So no update from me since the end of September... wow how 3 months fly by.
The last few months have brought us Halloween (a fabulous Holiday preceded by a week of vacation off work and Emily coming to stay with us,) Thanksgiving and even Christmas. Tomorrow is New Years Eve, then New Years Day and in a few short weeks the arrival of our first child. YIKES!!!
It's so interesting to me that all of a sudden it seems like every woman on the planet is pregnant. There was a period of several years where I think only my closest friends had babies and now all of a sudden a boom. Or it could possibly be that I'm a little less angry with hearing and seeing that other women are pregnant since I too have been blessed.
There was another manager at work who was pregnant, due 3 days after me who had her baby a few days ago. I was feeling kind of jealous but the more I think about it, the more glad I am that Lillian is taking her time to come out closer to when she's supposed to. If she came now, it would create havoc with work and my time off and plus, she'll be ever more perfect and developed when she does come out. I'm still over anxious to meet her.
We had another dr appointment today, it was my second 1 week. I love that now until I meet her I get to hear that little heartbeat going so fast. It's so amazing. Adam got to go with me, it's nice when he gets to be there even if the appointment does only take a few minutes. I know that he likes being there with me. He has been so wonderful. He takes great care of me and I have to admit I'm going to miss some of the attention and extra special care when I'm no longer pregnant.
Bags for the hospital are kinda sorta packed. Lillian needs a few things washed first and I just need to figure out what I haven't packed that I may need and we can get it all put in the jeep and be ready to go. At home, all we really need is her bedding washed and to move the stroller out of her bedroom and find a place for a few other things and that will be good to go. Oh wait, no it won't. We still need to take care of Christmas things and wash bottles and pick things up. It doesn't seem like much to do, but at the same time it feels like mounds of work to be done and seriously I have no desire to do anything. I'm just trying to get through my last days at McDonalds before my leave and even though I am working 8 hour days instead of longer ones it's ridiculously hard to make it through.
My mom is coming down on the 9th. It's my first day of leave and she plans on getting the finishing things done around the house for us (bless her soul.) And that way also someone will definitely be around in case I need a ride to the hospital and Adam is at work. I'm super excited that National City (now a part of PNC, haha) is going to let Adam officially start his vacation week once Lily actually makes her appearance into this world. It's going to be wonderful. We plan on taking trips to visit family once she's here. It'll be nice for me not to have to worry about my work schedule for a while and Adam's is really easy to deal with.
Our first trip will definitely be to Ohio because we want to make sure that Grandma Fulop (Adams grandma) gets to see Lily before she gets too bad. It's been a hard few months and especially few weeks with Grandma because her body seems to be giving up on her. We pray that she makes it as long as she can for our own selfish reasons, but for love.
Ok, so now the stupid kid next door won't stop revving his stupid little engine and driving me nuts, I can't focus. I must blog more later. Maybe I'll save the page and I'll be reminded more often.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
6 months
So this last saturday, I made it to 24 weeks. So I'm officially 6 months pregnant. Too bad there are many months left to go. I've read in books and magazines that I'm supposed to have my energy back by now. I am convinced however, that my energy is gone forever. I want to get more stuff done between home and work, but I just can't seem to. Good thing there is Adam. He's gotten the basement done so we moved to the office down there and then for Lily's room he cleaned the carpet, painted the room (it's baby violet, super pretty), and put up new blinds. I cleaned out the closet and bought some drawers for her clothes. Adam's parents bought Lily's crib for us and we were able to pick it up in Portage rather than having to bring it home from Toledo. So, we have that put together, that was quite an adventure but I'm glad it's something that we did together.
Adam bought some shelves he's going to paint and decorate for her and I decorated some wood letters to spell out Lilys room to put on her door.
The border that matches the bedding set we want I was able to find for a good price, so I got that now I just need to hope that we actually get the bedding set before it isn't available anymore because it is being discontinued. Anyway, things are really coming along for her room.
We're going to be taking some childbirth and parenting classes. Some people think it's stupid for us to want to take the classes we're going to take, but we're excited. We're taking the classes through the hospital where Lily will be born. We're taking basic prenatal, baby basics, successful breastfeeding and Adam is going to daddy boot camp. I can't wait. Every new thing we do makes it all seem so much closer. I'm not a very patient person. The excitement may be too much for me to handle.
