Yay Yay Yay!!

It's A Girl!!!!

We are so happy! I got to find out yesterday. Perfect fingers, toes, a beautiful little face and a kick to her that matches no other! I am in love with a person I haven't even met and it's only going to get better and better every day!!!

The kids started school Monday, and once I get into a routine I am going to be back with a vengance! I can't wait!! Just wanted to share!!

Happy Anniversary To Me

So yesterday was the hubby's and my 1 year anniversary. It was great. We got to have a nice at home dinner by candelight, watched a movie, I received a great foot massage... and the next day we took the kids for ice cream and got the last bit of things out of layaway for the baby. So all in all it was a terrific time! I am crocheting a "car seat blankie" that I will have to post a pattern for later, it's my own design [ahem, go me.] and it's almost done so I'll have to post a finished project! Hubby and I fought with our stroller. He laughed about the ease of putting it together, I joked and said how they know you're frazzled enough as it is, so they want to make it easy on you. Turns out that was not the case. One Hand Fold-and-Stand my BUTT. So not the case. We gave up on it, and it's in the attic until further notice. If only he knew how many other things we have to put together!!

This week and next are going to be so busy for us! Not only was yesterday our anniversary, but Thursday is my birthday. It's also school orientation day, and I am taking my 4 year old to PRE-K this year. PRE-K. I said.... PRE-K. I don't wanna. But he's way ready. So I'm excited in a way for him. After that it's the last weekend free before school starts for us here in VA, at least our county anyway. And then the day after that, we find out the sex of the baby!! All we have left to get is clothing for him/her and I'm so excited. I can't wait to find out. Hopefully these next few days will pass by quickly. My hubster thinks it's a boy. He's got a "feeling". I think it's a girl. I have that same "feeling". Hate to break it to him but my feelings have NEVER, not once, been wrong! But, there's a first time for everything I guess. We shall see.

Well I suppose that is all for now. Another 100+ day for tomorrow planned and it'll probably be spent inside again. Just too dang hot to be out there when it's that warm. And humid. The kids are sure to be wonderfully excited about that one.

Have a great night!

I am back BABY!!!!

I have to say, I've really missed blogging. I always loved doing this but right now just have not had the time. All my blogging friends kept saying "don't worry, everyone goes through phases" and I know that, but I couldn't help it. I hated not blogging but just felt like there was TOO much going on and definitely not enough time for doing it.

So, while here let me make my first announcement. The title "I am Back BABY" is to let you all know that I AM PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For everyone that had been following my blogs for a while, you know that for over a year my husband and I tried to conceive with no luck. Finally, on April 21st (shortly after my last post) I found out that we are expecting. It has been the GREATEST! We are so excited, happy, thrilled, elated -- ALL of those things. It's wonderful. The pregnancy has been keeping me busy, it's not the healthiest pregnancy ever, I'm having a couple of problems which have hindered my ability, and sometimes desire for blogging or much of anything else for that matter. But, even though my health is giving me a hard time, our baby is thriving, beautiful and healthy. And that my dear friends, is the most important thing of all!! I am 18 weeks this week, and due on January 3rd. On the 18th of this month we get to find out the sex of the baby, so we are thrilled!

Lets see... We've been busy this summer. The kids had to take a trip for a month to see their biological father for his visitation. I didn't want to send them but knew I needed to, and had to, but I had no idea I was going to be so lost without them. That was a hard 4 weeks. Joe was working alot, and I was left to my own devices all that time. Thankfully I found things to keep me busy, errands I'd put off, chores I'd neglected. I took a trip for a week up to New York with my family for a family reunion. That was alot of fun as well. I can't wait for next year. I love going to the lake.

Joe got a promotion at work, he is now Foreman. That's right, Mister Foreman. He works his patootie off and is gone even more than he was before, but he is proud of his new position as am I. He's worked very hard for this company and all of his work has paid off!

We also just moved this weekend. *BIG SIGH OF RELIEF* We finally live in a nice house, with a nice yard. There's enough room for the baby and all of us. We are proud of where we live and we could not be happier in our new home. This is just wonderful. The kids, and YES I said kid"S" start school on the 17th so next week is their last week of summer vacation. My little boy starts Pre-K this year and as happy as I am for him I am sad too. Oy. Time goes by too fast.

My crafting/cooking has not suffered, except for the month the kids were gone. Well the crafting flourished that month but the cooking did not. I barely used the microwave. How sad. I am currently working on 2 different blankets for the baby, I found an awesome car seat blanket pattern on Ravelry that I'm making and then a white lacy type blanket I'd like to take the baby home from the hospital in.

Anyway.... I think I'm done for now I can't wait to get back into the groove. The next few weeks here are going to be really busy until after school starts and things get into routine but I am so glad to be back!! Hopefully there's still a couple of people reading, or planning on it.

Happy Hump Day!

Don't You Hate It When...

You make a complete fool out of yourself?

So I took this long blog break.  I had alot of stuff going on and no time to blog.  After a couple of weeks, I decide it's time to post again.  That morning, I'm in the gas station and I see the front page of our town's paper and there's a huge picture of President Obama and it says he's coming to my area.  

I was so super excited.  I called my mom, a couple of my friends, my husband, and I'm raving about how amazing it is that he'll be coming to our area, and how much it will mean to me especially for my daughter to see him because he will be going to the school to talk to the kids about their recycling efforts.  I get my husband excited, he and all the guys at work are buzzing about it.  My friend and I are planning how we're going to manage getting up there to see him.  

