Carol's corner

Sorry for the lack of crafting pics....LOL!! I went to the Stampin' Up Hamilton Regional's on Saturday...fun yet boring at the same time. I loved the make and takes, loved the stamp set they "gave" us, loved the displays but was kind of nodding off during some of the speeches. I also sat down with my first un-official workshop hostess on Saturday and finished the design of her workshop. All colours are ordered and the layouts of the cards are marked etc. I'll try to get the samples made up so I can see what I'm working with. I also have placed my first four orders that weren't mine! LOL!!! My ladies, Dani, Nicky, Emily and Sarah all ordered something from me...weeeeeeeeee! See it's not just about me! Now on the the bad news. Peter is an ass. I knew that, have known that for years but got lulled into a false sense of change from him. Well I'm back on solid ground now and I promise I won't forget again. Oh yah, basement is half drywalle...

I'm working on it, I promise. I've been sorting and organizing and dreaming but as of yet, not so much crafting. I'm gonna start doing the daily challenges over on Splitcoast Stampers. That will defunk me for sure. On a side note, Peter did his usual and tried to tear me down again, in not so many words saying I'm not smart enough to do this for real...I choose to ignore him now. It pains me because I honestly do love him to death, but I'm so dang tired of being told I'm not good enough for whatever the current situation is. Blah and poo poo on you buddy. I'll prove him wrong and laugh at him while my best friend and I are sitting on the balcony on the cruise I plan on winning...... I'll come back and post again after Geebs is at school and I've had a chance to stamp and photo.

hahaha, not my basement, not the tree but the Stampin' Up. It is scheduled to be delivered tomorrow Monday the 10th. I am so dang excited I feel like I'm gonna pee myself more than I already do being 7 months pregnant........LOL!!! I started a stampalogue today of my stamps from Stampin' Up so I can bring it with me to shows and have potential hostesses pick their stamps sets for me to design their workshop around. Not sure if I need to do this, but I think it would be nice to have a Hostess more involved in the "planning". Now if only I knew how to do a workshop since I've never been to one..........ROFLMAO!!! Did mention that my upline is married to one of my childhood friends? This is a person who I've thought about all the time growing up cause he was such a good guy and so influential in my life...to have found him and his beautiful family...beside myself with joy! Not only is he back in my life, but they live close by and I can be at his office in MI...

They have this promo right now until the end of September where if you sign up as a demo, you get an entire family of ink pads free........80 bucks worth..... Yup, you guessed it, I've jumped on the bandwagon. I talked it over with Peter and he said to go for it since it would be something I could do from home and not leave him with the kids......LOL!! Paperwork was mailed off yesterday so now I'm freakishly checking my email a billion times a day waiting for word that they have it all and I can go play in the Demo side of the site... Hopefully this will also mean that you'll be seeing more crafts in Carol's Crafty Corner.....LOL!

God I'm so over being pregnant...this one is super active too, constantly kicking, rolling, hitting, stretching etc. I suppose I should be happy cause it means she's very healthy...but boy what a sleep killer! All in all though, not bad this time around. It's probably because I'm done, no if's and's or but's . Fixed is fixed. And Courtney will have a great story to tell everyone who's interested.. LOL !! Mom is still healing, oh yah , she fell off her bicycle and broke her hip. Pins and plates and she's on the mend. Babysitting a 65 year old woman is really boring and time consuming. I've done as much as I can being so hugely bloated with baby and so lacking in energy...oh well.... I think it's time to share some of my crafts too......A couple things I made lately for my nephew and for my mom of course. I'll try to get more done and pics taken. I'm also debating becoming a Stampin Up demo. Right now the signing bonus is hard to pas...

I have windows.... Yes, you read that correctly, I have windows. Now I bet you're thinking, wth is this chick talking about, everyone has windows unless you're in jail and even there....LOL! My wonderful contractor (BFF's Hubb) took out all the antique windows in my basement and reframed them. The new ones were ready yesterday so he put them all in. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! It's so nice to see outside again instead of just sheets of plywood. The only downside is no more naked laundry days...LOL!! Gone are the few weeks that I could strip off what I was wearing and toss it into the laundry then run like the dickens up to the bedroom to get something else on. I promise myself I'll get some pics taken and uploaded. I'll also start taking photos of my cards and get them up here too. I just got a ton of new stamps and am dying to use them, but I need my basement done before I can really have fun........nasty circle huh? Here is a pic of my beautiful birthday boy, he just...

