Borrowed Meme

A quick meme while the baby's sleeping - borrowed from PK.

1. Name someone with the same birthday as you. PK's daughter and the son of another online friend (but she doesn't blog, so I won't say who in case she'd rather that not be known).

2. Where was your first kiss? It was behind the counter in the deli department of the grocery store where I worked, and it could not have been a worse experience. Now my first kiss with Nick was over a rather stacked game of spin the bottle, and it was very nice indeed!

3. Have you ever seriously vandalized someone else's property? Nope.

4. Have you ever hit someone of the opposite sex? Yes, but not seriously.

5. Have you ever sung in front of a large number of people? I was in several choral groups in high school (not that I can sing, but at least in a group I got drowned out!).

6. What's the first thing you notice about the preferred sex? Lips and hands.

7. What really turns you on? Well, this IS a spanking blog (or so the rumor goes). But beyond just spanking, it really turns me on when Nick just gets stern with me.

8. What do you order at Starbucks? It's been ages, but usually a Double Chocolaty Chip Frappuccino or Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino.

9. What is your biggest mistake? Letting my insecurities take over.

10. Have you ever hurt yourself on purpose? Nope.

11. Say something totally random about yourself. I used to be a smoker.

12. Has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity? When I was younger I used to get Brooke Shields a lot, but I think it was just because we both have dark eyebrows.

13. Do you still watch kiddie movies or TV shows? I have an eight year old! The day is not complete without some Disney or Nickelodeon!

14. Did you have braces? No

15. Are you comfortable with your height? Yeah, I'm 5'10", so I'm pretty happy with that, although there have been times I wished I was a petite little thing Nick could pick up throw around. :)

16. What is the most romantic thing someone of the preferred sex has done for you? Sometimes Nick will send me a sweet text or bring me flowers for no reason.

17. When do you know its love? When you try your best to ignore it but the feeling just will not leave you alone. (This was PK's answer, but it was so well put and descriptive of how I first felt when I fell in love with Nick that I left it).

18. Do you speak any other languages? Not with any fluency. I know a few words and phrases in Spanish.

19. Have you ever been to a tanning salon? Nope! I would just burn and peel at one of those, so the only tanning I get is at home on my butt!

20. What magazines do you read? I try not to buy them because they're so expensive, but I love People Magazine, and I used to have subscriptions to Glamour, Cosmo, Reader's Digest, Redbook, and Southern Living. Nick and I once took $100 and bought two or three year subscriptions to several magazines each. I'd actually really love to do that again!

21. Have you ever ridden in a limo? Just once. Nick's sister had us picked up in one at the airport when we arrived for her wedding.

22. Has anyone you were really close to passed away? Yes. I've lost all four grandparents and a very dear uncle, as well as Nick's mom and grandmother.

23. Do you watch MTV? Very, very rarely.

24. What's something that really annoys you? Interrupted video feed online.

25. What's something you really like? Snuggling.

26. Do you like Michael Jackson? I wasn't really a huge fan.

27. Can you dance? Yes. Oh, did you mean can I dance well? Hahahahahaha!

28. What's the latest you have ever stayed up? All night.

29. Have you ever been rushed by an ambulance into the emergency room? Once when I was 17. I was in a serious car wreck, although my brother was hurt much worse than I was.

30. Do you actually read these when other people fill them out? Of course!

Popping in...

Hello, all. First of all I would like to say a big hello and thank you to those of you who poked your head in to say hello on LOL day. It was great to hear from some old friends, and great to get to meet some new ones too! And congrats to Heather and Vickie on the new little one and the one on the way! Things have been hectic here, which hopefully explains in part my absence on here. The baby has her days and nights mixed up, which is leaving me pretty exhausted. Nick has been a huge help, but breastfeeding is something he can't do. I have a breast pump, and I've pumped milk a few times, but right now she's eating often enough that it's rare for there to be enough time for my milk to come back in enough to pump before she's ready to nurse again. Even so, this is a precious, precious time, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Yesterday was my birthday. My in-laws took us out for lunch and got me a couple of things for the baby. Nick, Morgan, the baby and I did some running around and were going to go see a movie, but unfortunately I ended up feeling pretty rough before we could get that far. This morning I woke up definitely sick, dealing with a hacking cough and a runny nose. The good news is that my stitches seem to have healed enough that I'm not ripping them loose with every cough. Hopefully once I recover a bit we can celebrate a little better.

Anyway, that's what's going on here these days. Once things get settled a little I'll be able to spend more time posting (and hopefully will have something to post about!).

It's Love Our Lurkers Day!

And I am sooo late posting this! I'm afraid I've been too busy this last week to do much of anything online, but better late than never, right? We've had 5 doctor's visits in 5 days, but we seem to be all finished for now. Morgan has walking pneumonia, and the baby has been dealing with an elevated bilirubin level. Fortunately it never got to a dangerous level, and it's well on it's way back down to where it should be. Morgan is a few days into her run of antibiotics and feeling much better. Anyway, today is the day we let our silent readers know how much we appreciate them, and I want you all to know that I very much do! So please say hi if you have a chance (if you're not too worn out from commenting on all the blogs that got their LOL posts up in a timely manner)! I'd love to meet you and to know that you're out there!

Hooray!

We have a baby! Our little angel was born at 9:06 on Monday night and it could not have gone more easily! I had a doctor's appointment at 1:00 that day, and I was 5 cm dilated. I let her know that I was ready to have the baby if she thought we would do it that day, and she decided that it would be wiser to go ahead and induce than to take a chance on having my water break when I was away from the hospital. I called Nick and everyone else and went over and got checked in. They started an IV and took some blood, then Nick got there and they gave me my epidural. My doctor came and broke my water around 5:00. The baby was born 4 hours later after 8 whole pushes. I only had to have about 4 stitches and thanks to the epidural I didn't feel a thing!

She is just beautiful, 21 inches long, 7 lbs even, with APGAR scores of 9 and 10! With Morgan my water broke at home, and by the time I got my epidural I was having hard contractions about a minute apart. I pushed for 3 hours and then they had to use forceps. It took about 45 minutes to sew up the tears, which went through 3 levels of tissue, so this whole delivery was a piece of cake! Thank you so much everyone for all the prayers and well wishes!

Still holding...

Well, I'm still pregnant. As of Tuesday I was dilated "3-4 cm". I'm now 5 days more pregnant than I've ever been in my life. And I know, I know - I'm not actually due for another 15 days, but I'm READY! Nick's ready, Morgan's ready, and I can tell you that my mom is most certainly ready!

I go back to the doctor on Monday. She told me on Tuesday that I will very likely not make it to 39 weeks, but that was before she actually did a pelvic exam. Once she did that and found out how far I was dilated, she said she wasn't sure that I would make it through the night. But of course I did. And the next night, and the next. With Morgan I didn't get to 3-4 cm until I was in active labor, 10 hours or so before I had her. And I know that lots of people lay around for a couple of weeks at 3 cm, but c'mon already! There were 3 of my friends with due dates around mine, and they've ALL had their babies. Anyway, that's the news, or the lack thereof.