Enjoying the peace and quiet!

Today has been so nice. I try to take advantage of the quiet time that I get around here. That very seldom happens here lately. This weekend has been full of all the normal hussle and bussle... Friday we went to a going away party for a friend of Ray's on base. It was a nice. They all know that we have Nathan and most of the guys that Ray works with are not married and/or do not have kids, so there is usually alot of things that we do not attend because of this. But it was Matt's last weekend here and he wanted to see Nate too so he decided to do a bowling party so we would bring Nathan to it too. Which I thought was very sweet. These boys have taken Nathan under there wing and he is one of the boys and Friday proved that. It was such a nice gesture considering these boys are ranging in the ages of 20 to 29. You normally do not see that out of single marines. LOL... The evening was fun and I will admit, I was so tired when we got home. I was definatley ready for bed. I do not know if you are allowed to go bowling when you are pregnant and I went anyway with the stipulation that I did not lift a ball that was over 10lbs., like my doctor has ordered. I'm not so sure that baby new what to do with mommy bending that way. He kind of freaked out on a couple of times, so I slowed down and let one of the other boys play for a while..

As for the drama with the boat, Ray and one of his buddy spent all day yesterday trying to fix the boat. Did I mention that yesterday was Ray's birthday! He spent his entire birthday trying to fix that thing. He fixed the manifolds then tried to start it and it would not crank because the timing was off (whatever that means). He was so mad, that he just quit, unfortunately it was already 9 pm by then. He knew what the problem was and it was only going to take him a couple of hours to fix the boat this morning and then he would have the rest of the day to go out on the water. Well, you guessed it, he fixed it and then sprayed some cleaner into the fuel injector like the book said and it clogged them up so now he is at the parts store trying to buy this piece... Seriously girls, I think he needs to put the boat in the shop and let them fix the dang thing. LOL.. I think that is the only problem with being married to a MR> FIX IT, they have to fix everything by themselves. He complains about spending all his free time on the boat but when he you try to get him to stop to go do something else, he will not because he is focused on the boat! I give up! I am going to the beach with or without him tomorrow... If I know my husband, if he sees me packing up the car to go to the beach he will be following soon behind me...

I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your weekend...

continued

Ok I thought that it was only fair to share the rest of the story with you guys so here goes!

On Monday I took Nathan to the Er because he had diarrhea and vomiting all day and could keep nothing else down including the high fever and the blisters and all that. When we got there I waited for 6 hours and watched this military doctor see patients in the waiting room when there was no need to do so.. he actually diagnosed the patients before seeing them. I was not comfortable with this at all not to mention how many HIPPA violations he just broke. But I guess in a ARMY hospital you can do that I do not know but I did not like it, he did take Nathan back to a room and told me that he had strep throat a double ear infection (without looking into his ears) Nathan told him my ears hurt a little. Asthma and the flu. He gave him some penicillin and an inhaler and sent him on his way. I thought to myself this is why people say this crippler instead of its real name. So yes I kept his doctors appointment for the following day...

On Tuesday his temp had gone down, and when we got there she actually did a throat culture and it came back that he did not have strep, his ears were not red, so no signs of infection, she did agree that he had asthma, which we already knew but she decided to do a chest X-Ray to see what was going on and she showed me the pneumonia he had in hi lower lobes and yes he did have alot of junk down there, which is why is cough is so productive.... I could not believe it! She then gave him a different medicine and a follow up appointment. I left there feeling more confident that it was taken care of.

On Wednesday I had my OB appointment where they told me that they would be checking the placement of the placenta, so I brought Nathan along to see the ultrasound since he had never seen one. When I got there, she did not know about my ER visit, not sure why I called her office to tell them, if they do not follow through with the message. But anyway she then tells me that she was not going to check placement yet, but because of my complications she was going to check the fetal heart rate and then do another culture to see if there is an infection and to see if I have started going into preterm labor.... Remember I have Nathan with me... So he listens to the heart rate and it is too low. Like 100 beats per minute.. It should not be below 120. So Nathan gets scooted out of the room and they do all the other tests. They then hook me up to another machine and Nathan gets to see his ultrasound while they were looking for my cervix's. Long story short, my cervix is shrinking but is still closed and the heart rate was actually 150 beats per minute and the baby was fine. It just means that I might go into preterm labor, so I am back to every two week appointments for lab work. Not a good day for me to bring Nathan to the appointment with me.

Its now Friday and Nathan is feeling much better. He is back to driving me crazy because he doesn't want to stay at home any longer, he is bored... LOL He feels much better....I am nice and rested up and I promise I am finished with the complaining to you.

