36 weeks... almost there!

So I've made it to 36 weeks so far!! YAY! Everything is fine except that I have a low blood count. I was put on iron pills today for it. I think that's what was causing some of my problems I was having such as sleepiness and the heart racing. So hopefully the iron pills will help with that. I've started getting Braxton Hicks Contractions a few days ago. It was really bad last night. I think I had about 6 of them. I had about 5 today. I think it's really getting close. I hope he stays in there though for another 2 weeks.

My cat is still sick. He has made some really huge improvements, but still will not eat on his own. I feel that in maybe 2 weeks he might be able to take better care for himself without me having to syringe feed him every 2-3 hours. It would be very stressfull doing that while taking care of a newborn. I love my cat so much (His name is Prozac) and I really want him to get better. He started sleeping on the end of the bed two nights ago. Something he used to do all the time, but hasn't done since the move. So I really think he's coming around. Like I said, I just need a little more time with him. I'll post a picture of my precious Prozac to! :D

33 weeks!

So I've made it to 33 weeks this Saturday. I'm so exhausted. I'm ready for this pregnancy to be over. It's just to the point where it's just plain painful. Not to mention all the stress I've been under lately. After Randy died, Prozac (my cat) got really sick. He still is sick and nothing I do seems to help. I've been force feeding him for 3 weeks now. It's so tiering and I already do not have energy. I try to feed him every 3 hours and I stop at night, but I think maybe I should feed him thru the night if I want him to recover faster. *sigh* I'm just soooooo ready for everything to turn back to normal so I can just look forward to my new baby.

Sad post: Step-Dad passed away :(

Like this year hasn't been stressfull enough for us. I got a call Friday morning from my mom saying that her husband Randy died. He was having chest pains and she took him to the ER in the middle of the night. They hooked him up to heart monitors for 3 hours and sent him home saying he had indigestion! He went on to work the next morning and fell out of his chair onto the floor. He had a heart attack and it was to late to do anything for him although the people around him at the time did CPR and everything they could for him. I'm so mad at the hospital that they couldn't have caught the problem earlier when he was there. My mom married him when I was 15, I'm now 29, so I've become really close to him.

I feel so bad to that we just moved 6 hours away and I cannot be there for my mom like I want to. Our "old" house was only 2 streets over from her. There is no family there besides my sister. His family lives 2 hours away and the rest of ours live 3 states up north. My sister was on vacation in another state when she got the call, so my poor mom was all alone when she found out. Randy's family drove down to be with her since they were closer, but that was 2 hours she had to spend alone in that house surrounded by his things. It rips my heart to peices!

He was burried 2 hours up north in his family's cemetary yesterday. I was there for her for the wake Saturday for 6 long hours and the funeral yesterday as well, but we had to come back home. He was the kind of person who could bring a smile to your face no matter what situation you were facing. He was always smiling and laughing. And if something broke he was always more then willing to fix it. From car trouble to plumbing, he was always there when you needed him. It's especially hard for me because he was going to be the grandfather of the baby. I don't have contact with my real dad, so he's all I had. He was so excited about the baby to, it breaks my heart that our baby will never know him. He would have made the perfect grandfather.

Well, I haven't really slept in the last 4 days so I'm going to try and get some sleep before James gets home from work.

We got the house! :)

Okay, so we've been back and forth many times trying to close on this house and now it's ours. We've been in the house now for about 3 weeks. The neighborhood is really nice and quite. We also have put up a fence so we can let our dog out and just run free. He loves it. It's his first time outside without a leash and he's 4 years old!!! My bunny rabbit died right after the move. I guess the stress was to much for him :( My cats (I have 6!!) however are doing good, except my Siamese. It's taking her a little longer to adjust, but I think she'll be fine. I bring my smallest cat (6 months old) to the vet tomorrow to get fixed. I kind of favor him the most recently because I found him the same day I thought I was having a miscarriage and he really lifted my spirits that week. So I pray my little boy will be okay tomorrow.
I'm officially in my third trimester now. Saturday made 28 weeks for me. I can't believe how the time just flew by. I guess because we were so busy. I did have a major scare Saturday night. I was getting ready for bed around 10pm and I started bleeding! I tried to keep my calm (it was hard) and went straight to the ER. Lucky for me my regular doctor was on call at the hospital that night. I stoped bleeding as soon as I got into a room (of course). So I was put on 2 different types of fetal monitors. One for the heartbeat and one for contractions. I wasn't having any contractions thank God. My doc did an exam and my cervix was still closed so she didn't seem concerned. I still had to stay there until 2am to have the baby monitored and to be sure it wasn't the start of preterm labor. Everything checked out fine with the monitoring and I was sent home. I wish they could have told me EXACTLY what was causing the bleeding, but they couldn't. So I've been resting alot since then just to be safe. I bleed early on from week 6 thru week 10 and I hate that it's come back. Hopefully it was just a one time thing this time.

Still waiting to close!

