OK, here we go!
I got a new little laptop\tablet for Christmas, and I'm working on figuring it out. The keyboard is a little small and has a few extra buttons squished in, so it makes it kind of complicated. The right shift key is tiny and has a page up button right next to it, so I keep pushing the wrong button. And the track pad (is that what you call it?) is right under the spacebar. And I'm feeding a little fella at the same time. And for some reason the screen keeps zooming in and out. I thought it would be great for blogging on when my computer's in use, but it looks like it'll take some getting used to.
I have a lot that needs blogged about, but this little post will have to suffice for now. I've been battling baby blues now and then. Mostly I talk it through with Jeremy or get up and move my muscles as my mother would say I should. I have a lot on my mind as well. I'm not allowed to drive for at least another week. I have been taking Percocet only sporadically since late last week. Mostly I'm in no pain except for occasional headaches. And those come mostly from sitting up all night and falling asleep nursing in a chair. The guy has day and night mixed up. The first few nights dealing with that were pretty much brutal, even though I've mostly been able to deal with it pretty optimistically. I know we'll get it figured out, and though it's frustrating right now we've always gotten it figured out eventually. He wants to nurse pretty much constantly and doesn't like to be put down, but miraculously, he did nap in his swing twice yesterday! I figure the nursing constantly might be due to how tiny he is. Maybe he's just trying to bulk up. The nurse at the hospital warned us that around 2 days old he'd probably start cluster feeding (you can google that), and she had several theories about why babies do it. They all sounded pretty plausible to me.
Well, now the page keeps reloading. Ha!
I'm worried about getting the kiddos to school while not being able to drive, but I'm going to figure that out. I feel bad that Jeremy has to commute. We've got to get a different job! At least I figured out a doctor for the baby, though. :) It all works out in the end.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
The move
I hope this one will be a quickie. It's not that I don't have a lot that needs recorded, but that I am in the mood to be concise.
So our move has gone pretty well so far. A week or two before Thanksgiving we got a small Uhaul and moved things like food storage and clothing storage. I also moved all my casserole dishes and some other things I couldn't use here in Globe since the oven doesn't work. And in the meantime the dishwasher broke here. And Joshua has been a bad dish-doer. (Sorry. I'm not sure it does any good to neat around the bush, even if I love him to pieces!) Bt the weekend I was ready to just load the whole stack of dirty dishes in the car and throw it in the dishwasher in Thatcher. That ended up being the best decision when it came down to it, and then we left a lot of things there. Last week I worked on getting other stuff packed that we didn't need. It turned out to be quite a frustrating process. We have missed my alarm clock. Maybe we're obsessed with knowing what time it is, but when we wake up with monkeys in the night we like to know what time it is. That way we know how much longer we can sleep after getting them back to sleep and before the alarm rings. The sad thing is, about a month ago a switch in the master bedroom in Thatcher shorted out, and now there is no electricity in that bathroom at all or in any of them outlets in the bedroom. Thank heavens that at least the lights work in the bedroom! Boo that I won't be able to have my alarm clock working in there. (I never use it for the alarm anyway, though. Ha ha! I've got like 5 different alarms set on my phone instead. Ha ha!)
How's that for rambling? Ha! Well, a guy is coming to look at the electricity this weekend.
So then there's been frustration with what I packed too early. I packed the medicine cabinet and regretted it that night. I had to go unpack a ridiculous number of things. Also, I packed the herbal tea and the broth. Bad! Jeremy had been sick, and those things really help at night with not breathing. It's all moved to Thatcher already.
So the question keeps being asked: "Why in the world did you pick that particular stinking weekend to move?!" (We got a big Uhaul last weekend and moved most of the stuff that was left. But we're back here for a few days because Jeremy and Hyrum had finals at the college. That makes it hard to know what to pack. So I understand why people are asking that question.) Well, it all seems pretty obvious to me that that weekend was the best. Months ago we planned out the rest of our year with a moving date being December 12. We wanted to be moved before the baby came. Here are a few reasons why:
1. It's been kind of cramped in this house, and last time we tried to move furniture in our bedroom to fit in things for a new baby our bed frame broke. It's been frustrating! We've had to try to prop up different spots with blocks of wood, one time resulting in a scar on Hyrum's index finger. In recent months the whole head of the bed sagged, especially the middle, and the foot of Jeremy's side sagged too. I started sleeping backwards in the bed because sleeping the other way was giving me headaches. Jeremy kind of traded off sleeping different ways, but his head was downhill no matter how he slept. We wanted to get rid of that bed, and because we were unsatisfied with the quality of the Fran that we bought from the furniture store, Jeremy wanted to build a new one. (It's shameful the cheap wood they used to support that thing! It's really heavy!) But it didn't really make sense to build it in Globe. It would have had to be completely disassembled to move, so why not just build it in Thatcher and have it built? So anyway, he did build that bed in Thatcher, and I'm so happy to be sleeping the direction in bed as my husband! :) I'm so glad his side isn't so saggy! It's great! And the sooner we switch to a fixed bed the better if you ask me.
