Family Living: Abbott Style

Everyone has their own reasons for joining the blog world. The Creative Blogger - This is the type of person that has some serious writing talent.  Blogging has become such a great way to use those creative skills.  Some may choose to do it for an audience, others choose to do it for themselves.  I certainly do not consider myself a creative blogger but I am lucky enough to have a select few on my reading list who are truly creative writers.  Their writing often provokes deep emotions and thought.  Some may inspire you to step back and look at a topic or situation in a new light.  Others are just plain entertaining. The Social Network Blogger- Social networking has been big for awhile now.  It has changed the way we connect and communicate with one another.  In some ways, it has improved our communication, in others I feel it has truly damaged how we treat one another (that's a whole other blog topic).  Blogging has become another way to ...

It's way to nice outside to be doing this so I am going to make this a quick one. I hate that I have to pee every ten minutes....until I go to the doctor and they tell me to pee in a cup--then I don't have to go.  Really? Doctor's appointment went well yesterday.  Not as scary as I had thought.  He says she seems comfortable where she is now, so don't expect her to come before the next few weeks.  He could feel her head so she is still head down, but not yet engaged.  I am measuring right on.  At this point, it is getting really exciting.  I know the end is near but I am not overly uncomfortable.  I'm actually enjoying feeling her squirm around since she seems way more active now that she is running out of room more and more each day. Breastfeeding class was amazing.  I learned so much.  Too much to even try to bore you with--but I highly recommend it.  To me, it was just more affirmation that God is truly a brillian...

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Wow, I am actually out of bed before 10:30 a.m.--that is impressive for me.  Today I am 37 weeks and 1 days pregnant.  That means I am 2 weeks and 6 days from my due date.  Crazy.  Next week, I HAVE to finish the odds and ends in preparing for the baby.  I still need to get car seats installed, pack hospital bags, and pick up a few things from the store.  I'm so ready to meet her and start my recovery back to a single souled vessel, but the reality of the life changes that are about to come are slowly sinking in.  I think no matter how physically ready we are, we could never fully prepare ourselves emotionally for what is to come. Today we have a doctors appointment.  This will be more uncharted territory for us--making me a little nervous.  From this point on, the doctor will be "checking" for dilation.  It's all very bittersweet, because as uncomfortable as I might be I understand that it means I am just that much...

On this beautiful Good Friday, my husband and I decided to do a little shopping.  I have been searching for nursing bras.  Not the most exciting thing to go shopping for, but we finally had some success at JCPenny.  Buy-one-get-one-half-off makes for one happy pregnant woman. Then we went to check out.  I guess they were running a coupon, spend $50 and get $10 off.  With my two nursing bras, my total was $40.00 so if I were to go pick out something for $10 I would basically get that item for free. Let me back track.  I am queen of cheap shoes.  In the winter, I generally rock flats.  I usually get my flats from Target on clearance, and I never spend more then $10/$15.  And for some reason, I will wear those shoes until I completely wear holes through them.  Then in the summer, I rock Old Navy's cheap rubber flip flops...one brown pair, and one black pair.  I'm not sure why, I have never been a huge shoe girl. ...

Remember how I was excited yesterday that we finished our rock garden.....well apparently Winston digs bigger and better holes when rock is present.  I had to call for him for about five minutes before he decided to leave the neighbors house via doggie door.......now what?  Ugh!

Sunny-side up is defined as an egg that is only fried on one side leaving the yellow of the egg facing upward. In pregnancy, sunny-side up (posterior) is a term used to describe the baby's position.  Since about 25 weeks, Haley has been locked in loaded head down which is fantastic news.  However, she has decided she would like to enter the world "sunny-side up" opposed to the typical face down position.  Another way to describe her position is that she is laying spine to spine with me rather than her front side to my spine (if that makes any sense at all).  Not a huge deal, just going to make labor that much more enjoyable.  The main thing is getting her out healthy, how it happens--I'll leave that in the doctor's hands.   And for the record, if little Haley is born with a cone head--we will still love her very much--and she will own lots of cute hats. We are right about 36 weeks which means, one more week and I am officially FULL T...