32wk Doctors appt

Well we had our 32wk appointment today and all is looking good. The heart beat is still strong and sounding good. The baby is still high and even though I have lots of braxton hicks contractions and a tiny bit of cramping, it doesn't seem to be affecting anything so there is no worry about going into premature labour. I have my next 3 appointments already scheduled so we have a 36wk, 38wks, 39wks appointments on the calendar. We have our Breastfeeding class tonight and CPR course tomorrow and Thursday night this week. Our birthing course starts May 7th and continues for the next three Mondays after. I guess having all these course are telling us that the time is getting closer for the baby day, however it still seem really far away till mid June.

Finally getting some Scrapbooking done!!!

Finally getting some craft out of the way. Last night and today I worked on pasting in some pages of my scrapbook about Tom and I. So I am getting old pages together. Here are a few pictures of my progress. Sorry if some are a little blurry.

Strange how things work....

...out in life. I have been looking for a good job for what? a year and a half and I had an okay one for 6 months. Well I stopped looking anyhow because we found out about the little one on the way and the fact that that there was no such thing as morning sick but all day 24/7 puking sickness for the first four months. Late Friday I got a call from a resource technology company that Google bought to recruit people for massage therapy for their company. It's not completely what I would like in a job because you have to start off with doing chair massage but everything else is perfect with the job. So in the end I told them to keep me in mind and that I was interested but where I am potentially due less than 9 wks away I won't be able to work for a bit, so I am told to contact them when I am ready to go back to work, where there is normal always 1-2 spot open. Tom and I talked this morning after I called them back and where it's part time 3 days a week 2-7pm job, I might be going to work after the baby depending on how things go later with the baby....meaning probably not till 6 months after the baby. Tom can probably come home and work from home while I am at work. It's really strange how things come around, I wish that I got this call over a year ago. It would have made a lot of things easier for us. Plus I would feel comfortable in this work environment because it would be employees and and not just any Joe off the street.

30 wks and approximently 10wks to go!!!

I am hoping these next 10wks will go fast. I am having a lot more trouble walking around now with a lot of lower back and sciatic pain where I can't put much weight on my left leg. Lets hope that it's just a spell and not going to last long or get worst over for the rest of the pregnancy. We are still trying to figure out what to do with some of the stuff that we have in our small tin can and as well buy an apartment size deep freezer so I can cook some casseroles and dinners that can be frozen and used when the baby is here. I just hope that we figure it out before the baby comes. Tom started thinking that we will rent a storage cube close buy to put stuff in just b/c you never know when we will need it....ugh. I am dumbing out some of the small junk around the place and I going to have to re-organizes some of the cupboards and our bedroom closet shelf, so much to do.

This weekend we didn't do too much. Saturday we went to Santa Cruz and spent the night, which was just nice to get away from the apartment for a bit. We went to the Santa Cruz boardwalk and laid on the beach for a few hours just smelling the ocean air and listening to the waves. It wasn't that warm and the wind was blowing but it was still relaxing. We didn't go on any rides b/c I am not allowed on any, but we played some arcade games and walked around the fair grounds.

Now we are just taking the rest of Sunday as an easy day and picking more things up around the apartment. Well I hope everyone had a good Easter Weekend.

Baby shower box

Today we got a baby shower box in the mail from my mom and sister sandy. It was really nice of them to send a shower gift box. I picked up the box and took it to Tom's work so we could open it up together in the car. It was a wonderful Baby shower box I must say. They sent the normal baby shower gifts which is really great. My mom even put in the hospital outfit that I came home in that was knitted by my great Aunt Geneva and my own baby blanket for the baby. Thank you oh so much. Here are some pictures.



We also have to thank Trevor and Sarah for they have sent us a few things as well. I must say tom liked the Edmonton Oiler stuff and the little stuff Canadian moose was really great as well, especially since we really don't have anything Canadian down here. Thank you guys.

Living in a can and loosing my mind....

.....yup that is me. I have been trying to clean and get rid of stuff to make more room in this tiny tin can that we live in. I have thrown some stuff out but not enough and I can't get rid of some things by myself b/c well I can't lift the armour, or the gliding chair anymore, that I need to get rid of because there is no room and they are just sitting in the closet anyhow. I took apart of the crappy surround sound home theater system that we have today because well tom turns off the subwoofer b/c it's too loud for the apartment, the speaker cut in and out and the rears are unplugged, I have no idea why. So why do we have it all if we aren't using them....they are going out the door to goodwill. Now where to put the computer????? I just can't think of that at the moment at all. What to do with the kitty litter? I have no idea yet either but at least I don't have to worry too much about that till the little on starts to crawl thank goodness.

I am coming to the conclusion that I will be over 40 before we will be living in something bigger, which is depressing and to tell you the truth being forty won't be the depressing part but just knowing that we have lived most of my life in a tin can does. Time flies by so fast, and 40 is only 13 years away for me and 10 yrs away from Tom, it's crazy how time flies. I guess at least one day even if we are old we will have a bigger place or maybe not because once the kids are grown, we'll probably down size to a smaller place...So maybe we'll just keep living in the tin can. No one can say that time doesn't fly. I look at my nephews and nieces and well the oldest is 7 years old now, I was in UNI when he was born and was around to babysit him. I don't know how he got to be 7 already. Just ask your parents if they can believe how old all their children are. I bet they can remember like it was just yesterday when they had their first child or even when they brought each of us home.

I was day dreaming the other day and started looking at housing around here and well we are only 700,000 dollars short hahahaha, you know just pocket change. Well not our pockets I have checked. We couldn't even afford the low income senior housing here that were for sale in the mobile park, I guess with prices like these I can keep dreaming. Dreams are nice to have so well I guess I will try to keep that in mine. It's not so much as not having a house but the fact that it would be nice to live in a space that is bigger than a 850 sq ft cube.

However I try to remember all the more positive stuff like I am so thankful that tom and I go on trips and see different parts of the world, that is so important to us. I just couldn't imagine living in one area and never experience anything else out there. There is so many amazing thing out there to see and we have only been to three different countries, beside Canada and have only seen a little part of each of those countries. Hopefully it will continue to happen even when this little one comes in June. This little one might see more of the world before s/he can really remember it but at least we will have some pictures of it. Where to go next? who knows there is so much of Europe we want to see, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, just few examples and other places as will outside of Europe.

Well It's been a while I guess from the last update on how the baby and I are doing. We had a doctors appointment last Monday and things were good, the heart rate was strong and I was measuring right on target, so no concerns yet. I getting really tired mostly because I don't sleep anymore. Most nights I am up 6 times just because I wake up, sometimes to pee or my hips are killing me. So I am thinking that not sleep now is just preparing for when the baby is here. Tom's been really good dealing with me and my lack of sleep I must add b/c lack of sleep and pregnancy hormones just don't mix that well for me. However I got to get tom on board about realizing that 10 wks and a few days is not that far off, and has to start helping me prepare more instead of thinking we have all the time in the world till this little one comes. If you know tom well than you know his frame of time lines and distance is not that good. Some of you might remember a walk from our old place in Ottawa to Hull and he said it was about a 5 min walk when it's more like a 30min walk. Well I think that's it for now not much news just one very pregnant women's rambles.