Thanks for listening to me....

Oh my goodness I forgot the funniest part about my weekend! On Saturday Ray had arranged it so a group of his co workers to get together to go out on his boat, no problem right. Wrong! We all went out on the boat (I was hoping that the cooler air would bring down his temp,which it did) but then his boat over heated and we sat in the bay for over an hour before someone helped us get back to shore! The boys spent the rest of the day trying to fix the boat, they thought that had fixed the boat and then took it out Sunday afternoon without me this time. The same thing happened but they each had to take turns pulling the boat in... I believe that Nathan laughed the whole entire time it took them to get back to shore!

Ray thought that he had fixed the problem again and yep you guessed it when he took the boat out again yesterday the same thing happened, he now has fixed every possible thing that could be causing the problem except the manifolds and of course they do not make the part that he needs anymore, he will have to get a conversion kit to fix the problem! Which is not cheap by any means.

Have you ever been busy doing what feels like nothing?

That's me!!! I have been so busy since last Monday and I feel like I have done nothing at all. I had so many errands to run that I completed, but the home life was so hectic. This is a picture into my life:

last Wednesday Nathan comes to me and says mom my throat hurts, no big deal right, he just came back from the Big Island and it is alot colder there than here so it would be expected to get a little cold, so I do not worry about it.

On Thursday I start bleeding again, and I was cramping so bad that my whole leg was hurting really bad. So I tried to hold off on going to the doctor and then I noticed that the baby had stopped moving, I hadn't noticed him move in over 4 hours. I should feel like 10 movements in an hour. So I call hubby while he is on his way home and told him that I was leaving Nathan at the house and that he does not feel well and I think he is getting a fever. I had given Nathan some medicine for the possible fever just in case and went ahead and went to the ER, I knew if I went they were going to tell me the same thing that they did last time and I was not wanting to go and sit there all night, but I did. I sat there for 6 hours and in the meantime Ray came to the ER with Nathan and told me if I was ok then he had to go back to work, so that left Nathan with me in the ER. Not much fun, but I knew that there was nothing that he could do at that point and I really do not like having alot of people in one small room like that so told him that I would call him if we knew anything different. So Nathan now has a full blown fever of 103.6 and has curled up on the little bed with me and went to sleep. I did the ultrasound and all of the other tests with Nathan asleep curled up in my arms. The techs thought it was so funny, I was not as amused! It ended up being that the baby was fine, he was just being lazy and that I had a really bad bladder infection again. This is now the 5 one that I have had. So I was put back on meds and told to follow up with the doctor on Friday.

Well by Friday Nate had told me he felt much better and that he wanted to go to school and since he had no temp I let him and then at 10:30 he was home again with a high temp. This time he is still complaining of a sore throat, but his throat only looked a little irritated and no blisters, so I started treating him for a cold, just some ibuprofen for the aches and pains while his temp was up... No big deal right, wrong, Ray had a family picnic that we had to been seen at, we all love these kinds of functions right. So we went and by then Nate's temp was gone again and he felt fine, so he played with everyone for 4 hours and he played hard! LOL It really was a nice time...(By the way I called my OB and told them what had happened and they agreed that if there were no new complications and I felt Ok that there was no need to come in again and to keep my appointment for the following week)



Ok I just lost the whole entire post! This is all that is left and trust me my week got so much worse, it had broken boats, stranded in the bay, a sick kid, a ER visit for me, a ER visit for Nathan and very sick kid, and an appointment for Nathan and I both that was not good.... I just do not have the energy to write this all over again... Talk to you soon....

Mommy Talk

I came across this blog last week and I thought that it was so cute so I decided to join in this week! It is simply mommies talking about there pregnancy past or current. If you would like to join in or you would just like to read more stories the link is in my side bar under Mommy Talk.

The question is: Did you find out the sex? Why or why not? honest...did you have what you were hoping for?

