Category: Daily

Alaethia woke me up at 3:30am for some milk and I couldn’t sleep from the horrible stinging pain in my lower abdomen. I had an immense urge to pee and still, nothing. I didn’t fall asleep till around 4:30. I felt like death warmed over at 5:20 when my alarm went off. I was going to try and tough it out till today, the day of my actual prenatal appointment but no…I felt awful and called in. I couldn’t get any actual sleep since I had to wait till 6am to call Mrs. V. about my absence and then wait till 6:30am to report my absence.

Jaylen woke up before I even went in there to wake him up. He had diarrhea. He said he was too sick to go to school and had stomach cramps…then asked if he could play video games. Um, no. I told him he could stay, but no games since he was to use that time to recover from illness. At the last minute he decides he wants to go to school, so fine. I told him to call if he still felt ill. Mary took them to school and I got to sleep for 30 minutes before Alaethia woke up. Good thing she was in a good mood.

I made chorizo and egg tacos for breakfast and coffee. I woke Mario up, who freaked out because I was still there (he thought I was waking him up at 6 LOL). I got dressed and ate and left to the doctor after Mario left to work.

When I was signing up and saying hello to everyone I asked if I could have my prenatal appointment that day since I was to have it today anyway. They said sure.

Took an hour and a half for them to call me in, but I didn’t mind too much since I was reading. I had to squeeze my legs together from the pain though; I still felt as bad as the night before.

They called me in and I got weighed (133.4 *gulp*) and gave them a urine sample. When the doctor came in to see me he said I must barely be getting the infection because hardly anything came up in the specimen! Shoot, if that’s how it feels when it’s barely starting out, I don’t even want to know what a full-blown UTI feels like! I only ever get them when I’m pregnant, and never have they felt like this!

I took out my camera to take video of the ultrasound—because today was the day I’d find out the gender!! The doctor starts rolling the wand around my belly, taking measurements, showing me the beautiful heartbeat and showing me various parts of the little body. And yes! He starts looking for the privates; every which way he’d move the wand, trying to get a view from every angle. But Baby wouldn’t let us see! Dr. C. even went as far as jiggling my stomach back and forth with the wand to wake up the baby, but nope, nothing worked! He said we’d check again in two weeks when they do the AFP.

They gave me my antibiotic prescription and let me know they were moving offices by my next appointment…to MISSION!!! Not cool. I hate driving all the way over there and it’s going to be so inconvenient; I’m going to have to call in half a day for every appointment! I’m going to test it out my next appointment and see if I get there on time (by 4:00) after picking the boys up at 3:20. It takes about 20 minutes to drive over there…no, maybe around 25. I might just make it.

On the way to the pharmacy I call Mario and let him know how his baby wants to keep us in suspense. I call Mary to tell her the same (I didn’t call Mom because she won’t hear me over the phone; would rather tell her in person). 5 minutes into our conversation she asks if Jaylen’s called. I tell her no, he hasn’t, and then the other line beeps. It’s Jaylen’s school nurse; she’s got him in the office because he feels sick again. I told her I’d be right there.

After I pick Jaylen up and we park in the drive way I get a phone call. It says District of Colombia. WTF? I answer and it’s the Border Patrol investigator trying to get ahold of Mario. I give him Mario’s cell number.

I’d spoken to Sally the day before and we’d made plans so that she could come over and pick up Bobo, Jose’s goose who will now be Sally’s, and we made a date to meet at Olive Garden. Mario promptly calls me back after speaking to the investigator asking for a favor: ironed clothes dropped off at his job site because he was meeting with him in person. I ironed his clothes, quickly ate lunch, and unfortunately had to cancel plans with Sally since I was going to be driving back and forth all over the place. We decided Sunday would probably be better.

Jaylen went along with me and he fell asleep on the way. I think that’s why he likes to be in the car…it helps him sleep. We dropped Mario’s stuff off and he and Jorge showed us the massive house that’s their current project: a 5 bedroom house on two lots in a fancy subdivision. I’d love to see it complete! We went back home and chilled out for a little bit and then picked up Eenan.

I didn’t get to rest at all, but I was feeling much better by the end of the day. Poor Mom and Mary had both caught Jaylen’s 24-hour bug, so they weren’t doing too good. When Mario got home he told me how the investigator said it’ll be another 5 days of the background check and then a month or less till they call him to the Academy. I’m so nervous!!

I did not want to get up in the morning. I lay in bed after the alarm went off and then I threw myself on the couch and vegged out there for a while. I was dragging. I even made some coffee that morning. At least breakfast was already ready: barbacoa left over from the breakfast Mom treated us to the day before. I miraculously got into my truck right on time, at least.

