Baby, Birthdays and Home Sick
It's been a while again since my last post but I feel that the delay is more than reasonable- I had a baby! Yep, my little baby girl has kept me a bit busy but that's okay... She is awesome. So here is what's been going on so far:
After less than 10 hours of labor and only 3 pushes our daughter was born without any complications. I was exhausted and ready to kill my doctor, but that was all shadowed by the joy of finally meeting my baby. My husband was so happy and moved that I saw a couple of tears. He now has a second "daddy's girl" to spoil. My daughter is excited about being a big sister once again and has started playing the "little mommy" role, constantly asking to hold her new little sister. My son is also excited about being a big brother and completely adores his new little sister giving her kisses and telling her that he loves her and is the first one to run to her with a bottle or binkie if she cries.
My husband had some time off saved up from over the years and so he has been off work to help prepare and to help with the baby since Easter. Its been wonderful having him home and having his help around the house (he does a lot of the housework anyways) and I am gonna be sad when he starts back to work next weekend- I am definitely going to miss getting to sleep in too! But I have a feeling that in a way he is looking forward to going back to work as I think he is getting restless being home everyday. I just worry how well he is going to do to adjusting to getting up those early hours as he has been staying up until late at night here recently....
We have slowly continued to pay down our bills but things have been very tight the last few months as I haven't been babysitting, so we don't have that extra income coming in. My husband has been helping out a lot though with his ebay-ing. He has a wonderful knack at finding ridiculously low prices on cds and vinyls and then he is able to turn around and sell the albums making a profit on them. There are days it looks like the island in my kitchen is a shipping store with how he spreads out with his packing tape and padding and envelopes getting items ready before sending them out. But I am not complaining as its been a nice bit of extra income and he is wonderful about cleaning everything up as soon as he is done. And he has had extra time to work on his ideas for his screen-printing. Hopefully we will be able to get that going soon...
He has been wanting to start his own business making a clothing line since I can remember. We have talked about it for years, and he has so many awesome ideas, especially for kids' clothes. It was a big influence on why we bought this house, with the 3 garage, so we would not only have a garage with room for the cars but also so to have the extra space to set up a workshop with his presses. He has talked about selling his VW Beetle to make more room to set up (its currently taking up the extra spot in the garage) and to use the money he gets from selling it to help with purchasing the equipment he needs. I feel bad though if he gives up the car as VW's are a passion of his and fixing up old ones has been a big hobby for him since he was a young teenager. I just would hate to seem him give up his project car... But at the same time I know he hasn't been able to really work on it due to having the time or the funds and with it gone, he'll have the space and the money to finally get started on a new venture that can hopefully lead to him becoming his own boss fulltime, doing something he loves.
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend and it's also my and my husband's birthday. This year is his big 30, so we are going to grill out and have a few friends and family over. No offense to anyone who reads this (and those who I know read this, I am not talking about you) but I am kinda nervous about the headcount as many of our friends are really flakey and I worry that the ones who have RSVPed are going to no-show and I will end up making all this food for no one.... The last time we tried to have a get together was super depressing. We wanted a more of adults only type party so we could relax and have a few drinks with out worrying about the kids and even got a sitter for ours. We invited over friends to eat and have drinks for our birthday and only 4 people came, one of which was my brother's roommate who tagged along. We still had fun but we were expecting so many more to show. This time though, we decided to do something more family oriented and grill out and invited everyone again that way even the kiddos can play. I just hope its a decent turn out this time instead a bunch of last minute cancellations and no shows.... I am crossing my fingers!
I need to get my husband a present too but I have no idea of what to get him. I know a few things that he wants but they are out of our budget right now.... I think I may see if I can get the kids to make him birthday cards or something. I would do breakfast in bed but he actually will be having his first day back to work on our birthday so he won't be here and he really is not a breakfast person.... I will figure something out I am sure, I am just running out of time though....
I was watching "Shark Week" on DVD with my daughter, she loves those type shows, and all of the pictures of the beach were making me so home sick for Florida. I would love to be able to take the family there soon so they can meet the rest of my side of the family. My cousins are all having kids now and they are all around our kids' ages and I would love for them to meet and play. I would love for my husband to meet my cousins and my aunts and uncles so he could finally know all the people he hears stories about from when I was growing up. And I miss the beach, the greenery of all the palnts, being able to walk bare foot outside without getting 3rd degree burns on your feet, the rain and all the wildlife (minus the misquitoes). I would even take the humidity over the 115 degree summer as I just cannot take the heat here, it makes me physically ill.
