Texas Trip

Back safe from the Texas trip! It was a long trip, 3 days in Texas and 4 days driving! Thankfully, we stopped at a motel overnight. I am not sure how I would have coped with having to sleep sitting upright. We were in a 15 passenger van and I was on a seat with my husband beside me and a carseat on the other side. So there was no lounging room at all. My feet and legs swelled up really badly from having them hang and then once we were in Texas they didn't go down because the heat was bad! We put up a dog kennel one day and I thought it looked shady but we were out in the sun quite a bit so that made them swell. On the way home though, I made a discovery. Propping them up on my husband's lap is the cat's meow!! The whole trip home he let me and the swelling completely went away. I felt bad for him because he had hardly any leg room and his knees hurt yet he sacrificed so I could feel better. I love my husband! He puts up with so much since I'm prego! Emotions that I wasn't planning to let run wild, like I cry over nothing sometimes or one bit of frustrations directed at me puts me in tears. Yet he loves me anyway and promises I am not scaring him away from having more children! He just got done spoiling me and shopping for me at 2 big sales from 2 favorite stores of mine and now I'm stocked up on body wash, perfumes, and lotions! He makes me feel like a queen! The wedding in Texas was fun! Mandie and David looked so happy and Mandie looked so pretty in her white dress! Brought back so many memories of my wedding day. They faced some trials and persecutions just like my husband and I did for getting married as well as some other political things that happened over their wedding time. My husband and I could feel for them! I was just at the midwife and although my blood pressure was in a good bracket, the bottom number was a bit higher than 2 weeks ago when I was there. She said it's a sign that I was stressed. Ah, yeah, I have to agree. The trip was very stressful for me! She said it's very important to avoid stress for my health and the baby so I am trying hard to take good care of myself and my husband is being a sweetheart too! Thankfully my blood sugar test was fine. For the way I love my candy, especially chocolate, I wasn't sure what she would say! I don't eat much baked stuff, just candy! I have to eat more protein though. That's not too hard because I do love nuts and meats. Anyway, that's all for now!

Washington DC, Pregnancy, WW2 Weekend, Baby Shower

I see it’s 2 months since I last wrote so maybe it’s time I write again! Friday June 1st was WW2 weekend in Reading. My husband talked so often about this awesome place where they have re-enactors who play out parts of how it was during WW2. I was really curious to see this place finally because it seemed to be a favorite place of his and til next year we will be pushing a stroller, Lord willing. So we got tickets and went this year. Til we were done traipsing all over the place, I began to wonder if I was the smart one after all! I have about 10 weeks left til the baby arrives and this is the most I’ve weighed in my entire life! My feet do not appreciate the extra weight and neither does my bladder or my back! My husband’s knees were acting up too. Guess they have sympathy pain for me?! LOL! Actually he had knee surgery in his one knee when he was just entering the teen years and it’s never been quite right and I guess the other knee didn’t appreciate having to bear the extra weight over that time so it developed an attitude as well. Anyway we had a good time in spite of that. I got a better understanding of WW2 era. This was my birthday gift to my husband, taking him there and all. Yet like to wonderful sweetheart he is, he made sure we rested a lot for my sake and found the porta potties when I needed them and bought me food as soon as I was hungry, etc. And, he found some patterns from that era, patterns to make dresses. He got me some of them. I can’t wait to try them! We had to laugh at the set up they had for a radio station of those days. Well, not the set up but rather the people that sang. There was a lady who was the lead singer and she….well…let’s just say she did not have the voice it appeared she thought she had! It was a little grating on the ears, if I may say so! And then when they came to the song, “God Bless America” she had some more people join in (only re-enactors in uniform). Oh my! God bless this one man! He jumped up to the one microphone and belted it out with all might and main and wow! That guy could not sing! His heart was in it and he was making a joyful noise and I appreciated that! However, usually people don’t belt it out like that unless they can make a melody roll! We had tickets for a beef dinner but they had tornado warnings out and the sky was very ominous so we decided not to stay. Most of the stands shut down because of the winds being very strong already and the forecast and it was starting to rain. We blessed someone else with tickets who was planning to stay. I couldn’t wait to get into the car to rest my throbbing feet but alas! Apparently 150 other people had the same idea! We had to stand in line for the shuttle buses! Sigh! I thought longingly of how at airports when they see a harried mother with children or a pregnant woman, they part the waters and let her go into the front of the line. Not happening here. Oh well, I will never ever again think it’s dumb when they give such people first priority. For some reason it makes total sense now! Anyway, we probably only waited 20 minutes for a shuttle but it seems much longer when your feet are throbbing. June 2nd my husband’s sisters and mom put on a wonderful baby shower for us. What a blessing that was! As a first time mom I didn’t realize quite how much babies cost but I’m finding out even without the dear little gem being here yet! Such an endless list of things to get just to be prepared! We did a registry at Babies R Us. We had fun picking things out. My husband loved the scanner and he liked it so much he scanned some things just for fun. Needless to say I had to take some of it off in case someone would actually buy some things I didn’t need or want instead of what was really needed! But at the shower we had some fun games. They had 4 or 6 different diapers with a smashed piece of candy in the middle. We were to guess what candy it looked like and see who wins. It really looked like poop which is what it was intended to look like! And there we were putting our noses up close to what looked like poop in a diaper. In the beginning of the party we were given 3 clothepins each. Throughout the party we weren’t allowed to say “baby” and if someone caught us saying it they took one of our clothepins. Whoever had the most in the end won. It didn’t take me very long til I lost all of mine. It’s just too hard to be prego and not say “baby”! There was also a basket of 15 baby items that we got to see briefly and then it was hidden and we were supposed to remember all the 15 items and write them down. I had them all except 1. Someone else got all of them though so I didn’t win! I got blessed with a lot of goodies for the baby. It was so much fun to open them and see what’s in each package! There are still so many things left on the registry that I need though. I left the registry open and I can let it open til a few months after the baby’s due date. So anyone buying baby gifts to give at birth can still go by the registry. Oh, and there was delicious cake and icecream and chips and dip and veggies and meadow tea. June 3 my mom and dad, sis, and husband and I went to Washington DC to see some friends. They hosted us there for 2 nights and we really enjoyed our stay. They cooked some awesome food for us and big breakfasts. We spent a day at the Holocaust Museum and half a day at the Smithsonian Institute. My feet throbbed something awful as well as my back. However, I did enjoy the museums a lot. I had seen both museums before but it was quite some time ago and I know a lot more about Adolph Hitler now so it was more interesting. My husband is a history buff and he teaches me a lot. Now we are getting ready to go to Texas for a week. We have a wedding there and it takes awhile to drive out. It is really warm in Texas. Hope my legs and feet are recognizable by the time I get there! They tend to swell up when traveling since I’m pregnant. And I hope Texas people believe in AC. I can barely get my breath without it in this heat. Well, I don’t know when I will write next but God bless you all in the meantime!