What's in a Name?

Mike and I have been discussing names for our little bundle of joy. We don't agree on much, but I think we agree that choosing a name for a boy is much harder than choosing a name for a girl. Of course, I already had my short list of girl names. Luckily, Mike liked the name Emily and so that was an each choice for us.

When we found out that we needed a boy name, we were a little less prepared. I didn't have any boy names that I just loved. Mike liked Biblical name, but he liked a lot of them. We had talked about a few names for several weeks, but we couldn't really agree on anything. Mike would read long lists of names and I would rate them Yes, No, or Maybe. I had a lot of No's, some Maybe's and a few Yes's just to be funny.

We did eventually find a name that we both liked. It was one of the names that we liked early on, but we just had to be sure it was the right name.

So what's his name? His name is Noah Michael S. We love it! It's a good strong name.

We've decided to decorate his room in a Noah's Ark theme. It may be a little cliche, but we think it will be perfect for him. I wanted to decorate Emily's room in a Noah's Ark theme, but I could never find the right bedding. I ordered some bedding online this weekend and will post pictures in a few weeks when it's delivered.

This weekend, we went to Hallmark and found a baby book with Noah's Ark on it. What a surprise! We went ahead and bought the baby book and a brag book. Then we got home and Mike was looking online and found a Noah's Ark baby book that we both liked much better. So the Hallmark one will be going back to the store next weekend. Can't wait to show that to you too.

So many decisions, so many choices, so many cute things!

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Special Person

Emily was the special person of the day today at school. That means she got to be the special helper today. Each of her classmates also colored a picture of Emily and they made a Special Person book for her to take home.

Emily also colored a picture of herself, but the teacher is posting all of those along with an interview sheet for each child in the classroom. Emily didn't remember all the questions, but she said they wanted to know her favorite color and she said pink and green. Mike and I were surprised and mentioned that we thought she would just pick pink. But she said "I like pink and green because I stay on green (on the behavior chart at school) every day". Yes, she does - my sweet girl.

Some of the pictures were pretty funny. My camera battery was dead tonight so I'm recharging it and will post pictures soon. She also made a fingerprint counting book that was very cute. Another thing that will have to wait until another day.

Boys Vs Girls

The other night, Emily was taking a bath and we were talking about all the things we would do with baby boy. I told her that she could help me give him a bath. She said "I will, but he can't take a bath in the bathtub with me." I'm not really sure why she said that, but may have been a pretty smart observation. (I wouldn't want a boy to pee in my bath water either!)

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Somebody's Happy About Their Baby Brother

This weekend, we were on a mission. We found some baby crib bedding online that we liked, but I wanted to see it in person to make sure the colors were what I was expecting. We thought we might find it in a couple different local stores (they had it on their website) so we made several stops.

Every time we would go into a store, I would pick out several little boy outfits that were on sale. But by the time we were ready to leave the store, I always put the clothes back because I know we will get some other things before the baby comes.

He'll be born in the heat of the summer, but it won't be long before it starts getting cooler. So it's hard to shop when you don't know how big he'll be when he's born. (Emily was 5lbs, 8oz when she was born.)

So anyway, at the last stop Mike picked out something that he wanted to get and Emily picked out something too. It was fun getting just a couple things.

The other night, I wanted to take some pictures of the things we bought over the last couple weeks. Emily noticed what I was doing and wanted to get picture with every item.

Did you notice Emily's poor raw nose? We've been putting medicine on it every night and it's looking better today.

Also, I noticed that just about everything we bought was blue. I need to work on branching out to try other little boy colors. Just give me some time ... I'm new at this!

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A Great Day

The flowers were blooming (Irises, finally!)

We have been checking every day and this was the day!

We stopped by to see Pops for a minute. Emily and Madison wrote bicycles for about 5 minutes.



She needs to work steering a little.

And baby was moving and grooving. (No laughing, pointing or staring.)

We did some other fun things, but it takes toooooo long to upload the other pics. Maybe another night!

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Late Easter Post

Have I ever mentioned that we have a fabulous Easter bunny? I mean we have the most beautiful Easter baskets and they are chock full of goodies that kids and parents love. (Because I know that Cadbury Egg was really for me. I mean, it had to be for me. No I didn't eat it, but it's not over til it's over.)