So a little while back, my mom bought herself a new toy, an electric bicycle...enough said right? NO............she busted her hip last week, had pins put in blah blah blah....all the while still arguing with her "tenants" downstairs. So I'm basically captive here as I'm the close one and nobody else can help her out, pick her up take her here, get her groceries, make her food..etc. Today I go down in a ripe mood already cause I'm tired and not sleeping again, find the dogs OUT the lattice to keep them in pushed over.........go downstairs to ask " geez how did that happen?" and start yet another war. WTF ? Girl you're 20something, grow up and act like it. I locked the back yard cause they keep taking my mom's bike(pedal one) without asking so they childishly push over the lattice so I have to spend an hour chasing the dang dogs around the area trying to get them back inside the house? WHATEVER! Get your stuff and get out now. I'm done ...

So I have this HUGE tree in my backyard, mostly dead and my neighbour has been on my butt for at least two years about it. He's a freak and all worried about it coming down and crushing his house...yah it's big but it ain't big enough to reach his house....sigh... I start calling around for peeps to come in and quote us on getting the monster removed so I can shut his yap up and they all start telling me that I need a PERMIT TO REMOVE MY OWN DAMN TREE!! Are you kidding me? I mean if I need to pay the city 200 bucks to get permission, they can take it down! GAH! I mean I pay house insurance and I've checked, that will cover any damage the tree makes coming down so realistically..... Okay, off my beatup soapbox, I'll try to take some pics of my stuff and the basement and get posting with the pics......

I know it's been a bit, we had a little blowout, the aftermath wasn't nice and since then I've been crazy busy. Running around here and there and doing this and that. Our basement is coming along, still waiting for the eaves etc to get done so that Bo can frame the driveway side of the basement, no point in doing it if the rain pours inside. Should be done soon. He's completely framed in my "laundry/furnace" room, I even have greenbat up! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! He said drywall will go up today and he'll finish the installation of my washer and dryer and then I'll no longer have to lug my stuff up to his house to clean.....LOL!!! I'm getting large now, kicks more often which makes me happy, one of my good friends just lost her baby in utero at 13.5 weeks, I can't even begin to imagine. That gave me nightmares for a bit, but then the baby started kicking me again...... Yes I'll get some pics of the basement and my belly to post. In other ne...

As it hits the fan is never easy. We had a nasty blow out on Saturday evening. I'm still trying to recover. My whole body is achy from tension. On the up swing, my house is cleaner now that there isn't so much stuff in it...sigh...

I'm home from my monthly appointment. All is well, my baby is doing freakin great! Good strong heartbeat, measuring large but that's no shocker based on my other two, all the bloodwork and the NT scan came back perfect. Hopefully I'll stop having nightmares now? They usually involve something horrid happening to this baby in utero. I think maybe it's my guilt about this one not being planned. We waited two years almost for Gillian, with Eric he was extremely wanted but a year early, this one, while an amazing story of conception/survival, I wonder how it will feel knowing that we were taking all possible measures to avoid another baby. I'll love this one as much if not more than my others, but still, how will it feel? Anyway, I'm off to have a nap hopefully, I'm just so burnt out from last weeks running around and all the work in my home.....I'll take advantage of the time away from G & E. Next appointment with the doc, June 20th.

LOL!!! Started at 8 on the nose this morning. I currently have a bunch of hot young men out in my laundry room installing the tankless waterheater...mmmmmmmmmmmm....... Bo is gonna come back this afternoon as well, not sure what time but I need to ditch the kids so I can get some stuff done again today. Don't wanna leave with the hotties in the house so I think I'll call my mom and make her take them...truth? Just cause I don't wanna miss the hotties......LOL!!!! Okay done reporting for now, will snap a pic of the heater after it's all done...PRETTY!!!!!

Well I'm at sixteen weeks and was sitting here this morning sitting down drinking my first morning coffee and BAM! Kicked from the inside!!! I know it's been kicking for a while now but jeepers! I could not only feel it but I saw my belly move too! Gillian was sitting right next to me and laughed so hard.... I have to get some belly shots for the book that will need to be done for this one. Just think only four more weeks and I'll be half way AND probably know what it is...WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! On to the reno. I've got one partial wall downstairs...we have a problem with the windows on the one side and all the water comes rushing in. Need that fixed first before we can do much more. I've gotten the tankless water heater coming in tomorrow and I can't flippin wait! It's only about a foot deep and maybe a foot and a half long and it heats five gallons of water per minute! GAH!! Never to run out of hot water again!!!!!! All the garbage is gone from my ba...

