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Post by AwesomeMommy on Nov 21, 2005 13:56:38 GMT -5
To keep Buddy Group threads from getting to long, we lock the old thread and start a new one under the same name.
You can still go back and read from the old thread, but we ask that you continue your conversation on this new one.
Thanks Jacque
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Nov 21, 2005 14:07:15 GMT -5
OK Terri, nine more days until I can test... I must stay strong and not test early! This is what I have yet to do between now and test day.... Tuesday 22rd: AOH meeting Wednesday 23th: I am going to Bake Pies and do some prep work for the big meal Thursday 24th: We will have any where from 4 to 15 people over for Thanksgiving.... I am so excited. We will eat, watch football, watch Christmas movies, and eat some more all day! Friday 25th: Black Friday!! WOOHOO!!! We are shopping! Saturday 26th: Mike's Parents are coming over and we are going to decorate the house. Sunday 27th: Decorate the outside and Church Monday 28th: Tumbling Practice Tuesday 29th: AOH Meeting Wednesday 30th: TEST DAY!!!! I hope it is enough to keep me from testing early. I feel great, staying positive... the only issue is my nose, I have to blow my nose like every thirty seconds. It is driving me crazy! Kailey got 5th place out of 8 at her meet yesterday, she did a tad bit better then at her last meet! She tried her best, and that is all that matters! I am so proud of her, and cannot wait to the last meet of the year, it is on the 4th. Then our next meet is not until February! So what are you doing for your Birthday? Thanksgiving?I hope all is going well, talk to you soon! Jacque
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Nov 25, 2005 8:55:03 GMT -5
5 more days Until I can test, thank GOD the TWW fell over Thanksgiving Break, because the TTW is going by so fast. I really do not know how I feel... let see, I am about 8 DPO. I really have no urge to test, and you know... I feel normal. I always have the same symptoms this time of month... and every symptom falls under the category of "this symptom can indicate that AF is just around the corner, but at the same time it can indicate that I will be getting a BFP soon". So, I am not going to speculate.... just hope. Thanksgiving was WONDERFUL, in fact it was the best Thanksgiving we have ever had. The food was perfect, everyone was in an awesome mood, and we had a ton of people here. It was Me, Mike, Kailey, Uncle Donnie, Joette - Jim and Their 4 kids, and 5 of the AOH girls stopped by. We had 15 people, it was perfect. I hope each of our Thanksgivings to come are this wonderful... and you know, I think it was so wonderful because there was no "real" family here. (as in my dad - Mikes parents etc... you know that we love you and think you are wonderful!) I know that sounds awful, but if you know how our immediate family is so I am sure you completely understand. Have a wonderful weekend. I hope to hear from you soon! Jacque
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Nov 27, 2005 10:57:45 GMT -5
Three days until testing, and I have not even had the urge to test, woohoo! I am 10 DPO today. I still feel normal, so I have no speculation to weather or not I am pregnant. Last month I had a 27 day cycle.... so I might test on CD 27 and 28... we will wait and see how I feel that morning! So, our Kitchen ceiling was leaking this morningg (it is under our bathroom) while we were getting ready for church..... yippee..... so instead of doing my hair and getting ready to head out the door I am now waiting for Menard's to open so I can get so pipe. Thank God Mike and I are handy around the house or we would have to pay a plumber a butt load of money to come out here on a Sunday! Well, I am going to go back in there.... Mike is getting ready to cut open the floor - mind you he has to pull up the tile we just set..... such is life! Oh, I forgot to mention..... we did go shopping on Black Friday. We went to Peoria from about 6pm until Midnight, and we had such a good time. The stores were so slow since everyone went earlier in the day, the best part is that we got a TON of shopping done AND we still got everything on sale! WooHoo! Plus Mikes parents were here yesterday, and Mike's mom was not a total cow. Don't get me wrong, she was still somewhat of a cow... but alot nicer then normal. So, we decided to show them the babies room and tell them that we were trying again. We did not tell them how long we were trying, or about Trent, but they really do not need to know. Mikes dad was so EXCITED!!!!! Mikes mom was a cow, and did not act at all excited. When Don (Mikes dad) was going on and on about the room, Cheryl (Mikes mom) said it looked ok.... OK? WTF is looks frickin awesome. If anything I expect you guys to act like it is no big deal since you are the ones that always have to listen to me go on and on and on about it! lol Ok, I am really needed in the bathroom now... I am just going to copy and past this update in all my boards... I do not have time to retype it over and over again! lol Jacque
