I’m known to keep lists. Post-its, scratch paper, organized, numbered, and sometimes even typed lists; whatever it takes. Lists make me feel organized and prepared even if I’m, well, not. The past 8 weeks since my last blog has been full of stickies, crumples, lost and very well followed lists.
I’ve been super busy, as my last blog explained, but so many memorable events have happened. I can’t believe I didn’t sit down even once to write a quick blog to share it! ugh! So instead of trying to cram all of the awesome events into one LONG paragraph, I’ll share them by writing, of course, a list!
We’ll start back on Sept 21, which is a little before my last blog, but definitely well worth mentioning. Then it’ll end pretty close to the present day. Sorry its lengthy… but who’s reading this right?
1. Wake up Jake at 5:30 am to show him a positive pregnancy test
2. Register for my first 5K
3. Wingnut Fall baseball team loses its first and only game, the championship final 🙁
4. Take Rhett for his 15 month check up and he is in the 97 percentile
5. Exhaustion and 24/7 nausea set in
6. Attend one of several WR football games with all 3 boys… in Tatum
7. Lead one of 3 RtI all-day meeting days at work
8. Go on first family (all 5 of us) camping trip in trailer to Martin Creek SP
9. Rhett gets Roseola; I connect the rash to all the dirt he ate while camping
10. Craving for salads… then the indigestion that comes with them
11. See a ‘blob’ on the sonogram… shadow in the back scares Jake and I at first… but there’s just ONE!
12. Teacher workshop for the new standardized test the state decides is ‘best’
13. Rhett successfully sits in timeout for 1 minute, then hugs and kisses
14. Rangers lose World Series for 2nd year in a row… Jake on suicide watch
15. Cancel 5K. I’ll do it next year!
16. Birthday party for Will at Mazzio’s with 5 little boys… then a campout and hog hunting (not me)
17. Gradually being forced to let go of my OCD tendencies of a clean, tidy house… stressed
18. Annual Jackson Halloween trick-or-treating hayride; Mantracker, Greaser and Zombie football player were the choices this year
19. Continue 3 mornings a week 3.5 mile jogs with neighbor Ashley at 5 am
20. Will turns 7! Lasagna and cake with the grandparents at our house!
21. Will joins All A Honor Roll Club!
22. Notice boys have no pants to wear because they’re all too short… clean out closets
23. Will gets Fifth’s Disease
24. I rush to Tyler for blood work to check my immunity… comes out fine
25. Cole, rebelling against nap time at school, uses crayons to write the alphabet on the floor
26. WR Bond election comes out a YES!
27. See 11 week baby on sonogram…. ‘quite the little mover’ are my Dr’s words…. beautiful
28. Go to Danville Corn maze with Nonnie and the boys…. get on the news 🙂
29. Will attends GT Imagination Fair at UT Tyler
30. Pour milk over a bowl of cheese Nips
31. Hire former cleaning lady to come back…. every week.. only half of the chores…I still have laundry
32. Nausea subsides, energy coming back…. Momma’s alive! Second Trimester!
33. Decide to call this baby “#4″…. names are too confusing anyways
34. Will receives first love letter at school…. heads straight to the trash
35. Rhett uses the word “Momma” for everything
36. Spend weekend with Amy and go to UH/SMU game for Cheer Alumni reunion
37. Thanksgiving at our house… 16 people. Wonderful!
38. Take down Fall decor and put up Christmas all in same day… with 4 loads of laundry
39. Jake and Cole go hunting and get an 8 pointer. Cole ‘shot some coons and skunks’ 🙂
40. Almost black out while teaching a class. Come to find out my blood pressure was 88/55 🙂 I’m calm
41. Christmas Program at LC
42. Hear #4’s heartbeat… 146 bpm. Awesome.
43. Semester exams
44. 2 weeks off from school!
46. Find Rhett laying in a pool of diarrhea early in the morning in in his crib… diarrhea lasts 4 days and counting
47. Jake on 4th over- night hunting trip
I love lists. But even better, I’m going to LOVE lists like this years from now, when all of these little calendar details are forgotten. Cole’s funny quotes, “Are there bathrooms in Heaven?”, Rhett’s new facial expressions and words, Will growing into a stubborn, successful little boy, and Jake and I looking a bit tired, maybe cranky, but really loving every minute of it all!
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