Okay...It's been a while. But, most readers are followers on Facebook so I don't have this urgency to divulge every little thought on here.
The new things:
Erik and I are now on a BUDGET!! Some may think this is quite strange that we actually haven't had an actual "budget" since we got married but we haven't. We realized that we are really good at spending money and now with a little boy entering our world in about T-14 weeks we need to actually be responsible adults. We just never were on the same page with money to get started and now we are. It's been a fun challenge to tackle together. It has given us flashbacks to when we started Take Shape for Life. You have to be intentional about your goals and what you want in order to achieve them. We also had to make it "hurt" a little in order to break our bad habits. I have no doubt we are having success and gaining financial freedom...instead of carrying around that extra weight on a day to day basis. It feels great to move a little closer to our goals.
Hormones...well, they really aren't new but man, there are days that I feel like a psycho woman. I try to mentally talk myself through situations so I don't get overwhelmed or irritated with situations that don't matter. There are days that I will wake up mad at the world and have NO explanation as to why. When this happens I usually get very mad at Erik and don't remember why. Poor man....but don't have sympathy for him too much.
While this pregnancy has been really easy in the way of sickness and such it still doesn't take the "uncomfortable" things of pregnancy away. AKA: I'm feeling quite LARGE these days. While I appreciate the compliments that I look nice and I have a "tiny" belly I find myself really bipolar in this area. I'm sure every pregnant woman can relate to this at some point in their pregnancy...You know that "in-between" stage of where you don't look fully pregnant but you just look chubby? While I feel large on the outside I feel like everyone just sees me as "chubby"...so I don't know what I want to be...just chubby because I can't imagine being larger than what I am OR being REALLY large and everyone knowing I'm pregnant (I know you can all see the hormones coming out of my body right now as you read this). An example of this would be: I was shopping for a new top (I was wearing a pretty tight shirt that I thought might "show off" the baby bump) and when I went to the cash register to buy it the girl commented that it was a cute top. I said, "Yes, it will be great for pregnancy". She then replied, "Oh, your pregnant?" "Yup"....So there are two ways to read this story. She was being polite and not assuming I was pregnant or, she just thought I was chubby. I took it as the latter. *sigh*
There are MANY more hormonal stories but I'll save you from them.
This Valentine's Day was our last married without kids Valentines. Bitter and sweet. Bitter as we were on a budget but sweet because we got to dream up all the things were want to do with our family on this day. We had some great ideas of how to make it special. While dressing up and going out to dinner is always going to be a fun treat for all of us we thought of other things. We had ideas of going to a basketball game, going to Disneyland (if it falls on a President's weekend), renting a limo to go get ice cream or a dinner, staying in a hotel and going to play in their indoor pool...oh the ideas.
TAXES. It's a 5 letter word that really should be a four letter word. I mean, who really enjoys doing taxes except the tax nerd?!!! Well, they are DONE and we are relieved that we don't have to hand over a body part.
Well, there are a lot of other things going on but they are best saved for a later time...enjoy your day.