And you know I am totally digging the fact that Easter Bunny brought TWO baskets this year.

And Emily is totally digging that fact too. (Like her nightgown? It's kinda new. And very cute.)

And speaking of digging, you obviously just DIG right into that big basket.

Oh! She found something she liked!

And she liked this one too - a girl after her mother's own heart. It's actually pretty neat. She's got all kinds of plans for helping me in the garden. That's great because I need a lot of help this year.

And this is my favorite picture. Partly because of my beautiful girl. And partly because of two bunnies - my two babies! You can tell Emily is so excited about this too.

(And aren't her bangs just cute? I cut them the night before. Maybe a tiny bit too short?)

Oh and did I ever show you our princess Easter eggs?

You gotta admit they are very beautiful.

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Goosey Goosey Gander

On Thursday as I was leaving work, I was walking out of our office building and I heard some hissing nearby. I looked and there was a huge goose sitting in one of the concrete planters by the front of the building. And it was hissing. At me!

I quickly side stepped and went around that freakishly large thing. I was thinking "that thing was hissing. At me!" Probably sitting on some eggs or something. It kinda reminded me of myself .. caring for my unborn baby. But just so you know, I wouldn't hesitate to smack it with my lunch bag if it came after me. Because, really, I'm caring for my unborn baby too. So back off, Goosey!

Then Friday afternoon when I came out of the building, I noticed that the big concrete planter was taped off with caution tape. But there was no big huge goose. And there was an awful stench coming from the area. So that leaves me to wonder what they did to the goose. I hope they didn't hurt her or her eggs! The thought almost made me cry. But it didn't.

Is the goose cooked? Is she gone for good? I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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What is this pain?

Yesterday at work, I started having what I think is sciatic nerve pain. I just call it "booty pain". It's only on one side - the left side, but it sure hurts when I walk.

Then after I got home from work, I also started getting a pain/ache in my left side. At first, I thought maybe the baby was pressing on a nerve but it soon became clear that the pain was worse than that. I drank a glass of water, took some Tylenol and then went to relax in the bath. After a while the pain did go away so I went ahead and got out of the tub and went back to the living room (to work on our taxes - in case you didn't notice, April 15th is next week!)

Well, unfortunately, the pain came back again. I tried drinking more water and eventually went back to the bath. Again, the pain went away after a while. I got out of the bath and the pain eventually came back again. I began to realize that my side did not hurt when my bladder was full, but a few minutes after I emptied it the pain would begin to come back.

I eventually did go to sleep in my recliner. Every time I woke up to go to the bathroom, I would also get a BIG drink of water. And I felt okay when I woke up this morning I immediately went to get a big drink of water and I've been drinking lots of water all day today. So far, I've been okay - just tired. I'm thinking it may have been a kidney stone or something. Whatever it was, I hope it does not come back!!!

Tonight I seriously considered asking Mike to take a picture of me and my 21 week belly. I just couldn't do it though. It is so against my nature.

I'm almost exclusively wearing maternity clothes now. After the heat wave last weekend, I decided that I need to get some shorts or capris. Jeans are way too hot when it's 85 degrees outside! This weekend is supposed to be nice though so maybe I can make it another week or two.

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I Had

• I had one of those busy days at work where everyone wanted something and they all wanted it RIGHT NOW.

• I had, thankfully, a good night of sleep last night, despite the weather, despite the noise, and despite this nasty cough/cold thing.

• I had a big surprise when I left work this evening and it was so so windy. The car door actually slammed on my arm. Ouch!

• I had a lovely quiet supper at Chick-Fil-A tonight with my one-and-only.

• I had, also, a shake while we were there. Chocolate. Large. BIG mistake.

• I had seven kids in my Cubbies class tonight. Only one with two time-outs. We made collages. And they all like the games that I make up every week. Somehow, all the games end with everyone learning their Bible verse. I like to play games with blank pieces of paper, but I pretend that each piece says something on it. I'm cool like that.

• I had a lady tell me tonight that her 18-month-old son gets up in the middle of the night and eats everything he can find. One night he ate four bananas. Is that a typical boy thing? Or is that just nuts?

• I had a problem on my way home from Cubbies tonight. Lets just say, as a pregnant woman, I hate sneezing. It's so hard to control and so awful when it happens. Kegal exercises, anyone?

