My brother Will goes to this one Chinese restaurant so much that when he arrives without his fiance they say "Oh Will where your girlfriend?" Since Will keeps them in business, they gave him a Chinese calendar which informed us all that this is the Chinese Year of the Rat.
Gross.
So I am taking it upon myself to declare this year instead....dum dum dum
The Year of the BOY.
See pretty much everyone I know that is due in 2008 is having a boy.
1+1=4 just had twin boys
Our friends from college are waiting on their twin boys any day now *edited to say TODAY they are having their boys
Hillary is having a boy in March
SB is pretty sure she's having a boy in April
It's a Mom Thing is having a boy in May
Lauren and Chad are having their first baby early June- its a.....wait for it.....Boy
J's brother and wife are adding another little Caskey boy
Two other friends in the same SS Class with It's a Mom Thing and Lauren and my SIL are due in June and having boys (that's 5 boys in one month in that SS class!)
Bethany is having baby boy #2 as well as Michelle
Have I convinced you yet??? I do know one girl from that same SS class in G'ville that is due to have a girl really soon. Jeni is waiting on her little girl any day now too.
As it stands 13 boys to 2 girls. I have two friends in Spartanburg who have had their big ultrasounds and chosen not to find out the gender! Actually one of them is having her second baby and both times her husband found out but she doesn't!! How he keeps that a secret is beyond me!
So we have our ultrasound next Tuesday..... I thought I'd put a poll up because what is the fun of having a blog if you can't poll your readers every now and again.
You can vote and be anonymous but I would love it if you would leave a comment telling me which one you voted for and why. I have no mother's intuition with this one but I feel like I need to at least have a solid guess before next Tuesday.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Today was supposed to be the day....
I was down to one lone Zofran tablet in my prescription bottle. I hit 19 weeks today well past the 17.5 weeks that I was when I stopped throwing up with Kiran. So I decided not to ask for another prescription at my dr's appt last week because I was certain all this mess was past.
Let's just say... today did not go as planned. I threw up or as my nephew says I spilled a few times in the morning. I couldn't keep any food down and gatorade only stayed down a little while. Finally after spilling all morning, feeling just awful, and not being able to keep any food in my stomach, I called the OB nurse and talked it out with her. I ended up getting another prescription called in. I took my last Zofran and slept for the hour Kiran slept. When I woke up, I felt like a completely different person.
So I have 45 days worth of medicine which should take me well into my 25th week. I'm praying that by then my hormone levels or whatever is causing this crazy spilling will have leveled out. I'm hopeful that I won't need any more medicine and will feel good! I really enjoyed being pregnant last time once I got through the sickness and I'm looking forward to that. I am really thankful that the medicine works so well because I know for some people even the medicine isn't enough to help them feel better.
Kiran was really great about playing by herself and letting me go night-night on the floor all morning. She also entertained herself while I was otherwise occupied. See?
That would be two bags of cotton balls.
One time when I was sick, she brought me her Santa (the blanket head thing she sleeps with) and her blanket. Then she just sat there with her hand on my arm. It was so sweet I almost cried. And then I threw up.
Let's just say... today did not go as planned. I threw up or as my nephew says I spilled a few times in the morning. I couldn't keep any food down and gatorade only stayed down a little while. Finally after spilling all morning, feeling just awful, and not being able to keep any food in my stomach, I called the OB nurse and talked it out with her. I ended up getting another prescription called in. I took my last Zofran and slept for the hour Kiran slept. When I woke up, I felt like a completely different person.
So I have 45 days worth of medicine which should take me well into my 25th week. I'm praying that by then my hormone levels or whatever is causing this crazy spilling will have leveled out. I'm hopeful that I won't need any more medicine and will feel good! I really enjoyed being pregnant last time once I got through the sickness and I'm looking forward to that. I am really thankful that the medicine works so well because I know for some people even the medicine isn't enough to help them feel better.
Kiran was really great about playing by herself and letting me go night-night on the floor all morning. She also entertained herself while I was otherwise occupied. See?
That would be two bags of cotton balls.
One time when I was sick, she brought me her Santa (the blanket head thing she sleeps with) and her blanket. Then she just sat there with her hand on my arm. It was so sweet I almost cried. And then I threw up.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Decals
Today I put decals on the rear window of my car.
I just got the Furman one for Christmas. And we picked up the OBX one on our honeymoon in 2003.
But this Brisbane one. This one I've been saving for a special place since I lived in Brisbane for a semester in college. In 2001.
I just got the Furman one for Christmas. And we picked up the OBX one on our honeymoon in 2003.