On a another fun note, October means baby showers. I'm excited to see family, friends and celebrate my joy of Lily coming with all of them. I wish time would go by a little faster. October also means 2 more of my favorite things: halloween and vacation. Unfortunately it's my last vacation of the year, but I just have to remember that my next vacation also includes maternity leave. So in January, I will be off at least 9 weeks with pay and then I get extra vacation next year because it's my fifth year as a manager. That is also very exciting.
So that's my update for now. We'll see what happens next.
Adam bought some shelves he's going to paint and decorate for her and I decorated some wood letters to spell out Lilys room to put on her door.
The border that matches the bedding set we want I was able to find for a good price, so I got that now I just need to hope that we actually get the bedding set before it isn't available anymore because it is being discontinued. Anyway, things are really coming along for her room.
We're going to be taking some childbirth and parenting classes. Some people think it's stupid for us to want to take the classes we're going to take, but we're excited. We're taking the classes through the hospital where Lily will be born. We're taking basic prenatal, baby basics, successful breastfeeding and Adam is going to daddy boot camp. I can't wait. Every new thing we do makes it all seem so much closer. I'm not a very patient person. The excitement may be too much for me to handle.
On a another fun note, October means baby showers. I'm excited to see family, friends and celebrate my joy of Lily coming with all of them. I wish time would go by a little faster. October also means 2 more of my favorite things: halloween and vacation. Unfortunately it's my last vacation of the year, but I just have to remember that my next vacation also includes maternity leave. So in January, I will be off at least 9 weeks with pay and then I get extra vacation next year because it's my fifth year as a manager. That is also very exciting.
So that's my update for now. We'll see what happens next.
Monday, August 31, 2009
so i'm not a great blogger
Somehow I just knew that I wouldn't be able to keep up with the whole blog thing. Most of the time I don't remember to do it and if I do remember I'm too stinkin tired from work. But all excuses aside, here I am now giving an update.
We had another ultrasound on the 24th and it was the big one. Our baby looks healthy and everything is going well. We found out after some pretending to be modest that we're having a girl. My father in law says it's going to be a girl because he didn't like the name we had picked out for a boy. So anyway.... our little girl, Lillian Hazel Fulop is still set to arrive January 16, 2010. I feel like the date can't come fast enough even though so many people tell me to just enjoy the ride I'm on now.
I have very little patience for things that I get excited about. We've been registering for baby goods and my 3 shower dates are planned. That's right, 3. I get one October 17th for the Fulop family in Toledo, one October 24th for the Fish family in Chesaning and then one November 1st for all my peeps in Kalamazoo. We've registered at Babies R Us, Burlington Coat Factory and Walmart. Most of our items are registered at Babies R Us. The registry ladies keep telling us that we haven't registered for nearly enough stuff. It's not all that easy to register. I don't want to seem greedy but wow, this baby is going to need a lot of stuff.
On another note, we have another nephew. Jakob was born last tuesday afternoon. I'll look forward to meeting him when my parents and Emmy and Jake come down here for a couple days in a couple of weeks. At least he'll be about 3 weeks old when I see him and not 3 months like it was when I had to meet the twins (Jack and Miranda.) I just got to meet them a week ago for their baptism. They were wonderful. I have great nieces and nephews... all 6 of them. We've got Connor who just started first grade, Grace who turns 4 in 2 weeks, Emily who just turned 3 and is learning about the adventures of being a big sister, Jack and Miranda who just turned 4 months, then Jake at 1 week. Pretty exciting that the next baby will be Lily.
Adam has been great. I'm only half way done with the pregnancy, but it's exhausting working 45-50 hours a week (i just finished a 7 day stretch and have a 9 day one coming up) and being a baby making factory. I'm very lucky to have a husband who is understanding and picks up some slack for me. He's been working on finishing up the room in the basement for the new office so our upstairs office can be turned into the baby's room. I'm very proud of him.
That's my news for now. Overall, not too much happening yet. I'll try to do a better job of blog updating.
We had another ultrasound on the 24th and it was the big one. Our baby looks healthy and everything is going well. We found out after some pretending to be modest that we're having a girl. My father in law says it's going to be a girl because he didn't like the name we had picked out for a boy. So anyway.... our little girl, Lillian Hazel Fulop is still set to arrive January 16, 2010. I feel like the date can't come fast enough even though so many people tell me to just enjoy the ride I'm on now.
I have very little patience for things that I get excited about. We've been registering for baby goods and my 3 shower dates are planned. That's right, 3. I get one October 17th for the Fulop family in Toledo, one October 24th for the Fish family in Chesaning and then one November 1st for all my peeps in Kalamazoo. We've registered at Babies R Us, Burlington Coat Factory and Walmart. Most of our items are registered at Babies R Us. The registry ladies keep telling us that we haven't registered for nearly enough stuff. It's not all that easy to register. I don't want to seem greedy but wow, this baby is going to need a lot of stuff.