• I had to avoid going to bed for a half hour after I took my prenatal vitamins tonight. Have to do this every night. But normally it's not this late.

• I had a long day. I'm tired. I'm going to bed.

• I had to come back and say good night. Good night!

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21 Weeks - Dr Visit

Today was my 21 week Dr visit. It was really rather uneventful. They were running behind schedule so I had to wait a little longer than usual. It was nothing too bad though.

Everything looked good with baby boy. His heartbeat was 151 bpm. I think that was the same as it was on the ultrasound last week. He is consistent, if nothing else. Ha! He moves around a lot in the afternoon and at night. Mornings are his sleepy time. Lets hope he figures out the days and nights before he's born.

I'm measuring on track for 21 weeks. Blood pressure is perfect these days (I check it every night.) And +0 lbs gained this month so that's good.

I go back to the doctor in a month and I'll have to do my glucose tolerance test. That is never fun! Lets hope I can pass the 1-hour test so that I can avoid the 3-hour test this time!

One other cute unborn baby story ... I said the baby likes to play in the afternoon, but he really seems to like country music. When I'm driving home from work, he'll dance and wiggle along with the music. Go baby go!

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Happy Easter!

We've had a long day today. This morning after breakfast, Mike asked Emily and I if we were wanting to go to BabiesRUs today. I loved the fact that he suggested it and so we headed over there after lunch. Emily and I picked out a few random things for baby brother. We looked at crib bedding, but we didn't find anything that we loved.

This afternoon, we ran a few errands and brought home some BBQ for supper. Before we even got to eat, Emily had a huge accident involving ketchup. Don't ask - it was bad. While we ate, I boiled some eggs so that we could dye them tonight.

And dye them we did. We had enough to dye two eggs of each color. I think Emily had a good time, but it was a very messy experience. I'm pretty sure my tablecloth is stained for good.

But it's all good because we've got these beautiful eggs to enjoy. They are covered in Princess stickers, of course.

And while we were dying the eggs, I made some marshmallow sheep. I read about these in Southern Living this month and they looked so cute. I didn't think they would be too difficult to make even though they required a lot of ingredients - things I didn't have in my kitchen.

The Southern Living magazine didn't give really good instructions, but it is basically Pepperidge Farms Milano cookies covered with mini marshmallows for the body, brown Peanut M&M's for the legs, another cookie for the head, mini marshmallows for the ears, mini marshmallows for the eyes and mini chocolate chips for the eyeballs. White candy coating holds everything together.

It was not too hard to put everything together, but I only got two of them made before I was just too tired to continue. I was going to make them for our Sunday School class, but that just was not going to happen. Maybe another day!

So after we got everything cleaned up in the kitchen, we had to put out a plate of food for the Easter Bunny. Emily chose a bunch of baby carrots and we made them into a smile. I think it turned out really cute. I hope the Easter Bunny likes it!

I guess we'll see in the morning ...

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Baby's First

This weekend, we went to "the big Walmart". This is news because we normally go to "the little Walmart". But we had to go to the big Walmart to get a specific kind of DVD for our ultrasound scan this week. While we were there, we had to stop by and look for a few things that we can't get at the little one - a/c filters, watch batteries, baby toys. :)

We had to see if we could find a gender-neutral toy for baby since we were at the big Walmart. Emily picked out a dinosaur toy. She has been studying dinosaurs at school for the last few weeks and so it's fitting that she would pick this toy.

She's only in Pre-K, but she really knows a lot about all the dinosaurs. She knows which ones are meat-eaters, which ones are plant-eaters, which ones are as big as two elephants and what's special about each one.

Her class made Dinosaur Books that shows a picture of each dinosaur and tells a little about them. We have looked through this several times as she tells me about each one.

One day last week, she asked me if I knew what "distinct" meant. I said yes and explained what it meant. And she said "Well, the dinosaurs are distinct." I said I think you mean "extinct". Yes she did! I was very proud of her for trying it though.

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It's a ...

Finally, after many weeks of waiting, we found out today that Baby Smith is a BOY!!!!

We're thrilled to find out that we're having a boy although we would have been just as happy if baby turned out to be a girl.

We thought we were going to have a 3D/4D ultrasound today, but it turned out to be a traditional 2D ultrasound. That was fine though. We were able to see lots of baby's parts and everything looked perfectly normal. That was a big relief and a huge praise.

