Guess I should go ahead and jump on that...
... here goes...
TATA
Below are a list of small things I would like you to do on a day to day basis. I add that I am extremely tired of cleaning up everyday after messes that could have been avoided. I would also like to point out that I do not clean for the joy of it and when you get home from work or where ever you have been and you see a clean house I expect to get enough respect from both of you to at least make an effort to keep it as clean as you see it. So with that being said here is the list.
1) After walking into the house after a long day at work I realize relaxation is the first thing on your mind. HOWEVER, if you could just go ahead and hang up your Jackets and sweaters in the closet instead of throwing them on the floor that would be great. Also you could put your shoes away on the lovely shoe rack that I bought not to long ago and put your bags/purses away in the closet or off to the side instead of throwing everything into the middle of the living room. This first thing on the list will, Im sure, help to avoid un-needed clutter in an otherwise clean and tidy living area.
2)After making/eating dinner (or any meal or time you eat) please make an effort to simply rinse off, dry and put away the dishes you use. This is easy, this is simple, this will also cut back on the amount of dirty dishes that end up pilling up in the sink. Also DO NOT use a new plate for every new thing you eat. For example, Josh you sat down to make and eat your lunch the other day and in ONE meal you used in total 2 dinner plates and small plate, a bowl, 2 cups, 3 knives and 2 forks..... why
3)After an afternoon of relaxing in the living room and the day is over and it is time for bed please just re-fold the blankets you have used and put the pillows back. If you could also make sure that the dirty socks you have left on the floor are picked up as well and any other little thing like putting a cup in the kitchen if you had one or putting the laptop away or putting the T.V controls back where they go. This one is also a small detail but in the long run would help me very much in the mornings, just giving me that much less to tidy up when I wake. The blankets, pillows, laptop, and controls all had a nice tidy place before you used them, so just make sure you put them back the way they were when the day is done. Not to difficult right
4) Lastly is to please clean up after your new puppy. I did not sign on to be the dogs owner, I do not mind taking care of it during the day when you guys are not home and she is a lovely puppy BUT when you are home if she pee's on the floor clean it up. I say this even though it should be obvious because when I say clean it up I DO NOT mean spray it with spot shot and pat it a couple times with paper towel (now there is just a bigger more wet spot on the carpet). READ the instructions on the cleaner if you feel the need to use it and when you soak up the spot use enough pressure to actually soak it up then leave it on the spot for a while to allow the rest of what is moist underneath to soak up as well. Also dont leave things on the floor that she can chew up and keep an eye on her. If you are going to nap tell someone (me) so I can keep on eye on her or take her with you, she is just a puppy. This will help to cut down on the amount of ripped up paper and garbage thus cut down on the amount that I must vaccum each day, this will also cut down on puppy accidents on the carpet.
SO although this letter may be long winded these 4 simple steps are neither time consuming nor are they difficult. I have no dought that a pair of grown adults will be able to handle these 4 things with ease. In return you will have a much less stressed out grumpy room mate, auntie and mom, as you will be making my daily jobs of keeping this house clean much much easier. I assume that 3 months will be more then enough time for you to make these things a part of your daily routine because once baby comes I expect you will take into consideration that I may not be so calm about the mess you guys make.
Signed,
The nagging pregnant women
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Seriously contemplating printing this out and giving them each a copy... or maybe blowing it up and putting it on the fridge....
TATA
Sitting in my ass grove on the couch with a nice hot cup of peppemint tea with honey, watching cartoons with the children, hoping that at some point during this day I will have enough energy to do something with this mess that we call a home.
