Nursery stuff...

I am not great with the pictures....but let me try. This is some of the stuff that my husband and I have bought.....

We bought 2 of these cribs..they are by Graco and got great reviews in the Baby Bargains book and were not very costly...about $145 each.



We also bought the matching changing table. All we need furniture wise for the babies room is a dresser, which we will probably get from Ikea.

(I can not get these pictures to cooperate, I don't know how you ladies do it....)

We also bought this bedding by Carters, we opted to buy the bumper and crib skirt rather than buy a whole bedding set. We bought matching blankets and sheets as well. We got one sage and one chocolate color bedding.....so they were not both the same!

Great, now my pictures are going in the opposite order I wanted them to. Grr..


Well, we also bought 2 of these car seats....we bought these when we were only about 6 weeks pregnant. We got a great deal, and thought they were unisex enough...

We bought this stuff to accent the nursery, which will be green and brown. We got this super cute monkey lamp, which was a splurge because it was $50....we also got matching wall decals, and pillows and blankets. Just enough to not over monkeyize it, but enough to make it cute!


Two days ago I bought this glider and ottoman. It seemed a bit like a luxury purchase, but I can not imagine not rocking my babies.....I love that it is wide and let's me sit up enough. Many I tried were very laid back and I did not like that feeling....

And lastly, we got this lamb swing. I had my heart set on it since before we were pregnant, but it was $150 and getting it for both was out of the question. Well, I got one, and only paid $75 for it, thanks to being marked wrong, and using a coupon and all sorts of other discounts....

So, this is all the stuff we have bought new...I will do another post on what I have bought used from Craigs List!

I feel like I am back in high school....

Ya know, fat and lots of zits. My zits are out of control. I have gained maybe 10 pounds, but I worked so hard to lose the 52 before I got pregnant. Sometimes I think I made the wrong surgery choice and I should have opted for the full gastric bypass and lost a lot more weight quicker...

Anyway...I cleaned our basement out and it is super clean...we had our oil tank removed, since we went to propane this year with our new furnace....yay for having a new furnace for the winter. We have so much room in our basement, which is good because our new freezer comes in less than 2 weeks!

My Moxie went to doggie daycare yesterday and has literally slept for the last 11 hours, no desire to get up, not even to pee. I love a lazy loungy dog.

Old Navy is having an extra 50% off clearance sale. I hit 2 stores yesterday, and debating on a 3rd today! I love a bargain...I got about 10 shirts for me, and paid less than $2.99 for each of them. I got a few things for the boys. I really love bargains. They are not maternity shirts, but I got xxl and they are pretty big and long, and will work nicely...and not break the bank. I can still fit in a fewof my old navy sweats, but for leaving the house, there is no way around maternity pants. Oh, and I need to address my bra situation, and a situation it is becoming. I wonder if my boobs will EVER stop growing, because it is getting old.

I have been doing focus groups....tonight is my 3rd one, in 3 weeks. They are fun, you meet great people and well, you get paid cash. Tonights is $125! I hope I can get picked for more.

I worry about money a lot. I know, a few lines above I spoke of my new clothes, but I just worry, mostly about the future, our retirement, what I will do for work when I am ready to go back, will we make ends meat, because folks, 2 babies are expensive.

So, I think I am going to throw my own baby shower. I wish it wasn't the case, but my mom wanted to but is out of work from an inury and doesn't have the money to, and well, no one else has really stepped up. I don't have a lot of friends. I don't know if I have ever confessed that on here before...but I have very few friends. I think I am a nice girl, and I don't know why, but bottom line is, hardly any. It makes me sad, more sad than I ever want to admit. I wish it was different, but it is what it is. So, I think I will throw my own shower, I have one "friend" who is going to help a bit, but...meh...it's far from how I saw my baby shower going.

I went to the doctors yesterday...I addressed some of my concerns with her. My endo found protein in my urine, so now I have to do a 24 hour one, I also am having my first glucose test this week. I go on the 30th to the hospital/perinatologist for our level 2 anatomy ultrasound. 8 am, yuck. The hubs will get to come though, which is nice. Our office ultrasound lady said it is a neat one to be there for.

We met with and decided on a pediatrician. One more thing to cross off my list.

Weird to think that I am more than halfway done being pregnant. The doctor said yesterday she is thinking 34ish weeks, which is March 1st...but we will see...but I am just about 19 weeks now, and an way will they allow me to go past 38 weeks. I don't know whether to be happy its halfway over or sad.

Thats that!

I am loving reading blogs, and one that I read just got a BFP! Yay...it took a long time and I know she was often discouraged. I really hope everyone gets the BFP they deserve very soon!

Is the farm or paycheck worth more?

So things have been going good....mostly.

I had an ultrasound today and the tech said she would bet the farm that baby B is a boy, and she would bet this weeks paycheck that baby A is a boy, but is still teetering at about 90%...will not say 100%. We have almost everything we need for these babies. We have been blessed by some hand me down clothing and gear and I have bought a lot. I dropped $275 at babies r us the otehr day getting nursery bedding/decorations. I got a ton, it was buy 1 get 1 half price..I love our theme and will be sure to post pictures. We have to start clearing out the babys room to get ready to paint. There is a futon and computer desk in there and a buncha baby stuff!

I have been getting headaches everyday, which stinks. I have mentioned it to the doctor and he told me to take a shower and blow my nose..it was sinus related. Which irriatted me. I am really feeling like I am not getting the best, or necessary care from my OB office. No one seems to be on the same page, and so far I have only liked one of the doctors I have seen. I used to see the nurse practioner and loved her for all GYN things, but she can't do OB stuff...part of me wants to switch doctors offices. Going into this I had insulin resistance and PCOS and was on metformin, and my endo said I would have to be monitored closely. Well, guess who is not being monitored at ALL. Never have I had to give a urine to check it for sugar or anything. I called my endo because I am concerned about the headaches and she sent me a lab slip and is checking my sugars and a bunch of other things, but when I go to see a doctor on Tuesday, I am going to stand up for myself, and my babys health and demand better care. Or I am finding a new office.

I am getting pretty bored being at home all the time....the first few months were great, but now it is old, and boring. I wish I had a hobby, all I do all day is sit on Facebook and wait for someone to update their status. It's very sad, really.

My Moxie was really sick for a few days, and it was rough and scary to all of us. She is better, but still eating chicken and rice...she surely doesn't seem to mind....I hate when my furbaby is sick....she used to get sick a lot but it has been a good 6 months since anything like this happened. She used to throw up several times a week and hasn't but these few days, sure were a dozy!

It has been pretty cold here lately, and I hate the cold :-(

Oh! We bought a upright freezer...I have wanted one for a while, as our regular freezer is quite small, but I also really want to be able to start to cook and freeze some stuff for later in the pregnancy and when we come home from the hospital. It gets delivered in a few weeks, we have to clean a spot for it in the basement. Also, it will store breast milk longer than a regular freezer, and it will accommodate big Costco shopping trips for growing bots in the future. We got it on sale and it was a good price.

Hmm...that may be it for now...