The ultrasound tech recorded our scans on a DVD for us. When we found out that it was a boy, I asked Emily what she thought and she said "it's alright". Then when the real doctor came in, she said it was "more than alright! It was good!"

She said she changed her mind and he can sleep in her room. I told her we would have to fix his room up for him and pick out some new sheets for his bed. She said she would help me. She's got it all figured out!

She was telling the doctor all about the things we were going to have to teach him. She thinks he might not know his numbers yet and he might get his "ones and his two's mixed up". The doctor said this baby was definitely going to be born with two mothers. Yes, that's so true!

The doctor was very nice. He was a lot more laid back than I imagined he might be. I asked him if that was anything I could do to prevent the high blood pressure issues that I had with Emily. He said there is nothing proven to work, but fortunately the problem usually starts later with the second pregnancy and it's less severe. I'm hoping to avoid the problems altogether!

This doctor (an expert in Maternal-Fetal medicine) is totally on board with continuing the metformin throughout my pregnancy. My ob/gyn agrees with this, but she pretty much left the decision up to me. It was nice to get confirmation from another doctor that this is a good choice.

We're just thrilled that everything is good with Mama and Daddy's little boy!

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Letter Person Dress-up Day

Tomorrow is Letter Person Dress-up Day in Emily's class. Each child was supposed to choose a letter person and the parents is supposed to help them create an outfit related to that letter person.

I had been asking Emily what letter person she wanted to be. I was hoping she would say "Ms. E" the Exercise Expert. I thought that one would be pretty easy. Or maybe "Mr. B" Beautiful Buttons. (Vowels are girls and consonants are boys.) That one would be fun.

But she didn't choose Ms. E. She didn't choose Mr. B. She chose "Ms. A" Achoo!

How do you create an outfit for Ms. A? Give a kid a box of Kleenex and send them on their way. Yeah, somehow i don't think that would work.

So I decided to get a t-shirt and put a handkerchief in the pocket. Except that the shirt I found didn't have a pocket. So I had to make a pocket with hankey out of a red bandanna. The A is made of foam and Emily helped me cover it with red pom poms.


We had such a good time that Emily wanted to put more pom poms around the neckline of the t-shirt. She wanted to put them around the arms too, but we didn't have enough pom poms to go around. We used every one that we had though.

This is one fancy shirt and I think it turned out really cute. Emily and I really had a good time putting it together earlier this week. I hope she enjoys wearing it to school tomorrow.


And you can see below what Ms. A really looks like! I thought she was pink and red, but apparently not. Ha!

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Tomato Billboard

Several weeks ago, I was driving home from work and I noticed a billboard that just had some gigantic 3-D vines around the edges of it. I watched the giant billboard for several days in a row, but nothing changed on it - still just those strange vines.

It reminded me a lot of the time the new casino had some cryptic billboards for weeks before we finally found out what they were all about.

So anyway, back to the vines on the billboard ... a few weeks later, some giant tomatoes showed up on the vines.

Now, let me just say that it really irritates me that I'm looking at this thing every day on my drive home to see what will change because I know that's what the billboard creator wants me to do and I don't want to do it. But I do it anyway. Every day.

So many weeks later, I finally get to see the final billboard and it's these huge cans of tomatoes. I don't remember the exact wording, but the point was that they were fresh. And, much to my chagrin, I do remember the name of the product - Red Gold Tomatoes. Gah! I hate that. They got me right where they want me.

And now I'm "advertising" for them on my blog. Gah! They got me again!

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Driving Miss Daisy ... or Mister Dashing

Today on my way home from work, I heard on the radio that part of westbound I-40 was narrowed down to one lane due to a 1 foot by 2 foot hole in one of the bridges. This is the same highway that I drive to work every day.

Unfortunately, this is not the first time the highway has been closed due to holes in the bridges. When you drive down the highway, it looks like a patchwork quilt with different colors and types of cement and asphalt. It's not a smooth drive at all. At ALL.

To be honest, I usually don't even think about the road as I'm driving to work and back every day. But it sure is a scary thought that the road is in such bad shape. They are putting in a new highway a few miles south of the old one, but when will it be ready for traffic? Can the old road wait long enough?

Only time will tell!

