A Moment

To reflect on the lives of both Bernie Mac and Issac Hayes. To lose two such great icons in one weekend was a little much. Peace be with you both.

First Day Back!!

Doesn't she look cute!! First day was good, she was all excited to see her friends and party like a second grader should. OH! I just love her!!!

Dinner and a Giant Baby

I have been missing something from my diet that I shouldn't skip on while preggo but I honestly didn't realize I had been doing it until yesterday. Vegetables!! I haven't been eating as many lately but when the craving hit, well I just had to have a bunch. This was dinner last night. (I had never understood taking dinner pictures, but it just looked so yummy, I thought I would share!)



Summer squash, onions and mushrooms being cooked in olive oil with rosemary and cracked pepper.




Steamed broccoli. I put rosemary, sage and thyme in the water below so the flavor infused itself, then I drizzled it with butter.




The finished product! Smoked sausage added a nice meat to the meal without being overbearing in flavor and the orange pile is mashed sweet potatoes. OMG, it was sooooo good!!

Well, I went to the Doc today and I'm now on my every 2 weeks visit rotation. Which means I'm nearing the end. She is going to do an ultrasound on the 20th because I measured large for how far along I am. In case you are wondering what that means, either there is another baby hiding in there, or our son is ginormous. I'm pretty sure it's the latter but if he's real big, they may decide to do a C-section to keep me from having further complications and from hurting him during childbirth. Miss Pinks was a normal, 7 pound 6 ounce baby and she got stuck, so I'm concerned about having him the traditional way.

We will know more in two weeks. It did make Hubs and I double up on some work that we were doing in the house because you never know what may happen. There is another girl that I know that is due one week before me and she is going to have a Section done the end of this month because her son is big. We're about the same size, so the thought of surgery is in there. Who knows? As long as he's healthy, I'm fine with whatever they decide.

Well, Miss Pinks starts back to school tomorrow, so I better scoot. Hope all is well and I'll stop by and chat soon. Hugs and love!!

A week in Photos!

I've had a lot going on since I last posted. First off, Hubs and I had to make sure Miss Pinks got her school supplies. She starts back on Thursday!! Where did this summer go?! She was still playing with the grands, so we shopped for her. Here's the haul!

I hope I don't have to pay some copyright thing for showing that much Hannah Montana! She already had a bookbag from last year that she is going to use again, so in a lot of ways, we got off light. Also, her teacher had TONS of stuff saved over the years, that helped the bottom line, too.

Next up! We FINALLY got to move the kitchen table from the other house! (yes, we still have stuff over there. Talk to my husband about it, not me!) I am super excited about this because it meant that I could set up my office like I really want and have room to do more craftiness!



New Office set up. More room!!



New Crafting Section! Since the table is wider and longer, I was able to add my sewing machine and a considerable cut/ pin space to work with. Plus, I still have room for all my beads!

Having the new space finally let me do this!!



Aweseomely cute tote bag for me to carry papers to and from work in. I have a fabulous briefcase, but sometimes I just need a little thing. I am SUPER proud of this, especially since these were the instructions:



Yeah, not much to that, huh? So, I modified a little and made mine sturdier than the one they had there. I also have enough of this fun fabric to make something cute for Miss Pinks! I've been sewing a lot lately. My brain has had a bead freeze and I just can't get into like I would like. Some of that is because I don't know how to metalsmith and I can't learn while preggo:
toxic fumes +baby=crappy mom.

Speaking of the little man, we got the last bit of work done in his room, so here are pictures!! (some of them are fuzzy because apparently my hands shake while I'm in a hurry. Go figure!)









This last one has the flash on, but the muted tones are more what it looks like in there. I also know that he can't sleep with all those babies, but for right now, they have to live there. The big monkey is from my best gal pal, the little striped monkey came from my brother's awesome girlfriend and his cheeks light up and he plays "You are My Sunshine!" Also, the elephant was my pick, the horse is a gift from Miss Pinks and the yellow duck was bought by his dad just yesterday. So, yeah, they all get a place for now.

Hope you enjoyed the week in review! I go to the Doc on Wednesday so I will update you then. Hugs and love!!
~Pinky!

Serious Cuteness To Follow

Just woke up cuteness

Telling me about her dreams cuteness.

I swear, I don't know what I did to get such an amazing little girl. Really, I just hope I did it again for my son. My kids are awesome and I haven't even met all of them yet.

Here it is!!!

(taken at a slight angle so as to not look so giant!)

I'm still kicking... barely

Well, folks, it seems as if this pregnancy has really knocked me down for the count. Last week, hubs and I went to the Dr. on an impromptu visit. Needless to say, we were there a while. I'd been hurting for a day and a half and it hadn't stopped even with me being a sloth and laying around. I was concerned that this little baby was trying to show up a little early. Thankfully, I an not in pre-term labor, but I do have Round Ligament Pain. Basically, all the ligaments that surround my uterus and run up the sides of my stomach are inflamed. It happens in some pregnancies and our son is BIG, so the Dr. wasn't that surprised it happened to me.