I mean, I'm so excited that it brought me off my blog break to POST about it!  My first post in 3 weeks practically and I have this huge picture of my town's paper and everything.  All day we're talking about it, and I'm so busy with everything else I never bother to read the rest of the paper.

Now don't you just HATE IT when you open the paper, and on the next page it says...............

APRIL FOOLS

Yeah.  They got me good.  And now everyone gets to read how gullible I truly am.

Big News!

So, I am back.  Finally.  I didn't think I'd be gone that long but I had alot of stuff that I needed to take care of here.  All of which too personal in my mind for publishing on the 'net, but thankfully, things at my house are all back to normal and it is SOOOOOOOOOOO relieving.  So anyway, I am back, with [for my rural area and small town family] some HUGE news!  

This morning at the gas station as I was waiting in line, the headline on the town paper caught my eye.  This is what I saw:

How Exciting!  I'm not crazy into politics, but I do keep myself up to date on things, and I do have my opinions.  I pay attention, I vote, etc.  And I am SO stoked about this!  We live in such a small town, and Obama wants to come see us.  In my mind this just goes to show how much he really truly cares.  This is the first president past or present, ever to come to our small town.  He will be here next Friday.  Once he arrives his motorcade will actually be taking him to my daughter's school and he will be talking to them, congratulating them on their recycling efforts!  So not only will he be here, but my daughter will get to see him and I can't believe it.  This is just great.  Afterward he is giving a speech on the steps of town hall.  Town hall is 3 blocks up from my house.  I know that for such a small town there will be TONS of people here, and it will probably be difficult to get somewhere to see him, but since I am so close I'll be able to hear everything when he gives his speech.

I am so excited, how awesome!!

Breaking for A While

I have a million pictures, and a few other blogs started already.  Tons of things I want to write about but I need a break for a bit.  

I have alot of personal stuff weighing heavily on my mind and heart, and these things take precedence, as I'm sure you guys know.  I am so happy that I'm getting a following of readers, I have wanted that since starting my blog a year ago or so.  But right now I have things that need taking care of here.....  And unfortunately they are a bit too personal for blogging.

I don't think I'll be gone that long.  But I probably won't be posting for at least a week or two.  I hope you still want to stop by and check in, and even if I'm not posting I plan on reading all of you guys.

Love and Stuff,

Channon

Anybody Can....

Be a Homemaker but not everybody can be a Stay at Home Mom.

**I haven't posted in a while, but excuse me while I take to my blog for the first time to vent**

I am so sick of the overused, tired out mentality among men and some women that a SAHM has it easy.  It makes me so angry when that generalization is cast upon me, or anyone else that I know for that matter.  Back in the 40's and the 50's, hell even before then it was normal.  Granted situations were different and women didn't really have the same rights as men but it was normal to stay at home.  Nobody complained.

I think anybody can be a homemaker.  Anyone can stay at home, sit on the couch all day and watch TV and use the title of "homemaker" while their kids run around amuck and they totally tune them out.  Anybody can leave all the housework to be done later, or for their husband.  Anybody can stay in their house under the label "homemaker" and do nothing constructive all day.  

I think it takes a real woman, a strong woman, to take the title Stay At Home Mother.  To some people it might be the same but to me it's not.  A SAHM is the one that gets up in the morning and from the moment she gets up until the moment she goes to bed is aware of everything around her.  Makes sure everything gets done and not only that, gets done right.  She cleans the house, she runs the errands.  She makes sure that everybody has clean socks and a good dinner in their bellies all the while able to kiss away booboos, and be there at the bus stop with a smile on her face to greet that little one after a long day at school.  Maybe it's an archaic opinion that I have, but a real woman, a real SAHM does all these things and does them with grace, and dignity.  She might have days where she is tired.  Or irritable.  She might have a day when she just wants a break and needs a little help.  But who doesn't?  And who got to decide that by staying at home she doesn't deserve a break?

I know plenty of people who stay at home and don't do anything.  Their house is always a disgusting mess, their children are running around with junk on their faces, hitting each other and causing a riot while she just yells and screams at them as she sits in the kitchen with a lit cigarette bitching about how they don't ever listen.  Is that easy?  Sure thing.  But that's not how I am.  That's not who I am and I resent the fact that people think that way of me.  

It's alot of work.  For me.  My man never walks in the door after a long day at work to a messy home.  He walks in to his house with everything put away and the smell of dinner cooking.  Making sure that happens every single day is no easy task.  Maybe it might be less physically straining but... a SAHM has strain.  Physical, emotional, mental.  It's alot of work at the end of the day to get those chores done.  Do people not realize who folds those socks you wear every day?  Who washes those dishes you eat off of... or cooks the dinner that you're having?  Who cleans that toilet you use and who makes sure your bed is clean and ready?  Who's the one that makes sure when you walk through the house the floors are clean and you don't have stuff sticking to your socks?  Most importantly, when your kid got a good grade on a test, or when your toddler said "Thank You" think about who took the time to teach them that?  Maybe people who aren't home don't think about all those things and it's easy to take it for granted.  But someone who is home and someone who is doing those things knows it. 

I resent the fact that because I am a SAHM I am lazy and have an easy life.  

To all the people in the world who work all day.... When you get home, every thing you do, and every thing you have ready for you... Think about WHO did that for you and how HARD she worked to make sure that when you got home, you were happy.

And show her a little appreciation once and a while.