Oy. I'm exhausted. I spent much of the day running around doing errands and then yet again doing things that pregnant woman probably shouldn't be doing. I had to re-paint one of our outside doors. It was super dirty after the winter, mostly from Chloe jumping on it, and then Mary decided to clean it with bleach.
Over the summer, we had the brilliant idea to paint our outside doors red. Well, initially I thought we were just painting the front door and then Mary took it a step further and decided to paint both our back doors too. I do like the red but it was a nightmare to paint and also a nightmare to re-paint and touch up. I also had to paint parts of our foundation that had some black stuff on it. This was not a fun task and I'm not sure it looks any better.
After starting some laundry, I was about to lay down around 4:30 when Mary calls to tell me there's a showing tomorrow morning. The house definitely needs to be scrubbed down. Oh well, at least Mary's taking me out to lunch tomorrow as my payment *she just doesn't know it yet* for being such a diligent house wife :-) Fingers crossed that the showing goes well and we get an offer. It's only the 2nd showing and already I feel done with this process.
And at least I know my physical labor hasn't effected baby boy since he continues to kick and kick and kick. He's quite active and I don't think he's stopped moving in the past 3 days. I hope this is not a sign of his future hyperactivity...but then again, what little boy isn't hyperactive.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Baby & My Breathing
I had like mega amounts of energy earlier in the week. Today, it’s like I hit a wall and of course Mary left a list of things for me to do. I think my lack of energy is due to the fact that I seem to have hit full force into the stage of pregnancy where breathing is difficult. When you feel like your lungs are collapsing, doing a lot of things just isn’t easy. I wish I could make my baby stay in the middle. Is that possible? He likes to go up and push into my diaphragm and lungs or when he goes down low, it hurts and he feels like he’s just going to fall out of my cervix (as if it were that easy). Mary keeps telling me to push him. Hmmm...not so into pushing a 2 pound baby. Apparently, the secretary at her work suggested this since she had to push her baby down because she’d put her feet above her ribs. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, pregnancy is totally strange.
Oh well, I’ll stop messing around on the computer and continue my house duties. At least it’s another sunny day here with 50 degree temps :-)
Oh well, I’ll stop messing around on the computer and continue my house duties. At least it’s another sunny day here with 50 degree temps :-)
Thursday, April 10, 2008
My Chloe
Mary's sister wants our dog Chloe. Mary's been thinking of getting rid of her. The thought has definitely crossed my mind a few times but at the same time, I don't want to just get rid of our dog. Anywho, her sister Jill has been looking for a dog (not a puppy) since her dog is very old and will probably pass away soon. Mary's mom had mentioned Chloe since she really likes her.
Mary's mom and Jill share a property and have a decent amount of land which is ideal for Chloe. At the same time, I'm not sure she can stand the Florida heat. Jill is also a high energy person which Chloe definitely needs because she's, well, a high energy dog. Jill is definitely the ideal person if we were going to give Chloe to someone and of course, it would be a bit off our plate to not have Chloe but I just can't grasp the concept of getting rid of our dog.
I have mentioned Mary's mom keeping Georgia but that's not going to happen. I think I'd rather have Chloe than Georgia. I love my little Georgia but she's a crazy dog. She has accidents in the house, she hates the cats and attacks them whenever, she's bitten a few visitors and she barks at every one and every thing. She definitely has what I call "little dog syndrome". Chloe definitely has some issues with barking but loves the kitties and even plays with them especially her best bud BoBo and she lets Cameron treat her like a pony. Plus, with having boys, I feel like they need a dog – a real dog.
I just wish we knew exactly where we were going to be living in the Boston area. If we get the rental through the university, they allow dogs and Chloe would have enough yard space. However, if that doesn't come through, most rentals don't allow dogs over 25 pounds and if they do, it's unlikely they'd have much of a yard. She is also not leash trained. Georgia definitely enjoyed the city because she loves being walked on a leash.
