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It’s Swaparooni time!!!!

Posted on July 16, 2007 2:41 am by TheAngelForever

With everything that has been going on this week I never had a chance to post about a swap group I found (thanks LOL Librarian). It’s called Color Me Happy Swaparooni. Each month there is a color combination and you purchase things for your buddy in those colors. You send your goodies and get fun stuff from that person. The minimum you spend is $15, not including shipping.

Tonight I received my swap buddie. Her SN is Citystreams. She is having a little girl at the same time my little niece is due. Now I get to shop for two little ones and mommies to spoil.

C’est Moi

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My Tag Blanket Addict

Posted on July 15, 2007 3:51 pm by TheAngelForever

Kudos to Nancy and her amazing tag blankets!

NHL was addicted to his buddies (and we have some for JSL too), but not this early. To settle we noticed JSL was trying to pet/cuddle anything near him. To help lately we have been giving him a tag blanket that Nancy made. He curls up with it under his arm and pets it. Last night he did something a little different. He would pet the fuzzy side with his hand and suck on the silky other side. He was so cute. Mind you I stay and watch him and take it away when he’s asleep since he’s only 2 months old. He puts it too close to his face for my comfort. I do believe we have a tag blanket addict on our hands. Thanks Nancy!

C’est Moi

Here are some photos from last night:

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Posted on July 15, 2007 12:39 pm by TheAngelForever

In an attempt to keep NHL away from JSL we decided to put a television with a DVD player in the boys room (JSL is sleeping in our room while NHL is sick). Let the fun begin! Poor JL. . . he worked on this from just before 7:00 this morning to now – 8:40.

JL was going to put the little one in there, but we didn’t have the thing to make the DVD player work. We had given it to my parents since we didn’t need it. So JL brought the BIG television from upstairs down. Got it down here and NO sound. Ugh! No matter what he did there was nothing – not even on the static channel. We have a feeling it may have been fried when we had the storm the other day. So my parents said we could take the converter thing back to try to use the little television. We tried that and it worked upstairs so I went to my parents house to pick it up.

JL got the little television down and put it in the room. Hooked up the DVD and ready for this? The stupid thing was fuzzy. Yes, we had sound, but the picture was full of static. Ugh! We changed out the DVD player to see if that was the issue. Then he thought that since it was the picture this time it may be a wire gone wonky. So he switched it out and . . . WAHOO it works!

NHL is in his room now watching Bear in the Big Blue House in bed. Now we just need to make him rest and keep meds and fluids in him.

C’est Moi

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Rough weekend

Posted on July 15, 2007 2:32 am by TheAngelForever

This morning NHL and JL got up and let JSL and I sleep a little longer. I got up just in time to make sure JL was ready for the handy man that was coming to look at repairing the siding on the house and checking out our basement pipe that keeps spewing. The man came and did both things for a very reasonable price. After that I took a shower and tried the sample of the Venus Breeze razor that I was sent and I am in LOVE! I used it since I didn’t have the time to use my electric razor. Man this was so nice. You don’t need shaving gel and it left my legs feeling amazing and no cuts either!

Once I was done and had tossed a load of towels into the wash we went out to the mall. We went to EB to get Big Brain Academy for the Wii (with a gift card) and then went to an early lunch in the food court since it was empty. JSL was sleeping so the three of us were able to get things and eat. Then JSL woke up and I fed him a bottle of milk I pumped before we left. After this we went to Borders to look at things since I have a ton of gift cards for there. We all went to the restrooms there. I took JSL and changed his diaper and JL was with NHL. When I came out NHL was curled up on JL’s lap. He was acting tired all morning and JL thought he was warm. No temperature this morning.

We got NHL a few books (buy 2 get 1 free) and went home. JL had to carry NHL to t he car since he was so out of it. We got home and he napped. At 4:00 NHL was up and acting odd and was warm. We took his temperature and it was 100.3 so I went to CVS to get some meds since the liquids we had here were WAY old. At dinner he started talking a mile a minute. NOT a good sign. At 7:45 we took his temperature since he was really acting odd. It was 102+ with the motrin in him. My parents went to get us Tylenol. He got that at close to 8:00. At 8:45 his temp was 103 – so we called the doctor. The new woman was on call. She called at 9:15 and told us how much to give him (more aggressive on the motrin). So we have our game plan for the night, but are always afraid since he had the febrile seizure July 17, 2004. . . ACK!

So at 12:30 we have to wake him up for more Tylenol and 3:30 for Motrin. Then we’ll see how it goes. Meanwhile JSL is sleeping in our room and he’s all cranky. UGH! We’re doing our best at keeping the little one away from NHL, but it’s tough in small quarters.

On that note I am off to get some water and rest before we have to fight NHL again to take more meds.

C’est Moi

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End of week in review

Posted on July 15, 2007 2:14 am by TheAngelForever

What a week it has been.

Wednesday morning I had an appointment with my boss to talk with her. The tough decision was finally decided on and I had to go in. I went in to resign and become a SAHM. As I had previously posted it just didn’t pay. We talked with JL’s uncle (our accountant) and when all was said and done I would have taken home less then $3500 a year after taxes and child care expenses. . . major slave waves! I will miss my co-workers a lot and hope to see them often.

I was pleasantly surprised with how nice the principal and VP were. They were shocked, but very happy for me and the family. They thought it was great that I could do it, but admitted they selfishly wished I was still there. In the end the principal hugged me as I was leaving to take JSL home to eat. The kicker – another person left there on Monday – YIKES!

Wednesday afternoon I went to the OB’s office to try to close out the post-partum visits. This was a post-op check up (from the D&C) and also to redo the papsmear that didn’t work. I saw the NP that I saw most of my pregnancy. She said everything looked good and she said how much better I looked than last time she saw me. I asked her about the double-lobed placenta. She wasn’t sure and wanted to bring in the doctor, but it was the one that delivered JSL and ignored me when I said something was wrong twice when I called after his birth. I explained why I was declining and she understood. Here’s the odd part. When we went out to the desk and the NP told the doctor to look at the baby and see how big he was – she wouldn’t look up at us at all. Hmmmmm. . . makes me think the other doctor may have said something to her.

Thursday JSL was still not doing so hot after the shots from Tuesday. We stayed in and he barely nursed all day. He just wanted to sleep close to me.

Friday we went out to have lunch with H at her house. We stayed there and JSL must have decided to make up for lack of nursing the day before. I had my boob out there more than ever. Poodle was so in love with JSL. She kept licking him and watching over him while he was nursing. She got so upset when he cried. It was a sad day since H is going back to work now and won’t be off this summer.

I will post in a few about the weekend and sick NHL in a few. *sigh*

C’est Moi