Less than 200 days…

Oh boy, this baby is coming at least I think it is. I’m still having those crazy pregnancy doubts that anything is actually happening in my body. But I haven’t had any cramping or spotting so I should assume that everything is going fine in there. The lack of symptoms has thrown me off a little. I have minimal morning sickness. Last week when I was lounging with family and eating crap, I had none and began to question whether I was pregnant at all. For some reason, I only feel nauseous at work. I am a little more irritable lately, so I guess I can blame that on pregnancy…We have our next appointment on Monday and I really hope we get to hear the heartbeat. That would be wonderful. I don’t see why we shouldn’t but they didn’t mention anything at the last appointment. We’ll see how this appointment goes, I might try to find a new O.B. if they don’t do a better job of answering my questions. But I need to make sure to come in with a list of questions.

So our vacation did not quite turn out as we expected. A huge snow storm (20 inches) hit our area the day we were supposed to leave. That is more snow than they have seen in over 20 years and more than we get most winters total. We rebooked our flight as soon as we could. It would have been nice if the stupid airline would have let us rebook it for Friday and we could have avoided the snowstorm entirely but no, they have to screw people over so we rebooked as late in the day Sunday as we could.

DH and I went out to dinner that Friday and went to see a movie “An Education.” We wanted to see “Up in the Air” but for some unknown reason it was pulled from theaters. The movie was pretty good and I loved the fashion and scenes of 1960s London and Paris. After dinner, the snow had already started and I had quite a hard time getting up the hill that would take us back to our place thanks to some stupid cab that caused me to stop on my way up the hill.

Saturday the snow fell and fell some more. We ventured out on foot in midday to go return my library book and grab lunch. There was already at least 7-8 inches on the ground. It was fun to get all bundled up and see our neighborhood covered in snow. Later on that day we went out again just to see how deep it was and take lots of pictures. We went to bed worried about our flight and how the heck we were going to get to the airport. The next morning, the snow finally stopped and we finished packing. I had to beg one of our neighbors who had already dug their car out of the snow to give us ride to the airport which was about 15 minutes away. So I gave her a generous $30 to drive us to airport. We get to the airport early and about 20 minutes later we get through the line and find out our flight is cancelled. We had been checking it all morning and it had been on time. (Of course I had an inkling this was going to happen considering I couldn’t find our flight on the board, it would have been nice if they had actually had our flight there and said it was cancelled). No flights until after Christmas….Crap! So we had the choice to add our names to the long list of people on standby or just give up on the whole flying thing. That’s when we made the decision to drive. We got back from the airport where cabs were apparently running and dug out our truck. That was fun considering we didn’t have a snow shovel. One of our neighbors took pity on us and let us use theirs after they were done. So we dug it all out which took about an hour and headed off. We hit some traffic about 20 miles from DC and after a short detour, we were on our way. 13 and a half hours later (around 1:30AM) we got to BIL’s house near Tampa!

The rest of the vacation was mostly uneventful. It was nice enough and relaxing. Seeing my parents was good and catching up with friends was good. To be honest I found myself bored a lot of the time that I was staying with my inlaws. We didn’t do enough things to get out of the house and I got sick of the endless pregnancy questions. SIL was in a bad mood most of the trip because she is getting m/s pretty bad. I really enjoyed spending time with my little BIL and chatting with my other BIL, he cracks me up. Little BIL, let’s call him Tommy, is 1 ½ and FIL’s child with his second wife. He’s cute and fun. He was very shy though especially around DH. He doesn’t get out a lot since FIL’s wife doesn’t drive. She is from the Philippines and very sweet, but the whole relationship is very odd. BIL/SIL basically told us that they met through a pen pal/mail order bride kind of thing. She is 20 years younger than FIL and stays home all day with GMIL and her beau of 20 years who live in the same house. GMIL has been with Nelson for 20 years but they’re not married. He is a curmudgeonly old man who never really talks to me and plays the television way too loud. He makes rude comments and everyone just trys to ignore him.

I had one day to myself when DH went golfing with his brother and friend. It was nice. I thought about driving to my parents place to hang out with them, but it’s a long drive and I was lazy. So I ran a couple last minute Christmas shopping errands and grabbed lunch with the beach being my ultimate destination. I decided to get my H1N1 shot. I had been delaying this and it was so easy in FL so I went to Walgreen’s and waited 20 minutes and voila, I was done. It’s crazy how different it was there. They don’t have them in pharmacies any more and they have clinics at random places where you have to wait forever. It was nice to get it done easily with no hassle. The beach was a wash. I got there and it was windy and cold. The weather had changed drastically from the morning when I had gone for my run. In an effort to break up my blog entries, I will end this one here and maybe write some more later today…