On another note, we have another nephew. Jakob was born last tuesday afternoon. I'll look forward to meeting him when my parents and Emmy and Jake come down here for a couple days in a couple of weeks. At least he'll be about 3 weeks old when I see him and not 3 months like it was when I had to meet the twins (Jack and Miranda.) I just got to meet them a week ago for their baptism. They were wonderful. I have great nieces and nephews... all 6 of them. We've got Connor who just started first grade, Grace who turns 4 in 2 weeks, Emily who just turned 3 and is learning about the adventures of being a big sister, Jack and Miranda who just turned 4 months, then Jake at 1 week. Pretty exciting that the next baby will be Lily.
Adam has been great. I'm only half way done with the pregnancy, but it's exhausting working 45-50 hours a week (i just finished a 7 day stretch and have a 9 day one coming up) and being a baby making factory. I'm very lucky to have a husband who is understanding and picks up some slack for me. He's been working on finishing up the room in the basement for the new office so our upstairs office can be turned into the baby's room. I'm very proud of him.
That's my news for now. Overall, not too much happening yet. I'll try to do a better job of blog updating.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
oh how i've tried
My husband, bless his soul decided one day that I would be a great blogger. I tend to disagree with most everything he says, especially these days. I thought I'd try it anyway. I told myself I would get one started and I would be committed to updating it regularly. This was about 2 weeks ago. I remembered a great friend (my high school twin, Amanda) has a blog and I could use the same site. So, I created a blog and for the last 10 days the very first page has been sitting here staring at me waiting for me to put some words on the page. How's that for being a regular blogger?!?!
Good news is that I'm here now, I've got words started and now I need to update.
Our family expansion.... that's what this is about, but I guess a short history could be good for the best possible understanding of the word finally.
My husband Adam and I met 8 years ago. I never thought that 8 years with any one person could seem so short and still leave butterflies in my stomach and me wanting to spend every moment together for so many years more. Adam and I met working at Cedar Point. I thought he was obnoxious and stupid, but oh so good looking. One day I decided to make friends with Adam because I wanted him to like me and I wanted him to spend his time with me. It wasn't hard, I was fun, entertaining and a very likeable person. It wasn't long before we knew we were crazy about each other. Adam ended up not being employed at Cedar Point much longer after we got together, but he came to visit every chance he could. I'll remember that summer for the rest of my life. That was the first time we decided to share our lives together.
After that summer I went back to WMU and Adam was in Toledo. Not seeing each other because of jobs, school, friends and having to take the time to travel wasn't easy. For 2 years we were very much on again, off again. Adam worked a couple of different jobs and after his last one in Toledo had to make cuts, Adam made the decision that I never could. He moved to Kalamazoo to be with me. In July 2003 Adam made his big move to Michigan and we moved in together. That September, after all Adam had done to be with me I decided it was time to see about making that forever committment again. After attending a vigile on campus on September 11, 2003 we came home and I asked Adam to marry me. He had asked me before and I wanted to be the one to make the move this time.
March 3, 2004 I said I do and Adam said yes. No big wedding, just the two of us and a few family. I was still in school and Adam was working taking care of everything. I'll always be thankful that he did that for me. A few more years went by and I graduated from WMU and Adam and I were doing very well. We decided to start trying for a family. I talked to my dr about everything and she wanted to do a check up to make sure things would go well. But all was not well, we found out that if we wanted to have children, we would have to go through fertility treatments. Insurance didn't cover these treatments and so we saved for a while and went through them. Unfortunately none of the treatments worked and we just couldn't afford to continue. We had to face the sad truth that children would not be a part of our future. There's no kind of heartbreak like that. We began to think about fostering and adoption and went and talked to a few people but just couldn't make the commitment yet.
We spent a lot of time focusing on our nieces and nephews and children of friends. It is so great to be surrounded by wonderful children, but a little piece of our hearts would still be in pain when we did. We relaxed and didn't think about expanding our family, instead we focused on each other and our dogs.
