Man I have been such an airhead lately. Like right now I was logging on to post and I could not remember my password. Let's see what to talk about first:
Easter - Easter Service at church was great. We had a good time in our Sunday school class, they hid eggs during service and it was fun despite being an adult...hehehehe. I didn't buy an Easter dress cause I still fit into a yellow long dress I have had with pastel blue flowers. I thought it was perfect. The girls looked cute. Alani wore a green pastel dress I bought her on Ebay for only .99 cents! and Alexis also wore a lime greenish dress that Serg bought her at Ross for $30. For Ross $30 is a lot so when I checked the original price it was like $89 bucks or something. I did her hair up in half a ponytail. I will post a picture later when I bring in the Sony camera. I have been using that camera lately because it seems to have a better zoom capability. Clearer pictures. When service was over I was a little sad because we did not have any plans to do anything. Everybody (around us as in other church members) talked about meeting up with family for brunch and when my daughter said "mom are we going to the park or SOMETHING? Like hide Easter eggs???" I thought "yeah what ARE we going to do"? Sad to say that we don't get together with my husbands family. Cindy his sister did not have her kids so she had all her single friends over and they were dancing and acting weird in her house. Totally not an "Easterish" mode. More like "YEAY we are FREE from kids this EASTER so let's celebrate Christ resurrection differently". Ok I will stop being hateful. I need too. I can't help it, it does bug me. It bugs me when we see people and they say "Yeah I've HEARD you're all into church N'stuff". His sisters tell everybody they know and we know that we think we are too good for them now that we go to church all the time. Yeah I feel like going over there and telling her how it is, but since I AM at church all the time and I KNOW how the bible tells me I should be, I am going to be the best person that I can be about this. Anyway, we ended up hooking up with Leah, her boys and the guy she is seeing from church Brother David (really nice guy) at the Signal Hill Park (overlooking the entire city of Long Beach) and the kids had a great time. Alani was a total candy monster. She was on a mission to eat ALL of the candy in her Easter basket which wasn't much but enough to be too much for her. She ended up only taking a forced 15 minute nap ALL DAY. The girls were happy about their Easter baskets which me and Serg put together. Nothing too expensive...just a few things to be satisfied with.
OK so I am going backwards to Saturday. We took the girls to the El Dorado Nature Center and walked (no kidding) about 7 miles all day. We walked INTO the parking lot, though to the entrance and walked about 1.5 miles inside. It was pretty cool. I think Alexis expected to be flocked by all sorts of animals and that wasn't the case but it was still cool to walk though what seemed like the woods. We saw birds, lizards, butterflies, fish, ducks and TONS of turtles. So cute...they originally wanted to go to the zoo but I don't really like the zoo. First off the animals are caged and they look sad and dirty all the time. Plus they are totally far away. AND....it's like $12 to get in. The nature center was F R E E. Now that Serg has no income we gotta to keep the spending to a minimum. Although we have been eating out a little too much. I have to keep food in the fridge or else we are not going to know what to do in 2 weeks.
Oh I got a new table at JCPENNEY....and man what a deal!! It was a $500+ table and each chair (on sale) was $100. BUT I got one on Clearance for $149 with 3 chairs. Ok so it was the old floor model and it's got a few dings. But the dings are few and totally worth it. It's a nice table. In our marriage we have always used a table that his sister Michelle gave to us (or that we rescued - long story) and 4 chairs my mother gave to me. Anyway now I just need to buy 3 more chairs but the lady at JcPenney is going to call us to let us know when they go on clearance. Is that nice OR WHAT?
What else???...oh this is my last week here at work...full time. I am praying to God that my work from home request goes through. Not sure what will happen if it does not. I will think positive and keep praying. When I start to work from home I will save over $100 on gas PER week. I will get 2 MORE hours of sleep in the AM and no afternoon commute. Man I can smell it now. I can actually smell the 2 pickles that I brought for lunch today (which other things of course).
My pregnancy obsession for the moment seems to be PICKLES and CARNE ASADA TACOS....MMMMM I am so sick in the head right now that I would eat these two together. Another good news is that I have not gained weight in 3 weeks I think. I am at 226 right now. So with this pregnancy I have gained 16 pounds and I am 16 weeks today... So that would be 1 pound a week. EEK. I need to make sure I STAY at 226 for a while. Being overweight as I am, the doctor will not require me to gain weight so I just need to watch it and work out like I did on Saturday.
I can't wait to be more pregnant. I just want the time to fly right now.
HE IS RISEN!!!
So everyting seems to be going well with the pregnancy. On Friday when we visited the best Dr. in the whole world Dr. Marshall my perinatologist for the first time this pregnancy he surprised us with an ultrasound. WE ARE HAVING A BOY!! It was pretty obvious when he showed us and we even got to see his little feet up against the screen. SO CUTE! He got to see Alani and he kept commenting on how beautiful she was. Well he helped me to get her here safely that's for sure. We talked about my blood pressure and how he didn't want to increase my BP meds because if my blood pressure drops too low it can cut off oxygen to the baby. So I will need to be better with my eating and also my sodium intake. He also put me on insulin 10 units in the PM as my fasting numbers in the morning are in the 100's and they should be no more than 89. So I need to watch my sugars as well. Not too much salt and not too much sugar.