2. Then there's the broken oven and dishwasher. There's only a limited number of things you can bake in a toaster oven. It doesn't do so great with cake or pie. ;) Anyway, so that was another "the sooner the better" things.
3. This house is infested with cockroaches, and nothing has really made a dent. I don't want to go into details, but it's horrifying. Absolutely disgusting. I don't want to bring home our sweet baby to that. That's just too much. So now we've been fighting to not bring them with us, which is harder than you'd think. We're going to battle with all our might, though. The ones here are getting more and more sneaky, getting into places where we just can't get with poison. And that's enough of that, but you understand. The sooner the better.
4. Why go to all the trouble making the bed fall apart further to bet the baby stuff in and then have to undo it all to move? Also, if we waited until after the baby we'd want to wait 6 weeks or so until I was recovered from the c-section. That was just too long to wait, especially with trying to put kids in school in the spring semester.
And there are other reasons too. But anyway we decided all those months ago that we needed to stay for the semester but wanted to be out ASAP afterwards. It just made sense. So the 12th it was. Then Kelly decided to get married on the 15th (though she did change to the 19th later) and Robert is being ordained a Deacon in the Catholic Church on the 12th. Now, don't think for a minute that I'm upset about those things causing our moving date to move. It's just how things happened. My parents also wanted to help us move, so they asked if we could move the date to the 5th. We decided that would be best, and not only because their help turned out to be very needed, though that was something to consider. ;) Anyway, yes, that did leave us coming back for a week, which has been pretty inconvenient, but what else could we do? The 12th is out. The 19th is two days before the baby comes, and that also means any later dates are out too.
So does it make sense now? I sure hope so! I promise we're not nitwits.
Anyway, Mama came up to help pack last Tuesday and stayed until Thursday morning. Mostly of what we accomplished on those days seemed to be cleaning. Ha ha! Obviously, it was needed, though! For one thing, cockroaches. Everything needed washed before we could pack it. And then I also wanted the bedding all washed before the move. Not only did it need washed, but it just makes sense to start out with fresh bedding, you know? You don't put dirty sheets back on. So Mama kept the washer and dryer running for almost the entire time. I felt like such a lazy bum. I did scoot around on my bum helping clean the kiddos' rooms (You bet your boots they were scary!) I did sort some stuff, and I did get some stuff packed, but I kept having to sit down. It was frustrating! I could form a plan in my brain and see clearly just how I wanted to take action here or there, but in my very pregnant condition I knew there was only so much I could do without causing preterm labor. So Mama started bringing me stuff to go through or fold. Bless her! She did so much work! I honestly don't know how we could have gotten it all done without her!
I kept packing after she left, and then we picked up the truck early Friday afternoon, just as Mama and Daddy showed up with lunch. :)
So long story short- it was pretty much just Jeremy and the boys and my parents then. They loaded the truck while I took the little ones to the store and the park to keep them out of the way. And Jennifer and her kids got here in time on Saturday to reclaim us from the stress and insanity that was going on! Bless them! In the end there's a lot more stuff still here than I'd like. The back half of the truck didn't get packed very tightly, so not everything would fit. I'm frustrated by that, but the only thing to do now is what we can. And at least Thatcher only 1 1/2 hours away. It'll all get done eventually. The nice thing - Jeremy bug bombed the truck on Friday after it was mostly already packed. And then we mounted war when we got to Thatcher, spreading poison far and wide and using 3 more bug bombs on the stuff in the garage as we left.
So anyway, yeah, not everything goes as you picture it, but we did have a lot of help with unloading in Thatcher! Jeremy went ahead with the truck and Jennifer and I followed behind later. They had it all unloaded when we got there. And then after the truck was already gone our home teacher came on a little break with his work partner in their ambulance. They asked if there was anything they could do, and all I could think of was that we wanted to get the beds together. They chose the one for Jill, Timmy, and Bubby. They asked if there were instructions, and I felt bad that there weren't. But I found them the tools and they went at it. I was so surprised because about 15 minutes later when they got called away for someone in cardiac arrest they had the whole thing almost built! :) Benji finished it up. Benji and Michael made their bunk beds right away, and Hyrum and Joshua (the grumpy teenagers) were compelled to finally make theirs. And then because I'm a mean mom I made Joshua actually put the sheets on his bed. Mean! The others just did theirs except for the younger 3.
