The AUM eludes me

IIIIIII love being pregnant! I love being pregnant! I LOOOOOOVE being pregnant...... ok the mantra is not working. I still don't like this.
Today was somewhat of a hormonal rollercoaster disaster. Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you get an 'F' in everything? Today was that day for me. I suck. I was at least 45 minutes off-schedule for every meal, snack, diaper change and planned activity I had (and I don't know why!!)and I cried big fat crocodile tears at least 5 times. When Ace got home from his big meeting (which I will discuss at a later date due to personal reasons), I completely unloaded all of my tears about my day onto his shoulder and it took at least 15 minutes before I remembered to ask "Hey, how did it go??". Yeah, I suck. With a capital S-U-C-K.

Maybe tomorrow will be better though. I'm optimistic like that, and also I know that I didn't get enough sleep last night which is a major contributing factor. I have plenty of things to be excited about too. Ace's meeting went great and only good things can come from that! Also, my nephew M will be starting at my daycare soon and ZK loves him to pieces. They're really good buddies. It'll be good for him to have someone he loves there all the time instead of just a bunch of other kids using his toys, you know?

And another thing? I heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time on Monday morning. It gave me the very same butterflies that I got the day I heard ZK's first heartbeat with the doppler. Ace wsnt able to be there because he's the only person I have to sub for daycare but I called him on my phone and my midwife held the doppler up to it so he could hear. He was so excited!

Yeah, I said MIDWIFE... eeeee! Yay! I officially have a midwife and she is a lovely lady. I really look forward to sharing this whole experience with her. She just gave me a really good gut feeling when I met her and I instantly knew I liked her. She's excited also that I'm planning for a water-birth and no pain medication. I know I can do it, now its just a matter of wether or not Ace can handle the whole thing... we'll see!

P.S. Have I told you before that my kid is adorable? Well, now I have. My kid is adorable. Exhibit A-

Huh?

You say I'm supposed to POST on this thing????
That's hilarious!

Some day, when the dishes are done, the laundry is folded and the guys are fed to full I will perhaps have the time to sit down and post a really good entry here. That is my goal that will probably be accomplished on the twelfth of NEVER.

All is as usual in my world. Busy and active and noisy and hectic and wonderful all at the same time. I'm feeling a teensy bit better today than normal, and I'm hoping that maybe this might be the start to the end of all of the nausea??? Please?? And the exhaustion?? Maybe?? I guess I'll find out soon enough.
I'm 13weeks as of tomorrow and so far I have gained a total of 1 pound. Woo hoo!
Why then, I wonder, have my thighs and shins developed a serious case of hail damage? I'm drinking tons of water and stuff... but the dimples seem to be multiplying at an alarming rate. Especially on my upper thighs. UCK. 'Tis EW.
Makes the nausea return just thinking about it.
Ace and I are pretty excited, as our stupid stimulus payment arrived recently and we are FINALLY able to pay some bills ahead and get some of the things we need. He's been spending most of this week off of work completing a pretty hefty "Honey DO" list I left on the fridge for him on Sunday. Funny thing is, he got almost all of it done on the first day! Even funnier though? He totally paid people to come do it for him. We had a large old apple tree in the back yard that had
cracked in half and he was supposed to get rid of the rest of it because I was worried about any of the larger limbs falling, possibly on any of the children while they played out there. So, at about 12:30 central time (NAP TIME in my little world) I heard the sounds of growling chainsaws just outside our back door. Exactly 10 feet from where my toddlers were napping.
Needless to say, my husband came in with his tail between his legs and widened his eyes apologetically as I gestured wildly and gave him "I will kill you if they wake up from this" glares. None of them ended up being disturbed, thankfully, and I watched in amazement as the tree disappeared in a matter of 90 minutes. Sweet!
He also managed to both pay someone to fix the garage door and force himself to organize his disastrous tool bench mess. All in one day!


***Oh, I know this is off-topic, but by any chance does anyone out there know what to do when your 2 1/2 year old decides to wake up at 3am
every morning for a week straight?!?! If anyone out there has any ideas I sure would appreciate hearing them. We've tried putting him to bed earlier, later, shortening his nap, checking the temp of his room etc.... I AM EXHAUSTED. It is not working. Killmenow. kthxbye.