The kitchen has not been cleaned in almost a week now. I had it spotless on tuesday and now you would have no idea that it has ever been cleaned. Again no help from the others in this house except Jeff. I have been trying to make a habit of cleaning up after me and the babys, washing the dishes we use after we use them, wiping down what areas of the counters there is to wipe down. In the living room I try and put the toys away as the kids are done playing with them, WAS vaccuming still everyday up untill a couple days ago. Upstairs I was attempting to have the kids keep their rooms clean. All this has slowly gone down hill in the past week and because no one else cleans up this house is become a mess of a mess of a mess. This cold is really kicking me in the ass and I am doing all that I am able to to kick it right back, but alas hot tea, orange juice, chicken noodle soup and rest are my only options
Up side of things is of course thanksgiving is on monday. Still waiting on a phone call from Jeff's aunt as to if we are going there for dinner tomorrow or not and then on monday we will be going to my parents place. If by chance there is no dinner tomorrow me and Jeff have decided to do sort of a family date night. Maybe get all dressed up and go out for dinner. Nothing to fancy as money is pretty low but something nice non the less. I was half looking forward to doing something here at home but with this cold and my laziness of being pregnant I am glad for the fact that everyone else already has plans and that I dont have to do any cooking.
Our bradley classes started, thursday was our second class and I must say I am very much enjoying it so far. Have not learned much that I did not already know as I have read his book and the class seems to so far just be recaping everything in the book. But I am thankful for the time off once a week and especially the relaxation time during class were we basically get to do a form of meditation.
In the begining of next month we will be going to Saskachewan... woo woo. Haha I can say Im not super excited about this as it is going to be cold as hell, we will have both kids, I will be 30 weeks pregnant on an 8 hour drive. We are going to visit Jeff's son and also some friends that moved out there a couple months ago. We are only going for 9 days though so hopfully it will be more fun then I expect it to be. When we get home from that trip it will be 2 days untill my birthday! Now that is a bigger WOO WOO and then on the 14th it will be my baby shower. So I suppose I will be some what busy for the next little while, making time go by a little bit faster hopfully.
Hmmm what else. Well in about 6 months we will be moving AGAIN, back to my home town of Crossfield. My parents are moving and they own the house they are in now (the house I grew up in) and do not want to sell SOOOO they have offered us the house at an extremely low 750 a month!! This house is a five bedroom 2 and a half bath, main floor and finished basment with an extra and quite large living area down stair. Has a huge kitchen and beautiful back yard. The whole house has been newly renovated with the exception of some rooms that didnt need any renovating and I must say I am extremely excited. As it seem now it will just be me and Jeff and of course my wee one and our new little one (who with be about 3 month by that point). Josh and Liz seem to be making other plans, but I dont want to get my hopes up. I can just see them deciding to move in with us aswell because all their other plans will have fallin through... it always happens they are not very solid plan makers. BUT the house is big enough, three bedrooms up and 2 down are almost perfect as they can just tke over the basement. The rooms down stairs are actually bigger then the rooms up and the living space down is about twice the size of upstairs the only differance is we would have an extra room (but we also have an extra kid) and the kitchen.
Well I was not actually expecting this blog entry to be this long so I should probably get going. I still need to find myself some energy and maybe at least clean up in our room and vaccum the living room. Tonight will be another exciting night of sitting in the couch and possibly watching a movie... oh what a life I live haha.
well TATA
So what is new and exciting...
Well my parents decided to go ahead and buy us a new play pen for the baby. I had been looking at them instead of cribs. I wanted one that was a bassinet and a crib and a play pen all in one. Paying $150 to $300 for something that is all three is better then paying $300 to $500 for just a crib. There was one I was totally in love with and it just happened to be the most expensive one. I joked to jeff that I wish we were made out of money so we could afford it, but instead we picked out the $150 one that was on sale. Then my mama says she wants to buy it for us, YAY thats one expense we wont have to worrie about.
So she is texting me and says she was online looking at other ones and that she found one that she thought was alot better and that she decided to order it for me. She sent me a link so I went to check to see what this surprise playpen looked like.
IT WAS THE EXPENSIVE ONE THAT I WANTED SO BAD!! Its sad I know but it was one of my most happier moments in life hahaha. Here it is

