>weekend recap

>Our weekend was good, but we got no quality time together. It happens.
Yesterday, I started painting the stripes in the nursery. I really wanted to do polka dots but Josh was very against it. I decided that it's not that important to me so I just did it. If I'm totally honest, I don't love it. I hope I like it more once the chair rail is put in. Right now there is nothing breaking up the wall. I just don't know how I like the curtains with the stripes. I'll repaint before not using my curtains. I worked too hard on those and paint...well, that's an easy fix.

Last night, Nicholas (Josh's brother) spent the night. We went out to dinner and then we took him to the dirt track to watch the races. He enjoyed himself and so did we. He was very good; which is such a nice surprise. It rained all day here. The boys watched Shrek the third and I picked up some books from Barnes and Noble. One is just a baby name book. One is By Stephanie Cave. It's about child vaccinations, I picked up Babywise and The Best Birth. I've got a lot of reading to do. I printed all of my lessons for the first 9w of school and all of the laundry is done.

Here are some pics of the nursery

weekend recap

Our weekend was good, but we got no quality time together. It happens.
Yesterday, I started painting the stripes in the nursery. I really wanted to do polka dots but Josh was very against it. I decided that it's not that important to me so I just did it. If I'm totally honest, I don't love it. I hope I like it more once the chair rail is put in. Right now there is nothing breaking up the wall. I just don't know how I like the curtains with the stripes. I'll repaint before not using my curtains. I worked too hard on those and paint...well, that's an easy fix.

Last night, Nicholas (Josh's brother) spent the night. We went out to dinner and then we took him to the dirt track to watch the races. He enjoyed himself and so did we. He was very good; which is such a nice surprise. It rained all day here. The boys watched Shrek the third and I picked up some books from Barnes and Noble. One is just a baby name book. One is By Stephanie Cave. It's about child vaccinations, I picked up Babywise and The Best Birth. I've got a lot of reading to do. I printed all of my lessons for the first 9w of school and all of the laundry is done.

Here are some pics of the nursery

>Target is the devil!

>I just can't seem to go to target without spending at least $50. They had their summer baby stuff marked down 50% and I got some very cute stuff. They even had some stuff in the dollar spot (my favorite section). I picked up some Seventh Generation cleaning supplies too. It's part of my effort to be more green.

There aren't a lot of new things going on. My belly is constantly growing and I gained another pound. It only took 2 weeks. I still enjoy my daily popscicles. I don't think I will be giving those up anytime soon. The crib should be here Monday. I'm so excited to get it! The chair rail should go in this weekend. Josh vetoed polka dots under the rail, so I guess it will be stripes. Personally, the stripes are fine. It's just going to be a pain getting them right.


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Target is the devil!

I just can't seem to go to target without spending at least $50. They had their summer baby stuff marked down 50% and I got some very cute stuff. They even had some stuff in the dollar spot (my favorite section). I picked up some Seventh Generation cleaning supplies too. It's part of my effort to be more green.

There aren't a lot of new things going on. My belly is constantly growing and I gained another pound. It only took 2 weeks. I still enjoy my daily popscicles. I don't think I will be giving those up anytime soon. The crib should be here Monday. I'm so excited to get it! The chair rail should go in this weekend. Josh vetoed polka dots under the rail, so I guess it will be stripes. Personally, the stripes are fine. It's just going to be a pain getting them right.


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>Done.

>The furniture is ordered.

Done.

The furniture is ordered.

>Harley and his meds...

>My poor puppy. He has summer allergies and they cause skin irritations. He's so high maintenance. A friend told me to try putting the pill in peanut butter on bread. He loved it and took all of his meds with no problems. Here's a video...it's pretty funny.



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Harley and his meds...

My poor puppy. He has summer allergies and they cause skin irritations. He's so high maintenance. A friend told me to try putting the pill in peanut butter on bread. He loved it and took all of his meds with no problems. Here's a video...it's pretty funny.

>Pray for me.

>I let my mil get to me way too much. I really need devine intervention at this point. I just need to accept things that I can't change and stop trying so hard. It is very obvious that she is uninterested in things that don't revolve around her. As bad as it sounds, I need people to pray for me. Pray that I stop trying to include her. It only hurts me and lets me down. I don't really want to discuss it with Josh. I respect his feeling and relationship with her. I just hate feeling like I don't belong in their family. I don't know why I'm complaining; it's not like this is a new thing. She's always been self centered...I guess I was just hopeful that it would get better after we got married. Boy was I wrong.

On another note. I decided on furniture today and I will be ordering it tomorrow! I can't wait to get it!! I even found a free shipping code that will save me $100. I went back and forth between cherry and maple and decided that the cherry is prettier. If we have room in the nursery, I'm going to get the tall dresser too, but for now this is what he will have for his furniture. Now I just have to decide on a glider.





I've been very domestic today. I've vacuumed the whole house, including the basement. The kitchen is clean. AND all the laundry is done. Well, I have one more load. This is huge considering I did nothing last week b/c of those cramps. I cleaned the hardwood floors and dusted. I dont' know what's come over me.

Pray for me.

I let my mil get to me way too much. I really need devine intervention at this point. I just need to accept things that I can't change and stop trying so hard. It is very obvious that she is uninterested in things that don't revolve around her. As bad as it sounds, I need people to pray for me. Pray that I stop trying to include her. It only hurts me and lets me down. I don't really want to discuss it with Josh. I respect his feeling and relationship with her. I just hate feeling like I don't belong in their family. I don't know why I'm complaining; it's not like this is a new thing. She's always been self centered...I guess I was just hopeful that it would get better after we got married. Boy was I wrong.

On another note. I decided on furniture today and I will be ordering it tomorrow! I can't wait to get it!! I even found a free shipping code that will save me $100. I went back and forth between cherry and maple and decided that the cherry is prettier. If we have room in the nursery, I'm going to get the tall dresser too, but for now this is what he will have for his furniture. Now I just have to decide on a glider.





I've been very domestic today. I've vacuumed the whole house, including the basement. The kitchen is clean. AND all the laundry is done. Well, I have one more load. This is huge considering I did nothing last week b/c of those cramps. I cleaned the hardwood floors and dusted. I dont' know what's come over me.