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Trying to Get in Shape

June 11, 2011

A handful of my friends and I have started a new workout. Bodies By Cindy, a local group of personal trainers, has started offering free boot camp classes twice a week on the Coast Guard base at lunchtime. They have also invited us to their free Saturday morning classes. I did all three workouts this past week and though I felt like I was going to pass out on Tuesday, I was doing much better on Thursday. This morning was pretty rough, but I got through it. I am most definitely carrying quite a few extra pounds, and when we run or do jumping jacks I can feel all of the extra going up and down. After I had Jeremy my body bounced back pretty quickly, but I realized that an extra 10 stayed with me. Over his first few years I came to accept my new size and figured it was just what moms dealt with. No biggie. My new weight was still considered “average” for a woman my height, so I really didn’t worry about it. After I had Jesse, the breastfeeding helped me to drop most of the baby weight really quick, but again, 10 pounds...

Smack in the Middle Kind of Day

January 18, 2011

Today was a tough one… Forgive my brash phrasing, but I feel like I’ve been rode hard and put away wet. From the moment the kids woke up this morning I’ve been “on” without a break and now I’m exhausted. 5:30 am . . . . . Jesse wakes up hungry. I sit up in bed and feed the baby, browsing Facebook and Google Reader on my phone to stay awake. 6:30 . . . . . Put the baby back to bed, try to catch another couple of Zzzz. 7:00 . . . . . Jeremy comes in the room and everyone’s up now. 7 – 9 . . . . . Shower, dress both kids, feed both kids, do my hair and get dressed, re-dress Jesse because he drenched his first outfit in spit-up. Run around the house looking for baby shoes, don’t find any. 9:15 . . . . . Leave the house 15 minutes late, head for our Tuesday playgroup. 9:30 – 11:30ish . . . . . PLAY PLAY PLAY. Well, I wrastled Jesse a bit, tried to keep an eye on Jeremy, tried to carry on several conversations with my friends as they...

Seasonal Allergies, No Thanks

September 30, 2010

I slept like the dead last night, but woke up feeling the same. I’m exhausted, sneezy, with stuffy sinuses, a mild headache, and itchy throat. Joy of joys. I’m thankful for summer to be over and fall moving in, but the change-of-seasons allergies are kicking my butt this morning. Even poor Jesse is affected. My little baby man has a gross snotty nose and is more sleepy, less playful than normal. I think I’ll take a Benadryl, rest, and bake some cookies for Jeremy & Jason to have when they both get home this afternoon. Is anyone else dealing with miserable seasonal allergies?

Happy Mother’s Day

May 9, 2010

First, happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms out there. This is my third Mother’s Day and it has been wonderful so far. I look forward to so many more. Second, I’d like to share a short personal story. This is my first Mother’s Day spent away from my mom and grandmother. Though I feel very loved by my own boys, it’s tough not being able to hug the two most important women in my life. This morning was our second time visiting a new church. We are already feeling very welcomed there and enjoy it very much. We sat toward the middle of the sanctuary this week instead of at the rear like last week. When the pastor asked all the mothers to stand to be recognized, some nearby women took notice of the sweetly sleeping baby that I held and they gushed over him. As we sang during the offering, an old woman appearing in her late 80s crossed the church, came over to us, and gave Jesse and I a warm hug. I didn’t think I’d remember the smell of my great-grandmother’s perfume. She passed away almost four years ago. I miss her so very...

First Time Mom-of-Two

April 8, 2010

Today was the first time I took both my boys out of the house by myself. Sure, this may not sound like a huge deal to some people, but it was a major milestone to me. This morning was a Mothers of Preschoolers meeting. I’m still new to the group but I didn’t want to miss it. There are lots of kids that Jeremy really loves playing with and I enjoy the discussions that all the moms have together. Jason and I had a nice breakfast together and then he got Jeremy ready to go while I got Jesse’s things packed up. Quick kisses goodbye and I was headed off to our playgroup with two children for the first time without someone’s help. I’m pretty sure that at some point I will have a difficult tearing-my-hair-out experience, but this was not that time. Jeremy was well-behaved almost the whole time (aside from a few impolite moments in the play area) and Jesse slept in his sling against my chest for the entire three hours. I was fully expecting to need to change a diaper and/or pull-up and figure out how to breastfeed in the sling at least once. None...