I was only 17 when I got pregnant with my son, I was just out of high school and was enrolled to start college in the winter semester when I found out. I will never forget calling my mom, crying telling her what was wrong (I had already moved to the town that I would be going to school at and was working there until I started). I also had to tell her that my boyfriend at the time had decided he did not want to be a part of this and had left. Her only words were let me tell your dad and I will call you back. That was the longest hour of my life. I was and still am my daddy's little girl and he called me back and said its ok we will get through this, but you are coming home back your bag. I simply said OK! I was so scared. LOL...
Even though things were not like I had planned, and I had so many complications with him and I was not in denial I knew what I was getting myself into. I was still excited about my baby. I could not wait to find out what I was having, I was so excited about finding out that I could not have waited until my due date! I will admit that I knew right from the start that I was having a little boy, I somehow just new. I always referred to the baby as him or he. I only picked out a boy's name, I could never settle on a little girls name and when we finally got the ultrasound to determine the sex it was indeed a little boy! My mom was with me and she said "your dad will not believe this" I still laugh when I see the picture, the doctor circled it because my dad wanted a grand daughter so bad, and was just determined that it was definitely a little girl! So the doctor took a special picture of the baby with a note on the ultrasound that said "Sorry grandpa but I'm a boy and circled his private parts for him." My dad cherished that picture and could not be more proud of my son. He is truly my dad's pride and joy. On February 17, 1996 I gave birth to Nathaniel Wayne, he weighed 3 lbs and was 15 inches long. And today 11 years later I put him on an airplane to go to the Big Island for an over night field trip with his school. Where has the time gone...

Now with this pregnancy, my husband wanted to know what we were having but I wanted to wait this time and be surprised. I wanted a little girl so bad, this time. My friends did the ring test and said that it was a little girl and everyone said "I think you are having a girl" but my husband kept saying it is a little boy.
I had some complications on Easter Sunday and had to spend the day in the ER and when the tech came and got to get the ultrasound, I had no idea that he would then say those words, "Do you know what you are having?" My response was, "No" he then said "Well would you like to know?" I couldn't resist, so he told me without my husband being there. I am having another boy! I will not lie I am so happy about this and my husband likes to gloat that he was right! My due date is September 16th and although the picture was pretty clear we will see then if it was right.

Pictures that I promised!

Well as you know, we finally got all our of belongings here on the island, minus the boat. Which only means that we have to make room for everything! Which by the way is not happening... I am so upset over this.. Our stuff does not fit in this house. We knew we would have to get a different TV and things like that, but oh my goodness. The baby's room may not be just the baby's room and I am so upset over this. I know we have time to figure this out but not so sure that it will help things any! Ray is building the storage building outside, you know the one I said we needed instead of that stupid chicken coop! Which by the way here is the picture of it completely finished in our backyard, You can see our neighbors fence in the background, that is the fence that we had to pull all of the weeds from, you honestly couldn't even see the fence, so it looks so much better back there! We are still trying to get some grass to grow back there so we can then plant the flowers! I am so excited about that but one thing at a time right! First the house!

So just a real quick run down of how things have been here at our house: We received a call Monday evening telling us our belongings would be delivered on Tuesday afternoon. We still had all of the temporary furniture that the base had provided in our house, we had to get it out before they could bring our stuff here, so I make a mad dash to call TLA to have them come pick up our stuff. NO GO OF COURSE!!! They politely told me to leave it sitting in the front yard and they would come pick it up one day this week! Did I tell you that it rains here everyday? It does! So I call a friend who works on base who knows a guys who knows someone kind of thing and within 1 hour that problem was solved, the delivery guy agreed to come pick up our stuff at 0730 the following morning as a favor to the friend that I know! (You do not know how many times I have thanked my neighbors for introducing us to so many people who work on base, it is nice to have inside connection)
Tuesday arrives and the delivery man comes and picks up our furniture and gets it out of the way! So I then sweep and mop the floor one last time before the truck gets here, looking back that probably wasn't a good idea. The floors are so dirty now and it is driving me crazy! Here are a few pictures that I have downloaded to give you an idea what I am dealing with. It is so crazy around here>I am learning that it is the little things in this house that I did not notice when we had absolutely nothing in here, like the fact that in the kitchen there is no place for a pantry. NONE!!! You have to use the cabinet space which wouldn't be that bad if there were more than 5 cabinets in the kitchen, including the one under the sink! So we have no space for our kitchen cookware. Not to mention we only have two small shelves for our utensils. And I do mean small, I had to go buy little storage containers to put our utensils in because a tray would not fit in the space provided and our knives and such are still in a box waiting to find a home along with the measuring cups, and spatulas and more! They are still homeless. So no go on completely unpacking the kitchen, the attached dinning room has too many boxes so our table is still sitting in a corner and to be real honest with you each room in our house has a dilema attached to it. But I am certain if we tackle each room at a time we can beat this house! I know we can!

Something to think about before using chapstick!

So, at the time of this story we had this great 10-year old cat named Jack.
Jack was a great cat, and the kids would carry him around and sit on him and
nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all day long on this
mat in our bathroom.

Well, we have 3 kids and at the time of this story they were 4 years old, 3
years old and 1 year old. The middle one is Eli. Eli really loves
chapstick.
LOVES it. He kept asking to use my chapstick and then losing it. So finally
one day I showed him where in the bathroom I keep my chapstick and how he
could use it whenever he wanted to but he needed to put it right back in
the drawer when he was done.