We I will have to post more later as I am expecting a couple of kids to be here any minute....
After less than 10 hours of labor and only 3 pushes our daughter was born without any complications. I was exhausted and ready to kill my doctor, but that was all shadowed by the joy of finally meeting my baby. My husband was so happy and moved that I saw a couple of tears. He now has a second "daddy's girl" to spoil. My daughter is excited about being a big sister once again and has started playing the "little mommy" role, constantly asking to hold her new little sister. My son is also excited about being a big brother and completely adores his new little sister giving her kisses and telling her that he loves her and is the first one to run to her with a bottle or binkie if she cries.
My husband had some time off saved up from over the years and so he has been off work to help prepare and to help with the baby since Easter. Its been wonderful having him home and having his help around the house (he does a lot of the housework anyways) and I am gonna be sad when he starts back to work next weekend- I am definitely going to miss getting to sleep in too! But I have a feeling that in a way he is looking forward to going back to work as I think he is getting restless being home everyday. I just worry how well he is going to do to adjusting to getting up those early hours as he has been staying up until late at night here recently....
We have slowly continued to pay down our bills but things have been very tight the last few months as I haven't been babysitting, so we don't have that extra income coming in. My husband has been helping out a lot though with his ebay-ing. He has a wonderful knack at finding ridiculously low prices on cds and vinyls and then he is able to turn around and sell the albums making a profit on them. There are days it looks like the island in my kitchen is a shipping store with how he spreads out with his packing tape and padding and envelopes getting items ready before sending them out. But I am not complaining as its been a nice bit of extra income and he is wonderful about cleaning everything up as soon as he is done. And he has had extra time to work on his ideas for his screen-printing. Hopefully we will be able to get that going soon...
He has been wanting to start his own business making a clothing line since I can remember. We have talked about it for years, and he has so many awesome ideas, especially for kids' clothes. It was a big influence on why we bought this house, with the 3 garage, so we would not only have a garage with room for the cars but also so to have the extra space to set up a workshop with his presses. He has talked about selling his VW Beetle to make more room to set up (its currently taking up the extra spot in the garage) and to use the money he gets from selling it to help with purchasing the equipment he needs. I feel bad though if he gives up the car as VW's are a passion of his and fixing up old ones has been a big hobby for him since he was a young teenager. I just would hate to seem him give up his project car... But at the same time I know he hasn't been able to really work on it due to having the time or the funds and with it gone, he'll have the space and the money to finally get started on a new venture that can hopefully lead to him becoming his own boss fulltime, doing something he loves.
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend and it's also my and my husband's birthday. This year is his big 30, so we are going to grill out and have a few friends and family over. No offense to anyone who reads this (and those who I know read this, I am not talking about you) but I am kinda nervous about the headcount as many of our friends are really flakey and I worry that the ones who have RSVPed are going to no-show and I will end up making all this food for no one.... The last time we tried to have a get together was super depressing. We wanted a more of adults only type party so we could relax and have a few drinks with out worrying about the kids and even got a sitter for ours. We invited over friends to eat and have drinks for our birthday and only 4 people came, one of which was my brother's roommate who tagged along. We still had fun but we were expecting so many more to show. This time though, we decided to do something more family oriented and grill out and invited everyone again that way even the kiddos can play. I just hope its a decent turn out this time instead a bunch of last minute cancellations and no shows.... I am crossing my fingers!
I need to get my husband a present too but I have no idea of what to get him. I know a few things that he wants but they are out of our budget right now.... I think I may see if I can get the kids to make him birthday cards or something. I would do breakfast in bed but he actually will be having his first day back to work on our birthday so he won't be here and he really is not a breakfast person.... I will figure something out I am sure, I am just running out of time though....
I was watching "Shark Week" on DVD with my daughter, she loves those type shows, and all of the pictures of the beach were making me so home sick for Florida. I would love to be able to take the family there soon so they can meet the rest of my side of the family. My cousins are all having kids now and they are all around our kids' ages and I would love for them to meet and play. I would love for my husband to meet my cousins and my aunts and uncles so he could finally know all the people he hears stories about from when I was growing up. And I miss the beach, the greenery of all the palnts, being able to walk bare foot outside without getting 3rd degree burns on your feet, the rain and all the wildlife (minus the misquitoes). I would even take the humidity over the 115 degree summer as I just cannot take the heat here, it makes me physically ill.
We I will have to post more later as I am expecting a couple of kids to be here any minute....
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