Category: Family

Last night, when everyone was over for dinner, we got to talking about babies again. It’s like the main topic of our conversations now. Yadira will be due in April, Annie wants to try when she turns 30 next July, Elda and Jose want to try and we want to try. Well, we’re “considering” trying .

Noelia printed out Ancient Chinese Birth Charts for everyone, including herself, and we all started calculating and highlighting like crazy. So, if we do end up trying, my greatest chances of having a girl when I turn 24 are in June, August, and November. The rest of the months I’ll supposedly end up having a boy. And with my luck…

I keep thinking, though…last time Mario and I were trying for a baby, when we conceived Jaylen, I was so hopeful about having a girl and then turns out we’re having a boy and I had all these complications. What if it God was punishing me for being selfish? I hate to think that, but it’s the thought I go back to all the time. After I found out we might lose Jaylen because of the bad chromosome that was showing up on the AFP test I just started praying that it didn’t matter what I had, I just wanted the baby to be healthy. I don’t want the same thing to happen this time .

If we do end up with a boy though, it would be really cute to see what he looks like since Eenan and Jaylen look so different :).

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I’m sneaking away from my nightly chores (I should be ironing and getting ready to take a shower right now) because I just got such exciting news from my husband.

I don’t know if it’s all the baby talk or the fact that Yadira’s pregnant and the whole family’s just ecstatic that there’ll be a new baby here soon (or not soon enough!) but Mario just came up behind me, put his chin on my head and said, “After you finish school, I’ll consider having a baby.”

I was in total shock and couldn’t believe what I’d heard. I spun around and asked, “WHAT? Really? Where’d that come from?”

“Don’t ask, just accept it”, and he smiled as he walked out the door.

This is totally unexpected. My body, not so much me, as been ready for a baby for quite some time. This means I have to start getting in shape, too. I weighed myself at Jaylen’s doctor yesterday and I weigh exactly 120 lbs. (although the scale at home says 116, darnit!). I don’t want to be at the weight I’m at now and get pregnant. With both the boys I gained 20 lbs. with each pregnancy; if I gain that much this time (and I will!) I’ll be 140 lbs. and 4’11” tall. Not good!

It’s like some kind of sign or something. All week the women in the family have been talking about babies when we get together. I was reading pregnancy magazines at Jaylen’s doctor’s office last night. We especially got into baby talk tonight. Elda wants to try, Annie might be pregnant and of course everyone’s hoping Mario and I will try soon since “Jaylen’s getting older”. The plan I’d formed in my head was that I’d try when Jaylen was 4. I graduate in April and he turns 4 in April!

Granted, he said he’d consider it and the word consider doesn’t mean it’ll actually happen. It’s still nice to think that it might.

The only two things that I’m worried about if we do decide to conceive are that I’ll have another complicated pregnancy and that they won’t want me at a new job newly pregnant. I don’t want to think about that right now though. I just want to bask in this lovely idea :).

Jaylen’s doing much better. I took him to the doctor last night since he had his 3rd fever since Monday. They checked him for Strep, Flu, and gave him a blood test but all was negative/healthy. Dr. Z gave him Amoxillin, Motrin, congestion medication and ear drops just in case, since he was complaining about his ears and throat. It took forever at the appointment, but I’m just glad they actually saw Jaylen. We took his prescription in (I saw Johanna’s hubby there!) and that took a while so we didn’t get home till 10p.m.

I was up waiting for his fever to subside for an hour and a half last night. I kept praying to God and checking up on him every 10 minutes. One of the kids toys mysteriouly went off on it’s own and I thought to myself, “God, are you giving me a sign? Is he okay?” So I got up and checked on him and his fever was gone :).

I should do my chores now. Ricci’s going to stop by to get our assignment (she didn’t go to school today) and to pick up some stuff. G’nite!

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It’s the 3rd day of the new year and already I’m so pissed I’m almost hyperventilating.

I checked the mail today since I didn’t have to drop Ricci off and got a letter from the Auto Finance place. Turns out our $250 payment is late again, yet we gave Mary the money when it was due (it’s under her name). It also says something about the Current Payoff being $3,292.65–what does current payoff mean? Is that what we’ve “paid off” or is it what’s due? I REALLY hope it’s what we owe, because we’ve been paying $250 a month on this piece of crap since March 19, 2001. We should have already paid–including the down payment–at least $13,500 on a 98 Nissan Sentra. We’re supposed to finish paying it off March 19, 2007 and I’m estimating that we still owe $3,500. I’m just hoping the $3,292.65 is what we still owe, not what we’ve paid.

I thought we were supposed to finish this year, but I was wrong–it’s next year. The thing is, we keep getting these darn “late payment” letters when we give the payment when we’re supposed to, or when we’re told the payment’s already been made. I even found a letter stating that they were ready to repossess because of non-payment! We stay broke just so that we can make all our bills on time, dammit. I don’t know what’s going on.

I really want to finish paying this car off. We really need to get a new car as the darn Prelude’s still having problems and Mario needs a car for work. They’re hoping to get John’s car up and running before Noelia starts school (Mario’s currently using her car), but that’s proving to be a problem as well. Why do Honda’s have to be such pains??

Anyway, I really needed to vent but I still don’t feel any better . We need to change banks too, so I can’t get an online account up and running for the car payment either. I really want, no NEED, to know what’s going on!

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