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Nov 29, 2005 21:23:00 GMT -5
la la la la..... I am talking to myself..... just in case you log on, I thought I would post an update.... My ticker is rushing me... I am only on cycle day one... I really need to fix that. So, I am sitting here feeling all sorry for myself because AF showed. Ever since the m/c I have had 28 day cycles... that is not like me. I am a 27 day girl, but I figured that things were different because of the m/c. Then last month I had my first 27 day cycle in almost a year! Today is CD 27, and AF showed up... right on time. I wonder if my body is just now fully getting back to normal? Who knows... either way I have spent most of the day crying, and then I decided to get online and vent to you..... that is when I saw Jess's post (a friend of mine on AMerican baby) about the expectant mother who's husband is in critical condition. After that I pulled my head out of my a$$. Other then our loss, this year has been great... and true, it might take a few more months to get pregnant, but I know we can make babies.... we have done it twice. So, even though I am a bit sad this was not our month I am happy for my family, and for the opportunity for us to try again. I could not imagine my life without Mike, my heart and prayers goes out to that January mommy, and all others who are in similar situations...... Also, I just checked the calendar.... my test day is CHRISTMAS!!!!
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Post by terriwestgerdes on Dec 1, 2005 20:03:16 GMT -5
OMG!!! I am SO SORRY Jacque!!! I feel AWFUL about not getting on to post................then I saw your "lalalalal I'm talking to myself.." and felt 10 times worst!!! I am so sorry!!! :PCan you find it in your huge loving heart to forgive me? ? This last month has been absolutely CRAZY!!! Wait............crazy doesn't even come close to what the month of November............... I was so busy finishing my masters class, tutoring, finishing my long term subbing job, finishing the reading center, prepearing for Thanksgiving and all of the parties, and of course celebrating my last celebration of my birthday...... Did Megan have a good birthday?? I thought it was so cool when I found out we shared our birthday....like right after we started dating............but I have never met her................ Well anyways, I did survive the month of November.........except I know that the month of December will be just as bad............with the holdiay madness........BUT I LOVE Christmas..........more along the lines of obsessed..........I play christmas music constantly........obsess over getting our christmas lights and tree up............We don't have them up yet and I stress over it.......I feel like I am wasting valuable christmas time.........therefore leaving me feeling nauseous. I finally got my package sent out to you..........I have a feeling that it might or have arrived at a bad time............I'm really sorry about the no BFP this month............but what a great Chirstmas present this would be.... Before I forget...........we couldn't find a dog sitter and with finances etc..........we were forced to sell our Bears game tickets..........so unfortunately we won't be able to come visit in December.....................but hopefully we will still be able to come in Feb., but then again I'm not sure..................Kailey's birthday is the 17th.right? That's Aimee's new due date............so it might depend on what's going on around here...............I REALLY REALLY want to come and see you guys though............... That is so awesome that you have tons of shopping done...........I used to do that.................now I am awful at it.....I haven't even made a list of who we need to buy for yet...............I am so pathetic.......... Well I better go..............I promise I will try a lot harder or make the time to get on and post................at least something!! Oh.....I asked about Kailey's dress..........unfortunately it is the same price as ours............the deposit was $64.00 and I think that was half....................Weddings are so expensive!! Whether you are the one getting married or just in them!! BUT THEY ARE SO MUCH FUN!!! Kailey will have a ball!! Okay gotta go!! Talk to you soon!! Terri
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Dec 6, 2005 15:05:28 GMT -5
