Happy New Year!

Thankfully the washing machine was fixable yesterday.  It cost us $118 to fix the lid….yes the lid.  Evidently I had closed the lid too hard and it broke the device that lets the washing machine know the lid is closed.  It won’t drain or agitate if lid is open.  I’m glad it was fixable and fixable quickly.  I had a bunch of laundry to do

Did not hear back from the nurse yesterday until I had left work and listened to my answering machine.  She didn’t have my file at that office and was having it delivered and said she would talk to doctor today.  Meanwhile I did not take my blood pressure medicine yesterday and didn’t take one today.  I’m monitoring it to make sure it doesn’t get high.  I’m just afraid to continue taking this medicine.  Although most of the bad effects happen the last six months of pregnancy there is still a chance it could hurt the fetus development in the first trimester….you just never know.  But I also don’t want to endanger myself.  Hopefully I will get some new blood pressure medicine today.  I will try calling the office later this morning.  I’m also hoping she’ll have my blood test results as well to see where I stand.  Another reason I need my blood pressure meds….this is going to be a very stressful few weeks!

We really don’t have New Year’s plans.  Husband is meeting me for lunch at a local upscale Mexican resturant while little boy is still at daycare then we’ll pick him up this afternoon and spend a quiet evening at home probably watching “Batman” (“The Dark Knight”) for the 20th time….I can’t wait…

Death of a Washing Machine

It’s a good thing my husband is home from work this week!  I was trying to do a little laundry yesterday evening and the darn washing machine would not drain.  I pulled all my clothes out and put them in a big tub then husband scooped out all the water and pulled the washer out to look at it.  The online manual for that washer (since we’ve misplaced the paper manual) said it was probably either a clog or the pump went out.  At 10:00 last night husband had the thing down and looking for clogs….nope….must be something else.

He’s going to call around today to see if he can either get it fixed or will run down to Lowe’s where they are running a special for free delivery and haul away.

Not the best time for a washing machine to die….a day or so before a holiday.  I hope he won’t have too much trouble finding someone to see about fixing it.  Not exactly the way he wanted to spend one of his days off I’m sure…..but I’m just glad he’s home so he can deal with it.

What I got for Christmas….

My husband and I didn’t exchange gifts this year.  After spending thousands of dollars on a new kitchen and two new bathrooms plus needing a new mattress very soon…we decided not to exchange gifts this year.  Afterall, this would be little boy’s first Christmas where he might really get in to it (which he did).

The day of Christmas I was feeling very tired and pretty much had not left the house until yesterday morning.  I have had a few “woman” issues and had wondered if I might happen to be entering into the next phase of my life.  I had had a lot of the symptoms and my cycles had been off lately so I figured that was my problem. ….I had not had a period in 35 days….a common symptom of peri-menapause along with moodiness, insomnia, cycle change etc.  But I had to know it wasn’t something else so I sent the husband to the store for a pregnancy test.

And so what did I get for Christmas?…..a positive.  OMG.  How could this happen?  I’m 43!  I can’t be pregnant!  Needless to say I called the doctor’s office first thing this morning.  My doctor is not in this week but they will call in a prescription for some different blood pressure meds plus I go for bloodwork this afternoon.  I’m fully aware that I will more than likely mis-carry since I’ve mis-carried before but still I’m really stressed right now.  Talk about life-altering!

It’s not that I don’t want another child but like I said I’m 43 years old, overweight, high blood pressure, knees going out, out of shape and had assumed since we had trouble carrying to term without help that my baby days were over.  I refused to take my doctor up on his suggestion to get my tubes tied last year.  Although I knew I probably shouldn’t try again, I liked the idea that I could if I wanted to.

So now we wait until I can see the doctor and see what’s going on.  I really wanted to find out this week but they want me to wait till he returns.  My appointment is next friday unless they call me after seeing the bloodwork.  We have not told anybody (in real life) because basically we are both still in shock plus the fear of miscarriage and possible other complications….not to mention my mom is going to freak!  She worried so much about me when I got pregnant before….not only me physically but me mentally as well.

I guess I’m sorta just waiting for the other shoe to drop….either I’m going to miscarry in the next few weeks or I’m going to start that roller coaster ride of a high-risk-advanced-age-pregancy….