Here's where it gets fun. There is nothing they can do for it other than pain meds. The doc said, "round ligament pain hurts!" He also pointed out that it won't get any better any time soon. Because the baby is getting bigger, so am I and so the ligaments get pulled even more. The best thing to do is lay around like a beached, pregnant whale for the next nine weeks. I can do whatever I want, this doesn't in any way affect the baby, but I have to be willing to deal with some pain if I want to keep running around like I have been.

Of course, pain is temporary and I have a tendency to push things too far, so you know at some point, I'll hurt myself again. The doc did say that the baby is already at least FOUR POUNDS! With 2 months still to go, he's gonna be a big one. That's okay, hubs just wants to know what school he's going to play football for. HA!

I don't seem to have any tummy shots for you!!! I'm going to have to take one because I am, hold on to your chairs, four feet around! Yep!! The circumference of my tummy is four, freaking, feet!!!! Craziness. I'll try to take a shot today and let you all see the jumbo baby! Well, I do have to go to work for a little bit this morning, so I better go. Hugs and love and I miss you guys a lot.

Pinky

Something Cool for the Whole Family

A while back, Hubs and I were driving on backroads through Mississippi when we passed what we thought was a giant movie screen. After turning around in someone's driveway, we made it back and indeed! It was a giant movie screen! We had found a Drive In Movie Theater! And it was in operation!! OMG! For nearly 2 years, 5 bucks a piece would find us an hour from home and watching double features on a giant drive in movie screen. We saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Batman Begins and a slew of other movies that we either laughed at, gasped at, or talked avidly about on the way home. Watching a car load of teenage girls scream their heads off: priceless.

Every Thursday I would call the movie line to see what was showing. We would make plans, gas up the car and head out. Until one weekend I called and it was closed early. Then, I called again the next weekend and I got the dreaded "beep, beep, beep! We're sorry, this number has been temporarily disconnected." Hubs and I were upset, to say the least. We thought maybe they had just closed down for the winter months. I tried again in the Spring and I didn't even get the "temporary" message. Our drive in was gone.

I honestly thought about crying. Hubs and I enjoy the movies, but not all the people, the price, the overinflated everything. At the drive in, we paid FIVE DOLLARS each to watch 2 movies. New movies! Drinks were a buck and candy was still fifty cents, if you can even believe in such a world. The old speaker boxes didn't work, but they broadcast the movie on a FM line, so you tuned in on your car radio. If you have a giant sub woofer and loud speakers, like we do in the Jeep, well then you were in for quite a show. We would leave it tuned in while we drove away so that you could still hear the movie music while driving down the road. Man, I miss that place.

Yesterday, we were in a town close to where the drive in had been and I said to Hubs, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if the drive in was open again!" We both agreed that it would be really cool, but I had lost that number to a cell phone change a year ago. I came home a little sad all over again. But by some oddity in the world, things changed direction for me. I was reading a Better Homes and Gardens article about things to do during the summer. I had skimmed it a few times, saw about the zoos, thought " yeah, I should do that" then opened the article all the way. Tucked in the crease of the page was a title that said "Go To A Drive In Movie"! Wow, was I stunned! Even better than that was this link right here: www.driveinmovie.com. If you click that link, you will be taken to a current listing of every known drive in across the United States!

And I found quite a few left here in Mississippi. Not ours, sadly, it has gone dark. But there is history about a lot of the places still left and all kinds of information. So, grab the kids, waste some gas and go do something that will build awesome memories. I know we will!!

Have you noticed...

Just how hot it is? Maybe it's because I have become a human incubator that I feel this way, but OMG it's so freaking hot. I have, apparently, hit that point in my pregnancy. The one where I tell myself that it's not so bad while the sweat runs down my bra. Nice, I know, but there it is. I already have one child born in September, did I not learn my lesson then? No, no I did not.

Other than that, I've been nesting like a loon. (get it, loons are birds? oh, forget it) But I did have to take apart the new baby's crib and send the bolts back to the company to wait on a voucher so that I can get another one. Now, his room looks empty and weird. Also, Hubs and I have yet to find another crib that we like as much as the one that was recalled. I'm sure we'll think of something.

I'm making valances for his room and a nursing hider for me. They wanted 40 bucks for one that I found online and that just seemed silly to me. Also, they are called Hooter Hiders and there is NO way I can pay money from something called that. So I bought material for $4.44 and am making it myself! Cool, huh?

Oh, what do you guys want to call the baby? I can't seem to figure that out. Baby Pinky just reminds me of my daughter, not my son. He needs something manly, what do you think? Suggestions welcome.

Well, my ex will be here soon to pick up Miss Pinks, so I better scoot. Have a happy Sunday!

I know, I've been absent

And I was going to show you a picture, but it was crappy. So I'm just stopping in to say hello, instead.

HELLO!