Terri! We got your package last night, and Kailey was SOOOO excited! I made her wait to see it until after all of the day care kids left (hee hee I had already opened it!) and she was so happy when she opened it. We read it right away, and of course I cried when we finished it! LOL I am so emotional. Anyway, we love the book! It was awesome! Thanks for thinking of us. So, you mentioned the deposit... how do I take care of this? Should I mail them a check, if so... who is making the dresses? Where are they located? Did you give them Kailey's measurements??? Well, I am making out my Christmas cards - and it is taking forever. We are sending out new photos of Kailey, plus her school photos, plus she is drawing pictures, and including crafts in some of them... it is going to take years to get all of these cards out! LOL It sucks that you are not going to be coming out for the bears game, but I completely understand. I think money is tight for everyone this time of year. As for February. We will play it by ear. Kailey thinks it is AWESOME that they baby is due on her birthday. I told her you might not be able to meet us then, and she said we will just have to meet later in the month or in March... I told her that was fine. So, keep us posted... we will plan to meet around the birth of the baby! ;D So did she have an ultrasound, does she know what she is having... have they talked about names? Anyway, tell everyone I said hi! and Jacque PS: 18 more days until Christmas!!! ;D
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Dec 8, 2005 11:09:23 GMT -5
Kailey is SICK today! She is home from school, and she is not happy about it - she loves school so much! She has been puking every hour on the hour since Midnight. I feel so bad for her. She has no fever, she is just really week. She is watching TV right now, and all of the other kids are sleeping... so I wanted to check in to see of you posted. Thanks again for the book! and Jacque
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Post by terriwestgerdes on Dec 9, 2005 12:11:55 GMT -5
Hello!! Once again........sorry it has taken me forever to post..............sorry! This week has been so chaotic.............and I wouldn't have been able to post now if school wouldn't have been cancelled due to all of the snow. Did you guys get very much or any at all? ? I think we got around 6 inches..........it was a light powdery snow, very pretty................until we got some ferocious winds and drifted the snow to about 2 foot drifts. Nice huh? I'm so glad you liked the book...........I was so worried that it would come at a bad time...........and it probably did but I figured it was the perfect book to inspire you this month!! I thought the pictures were very cute.......... Poor Kailey! THe flu is going around here in the county area like wildfire..................bad flu!! I haven't gotten it yet..............but I catch everything since I sub in so many different rooms and places with all of those little germ carriers!! Tell her I said to get well soon. Kailey's measurements are in. Aimee paid the deposit and gave them the money. I think it will be easier for Aimee to be your go-between than trying to send stuff to the shop.............that way you don't risk it being lost in the mail or them misplacing it etc. Did you ever get your leaky pipe fixed? THat sounded awful? As for my christmas cards............I'm making ours...........and I haven't even started yet.............you'll be lucky if you get ours by new years!!! I was so bummed about not coming and seeing you guys..........but then once we got a snow like this............I would hate to be traveling in this..... I will so be looking forward to seeing you guys in February. Aimee has had multiple ultrasounds so we have seen our first pictures of baby Quinn...............they do know what it is................I'm sorry............but I think I should let Aimee be the one to tell you that..............I hope you understand........I don't want to get in the middle of you too and cause problems. Give her a call I'm sure she will fill you in on everything. Well I better go! I really should try to make Brian something for dinner. He will be starving...........he was up a little after 6 and he used his snow blower to blow out all of the neighbors and a spot for the dogs to use to walk out and cleared a spot for them in the grass so they could potty! Wasn't that sweet!! Beats me shoveling them a path and place to go!! Have a great weekend!! Ours is crazy!!! Talk to you soon!! Terri
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Dec 9, 2005 12:32:53 GMT -5
Terri: I only have a minute, so I am going to post a copy of the email I sent to Aimee... I will post a proper responce to your previous post later today....
