it's like Christmas!

I got my new laptop today! I think the UPS guy laughed a little at how excited I was to get it.

sod!

We're getting sod laid down as I am typing this! Yippie. I'm so ready to have a yard again, to walk around on grass! to go outside barefoot! to look out and not see knee-high weeds! Ahh, that will be nice.

And also, I had my first prenatal appointment today and we got to hear baby Mellema's heartbeat :) How fun. I haven't gained any weight, but my stomach is so bloated that it was shocking to find out that I haven't. I am probably going to buy a pair of jeans in a bigger size soon, because it makes me sick to have the pressure on my belly when my current pants are buttoned. I was also told to try a chewable kids multivitamin twice a day to see if that helps keep the vitamins down. We'll see if that helps. Yesterday was a rough day with nausea but I'm still tweaking my diet to see if that helps. The past several times I've gotten sick it was right after eating cereal, so maybe I'll cut out the cereal and see. So far today I'm doing good.

getting closer to a yard

I came back home this afternoon to find the builders doing work on our yard finally! They hooked up the sump pump line again (no more animal watering hole in our yard) and are spreading huge amounts of top soil on the weeds. We had hoped that they would till up the clay that was there, but I guess they aren't. Still disappointed (though not surprised at all) that we keep asking them to keep us in the loop as to what they are going to do and when they will be doing it, but at least it is getting worked on. Let's just hope that it looks ok when they are finished. I'm guessing that sod will come later, but hopefully very soon!!

my hubby

I have the best one, I'm sure of it :) The past few weeks have been different around here and my husband just steps up to the plate. I started noticing that things have been mysteriously getting done around the house. I'll find a load of laundry already in the dryer, dishwasher running, kitchen clean, and trash taken out to the curb just to name a few things. Especially since I lost my job, I had been even bugging him to not do stuff around the house and let me take care of it because I have all day to do it. But things changed when I got pregnant... I started taking naps like all the time, and on days when I don't feel well it's amazing how time just flies by without me getting anything done. I didn't even have to mention it to Steve, he just stepped up to the plate without a word and has been making me feel awesome knowing that stuff is getting done without me. I love him so much!

question to all you moms

So I think that I figured out what is causing my morning sickness. Well, ultimately I know what is, the pregnancy, but on days when I "forget" to take my prenatal vitamins I feel incredibly better the entire next day. On days where I do take them (which is most days, I've been pretty good) for about the last week or so I am sick the whole next day. I've been taking them right before bed but then realized that I was sick all night and incredibly sick in the morning so I switched to dinner time, and that worked in keeping my dinner down, but still felt really nauseated all the next day. Yesterday it was so bad I wasn't really able to eat much at all, so I didn't try taking it with dinner since dinner was only a tad bit of popcorn which ended up coming back up when I brushed my teeth a half hour later. Sorry, gross. Anyway, I feel awesome today since I didn't take it last night. I'm still experimenting, but anyone else have this problem? Anything work? Switching brands of prenatals, anything? Good news is that I'm over 9 weeks, so that 2nd trimester is coming up quick... we'll see if that brings any relief.

rant

So I was in the kitchen this morning, busily finding food that sounds like it might be palatable to me and shoving it in my mouth before my stomach decides otherwise when the doorbell rings. Shoot, I'm in exactly what I wore to bed that night, an oversized tshirt, not exactly something I can answer the door in. And there is no way to get from the kitchen to our bedroom without passing the front door (and windows) so I'm stuck. I ran to the laundry room to see if there happens to be a pair of pants lying around and there isn't. So the doorbell rings (no joke) about 4 times in a row then long pause. Then about 3 more times in a row and another long pause. I hear them leave, and peek out to see a large utility van.

The annoying thing is that it was probably our builder. They're supposed to be finishing our yard off (it's still torn up from over a year ago) but the thing is, we keep stressing the fact that we REALLY want to be let in on the process. We are fed up with people coming over without letting us know, to work on our house without us having any clue about what they're doing, what the plan is to fix the basement, and where they are in the process. I'm thoroughly annoyed that they would just show up without letting Steve know they were coming. Even if I was able to answer the door, Steve's been the one working with them and I'd want them to talk to HIM before begining or continuing any work. I'm just so annoyed. And since Steve's the one calling them several times a week for the last 3 years, without getting much of any response, I'm sure he's even more so.

Oh, and here's a funny story too... so Steve been working with the cement contractor and finally got fed up with unreturned phone calls so he called our builder to tell him to deal with the problem. Our builder tells Steve that he'll talk to the cement people and get back to him. So several days go by and Steve starts calling the builder again repeatedly, getting people telling him that he's in a meeting and will call him back later that day, etc (really just blowing him off) and finally when he does get in touch with the builder the guy has the nerve to tell Steve "I haven't heard back from the cement people, so that's why I haven't returned your call". No joke! Really?? They didn't return your call? I can't imagine what that feels like... We've only been dealing with both of you for the past 3 years. Ok, done with my rant.

Has anyone ever used angieslist.com? I've seen commercials and wanted to check it out. We'd definitely warn someone before ever using this cement contractor.

moving slowly these days

So things are really just not getting done around here. First of all, I was out in New York last week for the wedding of one of my cousins, Jaelle.

Jaelle, bridesmaids, and mother of the bride

The yummy cake!

Me and the bride

(more pictures on facebook)

But most of all, I'm just wiped out most of the time. I am not feeling like eating a whole lot, so poor Steve has been stuck with pasta for about 4 nights in a row :) And I've still been taking naps just about every afternoon. There are several things that have been on the back burner for quite a while and it just doesn't seem like they're gonna get done soon... oh well, I guess that means that they're not really as much of a priority as my afternoon naps are.