1. I love potatoes. Seriously need them to live. I don't care how you make them; mashed, scalloped, baked, fried, or in a salad. Currently we have baked potato spears and potato salad in our refrigerator and I think I'm in heaven.
2. I cannot stand red sauce. Since becoming pregnant red sauce just turns my stomach. We used to eat spaghetti all the time but now it grosses me out like no other.
3. In our entire marriage (1+ years) we have never really owned furniture. We have a love sac in the front room, two kitchen chairs (one of which I used to use as my desk chair for homework) and Stephen's computer chair. Then after moving to Texas we bought me a computer chair (and I love it!!) On Saturday we were given a couch!! I'm soo thrilled. It's really ugly and broken but we are currently re-upholstering it and I am so excited. It sat outside someone's house and it desperately needs some lovin' and boy do I have some lovin' to give!!
4. Because we needed to fix up the couch, we decided it was time to buy me a sewing machine!!! Again I am thrilled for it. Stephen has already decided that I need to make us some historical costumes for Halloween. We'll see how that goes.
5. I just started showing. Several women in church commented that I now have a baby-belly and I am thrilled!! Apparently though after five+ pregnancies you start to get to this point where you try to see how long you can go BEFORE anyone notices you are pregnant. I wanted to start showing right away but silly me, that's just because this is my first.
6. Recently I started being able to feel the baby move!! It's sooo exciting! I can feel him move on the outside now too, I just want Stephen to be able to feel it as well but he doesn't quite have the patience for it.
7. In addition to being sick from the pregnancy last week I got a head cold. Luckily I haven't been too sick, no fever or anything but I would rather not have it. It still hasn't exactly gone away. Monday night we decided to go out to eat, which we do maybe once every two weeks. We went to a buffet that was supposed to be pretty good however it made both of us sick. Stephen apparently has a stronger stomach than mine and after taking medicine was just fine. I however, took the same medicine and woke up at midnight ridiculously ill. In between my sickiness times while I was waiting for my stomach to calm down, little Stephen decided that he wanted to start moving all over the place. I was soo tired and yucky that I actually said out loud, "If you don't stop moving around you are going to be grounded!" What?!? I must have been out of my mind.
8. Stephen and I went and voted together. It was my first time voting for the president and I was pretty excited. It took us maybe twenty minutes all together and the whole thing was electronic which I thought was pretty cool. They didn't give out stickers which was quite disappointing. Isn't that the whole point of voting?!? Lame, but we did document our activity.
9. So we have started redoing the couch and really we've just gotten to the ripping it apart stage. However we did find $1.33, a black sock, the Bill card from Guess-Who, and a huge spider. The picture shows the new fabric (at the top of the picture, on the arm that's farthest away), the inside of the couch, and the old fabric that's the arm closest to the camera.
10. I hate it when people don't know how to correctly write monetary values. .25 cents does NOT mean a quarter, it actually means less that one cent. It should be written as $.25 or as just 25 cents.
11. I actually think of what to write in my posts while I am lying in bed and can't sleep.
12. Stephen has never really heard me sing. I used to not sing at all around him because I was so intimidated by his voice. Then I had a dream that I was at the hospital after giving birth and Stephen was coming with our two sons. The oldest one started singing a song and asked Stephen to sing with him, but Stephen had never heard the song before, so he asked our son where he had heard it from and our son said that mom sings it all the time and it kinda crushed Stephen that he had never heard me sing it. Weird? Yes. So I've gotten more comfortable singing around him, but he still has to catch me off guard such as listening by the bathroom door when I'm singing in the shower, or coming in quietly while I'm doing the dishes/laundry and singing.
13. When we were dating I used to listen to Stephen sing Love Online from his website multiple times a day.
14. Stephen has updated his website and you should totally check it out! http://www.stephenzank.com/ then click on music at the top, and from there you will find a black box and at the top of the box it says "Select a Category" I would select either Stephen Zank, or Four Crying Out Loud which was his a capella group in high school. I think it's fun to hear how different he sounds between the two.
