How does it happen that with the best of intentions to keep up with a blog, you fall all to pieces and can’t seem to find the time?
Well I’m back (yeah I know, again?). I’ve been meaning to get things rolling ever since I found out that I was pregnant. Yup, that’s right, my little guy is finally gonna have a baby sister or brother. I don’t know if it’s hormones or just me being indecisive, but I’ve been working on and off on a layout for like the last 6 weeks. I start something and before I can actually finish it up, I hate it. Then I’m on to a new design, and end up hating that one too. So here I am with a premade theme, which I generally don’t like to use because I’d rather design my own, but at this rate the baby will be 2 before I get anything put together. So expect things to change around here in the next little while as I try to put my personal mark on this theme. I just had to get something up so that I could finally put an entry together.
So of course the biggest news I already mentioned – I’m pregnant. We I was trying to get pregnant, even though the timing wasn’t the greatest in terms of cashflow since hubby’s been off work since the beginning of September, but the ticking was getting louder in my head and I always plan for the end result. That just means that I was hoping for a May/Taurus baby, but will be ending up with a June/Gemini instead. Since I work at a high school that timing is fairly important to me. I don’t want to leave in the middle of the year, because that just means that I will be coming back a year later, in the middle of the year. It’s so much easier to just make a clean break of things. So June is actually pretty perfect.
I have been pretty nauseous this time around. No actual throwing up, just the constant feeling that I might. As I have now reached week 13, I think that most of that is behind me. It will be interesting to see how different this pregnancy will be compared to my first. For instance, with my son, he was constantly hiccuping, which I found kind of funny. I didn’t really have any nausea with him, so might this be a girl? Everyone seems to think so, or at least would like it to be. A little girl would be nice, but I’d honestly be happy either way. I don’t expect to find out the sex of the baby this time either. You really get too few really good surprises in your life, why rush this one? Hubby is really hoping for a boy again, which is pretty funny since he really wanted a girl the first time. Now he’s decided that girls are just too hard to raise. Not sure what that thought is based on, but whatever.
Just when I thought the weather was starting to become more spring-like, mother nature decides that winter isn’t over yet and dumps snow down on us. How depressing. I must say that I pretty much shut myself in the house during winter, so with the nice weather I had just managed to get my son out of the house and into the sunshine. We did have a couple of nice days there before it got yucky and cold again. Hopefully this Easter weekend will be nice.
With the change of seasons I get antsy to get my house all cleaned up. It’s such a mess at the moment. I should really be holding a garage sale to get rid of a ton of junk, I’m just so unorganized. As I start to put away my winter stuff I start thinking what the hell did I wear all of last year when the weather was nice. I always feel like I don’t have enough clothes. Me and every other woman out there I’m sure. Mind you in the last couple of years I’ve managed to donate 4 garbage bags worth of clothing to the Salvation Army. I am in desperate need of new pants. Of all the shopping I could do I absolutely HATE shopping for pants. They just never seem to fit properly. I usually go for the petites since I’ve got short stubby legs, but often enough they’re too short or the regulars are just too long. I suppose I could just them hemmed, but I’m just to lazy for that kind of commitment. When I get all frustrated with clothes shopping I can always just buy a bag…have you seen the ones at Lucky-Brand? Oh man are they ever sexy!
So as it works out this year, Easter Monday is my little man’s 2nd birthday! Holy cow, I really can’t figure out where all the time went. I have been madly painting his bedroom to get it all ready for his birthday. Okay, so I started it over the March Break and it was supposed to take like a week, but as per usual with me I decided to do more and more things and therefore it’s taken that much longer to get done. The horrible thing is, the poor little guy has had to bunk with his dad and me since then. Hope it won’t be terrible trying to get him back into his own bed when I finally get his room done. I’ll post some pics of the the before and after in another blog entry. Unfortunately I wasn’t thinking of doing before and afters so the before is after I’d already cleared the room and started patching holes, but hopefully you’ll get the idea.
What a messed up weekend! My poor little man has had a rough couple of days. Thursday night he started to get feverish, but we managed to get it down with some Tylenol. Friday I got the dreaded call from daycare, but they didn’t need me to come and get him, they were just telling me that his temperature was 100°C and it was okay for them to give him Tylenol. Saturday afternoon after his nap his temp spiked to 104°C and I took him to Emerg to see what was going on. On the way over he vomited several times so sitting in the waiting room was a treat reeking of puke. I ended up throwing out the dollar store mittens that he managed to fill with vomit. Ewww. When we were finally seen the doctor had a look into his ears and immediately saw the problem. Baby D was suffering from an ear infection. I didn’t doubt his expertise, but I was surprised since he hadn’t been rubbing his ears or anything. We filled the prescription for Amoxicillin and went home to relax. We started his meds that night, but he managed to throw up shortly thereafter so we just left it for the following day.
Sunday morning I got up late, but found hubby cuddling a sleeping baby D on the couch. Since it was only 9:30 I was surprised that he was asleep as naptime isn’t till at least 10:30/11:00. At least he had managed to eat breakfast and get some meds into him and no vomiting. BUT… when hubby and I looked at him he was covered in angry red welts! WTF?! Luckily the children’s clinic was just about to open so we rushed him over to be seen and were told that this seemed to be a reaction to the Amoxicillin. I found this strange since he’s had it before, but apparently that’s not unusual. We promptly threw out the meds and were given a new prescription to now get rid of the hives.
Strangely the welts seemed to fade before we even got the new stuff into him, but when we woke up this morning you’d think that we had beaten him overnight! Yesterday I was all set to get him a medic alert bracelet alerting emergency personnel that he was allergic to penicillin. After getting ourselves squeezed in to see baby D’s pediatrician this afternoon, he thinks it’s possible that he is allergic, but that it’s also possible that it’s a coincidence and that there’s something else causing the hives. So I just have to keep on with the new stuff we got from the clinic. What a mess! We originally got meds to treat the fever and ear infection, now we’re no longer even worried about anything but the hives that were the result of treating those problems. Go figure!
You have reached the blog of kasper. I live outside of Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
and have been blogging since 1999. I am newly married, though have been with the same guy for nearly 13 years.
We have a son (baby D) born April 13th, 2007 and have all moved into our first home. Though I don't tend
to stick to one thing, I've been known to enjoy the Sims2, knitting, webdesign, reading, music and movies.
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