I can’t believe I didn’t ever post this!! IT’S A BOY!!

HALFWAY!!! (as of this Saturday)

We find out next Friday, yes Friday the 13th, if it’s a boy or girl. I’ve been so busy, I haven’t had a chance to dote on the pregnancy, but now that the time is nearing to find out the sex, I’m getting extremely excited. If it’s a boy, it’ll be time to start fighting over a name (we can’t decide on even ONE name we both like!), if it’s a girl…. oh man…. it’ll be my first and I might go a little crazy for a while. I’ll THINK I need all this girly stuff Also if it’s a girl, there’s no fighting over the name, that’s been picked for a very long time.

I finally had to break down and buy some maternity shirts, I’m still wearing my own and as you can see in the pic…. they are RIGHT there. Usually I’m just at home and it doesn’t matter, but having a few shirts that fit will be nice. I have my one and only pair of maternity jeans and as you can see I have to wear a belt with them. What’s with that?! Not that I mind!

A pic from yesterday’s choir performance. My son is holding the “R”. He’s loving choir and appears to be doing an excellent job! He may have finally found something he’s really excited about. There are only 2 boys in choir this year, but luckily enough it’s him and his buddy that he’s always with. He takes choir very seriously and after the first performance I overhead him discussing with the teacher what went wrong. haha Great, my kid will be the one asking for more practices! He’s now wanting to learn to play guitar, sound like a good plan to me! Heck I think we all might end up learning how to play. Good Job J!!

I’m curious about everybody’s bedtime routine for their kids. I’m left wishing I could clone myself at night, it’s stressful for me. C (2 years old) needs to go to bed earlier than J (10 years old) obviously, but it’s so hard to get C to bed without feeling like I’m leaving J out. This would be a lot easier if C was easier to put to bed……. but that’s a whole ‘nother topic, how to get kids to go to sleep on their own. Getting C to bed can sometimes take an hour! So if this process starts at 8pm, it could last until 9.

I want J in bed before 9, but I don’t make him go to bed at 8. But my having to put C to bed means J gets left alone to fend for himself for that time or he just ends up going to his room and entertaining himself… playing computer, reading or watching tv. Which really when you think about it, isn’t awful, some alone time is good too. But I know for a fact that we have some jealous feelings anyway so that’s what makes it most hard.

I NEED HELP! I don’t know how to do this.

How do you put your kids to bed. I’ve tried letting J hang out in C’s room while I read him stories before bed, but that never works because they end up horsing around and not going to sleep. Most nights C and I will take J down to his room, tuck him in, say good nights, give hugs and kisses and then head back upstairs to get C to bed. But I of course feel guilty thinking about J feeling jealous that I’m going to spend more time with C while he just gets tucked in and left alone. I think I’d feel less guilty if I could tuck them both in and they’d both go to sleep on their own. Not to mention, my stress level would be unbelievably lower!

So how do you do it?

Not to mention… I have NOOOOO idea what I’m going to do when the baby comes.

Living with leaks just plain sucks, there’s no nice way to put it. We’ve had light rain for the past couple days and my basement is leaking, my kitchen window in leaking, and my roof is leaking. GAH!!! As if it’s not depressing enough having all these gloomy days and watching the rain on the outside, now I have to see it on the inside of my house too!!

New subject… I’ve made it through that not so fun first trimester and I’m taking on some more evening shifts, which of course leaves me feeling all sorts of different ways. We NEED the money, like you don’t even know, but I’m going back to missing out on family time at night, which sucks. But really I’m just going to have to suck that up for a while and deal.