***************************************** Aimee:Well, I have to start out by apologizing. I know that I did not give you the response you wanted when you told me that you were pregnant. To be honest, I was really to shocked and a bit jealous to properly tell you how happy I am for you. I was not shocked because you got pregnant before you were married... or that you were having sex before you were married because - well, that is really not a big deal to me. I know you love Josh and that you are going to be with him forever and ever.... It just shocked me because I wanted to be the next one in the family to have a baby. I know it sounds childish and immature, but I was so jealous. It took me an hour or so to get over it... then panic hit. I was so worried that you had not been into the Dr or even knew how far along you were. I was so worried that something would happen to you or the baby. But the main reason for not contacting you yet is my stupid jealousy. Please forgive me I now realize how stupid I was being, and it took Kailey (and some encouraging from Terri) to point it out. - That being said, you will be amazed at how much you will learn from your kids. I am very very excited that you are going to have a baby, and I know you are going to be a wonderful mom. Terri told me your due date, but I still have yet to see sonogram photos, to hear what you are having, or even talk about names with you. I would love for you to email me back. I would ALSO Love for you to join my message board so we can keep in better touch, I talk to Terri on it at least once a week... and it would be nice if we could keep in touch that often also. I will even make you a cute little countdown that says how many more days until baby arrives. I cannot wait to hear from you. Love, Jacque PS: I am posting a copy of this on the message board also, on the off chance you check that before you email... I am not sure if you get on the site anymore, but wanted to put this there just to be sure. ***************************************** Ok ladies.... until next time and Jacque
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Dec 10, 2005 13:33:18 GMT -5
Ok, I am convinced that Aimee is PISSED at me because she has not respond to my email yet.....
Jacque
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Post by aimee on Dec 10, 2005 19:22:57 GMT -5
Hey Jacque, Sorry I have not been able to get on the internet, my computer does not work, so I have to get on it somewhere else. Not that I am pissed at you. I am at Terri's now. Went shopping all morning bought lots of stuff. Got all of my x-mas shopping done, well most of it.
Enough about me, like Terri had told you my due date did get moved up it is now Kailey's birthday. See how close we can come to it. I know Terri has not told you what it is yet, well as of last week we were not sure. The Dr. first guessed it was going to be a girl but then when i went to the hospital for the second sonogram, she said it was a boy. So we were not so sure. But then i had to go back for a third one because they couldn't find all the chambers of the heart when they did the second one. But the Dr said everything looked fine the third time. We also had that tech look and see what she thought it was. This time you could really tell it was a boy. Josh has all the proof he needs. So we have been getting some stuff just not alot. We have not decided on any names yet, but when we do i think were keeping it quiet, least trying to anyways. I go back to the Dr on Thursday so we will see what he has in store for us then. At the second sonogram it was 2 lbs 12 oz. But that was two weeks ago already. Has had a strong heartbeat usually greater than 140.
Well I need to get going there waiting on me to play some cards, talk to ya later
Aimee
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Dec 13, 2005 21:20:06 GMT -5
Ok I know I said I would be on later in the evening.... two days later I am just now posting!
I am on about CD 15, I would have to look at my ticker to be sure! Since Christmas is less then two weeks away I guess I am in the two week wait! lol, since I am not charing I am not completely obsessing about everything, and it is making it all so much easier. I should be around O time. I really think that last cycle and this cycle are my FIRST NORMAL cycles since the m/c. I even got my EWCM when I was supposed to. WooHoo! So, my guess is that I O'd over the weekend and we danced on Friday, Saturday, Yesterday morning and we will keep dancing though the end of the week just to be certain. Mike wants a baby so bad! He was sick yesterday morning and STILL wanted to have sex, that is so not like him. If he is sick he usually wants NOTHING to do with sex, but I guess that is like that for all of us!
Kailey is finally feeling better, she is at school today. Last night was her Christmas concert and it was awesome. Mike left work early yesterday to get some rest, in hopes that he will feel better by the concert! Either way he would still go, he NEVER misses anything she does, he is such a good daddy! He ended up staying home from work today also.... it is official, he has what Kailey had and when he gets sick he gets it 10 times worse then both Kailey and I put together!
I am almost done with my Christmas shopping, We spent almost all of last weekend shopping. I know what you mean about Christmas breaking the bank! A few years ago I started saving for Christmas in January, and it really helps out. I just have to get some last minute things for Uncle Donnie and Mike's parents. Then I am done!.... crap, I still have one more thing to get for Mike and Kailey also... then I am done! I have even started wrapping, and I hope to get all caught up on that today!
