We Need Sick Days Too (Ya Know!)

For the past five days, I have been suffering with the flu. Now if you have ever been pregnant with the flu, then you know why I use the term suffering. What makes it even more worse is the fact that I am 29 weeks pregnant, so third trimester with the FLU. I was bed ridden, lazy, tired, sick, bored and just about every negative feeling you can feel... I FELT. I woke up with a runny nose, three hours later it turned into body aches then 2 hours later turned into hot/cold waves. Then it occurred to me.. Oh great, I am sick.

But when you are a stay at home mother, you don't have the luxury of calling your boss coughing in your phone and asking for the day off. You have to suck it up; wake up at 7 in the morning, make your kids breakfast, change his diaper, wait on him hand and foot etc. I can't ask, "Hey Dorrian, Mommy does not feel good today. So can you like.. take care of yourself today. Thanks!"

I have literally had no energy what so ever. No energy to clean, get dressed, or even knit... KNIT. I had no energy to move two needles around a ball of yarn and count. So that gives you a glimpse of how sick I was. Did Dorrian understand this? No. He still yelled "Mama" from his room and made me come to his room to repeatedly ask what he wanted. Oh but those struggles, you just have to love. Because it tests your strength. And by my strength I must say I make Hulk look like Steve Urkel.

Now that I am feeling a little better, I have the energy to create a snarky post to let everyone know where I have been. I still have no way of breathing through my nose and I lack the ability to taste anything. But I am feeling better all in all. Which is worth something right?

I have 11 more weeks until Zoee is here, and we have the nursery done to about 2%. Which has me stressed out because we still barely have anything for her. Money has been so tight waiting on my husband to find out something about his job. Which today should be the day we find out, so I can only hope it is good news. But luckily my parents and parent in laws are going to go crazy for her and buy her everything because they can't help themselves. I swear my children are so so so spoiled. But I love it, because it is not something I ever had. So once we get her nursery ready I will share pictures.. Which reminds me I still need to upload pictures of our new house. I swear I am so laggy these days. I could blame it on age, but I am 21 so age has nothing to do with it.

Later this week I am hoping to share something pretty exciting with you guys. Going to start bringing in DIY projects. Because I am all for a good ol' DIY. Pinterest is my life safer and if I did not have it, I would be lost in this world.

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I Watched You Grow..

It is hard to grasp the last two years of your life. I remember being pregnant with you, feeling your kicks every day and night, telling you how much I already loved you before I even met you and singing to you the best way I knew how. Then when you were in my arms it was like a dream because I just did not believe I was capable of creating something so beautiful. The first few nights in the hospital, I would just hold you and stare like the world was spinning around me. Then when I brought you home to rock you to sleep, I would sing "You Are My Sunshine" and ball like a baby because I just did not want you to grow up. Now here we are, two years later. 

I remember thinking how the heck I was going to do it. How was I going to raise a child when I, myself, was so young and just a child myself. I had no idea what I was doing, I would cry because I thought you ate too little then too much and I did not understand why you slept so much. No one warned me what it was going to be like, you did not come with a instruction booklet. But I figured it out, each day you taught me. You taught me how to be a mother. How to be a woman. 

The truth is.. There is literally no greater love than the love a mother has for her child. I never understood that until having you. My love for you is so strong that I lie awake at night tempted to come and wake you up from your slumber just to hold you and look at you. Because being away from you causes me to withdraw from your sweet face. I love you.

 All I ask is for you to stop growing. Stop getting so much older. Because I don't know if my heart can handle it. I just want to hold you in my arms forever. So remember then when you are 30 and married with your own children, I will come over and hold you no matter what. Kiss you in public when I drop you off at high school. I might embarrass you from time to time, but I love you.

A created a time line of Dorrian's last two years of how fast he grew. For memories and for something that I will show him when he gets older. I have had such a hard time keeping up with his pictures, I have lost so many due to formatting my laptop and technology just repelling from me. But I use my blog to track the memories and photos so I will never lose them.

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Hello Monday -- It Is Monday Right?

Sadly for the past three days, I have been staring at the big orange button with the pencil to start a new post, wondering what the heck I was going to write about. I would write something delete it, write something then delete it and so fourth. I just have no clever things to share right at this moment, so I decided I will wait until Monday and just write something for Monday. I mean everyone hates Mondays, I know I do at least.

So I will start this post off with an update -- Because the last post I wrote about an update, yeah well all that has changed in the matter of a week. For starters, Dorrian is sick. He has severe type A flu, Strep throat and an ear infection. So I have been on my feet and restless for the past few days with him. He gets better then he gets worse, better - worse..... But today he is going and seeing his doctor for a check up to see if all of this medicine I have to force down his throat is helping him any.

Secondly, I had to quit my job Saturday night. As most of you know, I worked the day care at the Nautilus gym. My first paying job, I say "paying job" because we all know being a mother and wife is a job in of itself. Probably the hardest job there is. I had to quit because of Dorrian getting sick. He got sick from being in the day care with me, and us owning only one car forced us to have to get him out at 6 in the morning in 12 degree weather. It just was not worth the 25 dollars I was making a day to do it. We figured our best option was for me to stay at home and raise our kids. I missed it, I did. But it was good to have that time away from everything, go to work and get out of the house away from my husband and Dorrian. Sounds bad -- but we all need it, whether you admit it or not. But now it is make to the old grime, like they always say. But I enjoy it.