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How much snow?

On Friday night after work, Mike and Emily and I went to Wal-mart to get a few things that we needed - like milk and ice cream. The parking lot was completely packed, but we drove up and got the spot closest to the door. A lady stopped us as we were getting out of the car and asked if we needed a buggy because there were none inside. She was right and we were very thankful to have a buggy to use.

So we wade through the packed store and get a few things that we needed. While we were in there, a line of heavy showers came through. We could hear it hammering on the roof.

But then we had to stand in line for over 30 minutes just to check out. And when we get to the check stand, Mike starts up a conversation with the Chatty Cathy Checker dude. The guy would scan a few things, look at Mike and talk, and then bag a few things .. and over and over again. I started to poke Mike, but I figured we'd be out of there in a few minutes anyway and then someone else would have to deal with Chatty.

After we left Wal-mart, we stopped by the new Braums to get an ice cream. I ordered a small frozen yogurt twist. I think they gave me a large. Either way, I ate every bit of it. Yum!

On the way home, Mike and I were talking about how we were forecasted to get 6 to 12 inches. I told Mike that I thought we'd only get 2 inches or less. I was fairly confident in that so I made him a bet that we'd get 0 to 2 inches. If I was wrong, I'd treat him to a steak dinner of his choosing. He said he felt like we would get 4 to 6 inches of snow. And if he was wrong, he'd treat me to an ice cream treat of my choosing.

So really, how much?

So, we stayed home all day Saturday waiting for the snow. When we woke up, it was definitely snowing. And it snowed off and on most of the day. But we only got a couple inches on the ground. I have not heard an official snow total so I don't know who won yet, but I'm feeling really good about this one.

After our (long) naps, Emily helped me make some strawberry cupcakes. We were going to make chocolate sheet cake cupcakes and the best ever icing, but we didn't have any buttermilk. Luckily, I had the strawberry cupcake mix and the can of pink icing. Emily and I had a great time baking. She is a great helper.


And Today ...

And today, most of the snow is melted and gone. We stayed home most of the day today as well, but we did get out to go to Texas Roadhouse for lunch. Emily actually suggested it and I thought it was a great idea. If you must know, she loves loves loves the loaded sweet potatoes at Roadhouse. Well, I think she mostly loves the marshmallows. *wink*

When we got home, we spent some time working on cleaning out our home office that may be our new baby boy nursery. I am so excited. We should find out if we'll be using that room as a nursery in about a week.

Either way, we have a lot of work to do in that room to get it back in shape. It's been a long time since we've used it as anything but a storage room. But I'm feeling good about the progress we made today. I think we know what we have to do to get it done.

Well, Emily's spring break is over and she'll be going back to school in the morning. I know she is excited to see her friends. Although we're sad that our relaxed week is ending, we'll be glad to get back to the routine. In just a few short weeks, the school year will be over and we'll be preparing for Kindergarten. *Phewww!*

Hope you all have a great week!!!!

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It Smells So Good

I'm just going to put it all out there right now - it smells so good in my house.

As you may know, we were forecasted to get 6-12 inches of snow today. Today - on the first day of spring. Great news!

When I got home from work yesterday, I noticed my beautiful yellow daffodils happily waving in the 70 degree weather. I couldn't let them freeze to death under all the snow. They were so beautiful and such a welcome sign of spring.

They were blooming in the middle of the circle drive, around the tree in the front yard, a couple in the flowerbed by the front windows, and in the big raised bed at the end of the house.

But now they are shining brightly in my living room. I picked about half the blooms and put them in a vase and brought them inside.

Emily noticed them right away and had a hard time keeping her hands off of them. They smell so sweet. We have been enjoying them all day today while it snows outside.

We looked outside to see what happened to the ones still growing outside and they just looked so sad. I hope they will perk up when the snow melts, but I don't think that's going to happen.

At least we'll get to enjoy these inside for a few more days.

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Wednesday Thankfulness

Today, I'm thankful that we're not having Cubbies tonight. Don't get me wrong. I love my Cubbies class and I love spending time with them every week. But it's very nice to have a break every once in a while.

I really wanted pizza today (Hmmm, pregnancy craving?) so we went out to dinner to find some pizza tonight. We drove over to the pizza place and it was packed! They had half the parking lot blocked off and had a big party going outside. And, to me, a big party = a big wait = not fun for a pregnant lady.