But this Brisbane one. This one I've been saving for a special place since I lived in Brisbane for a semester in college. In 2001.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Favorite Photos of 2007 Part 3
Here is the last installment of my favorite photos of 2007.
This is 9.5 month old Kiran eating sand at the beach at Litchfield, SC. We were able to go to the beach with Jonathan's family and enjoy some quality time with them.
It had been 14 months since Dad and two sons were in the same place at the same time. One of the biggest highlights of 2007 was returning to America and getting to spend time with our families. It was special to share Kiran with all her aunts, uncles and cousins that she hadn't even met before.
This beach picture was from the Edisto Beach Extravaganza of 2007. We spent a week beachfront with my parents, my siblings, my niece & nephew, my aunts, my uncles, my cousins. 20 people total. It was so fun. I choose this picture because it reminds me of that week but also because Kiran is just fascinated by the sand. It really symbolizes that childlike curiosity to me.
We bought our first house!! We still look around in awe at what God has provided here in BS. It was so obvious to us that God had his hand in every step by how everything fell into place exactly as needed. We moved back to America in June on faith that God was leading us back but not having any definite plans. Jonathan interviewed for a job in late June, was offered the job in early July and started mid-July. We closed on our first house on August 30. Now if we could just find a church home...
I don't think I need to explain why I choose this one. My little roaring lion.
I think this is my fave shot of the two of us. It was Halloween night. Kiran was having a ball with all the trick-or-treaters that came to our house. She had long since lost the lion outfit. Plus, this was the day after we found out our family was expanding. So that made me pretty happy as well.
We ended 2007 in the High Country celebrating Jill's wedding to Craig. My parents kept Kiran so we had a really nice weekend away with my college roommates. It was also a homecoming of sorts for us since we lived in the High Country for the year before we moved overseas. We both fell in love with that area and keep asking God to provide a way for us to move back!
2007 was awesome, hard, full of change but full of promises fulfilled. I wonder what my pictures of 2008 will show.
This is 9.5 month old Kiran eating sand at the beach at Litchfield, SC. We were able to go to the beach with Jonathan's family and enjoy some quality time with them.
It had been 14 months since Dad and two sons were in the same place at the same time. One of the biggest highlights of 2007 was returning to America and getting to spend time with our families. It was special to share Kiran with all her aunts, uncles and cousins that she hadn't even met before.
This beach picture was from the Edisto Beach Extravaganza of 2007. We spent a week beachfront with my parents, my siblings, my niece & nephew, my aunts, my uncles, my cousins. 20 people total. It was so fun. I choose this picture because it reminds me of that week but also because Kiran is just fascinated by the sand. It really symbolizes that childlike curiosity to me.
We bought our first house!! We still look around in awe at what God has provided here in BS. It was so obvious to us that God had his hand in every step by how everything fell into place exactly as needed. We moved back to America in June on faith that God was leading us back but not having any definite plans. Jonathan interviewed for a job in late June, was offered the job in early July and started mid-July. We closed on our first house on August 30. Now if we could just find a church home...
I don't think I need to explain why I choose this one. My little roaring lion.
I think this is my fave shot of the two of us. It was Halloween night. Kiran was having a ball with all the trick-or-treaters that came to our house. She had long since lost the lion outfit. Plus, this was the day after we found out our family was expanding. So that made me pretty happy as well.
We ended 2007 in the High Country celebrating Jill's wedding to Craig. My parents kept Kiran so we had a really nice weekend away with my college roommates. It was also a homecoming of sorts for us since we lived in the High Country for the year before we moved overseas. We both fell in love with that area and keep asking God to provide a way for us to move back!2007 was awesome, hard, full of change but full of promises fulfilled. I wonder what my pictures of 2008 will show.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Education 101
Yesterday I started going through my notebooks from all my education classes at Furman. I could have saved a lot of trees if I had known how to print front and back in college. But I'm saving all that clean backed paper now for printing and coloring purposes. And I've found a few things in my Art Ed notebook that will be useful for upcoming art projects with Kiran. I'm recycling anything I can and throwing away the rest.
But I'm actually in a grieving process of sorts. I didn't realize how hard it would be to get rid of these notebooks. I guess they are my last link to my education degree and teaching career. I worked for 4 years to earn that degree and then taught my heart out for 2 years. I haven't taught in 2.5 years and I haven't missed it. I wanted to be passionate about teaching...but I wasn't. I was passionate about my students and they were the reason I got up in the morning and went to bed early at night (school starts early). They helped me survive and thrive (and Miss Lucas at Happy Valley- oh the Lord knew what He was doing when He brought both of us there for that particular year).