Thirdly but lastly, My husbands job has made a huge jump. He has an interview soon for the General Manager position for his hotel. If he gets this, financially we would be so better off. After me quitting my job, we are just kind of tight money wise. So I ask you all for your prayers on him rocking this interview and getting it. He is pretty confident he will, so I am confident also. But you just never know, right?

I am 28 weeks tomorrow, blah. Third trimester, more doctor appointments, restlessness, tired, using my bladder as a punching bag, you know the good stuff. But we need to start getting her nursery ready. We literally have yet to start, we only have a few things. The basics -- bottles, a couple clothes, wash cloths, and socks. That is pretty much yet. So I need to get on the ball, like pronto. Because honestly I don't feel as though I will carry her all 40 weeks, because my body is SO tired. By the time that clock hits 9 pm I am knocked out. I snore, I have never snored in my entire life! Which causes my husband to have to sleep somewhere else. My back hurts constantly. What else? Everything. But I just can't wait to see her. I hope she has red hair, I so hope.

Well, How is everyone's Monday going? I hope it is all good. My next post will be much more interesting I promise. Just let me take a gander at the ol' brain and see.

                             I miss this happy face. This was a day before he got sick, we went to a local creamery.

                                          He loved the whip cream off of my brownie cake I got. 

                                     This was from his "good" moment yesterday. He conjured up enough energy to draw on his chalk board. 



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Coping With A Toddler

We all know whenever your kid starts walking and talking, it is almost impossible to relax for even a few minutes. I mean that can't be just me... --- can it? Well I am going to share a few tips on how I get those moments to relax while my son stays distracted and learning.

1. I know there are plenty of mothers out there that believe television and other electronic devices bad for children this young. But I don't believe that, I believe it is helpful as long as it is for a limited time of course. Before my son goes down for a nap he has a little "relax time" where I turn on netflix and he watches a movie or his favorite shows. It works like a charm, especially whenever I give him a snack.

2. Investing in a nabi or some sort of tablet. We bought him a nabi not too long ago and it is great whenever you go out and do something where your kid can't really run around in. We just give him his nabi while we are waiting and it keeps him entertained. It can even work at home, when you are cleaning or doing something that you can't be distracted with.

3. Make them feel like they are helping you with something. I will tell my son "Go and help mommy read a book." Or something along those lines. He will go in his room and read a book or play with his toys for the longest. I mean you will walk in with a room full of toys, but hey that is also a great time to teach them to help you pick it all up.

4. Coloring, reading and whatever else that gives them those artistic skills. My son LOVES to color. We invested in a table and chairs for him and I will sit him next to me and he will color for the longest time while I blog or cleaning dishes. Be sure to keep an eye on them of course because they like to color on everyone but the coloring page sometimes.

These are a few tips that always seemed to help me. I mean I know they are pretty much common sense, but I have had mom ask me in public how I get him to stay distracted and behaved. This is pretty much how. I mean God blessed me with a good kid though too. He is not the one that screams in stores and cries out loud, thank God. But I think my tips helped him.

Good luck ladies with your toddlers, I know it is hard but one day they won't be a toddler and you will miss it haha.

Have fun! Happy Monday!

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Hi 2015, How are ya?

I gave up on this whole blogging thing for awhile, simply because it just was not growing fast enough. I have the tendency to quit things that don't go my way. But this year I decided to bring it back and this time stick with it, hard. Instead of doing the whole "new year, new me" cliche, I decided to just pick up on old hobbies and learn them better than I did last year. I have learned that things take time and patience in order to succeed. I don't want this to be just another mom blog, I want to offer something limited and unique. Which will take some tweaking of my dusty brain to figure out. But 2015, I plan to make this year better than last. So work with me, yeah?

I guess I will start this blog by updating you guys about everything that has changed. We moved into our own home, rental but our first home. Last time we chatted we were living with my parents, but now were are on our own. I have a job, my first real job. I work for Nautilus gym, in the Kids Klub. I deal with screaming kids and tantrums other than my own tantrum throwing toddler. But the awesome thing about this job is that I can bring Dorrian for FREE. I am 26 weeks pregnant with our baby girl, which we have decided to name her Zoee Bronwen. Bronwen is my middle name, and it is a welsh name that has stuck around in my family. I am all for carrying middle names through out family. Dorrian is two years old, yes the big two. We have reached this point! My husbands job has been escalating pretty big. A raise and a close promotion to General Manager soon. We own a new car now too, traded our old junk of a grand am for a 2013 silver Kia Soul. I am in love with this vehicle, I recommend it to just about everyone. On a darker side though, some other things had to change. You know that ladder, where so many good things happen that some bad things had to happen with it. Found out my mother has breast cancer about a month ago. Luckily it is stage one on the cusp of being stage two invasive lobular carcinoma breast cancer.  She will be going through chemo therapy and a mastectomy soon. So please keep her in your prayers. But she is such a strong woman, I know God will get us all through this.

Lets make 2015 a good one, yes? Get my blog growing and out there, giving birth to a healthy baby girl, healthy year for my family, job growing potential, getting back into school after Zoee, and whatever else positive that can happen. Also when life throws me stones, keep my head up and remain strong. Here we come 2015!

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Toodles guys.