Ramblings of a Stay-at-Home Mom

What's Happening: Right now, I'm getting a bit impatient. I'm already bigger with this kid than I was with Violet at the end of my pregnancy with her. And this one just keeps on growing. Staying on my feet for an entire 8 hour shift at work has me hurting for a good day after that. Never mind that it feels like Baby has dropped a bowling ball in my pelvis, so standing for long periods of time make it worse. Luckily I only work weekends, so I have the rest of the week to relax a bit. Yes, the feet are swelling. I'm not much of a barefoot person in the house (ahem...thank you Violet for dropping food/crumbs/everything on the ground), but lately I've had to go barefoot as I've got indentations on my feet at the end of the day if I wear socks all day. Weight gain is still on the right track (only 25 lbs gained so far, with 9 weeks left), and no gestational diabetes! That drink still tastes HORRIBLE! Yuck! Cravings: Anything chocolate and fruit. Seriously. Although f...

Welcome to Week 5 of Project Life 2014 (January 26 - February 1, 2014) This week was a bit of a busy one. Keith got switched onto evening shift for 2 weeks due to some switch-ups at work and they needed someone competent to run the machine that he does. Which means that mine and Violet's usual daily routines got messed up a bit. Violet was happy that Daddy was home during the day, but not when she woke up from her afternoon nap. By Friday (or earlier) she had figured out that her nap time means that Daddy's gone when she wakes up. Keith had to take her into bed with him for almost an hour in so that she could get some quality time snuggling with him. She's not a big fan of huge changes. The Title Card is from Project Life Midnight Kit with miscellaneous letter stickers. I'm trying to be a bit more creative with my title cards, so if they look a bit weird (aka: not "cool"), I apologize. All the journal cards (minus the Currently card) are also from the Midnigh...