15 weeks pregnant (tomorrow)

The big news this morning is that I'm feeling definite fluttery movements from the baby! Apparently, she's bored this morning and wanting one of us to move around. Odd that I keep thinking of it as a her.

In other news, Quint can now go both up and DOWN the stairs safely by himself.

Tonight is the final in my H&R Block tax course, so wish me luck and therefore a job!

This is my last week at my job and I'm looking forward to afternoon naps and house cleaning next week. I really am looking forward to the house cleaning! While taking this class, the household chores have fallen off the list of important things. We still do laundry, buy groceries and vacuum, but there's a whole lot of neatening that needs to happen. There are a lot of toy parts in the wrong rooms. And a lot of stuff that needs to go into storage in the garage while waiting for baby #2.

non-negative post

Here at my work, there's a little exercise class every day for about 20 minutes. The lady who leads occasionally teaches classes at a gym, so the work outs are always a little different. Today she had us do walking lunges, which I normally hate. But today, they did the trick of snapping me out of my funk. I'm much happier now. Good ole endorphins. A walk in the sunshine afterward didn't hurt either. It has rained nearly every day for 2 weeks and the sunshine is BEAUTIFUL!!!

Our little baby is kicking up a storm this afternoon!! I emailed his daddy and said that I thought he was doing jazzercise while practicing his drum solo in there. Rockin and rollin! Makes me smile!

Wedding hotel recap

I actually got some more studying done last night! Yeah me! About 3 hours worth actually. I bet I can get an hour's worth in at lunch today and maybe 2 hours worth before my very fun concert tonight!

Yesterday, hubby and I both started out the day quite grumpy because we tried to get up and get ready at the same time. This is never advisable in our marriage. Also, I was very clumsy and dropped EVERYTHING I touched while trying to pack my lunch. I finally just gave in and raked all my lunch stuff out of the fridge onto the floor and packed my lunch from the floor. It was just easier. It's always odd that when I'm angry about that kind of thing, hubby feels the need to tell me that this is not his fault so quit taking it out on him. Apparently angry in his presence translates in his mind to angry at him? I will never understand that. Of course he wasn't making me drop everything! So we were both grumpy and slightly mad at each other before we went to my doctor's appointment. Then we got to hear the heartbeat again! And the baby kept squirming around making weird noises on the heart monitor. That made us both smile, and laugh and definitely turned our day around. He kissed me with a smile and bolted off to his meeting.

This weekend, we had a wedding in a neighboring state. The recommended hotel for the wedding attendants was the Renaissance for a "special" price of $150 per night. Odd that they offered me $140 when I didn't identify myself with the wedding party. Anyway, I thought I could do better than that. I looked up where the reception was and looked for a hotel closest to that. How about $70 per night instead? And right across the street from the reception. Turns out, our hotel has a contract with the local Air Force base and typically is full of Air Force guys all during the week. On our weekend, there were about 3 rooms full. Also, several things didn't really work, like the ice machine, the continental breakfast, and the cable was fuzzy. I also had to finish installing a fixture in the bathroom. But the bed was WONDERFUL!!! The air was cold (crucial in our location) and we were a half block from the reception and about 5 from the church. We even had a fridge and microwave so our bag of groceries fed us all weekend long. We were extremely happy for the price. After staying in some pretty strange youth hostels in the UK and Ireland, we're rather adventurous hoteliers. The wedding was beautiful and expensive (not on my dime!) and we had a lot of fun. A very southern wedding. Appetizers for both the rehearsal diner and the reception included fried green tomatoes, ribs, and grits. Hubby got to talk about secession with some wedding guests and how that might be a way out of the president's communist plans for our country. He was giddy to have someone to talk about that stuff.