15. One of the first things that I really liked about Stephen was his love for NPR. Growing up in our family we listened to NPR every Saturday, and I was so happy when I found someone who also listened to it. We were driving to San Diego and Stephen said that he wanted me to hear his favorite story teller and he put Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" on the radio from his I-pod. I then said that Garrison Keillor was alright, but my favorite show is "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" and Stephen then played that on the radio too. I can't describe how comforting that was to have someone who enjoyed that part of my life as well. We have listened to many episodes of "A Prairie Home Companion", "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me", and "Car Talk" since then.
16. We are lucky enough to be going to Phoenix this year for Christmas. I leave in 24 days and am thrilled to be going. Mom and I already have a list of things planned that we HAVE to do and I can't wait!!
2 comments:
Yay! I have lots to comment on, but I'm running out the door. I'm loving the couch!! Voting is awesome. Even on the second pregnancy you want to show right away. I can't believe you didn't call me and tell me about the baby moving. We can't wait to see you!!! I think Mom is trying to work it so that we don't get to see you at all. Save a few minutes for us ok?
We are thankful for you!
I also have way to much too comment on here, and am needing to run out the door too (silly sisters and their taking care of their children!!)! First of all, I had no clue about your whole potato thing. Good to know. I'll give in on the red sauce, though I first have to agree that it's weird. I will write this one off only because you are pregnant and so you have a "get out of jail free card" because of it. No spaghetti sauce? I'd die! I totally know what you mean about not owning furniture (though that love sac I will NEVER understand). I'm back at that point now that I've moved with 2 families into one house, my furniture was not as nice as everyone elses and so since it was crappy anyways it all got the boot. So, though my house has furniture, I don't own any of it (oh, except one toddler bed, one bunk bed, one bookcase, and a few toy chests-though do they count as furniture?). I love that you are refinishing that couch! You deserve a couch, and I love redoing stuff! I've been thinking about you not having a sewing machine. I'm so glad you are getting one!!! You will actually have time to sew on it, until baby #2 or #3. =) Having a baby bump is great, especially when others can see it too (and not just think you are getting fat, that they see it and know it's a pregnant belly!!). So much fun!! I couldn't wait to show with each of mine (though #2 and #3 I showed VERY quickly). I just hope you don't get ridiculously big like I did. People starting asking if I was due already at around 6 months preggo! Ha! My absolute favorite part of pregnancy (other than that I actually get a child out of it, which is obviously the BEST part) is feeling the baby move. I would have to say that most men don't have the patience to feel the baby move, especially in the beginning. So, don't get sad or disappointed in that! I don't know why it's not so amazing to them that they would stay there for an eternity (I sure would!!). It's just how it is (for some men). I love that your son is now grounded. It's good to know that you guys believe in discipline from the very beginning! =) LOVE LOVE LOVE that you voted!! I think it's a sham that you didn't get stickers, as that is the whole point!! I took pictures of myself and really only got a picture of my sticker (and the boob that it was stuck on...not in a bad way, as in above it on my shirt! Sheesh people!). I think I have written $.25 cents. Point taken. You are so right! You are reminding me of Dad's Uncle who would correct Grandma's letters to him! Gotta love when things like this get passed on in the genes! The singing thing is weird. I sing horribly and yet sing all the time, and even belt it out quite loudly. Luckily my children are too young to be embarrassed of me yet (well, one is just entering that stage and...well, it sucks!). OK last note is for NPR-totally great! I'd have to say I side with Stephen on Prairie Home Companion being my favorite. But as long as their all from NPR you're in the top percent! =) Ok that wasn't really the last note, this is-we all can't wait for your visit, either. I agree with Pollyanna that mother is plotting to keep you all to herself! I have even taken time off from school. So, I'll be more accessable for fun outings (just not during the day, but we can still party at my house during the day!! =) ). We all can't wait to touch your belly-without your permission! I'm not sure you've really experienced that yet. MMMmmm another fun thing to look forward to! =) Love Ya!!
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