WARNING – THIS IS A VERY LONG BLOG POST!!!
One of the blogs I follow (Kelly’s Korner) has a regular “Show us your life” blog carnival, where she invites her readers to, well, show our life. Kelly is from the south and is a big Arkansas fan and it’s been fun to read how they do tailgating and football, etc, so when she had this theme, I just had to do a post about how “we” do it up here at Michigan! Plus, I don’t have my pre-baby life displayed on this blog anywhere, you know the stuff from when I …
Category: Stuff We Do
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So far so good, eh? We are on our way to {hopefully} a nice Christmas vacation!
Quote of the day from Saturday: I was trying to get Mallory ready & out the door so I asked her if she was ready to go watch football.
MCB got all sad and said “but I want to go to the TAILGATE!!”
Grandpa & Carson
Mallory, RB & Carson (Mallory always says that Rick is just Carson’s daddy, not hers. But I assure you Rick is bof of my baby daddy.)
This past weekend was threatening rain and I was so torn about whether to take any or …
The Up North Trip
We are on our annual pilgrimage to visit my aunt & uncle “up north”. The kids were great on the trip up, Carson slept the entire time up which was fabulous. We also timed our trip so that we would get to see my grade school friend Mandy & her family. They discovered a great little petting farm near their house so we took all four kids there on Saturday. They had two mamma pigs and a bunch of little piglets – some of whom were trying to nurse, so Mallory said “Mommy, those piggies are trying to eat like …
Blue v Red v Black
The Red Wings played the Blackhawks this afternoon. I asked Mallory who she was rooting for – the Red Wings or the Blackhawks.
She told me she liked the “Blackclocks”.
And that Carson & Daddy liked the “Wed Wings”.
And then I asked her which team I liked.
Smart girl said “You like the Balooo-jackets”.
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Pretty fired up that the Blue Jackets are facing the Wings in the first round of the playoffs, only because I’ll be able to watch every game. Not fired up that they have to actually play against the Wings; that’s a tough first …
That was FAST!
Holy cow this week went FAST! All of a sudden it’s Saturday morning and I’m 37+ weeks prego.
Here’s the recap.
You all know about my doctor’s appointment Monday – but the newer news related to that is:
my insurance won’t extend my physical therapy benefit for another month to allow me to see my physical therapist for my pregnancy-related back pain. I’m not sure I really understand how if pregnancy lasts MORE than 60 days, can they restrict the coverage to 60 calendar days of treatment. Additionally, I am allowed either 15 or 30 actual sessions during that 60 days, …
Last Day
Well, we’re heading back north tomorrow. The weather is just starting to warm up here (I actually put my toes in the pool today) and from what we can read, the temps are dropping big time back home. Outstanding!
Today was my only full day with no classes or anything. Mallory decided to start the day off with a great big bang and went PEE-PEE on the POTTY! Her night-time diapers have been almost dry the past couple of nights; this is a big deal because we buy the super absorbent Huggies overnights and 99.9% of the time they weigh 10 …
Trip update – January 21
Only a few more days left of our trip. Today is the last day of classes for me, I have all day tomorrow off and then we head home on Saturday.
I had the entire afternoon of yesterday, and got myself a fancy pedicure to start the afternoon off. As I was paying for the pedicure, I noticed that the spa offers a prenatal massage…wonder if I can talk Rick into letting me get one of those tomorrow?
It was a little chilly here yesterday and after a failed attempt to get Mallory to take a nap, we headed to …
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving
Yes, a boring post title and I swear that more than half of the blogs in my Google Reader have had that same post title (well, without the belated part) and I swore I was going to be way more creative than that but then here I am, using the boring post title. My whole family is still sleeping right now so I need to quick post while I have peace and quiet.
To make up for the boring post title, I will show you a video of a sweet little girl wishing you a happy holiday:
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We had a …
Brave This
Here is Mallory, completely fearless at the water fountain in Florida.
Look at the bright side
My sweet baby is sick. She threw up today for the first & second time in her short 16.9 mos of life. This is mildly irritating for a few reasons: 1) I’m missing our big monthly mandatory staff meeting at work for the second month in a row; 2) I have used a lot of sick time in one four-week period; and 3 ) we are supposed to go to the Wings-Blue Jackets game tonight.
But the bright sides are these: 1) I’m missing our big monthly mandatory staff meeting at work for the second month in a row; 2) I …