Going Private...

For those of you who can read this it means you accepted your invite to this blog- I've 'gone private' with the blog just because, well and we've added the BoyScouts Blog to my Dashboard and it seems more appropriate that way. I'd also like to post more private goings on from my brain (no more politics though, can't handle it anymore - I don't want this baby coming out crazed) and you who I've extended the invite to likely already understand the seeming oddity that my direction of my thoughts can sometimes take and have accepted me regardless. :)

With all the craziness going around and that I will pretty much only be using our blog for family matters to share with friends and other family anyway so it seemed unnecessary to allow other strangers to view and comment on it (and they do, I receive some strange emails that only serve to remind me that there are people out there just a little more odd than I. Plus, I just think blog hopping has got to be insanely time-consuming/wasting and a little odd).

Hopefully we should have some fun news to post about the new baby soon. Slade continues to be Slade. He is always adding funny new things into his personality and adding love into our lives as I continue to work on being more normal, a better more unselfish mother, and putting the gospel first in my life.

I promise, though, I'll be better and start posting more pictures and fun kiddie things (just because I love you that much Terra :).

Weight Loss Medley- very effective!

Despite the exercise and watching what I ate I wasn't noticing any differences in weight loss or muscle gain, but I've now found a very effective medley for losing unwanted pounds!

First you get pregnant, wait 6 weeks for the nausea to hit and lose about 10 lbs. Then get a stomach bug, lose another 5. Once you gained back a little just get another stinking stomach bug and lose the 5 again!

I am so sick of being sick!!! I am achy and have pains and have residual sickness from my recent bought with the darn stomach bug that is plaguing households all over UT! My son has been suffering all week and is now developing new symptoms and now my husband has contracted some form of it that is reeking its own havoc on him! Being pregnant, tired, constantly sick, and now emotionally drained and a little peeved has turned me into a very un-fun mom!

Why God, is pregnancy so torturous and do we women have to suffer so? All the aches and pains of pregnancy only to be followed by a saggy belly, unsightly stretch marks, and a little human who needs you 24/7 leaving you with serious lack of sleep, sore boobs, and someone else who doesn't care what kind of day you're having....why did I just do this to myself again?

YES, I still have quite a ways to go with correcting my extremely selfish tendencies (and maybe this is a little bit of the FUN pregnancy hormones talking right now)! You'd be surprised at the progress I've made. Ah, my poor children!

P.S. I'm also SICK of this cold weather- I have very few maternity clothes that work with cold weather and it needs to be over anyway!

Love Song for a Baby

Slade is addicted to this book. He could probably sit eating pop-ickles and look through it all day long and be happy. We read it to him at least 5 times per day - it is filled with pictures like the one on the cover- eye candy for him, if you will. Since cousin Sage was born he has been very attentive to and observant of her and has now expanded his interest to all other babies and says "Beybee" continuously as long as there is one in sight.

It's a good thing because this year for his birthday he'll be getting one! It's official, today Slade & I heard the heartbeat and found out all is well so far! The baby is due a day after his birthday - and God willing- it will NOT be like my last experience. I envision that this go around the birthing process will go smooth as butter and I'll be a well-rested lady for it! We're shooting for a VBAC but we'll see how big this one gets before resting our hopes on it.

We've got plenty of girl names picked out, but if it's a boy....? Like Teresa, we're stumped. Well, Mark's not, but I am. :) We'll be happy for whatever the good Lord sends us, but for my sanity I'm hoping it's a nice, laid back, easy-going girl! :) Last time I said that and believe it was a girl until the ultrasound tech forced me to acknowledge reality...so knock on wood.

Any name suggestions are welcome.

Well Said...

I am finding great blogs to read to appease my poor mind as I watch our rights and the reasons of why we work so hard being taken away from us one by one while we sit by the wayside and praise the very same person for doing so. It cannot go on for much longer because either a) the resources will run out and we'll all be running for the border, or b) the American people are starting to catch on and the Tea Party's will only mark the beginning of a nice revolution against our wonderful new half-black socialist President (can we really call him African-American? His parents weren't slaves, he's not from that region....? I'm just saying, come on. No wonder why they're still screaming for reparations and that we don't talk about race enough. I'm telling you- my BEST friends, Joyce Craig and Angela Taylor, from the ages of 12-16- til we moved again, were full-black and one was part Japense, part black and neither they nor I ONCE ever talked about race or felt the NEED to and never once did they demand reparations from me (though there were notable differences in how we fixed our hair). We were about unity, not celebrating diversity and forget let's talk about you...what do you think about me?). There's a great talk by Dallin H. Oaks called Weightier Matters that you can read that really lays out the meaning of diversity vs. unity as well as going into why free agency isn't limitless. You can read it HERE. While everyone is busy fighting for free agency for women who kill their babies or gays who want to force the majority to accept their demands to be allowed to marry they are putting our society further and further in the hole and it is becoming a place where marriage is meritless, children don't respect or obey their parents (because they don't respect or obey their promises to each other, and we place no expectations on people to behave responsibly. Heaven forbid we rob THEM of THEIR free agency in the name of letting them do it to others (which is interesting to me b/c it's such a small percentage from what I hear, of gays that actually want to marry and yet quite the war to obtain rights for them. Since when was it ever open for discussion - 'straights' came up with it a long time ago. Can't they go figure out something else to describe what it is that they want to do to be joined together. I'm not saying this to be sarcastic either, well not this time, because how do they figure they can force something to change that by definition is what it is. I know everyone views the Constitution that has served us so well for all of these years, as well as other people's religions as 'Living Document's that should be able to be changed at whim, but this is just crazy. If you change the fundamentals of the thing, you change the thing- therefore you must come up with a new word for it, right??).

I just recently read THIS and found it to be a great read. It's rare to find a good writer these days, especially a Conservative one, amidst those who outweigh them in this occupation - so when I do it makes my day. Actually I think it's rare to find good entertainment or writing these days period. I know we all need a break from real life occasionally, but when I turn on the TV or read from a recommended blog or site I'm always disheartened to see what my fellow American takes in on a regular basis and views to be worthy of being committed to watch and becoming part of. We can't watch it and/or read it and not take it in and let it become part of us - that's always been taught to us anyhow. I think that's true and I think that's a HUGE part of why our society is the way that it is today but we're just too wrapped up in our own lives to really think about or care how it affects us all as a whole.

I'm convinced that's why Barry O. is where he is, why we torture and murder innocent babies yet treat terrorists like guests in our home, and think it's ok to rob from those who work hard for what they have to give to those who want to skip the working hard part and partake in the reward. Hasn't anyone ever read Chicken Little? It's like they say, we could go back to the basic children's books to find all the lessons we need in life- I don't need an inexperienced agenda-driven thief and liar to tell me what Hope and Change are all about. More indoctrination in preparation for what is to come next on his agenda...no thanks.

Turn off your TV's people and crack a book or go to a rally or write your Congresman/Senators/Governor/President- do something that makes a difference so at the end of the day you won't be asking for a Bailout too and you'll be able to be a real role model for your children untainted from the world's warped (yet entertaining?) views.