It is, of course, the play pen and then a seperater thing that allows it to be a crip and it also has the bassinet AND a napper!!! ANYWAY so that all happened last week and the playpen should be coming in the mail TODAY!!!!
So I am exactly 24 weeks and 3 days today
I also set up my Little Chelsie bugs big girl bed with her tinker bell bedding. First time my wee one has ever slept in a big girl bed and she went down without a fuss and slept all night. This morning will be the forth morning since and she has made the transition so extremely easy on mommy I can not even begin to explain how amazingly proud of my big girl I am.
First morning waking up in her new bed (we actually had to wake he up because she slept in that morning too



My boy is having little concerns about the fact that I am nesting already. I dont think Im actually nesting though, Im just extremely excited and if he thinks this is bad then he is going to have a big surprise when I really do start nesting hahaha.
Well my loner self has started planning my own baby shower! But actually I am enjoying it, I love planning things its what I live for. I think I would have told anyone who wanted to plan me one not to worry about it anyway haha. But I have picked a date and written my guest list, collected everyones mailing addresses and I have hand written all 25 invitations. I do however have to go pick up some more of the fancy letters I was using because I would like to write one out for myself to keep and for my best girl Zoe and Jeffs parents who both live in BC. They wont be able to make it but I thought it would be nice to send them an invite anyway as sort of a keepsake (I know my Zoe love will appriciate it). I have also registered myself at Babys R Us AND picked out the cake that we will be ordering.
Well september is almost over, thank god, and october is coming up!! I am very excited about october it is going to be a grand month. On the 1st Jeff and I will be starting our Bradley classes every thursday of the week, then we will be having another doctors appointment which I HOPE is when we will find out the date for our next ultra sound, then next up will be my Zoe's birthday, then mine and Jeffs anniversary, then my sisters birthday, then halloween!!!!!!!! Then of course that takes us into November which will be the best month as it will be the month of my birthday and the start of my third tri AND my baby shower!!
Well I can't really think of anything else that is all that interesting. Wish I had more to talk about then always updating you with my pregnancy news but really this new baby and the little ones already here driving me crazy are the only things that there really is to talk about. What can I say Im a loser
Well off I go
TATA
So I will be 23 weeks tomorrow WOO WOO, Jeff keeps telling me to quit counting but I can't. I was counting the weeks AND the days now I just count the weeks thats the best he is going to get out of me Im just too damn excited ![]()
Have a doctors appointment tomorrow early early morning and have to take both the little ones with me as usual. This time around though I am making Jeff come in with me so we will have to take the kids in aswell (usually they wait in the car or go to the park thats near by). Im super excited to find out when my next ultra sound will be. We are going to ask again about the gender of the baby, I want to have at least one more opinion before I start buying anything gender specific. As much as I wanted a wee boy I am so excited if it really is going to be a little girl, my little Chelsie bug is all sorts of excited about being a big sister and she wants a baby sister she says. Two girlies will be a blast!
Anyway I must go start my day and get off my butt ![]()
TATA
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We will start with the fact that I am 22 weeks and 2 days today, getting closer and closer to my 27 week mark. After 27 weeks it will be all new to me as my first wee one came 3 month preme. Im very excited about the big belly!!
This is from 21 weeks

This one is from just yesterday at 22 weeks

How about some pictures of cute?
my big handsome boy hayden

My little bug and I

The adorable puppy Shylah


We had a lovely memorial for our dear friends Kayla and Dan who passed away a year ago this past weekend. I was able to see some close friends I have not seen in a while which is always nice and we each wroute messages on white balloons and let them go
I have so many other picture but I think I may save them for later. Have the kids birthday party coming up here in a couple days and Im sure there will be alot of pictures to post.
On a more sad note, Michelles funeral is this friday and then the after service. It going to be so weird going to the family farm and not having her there but I am very glad I will be able to see the family and my Jocelyn (her sister). I want to give mom a hung but its going to be so hard to bare, no mother should ever have to see their babys die and Michelle may have been grown but she was still a baby and I can't imagine what mama must be going through.
Well I must get going! Gotta clean house today (like everyday) but I need extra clean so I have less to clean friday and on the weekend. Hope everyones week is going wonderfully for them ![]()
TATA
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Michelle, you are a beautiful woman and you will be greatly missed more then you know. I love you so much. Where ever you are, they are lucky to have you there. I wish you could be here with us still...

