B’s blog

So I’m 13 weeks today and I’m feeling worse than ever. I puke on a daily basis and feel urpy all day long. I thought by now for sure I’d be feeling a little more energetic and less nauseated but that’s certainly not the case. My hormones are out of wack and just about everyone annoys me in their own loving way. I’m so sensitive to smells that it’s really made life sucky right now too. There’s something that has crawled in my van and died I swear because I can’t stomach opening the doors of the van or even being inside without gagging. I don’t know what to do about either because if I go searching for the culprit in the van, I’m gonna puke. Erik’s gonna have to somehow figure out what it is and get it cleaned up. I was hoping by now I’d feel better so that I can get stuff done around this house. It’s making me crazy. I have a doctor appt on Friday and I’ve lost 6 lbs so I hope she gives me something for this nausea. Not that losing the weight really is a bad thing as I could stand to lose some but I have to be able to function at my job too, especially now that I’m going to be starting a new job on Nov 12th. I hate that I feel so bad right now and may have to call in sick during my last 2 weeks on the surgical unit. Looks bad and I really need to save the PTO hours but if I feel like this, I have no other choice. We’ll just have to play that by ear day to day I guess.

I just want to slide this little baby to the 38 week mark already!!!!

Got the job! Will start nights after Thanksgiving most likely. But on Nov 12th I’m officially an OBGYN nurse! I will do day shift orientation for a few weeks but then it’s nights. 3 nights a week and occasional weekends when we have a high enough census. Right now I think they have someone that wants all the weekend shifts anyways. Good for me I guess! More later…

After weighing the pros and cons of my current job, I have decided I need a change in order to stay in nursing. I’ve been a nurse for 9.5 years now and it’s getting more and more difficult to come to work each passing day. A few months ago you may remember that I applied for an OBGYN position in the hospital that I thought was a day job but turned out to be nights. So I didn’t even set up an interview with the director of OB. Well times are changing. I have come to the conclusion that if I want to keep whatever love I have for nursing, I need to get out of my current situation. So I called today (Saturday) and left a message for the OB director and will hopefully get an interview sometime next week. I will be working nights again which does concern me but the kids will be in daycare the same amount of time as they are now. I will be able to goto early church every week with Erik, which is important to us. As hard as it is going to be for our family to adjust to Mommy not being home at night twice a week and every other weekend, it will pay more due to shift differential. And Erik is all for it. He says it’s up to me but that he’ll give it a try and if it doesn’t work, then we can talk about other options. I just want to stay with Kingwood for my PTO when I have the baby. If I don’t take any days off for sick leave between now and April, I’ll have 5 weeks full pay from PTO hours before my short term disability kicks in at 60%. I feel if I stay here much longer on the surgical unit, it’s not going to be healthy for me while pregnant due to the stress. I have to take care of myself and this baby.

Another big decision we are making is the decision to change churches. We haven’t been happy at our church for some time and are going to start church shopping on my weekends off starting next weekend. That leads us to the realization that Erik will have to step down as Life Group leader if we leave but he’s ok with that too. This past week in group, one of the men actually fell asleep during the conversation of the book we are studying. And only 2 people actually read the material. I’m not even able to go because our group night falls on my work night.

We ended up with 10 inches of rain Monday! And then yesterday it started raining again and looks like it could continue today. Lots of flooding around Houston. We are ok for right now though. Dad brought up a good point, no wonder homes don’t have basements in Houston! We’d all be flooded out by now. Avery had his conference Monday during the storm which was fun getting too and getting home from. If school was to end today, he’d already be making high enough scores to pass. He’s reading 4th grade level. I keep wondering if holding him back because of his birthday and the fact he is a boy was the right decision or not. He keeps saying, “Mom, I should be in 3rd grade!” He should actually and I’m confident he’d be doing well there too but I think it makes him feel extra smart this way and we made the decision back when he was 5 to hold him back based not on his academic readiness but based on how he will be in his adolescent years. So I live with my decision. Jaelyn has her conference at 1:45 today. Kids actually get out at 1 and I promised them a trip to the library book fair as a reward for their hard work this first semester. Jaelyn has a loose tooth! She has been wiggling it and wiggling it, she says it hurts. When I told her it hurt because it was loose, she lit up and said, “Mom! Thanks SO much for telling me I’m going to lose my first tooth!” She’s pulled out the tooth fairy doll and has the little tooth bag ready for her big moment! I’m really excited for her. A few months ago, Avery asked me if the tooth fairy was really real. I asked him if he liked getting money from the tooth fairy. He said yes. Then I said, “Avery if I were you, I would continue to believe it is true so you continue to get paid for your baby teeth.” He dropped it after that. I just hope as he finds out the truth about certain childhood imaginary figures like the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter bunny, he doesn’t break the news to the rest of the crew. As for Braden this week, I think the time has come to start working on potty training. I’m sick of changing stinky diapers and I keep telling him he needs to pee in the potty but I don’t have a potty chair for him to pee on. So we are heading to Walmart soon and we are going to get one and start this process. I’m not sure if he’s ready or not but I need to at least try. Avery was 3 1/2 when he finally was trained, thanks to Erik and some strict ultimatums. But he was trained in a weekend. It just would be nice to get Braden out of diapers by the time the baby comes.

I’m sorry I haven’t posted photos in a while. All my photos were downloaded on Erik’s computer so he has access to all the photos on the laptop. If he ever brings it home and I remember, I’ll post some cute photos of the kids playing soccer. If you want to see our pumpkin this year, goto esheldon.blogspot.com.