Quote from Nancy Reagan

“A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”  Nancy Reagan

Not the Time

During pregnancy is not the time to watch sad movies, listen to sad stories, or hear sad songs.  Even if I’ve seen or heard them before, I cry and cry and cry!  I feel sorry for the people involved.  Also, I just think how I would feel to be in those situations.

Let’s think happy thoughts!!  =)

Oh, What a Night!

Sleep…why is that such a hard thing to get.  We’re suppose to get at least 8 hours of sleep…now wouldn’t that be nice!!  =)

I went to bed around 9:00 pm and finally got to sleep.  However, I was up twice before midnight to go to the restroom!  After that I was up twice with Abbye.  Nothing was wrong that I could tell, so I was getting a little irritated.  The next time she woke me up, she was throwing up all over.  Yuck!!  Matt, being the wonderful husband that he is, got up too.  He handled cleaning up Abbye in the bathroom, while I worked on her room.  We got everything cleaned and put Abbye back to bed.  Then I was up a couple more times to go to the restroom.  No wonder I’m still exhausted in the mornings!!

Cingular – What a crummy company!!

Cingular's claim is that they have the lowest number of dropped calls.  However, I'm sure most of you don't know that they are dropping rural customers!!  So, I guess they chose to drop customers that are in more challenging areas instead of putting out the effort to provide better service.  Now, that's what I call crummy!!

I Pushed It and Now Suffer the Consequences!

During this pregnancy I have no desire to eat sweets or to drink coffee drinks.  For my health and the health of the baby, this is wonderful.  However, I really truly miss a coffee drink or some chocolate now and then!!  This has been hard even though I don’t crave them.  I could sit in front of my wonderful homemade chocolate chip cookies and have no desire to eat one!  

But, today I just wanted to want something chocolate!!  So, I chose to eat some chocolate ice cream.  For the rest of the day I have had diarrhea…which I’m sure you’re excited to learn about!!! 

My lesson:  Don’t push food that you don’t need down a pregnant body or there will be consequences!!  =)

While you fall asleep…

What do you ponder while you are trying to go to sleep? 

You may be one of the lucky ones, like my husband, who pretty much fall asleep as soon as their head touches the pillow! 

However, I am not one of those.  While I'm trying to fall asleep, my mind is continually working….  *I think that I wish I would have chosen to have a professional photographer do our wedding.  It's been six years, and I still haven't done anything with the pictures.  Also, I don't have a good one of Matt and I.  *I remember things that I need to do or people I need to call.  These are things I probably won't remember during the day!  *I wonder, if you were locked in the trunk of our car (our previouse vehicle), could you get in to the passenger part of the car?!  *I dwell on ideas for this blog.  *(And I know there's more, but I can't think of any right now.  However, tonight I'm probably remember more!!)

June 20, 2006 – Entertainment Update

I haven't done an Entertainment Update in awhile because I haven't finished a book in awhile.  So I decided to quit the book I was trying to finish, which is a first in my life.

     Book – I borrowed Leaving Ruin from my youngest brother's room in my parents' house while he was at grad school.  David said the book started as a one man play.  Well, that explains why there is no dialogue.  You just read what other people say through the main character.  I just never got in to it, and I really didn't care enough about the characters to know how the story ends!! 

I've missed my books!  I love to read!!  However, since I read while I nurse my babies and I stopped nursing Hannah in May, I don't have much reading time!

     Movie – Glory Road, an excellent movie for you to check out!

     Games – 42, a domino game

     TV Show – What Not to Wear

     Music – Does Focus on the Family's program count, since I just listen to it?  Dave Ramsey is on this week.

To the movies we go…

Matt and I took Abbye to see the movie Cars.  This was her first time to go to a movie theatre!!  We were excited, but also a little worried.  I took a picture of Abbye pointing to the movie poster.  Then Matt took a picture of Abbye and I in front of it.  We got some popcorn and cherry lime to share.  Before the movie started I took one more picture.  It was of Abbye and Matt.  Abbye was sitting in her own seat with the popcorn beside her and the drink in her lap.  She looked so grown up!  She really did good, especially since her bedtime is normally 7 pm and that's when the movie started!  She definitely got tired, a little cranky, and antsy, but we all made it home smiling!!

