Category: Funny

New Year’s Day! I couldn’t believe it was already 2009. Which meant it was January, which meant that it was all downhill with my pregnancy. I’d have 3 more weeks of work and then BAM! The baby would be here!

We all woke up around noon. No one was here yet, which was good because something happened during the night and the menudo wasn’t ready in the morning. Aside from the menudo, Elda made Mexican hot chocolate, yum. I had like 3 glass-fulls.

We chilled out at Mary’s most of the day and had menudo for lunch. I came back home and to my bedroom an hour later and started looking through papers and receipts. That’s one of my biggest organizational problems: allowing documents to stacking up and saving crap I could throw away. And that’s because I have a file drawer especially for all that stuff in my desk.

Later in the evening I was in the bathroom and Mario was sitting on the sofa on his laptop. I heard the all-too familiar Velcro of Alaethia’s diaper. Her wonderful father was right there and didn’t notice that she removed her diaper…and pooped on floor. I couldn’t believe it. I stuck her in the bath and Mario sheepishly cleaned up her poo. Couldn’t have pooped on the tile either, no. She pooped right on the rug LOL. Once she was all fresh and clean with a new set of PJ’s she crawled into her daybed to watch The Wizard of Oz. As I’m walking out the door into the hall I hear a gasp—she’d spilled her cup of milk all over herself in her bed. I’m getting quite used to doing laundry at 11pm.

Mario and I spent the evening watching movies. That’s what I missed most about my days as a stay-at-home mom: the extra time I’d get to spend with Mario. Can’t do that when I am working because I have to be up so darn early. Soon, though. Soon.

So Hurricane Dolly came and went. We all expected this huge disaster, because that’s what they were making it out to be, but luckily it only rained, became windy, and a few trees fell over and that was that. Well, for our area anyway. I know South Padre, Port Isabel, Brownsville and Harlingen were really battered by the storm. I need to call Dad tomorrow and see how he’s doing (totally forgot to today =\)…it said on the news that in his area it rained 13 inches! It flooded badly in some other small towns, too.

We spent most of the day yesterday cooped up at Mary’s. Well, the kids, mom and I did anyway. Mario was outside with his dad, Adan and later Jason drinking some beers and enjoying the rain and breeze. We didn’t have any thunder or lightning that I know of and the lights only flickered and went out twice for about 3 seconds.

Mario didn’t have to go to work again today because there wasn’t any electricity at his workplace. So he and Jorge (his Nino) spent most of the day chopping down the mesquite tree that uprooted.

My dad-in-law had actually been talking about getting rid of that tree because it’s so messy, but he joked, “I didn’t want to do it this week!”

Mario and I took a quick drive around town to assess the damage. Thankfully we only saw two uprooted trees:

I have so many things to do these next two weeks around the house. I need to unclutter my bathroom and convince Mario to fix the patch of wall he had to remove in order to fix our shower pipes, um…about a month ago. I won’t bore you with the details, but yes, I’ve got tons to do! Eenan’s birthday’s coming up and for the first time ever, we’re not having a proper party for him at say, Peter Piper Pizza the way we usually do. We’re just taking him out to eat at his favorite restaurant. With everything going on I didn’t have time to plan, nor did I save money. But he’s okay with our new plan, so that’s what counts.

I feel like having some Olive Garden…they’re having that soup and salad special for $5.99 again! Oh! And speaking of food, a while back I mentioned that my doctor said my diabetes results were normal, but to keep monitoring my sugars daily, just in case. Well, sometimes it does spike up, but rarely. I’ve been eating junk food lately, such as yesterday. We were bored and eating junk all day long. I kept checking my sugar and I was fine! Then this morning while having lunch at Mary’s I had a small amount of regular Dr. Pepper (I’ve been leery of diet drinks and aspartame since I found out I’m pregnant. I don’t know what the effects may be?) and then had a leftover Pop Tart of hers (my first Pop Tart in 3 months!) and when I checked my sugar I was fine! So hopefully I won’t have to worry too much about it during my pregnancy. I was terrified they’d tell me I’d have to inject myself with insulin, but I’m praying that’s not the case. We’ll see during my 28th week checkup, when they make me drink that orange sugar liquid.

Oh and one last quick thing about Alaethia. She loves to sing. She randomly starts singing “Happy Birthday” and “Twinkle Little Star”. She loves to sing while I’m changing her diaper. I started teaching her “Itsy Bitsy Spider” today and she caught on really quickly! Even the hand motions!

Then she was hitting the TV with the Wii sensor (OMG, I know) and I took it from her and scolded her, “You don’t hit the TV with anything, Alaethia, you understand?” And without missing a beat she turns to Jaylen who’s sitting on the sofa, points her finger and him and tells him, “‘Tand? ‘Tand?” as if he’s the one who was in trouble LOL.

She turned 1 1/2 today and I’m just so amazed by her and everything she does. She’s so brilliant I’m hoping she’ll make potty training a walk in the park for me ;).

I left the darn doctor’s office at 6:15. I was sitting there for two hours just to see the doctor for 15 minutes. And to top it off, they charged me my co-pay, which would have been completely avoided had they just talked to me on the damn phone!

BUT, I have good news. My sugar is controlled. The lab results came in completely normal, even the diabetes part. My Hemoglobin A1C was as normal as could be, which freaked the doctor out because according to my monitor readings my levels had been jumping all over the place. Well, a week ago. I’ve been pretty controlled the past few days. She said I had two choices: get on a very low-dose medication or continue doing the 3-hour diet. I chose DIET, of course. I’ve lost almost 4 lbs. in a week, just from cutting out all that junk food and tons of carbs. I weighed 128.7 when I went in two Thursdays ago in the 1st, when I was sick. Now I weigh 124.9. Woo!! Now I just gotta start exercising, but I gotta get a treadmill first.

The doctor said what most likely triggered the diabetes was that I was going so long without eating. My sugar was dropping dramatically (hence the shakes, dizziness and racing heart) and since our body’s natural defense is to accumulate all the stored sugar when we’re starving, it would compensate and my sugar would spike up. She said to monitor my sugar the way I have been for the next 2 weeks and we’d see what happens. I have to keep it under 120, which I’ve managed to do the past 5 days or so. My last spike was last Monday when it was at 194. Scary.

So I’m glad. I admit, it’s hard as hell turning my back to donuts, Oreos, and cake (especially ice cream cake from Dairy Queen *sniff*) but I’ve been doing good for the most part. Adding lots of veggies and fruits to our diet and I seriously feel good. I made some badass chicken sandwiches tonight for dinner. Mario got home early so that was a nice surprise.

It was hilarious. When I was defrosting the chicken breasts and he was cutting up avocado I pulled open the curtains on the door and looked–rather suspiciously–from side to side. I didn’t mean to, it’s just this habit I have. He says, “Okay. What was that all about.” Without missing a beat I say, “You’re home too early. Warning the sancho.” And he started saying how I was going to start flicking the lights on and off, S.O.S.-style, to warn him. And then we were going to hear these weird owl-type hoots, which would be the sancho letting me know he got the message and was leaving. Well, I thought it was hilarious. You had to be there.

Mario started running (yes, running) tonight. I hope he continues. He’s going to start eating better, too. I’m glad. If he could only stop smoking it would be GREAT.

Okay. Going to sleep. Alaethia’s brushing her ‘teefs’ and doesn’t seem to be sleepy at all. I just asked her to give me her toothbrush and she said, “I can’t!” which is her favorite phrase as of late. It gets kind of annoying. I had to wrestle it away from her. She’s strong for a 1-year-old.

Anyway, we have a Book Fair tomorrow at work. This shall be interesting. Goodnight.