It's Back! Not Me! Monday

MckMama on her blog has taken a 6 week hiatus from Not Me Monday due to a serious hospitalization for her youngest bambino. Good news is that her youngest is home and doing well, so Not Me Monday is back in the saddle.

Let me refresh your Not Me Monday memories! This is the opportunity to tell on yourself with brutal honestly and then simply wash it all away by saying that it was not you! Being honest is good for the soul and then allowing the blog world to share it with you is even more therapeutic! Here goes:

I am definitely NOT relishing in the fact that every light in my house is on right now! My tree hugger husband is away for the evening and will not come behind me turning off every darn blasted light:)

I definitely did not choose to leave the bed unmade this morning because I knew I would jump right back in it after preschool:)

I definitely did not get my picture taken for the local paper in an 8 year-old maternity shirt from Sears!! Just because I am super pregnant does not mean that I should not care about my appearance:)

I definitely did not make a chocolate cake yesterday because it was my favorite and then blame it on nesting. (I will publish the recipe in a later blog post because frankly it is too good to keep a secret!)

I definitely did not lose my temper with my sweet grandmother who continually calls my cell phone thinking it is my home number. She gets so aggravated that I do not call her back but that is because she is calling the wrong number!!!! I even had her write the correct number down and during preschool this morning my phone rang and guess who it was-my grandmother!!!!

Oh, I feel so much better!! Confession is good for the soul. Go ahead, confess your Not Me Mondays and lets all feel better!!!!:)

Sweet legs

This picture totally melts my heart:) David is planning to play Tball this summer on Daddy's team, and he is SO EXCITED! We recently bought his first pair of cleats and when I brought them home for him to try on, he refused to take them off and insisted to wear them to Kyle's baseball game. David's legs have always been so sweet to me, and coupled with these tough big boy cleats just does me in!

This weekend has been blessedly low key with rainy weather. We watched Marley and Me as a family last night and I have been trying to recover from allergies/sinus infection. I am struggling not with pregnancy but with allergies. Friday night we went to Kyle's baseball game and by the time we got home I could barely breathe. I just caved and bought some Claritin and pray that it will help:) I hate to take any medicine while pregnant, but I think it is more harmful to baby Girl for mommy to not be able to breathe than to take a medicine that my OB has cleared for me to take.

I will post some baseball pics of Kyle later on this week as well as some pics of the March of Dimes Walk that we got to participate in yesterday. (Well let me clarify- Mike and Kyle walked and David, Baby Girl, and I socialized and left before the walk!) What a neat experience since Mike was chosen to be the honorary chair of the event. Meeting the ambassador families and seeing how tiny these babies were at birth and how well they are thriving now was amazing to see. It was a great event and we got our picture taken for the paper:( I told the camera lady from the paper that I thought I was too pregnant for a photo op, and she not only disagreed but she even made me stand sideways in the picture so my baby belly would show! Uggh-I might just leave the paper in the box this week:)

We are coming oh so close on a name for Baby Girl and I cannot wait to share it when we finalize!!!:)

Wild Ride

The term "wild ride" can easily sum up our month of May. Our calendar is full of evening meetings and out of town trips for Mike-his job is definitely in high gear this time of year. Kyle's baseball and swimming schedule is full but tons of fun for us as a family, we are going through the IEP and triennial process for David now which equates out to lots of meetings to get David a solid plan for next year, and I am desperately trying to finish preschool having all my lessons plans checked off before the end of the year.

Some mornings I just want to bury my head when Mike sweetly wakes me up every morning. I am officially to that stage of this pregnancy when I am feeling Baby Girl's every move and quite frankly I feel very pregnant. I am still having contractions pretty much daily BUT thankfully they are not worrisome to my doctor.

Despite the wild ride this next month possibly could be, I am trying so hard to relish every movement Baby Girl makes instead of complaining how often I am in the bathroom! I am trying so hard to relish this time as a family of four before we become an even busier family of five. Even though I feel super pregnant and really uncomfortable I know that this time will also slip away quickly. I never want to forget the amazing feeling of having a baby tenderly roll in your womb.

I went and visited my friend Samantha's newest addition, Baby B and could barely give him back after I held him for a long time. If he had not needed his Mommy for eating time, who knows how long I would have sat there and held him. There is nothing like a newborn baby...

Please think of Kyle today and say a prayer for him. Today is his first field trip without a parent and he is nervous. As you all know Kyle is my Momma's boy and events like this stress him out. He is excited to go to the see the move Earth with his class, but he would be much happier if I was loading the bus with him this morning:) With so few days left of preschool I feel that I cannot miss to go with him and Mike has a Swine Flu meeting or something! Have a great day:)