Jennifer and her kids stayed for a while, and that was nice. It's always nice to chat with my sisters, and she helped me get the kitchen put away.
So all in all it worked out good. We still have a lot to do, but we have our Christmas tree up in Thatcher, and all the baby stuff has been in place for a while now. Joe gave us his extra crib and I found a nice little swing for $15 on the Gloe yard sale Facebook page. I washed the baby clothes and put them away. It's exciting! The house looks like a house with furniture in it, and the baby stuff being ready means we really are having this baby in a week and 5 days! Hooray!
I went to the doctor for a checkup yesterday. It's their policy that since I'm getting "older" I have to have an ultrasound at my lady appointments. Jeremy was able to go with me, and Bubby came too because he wouldn't go back to sleep before we left. It was fun watching that little fella. :) Anyway, the baby is getting big - about 6 lbs 4 oz. He is a cutie with beautiful little lips. And he's practicing breathing just like he should. I'm pretty sure Bubby has no clue what's about to happen. When we talk about the baby he thinks we're talking about him. So the baby's swing and bed are his? I still think he'll like this new little guy, and thank heavens he and Hyrum are buddies. :) We ordered a car seat because the only ones Walmart had were girly. It had free shipping anyway, so sure. Why not? It's cute!
Yeah, I guess if I start out saying something's a quickie we can be sure it's not. Oh well.
Oh, one more thing: Benji turned 12 on Monday. He wanted donuts for his cake, and he wanted to make them. I couldn't find the recipe I've made in the past, but we found one he thought would work, and away we went to borrow Grandma's kitchen. She was actually away. Somehow she didn't get the message that we were moving on the 5th and she and Dad flew to Idaho to see Becca. So she wasn't there, but Susie was there in between finals. I didn't want to use up all their ingredients, and all of mine were in Thatcher, so Timmy and I went shopping and bought some ingredients. I borrowed things like spices and then left the flour and sugar and stuff there. I don't want to move it, and bless them for letting me use their kitchen even though we weren't there! Hyrum had a math final that day, so we mixed up the dough while he was at class and refrigerated it for an hour like the directions said. Jeremy cooked dinner and Benji cooked the donuts. They didn't come out as yummy as he hoped, but we stuck candles in them anyway. I got the relighting kind because there were just enough in the package. On the one had I was glad I did because Timmy and Bunby kept blowing them out as Jeremy was trying to light them. But they smoked horribly! I felt bad that the house probably smelled like smoke when Grandma got home. Oh well. At least it did have time to dissipate. And we cleaned up and left some dinner for them. Benji says he had a nice birthday, and I'm glad. :) I got him a camera among other things and was thankful I could get some good deals!
Ok, that's really all for now. I'd better plug in my phone. I can't wait to get to Thatcher tomorrow and set up my computer! I've missed it!
So our move has gone pretty well so far. A week or two before Thanksgiving we got a small Uhaul and moved things like food storage and clothing storage. I also moved all my casserole dishes and some other things I couldn't use here in Globe since the oven doesn't work. And in the meantime the dishwasher broke here. And Joshua has been a bad dish-doer. (Sorry. I'm not sure it does any good to neat around the bush, even if I love him to pieces!) Bt the weekend I was ready to just load the whole stack of dirty dishes in the car and throw it in the dishwasher in Thatcher. That ended up being the best decision when it came down to it, and then we left a lot of things there. Last week I worked on getting other stuff packed that we didn't need. It turned out to be quite a frustrating process. We have missed my alarm clock. Maybe we're obsessed with knowing what time it is, but when we wake up with monkeys in the night we like to know what time it is. That way we know how much longer we can sleep after getting them back to sleep and before the alarm rings. The sad thing is, about a month ago a switch in the master bedroom in Thatcher shorted out, and now there is no electricity in that bathroom at all or in any of them outlets in the bedroom. Thank heavens that at least the lights work in the bedroom! Boo that I won't be able to have my alarm clock working in there. (I never use it for the alarm anyway, though. Ha ha! I've got like 5 different alarms set on my phone instead. Ha ha!)
