When it rains, it pours

I can't believe that this is the last week of March. And, my goodness, what a week its been.

Well, it started off with Monday. Hubby was driving to the shop for work, when low and behold he got a speeding ticket. His first ticket in 6 years. $153. Nice work dear. However, we are contesting the ticket bc our local law enforcement agent wrote that it was a 50mph speed limit, when the road is actually 55. Here's hoping.

Then there was Tuesday. Buddy has still been sort of sick and has been keeping me up at night, so guess who's sick now. Yep, me again. Lovely. Also on Tuesday we decided to put an offer on the "infamous" fixer-upper that we've been looking at for the past month. No, we haven't sold our house yet, thanks for asking. Do you want to buy it?!?!? Right now we're staring down the barrell of carrying two mortgages, does it get more fun than that?!? This house needs major work, and we'll find out Friday if they took our low-ball offer. When I say a lot of work, I'm not joking. Should keep us busy until the baby comes. hahaha.

Then there was yesterday. Hubby's partner got a piece of large equipment VERY stuck at a job site. They came back to town to get something bigger to pull it out when, low and behold, Hubby's truck starts smoking. So, today we can pick the truck back up and hand over $900+ for new calipers, rotors and brake pads. Oh, and did I mention the rear brakes are going out too? That will be another $500. Nice, very nice. So then, last night Hubby and get to talking about vehicles, we were planning on trading in the F150 next spring for a diesel, but the price of gas right now is killing us. So, we went online and found an F350 (year 2000) for sale for exactly the same bluebook value as the trade in on our truck. So now, it looks like we'll be making the 1.5 hour drive on Saturday to possibly buy a new truck.

Well, the bright side of the story is that it finally stopped raining, literally. The past two weeks have been so wet that Hubby hasn't been working much. But God is good, the sun is finally out, and now they're working 6 days a week to try to catch up and put some money in the bank. We've been teaching Buddy how to pray for the sun at night before he goes to bed. :)

Buddy is a jabber box lately. The other night at dinner, he pushed his plate away and kept saying "men, men, men". We couldn't figure out what he was saying, until I asked him, "Do you want us to pray?" YES!! He wanted us to pray so he could say Amen and be excused from dinner. What a character.

It's finally nice out and we can take walks and play outside. However, now on every walk we HAVE to stop by the ducks in the local pond. He even makes sure that I bring "treats" (Cheerios) to feed the ducks. :) Do it once w/ a toddler....and be prepared to do it 100 times.

I've got a Dr. apt tomorrow. After this I have to go every other week. I can't believe it. I'm not really looking forward to the all exciting weigh in...since my legs have ballooned to 3x their normal size over the past few weeks. Ug. Oh well. My weekly baby update told me there's only 40 some days until the baby is "due". Goodnight, that's not near enough!!! :) We haven't even really begun to even think about the baby coming yet! But I suppose we'd better....one of these days.....

March already??

I for one refuse to believe that another month has gone by. Good night, where do they go??

Well, I suppose the biggest news (hahaha) at our house is that Buddy now refuses to go to sleep at night. Flat out refuses. We put him in bed and about ever 35.75 seconds, he is climbing out. He was getting quite sneaky at it. He is still at the age where he thinks that if he can't see you, you can't see him. It would be humorous if we weren't so sick of it!! He thinks that if he averts his eyes, he has rendered himself invisible to both Hubby and myself. So, once he spots you looking at him, he'll drop his head, and continue to sneak off the bed. Little bugger. We now basically stand at our post at his door after laying him down. First I get to shower, then I take over and Hubby gets to shower. It's quite a system. At the first hint of noise, we pop in there, lay him back down and wait outside the door for 35.75 seconds, then pop back in...again and again and again. Let me tell you, we've tried everything. He laughs at us when we punish him, dances around if we ignore him, and will sleep if we hold him down and lay next to him. But, that's not a habbit we want to start. We have to go away tonight, and all I can say is "good luck babysitter". The poor girl doesn't stand a chance.

Other than that, the big news is that my company has decided to accept my proposal to work as a consultant for them after the baby is born. This is what I was hoping for, so I'm quite excited. Hubby is excited too, because he told me, in no uncertain terms, that he would not take care of 2 kids in the mornings btw 4:30 and 7:30 and get them to day care. So, it's a big relief to know that it might acutally work out. I'll still be working 15 hours per week, but it will mostly be from my home office. I'll still have child care for the kiddos, but 15 hours beats 30 hours in my book. Also, it's only going to be one morning of getting up at 4, so that much it AWESOME. Getting up at 4am is starting to really suck. :)

In pregnancy news, I have only one my dr. apt before I have to start going every other week. I can't believe that it's getting that close already. I don't mind being preggers, but I am constantly tired, weigh a ton, have hemorrhoids, and for the last months get contractions about 1 or 2 times per day. (Now, I hate complainers, but I don't consider that last sentence complaining because no one MAKES you read this, now do they. You can here of your own free will. :) Too bad for you. :) )

Anyhow, I think that's all for now. We have this wedding to go to tonight, and good night, I will be glad when this is over. I don't think that people who are getting married understand that NO ONE cares about their wedding but them....but that's a whole'nother topic completely.