Holiday Recap

Tuesday nightish: Decide my throat hurts a lot and call the clinic, hoping to get in and be told that I do not have strep throat and do not have to worry about being contagious to my family on Christmas Eve.

Wednesday: Go to the doctor in the morning and find out that I do, in fact, have a form of strep throat. Finish laundry, pack up, go to Enderlin for Christmas eve at my parents. Because I am contagious, I skip the candlelight service at church. This makes me sad (but not Joshua or Jameson, who stayed home to "take care" of me). The candlelight service is my favorite. I did, however, get to play some Guitar Hero with my brother. I still suck at it. Once my parents and Tanner came home from church, I started the theme for the rest of the week: Stuff Yourself with Food, Even if You're Not Hungry. We had dinner, opened gifts and then played some Apples to Apples and Mad Gab. We got a rocking chair for the baby's room ~ one of the things that I had overlooked on my "needs" list. I didn't get to test drive it yet, though.

Thursday: Santa came (I love that I'm 27 and Santa still comes to my house!). He even left stuff for the baby. I guess he needed to get a headstart or something on the years to come. Had breakfast with most of my family ~ 10:30 was too early for Jameson ;) Josh took the snowmobile out for a ride and it died in the middle of a field. Good thing he can fix that stuff on his own and what he can't fix, Cody can! Went to my grandparents for Christmas day dinner and some dirty Bingo. This was also the beginning of an awesome migraine. That night, we went back to my parents and watched some tv and played some more games.

Friday: Had lunch with my parents and Tanner, stuck around and played some video games while Josh went to Lisbon to work some and fix the snowmobile. My parents took me to Lisbon later in the afternoon for Christmas Part II. That night, we played a dice game for gifts at Dannie and Sharon's. Woohoo for Corningware! Did some more eating, even though I wasn't really hungry. Still loving that migraine....

Saturday: Visited with family. More gift exchanging. I got a book of knitting patterns for baby stuff ... and joke that by next December Josh, the baby and I will each have sweaters with hearts in the middle that I've made to take our family picture in. We got a Pack N' Play ~ which makes me happy because now I can quit looking for one, and makes Josh happy cuz he's not a fan of having to look for one with me. Lots more eating. I was in bed by 6:30 though, my brain was not cooperating with me.

Sunday: Up early for breakfast at Dale and Dorothy's. (Mooooore food.) We talked about how, if the rocking chair was ready, we probably had room to pick it up. This was before we'd loaded the truck up and saw that really we didn't have the room for it. I said next year we may need a school bus. Still trying to get rid of that migraine. Tylenol is not my friend. I realllllllllllly miss Excederin. We've been talking about getting a new camera and (I've been) looking at them since last summer. Tonight we got a new one. I had decided on one sort of like my mom's (maybe even the same one) and Josh said he wanted something with 10 megapixels (?) and so we ended up with a different one. It is lime green though, so it has that much going for it. I'm excited to test it out!

And tomorrow it's back to life as usual (sort of.)

One more thing...

Happy Holidays!!!

A bowl of what??

Josh told me the other day that I'm a bossy pregnant woman. And sometimes crabby. This is the analogy that I came up with today:

Everyday, I'm allotted so much niceness. I compared it to a bowl of Rice Krispies (this was the first cereal I thought of). Throughout the day, I have to share those "Nice" Krispies with people. Especially customers at work. So by the end of the day, all that's left is the milk at the bottom of the bowl and that's not always my favorite part.

I told him not to worry, since I don't work the next couple days, by the time he gets home from work the bowl should still be fairly full. To this he replied, "Right, or I get home and all the Krispies are soggy and then I still get the crap end of the deal."

I laughed.

Random Life information

Tonight was the holiday program at the preschool. The kids did amazing, remembered all their lines, sang louder than they have been, and were just amazing in general.

This was Josh's 3rd time dressing as Santa for the preschool. He says he enjoys it, but the costume gets hot. It'd be easier to talk him into doing it, I think, if I could come up with a way to make it so the costume didn't get so hot! Tonight, he even had his own fan club: some family and a few of his coworkers were there to witness him in action. I know I tell him a hundred times, but I really am glad that he likes doing it and is willing to put that costume on each year. (If nothin else, I can always talk my brother or dad into doing it again ;) )

Friday is my last day of school until January 5th. Talk about a long break! I'm kind of anxious for the break to be over, merely for the fact that on the day after break ends we have our ultrasound. We will be spending nearly 5 days away from home this Christmas, some quality time with both of our families. Now we just need to finish off our Christmas shopping!

Top Secret

I failed to mention in the earlier post that though we ARE finding out if the baby is a girl or a boy, I will not be posting that information on this blog.

Granted, we will be telling people, but my dad wants the sex of the baby to be a surprise and I'm going to do my best to keep him from finding out. So, on the off chance that he checks this from time to time, I will not be having a IT'S A ...... post. I'll probably post ultrasound pictures, provided that they're not labelled to identify what the baby is.

So....I'll tell you if you ask, but if you tell my dad I will hunt you down and .... do something painful to you. Or something like that.

Best Medical Advice EVER!

Going into this, I knew that my doctor was a pretty cool lady. Today, she became my favorite person ever.

I had an appointment (obviously) and weighed less than last month. I feel like I've been eating a lot, but apparently, it's going nowhere. I'd noticed the same thing when weighing myself at home, but just figured that our scale is worthless.

To help get my weight up, I'm supposed to eat some high calorie food. Specifically: ice cream. That's what she said. To eat ice cream.

For the record, this will be the first medical advice that I plan on following religiously ;)

And as a p.s.....ultrasound on January 6th and we get to (hopefully) find out what the baby is! Yay!