So we are having so many problems trying to close. Long story short, we had to use a relocation company provided by my husbands employer. The man on our case has to be the most laziest person on the planet and we couldn't switch, we are stuck with him. He went on vacation for a week in the middle of everything and left a girl in charge that didn't know squat about anything. When he came back everything was still a mess, although I don't blame the poor girl, he left her poorly informed. The bank has been ready to hand the money over to the seller, but the relocation guy didn't do the paperwork right and it's taking him forever! We had to get 2 extentions already and the seller is ready to back out. We are now told "Maybe" Monday we can close. Urgggg! Its so awful. I already went there twice, which is a 6 hour car drive just to have to come back home!

The pregnancy is going great! My body..... not so much! I've had bad back problems before I got pregnant and had to see a chiropractor once a month for it. It was mostly from 2 car accidents and also waiting tables for 7 years straight really did a number on my spine as well! My chiropractor warned me that if I was to get pregnant I'd have alot of back problems and boy was he right! I have NEVER experienced this kind of pain before in my life. And there is nothing I can take for it besides Tylenol, which does NOTHING! Being in the car for even 10 minutes makes the pain so much worse. It's up and down my middle back along the spine and my lower right rib. The rib actually feels as if it is broken! So all this back and forth in the car for 6 hours is just awful. The pain gets so bad I feel like I'm going to pass out, which sometimes I wish I could just pass out so I wouldn't feel it. I love that I'm pregnant, but I wish I could just "enjoy" it more right now. I was hoping to have another baby down the road, but this has me thinking twice about it, which also leaves me feeling guilty. I wanted my son to have a sibling.

On a much lighter note. I've felt the baby move for about 3 weeks now. Just tiny flutters. BUT today I could actully SEE and FEEL the movement from the outside. It's the most craziest thing ever. Of course it had to happen right after my hubby left on buisness for a week! We've been waiting forever for him to be able to feel it. It just happened overnight to. I sat on the sofa this morning just watching my tummy jump around. It made me smile and laugh and made me realize that all this pain is worth it!

It's a BOY!

We just came back from the OBGYN and found out we are having a boy! The original plan was for us to have a boy then a girl, but for some reason when I found out I was pregnant I switched and wanted a girl! I totally freaked out, because I don't know what to do with boys! I grew up with all girls and that would seem to be easier for me to relate to. But all week leading up to the doctors appointment I dreamed of having a boy and I knew in my heart that I was having a boy. So I'm still really excited and now me and hubby are back to the original plan; have a boy then try for a girl. I know it's silly, but now I kinda feel guilty for wishing for a girl! Also they said all the organs are developing great. So honestly what more could I ask for? I feel like the most luckiest person on Earth right now.
As far as the moving goes, it's just right around the corner! I can't wait. I'm going stir crazy in our house now. Mostly because it's just me, myself, and I. I joke around with my hubby that we're not just moving to another state, we're moving in together! So he's going to be home every night after the move. So I'll have some human interaction and I get to cook dinner again! I LOVE cooking so it's going to be nice to get back into a routine again and actually have stuff to do LOL! Never thought I'd say that. Especially since I'm use to holding 2 jobs and school all at the same time. I was always like "I need some down time!" now it's just the opposite. So hopefully I'll be finding a happy medium soon!

Getting Really Bored!!!

OMG! So I'm 16 weeks and 4 days pregnant. Hubby is still only home on the weekends. I am SOOOO freakin' sick of being by myself! We only had about a year when we were first married that he's been home every night. After that first year it was one week gone at work and one week at home with me. The last 2 and 1/2 months it's only been weekends. It's really driving me nuts! At least with the week on week off, I was able to get tired of him and send him right back to work long enough to miss him again LOL! No seriously though, I'm so bored outta my mind right now! I usually work or go to school and now with the move coming up and the baby coming there really isn't much that I can do right now.

We have a packing company coming to pack up our stuff for us, so I can't even pack my own things to keep myself occupied! I can pack the liquid stuff, but I'm using all that right now. I just watch T.V. all day long (Baby Story on TLC) and stay on the computer to pass time. Sometimes I even will just try to sleep the day away so the next day will get here faster! Oh, I'm so pathetic!

Anyways, now that I'm done ranting on about my boredom and loneliness, this week is almost over! YAY! I got my toy poodle (Peanut) fixed yesterday. He isn't very happy right now. He's getting these coughing fits from the air tube they put in his throat. I try to keep him occupied, but he mostly is just aggravated right now. He was sick a week ago. He was sneezing really bad. Now all of my cats are sick! I have 6 cats! I've spent over $600 at the vet in the last 4 weeks, I can't afford to bring 6 cats to the vet! OH GEEZE! My smallest kitten just got fixed and I think he might not be as sick as the others. He was still on some anti-biotics from his surgery. Crazy pet days over here. I guess I'll have to break down and bring one in and see if they will sell me extra meds for the other cats. Oh well, what can ya do?

*Oops, don't know how to fix the side ways picture lol!