There's also the process of getting Chloe to Jill if we decide that's what we want to do. I really don't want Chloe going on a plane. When we bring Georgia on a plane, she goes in a carrier with us. Chloe is too big so she'd have to go underneath with the luggage and well, that just scares me.
I don't know, it's a lot to think about and makes me nervous and sad. I'm also emotional/hormonal and cry at the drop of the hat. So anytime Mary has brought it up, I just get emotional. Of course, Chloe's always nearby staring at me with her sad brown eyes. I'm sure she'd do great with Jill and that we don't have a lot of time for her and will have even less when the baby arrives but still, I hate the idea of getting rid of a dog because we're having a baby.
Mary's mom and Jill share a property and have a decent amount of land which is ideal for Chloe. At the same time, I'm not sure she can stand the Florida heat. Jill is also a high energy person which Chloe definitely needs because she's, well, a high energy dog. Jill is definitely the ideal person if we were going to give Chloe to someone and of course, it would be a bit off our plate to not have Chloe but I just can't grasp the concept of getting rid of our dog.
I have mentioned Mary's mom keeping Georgia but that's not going to happen. I think I'd rather have Chloe than Georgia. I love my little Georgia but she's a crazy dog. She has accidents in the house, she hates the cats and attacks them whenever, she's bitten a few visitors and she barks at every one and every thing. She definitely has what I call "little dog syndrome". Chloe definitely has some issues with barking but loves the kitties and even plays with them especially her best bud BoBo and she lets Cameron treat her like a pony. Plus, with having boys, I feel like they need a dog – a real dog.
I just wish we knew exactly where we were going to be living in the Boston area. If we get the rental through the university, they allow dogs and Chloe would have enough yard space. However, if that doesn't come through, most rentals don't allow dogs over 25 pounds and if they do, it's unlikely they'd have much of a yard. She is also not leash trained. Georgia definitely enjoyed the city because she loves being walked on a leash.
There's also the process of getting Chloe to Jill if we decide that's what we want to do. I really don't want Chloe going on a plane. When we bring Georgia on a plane, she goes in a carrier with us. Chloe is too big so she'd have to go underneath with the luggage and well, that just scares me.
I don't know, it's a lot to think about and makes me nervous and sad. I'm also emotional/hormonal and cry at the drop of the hat. So anytime Mary has brought it up, I just get emotional. Of course, Chloe's always nearby staring at me with her sad brown eyes. I'm sure she'd do great with Jill and that we don't have a lot of time for her and will have even less when the baby arrives but still, I hate the idea of getting rid of a dog because we're having a baby.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
the kid, the weather, and the animals
Cameron had play therapy today. She said he did really good and was playing nice with everything. It was an improvement since he’s definitely had some aggression recently. We went to the mall after to get his haircut and get some new shoes. Both things were a total process. He had a bribe to go on one of the “rides” at the mall after the haircut but it took me about 10 minutes to coax him into the chair. He was being shy and uncooperative. Luckily, the hairdresser was being nice about the situation but I thought I was going to have to leave. Then at the shoe store the worker was up my butt. Usually the “oh, we’re just browsing” gets them off my back but she wanted to measure Cameron’s foot and he wasn’t having it. I really didn’t care if he got it measured since I know his size so I just told her good luck. Anywho, we made it through without any major tantrums but it was still quite the annoying trip. Lately, anywhere I bring him with the exception of restaurants (I guess because he “love restaurants” and eating so much), he’s difficult. I’m sure it’s a combination of his age phase and me being hormonal and impatient but he drives me crazy!!! Everything is “no” and he’s so uncooperative. This too shall pass…at least I hope so!
In good news, the weather has immensely improved over the past few days. It’s even hit 50 – yes, I never thought I’d be jumping for joy over 50 but it feels like a heat wave here and with lots of sunshine, it’s been great. It’s amazing how the weather can have such an effect on my mood. I’ve even been able to open the windows in the house. The poor cats were thrilled. They are all indoor so when I opened the windows, they were like, “AIR!!” It has been a VERY long time since we could open windows and we’ve been able to play outside so Chloe has also been in her glory too. Yay!