I am trying not to stress out either because my hubby got laid off work. I mean he works for the union so it's just a matter of him getting another contrator to give him work but still...he had the good hours going and this was long time work...like YEARS...now we are trying to figure out how all the bills are going to get paid with just my income. He's supposed to get unemployment but that's not very much and now that we have a car payment it's a little harder. He actually got a call from the union last night that they had a job for him but it was temporary and it was in Santa Monica. He rushed to get the girls up at 4:00am took them to the babysitter which I am gonna have to pay her $20 for today and when he gets there they were like "no we don't need anyone today". So sucks. As I walked to my truck to get my cell phone out I wondered what was going on...what's up with the drama???
I know that I need to keep my faith in the Lord. I actually came here to write about how many people don't believe in God. I was reading something somewhere on Yahoo and read Leah Remini from King of Queens show, it's hilarious, and I know she had a baby so I went to her website to see if I could find pics of her daughter and her and ended up on a Q & A page where a fan asked her if she was a sci*entol*ogist like John Travolta and Tom Cruise and I thought "Yeah right! She's gonna bash this guy" then she went on to say that she WAS!! and has been one for years and that it has helped her spiritually..what??!! I was SO thrown off...I just closed the site and felt immense dissapointment. I just don't understand how someone can believe in that stuff that a MAN made up, a human, just like you and I. Then I have been reading this blog about a girl that has had 8 failed miscarriages and I thought that she was faily negative and said well "I haven't had 8 failed miscarriages so who knows if I would be that faithless" and I sorta knew I should not be reading that blog but I want to have Faith for her. I want to see her baby grow in her belly, and I kept looking for words like "I pray that this baby will be ok" but none of that appeared. Instead I read that she was into pa*ganism and was a no*n-christian. I was just like WHAT is up!??
I guess alot of the sermons I hear in church and the clips that brother Esposito shows us on what the world is coming to was sort of in my face. Don't get me wrong I am NOT bashing, hating or judging these people *I* just don't understand their views and I guess they would not understand mine. I know GOD is real because of what he has done in my life. Sure things like loosing jobs, money problems happen, but instead of me bashing and blaming God for it, I accept it, and I accept it as a test. God tests us constantly and I want to come out a believer of Christ no matter what. It's funny because someone would say (especially now) "Oh where's your God now?, why did your husband loose his job??" You know where He is? He is watching up in Heaven and I want to make Him see that I want to pass his test. I want to stay faithful and I want Him to Know that I believe that whatever we are going through is for a reason. And I tell you, it always is. ALWAYS. I see the true miracles He has done in my life, and never will Sc*iento*logy or paga*nist spirits or wi*ccans convince me that there is no God!!
"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;"
1 Corinthians 15:3
So yesterday I had the biggest freak-out. I called my babysitter to let her know that my husband would be picking up my 1 year old from daycare as I was headed for the dentist to get my final tooth cap or whatever they call it on my tooth. So we hung up and all was well..that is until she calls me back and she says "You're not getting any fillings done at the dentist are you" and I said "no that's already been done". She was like "good because a friend of mine has a daughter that is autistic and they found high levels of mercury in her system so they think that this is why she is autistic". So I was like "no no I got my filling before I was pregnant"...so as I thought about it more and more, I started to panick because I was trying to think of WHEN I actually got my filling done on this root canal. So I dug up the receipt from that day and it said 2/3/06!!! I found out I was 5 weeks pregnant on 2/9/06!! So this whole time I am sorta freaking out, then I get to the dentist and while I was for 1 hour in the dentist chair for the dentist I read a sign over and over again "Root canal, and other misc. fillings may contain Mercury. Prop 65 reports that mercury in these fillings cause birth defects" blah blah blah...I sat there and thought about possibly having a child with birth defects or something like autism and I was scared initially but I had to say "Lord, I leave it all in your hands, you know what I can and cannot handle so let it be your will" I refuse to drive myself crazy with "what if's" for 26 more weeks. So I really felt God's hand on my heart and I felt better.
When the dentist came in I asked him "when did you actually fill IN the tooth, back in November when you initially did the root canal OR just this past February when you put the temporary tooth on there because I did not know I was pregnant the last time I came and I have been reading your signs about Mercury fillings etc". He said "no the filling I put in you does NOT contain Mercury. That also made me feel better. Thank you Jesus. This is not to say that I am going to have a "perfect" baby but that extra stuff is out of the way.
So anyway, I am super tired today. I went to bed early yesterday too and I am stil struggling to stay awake. I just got some coffee but coffee is nasty to me nowadays. I just basically drink it so I wake up. Anyway, it's raining where I work and not at my house. Weird. It's supposed to rain all day today and tomorrow. I can't wait for the summer now. Yeah right that's what I say now ;-)
God's Trade-In Plan
"He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it."
Matthew 10:39
