Mixed Emotions

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Mine was, and I promise to tell you all about it... later ;)

Sunday morning at 8 AM, I am supposed to go to the hospital to be induced. They will check the baby's lungs, which takes about an hour, and then start the induction process at 9 if the lungs come back good. I am having so many mixed emotions!

I am so excited to meet my baby.. and see what it is! I am excited to hold it and snuggle it and have it here finally. But I am also very sad. I will never get to be pregnant again. To feel the kicks, and even the pains that I complain about, of pregnancy. I know all pregnancies come to an end, but deciding to end ours on Sunday feels wrong somehow.

The reason we are planning an induction is because of my labor with Miss L. Too fast, too scary, don't want to go through that again. This way we can be prepared, have our kids with people, things taken care of, and not have to worry of delivering in the car! We could wait another week if we wanted, but that is pushing it, and the dr I want to do it isn't going to be on call.

So we are going with Sunday morning. I can't decide if I am more excited or sad yet, but I do know that it will be exciting to finally get to meet our little baby.

How did you feel on your last pregnancy? How did you handle knowing it was your last?

Baby Shower

I was really back and forth on whether or not to have a baby shower. I didn't want to because I felt greedy. This is our 3rd baby, and its not even 2 yrs after Miss L, but there are things that we do need! I'm not one to keep stuff around, so I pretty much cleaned house of Miss L's stuff once she was done with it.

So I talked my girlfriend and she said YES do one! And she threw one for me :)

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It was really last minute, but she did a super cute job on it. Unfortunately I suck, and didn't take any pictures! I did a registry at Target, and was able to get a few things that I did really need, which is really helpful. I also got some gift cards, which totally rock cuz then I can just go buy whatever else I need, which isn't much now.

This poor baby isn't getting spoiled like my other kids. It doesn't get its own room or anything. We put the crib and changing table in our room, making the "theme" brown, cuz we have pretty much brown everything in our room!

Because this baby isn't getting all the fancy stuff, it was nice to at least have a shower for it, and not have to buy everything ourselves!

Did you have a shower for all your kids? Or will you if you have more then one... or two?

Noro Virus

I got Noro virus last week and ended up in the hospital on Monday for fluids because I was so dehydrated. It took 5 bags of IV fluids to get me back to where I needed to be. Not fun at all.

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Because of the dehydration, I started to have regular contractions. Luckily once I got enough fluid into me they stopped though, cuz baby was still a little to early to come just yet :)

For those of you who don't know what Noro virus is, let me just say its the shits. Literally. I was crapping my brains out about every 30 minutes. I didn't have the chills, or aches, or vomiting, just the poos. It was horrible. Luckily no one else in my family got it like me, though Miss L did have a few really watery diapers, and M got a little sick to his stomach this past Sunday. Pumpkin was sick the Friday before I was, but he was throwing up and then seemed fine later that day, so I'm thinking more of a flu bug.

I'm really praying and hoping that this is the only round of sickness we get this year. I have been nesting, so my house is pretty much disinfected from top to bottom, hoping that helps!

Have you been sick at all this winter yet?

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year was small and oh so nice! Pumpkin was at his dad's house, which made it a little lonely, and my parents were in Spokane at my aunt's house. M's aunt and uncle came into town, and his mom did a big dinner, but we didn't go. Instead, we had Thanksgiving just the "4" of us.

I cheated a little this year though. Instead of doing a full turkey, I just did a breast... in the crockpot! Best turkey ever though! And SO tender and juicy! I also did boxed stuffing, which I was really hesitant about cuz I love stuffing, but it turned out amazing. Totally sold on the box stuffing now. I made corn, mashed potatoes, gravy, and a cherry pie for desert. We laid around all day relaxing and watching football. Ate dinner, and then laid around some more. We ate cherry pie while we watched a movie, then called it a night and went to bed!

It was so little, and so relaxed, but so nice. We didn't have to drive anywhere, put on jeans, or try to not look too piggish going up for 3rds. I do love holidays with family, but I think I like holidays with just immediate family just as much.

How was your Thanksgiving?