I don't see myself ever teaching full time again. The only teaching role I see myself taking is one to my children. I use my education degree every day with Kiran already, and I know it will only be used more as she gets older and as I have more children. I am thankful for that knowledge I have due to my college education.
I think I will have a career outside the home again someday. I don't at this point in my life have an idea of what it will look like. I know that being a stay at home mom is my passion. It fits in a way that teaching never did. I love what I do. I feel productive, fulfilled, purposeful. I am not saying that I am always productive, always satisfied, always purposeful. But most days, I go to bed very peaceful and content about the place I am in and the goals driving me forward.
But I grieve the ending of a season. Change is always bittersweet isn't it?
But I'm actually in a grieving process of sorts. I didn't realize how hard it would be to get rid of these notebooks. I guess they are my last link to my education degree and teaching career. I worked for 4 years to earn that degree and then taught my heart out for 2 years. I haven't taught in 2.5 years and I haven't missed it. I wanted to be passionate about teaching...but I wasn't. I was passionate about my students and they were the reason I got up in the morning and went to bed early at night (school starts early). They helped me survive and thrive (and Miss Lucas at Happy Valley- oh the Lord knew what He was doing when He brought both of us there for that particular year).
I don't see myself ever teaching full time again. The only teaching role I see myself taking is one to my children. I use my education degree every day with Kiran already, and I know it will only be used more as she gets older and as I have more children. I am thankful for that knowledge I have due to my college education.
I think I will have a career outside the home again someday. I don't at this point in my life have an idea of what it will look like. I know that being a stay at home mom is my passion. It fits in a way that teaching never did. I love what I do. I feel productive, fulfilled, purposeful. I am not saying that I am always productive, always satisfied, always purposeful. But most days, I go to bed very peaceful and content about the place I am in and the goals driving me forward.
But I grieve the ending of a season. Change is always bittersweet isn't it?
Monday, February 4, 2008
Baby Appt
I saw my OB again today. Everything is fine. I love hearing the heartbeat- 150 today. They took blood for the Quad screen. I absentmindedly scheduled our insurance medical tests for today too. So I had blood taken out of both arms. Nice.
My next appt is my ultrasound scheduled on the 19th. Two weeks from tomorrow. We are hoping Baby Grant will cooperate and show us what he/she is! I keep flip-flopping back and forth in my mind. With Kiran, I knew just knew that it was a girl. I haven't had that at all this time. Everyone I know that has found out what they are having lately is having a BOY. Hum............
My next appt is my ultrasound scheduled on the 19th. Two weeks from tomorrow. We are hoping Baby Grant will cooperate and show us what he/she is! I keep flip-flopping back and forth in my mind. With Kiran, I knew just knew that it was a girl. I haven't had that at all this time. Everyone I know that has found out what they are having lately is having a BOY. Hum............
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Super Bowl
J & I are watching the Super Bowl at home. alone. So in our solitareness, we were reminiscing about some of our favorite Super Bowl memories.
4 years ago, we watched the Super Bowl at Brian & Annie's house. We had the halftime show on and were sort of watching it. Janet Jackson was performing and all of the sudden we said
"Did she....?"
"What the...?"
"No it couldn't have been...."
"Yeah it was."
Last year J and Brett got up at 4:30am and hosted a Super Bowl party in our den while Kiran, Merritt & I slept away.
Well that was the best of the memories.
But this weekend has been very lucky for us. We went to the Wofford-Furman basketball game on Saturday. While the game was atrocious, some guy hit a half court shot and each adult for a free pizza from Papa John's. Thank you dude- whoever you were.
And this morning at church, the pastor threw out these footballs and I got a lucky one that was marked. I got a free super bowl t shirt and plastic mug.
I'm thinking about going to buy a lottery ticket.
4 years ago, we watched the Super Bowl at Brian & Annie's house. We had the halftime show on and were sort of watching it. Janet Jackson was performing and all of the sudden we said
"Did she....?"
"What the...?"
"No it couldn't have been...."
"Yeah it was."
Last year J and Brett got up at 4:30am and hosted a Super Bowl party in our den while Kiran, Merritt & I slept away.
Well that was the best of the memories.
But this weekend has been very lucky for us. We went to the Wofford-Furman basketball game on Saturday. While the game was atrocious, some guy hit a half court shot and each adult for a free pizza from Papa John's. Thank you dude- whoever you were.
And this morning at church, the pastor threw out these footballs and I got a lucky one that was marked. I got a free super bowl t shirt and plastic mug.
I'm thinking about going to buy a lottery ticket.
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