I never liked Roller Coasters…..

Little Boy’s Christmas

Little boy will be three years old early next year so this Christmas will be the first one where he will really know what’s going on and enjoy opening up presents.  I told husband last night that I will TRY and curb my controlling nature and just let the boy open his gifts.  It’s funny…last night he was telling me that the tree and all the gifts under it were “his”. (and they were).  We have not introduced the “idea” of Santa Claus and how he brings presents and not sure we will especially since I always put presents under the tree when I put it up.  Here are some of the things little boy is getting for Christmas.

1.  A bucket full of dinosaurs

2.  A tool box

3.  An age appropriate computer

4.  A Disney’s Cars Movie Mac Truck

5.  Big Boy underwear

6.  A stuffed Batman pillow

7.  Some action figures

8.  A Big Dump Truck

9.  Coloring Books, Games and Colors

10.  A 12 inch Iron Man Doll & the 12inch Indiana Jones Doll

11.  And the big one……a Geo Trax Grand Central Station Train Set

This one was the hardest the find. I did end up taking an early lunch and braving the local ToysRUs store last week. I had to ask for it since they didn’t have them with the other Geo Trax sets but I was proud to get it for $15 off. Had tried to order it online but they were out of it online at most places I tried. Sure hope he likes it!

All and all I think little boy will enjoy his Christmas. Tomorrow night we head out for Chinese Food with husband’s family then over to sister-in-laws to open gifts. Then Christmas day I invited my Mom and brother over for brunch then little boy will open presents. My sister and her kids are not coming up this year which is a disappointment but at least we won’t have to change our plans to suit my sister like we always do. Her kids should have gotten the box of presents I sent them by now but from what I understand they’ve already opened all their other Christmas gifts….
Happy Holidays everyone!!!!!

December in Scrappy Land

Fall and early winter are busy times for me at work and home which have not left me much time to do much of anything (poor me…LOL).  Things at work are starting to slow down but of course Christmas is right around the corner so it may get crazy in the house of Scrappy Cat here in the next few days.

I can’t believe Christmas is next week!  This month has flown by!  Me, my husband and little boy just got back from Arkansas where we celebrated my grandmother’s 90th Birthday.  We went down on Saturday, the party was Sunday, we just sat around and visited on Monday then Tuesday drove home.  It’s about an 8 hour drive and on Tuesday there was reports of ice on the road the route we usually take so we went south which added an hour to our trip.  We may have avoided any ice but encountered heavy rain the last couple of hours of our trip.  Thank goodness for my dear husband who drove us the whole time and does not get AS STRESSED as I do in bad weather driving.  We were all tired when we got home.

Little boy enjoyed the trip I believe.  He’s at that “entertaining” age where he acted silly alot and showed out.  I think he probably wore everyone out with all his energy.  He stripped down naked at my grandmother’s house and ran around….that was pretty funny.  He also warmed up quick to my uncle which I’m sure my uncle was glad of.  Last trip little boy wouldn’t have much to do with him and I think he was disappointed.  His grandchildren have gotten up older and I think he was looking forward to seeing little boy.  They both seemed to have a good time. 

That little trip threw me off on my Christmas shopping schedule.  I had fully intended to have everything bought before now.  I’ll be making a run out to the local Toys R Us at lunch today to pick up little boy a Fisher Price Geo Trax Grand Central Station and then I’ll be done with his gifts.  Evidently, this item must be pretty popular because I’ve had a little trouble finding it after I decided I wanted it.  Can’t get it anywhere online except for a few places who jacked up the price.  I just really hate to go to ToysRus but you gotta do what you gotta do.  After that just a few more gifts for the nephews and the mother-in-law and one more thing for a friend then I’m done!  Husband and I are not exchanging gifts or I would be out buying for him as well. 

This weekend will be spent cleaning and holiday baking….hope I don’t wear myself out!  Here’s a recipe for some pecan pie muffins that the ladies at work have made for one of our many SNACK DAYs we’ve had in the last few weeks.  They taste very good and I’ll probably make them for my Christmas Day Brunch…..

Happy Holidays!!!!!