Cosby

I love the Cosby Show.  It's on Netflix instant streaming, and I love it. :)  It makes me happy.  Although, I'm pretty sure in the pilot they started by calling Theo "Teddy" which is weird.  Also, they said they only had 4 kids. Pretty sure they have 5 in the other shows.  Sandra isn't around yet, I guess...although she was the first one.  Whatever.

I went for a couple of days without nausea, but it has been here ever since the beginning of the week.  I have an ultrasound on Tuesday, and I'm anxiously awaiting seeing the heart beating. It'll be good to know that it's still alive.  I have so much swimming in my head to talk about, but it's just not coming out right now.  That's one of the huge reasons why I haven't been blogging recently.  :-/

I made cookies last night.  Fail.  My bread is working beautifully in my new oven elemented oven, but my cookies were awfully flat.  They taste great, but they're horribly thin.  I wonder if I creamed the butter and sugar too long.  Ah well.  At least my bread is good. :)

Big things are happening...

Well, there's one big bit of news that some people know, and some people don't yet.  We haven't announced it to the world (i.e. facebook, twitter) because of a previous experience.  We're now 6 1/2 weeks pregnant.  Last year I miscarried at 10 weeks, so we've been a little reserved in who we've told, but it has gotten out more and more, shocker, so I'll just go ahead and talk about it on here, and then announce it to the social networks when my first trimester is over.  Thus far this has been my most difficult pregnancy yet.  I'm already nauseated for the majority of the awake day, at least 10-12 hours, and I've already been sick.  Having two kids while being pregnant is a challenge I did not expect.  Having one very young kid while being pregnant was a challenge, but having two who are a bit older is definitely difficult.  Seth loves to sit in my lap, but right now that's not a pleasant thing for me.  He will sit in my lap for the whole day, if I would let him, but I want the boy to go and play some, so I lure him away with toys and a sister. :)  I have to almost continually eat, or the nausea rears its ugly head, and knocks me for a loop.  Today especially I have also been super tired.  This also makes for an unpleasant time for my kids and me.  I could really have used a break this morning.  The kids were super needy, and I was super needy, and no one could meet anyone's needs.  Praise the Lord, the kids went down for naps, and stayed down longer than usual.  I know He completely answered that plea.  After naps the day was glorious!  Well, except for the minor mishap of trying to cook my bread, and having my oven element explode.  Yeah, it was seeping the stuff that's supposed to be inside the element.  It made the oven light up nicely for a second or two before I turned it off.  Fortunately, Dusty found a replacement on Amazon, so we should get it some time next week.  It'll be microwave and stove top dinners for us!  :)  That's not a big deal though.  I turned on my oven yesterday for the first time since Saturday (or possibly before).  It was so dreadfully hot outside I couldn't turn on the oven and stress out our poor air conditioner units anymore. :)

Dusty's garden is doing beautifully.  If he can keep the squash bugs at bay, then things look great out there.  He has brought in SOOO much squash already, and several huge zucchinis, some corn, green beans, eggplants, tomatoes, jalapenos, bell peppers, banana peppers, and fresh herbs.  He's such an amazing gardener.  Right now he's canning the jalapenos.  He ran out last year, and wanted them for months, so he's making sure he's got enough this year.  His jalapenos are beautiful, and quite impressive, so I think he'll have plenty.  I don't really do the hot pepper thing with putting up vegetables.  I'll do the other things, but not hot peppers.  I'm so glad I have a husband that can and will do these types of things.

Hannah got glasses.  If you're on fb with me, you already know this.  She said the other day, "Mommy, when I look through my glasses now, I don't see them anymore!"  I'm really glad about this because just a few days ago she wasn't digging them, and it had only been two days since she'd had them.  She also said that when she takes off her glasses she doesn't look like Hannah anymore.  Only when she has her glasses on does she look like Hannah.  I have to admit that I miss her unhindered face.  I won't tell her that, but it will also take some getting used to for me to love her glasses.  Right now they're just covering up her natural beauty.  I'm wondering if less noticeable frames might be the key to that, but we won't find that out for another year, or however long it is before people get new frames for their glasses.  I'm new at this.  I'm so thankful we caught it early though.  The doctor said she would most likely have developed a lazy eye because the problem is only in her right eye.

I'm really hoping we don't miscarry this baby.  We actually sort of planned to have a baby right now, whereas before it has always come as a complete surprise.  While this is a total surprise, we had a hunch.  We go for an ultrasound in a week and a half, and we're praying to see that heartbeat.  At that point with the last baby there would not have been a heartbeat, but I hadn't miscarried yet.  The kids are super excited about this baby, as are we.  I'll try and update as we find out anything.