The Most Wonderful Women In Blogiverse

Monday I woke up to a complete surprise that caught me off guard and speechless. MommaK, Raehan, Mistress Mary, Lucinda and J&J’s Mom threw me a Blog world baby shower! How cool and thrilling and exciting is that? It was Ubercool! These women are the sweetest, dearest women I have ever met on or off line. The internet has been so very good to me by allowing such warm hearted beautiful women to come into my life. You all have no idea who much I admire you, want to be like you, wish I could write like you. You inspire me, give me reason to laugh, warm my heart clear down to my cockles and can bring a tear to my eye without trying. I am in love with each and every one of you. I want to thank you each personally and set about trying to that earlier this week. But I got side tracked and interupted. No I did not get the babies room painted yet. *sad face* I went to the doctor for my now weekly visit. He hasn't given me a reason to like him. Instead of picking a date just before my due date and getting it over with (as my other doctor in Ga has always done) because near the end I begin to swell and bloat feel like shyte and its gross and takes me a longer time to recover from it he has deemed that he will not consider inducing until i am PAST the due date and then it is an iffy thing. Needless to say as I have been increasingly moody and have had a shitty attitude that gets shittier by the minute he realized my mood and called me moody. I corrected him by saying I was not moody I simply had a very bad attitude that would be getting worse as we approached the end. Steven has taken to calling me Grumpy Gertie. So Wednesday I had this bright idea to have chinese takeout for lunch and we could have the leftovers for supper later. I was carefull and ordered the chicken with string beans for myself. It has nothing sweet in it and is a very straight forward stir fry with no sauces. Colby had the beef and broccoli, Steven the General Tso Chicken and Gracie the shrimp lo mein. Colby and I shared ours. I had about 1/4 cup of rice and healping of lo mein. OMG _HUGE_ GIANT_ mistake of all time. It knocked me for a loop and off my ass for two (count them 1, 2) whole days. My blood sugar which I had been monitoring and was perfect, indicating as the doctor agreed that I am not gestational diabetic I just can't tolerate wheat and other grains well, went through the roof. I drank gallons of water to flush my system. I felt like I was dying. Sick sick sick like I had been beaten and thrown out of a car onto the curb. It was bad. No more chinese takeout from that place for me. No one else was sick. So by the time Friday roled around I realized how many days had passed since I had posted, checked email or otherwise made contact with all the beautiful people who had thrown me a baby shower and sent all the lovely guests to visit me. I apologize to you all. I have just been a mess. We went today looking for the car seat/stroller combination perfect for us and our baby. Because we really need to have a carseat opr when the baby is born they won't let us leave the hospital without one. We found one at Walmart that Steven liked well enough but hated the wheels on it. We purchased it anyway knowing that we could return it should we find something better to his liking. It really didn't matter to me as long as it has nothing with cutesy Disney crap on it. Why is almost EVERYTHING covered in Disney patterns? Those things are fine for 20 somethings and first time baby makers but by age 40 you are so over that stage. sorry to those of you who adore the cutesy Disney stuff. I just AIN'T into it. Never have been either. We then headed over to ToysRUs/BabiesRUs. Immediately we found the perfect combination "traveling system" having read all of the reviews on Amazon of what not to buy and things people agreed they "hated it!". We chose this lovely item - the Profile Travel System in the Tahoe print. Steven liked all the features and the feel of its handling, the way the seat sat on the base, the quality of the buckles and car seat belts, etc. I like the color. It matches my Excursion - ha, lame way to choose a car seat and stroller, huh? When I checked my email I found a gift certificate from all the lovely women and guests who gave me the baby shower so we sat down and took inventory of things we needed and wanted and we went shopping online this evening. Thank you all so very much. Each and every time we use these items I will think of you and smile. You all never fail to surprise me. This is the list of items I ordered this evening. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being so kind to me and this baby. Contoured Changing Pad, Changing Pad Cover, Ultimate Wipe Warmer, Diaper Champ, Large Swaddle Me Microfleece Blanket, SwaddleMe Adjustable Newborn Fleece Wrap - Ivory, Koala Baby - Knit Crib Sheet - White, Posh Pouch Infant Car Seat Cover, and Baby Call Nursery Monitor - 27 Channel Now, after I have supper I will be visting each one of you and catching up on everything I have missed in a week. In the mean time I do know of two women who were finalists in the Best of Blogs awards. Let me see, here, I have 8 machines in this house so techinally unless every one of them is networked and shouldn't show a different IP I could go around this evening and vote for you two gals on each machine. Sounds like a plan to me. Time to eat. See you all very soon. :-) BTW, Lucinda ... the hoo ha story I did read, you kill me!!! I nearly busted a gut! Updated to add: I am ignoring all of you who predicted I am having a 9#+ baby. The doctor says he predicts a 7 1/2 - 8lb baby. And - The crib I had planned on ordering for the baby (Aspen Stages Cherry 4-in-1) -RECALLED!! Now I have to look and hunt and search for another perfect cherry crib with matching dresser. Arrgghhhh! I think we may end up with the simple Jenny Lind crib and matching changing table that is sitting in my attic from when Gracie was a baby.