when we arrived home from the hospital, we found that evan's parents had cleaned the entire house, done all our laundry and stocked up on groceries, which was awfully nice of them. the dogs were super excited to see us and were definitely interested to see what was in the car seat, but they were pretty gentle from the beginning. they starting ( Read more... )

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today is the first day where i've consciously wished i could have a break. i've had a stuffy nose for three or four weeks - at this point i have no idea if it's cold/allergy related or pregnancy related, but it's getting pretty old either way. my feet and ankles have been swollen for days, so much so that some of my shoes barely fit and most of ( Read more... )

i can't believe my last real update was almost two months ago! we've pretty much made good on our plan to accomplish at least a couple things each weekend ( Read more... )

most people who know me know that one of the major drawbacks of my job is that i sit at the front desk and act as both a concierge and the assistant manager. needless to say there is very little privacy here, and i just have to take my chances when i need to make a personal phone call. things were quiet, so i called prince william hospital to ( Read more... )

yesterday morning the building engineer called me and said, i think the pool house is on fire; call 911. there was an electrical fire and the roof burned out. one of our residents had her grandson and another little boy in the lobby after it was over. the boys are around three, and they were super excited and a little loud after seeing the fire ( Read more... )

last night evan and i had totinos pizzas for dinner. we've been eating those a lot lately. i caught up on some of my tv shows, and then we tried to go see taken at 8 pm. to my surprise, it was sold out! we stopped at giant on the way home since i was craving cake, and we each picked something out. we came home and ate our sweets and caught up ( Read more... )

evan and i agreed that after christmas, we would finally start tackling things on our mounting to do list. obviously there are lot of things relating directly to the baby - preparing the nursery, finding a pediatrician, looking into daycare options, taking child birth classes, touring the hospital, etc. there are a lot of other things we'd really ( Read more... )

i've had the plague for at least a week and a half now. the worst of it was last week, when i spent saturday through tuesday on the couch, using up every tissue in the house along with two or more rolls of toilet paper. i couldn't even rest because i couldn't breathe no matter how much nasal spray i snorted. i seem to finally be on the mend. i ( Read more... )