Visiting California

September 10, 2009

I cannot hardly wait for my trip to California to visit Jeremy, family, and friends. My plane leaves Mobile at 6:40 am this Saturday and after I spend a wonderful busy week with my loved ones in California, I return home to Alabama at 5:15 pm the following Saturday. Having laid that out, I’ve got a lot of travel prep to do tomorrow: Laundry Pack Clean out the fridge of the leftovers that no one’s going to eat while I’m gone. Print out my travel itinerary. Charge up my cell phone and make sure it’s filled up with minutes. Charge up my camera and pack the charger. Start my next crochet project so I don’t have to “ch 304″ in a cramped airplane. Oh yeah, and we need to go to my second prenatal appointment. My new OB said he likes to do lots of ultrasounds, and this is the first appointment where the baby is developed enough to have a heartbeat and big enough that we can actually see body structures. Hopefully the doctor will do an ultrasound so that we can see and hear those things for the first time. At my first appointment a little over...

Back in Church After 10 Years

August 9, 2009

It felt good, so wake up early on a Sunday, put on some presentable clothes, and show up to church. I haven’t attended services in just about ten years since I was last a member of a church with some friends in my senior year of high school. After I graduated I ran off and moved around, did a little college, rambled – more or less, and stopped attending. Jason said it well this morning when a friend of ours from California sounded surprised that we chose to attend services, Jason said: “I’ve always believed in God, just haven’t always believed in church.” I think that was a very good way to put it. I was raised in the Baptist church near my childhood home and went to its tiny school from preschool through second grade. Beginning in third grade I was enrolled in public school and only attended church with my great-grandparents occasionally. After a while, I stopped going altogether. As a teenager I met my close friend Kerstin and soon became a member of her very small church. I was baptized there and really enjoyed my years in that congregation. After a couple of years in my...

I’m Pregnant!

August 2, 2009

I didn’t want to wrap up this news into my previous post because this deserves it’s own web space… Jason and I found out this morning that we’re expecting a new addition to our family! We are very very excited and have barely been able to contain our happiness all day. We’ve been off birth control since the wedding and at some point in the past month and a week, our miracle happened. I’m three weeks late as of today but I took home tests a couple of weeks ago when I was both one and two weeks late. They were both negative. Yesterday I was nauseous after a really delicious lunch at Cracker Barrel and got very dizzy whilefollowing Jason up and down the aisles at Home Depot, so I decided to test again. First thing this morning I took my last test and it was a very clear positive! As soon as we have Internet hooked up tomorrow I will search for a local OB-GYN who takes our milirary insurance and schedule an appointment. If our calculations (math-based guesses) are correct and our baby was concieved at some point during the past two weeks (after both negative...

Moving day is quickly approaching…

July 21, 2009

It’s now Tuesday, four days before we head out of town to move to Mobile, Alabama. For a few reasons we decided not to buy the house we chose back in May when we went out to visit and house-hunt. Once we get there we won’t have a bunch of cash laying around to put in the work that the house needs (new bathroom, new a/c, refinish the wood floors, and a couple other little things) and we won’t be able to afford a second mortgage to finance those things. Also, we’ll only be there for four years, not enough time to recoup the equity we’d be putting in. Lastly, we don’t want to spend the entire four years there fixing up a house just to sell it and hope to get our money back (not likely in this market), we’d rather work on getting out of debt by paying off our cars and fixing up Jason’s credit. So, we’ve been looking at 4-bedroom rentals in the area and have found not only that they are in abundance, but we can also pay less for a nicer house than we would have paid to own a fixer-upper. We do...

The Wedding

July 17, 2009

I cannot thank our friends enough for participating in our celebration. It really feels as though we started off our new life together on the right foot with lots of love and support and a little luck in our pockets.

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