4 years

Today is Chris and I's 4 yr wedding anniversay! Seems like so much longer.. I guess cause we dated for 8 yrs before we were married! LOL.. But I have to say it has been a wonderful 12 years! I never thought that you could love someone more every day. That you could truely enjoy being with someone all the time and want to hear about their day- good and bad. But I do. I really enjoy every momemt we get to spend together. Granted somedays are much harder than others to get in an adult conversation but after reading a friends Blog (thanks Jamie!) I think I might just start getting up earlier with him - I am not a morning person at all but I miss having him all to myself some days - and with E just 14 days away from joining us I worry we will only have less time for us if we dont develop a new schedule now!

So wish me luck! I'm going to try and get up before 7am! LOL

20 days!

Thats how many days I have left till lil E joins our family! I am so ready!! I am SO SO over working esp right now as one of our producers is about to get my big ol shrek foot up his rear!

Oh yea - did I tell you - my feet are huge!! like Shrek size - I am SO swollen I am wearing my Dh dog walking slip on shoes to work! How very sad is that? my normal size 8.5 or 9 is now in my DH 11's!! OY!

I am very hormonal today and just want to injure someone or go back to bed so I figured I'd come here real fast and say hello to you all and let you know I still love you I'm just crabby!

but for the grace of god I will only have to be this crabby for 20 more days!!!!!

Home Stretch

Only 28 more days till Lil Ethan joins the Cooke Clan! And I couldnt be happier! I am so ready for him to just be here- not that I dont love being pregnant but there are days I feel like such an island - size wise and in the sense that poor Chris is missing out on so much.. he doesnt get to feel the lil bumps and thumps that I think make a mothers bond so strong before the child is ever born.. I feel like I have this secret that no one else knows about..

I will also say that the Carpel tunnel, acid reflux, swelling, the being winded from tying my shoes and now possible Preclamsia (sp?) are not making me want to stay pregnant much longer! At least both of my boys have waited till the last minute to cause trouble - Jacob waited till 36 weeks before we realized I was diabetic and by then nothing could be done except monitor him and take him early.. Ethan waited till 33 weeks before he started with the Carpel tunnel and now I'm at 35 weeks with the possible diagnosis of preclamsia.. which I guess is just High blood pressure in pregnancy - I need to look it up some more.. everyone says its really dangerous but honestly I am not very worried - maybe I should be I just feel like everything will be ok.. I mean even my high BP rate was lower than some peoples normal BP - it was 160/70.. I just normally run about 100/60 so Dr was worried.. plus the swelling has him concerned. Oh well.. only 3 more weeks!!

finally over..

As much as I love the holidays I have to say I am so happy they are over! All that family togetherness starts to get to me after a while - not my direct family but my mom, my SIL and so on.. as much as I love them I have had my fill.. plus it seems all I have done all month was spend money and with the new one on the way that is the last thing we needed to be doing!

Lets see.. jacob turned 3 on the 16th and we had a small party at home for him that weekend - he as usual got more toys than one child needs esp a week before christmas but was so very cute all day I had to let him enjoy his special day even if no one but my dad and BIL sent checks as we have been asking in leiu of toys.. He got some great new batman toys and cars and ran around all day in his batman mask and I swear he is so darn cute some days I just dont know what to do!

Then we had Christmas eve at my sister and BIL's house big dinner with presents for the kids and an adult chinene gift swap which was fun and Jacob was with a baby for the 1st time - my friend Alisa just had a baby in Nov and she brought him to dinner and Jacob was SO sweet and gentle, gave me such a glimmer of hope for how he will be with Ethan.

We were up till 1 am Christmas night wrapping gifts cause as usual I waited till teh last minute to do anything - poor Chris was up till 3am cause he couldnt wrap mine while I was up and then he was to wired to go to sleep. and Jacob crawled into our bed at 7am and must have walked right by the tree loaded with gifts but never even noticed it Chris told him it was Christmas and he 1/2 opened his eyes and then Chris said Santa had been there and his eyes shot open like bullets! he couldnt wait to get out of bed.. so Chris went out 1st and got the camera ready and then jacob and I left the room together. We opened our gifts to each other and then waited on the rest of our family to get there for breakfast and more gifts. everyone was gone by 1:30 and we just sat around the rest of the day - no big dinner or anything since we had a big breakfast

Boxing Day we went to my SIL house for dinner (roast, potatos, ect..) it was very good.. and more friends and family were there.. just hung out and pulled names for the NY stockings we exchange every year.

I had the week between xmas and new years off and spent it running errands, doing business stuff, and trying very hard to get organized! Then New years day we had a brunch at our house to do teh Stocking swap - again just more family and friends and although it was nice I was really over everyone telling Jacob what to do and how to be by the end of the day.

I have resolved to just start telling people off when they correct my child - if I am right there and dont think what he is doing is bothersome you have no right to correct him - butt out! if you want to correct kids go have your own!! He is 3 - I am picking my battles and quite frankly he is a great lil kid! so whatis he is loud some times - he is THREE and it is HIS house! he should have to be quiet as a church mouse so you can hear whats going on in the other room! Even he had had enough and when he was being corrected for the 100th time he said "stop it" and I couldnt help but laugh - but then again that is what made me resolve to stand up for him more - who cares if people think I am being a wench? HE needs to know I am always on his side!

Thanksgiving Pt 2

Part two...