Last year on Mother's Day, we were having the typical rush around and try
to get ready for Church with everyone crying and carrying on. My two boys are
fighting over the toy in the cereal box. I am trying to nurse my little one
at the same time I am putting on my make-up. Everything is a mess and
everyone has long forgotten that this is a wonderful day to honor me and
the amazing job that is motherhood.

We finally have the older one and and the baby loaded in the car, and I am
looking for Eli. I have searched everywhere, and I finally round the corner
to go into the bathroom. And there was Eli. He was applying my chapstick
very carefully to Jack's . . . rear end. Eli looked right into my eyes and
said "chapped." Now if you have a cat, you know that he is right--their
little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly, Jack didn't seem to
mind.


And the only question really to ask at that point was whether it was the
FIRST time Eli had done that to the cat's behind -- or the hundredth.

And THAT is my favorite Mother's Day moment ever, because it reminds us that
no matter how hard we try to civilize these glorious little creatures,
there will always be that day when you realize they've been using your chapstick
on the cat's butt.



Now I know that this what not what you expected but you do have to admit, you kind of chuckeld when you read it! I am sorry I just could not help but share this email that I got today! Hope you ladies are having a good day! I am waiting on our stuff to get here, they said between 11:30 and 2:00. It is now 12:12 and I am still waiting!!!!

Hey if you get a chance swing by Charla's and wish her a happy birthday!!! (Her link is in the side bar!) Since Steve is gone this month its just her and the kids.

FRUSTRATION!

Sorry but that picture is funny, I couldn't help myself. With the morning I have had I need that picture!!

I have spent my morning fighting with this computer! I am trying to change my resume around, I have used the same one since 2001 when I got my first nursing job. Well since I am trying to find something with a little less stress and allows me to sit instead of stand all day I have to change it around. How do you change a resume around when it looks like the only experience you have involves nursing. NOT SO EASY I TELL YOU!!!

I started my doing a simple search on Google "free sample resume templates" holy cow the things it made me do just to get a sample of something that would work. I finally found one and since my computer does not have the right program on it I was going to email myself a copy of my updated resume. I finished the dang thing and then tried to send it to myself and it booted me off!! GRRRRRRRR!!! Since I was emailing it to myself of course it did not save it! I just wrote the second one out! lol Yes I gave up!

Then I tried to find a sample cover letter so when I go to the library and type it our in Word Perfect of Microsoft, I can then email it to myself and save it to my computer at home. Again the same problem.... So what should of only taken me 20 minutes, it is now 3 hours later and I do not feel like going to the library to do this.

I then get a call from Ray saying hey all of our stuff is here, YEAH I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!! Which soon dies when he tells me they are delivering it tomorrow morning, and we have to get rid of the temporary furniture that the base let us use before we can get the our stuff in our house! Not to mention, that we do not have enough room in this house for all of our stuff!!! No way no how! It is so much smaller than our old house.... I'M NOW FREAKING OUT!!!! What to do....
This weekend Ray and Nathan decided to build a chicken coop and then buy /get some chickens for eggs! Why I do not know, but we now have a chicken coop in our back yard, with no chickens! ( I am not sure if you know this or not but chickens run wild all over this island. They are everywhere. We have chickens in our yard every morning, you can be going down the highway and just see families of chickens hanging out on the golf course or where ever. I will admit this is kind of funny to see. But you are not allowed to kill them or harm them in any way, but you can get them and put them in a chicken coop if you like)I kept telling him that we needed to be making a storage shed for all of our stuff and not this coop, but no noone listens to mom! I take all the fun out of it! LOL Who is laughing now! So anyway it is now Monday and we have a chicken coop, no chickens and no storage!

So I do not need to worry about not wanting to go to the library because now I can't! OH and one more silly thing: I had made arrangements for the phone company to come out and hook up my home phone, so she said oh there is no need for them to come out to your house it will be hooked up on Monday by noon. So I go to plug in my phone to see if it works.....THERE ARE NO PHONE JACKS IN THIS HOUSE!!!! NO JOKE. I now have a home with phone service that I am paying for and no jack to plug into the phone. Again see above picture! LOL It will cost them 95.00 to come out and install the phone jack! So Mr. Ray gets to do that tonight!

Well I hope you at least got a good laugh out of my day (and its only noon here)! I am off to try to get my house in some kind of order for what will happen tomorrow!!!!


Look for the pictures of our chicken coop so to come!