Demo is underway and OMG I can't see my backyard anymore! The bin didn't show on the weekend so they tossed all the garbage on the back lawn. I'll head outside in a bit and take some during shots so that everyone can feel my pain. Everyone? Does anyone other than me even read this? LOL!!! Monday morning and the 7th of May, soon we go to the school to meet with the Teacher, excited and sad at the same time. I find myself just watching Gillian play lately and wonder where she came from. I mean I know she's my baby but she's just so big and it's so unreal still that I have a four year old.......gah what is gonna run through my head in another decade? What's up for this week, nothing that I know of, Bo said he's gonna try for three days a week at my house so we can get the ball rolling and get us downstairs before the new baby comes, that would be wonderful cause I can't see myself moving junk downstairs with a new baby in arms, not that it will be fun w...

LOL!! Demo hasn't even begun and yet here I am waiting and counting today as day one. The junk guys are coming over today and clearing out the basement and I'll toss in the front porch while they're here. Financing comes in Friday....YIPPEEEEEEE!!!! At this point I'm so damn motivated that I didn't even check through any boxes downstairs. I figure if I haven't needed it in the past five years I honestly don't need it now. Clean sweep is paying off! I've also settled myself down on the shopping front too. Slow it down and make informed choices and make sure we "need" it before I get it rather than just "OOOOOOOOH, I want that", maybe I'm finally growing up? GASP! Other than that, I'm just plumb tired. Supposed to be better by now, second trimester should be the energy trimester but nope, not yet. Kids are at the sitters so hopefully I'll get a quick nap in before I Have to go and get them back. Why oh why can't...

In the matter of minutes I went from seven something weeks to 12! I like that! Too bad the rest of it won't go that fast.....sigh.... The baby was swimming and kicking and waving at me during the ultrasound. Made me smile so much. Little heart was beating up a storm too. It's real. There is really a little one in there. I'm finally getting excited now. I wrote a letter to the baby this morning, I'll scrapbook it later with the pictures of the pee stick that I had to take..LOL. That should be a nice keepsake for the baby. I also went shopping today and got myself a cuttlebug and some embossing folders. I know I didn't need it and probably shouldn't have gotten it, but I deserve something nice every now and again, afterall I was at the store and only spent 3 dollars over my 25 dollar gift certificate and wouldn't have done that if it wasn't a stampapalooza day...ROFLMAO!!! Justify justify justify. Okay, off I go to get some more things done befor...

Finally got hold of the OB/GYN who did the tubal to book the ultrasound for dating...apparently I had one booked already on the 3rd of April......she told Peter.......ha ha ha....she said it's just like giving messages to her husband, they go into the great unheard. She didn't call me back with a new one, but at least I have her number and can now call and harrass all I want too. Here are my current monsters...see why I'm keeping this one?

Easter's over and everyone I need to tell now knows. Now I can be a sloth all I want and use my "but I'm pregnant" excuse.....LOL Unfortunately I'm so damn restless that I'm itching to get out of my house...sigh...need a second car, wait a second van would be better so daddy could (ha ha ha) take the kids out too...

That's approxamately where I am. Only six weeks in and already I'm done. I'm done with the all day queezy , sick of the all day tired and sick of all the horrid thoughts that go through your head. My sitter just told me that her good friends daughter just gave birth to a still born child. Was at the doctors on Monday, baby was fine and strong, Tuesday night, no movement, Wednesday morning in to the hospital and inducing labour, dead baby. OMG I would die myself. What makes a child in utero die at nine months? With only days left to go, what could possibly be wrong with the baby that all of a sudden caused it to pass? Breaks my heart to even consider it. Wouldn't that be my luck? To go through the torture of an unexpected pregnancy that seems to be destined to be (survived the pill and the tubal) only to have it expire so close to the end of the road....shudder to even consider.... Okay enough of the morbid thoughts...six weeks, that means about 13 to go before...

So today I go to my sleep specialist. An hour to get there on the bus, an hour and a half back, 2.75 each way...all for him to say,well, there's nothing else I can recommend for you right now. You're welcome to come back after your pregnancy.... Why is it that doctors think you have nothing better to do than waste the day on them? I'm still waiting for a good nights sleep, maybe one day I'll get one.