to go before my baby comes.
Speaking of Halloween, I feel the need to tell a certain story about Tracy. Kyle and I were visiting her and Jordan halloween evening when they lived in the basement suite that we're in now. It was a Sunday, and I believe later everyone came over to play games or something. Anyway, for the trick or treaters, Tracy was giving left over suckers from the previous year. So we're talking one year old average regular and fairly boring suckers. At least as a trick or treater I was never too excited for them. One of the popular costumes that year (well it has been for many years now) was the "scream" costume with the skeleton with the droopy jaw thing. You know, it looks like it's howling and LOTS of kids wear it? Well Tracy was convinced that this one kid who was wearing that costume had been there before and had come back to get more candy. She stood in the door way accusing and scolding and whitholding the suckers from this kid who was innocently insisting that he'd never been there. She was totally giving him the third degree. Like as if someone would come back to swindle another sucker! Finally I pointed out that lots of kids had that costume, and she let up. I couldnt believe she was being so relentless about it, convinced that everyone wanted to cheat her out of her one year old suckers. I mean, come on, it's not as if she was giving out full sized chocolate bars. That's when you need to be on the look out for someone trying to score more. It's a fun thing to tease her about if it should ever come up...
And it's taken me two days and several interruptions to get this post out, so I hope it's worth the read.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 4:28 PM
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Just some random thoughts In general, being pregnant, I have aches in my upper/inner thighs. When I get up from sitting for a long period of time, I feel stiff and like a waddling old lady. Walking is starting to come slower and slower. I can't even console myself with "well it's only because I'm pregnant, and I wont be pregnant forever" because then the thought of how it's going to get so much worse, and I'll have to endure a lot more pain before it's over throws me back into feeling somewhat sorry for myself.
One thing I'm very thankful for is the opportunity to shower on a regular basis. That's something that I don't want to take for granted. You know, since thanksgiving is coming up, why not be thankful for some stuff?
It's gonna be a gray week.
On Saturday I flat ironed Katie's hair with my new flat iron. It was SO straight!! It was weird. It's just weird to see Katie with straight hair. She looks pretty and everything, it just doesnt feel like Katie. I don't know. Other people can straighten their hair and they're still themselves. Not Katie. She's curly. But it's still fun to do every now and again. Then I painted her toes, and she slaved away at getting the nail polish off mine, but we were interrupted by Elizabeth before we had the chance to add more polish. We watched Northanger Abby for the second time in about a month or so. Brent rented it for us without knowing we'd just watched it, so we watched it again, but did other stuff, like the above mentioned.
Sunday morning is my morning to sleep in, and I love it!!! I can stay late at Katies and not worry because I'm not possibly getting up at 6 the next morning. Adriel always cries when he sees that it's daddy who's getting up with him, not me and it makes me feel good that he loves me as I fall back to sleep. He get's over it pretty quickly. I can't help but feel bad for Kyle though. I mean, he wants Adriel to love him so badly and he never wins when up against me. What can I say? We're best buds. Adriel does love Kyle though. I mean I didnt want to give the impression that he doesn't. Oh well, this is what I always wanted, ever since Avereigh and Brenna were babies. I wanted to be the most favourite above all one day, and that's what being a mom means. Apparently boys tend to be mama's boys while they're young.
I did a basket weavey thing in my hair today. One on each side- as a way of putting it sort of half up-ish. It was easy and a 'lil but fun. I like discovering new hair things on myself. I can do it on other people all the time, but rarely does it work on my own hair.
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Sarahstottle posted @ 9:03 AM