How's that for rambling? Ha! Well, a guy is coming to look at the electricity this weekend.
So then there's been frustration with what I packed too early. I packed the medicine cabinet and regretted it that night. I had to go unpack a ridiculous number of things. Also, I packed the herbal tea and the broth. Bad! Jeremy had been sick, and those things really help at night with not breathing. It's all moved to Thatcher already.
So the question keeps being asked: "Why in the world did you pick that particular stinking weekend to move?!" (We got a big Uhaul last weekend and moved most of the stuff that was left. But we're back here for a few days because Jeremy and Hyrum had finals at the college. That makes it hard to know what to pack. So I understand why people are asking that question.) Well, it all seems pretty obvious to me that that weekend was the best. Months ago we planned out the rest of our year with a moving date being December 12. We wanted to be moved before the baby came. Here are a few reasons why:
1. It's been kind of cramped in this house, and last time we tried to move furniture in our bedroom to fit in things for a new baby our bed frame broke. It's been frustrating! We've had to try to prop up different spots with blocks of wood, one time resulting in a scar on Hyrum's index finger. In recent months the whole head of the bed sagged, especially the middle, and the foot of Jeremy's side sagged too. I started sleeping backwards in the bed because sleeping the other way was giving me headaches. Jeremy kind of traded off sleeping different ways, but his head was downhill no matter how he slept. We wanted to get rid of that bed, and because we were unsatisfied with the quality of the Fran that we bought from the furniture store, Jeremy wanted to build a new one. (It's shameful the cheap wood they used to support that thing! It's really heavy!) But it didn't really make sense to build it in Globe. It would have had to be completely disassembled to move, so why not just build it in Thatcher and have it built? So anyway, he did build that bed in Thatcher, and I'm so happy to be sleeping the direction in bed as my husband! :) I'm so glad his side isn't so saggy! It's great! And the sooner we switch to a fixed bed the better if you ask me.
2. Then there's the broken oven and dishwasher. There's only a limited number of things you can bake in a toaster oven. It doesn't do so great with cake or pie. ;) Anyway, so that was another "the sooner the better" things.
3. This house is infested with cockroaches, and nothing has really made a dent. I don't want to go into details, but it's horrifying. Absolutely disgusting. I don't want to bring home our sweet baby to that. That's just too much. So now we've been fighting to not bring them with us, which is harder than you'd think. We're going to battle with all our might, though. The ones here are getting more and more sneaky, getting into places where we just can't get with poison. And that's enough of that, but you understand. The sooner the better.
4. Why go to all the trouble making the bed fall apart further to bet the baby stuff in and then have to undo it all to move? Also, if we waited until after the baby we'd want to wait 6 weeks or so until I was recovered from the c-section. That was just too long to wait, especially with trying to put kids in school in the spring semester.
And there are other reasons too. But anyway we decided all those months ago that we needed to stay for the semester but wanted to be out ASAP afterwards. It just made sense. So the 12th it was. Then Kelly decided to get married on the 15th (though she did change to the 19th later) and Robert is being ordained a Deacon in the Catholic Church on the 12th. Now, don't think for a minute that I'm upset about those things causing our moving date to move. It's just how things happened. My parents also wanted to help us move, so they asked if we could move the date to the 5th. We decided that would be best, and not only because their help turned out to be very needed, though that was something to consider. ;) Anyway, yes, that did leave us coming back for a week, which has been pretty inconvenient, but what else could we do? The 12th is out. The 19th is two days before the baby comes, and that also means any later dates are out too.
So does it make sense now? I sure hope so! I promise we're not nitwits.
Anyway, Mama came up to help pack last Tuesday and stayed until Thursday morning. Mostly of what we accomplished on those days seemed to be cleaning. Ha ha! Obviously, it was needed, though! For one thing, cockroaches. Everything needed washed before we could pack it. And then I also wanted the bedding all washed before the move. Not only did it need washed, but it just makes sense to start out with fresh bedding, you know? You don't put dirty sheets back on. So Mama kept the washer and dryer running for almost the entire time. I felt like such a lazy bum. I did scoot around on my bum helping clean the kiddos' rooms (You bet your boots they were scary!) I did sort some stuff, and I did get some stuff packed, but I kept having to sit down. It was frustrating! I could form a plan in my brain and see clearly just how I wanted to take action here or there, but in my very pregnant condition I knew there was only so much I could do without causing preterm labor. So Mama started bringing me stuff to go through or fold. Bless her! She did so much work! I honestly don't know how we could have gotten it all done without her!