So we kept going on down the road hoping to find something good to eat. We ended up at a little diner and the food was not good tonight! I felt so sorry for our waitress because she was no less than 80 years old. She did a good job although she had a bit of a hard time hearing me.

Feeling Green

This year, Emily is really into St. Patrick's Day and wearing green. Last night, she had to make sure she was wearing green before she went to bed so that she wouldn't be pinched this morning. She wore a shirt with green gumballs on it today. So that meant that I had to find something green to wear too. No way I want her pinching me!

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Being Real

This morning when I woke up, I had a bad headache on the right side of my head. I immediately had to do what I always have to do first thing in the morning these days - run to the bathroom! Mike was getting ready to get up at this time, but I crawled back into bed and went back to sleep for a few minutes. When I got up again, I took some Tylenol and hoped for the best.

By the time I left for work, I was feeling a little better. But as soon as I started driving, my eyes started feeling heavy. It was so so hard to keep them open. I don't know if it was because it was dark outside again or because of the loss of my hour from Daylight Savings time, but I was having a really hard time this morning.

When I got onto the interstate, I actually rolled down the window a little bit to try to liven myself up. It messed up my hair, but it didn't help much. I was just having a hard time driving 70 miles per hour because it just felt way too fast for my drowsy state.

When I got a little past halfway to work, the traffic stopped because two firetrucks were in the road working a car fire. As I went past, I happened to look over at the car and it was totally burned out and nobody was inside. I felt a pang in my chest and immediately started to get teary-eyed. I was thinking "What would I do if my car caught on fire with my kids inside??" Oh my goodness, what a terrifying thought.

(Ring .. Ring ... Hello? Honey, we have GOT to buy a new car TODAY. No, not tomorrow. Today. Like right now. I don't want my babies to burn up in a car!)

Gotta love those emotional and irrational thoughts. It was really not a fun drive to work today.

When I got to work, I went straight to the vending machine to get a diet coke. I usually don't drink sodas during the day, but I needed some caffeine to perk me up a little bit. My doctor said that caffeine is okay in moderation so I try to do that. Now, I don't know if my Route 44 diet coke from Sonic last week would be technically considered "in moderation", but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. But I digress ...

Our department has a Monday morning meeting every week so I took my caffeine to sip during the meeting. Unfortunately, it didn't really seem to help very much. I had just given my weekly recap and listed out a baker's dozen of projects that I needed to work on this week. And then every person in the room had "just one more thing" that they wanted me to "work in" this week. Really? Are you kdding me? I guess I gave them all a nasty look because they sorta backed off and said "ya know, but do whatever you want". Ha ha! That'll teach them to mess with a hormonal pregnant woman!!!

So that was my day in a nutshell - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

How did your day-after Daylight Savings go?

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Daylight Savings

Well, we saved some daylight today, but it sure was hard. It was hard to get out of bed this morning in time for Sunday School. It must have been hard for a lot of other people as well because we only had one little boy in our Sunday School class.

After church, we went to lunch with Mike's parents and Madison. We had a nice lunch and a good visit. The weather was not as warm as expected today. When we came out of church, it was misting a little bit and pretty cool.

This afternoon, we came home and took naps. I told Emily that if she took a good nap, we could go outside and play later in the afternoon. Unfortunately, she never took her nap today. I think I am the only one who ended up taking a nap.

Emily didn't get to go outside (and she was very upset about this), but I went out and worked in the flower beds for a few minutes. We have a few daffodils blooming and some blue vinca. I hope I didn't hurt them when I was raking out the flower beds.

I saw a lot of other things that needed to be taken care of outside, but I could only stay out there a few minutes with Emily throwing a huge fit inside. I came back into the house to find her fully dressed for outside play, including her socks and shoes. Poor thing - she should have taken her nap.

She quickly forgot about playing outside as soon as I asked her if she wanted to help me make some brownies. It took us a long time to whip them up, but they turned out really good. After the brownies were in the oven, I made some chicken tenders and mashed potatoes while Emily played in the sink. By the time we were done, I was so so tired.

I was worried about how Emily would be able to fall asleep with her room being so well-lit because of daylight savings time, but she actually went right to sleep. I hope that trend continues over the next few weeks.

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