What is with this fucking time of year...
Feel free to not read its just me randomly writting to get my frustrations out and is probably of no particular interest to any one. This however seems to be the safest place to bitch as the person I am about to bitch about does not have an account and therefore will have no way of ever reading this.
Here goes....
Hahahahaha seriously Im going to laugh at myself later for writing all that I know I am. And a big apology to those of you who chose to read that crap lol I truely am very sorry.
Anyway back to life..... really I am usually a very very positive person. This prego thing is turning me into a big ol grump
Random happy pictures to bring some aww! to this blog post ![]()

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TATA
Oh and yea not spell checking again, Im lazy and I also dont care
This is driving me crazy, and it's only going to get worse the more pregnant I get. I Don't believe it is to hard to put your beer cans away, or rinse your dishes off after using them or hell at least put them in the sink. I do NOT enjoy coming down from my nice sleep to be overwhelmed by a huge mess in the living room/kitchen.
Put your cake back in the box and put it back in the fridge please, and pick up the blankets you used please dont leave them lying on the floor. Please throw out your garbage and put away your empty cans. If you spill something is it really that hard to grab some paper towel and clean it up? Does it take that much time out of your day to put the movie discs back in their cases and maybe put them back on the shelf? Im sick of having to sit down a half hour a couple times a week and find all the loose dvd's to put them in their proper cases!
I do not mind as much tidying up during the week when you guys go to work at 7 and do not have the time to pick up before work but on a weekend you have all the time you need, yet somehow you STILL leave me a mess to clean as you walk out the door to go enjoy you days off. I realize that you all do not have to sit in this house all day because you work or go out or whatever it is you are doing BUT I DO and I would just once like to be able to wake up in the morning sit down with my cup of coffee and relax in a nice clean living room before I start my day.
I also dont enjoy the fact that you got annoyed the other day that you had to come home and do the dishes "She's home all day why can't she do them, I work you know I'd like to come home and relax". I have done the damn dishes every day here but that once, you know why I decided not to do those particular ones? BECAUSE THEY WERE YOUR GOD DAMN DISHES! You may go out to work but I have got a different kind of work that comes with a whole different kind of stress. I Keep house, I raise my child and my sisters, might not sound like much but you try being 21 weeks pregnants chasing around one 3 year old and one 4 year old and trying to keep the house as clean as possible so that when your dumb ass comes home you can't complain about mess.
Maybe I am over reacting maybe it's my being pregnant making me grumpy but Its not much to ask that you pick up after yourself. Last time I checked you were an adult... older then me buy a few years actually and its quite sad that I have to feel like your mother and tell you to keep your shit clean!!
*Sigh* and to Jeff
Well now that I have ranted my behind off I feel a little better although there is still the problem of having to clean up after them. Oh yes they have taking off for the day as usually and if I felt I could relax in a mess I would leave it but, alas, the woman in me needs clean lol. Here is a peek of what, on a daily basis, I have to pick up after. Now granted sometimes I know that me or my child has some doing in the mess but I dont mind cleaning up after that. What gets me is that I do not get help EVEN if the mess made was one that was not made by me or my wee one.
Living room (I have already picked up beer cans and threw the now bad cake out then had a little grump attack, was told to calm down by my 3 year old, and am now sitting with my coffe doing this instead of cleaning lol)

And the kitchen which i have not touched and am most upset about since I had it spotless before dumb and dumber got home yesterday and the boy had his brother and his girl over.


And this, my little smile maker who was following me around to get in front of the camera with a smile on her face, she loves the camera... How could I not take a picture

Now quickly before this blog is so overwhelmingly long that no one whats to read it I thought I would add some positives!! FIRST, I got myself a new tattoo!! The boy paid for this one for me, It was origanaly going to go above my c-section scare but I got it on my arm instead and later will be adding the initials of my kids underneath

SECOND, A new addition to the family, Her name would be Shyla, and this little thing just makes my heart smile



And always save the best for last


Well I think I may have went and wroute more then I was origanally expecting to, and please please forgive any and all spelling mistakes I very much do not want to go back and spell check this today haha. I hope everyone had themselves a wonderful weekend
TATA
ETA:
I would like to change my main photo but I am computer stupid and have no idea how to photoshop or resize my photo if anyone who reads this knows how I would much appriciate the help

































