Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you all a blessed Thanksgiving. may we truly realize the gifts we have in family and friends and appreciate and be thankful for those whom we hold dear. Even if you are at odds with family and friends. use today to pray for reconciliation, and healing in all relationships.

Life is too short people.

The last 13 days I have found myself very stressed out over what kind of parent I will be. Will i be a good one, will I make the right decisions. Last night, I was sitting in the living room, after having not eaten alot due to the stress these worries caused me and i told myself to just get over it. I am not my mother, I have already vowed to not make her mistakes. I'm just going to be Marisa's mom. I'll make mistakes, I'll make decent decisions, but I'll make them together with her dad.....and she'll turn out ok. If I stress, I'm not going to have fun being a mom, and I want to have the best time ever with her.

So I am thankful today for a loving husband a beautiful daughter , an awesome family (even though they get on my nerves at times0, wonderful friends, the best job in the whole world, and....I'm thankful for steamboat.

Steamboat? Yes. That is what we are having today in lieu of turkey. Derek's family will all be at his sisters on Sat so our turkey dinner is being held off until then. So today, his parents arrive and we'll have steamboat. Basically it is a big pot on a hotplate with chicken stock, veggies, noodles, meat, seafood, etc and you cook it in the pot and everyone eats from it. Kind of like Chinese fondue...sorta. It's one of my FAVORITES> We had it when we were in NY visiting his parents and I swear i ate so much of it. Saturday is teriyaki turkey with shitake mushrooms...mmmm.


I love Thanksgiving.

Routine

I'll never have one. Well, not for the next few weeks at least. I never know when my next block of sleep will come and being the organized procrastinator that I am, I am becoming ok with that. Somedays I feel like I don't know what I am doing and other days I'm like...hey this is pretty easy. Easy? Did i just say that out loud? Someone beat me over the head. Or remind me of this comment in 13 yrs.

Derek is amazing. More amazing than I ever could have dreamed,.I knew he'd be good, but he's surpassed all hopes of the perfect father. He's so cute with her and he loves her so deeply. We both do.

She's amazing

Wheeeeewwww,

being a new mom requires one to breathe, You can check out all the details of what I mean at the blog mentioned below.

Tomorrow is a big day in college sports Michigan v. Ohio State and a whole slew of rival games. One game this house is looking forward to is the ND v. Duke game. Finally a Duke game televised on National TV. I'm not so sure I should be thrilled about it...yet. I have to say though, the may have a shot at winning their second game this season. Poor Duke.

Why am I pulling for Duke? I'm not really. I mean I'd love to see them win though. Seriously the school is not a football school, it's Academics and basketball, let's face the facts. I'm always up for the underdog winning though. Not only that but if you have never been to a Duke football game....Lord help you. the food is to DIE for.

Anyway, I'm not going to say Go______(any team) I'm just going to enjoy the rivalries and then the ND/Duke game.

My cat, the nut

Pele has been in rare form today.

Yesterday one of the cats dragged in this piece of wood that seriously, from a distance (...the world looks blue and green, and the snow capped mountains white...wait that's not right. I Digress) looks like a dead grasshopper. She LOVES this little piece of wood and has been playing with it for the last 2 days. you'd think it was the best toy ever. It makes me wonder why I am forever spending money at Petsmart for cat toys.

This afternoon, Derek started mopping the kitchen/hallway floor with bleach and Pele started to roll around on the floor as if bleach mixed with water were catnip. It was sooooooo silly!!!! (well not silly when mommy has to wipe her down so she does not lick bleach off her fur and get sick.

She's been my little shadow for the last few weeks. She follows me everywhere. I swear she has the best personality. A little wired, but she's darn cute.

I love you Pele!!!!

Disclaimer

Just wanted to put this up here as an FYI:

If you are coming here looking for baby info, you will not find it. Due to recent events and our desire to protect info of our daughter being posted on "private sites" that we cannot monitor, we have created a private blog to post information on her.

There have been circles of trust broken far too recently for us to trust that any info shared here will not be shared without our knowledge (or if it comes to our attention, without hurtful accusations of us trying to access a site we are "forbidden" to access).

We hope you will all understand our position and desire to protect our daughter. I'll still be posting my thoughts here, but please do not expect info on the baby. :)

Bed rest

MEMORIES.........

It reminds me of this past summer. Only this time it's only for 3 days. Thank you slightly elevated BP.......

......I'll be here, bored, posting stupid crap I am sure.

Sounds

Sounds in my house this morning;

"Meow" - Latte wanting attention
"puuuurrrrr"- Latte when I give him said attention
"Cough couch"- me hacking away as usual
"creeeeakkkkkk" the stairs as the 4 cats and I walk down them and into the living room
"jingle jingle" the sounds of kitty collars as they run around the house
"Scratch scratch" Pele in the litter box
"Rattle rattle" Rooney playing with a cat toy
"trickle trickle" the water hitting the sink in the bathroom as Pele and Cordelia finish drinking their water
"Beep beep" the microwave telling me to come get my tea.
"Tap tap" the sound of the keyboard as I type this post.

It's so quiet in here at 6am on a Sunday morning.

Not for long.

7 days

exactly 7 days from this very moment, we'll be entering the hospital getting ready to meet our baby girl.

7 days. Much to do between now and then. But 7 days seems so close, yet so very far away.

7 days. WOW