Belly in Disguise (10 weeks/1 day)

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Belly go down!  Go down belly!  Little people shouldn’t be this bloated, especially when you need to wait until the end of the first trimester to tell people.  Okay?!  You must not have gotten the memo.  You must find joy in having my pants feel the need to unbutton the top button.  You laugh at me teaching Zumba with my stomach tucked in!

Well guess what!  I found a pair of pants that can hide you for awhile.  So take that!!

(Excuse, part of being pregnant is being emotional, and obviously I’m going through a little bit of that right now!)

Pregnancy, Insomnia and Bloating – Oh my! (10 weeks)

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Yuk, yuk, yuk!  I love to sleep.  Sleep is one of my closer friends in life. So why are we having so many issues with each other?  Why does she no longer want to hang out with me?  I keep trying to get in contact with her, but for some reason Sleep always sends Insomnia instead.   Help me please!!

Our First Thanksgiving (9 weeks/6 days)

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Milton was able to fly in the afternoon of Thanksgiving for our first married Thanksgiving together.  We enjoyed eating lunch with just the two of us and later went around down visiting family and friends.  On Friday, his mother and brother drove down from IN and his mother brought some amazing food (including chocolate cake!).

Milton saw many of my videos for the first time and felt a little left out so we made a video together!

Tis the Season

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Tis the Season

For some, this has been a great year with a lot of positive life changes and experiences.  For others, it seems to be the extreme opposite.  They’ve experienced personal loss and setbacks and are anxiously awaiting a new year and change.

Regardless of which of these categories you fall in, it’s still a time to give thanks.  The fact that you’re still living and breathing on this earth is reason enough to give praise.  If you’re making plans to eat Thanksgiving dinner with someone/anyone – you are blessed and should be thankful!

Although I love Facebook and keeping updated with my family/friends, there have been a lot of nasty, gross spam images posted on various people’s pages.  Some people feel the need of Facebook is to dog out the people that have dogged them out, but it’s sometimes a little too much.

So, I decided for 90 days to participate in a “90 Days of Thanks” initiative and I hope you’ll join me.  Starting December 1, 2011 and ending February 29, 2012, we are going to spend each day giving thanks for something in our lives.  We often think about the obvious reasons to give thanks (friends, family, job etc..) but when you get past those first 30 days, you really have to think about even the small things around you that you’re thankful for.

Get a piece of paper or a calendar and try to keep track of what you’ve mentioned each day.  If you’re on Facebook, starting on December 1 (Day 1), make sure sometime throughout that day you write “Day 1: I am thankful for ________!”  If you’re a Facebook hater or avoider, this can be a great time for self reflection in a notebook each night before you head to bed.

The more we’re able to appreciate the things/people that surround us, the less we’ll take each other for granted and the more we’ll seek not only to improve our own lives but those lives of the people around us.  The more we spend concentrating on our personal positives instead of being absorbed in everyone else’s business, the more we can realize that until we support others, we’ll never be able to move ahead.

Let’s take 90 days to live life and love life! Make it your gift to yourself this holiday season!
November 2011

World’s Largest Uterus? (9 weeks/1 day)

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Nobody said that being pregnant was 100% cute.  Actually, if you ask most women, they’ll tell you the didn’t really like being pregnant and it’s highly overrated.

In addition to the regular funky symptoms like nausea and tiredness, I’ve also noticed that I’ve been most constipated.  Talk about you at your “not best” – there are no pretty faces that you make when pregnant.

I also have had mild cramps lately and the ever-so-informative Google told me that (as long as there is no bleeding), it’s normal because my uterus is expanding.  For a couple of days I felt like I was in the running for the world’s largest uterus ’cause those pains kept on coming. That just means Baby Turner is coming further along and is cooking just fine!

Missing my parents and reflections (8 weeks/6 days)

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The IUS Banquet I attended this evening was simply amazing.  The production was over the top and it was a grand way to celebrate 70 years.  I’m glad my mother was able to be a part of over 30 years in the IUS nursing department.  I loved being there to represent her, but missed her at the same time.  I started to reflect on raising my kid(s) without my parents and know how much they would have loved/spoiled Baby Turner.

I also started thinking about the different my parents made in the community and now am doing some self reflection on what I want to do to leave my own personal mark!