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My brother sent this to me this morning, and I've been giggling about it all day.
Been Quite Some Time My Friends.
10 years ago
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Meet my new running buddy!
Evelyn Ruth McNearney. Born 8-1-08 @ 6:13 am, 7 lbs. 2 oz. & 20 inches long.
Nail Watch 2008
It finally happened ... the nail from the "incident" has finally fallen off! It's not as bad as I thought it would be. I think the real nail from underneath finally grew enough to push the gross one off. I'm still keeping it covered, because while I said it's not that bad, it's still not that pretty.
Since we are talking about things changing, my belly button is starting to push out. But only half of it ... so, I'm missing half of a finger nail and now half of my belly button is starting to pop out. I'm very attractive right now!
Since we are talking about things changing, my belly button is starting to push out. But only half of it ... so, I'm missing half of a finger nail and now half of my belly button is starting to pop out. I'm very attractive right now!
Monday, August 4, 2008
Time to go and get some tacos...
These people clearly don't want to go home ... I'm sitting here and waiting for class to end. Not because the class is uninteresting, but because BHR and I want Tacos!
I'm having this problem, where I just dislike people for no reason ... I know we're all here to learn, but seriously, I can only listen to cases of child abuse and statistics for so long. Especially when I have tacos on the brain!
This class is actually quite interesting. We are talking about the when the courts and government should intervene in cases of child abuse. So that's interesting stuff right? The problem is this ... everyone has to share or question, because it's a huge subject and everyone has something to say. We're law students for cryin' out loud. But seriously, I did this already! I have a masters in social work ... so I've heard it. I'm not trying to be cold or insensitive. This stuff is serious, and really important, but you know how it's usually easier to pretent like the bad stuff doesn't exist? Well, that's how I feel right now ...
When I was reading the material, there was a series of newspaper articles that chronicled different cases of child abuse ... it made me think about the responsibility of raising a child and what that means to me; raising my own child...it's scary, but exciting.
Emotionally, I will never understand how someone abuses a child. I can read study after study and never really get it ...it makes me feel lucky and fortunate to have the family I have and to be able to learn what I'm learning ... but it doesn't make me a bad person for wanting to leave class and go and get tacos.
I'm having this problem, where I just dislike people for no reason ... I know we're all here to learn, but seriously, I can only listen to cases of child abuse and statistics for so long. Especially when I have tacos on the brain!
This class is actually quite interesting. We are talking about the when the courts and government should intervene in cases of child abuse. So that's interesting stuff right? The problem is this ... everyone has to share or question, because it's a huge subject and everyone has something to say. We're law students for cryin' out loud. But seriously, I did this already! I have a masters in social work ... so I've heard it. I'm not trying to be cold or insensitive. This stuff is serious, and really important, but you know how it's usually easier to pretent like the bad stuff doesn't exist? Well, that's how I feel right now ...
When I was reading the material, there was a series of newspaper articles that chronicled different cases of child abuse ... it made me think about the responsibility of raising a child and what that means to me; raising my own child...it's scary, but exciting.
Emotionally, I will never understand how someone abuses a child. I can read study after study and never really get it ...it makes me feel lucky and fortunate to have the family I have and to be able to learn what I'm learning ... but it doesn't make me a bad person for wanting to leave class and go and get tacos.
I've lost my walking partner ... at least for now.
I've lost my walking buddy ... It's only temporary though. Leah had her baby, Evelyn, on Friday, August 1st. I'm so jealous that she got to meet her "little person." It's been so nice to go through this with someone and to be able to share our similar experiences. Part of me feels like I'm being left behind. We've been going through this together for so long, that I wish I were having BHR right now. Although, it's been really nice to know the sorts of things that are going to happen before they actually happen ...
I'm so excited to have BHR and to share in many more experiences with Leah and Evelyn. I know that we will motivate each other to keep running and it'll be nice to have someone who is going through the same things as me while they're actually happening.
I'm 33 weeks today and 7 weeks isn't really that far away, but I'm ready to introduce BHR to the world and catch up to Leah and Evelyn...
I'm so excited to have BHR and to share in many more experiences with Leah and Evelyn. I know that we will motivate each other to keep running and it'll be nice to have someone who is going through the same things as me while they're actually happening.
I'm 33 weeks today and 7 weeks isn't really that far away, but I'm ready to introduce BHR to the world and catch up to Leah and Evelyn...
Blonde Tube-Top Lady
A lot has been going on the past week or so...I started school, took two baby classes and lost my pregnant walking partner (she had her baby, I didn't really lose her). I'm trying to keep up with everything and finding that I just can't do everything the way I used to, or the way I want to. Somethings have to give I suppose, I'm just not sure what at this point.
Last week we took "Surviving the First Month" at the hospital. My mom and Ed came with us. It was nice to have the support. There was a girl in front of us who was all by herself, and that sort of helped remind me how lucky I am to have my family so close. We learned how to swaddle, change diapers and bathe BHR...Greg got the swaddling down. His baby looked just like the diagram. Mine was a bit more disheveled, but I think it will do the trick. I had a hard time with the "hushing" technique ... this is where you "sssshhhh" the baby in the ear as loudly as they are crying. Apparently that's what it sounds like in my womb, so it's supposed to be soothing. I just found it creepy and a bit irritating.
We also took "Ready, Set, Deliver" on Saturday. I'm finding that I'm just disliking people for no reason these days. Mostly people I don't know, which doesn't make it any better, but honestly that girl should know that her big, blond head was in my way! Don't you think?!
The class was a lot better than I expected ... our teacher was this sort of hippy lady with an odd shaped face. I have been so uncomfortable these days that I wasn't sure how I was going to make it through a class from 9:00am - 5:00pm, but I was able to sit on an exercise ball throughout most of the class and that really helped.
