Just busy again

I'm not really surprised that I haven't posted in over 2-1/2 weeks since they have been jam-packed busy!

I was supposed to have my first appt with my new midwife on 11/24, but after getting there and starting my visit, she had to leave to deliver a baby before she came in to see me. It was sort of disappointing on one hand, but reassuring to know she drops what she's doing to deliver babies. I had to get my glucose test done anyway, so it was no big deal and we rescheduled for the following week.

Then it was Thanksgiving Thursday. We went down to my Dad & Julia's for dinner. It was just us and them, so it was very low-key and simple....just right! After that, we went to Tony's sister's house for a little while.

Friday, Black Friday, we awoke to our first snowfall of the season. I wasn't too happy, but Hannah was thrilled. The good thing is that most of it was gone by mid-day.

Then I went shopping. It's sort of a tradition to meet my friend Erin and her mom & sister out, so that's what I did. I hadn't really intended on doing much shopping but after about 5 hours, I had enough! My feet hurt so bad and I swore I never wanted to walk again!!!

The next day, I cleaned the house top to bottom. We had a poker tournament at our house, so it was a long day. Tony finished 4th (I think) which was good. At least he's doing OK this season...I can't catch a break at all! I wonder what I'm doing wrong or different, but I can't seem to make the right moves to win these tournaments!

Sunday I was busy with errands and realized I had over done it a bit because I was having contractions - like a handful an hour and that went on for a couple of days. Monday night 11/30, I had a meeting after work.

Tuesday morning, we had our 1st appt with the midwife (again). It went really well. Other than we had to wait to get in for what was supposed to be her first appt of the day. But anyway, we really liked her and she even asked me how I was feeling and talked about the baby!!! What a concept! She was able to feel the baby and said it was positioned head down already and everything seems great. She's guestimating that the baby will probably be about the same size, maybe a few ounces bigger than Hannah was. Anyway I was so glad to have switched providers and am looking forward to the rest of the pregnancy with Mary Jo. I had Bible Study Tuesday night after work. It was a late night - we got home around 10 and crashed!

Wednesday last week was the only night I didnt' have anything planned and I ended up working a little bit late doing our monthly forecast and then had to get back on the computer after dinner to finish. So much for a "do nothing" night.

Thursday night was my NAWIC holiday social. I left work around 1:30 to run a few errands for the social and then went over to the hotel we had it at to set up. It was a good night. I ran the canned food drive and we collected a ton of food! It was a good dinner and a decent night out, but another late one.

Last Friday, we put up our Christmas tree after work. Hannah loved it and was so super eager to do it all this year. She enjoyed putting all the decorations on the tree. It was a bit bottom heavy, so I had to do a little adjusting of her work, but it looks nice!

Saturday morning, we all got up and dressed to go get pictures taken. I had to get Hannah's Christmas pictures taken so I also roped Tony into doing family pics again too. He just loves it!! I also combined this trip with pregnancy photos as well. They all turned out pretty good.

After pictures, Hannah had a birthday party to go to at the mall. They had lunch at the food court and then went to Build-A-Bear.

I hung out at the mall and did a little shopping, but mostly hung out with all the old men who sleep on the couches around the mall!!! It was funny, I hadn't really noticed it that much before, but every resting area I stopped at to sit had an old sleeping guy there! Too funny! Tony did his shopping and Hannah's party was done around 4:00 and then we went home to rest a while. Then we headed out to dinner and then back home.

Sunday, we got up and took Hannah to see Santa. She was excited again this year. She was a bit crabby in the morning and I told her that she'd better be good since Santa is watching. On the way there, she asked me to play "Happy Girl" in the car so she could stop being cranky. After she saw Santa, she said, "Mommy, Santa didn't know I was being cranky this morning" I told her thank goodness we listened to Happy Girl to help her be happy before we got there!!!!

This past Monday was gymnastics and then when we got home, I realized Hannah had a fever. She looked like she was really tired when I picked her up from daycare, but then I saw that it was her eyes that said she didn't feel well. She had a 101 fever so I gave her some motrin and put her to bed. I had a vacation day planned for Tuesday to try to get some things done, so I decided to keep her home with me. She woke up with a 99.5 temp and I took her out shopping with me since there was a ton of stuff I wanted to get done and she didn't seem to be really sick. I did a bunch of running around and we got back home around 12:30. Hannah took a nap and I had a conference call for work. Then I started on a project. I had decided to make "gift jars" for my administrators at work this year for Christmas gifts. I have 9 direct reports now, so Christmas gets either super generic or really expensive fast for all of them. I had to find a handmade option that didn't cost a ton of money. I decided on these jars. It was a good idea, I think. I hope they like them! They are all of the dry ingredients layered to a cookie recipie and then you add a tag with the rest of the recipie for them to make the cookies. I hung the new blind I ordered for the baby's room, but there's something wrong with it. The slats don't turn and the blind doesn't stay all the way down. It's a cordless blind so it has tension that holds it up and down and there's something wrong. I'm sort of annoyed since it's a $100 blind so I guess I'll be taking it back this weekend for them to order me a new one. I had my Christmas dinner Tuesday night for Bible Study group.

I finished these up decorating the jars last night after work. I like them and I hope the girls do too! I'll have to think of these homemade things for next year too - it's so much more affordable! I made 9 of these for probably around $35-40.

Hannah seems to just have another cold. The mornings seem to be the roughest part of the day, but other than that, it seems to be just another annoying cold.

Today was our Christmas party at work. I am so glad tomorrow is Friday! I'll be 30 weeks tomorrow so I'm down to my last 10!! I'm feeling very pregnant these days. The contractions have stopped since I have slowed things down a bit. I can definitely feel the 25 pounds I've put on. Sleeping is getting harder and I'm winded after doing pretty much anything. This baby is still pretty active and moves alot still, much stronger too lately.

So there you have it....my reason for not blogging for a while! the next couple of weeks aren't quite as busy, but still pretty full. Before I know it, Christmas will be here and then New Years and then I'll have like 6 weeks to go until the baby comes!!! We're getting anxious!