I hate it when people don't update...

I am a slacker, and mostly, it's for your benefit. You really don't want to hear my generally onery outlook right now. In a nutshell, that whole "when it rains, it pours" saying keeps flashing in my head. Nothing so diabolical that you need to worry, just enough to keep me in a pretty pissy mood most the time. Which is so not like me and I don't want to "capture" it and remember it. So here is a nice way for me to update without all the blech. Since I didn't have a blog this time last year I figured I'd just time warp and show you what was up then. I had a momentary ideal that I could make cute photo's of all the holiday stuff happenings and had a decent little photo shoot with Garrin for St. Patty's Day...these are still some of my fav pictures of the little guy. He was about 7 months old.

I'm here...

I promise, I've been around I've just been scuttling around much more than I normally do so I don't have as much time to keep ya'll entertained. I lived through my first week of "work" which was taking over another woman's schedule while she was on vacation and it was hard. It was hard on me and my family. I appreciate the unwavering support I have recieved though as I journey back into the working world for heaven knows how long.
This week I am working my own schedule with my own patients which helps a lot and actually gives me a couple days off. I am working M/W/F mornings. I have really enjoyed working in my field and it helps me remember why I started out this track of trying to secure a nursing degree and work all these hours for what most people may think is too little money and too much time. But I love it. I like that I have the knowledge and power to help these people who may feel completely powerless at times. Now, being 30 weeks pregnant I know that my doctor will be coming down on me hard and soon about some of my duties but I will keep it up as long as I can physically muster. I do have to be a little careful and mindful of my little one though because of the complications I had with Garrin I am at risk for a few things that must always be in the back of my mind.
The housework, meals and family time have suffered a bit this past week but with my current schedule I feel that I can mostly keep up. Joe is in the last week of his employment and we have no job offers in sight so me working right now is a little security until whatever is supposed to happen will happen. We both feel secure and are not in a panic for any reason....at least for now. The next few weeks should be interesting to see where our life will lead us and our family.

Feelin' It

Last night Above Average Joe had his hand on my belly and he looks over at me and says, "Stop contracting your tummy."

"Yeah, dude, that's not me...that's the baby moving."

Now, above average Joe did not know this because NOT ONCE did he feel Garrin move. I kid you not that EVERYTIME I had him touch my belly it somehow calmed Garrin to instant sleep. Which was kind of a nice perk for me...but Above Average Joe did miss out. So at least NOW he has had the experience of feeling the baby move in my belly. Of course, because of this Above Average Joe tells me that it must be a girl because he has no control of her already...

Blue & Gold

We had the annual scouting dinner/awards last night. Above average Joe is some kind of "master something" in the scouts so he had to actually plan AND participate in this one. Made me all kinds of happy to see him go through the same things I do whenever and Enrichment activity is upon me. Anyway, it was a nice little event. Trevin didn't get any awards this night but he helped with the flag ceremony, which I always love seeing.

This is Trevin and his friend Jamal who decorated our table cake in an American theme.

This is the finished project of the cake.

This is Trevin in the flag cermony.

Just in case anyone has not seen the new hair...here it is. Ignore the fat face inside the cute hair.

Questioning my sanity...

You know, at 28 weeks pregnant, this may not be the BEST time for me to start work. This came to me this morning when I was in training and had to excuse myself from a patients room to get some fresh (cold) air or pass out. It's not that I'm not capable but I haven't exactly been working up to it.
I am SO greatful for the opportunity to work and this job just landed so squarely in my lap that it felt like I really needed to use it while I can. I don't have to work again until Saturday and honestly working 3-4 hours each morning for a week shouldn't kill me but I do have self doubt now. Let's hope my ambition and determination override whatever shanangins this little one may have about mommy actually being in the work force for a few weeks before making it's grand enterence.
So, to all of you lovely friends out there in cyberworld say a little prayer that I can be okey dokey through this and that above average Joe's job situation comes to us in a nicely tied package so that I don't have to think of increasing hours...
...if only the world worked like that huh?

notes from the heart

Last weekend was spent down at above average Joe's parents place. We had a family member leaving on a mission and so we went down there to see the mass gathering...and I mean mass.

Since it happened to coincide with the actual Valentines Day on the calendar my sweet 9 year old presented me with this little note:

(to mom from boo-boo ((Garrin)) and trevin. Dear mom I'm sorry I didn't get you something for valentines but me and boo boo love you. your sons trevin and boo boo)

It was more than I could have ever asked for.

Valentines Day 2009

When you have boys it makes Valentines Day a little trickier. When you have girls all you need is a shoe box, some red paper, heart stickers, maybe some glitter and walla! a perfect little mailbox. These things do not exist in my world. We have to be more creative. I remember as a kid all of us doing really cool things for our Valentine Boxes so I love that Trevin will have some of these memories as well.

We were originally going to do this with aluminum foil and flame stickers but when we couldn't find the right stickers we found this fabric. I think it turned out really well and Trevin is really proud of his box. I'm hoping he gets lots of attention for it!