The Deal

Well I had the meeting this morning and they've decided to go with me for their webpage development. I have to go back again tomorrow morning to set up the domain name and hosting. I am so tired. I went to bed yesterday around 2am. I got up at 6:30 and stayed up. I took a nap around 4 until 5:30. I'm ready to drop. I'm still up because I got started on the color scheme for the web page and got started on their logo. I also tried looking at one of their competitors websites, but it was so heavy with Flash that it kept locking up my computer.

Cody and his friend are both grounded for a week. He stayed with his friend and her friend while we went to church yesterday. When we were leaving, he wanted the house key and we told him no. Turns out before we left he unlocked the back door so he could get back in the house. While we were gone, the friend of his friend went into our bedroom and went through all of our drawers. We figured it out as soon as we got home and boy did Cody get in trouble! His birthday get-together is Saturday and I'd hate for him not to have his friend over for it. Plus school is out Thursday and it *would* be nice for him to play with her that day. I'll talk to her mom and see if she's been on good behaviour. Maybe we can take them off of their punishment a little bit in advance... but I don't want them not to learn their lesson. UGH!

Well, I'm off to bed! Maybe I'll have to post again tomorrow?????????

A Nice Saturday

Today was nice. Cody had a few friends sleep over last night and they were up early. Helped me to wake up with the baby. I'm trying to lose the extra baby pounds so I had 3 cups of coffee and didn't eat until 7 tonight. What did I do after that? Started a fire in the fireplace and roasted marshmallows! Of course!

I got the kids email accounts so I could register them with a Santa's Wish List at walmart.com. I had fun making a list for the baby. I'll have Cody make his tomorrow so everyone knows what he wants. He's hard to shop for sometimes. He really needs jeans. He wears through jeans so quickly.

I'm excited about Christmas this year. I hope we get snow, which it's unlikely. I miss Christmas in Ohio, where I grew up. We always had lots of snow to go with Christmas.

I had a very nice day being with Marty. I love him so much. My days are always wonderful when we're together.

Well, need to get to bed! Church and Steelers game tomorrow. We are going to Atlanta to show Colin off to everyone at the Steelers bar!

The Call

This morning I woke up when Marty came to me saying I had a phone call. It turned out to be one of the guys I had an interview with the other day. He said the interview went well with me and they were calling some people back for another interview. There are two other people who have more Quickbooks experience. But if things don't work out with them... But they want to meet with me on Monday morning to negotiate a deal designing their webpage. They said the work I did with my last jobs website was impressive and they want to use me. The amount of money I would get from that would come in just in time for the holidays. Plus Marty is selling his vacation. There's alot more money. Maybe someone is looking out for us, after all.

The baby has a bad diaper rash. I think the reason why is that Halloween was last weekend and I ate lots of chocolate since then. I'm breast feeding and supplimenting with a soy formula because he's allergic to milk-based formulas. I think eating the chocolate has a bad effect on him. He's got a horrible diaper rash. The poor baby SCREAMS when changing his diaper. He's got diarrhea too, which means I have to change him all the time. I don't want him sitting in the mess and making the rash worse. I've used Desitin creamy and he screams after I put it on. I don't think it's supposed to burn, but it does. So I'm trying cornstarch powder. It's just not helping. I've tried airing him out too. I've stopped eating the chocolate of course. Now I'm just waiting for the rash to clear. I just hope he isn't having a reaction to the ProSobee. Then he'd have to go on the hypo-allergenic formula, Nutramigen. I can't afford it right now. I have an appointment with WIC in a few weeks to see if I qualify. That would help so much.

Well, I still have alot of work to do around the house so I'm out!

Well this is my first posting. I don't know why I'm even starting this, I guess I'm so bored that it's something that seems interesting. I have an 8 year old son, who has a birthday in a few weeks. He just became a big brother 2 months ago. My boss made sure that while I was pregnant he'd try making my life a living hell. Him and his wife both. They were crazy! It did get tough. They piled more and more work on me and picked fights all the time. No wonder my blood pressure shot up after awhile. I ended up hospitalized and released on bedrest. About a week later I was hospitalized because the high blood pressure turned into Pre-Eclampsia. I was only about 35 weeks pregnant, but they had to do something, so they did an amnio to see if Colin's lungs were mature. They were so the next morning he was born by cesarean. He was a big 8 pounds 6 ounces! Pretty incredible considering he was premature. He ended up having trouble breathing and needed to be put on a ventilator. He came home a week later. My mom spent about a month and some here. She wants to move down. I think I'm considering it very seriously. The blood pressure problems continued after delivery, probubly because my boss didn't let up. He gave my job away to an old high school friend of his wife's. He offered me part-time afternoons. What a jerk. He knew I couldn't work that. Even at $12 an hour everything I would make would go to childcare. He KNEW that. I wish he had more employees because I'd sue his ass. But when I think about it, I won out. If I went back there, things never would have changed. I'd be stressed and with a new baby it wouldn't have been good. I'm happier than I have been in so long. I'm home with my fiance, Marty, more and I enjoy every minute of it. Plus I have time with Cody. He's not in child care until late and he has more times with his friends. Plus I have more time to take care of the house.