Speaking of wrapping... we had an AOH meeting today and we wrapped 50 gifts for the Salvation Army, I hope we can colect a few more (ok alot more then a few)... It is my goal for the AOH to collect, wrap and donate at least 150 gifts.
Almost all of my Christmas cards are out too. I have about 12 more to finish up, and most of them are for online friends and out of state family!!!! Then we just have to mail out Kailey's presents that she made for our close friends and family and then we are done with everything that has to be mailed out!
Other then that there is not much new here. Things are good at work, and with the youth group so nothing new to report there.
Terri: Are things slowing down any? I cannot belive we only have 11 more days until Christmas. That is insane between Christmas programs, service projects, tumbling, baking, and decorating We have something going on every night! That is ok, I love it.... and hopefully I will find out I am pregnant on Christmas day... that will give me a wonderful reason to relax!
Aimee: WooHoo on the little boy, that is so wonderful. I think that it is cool that you are not telling anyone the name... Mike and I made a decision - WE ARE NOT TELLING ANYONE WHAT WE ARE HAVING!!! We will find out, but we are not telling... the more I think about it though.. we might not even find out the gender, we will have the Dr tell Kailey and leave it at that... which is great, she can keep ANY secret! What baby stuff have you bought so far???
Talk to you soon!
Jacque
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Post by AwesomeMommy on Dec 13, 2005 21:28:52 GMT -5
Aimee... take a look at your last post, I made a signature for you. I also added you to the CD Tracker. Let me know what you think. It will automatically show up on every post you make. Feel free to check out all of the topics, everyone on the site is very very nice. Let me know if there is anything you need. I am the site administrator, so I can pretty much get you whatever you like.
Jacque
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Post by terriwestgerdes on Dec 13, 2005 22:18:14 GMT -5
Howdy!! Once again, I am finally making it on.......I am so sorry...........the sad thing is ...is that I don't see my life/schedule slowing down at all anytime soon! Uggh!! Oh well, I guess that will make the time pass quickly..........to Aimee having her baby.....hopefully our short weekend getaway/vacation....the wedding.........and hopefully me getting a teaching job........(not holding my breath on the last one!) I am currently doing a long term at a preschool in COldwater. It is so much fun!!! I never saw myself being a preschool teacher, but I really don't think I would mind it! I also have been doing assessments for the Reading Center.........it's $100/day so I have a hard time turning it down........that and giving the assessments aren't that bad. I will start the Reading Center again after the beginning of the year...............plus start my second masters class. Hopefully I can stay busy subbing in there also. I/We could really use the money. I really wish I had a steady income, it would make finances so much easier........we could actually make a budget. As for Christmas, UGGH!! Brian and I just started shopping last night.........ONLINE!! How pathetic are we. We managed to get our parents done........and that is the biggest load off of my shoulders. THen we just have to buy stocking stuffers, for the dogs, Anthony (my godchild/nephew) and our gift exchanges. THen hopefully we will be done. I plan on wrapping the middle of next week, when I will finally have a day off.................but then I will be crazy busy trying to get CHristmas/house stuff done............NEVER a dull moment!!! The Christmas Party madness begins this weekend. We have my dad's side party. Then my mom's is Friday the 23rd. THen we have Brian's side to open gifts on Christmas Eve....then Brian's side again for dinner Christmas day, and then my immediate family Christmas on Christmas Day night......................Feeewwwww! I'm tired just typing and thinking about it. THe worst is having to leave the dogs penned up all those times! IT's christmas for them too!!!!! Well I'm glad Kailey is feeling better! POOR MIKE!! Tell him I said to get well.......what a trooper wanting to BD while being so sick!! I hope you don't catch it!! That wouldn't be good for you and Baby Komnick!! I can't wait to get a phone call from you on Christmas Day.....okay okay I will settle for the day after I guess!! LOL What a merry Christmas a BFP would make it!!! Well I better go!! I will talk to you soon!!! Terri
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