Not Everyone's Mama

I went to long again without blogging didn’t I?  I need to get back on my schedule.  I swear it’s summer break.  We’re sleeping in.  The kids are on a different schedule.  I’m on a different schedule.  I’ll get back to normal in August I hope. 

Speaking of that, I checked the calendar and Jordan’s school goes back Aug 20.  Does that not seem really early?  I think school’s are starting earlier and going later.  Really, I do.  Kat’s preschool doesn’t start until after Labor Day though, so we’ll have a few extra days with her.  I called her preschool and checked, and they ‘think’ they will be on the same schedule as last year.  They have to meet with the board of directors first (it’s not a 1 school preschool.  LOL) to make sure that is what they want to do.  HUH?  Ok.  But they believe it will be 3 days a week from 8:30 to 11:30.  Which poses a logistics problem for me.  For some reason I thought preschool started at 9.  I was planning on leaving here at 8:20 with both kids, dropping Jordan off at school before 8:40 and having Kat at preschool by 9. 

That’s not going to work if it starts at 8:30.  If Jordan rides the bus on the days she has preschool, his bus leaves at 8:20.  I would have to leave here at about 8:10 to have her at preschool by 8:30, leaving time for red lights and such.  There is no way I trust Jordan to get on the bus by himself without being told what time it is.  Nor will I leave him outside at 8:10 hoping he’ll get on the bus.  I’ve noticed if there isn’t an adult watching the bus stop, the kids start doing fun stuff, like throwing rocks to see how far they’ll go, not realizing they are throwing them straight out in the parking lot where they could hit a number of cars and cause injury and/or a lawsuit.  So, being my son is a boy, who can be tempted to do things he knows are not right when he is in a group of other boys his age, as would be most boys who are 9, someone needs to be watching the bus stop.

Which means Pato can either A)  Get up early and take Kat to preschool or B)  Get up early and get Jordan on the bus.  Which does make me feel semi bad.  Because Pato works from 10 in the morning til 11 or 12 at night with a 2 hour break in between, but he doesn’t get home til 11:30, midnight or later, and then unwinds, comes to bed later, and I want him getting about an hour before he has to.  I kind of feel guilty, but there’s not really another choice.

I had my first OB appointment yesterday.  Everything went really well.  My blood pressure was a little high, but I told her my heart was racing too, and I was breathing like I’d run a long race, I was really nervous.  I don’t know why.  I know why.  This is really just kick starting the pregnancy, and I’m scared.  Not of having 4.  Of how this pregnancy is going to go.  I’ve talked about it before, my pregnancies have gotten worse with each kid.  And with Alyce, being on bedrest, delivering 3 weeks early, and having her be in the Special Care Unit because she would stop breathing and turn blue – that scared me.  (She would suck, swallow, forget to breathe – they told me it was just like crawling, a mile stone she would have to hit, all babies have to learn how to suck, swallow, and take breaths.) 

But, here I am at 8 weeks, I’ve only gotten sick 3 times.  I feel like getting sick all the time, but I’ve only done it 3 times.  With the other 3, I’d been in the hospital hooked up to an IV getting fluids for dehydration already.  So, this pregnancy is starting off on a better foot than the others.

My OB told me something interesting when I told him that I hadn’t had a chance to lose the weight I wanted to lose before I got pregnant.  That I was hoping that would have helped control my blood pressure and preeclampsia.  He said, same partner?  I said, um – yes, same as both of the girls.  I wanted to say Duh.  (Pato was in the waiting room with the kids, not in the room with me, so he couldn’t see him.  LOL)    He said, with the same partner my chances of having it again are 25-30%.  They have found that preeclampsia is related to your partner.  And that people’s risk of having it go up and down when they change partners. 

And I signed – du du du!  the form to have my tubes tied after all this is done.  He said some women get it done right then and there.  That if I have a c-section (which, I’ve never had) that of course they’ll do it then.  And if I don’t, they can still do it right then, but that most women wait 6 weeks because the scar is smaller at that point.  But, you have to sign this paper in advance, and it’s signed.  I’m good, I’m done.  4 kids is enough for me.  LOL

He scheduled for an ultra sound today because the tech wasn’t there yesterday.  This is new at that office.  We usually don’t get our U/S until 16-20 weeks over there and we have to go across the street.  But, I guess they got a new tech, and the U/S equipment, and they do it to check viability.  I’m not sure I want to know.  But, my appointment is at 1:30 today.  So, I’ll know then.

Today is what, the 16?  Next of our family’s many birthday invitations should be on it’s way.  My neice Taylor will once again be older than Jordan until February.  Her birthday is July 22.  They are 7 months apart.  Jordan HATES it when she turns the next year older and is older than him, and as can be expected, Taylor LOVES it when she turns older than Jordan.  LOL  My SIL said she thinks we are going skating.  Which really sounds like so much fun.  Except that I haven’t been skating in forever.  Katiana has never been skating.  And I’m not sure how Alyce will do on wheels.  ROFL  And should I be roller skating?  I’m not that far along, but I’d hate to fall. 

Alrighty, I’ve made up for not posting for a few days.  Hope you have a wonderful day!

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