I'm Thankful

I am thankful for so many things these days.  I could make a very long list, but I will keep it short mainly because my brain is soooooooo very tired.

1.  My happy healthy boy.  E makes my heart smile.
2.  My happy healthy baby growing inside of me.  He too makes me smile from my heart.
3.  My husband.  Not only does he make my heart smile, he makes me laugh.  He makes me laugh REALLY hard.  I like that our marriage has a lot of laughter.  I think it is important.
4.  My family and friends.  My circle of family and friends is a small one, but a tight one at that.  Growing up, I had a very large circles of people around me, and now as an adult I value having fewer people in my life.  But those people that are in my life really know me and I know them.  I would do anything for them and they for me.  I'm thankful for small-tight circles!
5.  My new job.  My new job makes my brain feel like it could explode with all the information I need to learn daily, but that is a good feeling.  I don't like to be bored, and bored I am not!
6.  I have 3 weeks left of chemistry.  I have to toot my own horn here-I have a perfect score in the class right now.  I was dubbed the "smart mom," which makes me laugh.  I was not a good chemistry student 13 years ago the first time I took it (ask Andrea-she was my lab partner).  I hung for dear life in that class and barely made a C.  I think having so many things going on, it makes me focus and makes the class worth while.  Every class is a sacrifice to be there, so it makes it easy to apply myself because of what I am giving up to be there (time with my boys).  I have 1 test and one final left...I am thankful I am almost done.  I am ready to just focus on learning my new job and finishing out this pregnancy!

Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to these days.

 E sporting his new track suit.  He thought he was pretty cool.  He told me he looked "addsom" or handsome.

 Making cookies-this boy loves being in the kitchen, much like his dad.

E's room is all but done.  I just have to hang a few things on the wall before I post the final pictures up. Here it is with the gray primer over the wainscoting.

Happy late Thanksgiving-I hope it was a blessed one for you!

Changes

This week marks the start of many new changes going on in our family.  All good changes.  I am going into my last week with my current company that I have been with the past year.  I was offered a job with a company that I would be a fool not to go work for.  It is back in the spine/neuro world, and I am a total geek for the spine stuff.  I wasn't looking for a job, but the job found me-so who am I to say no?!?  It will be in FW only (NO TRAVEL)-HALLELUJAH!!!!

I remember running through all of the airports on a weekly basis when E was just months old with my red cooler in hand, toting around my milk I had just pumped, and having many curious people ask what on earth was in the cooler.  I normally travel in scrubs for simplicity sake, and it is only normal for a person to think that I was carrying an organ or something.  (I don't know why they would think I would be on a commercial flight for that, but I can still see how they would connect the dots.)  Here is how the conversation would normally go with another passenger (normally a male passenger no less):

Stranger:  What is in your cooler?

Me:  A brain.

Stranger:  Really?

Me:  No. (Long Pause) But I don't think you want to know.

Stranger:  I really think I do, what is in there?

Me:  Breast Milk.  I am a working mom that has a baby back in FW waiting for me.

Stranger:  Oh.  (Total look of awkwardness and grossness on their face.)  I think I liked the idea of a brain more.

Me:  You can't say I didn't warn you.  :)

My new schedule will be incredibly busy, and it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.  I feel blessed that Rob is totally supportive of this, and he knows that this new job means that he will have to be more flexible with his schedule as I figure mine out.  (FYI:  This news was one of the good phone calls I got a few weeks back.)

The next change going on in our house is our next home project that hopefully will be complete by this weekend.  E will be moving up to his new room.  I am that mom that has kept her kid in his crib far longer than I should have.  E loves his crib, and he doesn't climb out-so my thought thus far has been to leave well enough alone.  He sleeps all night in that crib, and my fear is that he will turn into a horrid sleeper when we transition him up.  With that said, he is way to big for it, and sadly it is time for him to move to his big boy room.

We have always affectionately called this room the "bug room."  When you reach the top of the stairs there is a cute little lady bug painted on the door, and you can see the hand paintings along the wall.  It is a darling room, but definitely painted for a little girl.  I have envisioned a "camping theme" for E's new room.  Picture "old school boy scouts" mixed with "air stream campers."  I have been collecting numerous items over the past few month, and I really hope that it all looks like it is supposed to after we are done.

The visions in my head are always grander than my budget and my decorating skills, but I am excited to get my hands on this room.  I will post the after pictures in the next week or so when it is all done!

Here are the before:

I lost my brain

I think this second pregnancy has stolen more of my brain that my first ever did.  For starters I had 3 moments yesterday that made us laugh out loud.  I know that I have air head moments all the time, but these were particularly bad ones considering that they all took place within 30 minutes of each other.

1.  We were driving in the car when I saw a man dressed as a pirate.  I made the comment that it was weird that a grown man was dressed as a pirate in broad daylight.  Rob looked at me waiting for it to dawn on me that it was Halloween, and when that moment didn't come-he smiled and said, "It's Halloween."  We both laughed and moved on.

2.  Not even 12 minutes later we were driving through on a busy road that has huge houses sitting up on a ridge, and when I looked up at one of them I saw a body hanging from a tree (it looked real).  I gasped loudly, but fortunately that time I remembered that it was STILL halloween.  Rob just laughed knowing that I had already forgotten what we had just talked about.

3.  5 minutes later I looked out the window and saw a woman walking in the "museum district" of FW dressed as a wench.  I made the comment that she must be in a play or something because she was dressed awfully weird.  Rob started to laugh to the point of tears because he had to tell me AGAIN that it was halloween.

I think I have lost my short term memory, and my long term memory at that.  Hopefully it will return once our little man arrives.

On a different note, Rob took E trick or treating last night and he looked so stinking cute!  I had to miss it because of class (BOOOOOO!), but I am glad that the boys got an evening together.

I had to include this picture of my boy on the way out the door to school.  Bad lighting, but he was so happy I had to capture it!