So I've been feeling an odd little sensation in my baby bump today. Could it be the baby moving around? Perhaps. Of course, I took to the interwebs to see what's what. The general consensus is that most women carrying their first child won't feel any definitive movements until at least 16 weeks. For women who have been pregnant before, they are more equipped to tell much earlier (at 13 weeks) the difference between baby motion and gas.
Well, I'm 13 weeks this week (almost 14, can you believe it?) and I swear this isn't gas. It isn't much, just a light fluttering like butterfly wings. I'm choosing to believe it's our little potato (that's what Susan's dad calls it - he refers to me as Potato since I live in Idaho).
In other news, not much else to report. Morning sickness is completely gone. It's too early to start doing stuff with the nursery at this point, but I have begun registering for the more generic items we'll need. The room that will become the nursery is a bit of a disaster, so we're going to start working on getting it cleaned out and organized a bit ahead of schedule.
We're still adjusting to Nick's new schedule. He's not home before 9:00 at night any more, so my nights are sort of lonely. However, I've been tapped to help Susan prepare for a Scentsy event she's having next weekend (I'm making some flyers and samples) so that'll keep me busy.
Well, I guess that's it! Like I said, not too much exciting happening just yet!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Money Honey
I have a lot of thoughts running through my head at any given point throughout the day (and occasionally interrupting my sleep). Our lives are about to change in a big way, so it's pretty normal that I have questions and concerns and "how in the heck am I gonna...?"'s.
The biggest thing that weighing on my mind right now is the cost of daycare. There's a daycare right in the same parking lot as my work, which hello, is SO convenient. The owner was over at work the other day, asking if she could park her van in our spaces this weekend because the Challenger school is having an open house. I ran up and asked her what they charge for infants.
$170/WEEK.
That's $680/MONTH.
That's more than HALF my house payment.
I felt like crying. It was also that day that I found out from our HR department that my work only has a long term disability policy - no short term - and therefore I can't use any of those benefits for maternity leave. FMLA says I get 12 weeks off, but it's unpaid. I have just over a week of vaca/sick saved, but I can't accrue any more vaca until I take some. I'm maxed.
The daycare lady did say that if they're at capacity, she could offer me a discount (we do her insurance), so that's something. I've been seriously tossing around the idea of Nick reducing his hours to part time (he's on my insurance anyway) and he can stay home with the baby during the day and work only on the nights he hasn't got school. I kind of hate the idea, because I want to be the one that stays home - but the harsh reality is that I make more money than he does (his work truly blows) and while he's been sending out his resume like mad, no one is freaking HIRING. We simply can't afford for me to not work at this point, but I think with some clever budgeting that we could get by on my salary and a part time one for him. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that some fantastic job lands in Nick's lap before the baby comes....
I got my first baby gifts this week!! Susan sent me a box chock-full of bottle brushes, spoons, food containers, a dishwasher cage for bottle parts, a cosmetic type bag to use in the diaper bag for misc baby paraphernalia and.....I'm drawing a blank. I think that was it. The bag is SO dang cute, I can't wait to put it to use. We've started registering for some generic stuff that isn't really decided by gender (we're registered at Babies R Us so far). July can't get here fast enough - I'm dying ot know if my feelings are right (I think girl) or if Nick's right. Either way, I don't care if it's a boy or a girl, I just want to KNOW. Either way, we're having a freak. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. But I am having a tall, large footed child. I feel bad that we're passing on these genes. Perhaps they'll get some of Anne's genes and be petite. We can hope for that.
The biggest thing that weighing on my mind right now is the cost of daycare. There's a daycare right in the same parking lot as my work, which hello, is SO convenient. The owner was over at work the other day, asking if she could park her van in our spaces this weekend because the Challenger school is having an open house. I ran up and asked her what they charge for infants.
$170/WEEK.
That's $680/MONTH.
That's more than HALF my house payment.
I felt like crying. It was also that day that I found out from our HR department that my work only has a long term disability policy - no short term - and therefore I can't use any of those benefits for maternity leave. FMLA says I get 12 weeks off, but it's unpaid. I have just over a week of vaca/sick saved, but I can't accrue any more vaca until I take some. I'm maxed.
The daycare lady did say that if they're at capacity, she could offer me a discount (we do her insurance), so that's something. I've been seriously tossing around the idea of Nick reducing his hours to part time (he's on my insurance anyway) and he can stay home with the baby during the day and work only on the nights he hasn't got school. I kind of hate the idea, because I want to be the one that stays home - but the harsh reality is that I make more money than he does (his work truly blows) and while he's been sending out his resume like mad, no one is freaking HIRING. We simply can't afford for me to not work at this point, but I think with some clever budgeting that we could get by on my salary and a part time one for him. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that some fantastic job lands in Nick's lap before the baby comes....
