Weird pregnancy dream #571...I dreamt last night that I had Jillian and when I went to change her diaper her bottom half was like that of a frozen chicken. LOL! I guess that means that she isn't done or isn't ready to come out yet. 2 1/2 months left to go.
We had an interesting night last night. My mil called and asked if I could go and pick up some stuff for her so that she could do Grandma Fordham's nails so I left dinner on the stove, piled the kids in the car and went to find some finger nail polish and some ridge filler. The first stop was at KMart where I found the ridge filler but they didn't have the right color of polish so I decided to try WalMart. I rarely go there any more but wanted to see if they had this color. So we get to the cosmetics department at Wally World and I am searching for the correct color. George hands me a chapstick/lipstick type thing and I tell him to put it back. Couldn't find the color so I made a call to my mil to let her know and she says to pick one that I think might be close. I pick a color and we are off to Grandma Fordham's to drop off the stuff. Well we dropped it off but Grandma was asleep. I had left the kids in the car and Connie (mil) came out to say hello to the kids. As she is talking to McKenna and George in the back seat I happen to look back and notice that McKenna is holding the chapstick/lipstick thing that George had showed me earlier. Great. She had put it in her pocket and taken it from the store. This is a great teaching moment but something that I did not need right then. Why do moments like that come up when you least want them to? Anyhoo...my pregnancy hormones kick in and I start crying. I take Jona and George home to stay with Ty (and I totally break down explaining the situation to Ty....darn pregnancy hormones!) while McKenna and I head back over to WalMart all the while discussing why we what she did was wrong. She had already used the thing so we were going to have to buy it. But it didn't have a UPC code on it so for all I know it was something that someone dropped but I still felt that McKenna needed to learn this lesson. So we get over there and there is a line at customer service so I grabbed a cashier that is just coming off of duty and ask if there is a manager around that I can speak to. She pages the store manager and we wait a few minutes while he comes from the back of the store. I make McKenna carry the chapstick and show it to the manager and tell him what she did. He was very considerate and thanked me for bringing it and McKenna in saying that it is important that we teach our kids the importance of not stealing. I offered to pay for it but the manager said no. I was proud of McKenna because even though she was scared she went through with it. She didn't start crying until we were on the way out and then she cried the whole way home and through most of dinner. She is grounded for the rest of the week. She can't have any of her "makeup" that she got for her birthday until December....Ty had her pack it all up in a box and give it to him and she didn't get any dessert last night. Hopefully this is a lesson that will stick with her. It was hard to watch her make this mistake and deal with the consequences but all in all she handled it pretty well. I explained to her that I still loved her and that I always will but that I didn't like the choice that she had made to take the chapstick from the store. She is doing better this morning playing with George and enjoying herself. I am grateful for that little girl and for all my children. Parenting is a hard job. It would have been so much easier for me to just blow of a $0.99, maybe $2 chapstick (it was Barbie brand) but I couldn't do that. So even though I was uncomfortable and all I really wanted to do was go home and eat dinner and relax I took my daughter back to the store and had her face the consequences of her actions. I'm glad I did.
Happy 8th Birthday Jona!
At this time 8 years ago I was laying in a hospital bed in labor. That morning at 5 a.m. I was laying in bed contemplating whether or not I had the energy to get up and use the bathroom. At that moment my water broke...and I thought..."I needed to use the bathroom but not THAT bad". A small "Oh!" escaped my lips and Ty sat straight up in bed and asked if everything was okay. When I told him that I thought that my water had broken he was up like a shot. I went in to use the bathroom and comb my hair. We took about 1/2 an hour to 45 minutes getting ready to go but I still hadn't had a contraction. When we got to the hospital and explained the situation to the nurses they settled me in for a check but I could tell that they didn't really think that anything had happened because this was my first. So when the nurse went to check me a big old gush came out and she said "I guess your water did break!" Well yeah. So I was there for the duration. They asked me if I was having any contractions. Well I didn't know what a contraction was. I hadn't had any Braxton Hicks at all and so I had no clue. When I finally had a contraction I was like "Nope I haven't had any of those before...I would remember that!" Well the hours wore on and Ty and I walked around the halls trying to get some contractions to start but nada, zip, zilch. Then at 1:30 p.m. my regular O.B. had to leave because he was scheduled for a conference. They started me on a pit drip around 2 and had to keep uping the the dose to keep the contractions regular. I didn't have an epidural because the thought of a shot in the back scares me more than dealing with the pain. Ty was a wonderful coach except when a contraction would hit he would say "Hang in there it's almost over" I finally got ticked off at him and said "It's not almost over I still have a long way to go!" So we decided he would then say that "It was on the way down." Referring to the line that they keep track of contractions on the machine. I don't remember what time I started pushing but I only remember pushing 5 maybe six times and Jona was born at 7:14 p.m. November 10, 1994. He weighed 9 pounds and 8 ounces which was a big surprise and he was 18 inches long. He is joy to have in our home and we love him dearly.
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