This 'n That

I know it's not much of a title, but I have a little bit of everything going on today.   I guess if I posted daily, it wouldn't include so much information and I could probably come up with more creative titles. 

First of all, thank you to all of you with your encouraging words.  I am definitely getting past the disappointment and sadness about having another girl.  I can't say that I am excited about it yet, but I'm getting closer.  It's nice to know that I am not the only one who has felt this way and that I'm not being judged because I do feel this way.  So, thank you all!

Things have been a little crazy around our house the last week or so.  We had so much going on and on top of that the girls were sick.  I finally took them to the doctor on Friday to have them checked out.  It turns out that Kennedy really was sick and had to be put on a nebulizer for a few days to clear up her lungs.  I hope and pray that she doesn't come down with a permanent asthma condition - this weekend was a nightmare trying to give her her breathing treatments.  I truly sympathize with anyone who has a child with this condition.  I'm sure that the child gets used to having the treatments, but Kennedy pretty much fought every waking treatment I had to give her so we tried to do most of them during naps or sleeping.  Kylie wasn't too bad, but the doctor said that it wouldn't hurt for her to do a couple treatments as well.  Kylie didn't mind them a bit, I think that she did them so that she didn't get left out.  I took Kennedy back to the doctor for a re-check last night and the doctor said that we can cut back to 2 treatments a day for 2-3 days and then stop them altogether.  So, it looks like we will have a normal weekend again.  Of course, now I have to fight off the same cold before we leave for Jamaica.

I'm starting to stress a little bit about leaving on vacation.  So much to do, so little time.  My little sis, Manda, gave me a bag of her summer maternity clothes to try on and I haven't gotten around to trying them on.  I know that she always has the cutest stuff so I am sure they are super cute, but I just have to sort thru them to figure out what to wear down in Jamaica.  That's another thing too, I haven't even begun to think about packing.  I am such a last minute packer, but I know that I won't have much time after Monday.  Right now, I am planning on doing all my packing on Monday since that is my day off.  I have to pack for both of us, so it's a little bit more work to figure out what both of us are going to wear.  Although, Dan doesn't care that much and he'll wear pretty much whatever I pack and tell him to wear.  I stress more about what I am going to wear that I do about him (he'd wear the same outfit every day).  I also need to work on printing a schedule/list for the adults that are taking care of my girls.  All of our sitters are very well qualified and know the girls well enough to not need a daily schedule for them, but I want all of them to have each other's contact information so that they can coordinate the pick up and drop off times with each other.  It's funny that I worry so much about this before I leave, but when I am gone, I don't think that I even worry for a second about how they are doing and if things are going well.  I miss them when we are gone, but I don't worry about them.  Now that I am posting this, I think I need to check with Shawny about getting one of her awesome to-do list templates.  That might help ease my stress - I do well with to-do lists.  I did get my dress for the wedding part of the vacation and it seems to fit pretty good.  Now all I need to do is figure out how to make the dress less see-thru and get some shoes/sandals to match.  If anyone has any ideas, I am open to them (shoes or slip).  :)

Good things to come. . . We are doing our annual family pumpkin carving party on Saturday night.  I have such fond memories of these events when I was child.  We would all carve our pumpkins and then line them up for Grandpa to judge them.  I think the winner received a dollar or something small like that, but I remember Grandpa making a big deal of EVERY one of the creations.  I don't know how he picked a favorite because he knew how important it was to make sure that everyone realized that he thought all of them were special.  Great memories of a man who has been gone so long yet I can remember those feelings like they were yesterday.  Our modern day pumpkin carving parties are not near as large and we don't judge the pumpkins, but we do set them all up for display and take a picture of all of them lit up in the dark of the night.  I will try to get pics of the pumpkins all lined up so that you can get a glimpse of how much fun we have at these events. 

Then, I have my first amnio on Monday afternoon and oddly enough, I am looking forward to it.  We won't have results for a few weeks, but we are one step closer to being able to plan the rest of the pregnancy.  It will just be nice to know if I have to go thru all the amnios again or if I will blessed enough to only have the one amnio.  I'm not stressing about this one at all, it's just one of those things that will be nice to have an answer to.  Especially when people who know me ask me if I know anything yet.  It will be nice to be able to answer them with a real answer instead of saying, "I don't know, we haven't even had the amnio yet."  Now I'll be able to say that we've had the amnio and we have to wait a few weeks for the results (just one step closer). 

Wednesday is Halloween and we have made it our annual "trick-or-treat" event to go out with our old neighbors.  Before we moved, we went out with them on their golf carts thru a large subdivision right behind our house.  It was so much fun that we kinda made it a tradition.  The bummer is that this year I found out that one of the golf carts is on the fritz and they aren't sure that they can fix it before Halloween.  I hope that they can, but if they can't, maybe we'll go to one of the local churches and get our candy fix there.  I'm not much in the mood for walking around a big subdivision when it will likely be Michigan cold & rainy/snowy.  Besides, we have to get to bed early Wednesday night so that we can get up bright and early to drop the girls off at the sitters and get to the airport on time.  **starting to stress just thinking about that week**

Well, I think that sums up my thoughts.  I really need to work on getting things in order before our vacation.  I'm getting back to work now so I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week!

Comments

[Sarah Huizenga]

Sorry about the girls being so sick- Brooks has full-fledged asthma, and the only good news is, once they truly diagnose them with asthma- they get to trade up the fun nebulizer to an inhaler. It works much better. Don't ever rent a nebulizer if you need one in the future- we own one and won't need it anymore since he now has an inhaler. Have a GREAT trip-hope you get everything done in plenty of time. I also hope and pray that your amnio goes well and that the baby's blood is compatible with yours.

[mel]

Have a great trip and ENJOY all of your fun activities next week!

[Jill Deters]

Hey Kim,
Sorry to hear your girls are sick. I will tell you this. Taylor had short term asthma when she was little too. We had to do breathing treatments too. Not fun, but she grew out of it. So there is hope that it isn't permanent. But, if it is something more permanent, I am sure she will do fine.
Have a fun and safe trip. Soak up some sun for us here in Michigan.
Jill

[Nina_VK]

Hey, how did the doc appointment go?? Are you going to have to go through all that stuff again??

[Shawny]

Finally catching up on my blog reading here at work and I guess all of this is already old news by now. Maybe I'll have to post some of your Jamaica pics for ya this weekend. ;)

[MandaKay]

{knock, knock, knock} anybody home???!!! :) Miss the updates! Let's hear how Jamaica was?!