Archive for April, 2011

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10 Weeks

April 19, 2011

No hiding that I’m PG at this point.  Crazy how early that belly has taken over.

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How far along: 10 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +8 lbs
Maternity clothes: A lot of the time.  I squeezed myself into “normal” clothes today.  Not pretty.
Stretch marks: Nothing new
Sleep: Like a rock
Movement: Not yet.  I still have phantom baby kicks which messes with my head, but they are much higher than where my uterus is currently located.
Food cravings: I don’t really have cravings.
Food aversions: Doing a bit better here with the proteins.  I even ate some chicken for lunch today.
Gender: I have no idea.
Belly Button in or out: In.
What I miss: My kitty 😦
What I am looking forward to: Spending time outside w/ LO.  We went outside with bubbles this weekend.  So much fun!

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Sad weekend

April 18, 2011

One of our cats passed away. We weren’t expecting it at all.  She was only 9 years old and in perfect health as far as we knew.  Nothing was out of the ordinary.  She was acting like her normal self.  She greeted my dad at the door on Friday.  She was playful as usual on Friday night.  She had started to pay extra attention to me like she normally does when I’m pregnant and had spent some time “grooming” me on Friday night and then slept with us.  We saw her playing Saturday morning while we ate breakfast.  We went upstairs for showers and Shawn made several trips up and down.  He went downstairs to put our jeans in the dryer, and there she was on the stairs.  Not breathing.  She looked like she had been playing or coming up the stairs and had just stopped and fallen over.  There were no signs of distress.  She was just gone.

I’d known Simba longer than I’ve known Shawn.  She was a long time friend.  Always there to cheer me up or share my joy.

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Couponing experiment

April 15, 2011

From time to time I get a wild hair and decide that I’m going to clip coupons.  Usually I clip from one Sunday paper and give up.  Well, this time I’m a little more serious.  As most people have, we’ve seen our grocery bills gradually creep up as various prices are impacted by the high cost of transportation.  I don’t have lofty couponing goals.  All I want is to get our bills back to what they used to be.  So, I started reading some couponing blogs and started trying to figure out how people make this work.  And as a little bit of motivation, I took a couple deals that I found in one of the blogs and tested it out today.

Using the tips from here:

http://thekrazycouponlady.com/2011/04/11/got2b-styling-products-only-0-50-at-walgreens/

and here:

http://thekrazycouponlady.com/2011/04/11/schick-hydro-razor-only-1-50-at-walgreens/

I got the following at Walgreens today:
Got2Be Smooth Operator Smoothing Hairspray (regular price $5.99)
Got2Be Smooth Operator Smoothing Lustre Lotion (regular price $5.99)
Schick Hydro 5 Razor w/ 2 Cartridges (regular price $9.99)
Schick Hydro 5 Razor w/ 2 Cartridges (regular price $9.99)

I got all of that (regular price total 31.96 not including tax) for $11.97 including tax.  Plus, I got a $5 coupon at the register good for any future Walgreens purchase.

Holy crap this might take a bit of work but it might be worth it.  Scoping some blogs I already found that Nivea Body Wash goes on sale at Target on Sunday for $3.04, plus there will be a manufacturer’s coupon in the paper for $3 off, meaning you can get it for $.04!!!  That’s the exact body wash I have in the shower right now.

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9 weeks (2 days)

April 14, 2011

How far along: 9 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +6 lbs (no change from last week)
Maternity clothes: Sometimes.  I kind of hate them already, LOL
Stretch marks: Nothing new
Sleep: Like a rock
Movement: Not yet.
Food cravings: I don’t really have cravings.
Food aversions: Having a hard time with most proteins.  Chicken, beef, pork, cheese, yogurt.
Gender: I have no idea.
Belly Button in or out: In.
What I miss: Wine
What I am looking forward to: Trip to Mexico in 3 weeks 🙂

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8 weeks (1 day)

April 6, 2011

Mondays just aren’t a good blogging day for me so these will probably perpetually be 1 day behind.

Here are my 8 week belly pics.  I don’t seem to be puffing up too much more yet.

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And for the heck of it a picture of the monkey concentrating really hard on his legos 🙂

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Thinking that maybe I’ll do the pregnancy survey thing this time around, so here it goes.

How far along: 8 weeks
Total weight gain/loss: +6 lbs.  Already.  EEEEEK.
Maternity clothes: Sometimes.  Might as well, right?
Stretch marks: Nothing new
Sleep: Like a rock
Movement: Not yet.
Food cravings: I don’t really have cravings.
Food aversions: Having a hard time with most proteins.  Chicken, beef, pork, cheese, yogurt.
Gender: I have no idea.
Belly Button in or out: In.
What I miss: Wine
What I am looking forward to: Right now?  Exercising outside.

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