How I spent yesterday

I spent my yesterday like so many others, praying for Heather. I have not been following her story very long, but she and her family have definitely changed my life. They are a amazing couple. I found myself leaving my computer on so I could run by real fast and see if there were any updates on the surgery. The last thing I ready said that she was out of surgery and could move her arms and legs, which to all was a great relief for all.Her husband, Mark, was waiting on her to wake up to see how her speech was. I pray that everything will work out!




This is how I spent the rest of my day!!! My son went to the symphony with his school yesterday! This was Nathan cheesing before he left for school... He is such a goober, he gets that from me!!!! Now I do not understand why standing in front of my closet and laughing at yourself is so much fun and oh don't let me forget writing on the mirrors after you blow on them, but my son loves doing this....

But my biggest question of the day is: Why is putting on a gas mask so much fun when the person who used went into the gas chamber today and well blew snot all over it?!? They both got a kick out of him putting that thing on last night and watching Nathan say things like this thing stinks and it burns a little bit (you think) then the coolest part about it was he got to drink out of the mask!!! Totally made his day!
Some things a mother will never understand!

Ok so I have been talking about putting pictures up of my new surroundings and I finally got around to putting a few of them that we took on base this weekend. They are not the best pictures but it is a start! Wish me luck with these because we all know how challenged I am!!!!




I will be posting more pictures later and I promise to have some of the new house up then too! Talk to you girls soon and I hope everyone is having a blessed day!

Awakened

I have been reading a blog by Heather some of you may know her, her blog started about her daughter who has a congential heart defect. Heather just recently found out that she herself has a brain tumor. She and her husband are now in MN, I do believe ,waiting for her surgery on Thursday. I spent 2 hours on her blog, just reading and crying and in complete amazement at the strength that this family has. They are truly a amazing family, while reading her blog, I found myself again feeling that tug from God. It has been so long since I felt that tug, my heart began to cry for other reasons.
In reading her amazing story I started to change, my desire came back, I am not saying that I walked away from God or that my beliefs had changed but I did get lazy. Then last night while I was sitting on the couch with Nathan a commercial came on with praise and worship music and it was a song that Nathan loved and I simply said do you ever miss that, the music and going to church all the time? He said NO! As a mom I can not tell you how bad that hurt me. What am I doing to him? Because I got lazy, he has no desire to be in church! Now I know that some of that is his age, most kids try to rebel at his age and further into his teenage years but wow what a shock that was. I think the worst thing is, I am having another child and if we do not change things now, this one will grow up not being in church with very little foundation! I am not OK with that at all. Nathan had time every night when we read the Alice in Bible land stories before bed and all he wanted to watch was Veggie Tales and listen to his "church songs" as he would call them. LOL (kids CDs) and to have this one grow up any different just isn't ok with me. I have kepted all of those books, movies and some of the CDs so I will at least have those. That was actually a must when we moved out here, we (Ray and I) had a disagreement over bringing all of the "kids stuff" he said we could just get more books and I said no, they are coming with us, all of them... I did win that one and they are coming here and we probably could of left some of them back in FL, since Nathan did have such a big collections but oh well its too late now.

So my search for this week is to find a church to attend here that we like. Ray is not "into to going to church" as he would say it. He believes in God but just doesn't like going to church so please pray that I will find something that he will like to attend as well!

Updates on baby

We went yesterday to get the 20 week ultrasound, the one that tells the sex of the baby and checks how the development of the baby is going. After drinking all that water and feeling like I would explode, we found out the following:

---we are definitely having a boy!

---he is bigger than what he should be, so they have moved my due date back to Sept. 16th (every day counts)

---he is developing with no problems

---his heart looks great! his heart rate was a little low but no big deal!

---the big one is---my placenta is not covering my cervix and according to the tech and the reports that she has, it never was! So either they are wrong or the doctor was wrong! Now we are waiting to see which one was right!

I was never told at the ER that, the placenta was the cause for the bleeding, we never found that out until we went to the first OB appointment. We are both very impatient to see what the doctor has to say when we see her in 3 weeks..

As soon as I can talk to Charla I will change the due date on the ticker, I can not do that! If you noticed there is no music its because I tried to change the songs. LOL Oh there on there, they just won't play and I can not get the names of the songs to show up! So yes Charla will have to spell it out for me! I am so sad when it comes to computers!!!!

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The music works! I am so happy! The names of the songs are Can you hear her by Casting Crowns and then Arise by Shane and Shane! Now I just have to find out how to change the names on the bottom, that shouldn't be that hard right!!!!

And I so figured out that baby ticker thing all by myself! I am so proud! But I still can't get the names of the songs to show up!