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Re: How was your weekend?
Saturday L took the kids to get haircuts and to the zoo via the Metro. I stayed home to finish cleaning the house, going to get my toes done, and then starting to tag clothes for the consignment sale. I went to the Metro to pick them up and then we went to dinner. Home early to cuddle in bed and watch Peter Pan and tag more clothes for sale.
Sunday we went to Target and Costco and then L took the kids to the pool while I stayed home to tag clothes. The kids took a super long nap while we tagged and then watched some of Brokeback Mtn. Took the kids to have ice cream with friends after dinner and then home for a late bedtime.
It was a nice weekend. I felt guilty that L had them solo so much - but she is getting ready to start classes again and I'll be solo most of the time, so I pushed away the guilt and enjoyed the quiet.
Sunday I made us biscuits and sausage gravy for brunch, and he made some salsa with tomatoes from our neighbor. That's about all!
Maybe I don't have a heightened sense of smell, but I've never smelled any vagina on my pants. -- TSD
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Friday - How sad is it that I don't remember? Oh yeah, K was driving back from NJ and didn't get in until after 9pm. So I ate leftovers and watched boring t.v.
Saturday - a friend was in town from DC so we had a few people over for dinner. It was really nice seeing everyone and having a casual dinner in instead of a group dinner out.
Sunday - we visited a one week old baby! She was so cute and so small! She was about a month early and only weighed 5lb 8 oz so just a little thing (well compared to other babies I've seen recently). K immediately wanted to hold her and was so adorable holding her and talking to her. My heart melted. :-)
I was (predictably) in bed all weekend. Strict bedrest, bathroom privileges only. I did get to migrate from the bed to the couch on Sunday to spend a couple of hours visiting with Sylvia's brother, who is in town. It was a nice change of scenery.
S has been wonderful about taking care of me (even getting up in the middle of the night to make me food to try to ease my morning sickness). I so appreciate having such a supportive partner.
I am back at work today and already dragging. I feel so sick.
I haven't bled since yesterday morning, though (knock on wood!), so I thought I'd get some work hours in while I can. S even came into work today to keep an eye on me-- so sweet.
2brides, I lol'ed at your first sentence. I love that book!! (But I'm sorry you had such an awful day.)
IUI #3 gave us the best 2nd anniv. gift ever: 2 babies! (born 03/09/10)
Peanut and Little Man are getting so big! 2 years old already!
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I spent most of Friday getting ready for LMC's birthday party.
Saturday was party day and she had such a good time. Her little face lit up when she woke up to find the house decorated. She stared so hard at her cake I though it would burst into flames :-)
Sunday was spent playing with her new toys, grocery shopping, cleaning out closets and taking a looong nap.
ours was up and down.
her brother was in the hospital a good part of last week and was going to miss the wedding, so she called him on friday to see how he was and told him about the baby. it went okay.
we left friday afternoon and stayed with my wife's bff and her family. we had parked in the drive and left lots of space between us and their cars so they could get out easily. well, her husband ran out to the store to get something...i'm sure you can see where this is going...
so now we have a banged up bumper to get taken care of. we're going to try to do it without insurance since they'll have a deductible anyway and we don't want their rates to get raised, but they don't have a lot of money and it sucks all around.
the wedding itself was nice and we had a good time at the reception. we stayed at her parents' house that night, then spent some time with them on sunday before heading home. my poor wife, though, was in pain a good part of sunday. she thinks she make have pinched a nerve in her shoulder (it had been bothering her since friday but got really bad that day). she's got an appointment with a chiropractor this afternoon, so hopefully they can do something to relieve it.
It is kind of odd, I felt like the weekend dragged, but I also felt like it went too fast. Could be that I am not used to being at work on Monday, but I think moreso because I feel C should still be in bed and Monday came too fast.
I did some grocery shopping this weekend, did the laundry, and some basic house cleaning. It is kind of cute, C mainly eats out of these certain types of bowls we have that came from IKEA and they truly have become a hot commodity at our house. I swear I am going to buy at least twenty more...I now have dish-pan hands...
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My brother came over. He is attending a class in Virginia. He helped me rearrange some furniture, which was nice. He also bought C and I lunch from one of my favorite places.
That was the gist of my weekend. Unfortunately, no dissertation work, but I have to be honest with you all, my dissertation is the furthest thing from my mind right now. I want tomorrow's appointment with the OB to already be here!
Have a GREAT ONE!
I know getting our BFP has really kicked K's butt into gear in terms of her dissertation. She finished up some more interviews last week and has a good 3-4 chapters written. For awhile she was talking about just waiting until Spring but now she's all about that December deadline.
Saturday was awesome and Sunday was horrible!
Months ago I organized a tubing trip with N's cousin, twin brother, and twin brother's girlfriend. We spent Saturday tubing down the Shenandoah River and then had a awesome BBQ dinner that N and I brought down. When N and I left Saturday night, we spent the whole ride home talking about how fun it was and how great it was to spend time with the family. I'm an only child and I want us to have a rich extended family life...for us and our future kids. We're all about a 3 hour drive from one another so it doesn't happen very often.
Sunday we woke up to 3 missed calls from N's mom. Unbeknownst to me, N's brother thought that I "gave him an attitude" at one point during the day (he never once mentioned it to me or acted in a way that I would lead me to think he was offended) and called his mom to complain about me. <What? Really? We're 30!!!> Well, N's mom was calling to yell at N about it, which lead to N and me spending the vast majority of the day fighting about her family dynamics. Fun times.
So much for a month of planning and $100 dollars spent on dinner and drinks for after tubing all spent with the intention of building families ties.
I called and spoke to her brother with the intention of clearing things up and apparently THAT was a mistake too. N got another call from her mom yelling that her brother shouldn't have been called.
N knows her family is dysfunctional. She just lets their offensive behavior roll off her back and is shocked when I can't. She doesn't believe that they are capable of accepting responsibility for their wrongdoings and as a result is passive with them. Her best quote, "I focus on the good and totally ignore the bad." I love my wife and want to have a good relationship with her family for her benefit as well as mine. I'm simply at a loss on how to make that happen.
Sorry for the big, long, dramatic update.
This freaks me out a little. We're planning on starting in Jan, but I won't defend my proposal till Aug or Dec, so if it doesn't take long to get a BFP, there's no way I'll be done before baby...