In June 2009 I was getting pretty stressed out, I was sick all the time and tired all of the time and I just didn't feel like myself. I felt like something was really wrong and I was considering going to the dr to get checked out (you see, I'm not a big fan of seeking medical attention.) I was having a conversation with my friend Chrissy who decided that night that I needed to take a pregnancy test. That night she brought me one and to my complete surprise, it was positive. I just couldn't believe it. So, I took another. I called Adam who just couldn't believe it either and he brought me another. Well, 3 tests later I decided my body was just playing tricks on me so I went to the dr. I had a blood test done and it confirmed, but my brain still couldn't. I made an appointment with my ob-gyn and had an ultrasound done to make sure everything was on the up and up and to find out how far along I was. Having that ultrasound done was the moment I finally started to believe.
This is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me... and to Adam. We feel so blessed, so lucky and so overwhelmed with excitement. It is like nothing else in the world to be convinced you'll never know the one thing you want to most and then realize a miracle. I'm 16 1/2 weeks and do my best not to make complaints about being pregnant because no matter what, it's all worth it. So that's kind of where we are at now. This blog will be about the changes in my belly and the changes in our lives with our ever expanding family. I hope you find it entertaining, I will do my best.
Good news is that I'm here now, I've got words started and now I need to update.
Our family expansion.... that's what this is about, but I guess a short history could be good for the best possible understanding of the word finally.
My husband Adam and I met 8 years ago. I never thought that 8 years with any one person could seem so short and still leave butterflies in my stomach and me wanting to spend every moment together for so many years more. Adam and I met working at Cedar Point. I thought he was obnoxious and stupid, but oh so good looking. One day I decided to make friends with Adam because I wanted him to like me and I wanted him to spend his time with me. It wasn't hard, I was fun, entertaining and a very likeable person. It wasn't long before we knew we were crazy about each other. Adam ended up not being employed at Cedar Point much longer after we got together, but he came to visit every chance he could. I'll remember that summer for the rest of my life. That was the first time we decided to share our lives together.
After that summer I went back to WMU and Adam was in Toledo. Not seeing each other because of jobs, school, friends and having to take the time to travel wasn't easy. For 2 years we were very much on again, off again. Adam worked a couple of different jobs and after his last one in Toledo had to make cuts, Adam made the decision that I never could. He moved to Kalamazoo to be with me. In July 2003 Adam made his big move to Michigan and we moved in together. That September, after all Adam had done to be with me I decided it was time to see about making that forever committment again. After attending a vigile on campus on September 11, 2003 we came home and I asked Adam to marry me. He had asked me before and I wanted to be the one to make the move this time.
March 3, 2004 I said I do and Adam said yes. No big wedding, just the two of us and a few family. I was still in school and Adam was working taking care of everything. I'll always be thankful that he did that for me. A few more years went by and I graduated from WMU and Adam and I were doing very well. We decided to start trying for a family. I talked to my dr about everything and she wanted to do a check up to make sure things would go well. But all was not well, we found out that if we wanted to have children, we would have to go through fertility treatments. Insurance didn't cover these treatments and so we saved for a while and went through them. Unfortunately none of the treatments worked and we just couldn't afford to continue. We had to face the sad truth that children would not be a part of our future. There's no kind of heartbreak like that. We began to think about fostering and adoption and went and talked to a few people but just couldn't make the commitment yet.
We spent a lot of time focusing on our nieces and nephews and children of friends. It is so great to be surrounded by wonderful children, but a little piece of our hearts would still be in pain when we did. We relaxed and didn't think about expanding our family, instead we focused on each other and our dogs.
In June 2009 I was getting pretty stressed out, I was sick all the time and tired all of the time and I just didn't feel like myself. I felt like something was really wrong and I was considering going to the dr to get checked out (you see, I'm not a big fan of seeking medical attention.) I was having a conversation with my friend Chrissy who decided that night that I needed to take a pregnancy test. That night she brought me one and to my complete surprise, it was positive. I just couldn't believe it. So, I took another. I called Adam who just couldn't believe it either and he brought me another. Well, 3 tests later I decided my body was just playing tricks on me so I went to the dr. I had a blood test done and it confirmed, but my brain still couldn't. I made an appointment with my ob-gyn and had an ultrasound done to make sure everything was on the up and up and to find out how far along I was. Having that ultrasound done was the moment I finally started to believe.
This is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me... and to Adam. We feel so blessed, so lucky and so overwhelmed with excitement. It is like nothing else in the world to be convinced you'll never know the one thing you want to most and then realize a miracle. I'm 16 1/2 weeks and do my best not to make complaints about being pregnant because no matter what, it's all worth it. So that's kind of where we are at now. This blog will be about the changes in my belly and the changes in our lives with our ever expanding family. I hope you find it entertaining, I will do my best.
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