I get to work and realize I’m still wearing my stinky, dirty house flip-flops. OMG! My first thought is that Mrs. V’s going to send me home to change. When we were still located at Nellie I’d done the same thing and she’d sent me home (not meanly) to change without clocking out since I lived so nearby. Not this time though!

As I’m walking my pants are rolling under my belly uncomfortably because either my belly’s shrinking or my Belly Band stretched out (I was wearing my pre-pregnancy pants). At least I managed to clock in on time.

I walk into the library, turn to my left to turn on the lights and…the air conditioning’s not working–again. IT literally feels like a sauna. Ugh.

Three of my students came in and helped me take the chairs off the tables (since they weigh about 50 lbs. each and are too heavy for me to lift). I tell them its okay, to stop because it’s super hot in there. One of them already had drops of sweat on his forehead. They said they were fine. I seriously felt like I’d pass out. I decided that if the air wasn’t fixed by 10:30 (our half-day) I was going home.

I tried not to move at all. The boys that were helping me had propped the doors open with chairs, so it started to get a tad cooler. I read for a little bit and just monitored the kids who were checking out. The air was fixed by 9:22. And it was raining out (the hallway was beginning to flood—eek) and we had a slight cold front. It instantly put me in a better mood. I mostly checked out dictionaries to the ELA teachers and thankfully some substitutes helped me wheel them out. The day went by very quickly thankfully.

Mario got home late and told me parts of his day were pretty shitty, too. I think it was the weather.

I went to sleep feeling an uncomfortable pain in my lower abdomen. I knew it wasn’t round ligament pain because I know what that feels like, and this was nothing like it. It was sharp, burning and sort of in my bladder area and I had this incredible urge to pee every 5 minutes…but it would only trickle out. I had a darn UTI, I knew it. Sorry if that’s TMI.

Mario and I were debating for a while whether we should fix up our old e-machines desktop computer and that day we finally decided to buy the hard drive it needed to work again. The moms stayed with the kiddos while we went to Office Max, where we saw a 500g ATA hard drive on sale for $99 in the ads. We got the hard drive and Norton. Turned out we got the wrong hard drive. We were starving, so we decided to exchange it after we ate. Mario asked where I wanted to go and I hinted Kumori, but I knew he wouldn’t want to go. But then he starts turning into the lane and he stops at Kumori! I was thrilled. It was turning out to be such a great day. The weather was nice and overcast and I just love days like that.

We ordered some spicy calamari and Mario got some Yakimeshi Beef (fried rice with beef and veggies). He loved it. I joked that I’d probably starve if I had to eat rice with chopsticks all the time; my rice kept falling all over the place.

I ordered my usual rolls, the Fiesta Rolls. Mario couldn’t decide what he wanted. He said he liked the rolls I took him a while back, the Earth Rolls, which consist of fried rice, spicy shrimp, veggies and cream cheese but he hates cream cheese. I told him he could just order without it. That’s what I do—order my Fiesta Rolls without the fried salmon skin, yuck. We had a really nice time, just us in the quiet, dark restaurant enjoying the rain that had just started pouring. I couldn’t stop grinning at him across the table. I was still in complete disbelief that we’d spent three whole days together (well, half of Friday since I was working). But still, it was fantastic!

We went back to exchange the hard drive but ended up returning altogether because they didn’t have the one we needed. It was quickly starting to flood; one thing I don’t miss about living in McAllen. Adan told us to go to Comp USA because they most likely carried the ATA hard drive we needed. I hadn’t been to Comp USA at all since they relocated. The store’s HUGE. We found a 400gig for $79! I was in love.

We went to Walmart to get another DVD shelf to match the nice one we bought a few months ago. The old one we had was rickety and I was terrified that it would fall on top of Alaethia, since she has this obsession with ruining my DVDs at the moment. We got a few more things we needed and then went to H-E-B for groceries. We got home, I cleaned up, did laundry, dishes, and all the other housework. Got the kids in the shower and didn’t even iron. I packed myself some Hot Pockets for work, which I was craving. They’re livesavers. Adan and Mario were chilling outside with Jorge and Jose by the time we went to bed. Aly wouldn’t go to sleep at all; Mom let her sleep while we were in town. We were up till 1am! Then she woke me up at 3:30 for a glass of milk. I couldn’t fall back to sleep and just tossed and turned. I hate that! Needless to say I was exhausted in the morning!