Fun Times!!!!!!!!  =)

Good Morning!

I meant to post something before we left on our trip, but I ran out of time.  (Time…now that's something I'm running out of often!!)  Anyway, Matt and I got back home Monday.  Matt took Tuesday off so we could hang out with the girls. 

The Trip - Matt and I dropped the girls off at my parents Thursday evening.  We went back to their house three times!  First, we forgot their hanging clothes.  Then, we took over a couple of waterproof pads and I grabbed a Sprite for myself because I wasn't feeling well.  Ok, now I can't remember the other reason, but I'm pretty sure we went back over one more time!!  However, our reasons were good ones so don't laugh!  I wasn't missing them already!  =)   

We left really early on Friday.  I wasn't sure if I was going to survive at this pace!!  We survived the drive, the Houston traffic, and finally found the hotel.  We ate at Steak and Ale, which was good.  Then we called it a day…I was exhausted!!  (Oh, by the way, we realized that we forgot our nice digital camera with excellent zoom.  We grabbed a couple disposable cameras, but Matt was very frustrated since our camera would have worked great at the baseball game on Sunday!)

Our plan on Saturday was to, first of all, sleep in.  However, we both woke up around 6:00 am!  Ok, we tried to get a little more sleep, but we were out of bed at 7:00 am.  So much for sleeping in!!  We ate breakfast at Dennis.  I love breakfast!!  Then we hung out at the Downtown Aquarium.  It was pretty neat.  We kept saying, “The girls would enjoy this!”  We drove to the Woodland’s mall to meet a friend of Matt’s and his family.  We ate at the Cheesecake Factory, which was very good!  I didn’t know that it sold real food too!!  Even though I really don’t have any desire for sweets I had to try a slice of cheesecake.  I got a slice of the brownie sundae cheesecake and shared it with the rest of our party, except Matt who doesn’t like cheesecake.  It was excellent!!  We visited a little bit, and then Matt and I checked out the mall after they left.  Later we went back to the Aquarium’s restaurant for supper.  That was really cool.  It has this floor to ceiling fish tank.  It was huge and full of all sorts of fish and other sea life.  We took a horse-drawn carriage ride around downtown Houston.  We really enjoyed the ride!!  It was nice, laid back, and relaxing.  Then we tried to find an event that was happening that night, but we couldn’t find it and just decided to go back to the hotel.

Sunday we got up early, ate breakfast at IHOP, and made it to Minute Maid stadium by 8:30 am.  The gate was opening at 10 am and the first 3,500 people got a nice leather Astros photo album and got to go down around the field to take pictures of the players.  The line was extremely long already, wrapping around three sides of the stadium, so we didn’t have high hopes that we would be in the first 3,500.  However, we were!!  Matt was really excided, even thought he’s not an Astros fan he appreciates good players!  Matt got his picture with a couple of Astros players (the catch and a guy who was with the Yankees) and the Astros manager.  If Matt was here, I could include their name, but you’re lucky I remembered that much info!!  The roof was closed on the stadium, and it’s temperature controlled.  So, I was very comfortable during the game!  Actually sometimes it was a little chilly, but I would rather be that than hot!  The game didn’t go well for Braves fans, but we enjoyed it anyway!!! =)  Then we shared some excellent fajitas at Cabo, which is a interesting restaurant in downtown Houston.  After that we headed back to the hotel.  Then we got everything possible packed and loaded in the van.  We were pretty tired, so we thought about renting a movie at the hotel, but it was ridiculously expensive.  Instead, we just hung out, found something to watch on TV, and went to bed.

We left early on Monday, not quite as early as on Friday.  We made it home in much better time, since we didn’t end up dealing with bad Houston traffic and we knew how to get everywhere.  We were ready to see the girls.  We talked to them a couple times of each day.  Overall we had an excellent time just spending with each other, and I did fine being gone from the girls.  Also, I was tired off and on, but I did pretty well with that too!  Thank you, Jesus!!

My Gmail is working now!

I was so excited today!  I got home from my Connection Group at church and was starving.  So, I heated up some chicken noodle soup, which my stomach does really well with, and sat down at the computer.  I clicked on my Gmail link in favorites with no expectation at all…..and WOW!!!!!!