My husbands Brother and his family were here for Thanksgiving this year and it was the 1st time I had ever met BILs wife and the two kids - mind you they have been married for 16+ years and the kids are 14 and 13.. long story but all is well with the family again! :O)

So the day before Thanksgiving my SIL and I spend they day just tinkering at the house - scrapbooking and cooking what we can ect.. we got these really cool pans made of like paper you throw away and can be heated in the microwave or oven up to 425. well we thought these things were just amazing and must have commented 100 times on how cool they were and so long as you didnt go over 425 ect ect ect.. SIL made her Yams (from scratch!) and placed them in one of these nifty pans so they were ready to reheat in the micro then top and bake the next day - again we were just so impressed by this multi functional pan!

Thanksgiving day comes and we throw the Yams in the micro to warm them so they will take less time in the oven - they come out of the micro and SIL makes this amazing topping of butter, marshmellows, brown sugar and special K cereal. I have never had Yams and am drooling at the thought of eating these! We pop it in the oven and go about the business of carving the turkey ect.. well fast forward 30 min and all the other sides are ready to come out of the oven and dinner is ready to be served but the yam topping is still not crunchy. SO I look at SIL and say - what if we Broil it for like 2 min - that should crisp it up .. we both agree and set the broiler and the timer so we dont forget it - we check it after 2 min and its still not quite there - so we agree 2 more min and it should be perfect.. set the timer walk away.. well at this point I get as far as the dining room and go "OH CRAP" I walk back to the oven just in time to see smoke billiowing out of my brand new stove (just had this house built!) and open the door and the yams are on fire!! it is at this point that my SIL comes runing into the room looks in the oven and says "just shut the door it will put itself out" well now she and I are laughing so hard we are on the floor! mind you fire is still blazing! our husbands come rushing in and see us in a bent over stupor on the floor and quickly move to get the fire put out - all the while dying laughing at the two of us taking pictures and now video cause the smoke, the sound of the detectors and the two of us just loosing it was way to funny to not get on live action tape! So needless to say I adore my SIL and thinks she fits right in!!

my Mother in law

In my recount of Thanksgiving this year I mentioned I had a few great stories for you - well in order to get to the best one I must start off with a little back story so you can appriciate the new one..

About 5 years ago my MIL and SIL were living with my DH and I - we had just had a brand new house built in South Florida when my mother in law (MIL) and her Great aunt with whom she was living had a falling out. MIL was going to go live with my sister in law (SIL) in Virginia but it was at that exact moment that my SIL lost her job.. now we have 2 homeless relatives on our hands - and lucky us we had 2 spare rooms.. SO MIL and SIL move in with us into our brand new house we had only been in for 2 weeks. I was not thrilled at this prospect but what can you do - they needed us and we are family.

My MIL is a bit of a drinker.. and that my friends is the understmt of the century - I am sure my recycle guy thought I was a booze hound! So while my SIL tried all day to find work my MIL would drink and read and basically take up space.

SO.. one night DH, SIL and I all go to the gym together and call the house to ask MIL to place a frozen pizza in the oven as we are on our way home and just famished.. now this is the point in the story it is important to know I have low blood sugar and me with out food is not a very pleasent scenerio. .. so as soon as I hang up the phone my SIL says did you tell her what to do - and I say yea I told her to put the pizza in the oven.. SIL gets this worried look on her face and I say what - she says.. nevermind.. so I dont think another thing about it.. until of course I open the door o my BRAND NEW HOUSE and am greated by something out of a freaking Chiech and Chong movie! Smoke is billowing out of the stove and people let me set this up for you.. MIL's back is to the oven at the breakfast table she has a book in one hand a glass of wine in the other and is NOT affected in the least by the smoke around her! I immediatly do what any saine person would do - go to the oven and open it up at that point the smoke detectors go off and I can see the pizza is on FIRE! I yell to my DH - It's on fire! and MIL never looks up from her book and says - "just shut the door it will put itself out." calm as can be! I look at my DH, shut the oven door and simply said "fix it" and walk into my bedroom and shut the door as I know I am about to say something I will never be able to take back to my MIL

After about 20 minutes I come out of my room and begin to pry the pizza MIL had stuck directly onto the oven grate off and make a bowl of cereal for dinner.. needless to say since this day "Just shut the door, it will put itself out" has become quite the catch phrase.... and that my friends is all you need to know for tomorrows post! LOL

Time out Daddy!

This morning as I am getting dressed and ready for work and just enjoying the fact that the high today is only 65!! I start to make a cup of coffee (yes decaf) and as soon as I take a sip I hear my sweet child yell "GET BACK HERE YOU MOTHER FUCKER!" and then see him chasing our dog who has apparently stolen some toy from Jacobs room.

ok calm down.. yes I spit my coffee all over me, yes I had to go change my shirt.. I call Jacob over to me and I say "WHAT did you just say" he places his hands on his hips and says "what?" I say "what did you just yell at the dog?" he says "Mother Fucker" I am now just beside myself and not sure if I laugh or yell or just cry! I say " sweetie I dont know where you heard that but we DO NOT say that word in this house" again my sweet child looks right at me and says "daddy does" again I am about to loose it but instead I begin to explain to him that Daddy is now in time out and will be for a long time and we DO NOT under any circumstances repeat what we hear daddy say..

oh man is Daddy ever in time out for this one!