Well, it is time for me to get other things done. I'll have to do this again tomorrow!

Pregnancy Email to Christine - Few wks before delivery

Yesterday I called my drs office because of all the swelling in my legs & feet. I told them I was having a headache for 2 days in a row and I was seeing spots. So they told me to come in to the office. My bp was 162/108 and later it was a little lower. I had some protein going on in my urine so they told me to go to the hospital for monitoring. So I went to the hospital and had 2 of the nicest nurses in the world. They even signed themselves up for our delivery Sept 21st. They hooked me up to all these machines that checked his heartrate, uterine activity, and my bp every 15 minutes. They drew blood to check my liver & kidneys. My bp dropped dramatically when I laid on my left side and his heartrate was really good. I was also having painless, regular contractions. My blood & urine tests only showed I had a bladder infection. The dr wants me on 48 hour bedrest and then they want me to come in tomorrow to be reevaluated. Hopefully I can go back to work on Monday because I really need the money. It feels good to finally get some rest, but time isn't going by too quickly. I feel so bad for people who are on bedrest for longer. Just thought I'd let you know how things were going. 26 more days to go!!!!!!
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Hello Amy,I hope things are going better for you. I am glad you had a good experience at the hospital, makes a big difference when the nurses are nice. That is what I keep telling my students!!! Let us know what they say when you go back to get re-evaluated. I know working is important and you need the money but do not let that take over what is really important...taking care of you and the baby. Oh I was wondering, I know when we were down there you had talked about getting married in Aug? or Sept? I do not remember....if you already did congrats!!!! Let me know. What else do you guys need for the baby? Let me know want to get you something but do not want to repeat it

Take Care,
Christine

Yesterday I called my drs office because of all the swelling in my legs & feet. I told them I was having a headache for 2 days in a row and I was seeing spots. So they told me to come in to the office. My bp was 162/108 and later it was a little lower. I had some protein going on in my urine so they told me to go to the hospital for monitoring. So I went to the hospital and had 2 of the nicest nurses in the world. They even signed themselves up for our delivery Sept 21st. They hooked me up to all these machines that checked his heartrate, uterine activity, and my bp every 15 minutes. They drew blood to check my liver & kidneys. My bp dropped dramatically when I laid on my left side and his heartrate was really good. I was also having painless, regular contractions. My blood & urine tests only showed I had a bladder infection. The dr wants me on 48 hour bedrest and then they want me to come in tomorrow to be reevaluated. Hopefully I can go back to work on Monday because I really need the money. It feels good to finally get some rest, but time isn't going by too quickly. I feel so bad for people who are on bedrest for longer. Just thought I'd let you know how things were going. 26 more days to go!!!!!!
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Hello Amy,I hope things are going better for you. I am glad you had a good experience at the hospital, makes a big difference when the nurses are nice. That is what I keep telling my students!!! Let us know what they say when you go back to get re-evaluated. I know working is important and you need the money but do not let that take over what is really important...taking care of you and the baby. Oh I was wondering, I know when we were down there you had talked about getting married in Aug? or Sept? I do not remember....if you already did congrats!!!! Let me know. What else do you guys need for the baby? Let me know want to get you something but do not want to repeat it

Take Care,
Christine

Pregnancy Email to Christine - 6 months

I went to the dr today and for the first time everything looked perfect. I'm measuring 27 weeks. I've only gained 1/2 pound in the last 2 weeks (16 total pregnancy). My blood pressure was 120/70. Colin's heartrate was 150's. My average blood sugar over the last 2 weeks was 103, which is remarkable. They didn't increase my insulin for the first time since I started. I also got my Rhogam shot. It hurt for a second because the needle was real thick, but it went away right away. I had no sugar, protein, leukocytes, or ketones in my urine (had some protein Tuesday). And only 82 days until he is born!
Take care!
Amy

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Hello,Sounds really great. I am glad things looked good. Keep up the good work!!!
Talk to you later!!
Christine