In good news, the weather has immensely improved over the past few days. It’s even hit 50 – yes, I never thought I’d be jumping for joy over 50 but it feels like a heat wave here and with lots of sunshine, it’s been great. It’s amazing how the weather can have such an effect on my mood. I’ve even been able to open the windows in the house. The poor cats were thrilled. They are all indoor so when I opened the windows, they were like, “AIR!!” It has been a VERY long time since we could open windows and we’ve been able to play outside so Chloe has also been in her glory too. Yay!
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Weekend Recap
Pretty boring weekend. Saturday morning Mary and I were both getting our cars serviced. First Mary's so we dropped hers off and then headed out to breakfast. Mary made the mistake of letting him know we'd be going to the restaurant in the morning and according to Cameron, he "loves restaurants". Anywho, I have been sleeping like utter crap (or rather not sleeping) so I fell asleep early in the morning. Then suddenly I was awoken to a little boy telling me that we were going to a restaurant. LOL. I let him know that the restaurant was not open that early.
Post breakfast we picked up Mary's car and dropped off mine for new tires. My car has less than 30K miles but the roads around here SUCK so my tires have taken a major beating. While my tires were being put on, we went shopping and bought some new bedding for our room. I have put so much focus into the rest of the house and even Cameron's room but our room has been neglected to say the least. I thought I'd be more motivated when we bought some new bedroom furniture over the summer but it didn't happen. Anywho, the yucky bedding has been replaced - we ordered our old bedding pretty cheap and from online, it wasn't exactly the equivalent of the pic online. So we have shiny *literally* new bedding :-)
Today I never left the house. In the afternoon, I made Mary bring Camer to the pool. After being with him since Friday, I needed some time ALONE and of course I had house work to do. So even though I was doing stuff the entire time they were gone, it was nice to have a quiet house :-) Oh well, off to watch Big Brother. For the past 2 years, the LAST person that I wanted to win has won and most everyone annoys me on the show but for some reason Mary and I are addicted and can't stop watching.
Post breakfast we picked up Mary's car and dropped off mine for new tires. My car has less than 30K miles but the roads around here SUCK so my tires have taken a major beating. While my tires were being put on, we went shopping and bought some new bedding for our room. I have put so much focus into the rest of the house and even Cameron's room but our room has been neglected to say the least. I thought I'd be more motivated when we bought some new bedroom furniture over the summer but it didn't happen. Anywho, the yucky bedding has been replaced - we ordered our old bedding pretty cheap and from online, it wasn't exactly the equivalent of the pic online. So we have shiny *literally* new bedding :-)
Today I never left the house. In the afternoon, I made Mary bring Camer to the pool. After being with him since Friday, I needed some time ALONE and of course I had house work to do. So even though I was doing stuff the entire time they were gone, it was nice to have a quiet house :-) Oh well, off to watch Big Brother. For the past 2 years, the LAST person that I wanted to win has won and most everyone annoys me on the show but for some reason Mary and I are addicted and can't stop watching.
Friday, April 4, 2008
A Showing! Yikes!
Lordie, I agree with Trace, the process of selling the house is quite stressful. Keeping the house clean and essentially perfect is definitely difficult between the menagerie of animals and the kid.
So we already had one showing today. Apparently, when our agents got back to their office, they found out another agent has a client that's looking for a house on OUR STREET. So weird. Anywho, at first they set it up for tomorrow at 12. I got totally freaked out that we were going to have a showing and so soon and I got even MORE freaked out when Mary called me back at 2:00 to let me know they wanted to have the showing at 4:00. Of course, we could've said no but I want to be as flexible as possible since we want to sell. Luckily, the kid was in his nap so it was me going in high speed to get things cleaned and ready. Then, once he got up, getting his room in order and all of us (kid, dog, and me) out the door. *phew*
I think I've decided that Emma also needs to go during showings. She's a friendly cat but TOO friendly unless you love cats which I do and even then, she's a bit much. And when I got back, some stuff was moved on the kitchen table. Miss Violet and BoBo were hiding under the bed so I know Emma was the culprit.