I kept packing after she left, and then we picked up the truck early Friday afternoon, just as Mama and Daddy showed up with lunch. :)
So long story short- it was pretty much just Jeremy and the boys and my parents then. They loaded the truck while I took the little ones to the store and the park to keep them out of the way. And Jennifer and her kids got here in time on Saturday to reclaim us from the stress and insanity that was going on! Bless them! In the end there's a lot more stuff still here than I'd like. The back half of the truck didn't get packed very tightly, so not everything would fit. I'm frustrated by that, but the only thing to do now is what we can. And at least Thatcher only 1 1/2 hours away. It'll all get done eventually. The nice thing - Jeremy bug bombed the truck on Friday after it was mostly already packed. And then we mounted war when we got to Thatcher, spreading poison far and wide and using 3 more bug bombs on the stuff in the garage as we left.
So anyway, yeah, not everything goes as you picture it, but we did have a lot of help with unloading in Thatcher! Jeremy went ahead with the truck and Jennifer and I followed behind later. They had it all unloaded when we got there. And then after the truck was already gone our home teacher came on a little break with his work partner in their ambulance. They asked if there was anything they could do, and all I could think of was that we wanted to get the beds together. They chose the one for Jill, Timmy, and Bubby. They asked if there were instructions, and I felt bad that there weren't. But I found them the tools and they went at it. I was so surprised because about 15 minutes later when they got called away for someone in cardiac arrest they had the whole thing almost built! :) Benji finished it up. Benji and Michael made their bunk beds right away, and Hyrum and Joshua (the grumpy teenagers) were compelled to finally make theirs. And then because I'm a mean mom I made Joshua actually put the sheets on his bed. Mean! The others just did theirs except for the younger 3.
Jennifer and her kids stayed for a while, and that was nice. It's always nice to chat with my sisters, and she helped me get the kitchen put away.
So all in all it worked out good. We still have a lot to do, but we have our Christmas tree up in Thatcher, and all the baby stuff has been in place for a while now. Joe gave us his extra crib and I found a nice little swing for $15 on the Gloe yard sale Facebook page. I washed the baby clothes and put them away. It's exciting! The house looks like a house with furniture in it, and the baby stuff being ready means we really are having this baby in a week and 5 days! Hooray!
I went to the doctor for a checkup yesterday. It's their policy that since I'm getting "older" I have to have an ultrasound at my lady appointments. Jeremy was able to go with me, and Bubby came too because he wouldn't go back to sleep before we left. It was fun watching that little fella. :) Anyway, the baby is getting big - about 6 lbs 4 oz. He is a cutie with beautiful little lips. And he's practicing breathing just like he should. I'm pretty sure Bubby has no clue what's about to happen. When we talk about the baby he thinks we're talking about him. So the baby's swing and bed are his? I still think he'll like this new little guy, and thank heavens he and Hyrum are buddies. :) We ordered a car seat because the only ones Walmart had were girly. It had free shipping anyway, so sure. Why not? It's cute!
Yeah, I guess if I start out saying something's a quickie we can be sure it's not. Oh well.
Oh, one more thing: Benji turned 12 on Monday. He wanted donuts for his cake, and he wanted to make them. I couldn't find the recipe I've made in the past, but we found one he thought would work, and away we went to borrow Grandma's kitchen. She was actually away. Somehow she didn't get the message that we were moving on the 5th and she and Dad flew to Idaho to see Becca. So she wasn't there, but Susie was there in between finals. I didn't want to use up all their ingredients, and all of mine were in Thatcher, so Timmy and I went shopping and bought some ingredients. I borrowed things like spices and then left the flour and sugar and stuff there. I don't want to move it, and bless them for letting me use their kitchen even though we weren't there! Hyrum had a math final that day, so we mixed up the dough while he was at class and refrigerated it for an hour like the directions said. Jeremy cooked dinner and Benji cooked the donuts. They didn't come out as yummy as he hoped, but we stuck candles in them anyway. I got the relighting kind because there were just enough in the package. On the one had I was glad I did because Timmy and Bunby kept blowing them out as Jeremy was trying to light them. But they smoked horribly! I felt bad that the house probably smelled like smoke when Grandma got home. Oh well. At least it did have time to dissipate. And we cleaned up and left some dinner for them. Benji says he had a nice birthday, and I'm glad. :) I got him a camera among other things and was thankful I could get some good deals!
Ok, that's really all for now. I'd better plug in my phone. I can't wait to get to Thatcher tomorrow and set up my computer! I've missed it!
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