We learned different breathing techniques, none of which I think I will remember when I actually go into labor, so let's hope Greg does and then she proceeded to demonstrate what a contraction might feel like, and then how the breathing techniques might help us ... this is where she lost me. She had Greg pinch me for a minute so that I could breathe through the pain. I didn't like this at all! I didn't like her telling someone to do something to me without my permission! Not that this was news to me, but I really don't like being told what to do ... let's hope BHR takes after Greg, he was perfectly fine with following instructions.
Back to the pinching ... how does that feel like a contraction? I got that I was supposed to breathe through it, but seriously lady? If that's what a contraction why is labor so scary? Why do things rip and tear and stretch and pull?
We also watched some videos of people actually going through child birth. I didn't find them as gross as I thought I would, but what I did find unsettling was the epidural! Now I'm not only afraid of natural child birth, but I am also afraid of having a giant needle go into my spine! Cheese and Rice, why is it so scary?!
Greg said that if I wanted to, I could probably do a natural childbirth, and he's probably right, but up until this point I was very set on receiving an epidural. I'm not trying to prove anything in labor, I'm not trying to beat anyone or challenge anyone or challenge myself even. All I want is a healthy BHR. I'm pretty sure I'm going with the epidural ... it can't be any worse than slamming your finger in a door, barfing all over the place, having shots in the finger that was slammed in the door, and getting 14 stitches to hold the nail on, right?
On a slightly different note ... so we are sitting in the class and this girl in front of me is wearing a black tube top. I start feeling jealous that she's able to wear a strapless bra and still able to wear a tube top, not that I ever was a big tube top wearer, but you get my point. Then I noticed something that made me feel better, when she sat in a chair, her back smush would smush up over the top of the tube top and up over the top of the chair. I feel bad, but that made me feel so much better! Even though I probably have a significant amount of back smush myself, the fact that I'm not prancing around in a tube top probably lessens the display of smush that the people around me have to endure ... so, in conclusion, even though I was jealous of blond, tube-top lady at first, she helped to show me that even if I could wear a strapless bra because my boobs were tiny enough to fit in one, I probably wouldn't want to because my back smush would leak over chairs.
Last week we took "Surviving the First Month" at the hospital. My mom and Ed came with us. It was nice to have the support. There was a girl in front of us who was all by herself, and that sort of helped remind me how lucky I am to have my family so close. We learned how to swaddle, change diapers and bathe BHR...Greg got the swaddling down. His baby looked just like the diagram. Mine was a bit more disheveled, but I think it will do the trick. I had a hard time with the "hushing" technique ... this is where you "sssshhhh" the baby in the ear as loudly as they are crying. Apparently that's what it sounds like in my womb, so it's supposed to be soothing. I just found it creepy and a bit irritating.
We also took "Ready, Set, Deliver" on Saturday. I'm finding that I'm just disliking people for no reason these days. Mostly people I don't know, which doesn't make it any better, but honestly that girl should know that her big, blond head was in my way! Don't you think?!
The class was a lot better than I expected ... our teacher was this sort of hippy lady with an odd shaped face. I have been so uncomfortable these days that I wasn't sure how I was going to make it through a class from 9:00am - 5:00pm, but I was able to sit on an exercise ball throughout most of the class and that really helped.
We learned different breathing techniques, none of which I think I will remember when I actually go into labor, so let's hope Greg does and then she proceeded to demonstrate what a contraction might feel like, and then how the breathing techniques might help us ... this is where she lost me. She had Greg pinch me for a minute so that I could breathe through the pain. I didn't like this at all! I didn't like her telling someone to do something to me without my permission! Not that this was news to me, but I really don't like being told what to do ... let's hope BHR takes after Greg, he was perfectly fine with following instructions.
Back to the pinching ... how does that feel like a contraction? I got that I was supposed to breathe through it, but seriously lady? If that's what a contraction why is labor so scary? Why do things rip and tear and stretch and pull?
We also watched some videos of people actually going through child birth. I didn't find them as gross as I thought I would, but what I did find unsettling was the epidural! Now I'm not only afraid of natural child birth, but I am also afraid of having a giant needle go into my spine! Cheese and Rice, why is it so scary?!
Greg said that if I wanted to, I could probably do a natural childbirth, and he's probably right, but up until this point I was very set on receiving an epidural. I'm not trying to prove anything in labor, I'm not trying to beat anyone or challenge anyone or challenge myself even. All I want is a healthy BHR. I'm pretty sure I'm going with the epidural ... it can't be any worse than slamming your finger in a door, barfing all over the place, having shots in the finger that was slammed in the door, and getting 14 stitches to hold the nail on, right?
On a slightly different note ... so we are sitting in the class and this girl in front of me is wearing a black tube top. I start feeling jealous that she's able to wear a strapless bra and still able to wear a tube top, not that I ever was a big tube top wearer, but you get my point. Then I noticed something that made me feel better, when she sat in a chair, her back smush would smush up over the top of the tube top and up over the top of the chair. I feel bad, but that made me feel so much better! Even though I probably have a significant amount of back smush myself, the fact that I'm not prancing around in a tube top probably lessens the display of smush that the people around me have to endure ... so, in conclusion, even though I was jealous of blond, tube-top lady at first, she helped to show me that even if I could wear a strapless bra because my boobs were tiny enough to fit in one, I probably wouldn't want to because my back smush would leak over chairs.
Pineapple
BHR is 33 weeks and weighs as much as a pineapple, apparently that's around 4 lbs, and he's 17 inches long.
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