Archive for June, 2009
Jun
A Glimmer of Hope, Maybe?
I’m so thrilled for my friend — she actually just sold her house in Maryland after only a couple months on the market! She’s attempted to sell it a year and a half ago, but no one was buying. Only now she and her family have to find a house. They’re staying in the same general area, but moving to a better school district. Hopefully this is a good sign. I have to imagine that the housing slump has also hurt business like cross country movers — though I don’t think I’ve ever heard them mentioned in a news story. I’ve noticed quite a few new “for sale” signs pop up around town here and I’m tracking them to see what, if anything, gets bought. At any rate, I am thrilled for my friend. I know she really wanted to move on and I’m glad she is now able to!
Jun
Catching Up With Friends
A couple weeks ago, via Facebook, I finally got back in touch with a very old friend from Kindergarten! She is now a nurse in Boston and it struck me just how many of my friends have persued healthcare careers. I know so many people who are nurses or radiology techs. I give them a lot of credit because I don’t think I could handle those kinds of jobs. I know they are super rewarding, but… I’m so squeamish. Even my own c-sections were hard for me, LOL!
Jun
On Celebrity Deaths
I’ve never been a huge Michael Jackson fan, so I am just not really into all the coverage of his life and death over the past couple of days. In my opinion, it’s a little too much. Though I do find it interesting how he was on all kinds of pain pills and Demerol injections. I don’t remember if he ever went to drug rehab, but maybe if he had he would not have died so early — I don’t know. It’s sad how much drug abuse there is in Hollywood, isn’t it? I mean, you’d think that these celebs that have so much fame and fortune could find better ways to control pain or make themselves happy. Us regular folks are able to do it, somehow (well, at least most of the time). Anyway… I feel bad that Farrah Fawcet’s death was completely overshadowed by MJ’s. It’s not fair, but I guess it just goes to show that there is no accounting for taste.
Jun
Family Visits
I always expect summer to be this relaxing season, but inevitably it turns out to be busy, busy. Jake is attending three different day camps, we will have two birthdays and a Baptism, Drew’s mom plans to take the boys for several overnights, and Drew’s dad will be visiting from Florida. Before we got pregnant with Laura, we had thought of visiting him in Miami, but obviously the timing didn’t work out. He has a time-share in Disney and I know the boys would have enjoyed it, but I know they’ll have a lot of fun when we go in a couple years. We’ve always found Orlando vacations to be really enjoyable. There’s a lot to do and if you go at the right time of year, it can be a nice break from cold, Northeast weather. So we’ll have fun planning that at some point, but for now… well, we’ll be happy here in the old Hudson Valley!
Jun
Happy Father’s Day!
I wish at I was feeling 100% so that I could do something special for Drew today. But after pulling a muscle as well as dealing with this stupid infection on my c-section scar, I’m still required to take it easy. So instead of taking him out tonight, we’ll just be ordering take-out! I would have loved to have bought him a really nice gift like a new grill or a Capresso espresso machine (he loooves espresso and I don’t think we have all the parts to the machine we got for our wedding). But this just isn’t the year for it. The poor guy has actually spent the day working, moving furniture and removing old carpeting. Our new carpet is being installed on Thursday and he wants to be ahead of the game. I say he certainly deserves whatever he wants for dinner, as well as a cold beer or a nice glass of wine! Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there!
Jun
Weight Loss Goal
With this pregnancy I only gained about 23 lbs, which isn’t so bad. Of course, I figured I’d have a bigger baby than I did, thus removing a few more pounds when she came out! I have not weighed myself yet because our scale is broken, and I think I really need to wait a couple more weeks, especially since we’ve been relying on easy meals. Don’t get me wrong — we’re eating pretty healthy, but Drew is so busy keeping up with everything that I don’t want to ask him to make some of the more involved meals that I make that tend to have more veggies. He’s picking up our CSA share this evening, though, so we should be able to enjoy some nice salads over the next couple of days. Salads are nature’s best diet pills don’t you know 
And once I’m really up and around we’re planning on doing South Beach again. I hope the baby weight comes off quickly.
Jun
Oh, baby!!!
Well, we all are now home and adjusting to life as a family of five! Baby Laura was born on June 3rd at 8:36 a.m. Her birth weight was 6 lbs. 3 oz. and she was 19 inches long. She is such a sweetie! The c-section went well, though fasting before the operation was hard. I wonder if it would have been easier if I had been allowed to take appetite suppressants? Of course, if you can’t have water, I highly doubt that any kind of drugs would be good before the surgery, LOL! My recover is going pretty well, though I am exceptionally sore today. It’s cold and rainy out and I wonder if the dampness is contributing to my agony 
Tomorrow it will be a week already! I am hoping that I start to feel more like myself soon. It’s hard for me to just sit around, which is basically what I have to do. But if I overdo it now, I know I’ll pay for it later.