Oh well, hopefully these last minute showings don't become a regular thing or maybe we'll already get an offer...wishful thinking!
So we already had one showing today. Apparently, when our agents got back to their office, they found out another agent has a client that's looking for a house on OUR STREET. So weird. Anywho, at first they set it up for tomorrow at 12. I got totally freaked out that we were going to have a showing and so soon and I got even MORE freaked out when Mary called me back at 2:00 to let me know they wanted to have the showing at 4:00. Of course, we could've said no but I want to be as flexible as possible since we want to sell. Luckily, the kid was in his nap so it was me going in high speed to get things cleaned and ready. Then, once he got up, getting his room in order and all of us (kid, dog, and me) out the door. *phew*
I think I've decided that Emma also needs to go during showings. She's a friendly cat but TOO friendly unless you love cats which I do and even then, she's a bit much. And when I got back, some stuff was moved on the kitchen table. Miss Violet and BoBo were hiding under the bed so I know Emma was the culprit.
Oh well, hopefully these last minute showings don't become a regular thing or maybe we'll already get an offer...wishful thinking!
Selling a House and Adopting a Kid
Our house is officially on the market. We listed it at about 15K more than we thought we'd list it for but with the comps' in the neighborhood, I think we have a fighting chance at recouping at least some of the money we put into the house. Since we worked with this realtor when we bought the house, she was able to give us a decent deal on her fee. She also works as a team with another woman. She told me I'm the cutest pregnant woman she's ever seen so I love her. LOL. And apparently, we did a good job at getting it ready for showings since when the manager of the office saw the pictures, he thought we had it staged. *fingers crossed for a QUICK sale*
Cameron is home today. He also ran me ragged on Wednesday. He is home with me 2 days/week. Now that we're adopting him, Mary has wanted to pull him out of daycare/pre-school all together. One, because we're now paying for it and two, she just doesn't want him in daycare. We both agree that a lot of the kids are "bad influences" and that he's always a grump after the day there (probably because he refuses to nap at school) but whatever, that's just the way daycare goes.
There is also no part-time program so even though he's only there 3 days/week at the most, we pay for the full thing. But we have absolutely no resources up here especially for day time babysitting so I think it's out of the question to keep him home full time and it's also been difficult keeping up with a 3-year old while I'm pregnant. He was SO much easier when he was 2. Taken, he had some major developmental delays, I do miss the days of him being quiet, cooperative, and lighter!
We were pretty disappointed yesterday to learn that his official adoption probably won't happen until sometime in May - at the earliest! As I think I mentioned before, all the paperwork was ready to go when our lawyer noticed a mistake was made at the state level by listing Cameron's father's name wrong. And with his crazy bio family, we really didn't want to take the risk of legal battles later on so everything was sent back to be corrected. Of course, now this has delayed things about 2 months or so.
Cameron is home today. He also ran me ragged on Wednesday. He is home with me 2 days/week. Now that we're adopting him, Mary has wanted to pull him out of daycare/pre-school all together. One, because we're now paying for it and two, she just doesn't want him in daycare. We both agree that a lot of the kids are "bad influences" and that he's always a grump after the day there (probably because he refuses to nap at school) but whatever, that's just the way daycare goes.
There is also no part-time program so even though he's only there 3 days/week at the most, we pay for the full thing. But we have absolutely no resources up here especially for day time babysitting so I think it's out of the question to keep him home full time and it's also been difficult keeping up with a 3-year old while I'm pregnant. He was SO much easier when he was 2. Taken, he had some major developmental delays, I do miss the days of him being quiet, cooperative, and lighter!
We were pretty disappointed yesterday to learn that his official adoption probably won't happen until sometime in May - at the earliest! As I think I mentioned before, all the paperwork was ready to go when our lawyer noticed a mistake was made at the state level by listing Cameron's father's name wrong. And with his crazy bio family, we really didn't want to take the risk of legal battles later on so everything was sent back to be corrected. Of course, now this has delayed things about 2 months or so.
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