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Sometimes it just feels silly to title your thoughts.
Wow. Feels like I've been so busy doing nothing. I mean, not NOTHING obviously...but I don't feel like I have accomplished much. Seems like when one of the girls are sick I enter a time warp. Cupcake is having difficulty with this continuing cold and we finally started antibiotics with her...which I hate....but I'm hoping it will really help this stuff ease up. She started yesterday sounding even more congested, especially when she coughs. And since there was also fluid on her ear, "Ms. Beberly" said we should probably go ahead and treat it. (She's had this cold since before Christmas.) She's such a pleasant child normally, and honestly I really can't complain. Even being sick she's not so difficult... but she is fussy and that's just not my sweet girl. I have actually had real moments of frustration with her because I couldn't make her stop crying (briefly, you know, like 10 minutes or less) and that is so hard for me. I don't like getting frustrated with my girls. I am however, really thankful that she is so pleasant overall. Now I just need her to feel better so that pain in her ears and the difficulty breathing through her nose will subside so she can sleep! (Then I can sleep!)
I am a part of a Mom's biblestudy at our church....we resume tomorrow after taking a break for Christmas and the new year. I am so excited....I crave the time I spend with these women because we have such a good time. We are all so different, yet can relate to each other all so easily. And we usually don't have a time that we meet that doesn't include laughing, crying, or a little of both.
We also get to see our small group this week that meets every Thursday night. It's so awesome that we have such wonderful people, in addition to our families, who love and support each other and who are just "there".
So this is a pretty jam packed week for us. Hubby is currently on his second night shift in a span of 3, then he also works Friday and Saturday night this week covering for another shift schedule. Makes it difficult for family time, as Pumpkin thinks the sun rises and sets around her Daddy. But the true reward comes starting on Sunday when he works out and has an entire week off with us! He told me to get a game plan/list of all the things we/I want to accomplish around our house and he'd help me Monday and Tuesday knock them out one by one. That way I can reduce some stress and get a little rejuvenating done since I still have the dragging pregnant feeling....I am so thankful that I have a husband to understand how difficult it can be to "do it all"...even when I don't actually do it all! What I mean is that, while he's the one to get $$$$ for what he does on a consistent basis, my work is not paid out monetarily...if you put this on a balance chart it will never work out to be equal. He's pretty good about fairness, even though things can't possibly be added and calculated out to the same workload when it is totally different types of work! So while it truly is my job to take care of the house while he takes care of paying for it (theoretically) he doesn't draw the line there. He is so awesome to step in and do several loads of laundry when he can (which lately has been quite often, I must say) and he even cleans the kitchen when he finds that would be the biggest help to me at that time. Now, mind you ladies, he works 12 hour shifts which are loooong days and/or nights. But that also means he has a lot of extra days off here and there...so don't go griping at your husband for not doing those dishes every day if he is working until 5pm 5 days a week! All I am saying is that my husband tries hard to help out, and although he doesn't like to follow my OCD routine when it comes to cleaning my kitchen, I really appreciate his help, especially with 1st trimester fatigue and a 6.5 month old that isn't sleeping each night!!!!
So for baby news...we can't seem to completely get a grip on the names. Since Pumpkin is convinced we're having her brother, we are focusing more on boy names....and we've narrowed it down and are having the most difficulty with "his" middle name. We have 3 to choose from, and we like them all for very different reasons. One is a family name, one is a name from the bible but also is just a name that we both really like unexplainably, and the other, I know this will get a few laughs... is football related. We are rather big Seminole fans around here, and Hubby loves football as a whole with every fiber of his being. But... between the three we go in circles. And the thing is, we're not fighting about any of it. It's usually me with one name and him with another...that's the way it has always gone in the past...but now we both like all 3 and just don't know which to choose. As for the little girl, she doesn't have a middle name, either. We have a few guidelines to follow, of course so that helps narrow things...but the perfect one just hasn't jumped out at us. Obviously it doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine that both first names will start with an "A"...and if you know our family well, the middle names can't start with a letter that has already been used, so "D", "E", "N", "G" are all out. Not so bad because I don't want to use Hubby's middle name and he doesn't especially want to use mine...so this should be an interesting debate for the next 10-12 weeks until we determine the sex of the baby. Then I feel like we HAVE to make a decision...
We have several friends and family members who are currently pregnant as well...and I love to hear their name choices. I swear I think it is so awesome to come up with that perfect name. I told a friend of mine she won't have to worry. By the time I'm done having kids and she starts...I'll have a whole list of cool names that should make her life easier!!!!
Well, speaking of easy life. Pumpkin finally quit getting up...so maybe she's actually asleep. And Cupcake is sleeping for now also, so I think I am going to go get a bath and go to bed....goodnight!