I got my first baby gifts this week!! Susan sent me a box chock-full of bottle brushes, spoons, food containers, a dishwasher cage for bottle parts, a cosmetic type bag to use in the diaper bag for misc baby paraphernalia and.....I'm drawing a blank. I think that was it. The bag is SO dang cute, I can't wait to put it to use. We've started registering for some generic stuff that isn't really decided by gender (we're registered at Babies R Us so far). July can't get here fast enough - I'm dying ot know if my feelings are right (I think girl) or if Nick's right. Either way, I don't care if it's a boy or a girl, I just want to KNOW. Either way, we're having a freak. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. But I am having a tall, large footed child. I feel bad that we're passing on these genes. Perhaps they'll get some of Anne's genes and be petite. We can hope for that.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Baby Blabber
So last night I created a Wish List on iTunes for songs I want to put together on a little play list for the nursery. So far I have an Enya album, Jewel's new Lullaby album and some Baby Einstein instrumental songs. Here's the think to my wish list if any of you (wink, wink, nudge nudge) feel the urge to gift me some songs from it. Note: you have to have iTunes installed to view the list.
I'm finding it's hard to decide what I want to start planning for with the baby because we don't know what we're having yet. July could not get here fast enough. I found a bedding set I really like for a little girls room - here - but nothing is really jumping out at me for a boy's room. I'm not interested (so far) in the traditional animals or sports or fire engines or dogs or planes or whatnot.
I told the work yesterday the news. They're all excited and I have another offer to make a quilt.
Well, I guess that's really all the news from Casa Beesley. Nothing much exciting to report, just more of the same. :-)
I'm finding it's hard to decide what I want to start planning for with the baby because we don't know what we're having yet. July could not get here fast enough. I found a bedding set I really like for a little girls room - here - but nothing is really jumping out at me for a boy's room. I'm not interested (so far) in the traditional animals or sports or fire engines or dogs or planes or whatnot.
I told the work yesterday the news. They're all excited and I have another offer to make a quilt.
Well, I guess that's really all the news from Casa Beesley. Nothing much exciting to report, just more of the same. :-)
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The cat's out of the bag
I haven't been blogging much. I've had a secret that I've been keeping to myself and I just couldn't think of anything else to blog about so I just didn't.
For any of you that read my blog that haven't already heard the news, we're expecting! Baby Beesley should make his or her appearance some time around December 16th. We're so very excited! We wanted to wait until 12 weeks before sharing with pretty much everyone, just to be safe. I've been trying to follow all the rules, so far the hardest thing has been giving up Subway (see here to learn about listeria and why it's bad for pregnant women).
Anyway, aside from that news, we've also bought a new car. We traded in my slowly but surely falling apart Lancer for a spiffy new Ford Fusion. It's a nice and safe car (and it's FANCY - it has a sunroof and it has that Microsoft Sync so it talks to me like Kit). We were on the warpath to get an SUV or small truck, something with 4 wheel drive that we could use camping, but in the end safety won.
Nick finished his Spring quarter with great grades - about a 3.5 GPA (an A, a B & a B+). Summer quarter starts June 8th and goes through August 30th. Graduation should be right about then, so we'll be having some sort of party to celebrate. Then it's 1 and a half more years for his Bachelors and he's all done!
I've also decided to set aside Scentsy for now. I just don't have the motivation to spend on building it and now with the baby coming, I'd rather spend my free time planning for baby than planning for Scentsy. If any of you still want stuff and don't want to find a new local consultant, my bestie Susan sells out in Ohio and she'd love to be your consultant. Just let me know & I'll hook you up with her. :-)
The weather is getting HOT here. It's been mostly in the 90s for about 2 weeks now. We did go camping over Memorial Day weekend and had pretty nice weather. It did rain almost all night on Saturday but the other days were great. Hopefully I'll be up to more camping as the summer goes on.
Well, for a month of not posting, I guess there isn't much to say. Now that the news it out, I'll be better about blogging and sharing my pregnancy journey with you.
For any of you that read my blog that haven't already heard the news, we're expecting! Baby Beesley should make his or her appearance some time around December 16th. We're so very excited! We wanted to wait until 12 weeks before sharing with pretty much everyone, just to be safe. I've been trying to follow all the rules, so far the hardest thing has been giving up Subway (see here to learn about listeria and why it's bad for pregnant women).
Anyway, aside from that news, we've also bought a new car. We traded in my slowly but surely falling apart Lancer for a spiffy new Ford Fusion. It's a nice and safe car (and it's FANCY - it has a sunroof and it has that Microsoft Sync so it talks to me like Kit). We were on the warpath to get an SUV or small truck, something with 4 wheel drive that we could use camping, but in the end safety won.
Nick finished his Spring quarter with great grades - about a 3.5 GPA (an A, a B & a B+). Summer quarter starts June 8th and goes through August 30th. Graduation should be right about then, so we'll be having some sort of party to celebrate. Then it's 1 and a half more years for his Bachelors and he's all done!
I've also decided to set aside Scentsy for now. I just don't have the motivation to spend on building it and now with the baby coming, I'd rather spend my free time planning for baby than planning for Scentsy. If any of you still want stuff and don't want to find a new local consultant, my bestie Susan sells out in Ohio and she'd love to be your consultant. Just let me know & I'll hook you up with her. :-)
The weather is getting HOT here. It's been mostly in the 90s for about 2 weeks now. We did go camping over Memorial Day weekend and had pretty nice weather. It did rain almost all night on Saturday but the other days were great. Hopefully I'll be up to more camping as the summer goes on.
Well, for a month of not posting, I guess there isn't much to say. Now that the news it out, I'll be better about blogging and sharing my pregnancy journey with you.
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