I can't believe it's already the middle of November, before we know it, Thanksgiving and Christmas will have come and gone and it will be 2010. Scary! I'm really excited about these upcoming weeks though, lots of exciting events. This week my work is having a Thanksgiving dinner of sorts. We're having a potluck and Evan's taking a half day off of work so he can come. I absolutely love the people I work with and can't wait for all the good food and a chance to hang out with everyone AND EVAN! Then this weekend is my dad's birthday, so lots of family time :) And then next week is a short week because it's THANKSGIVING! I love love LOVE Thanksgiving, good food, family, it can't get any better than that! We will start out with my dad's side of the family for lunch, then my Grandmother (mom's mom) for dinner. Then Black Friday shopping with my sister begins! Then Evan and I, and the dogs, are off to the mountains to spend the weekend with the Chaisson family. That Saturday will be our first baby shower, I'm so excited! It's going to be weird having a bunch of baby stuff in the house, and we'll hopefully be bringing back an Ashe County Christmas Tree, they're the best. I can't wait to decorate our house and Christmas tree...Christmas is so much fun!
Our house went on the market about 1.5 weeks ago, and was shown last Thursday, Friday and yesterday! 3 showings in 3 days, not too bad. That's a lot better than last time we tried to sell it, which makes me more hopeful. Even if nothing comes from these showings, at least we know the price isn't too high, and that people like what they see online enough to see the house in person. We haven't gotten any feedback on the showings yet, but hopefully we'll know any good/bad/or indifferent feedback early this week! We're definitely praying for the perfect person to see our house and buy it!
A few weeks back, my pregnant friend Lindsay was telling me about how sometimes when she's extremely tired she would just start crying for no reason, and although that was not happening to me then...this past week it began :( I bet I cried every single night last week, and I don't mean just cry, I mean BAWL! I'm not sure if it was just exhaustion, or hormones, or actually being overwhelmed, probably all of the above but it was rough. For the first time I actually felt like I was moody, and mean to my husband, which I can't stand! I have been overwhelmed the past few months (who wouldn't right?) but I have been trying to just let everything fall into place and work itself out because I know there's nothing that I can do about certain things. I think it just all caught up to me this past week, and I couldn't handle it. Aflac visited my work discussing short-term disability/accident ins./life ins. etc. and I'm in the midst of switching insurances to Evan's company policy, and trying to get different quotes and make decisions on life insurance. I usually can handle quite a bit on my plate, making important decisions, figuring out what's best for us, what we can afford, but it was just too much for me. I would just start crying during lunch at work, at home, by the end of the week I could tell when it was coming so I would go and take a shower so I could be alone and cry so I wouldn't freak Evan out. Poor guy!
Can I just brag on my husband for a minute? He is one amazing guy...if you've known him for any amount of time you will agree with me. It's so interesting to think back to 2001 when I met him, and how he and I have both changed, for the better, and what we are now. I knew when I met him he was special, and within weeks of knowing him (not even dating) I knew he was the man I was meant to be with, boy was I right! He is such an amazing man of God and I am so blessed to have him. He treats me so good, better by far than I deserve. He takes care of me like none other, and he did this before I was pregnant too! He is downstairs right now as we speak, making me a salad for lunch tomorrow and taking the dogs out for the night. I mean I do things around the house, don't get me wrong, but he helps out more than I can even ask for. He makes sure I have everything I need, always thinking about me even before himself. He is amazing, the best husband I could ask for, and I know he's going to be an amazing father. I can't wait to see him with our daughter, she's going to love her daddy so much :) I love my husband so much, sorry if that gagged anyone, but I just had to share!
Our daughter remains nameless, we haven't really worked on her name the past few weeks, we're kind of at a stand still. Yesterday Evan jokingly said why don't we just settle with Riley Austin and be done with it! That's just it, neither one of us want to settle on a name, we want it to be perfect and something we truly love, and that just hasn't happened with a name yet. But we're not coming up with fresh names, so anyone have any ideas on what we should do?
Like most of you know, there are 4 pregnant women at Hope Chapel and we're all really close. Well a few weeks ago we were all together under the same roof so we had to take a picture. All the other girls have made this same post (weeks ago) so I had to share the picture too. Now all my non-Raleigh friends will know about the girls I talk about :)
So, here we are, from the right: Lindsey Davis--expecting Samuel Grey (spelling?) on February 16th, Me--expecting our daughter on March 3rd, Lindsay Hege--expecting Lila Addison on March 7th, and Casey Martinez--expecting her daughter on March 30th.
I hope I got all of that right, aren't we cute? It's so nice having other women around the same age all going through this together. Lindsey Davis and I are even trying to share a nanny together. A woman who goes to our church is wanting to nanny up to 2 children and we're hoping everything works out to where it can be Sam and our daughter :) How fun would that be?
Alright, time for me to go to bed, this week is going to be a crazy week! 1 comments
