Summer Break...

Is officially over. The boys are down stairs playing Guitar Hero and I'm in the office getting Ethan's' backpack ready for his first day of fourth grade. **HOLY CRAP** I remember fourth grade! Seriously, he has got to stop growing up so fast!!!!

I've been out of work since July 10th and really thought I would be bored out of my mind by now and it hasn't happened yet. But I have a feeling with both of them gone for hours a day it won't take long. I have a few weeks left before I start babysitting and I can't wait. So these next few weeks will be my test.

Over the break Ethan and I have kept busy. While Lani was in the hospital we spent most of our days with her so she wouldn't be by herself. We had a million errands to run and then we did a few projects around the house:

*We built shelves for my garage, and we only have half of it left. I've got a decent pile of stuff for Goodwill.

*We washed and cleaned up old baby stuff. So everything is sorted by age.

*And we've cleaned.cleaned.cleaned! That is one thing I'm hugely proud of. I love a clean house and I love that I can actually keep it that way (for now that is).

Relief

This past weekend after a week full of stress about work, money, and life in general....Jared and I came to the conclusion that no matter what happens we will always have each other and is what is important. Then I got some much needed belly rubs from him and I was all smiles! He is my rock and always puts things into perspective for me. I'm the luckiest girl in the world :)

We had our 6 month ultrasound and the baby is a mover and a shaker! He/she would NOT stay still. Ethan and I got a quickie glance at him/her...face, heart, ribs, hiccups...and since we didn't want to know the sex the rest was a blur. I go back in 3 weeks for another appointment but the doctor said everything looked good. Before leaving I asked the nurse if it was common for people to not find out the sex and she said that she could only remember 3 within the past few years. Everyone thinks I'm crazy for not finding out but I want that 2 second supprise at the end after the first cry. To me that is worth it.

Soapbox!

I just got off the phone w/ my credit card company and apparently because we have been such a good customer they raised out interest rate 7.9%. We had the option to cancel our card back in May and then we could have avoided the hike. Gee...how nice of them..I get the "You haven't done anything wrong but with the economy being the way it is, this is what we had to do. We sent the notice to everyone and your account is not the only one affected." So because they suck and the credit companies and banks screwed up they are making the 'good' customers pay for it!

JumbLe VII

-I think I finally got my unemployment figured out. What a pain in the rear! I'm hoping that from now on all I have to do is file on Sundays and not worry about it. I tried to file on this past Sunday and it told me that I had to reopen the claim not once but twice. Then on Monday when I go to reopen my claim it tells me that I already have one and all I need to do is file my weekly claim!

-I really thought that staying at home would give me more time to relax. So far all I've done is run. With Lani being in and out of the hospital and trying to get house work done I haven't quite gotten there yet.

-My goal for the rest of this week is to finish my garage and have some of our old stuff removed. So technically I've got today and tomorrow, because Jared is off on Friday and not much gets done.

-I found a shelf for my down stairs bathroom. I've been looking for about a month and found it at Ross on Monday. I absolutely love it.

-My belly is starting to get big now. The baby is moving around like a mini kung fu person! I think he/she got the hiccups early this morning I forgot what that was like.

-Now that I am home I'm hoping that I don't gain to much weight. I am a snacker so I'm trying to keep it down to one snack a day and so far I think it's working. I've never been the skinny-tiny kinda girl, but after loosing 25 pounds last year I really don't want to battle that again. It's still embarrassing that I actually had 25 pounds to loose. It took me way to long to loose the extra baby weight from Ethan that I would love to be back to myself by New Years!