A Little Worried

So late on Saturday night, I started having fairly frequent and painful contractions for about an hour or 2. I went to bed, hoping I just needed rest.

Yesterday morning, I woke up and started getting ready for church. But within a few minutes of getting up, I started feeling crampy and feeling a lot of pressure. I layed down until it was time for church. I decided to try going to church, but I only made it through the Sacrament before I knew I should be at home in bed. As we walked home from church, I literally felt like I had to keep my legs clenched shut to keep the baby in. It was a really strange feeling. I spent all day yesterday in bed. Even just getting up to use the bathroom would start the cramping again.

So this afternoon I am going in for an appointment to see if all of this cramping has dilated me at all. I'm hoping that I'm just being to sensitive or something like that. I don't want to have to worry about anything for the next few weeks. I'll try to remember to post what I find out later today so that no one starts worrying.

Busy, Busy, Busy

I've been so busy this week. I've been trying to do some deeper cleaning in the house and I've also been trying to get everything organized and ready for the baby. I'm 35 weeks along now. I'm just getting so close to being done. We're excited for the baby and I'm excited to not be pregnant anymore. I've been feeling like she'll be born on or around the 21st. We'll see what happens, though. I can feel my body getting more ready for labor with more frequent contractions and such. I feel like she's taking over my whole body and there's no more room for her to fit in there.

I need to go get ready for church. I just wanted to write a short post about what's been going on this past week. I need to try and make more time for posting this week...

I'm Finally Back!

I can't believe it's been nearly 3 months since I posted. I guess I have to apologize. I finally realized that not only am I not doing something relaxing and enjoyable, but I'm keep all of my family and friends out of the loop on what is going on with us. So I'm going to try to go back to posting at least every other day.

We just spent a wonderful 2 days in Manti with Popi and Doreen. It was the first time that Mitchell and Joseph met them. We just had so much fun and didn't want to leave last night, but we are speaking in church today.

Joseph has thrown up twice now, once at 3:00 AM and once at 9:00 AM. I have no idea why he's throwing up. He doesn't have a fever and, once the inital shock of throwing up is over, he's just fine. He's dancing to the Wiggles right now. I don't know if it's okay for me to take him to church, even if it's just Sacrament Meeting. I wouldn't want him throwing up all over the chapel, but Mitchell and I are both supposed to speak.

I'm actually kind of excited about my talk. I used to love giving talks, but the past few years, I've dealt with anxiety that makes me feel really sick when I have to do something like that. Being at Popi's gave me so much peace of mind and I was able to write a wonderful talk. I'm speaking on Seeking Personal Revelation and using Sis. Beck's talk from the April 2010 General Conference as my resource. I feel like Heavenly Father wanted me to speak on this specific topic because it's something that I really need in my life right now. I'm terrible about unconciously filling my life with distractions so that I can't hear promptings and whispers from the Holy Ghost. Preparing for this talk has helped me realize this and now I can work on changing it.

I'm excited to be a blogger again and I'm going to try really hard to keep at it! Now I have to get ready for church.

Update

I'm already worn out from the day and it's only 2! I've been doing laundry like crazy, trying to catch up. I also cleaned our very messy living room. Joseph and I went for a walk for about 30 minutes. And the heat index is 97 degrees today. I'm too tired to think of anything else to write. We have made a lot of progress on packing. And things are good.

Packing and Fun Pregnancy Stuff

Mitchell stayed home from work yesterday and we cleaned and packed most of our office. We have 6 packed boxes and 2 that are almost full. He also cleaned our living room carpet with a carpet cleaner we borrowed from a family at church. It had so many stains and it looked horrible even though it's only 3 or 4 months old. Now it looks beautiful again. Our place is back on the market. We haven't had anyone come look at it, but I'm not expecting us to. For some reason, the realtors don't like showing properties that have people living in them. Stupid, huh? I guess it's okay for now, because only the living room and dining/office look nice right now, the rest is a disaster.

I'm 22 weeks along now. And I'm dealing with lots of fun pregnancy symptoms like heartburn, leg cramps, weird skin issues, fatigue, memory loss, abdominal cramps (it's almost like having my period!)... not to mention (TMI alert!) the uti and yeast infections that I had at the same time. Yesterday, I said, "Why does being pregnant have to hurt so much?" Mitchell says, "Because that's what the Lord told Eve. There's a verse in the scriptures, do you want me to look it up and read it to you?" The last part was said a teasing/sarcastically. I love my husband, he's good at making me see the good/valuable side of things.

I'm feeling depressed today. I don't know why. It's frustrating.

Joseph has been driving me a little nuts lately. He's getting a molar, so that explains some of his behavior. He's very clingy and whiny. He's been pulling my hair a lot lately and climbing on my head if I'm sitting or lying down. He's been mostly refusing to eat anything. Yesterday, all he had for breakfast was a corner of a Poptart, lunch was 1 Ritz and 1 Frosted Mini Wheat, but he came around for dinner and had a couple tablespoons of brown rice and corn and half a Chick-Fil-A chicken strip. I think Mitchell got him to eat a couple blueberries and grapes, too. I really hope he decides to start eating again soon.

On a good note, I was right! I'm having a little girl! We're very excited. And this will be the first girl grandchild on Mitchell's side of the family, too.

I can't believe it's been nearly a month since I've written anything. I think part of my problem is that I think this isn't a big enough priority, so I do other things instead. I haven't really been allowing myself very much computer time, lately. The thing is that blogging and journaling have always been therapeutic and relaxing for me. So I'm going to try harder to remember to post. But things are pretty busy right now.

We went to Georgia to visit Mitchell's dad and brother on the first weekend of the month. We had a really great time there, especially Joseph. I took a few pictures that I'll try to post eventually.

We have an apartment in Provo now. It's in the BYU student housing. We just paid the deposit on it this week.

I'm 20 weeks along in the pregnancy and this afternoon, we'll be finding out if the baby is a boy or a girl.

We should be leaving in about 4 weeks or so. I only packed my first box last night. But I've been cleaning out drawers and closets and posting things on craigslist.org. I'm probably going to try to organize a yard sale in a few weeks.

Liz will be getting here in a couple weeks to help me with packing and Joseph. She'll be driving halfway with us. We'll leave her in Texas and she'll fly back to Idaho from there. I know she's going to be a lot of help.

Joseph is moving from the sweet baby stage to the tantrum-throwing, trouble-making, picky, cranky toddler stage. He's also getting another molar this week, which is making it even worse. He's 18 months old today. We just got back from his appointment. He's still in the 3rd percentile, which is really worrying his doctor. We just have to keep trying to fatten him up.

Alright, I still have to finish eating and take a shower before my ultrasound. Life seems to be getting busier everyday. I can't wait for the trip out to Utah and I can't wait to see family and friends.