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Monday, September 28, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
The Ups and Downs of Life
For some reason when it rains it pours for me. Life at the Watts house is a complete roller coaster. For the record, I did warn my husband before we got married that I am bad luck.
First I must say that over the past couple of months I have began to view life a little different. Kind of like a mid-life-crisis I guess you could say. Most of what has changed in me, though, is due to me realizing that I take way too much for granted.
As a wife, mother, and daughter....I am a changed woman.
#1 Everything that has happened with my mom and especially the first night in the hospital gave me a glimpse of life without her. I felt very helpless yet so very hopeful that she would be okay. For some reason I always have pictured the rest of my life with my mom in it. She is Dr. Mom to me and has an answer to EVERYTHING. There isn't one question that I have asked her that she has actually said "I don't know." These days she is my BEST FRIEND. She is what I hope to become to my children. I would have never said that growing up because I was very immature...but really every single time life kicks our family when we are down......she is the first to start picking up pieces and telling my sisters what they need to do next. Being with my sisters sitting around her hospital bed really terrified me.
I just kept thinking that life is a blur, like it really isn't happening.
#2 We have so much going on in life and sometimes I feel like I can't breathe. I like to stay busy and my kids do so much better with that pace, but it seems I am missing the little things that you cherish as a mother. We are usually trying to beat the clock to even make it to bed at night. Sleep is rare for me but that is a sacrifice all of us mothers make.....lately I take the extra time to rock Aynslee for a while and pat her bum. She is on her second round of antibiotics for her ear infections that her teething isn't helping (nights are long). The other night I put her in bed with me and she always thinks that it is play time and she would put her nose to mine and say "MOM" and I would open my eyes and she would giggle so hard that it would make me laugh too. I let this go on for a couple of hours just to hear her laugh and spend quality time with her!
#3 Just today I recieved yet a second D & C due to experiencing some complications. Still felt very tired, breasts still sore, peeing at night, the nasty "pregnant lump" in my throat (this to me is the nausiating part of pregnancy", the intermittent episodes of some serious bleeding, and last but not least not losing the weight and it has been almost 2 1/2 weeks!!! They did, however, remove some more placenta and a blood clot that was attached to it. When they gave me a pregnancy test before the procedure and it came out positive. WHAT!?! No wonder I still had symptoms.......I actually thought I was crazy.
I am over the emotional part of losing one.....and now to the bitter I just want this over part.
So technically I have felt pregnant for about four months, and just now am starting to feel "normal".
#4 All in all I believe these life changing experiences taught me some very good lessons of life. It has made me a better mother and working on the better wife thing ( my poor poor husband!) I definately stopped stressing over stupid little things and learn to enjoy life. You only take memories with you in life....not nice cars, big houses, name brand clothes.
Just memories that you create with family and the people you surround yourself with in life!!
It is okay if I leave the dishes in the sink, clothes in the dryer, beds unmade, toilets not scrubbed.........just to have a snuggle party with my 3 beautiful miracles and my ever so patient with me husband!
I have always been a believer in "things happen for a reason" so I have taken it to heart and learning......still..... every day.
First I must say that over the past couple of months I have began to view life a little different. Kind of like a mid-life-crisis I guess you could say. Most of what has changed in me, though, is due to me realizing that I take way too much for granted.
As a wife, mother, and daughter....I am a changed woman.
#1 Everything that has happened with my mom and especially the first night in the hospital gave me a glimpse of life without her. I felt very helpless yet so very hopeful that she would be okay. For some reason I always have pictured the rest of my life with my mom in it. She is Dr. Mom to me and has an answer to EVERYTHING. There isn't one question that I have asked her that she has actually said "I don't know." These days she is my BEST FRIEND. She is what I hope to become to my children. I would have never said that growing up because I was very immature...but really every single time life kicks our family when we are down......she is the first to start picking up pieces and telling my sisters what they need to do next. Being with my sisters sitting around her hospital bed really terrified me.
I just kept thinking that life is a blur, like it really isn't happening.
#2 We have so much going on in life and sometimes I feel like I can't breathe. I like to stay busy and my kids do so much better with that pace, but it seems I am missing the little things that you cherish as a mother. We are usually trying to beat the clock to even make it to bed at night. Sleep is rare for me but that is a sacrifice all of us mothers make.....lately I take the extra time to rock Aynslee for a while and pat her bum. She is on her second round of antibiotics for her ear infections that her teething isn't helping (nights are long). The other night I put her in bed with me and she always thinks that it is play time and she would put her nose to mine and say "MOM" and I would open my eyes and she would giggle so hard that it would make me laugh too. I let this go on for a couple of hours just to hear her laugh and spend quality time with her!
#3 Just today I recieved yet a second D & C due to experiencing some complications. Still felt very tired, breasts still sore, peeing at night, the nasty "pregnant lump" in my throat (this to me is the nausiating part of pregnancy", the intermittent episodes of some serious bleeding, and last but not least not losing the weight and it has been almost 2 1/2 weeks!!! They did, however, remove some more placenta and a blood clot that was attached to it. When they gave me a pregnancy test before the procedure and it came out positive. WHAT!?! No wonder I still had symptoms.......I actually thought I was crazy.
I am over the emotional part of losing one.....and now to the bitter I just want this over part.
So technically I have felt pregnant for about four months, and just now am starting to feel "normal".
#4 All in all I believe these life changing experiences taught me some very good lessons of life. It has made me a better mother and working on the better wife thing ( my poor poor husband!) I definately stopped stressing over stupid little things and learn to enjoy life. You only take memories with you in life....not nice cars, big houses, name brand clothes.
Just memories that you create with family and the people you surround yourself with in life!!
It is okay if I leave the dishes in the sink, clothes in the dryer, beds unmade, toilets not scrubbed.........just to have a snuggle party with my 3 beautiful miracles and my ever so patient with me husband!
I have always been a believer in "things happen for a reason" so I have taken it to heart and learning......still..... every day.
Monday, September 21, 2009
My Brave Momma
My mom had her hysterectomy last week and things couldn't have gone any worse. She was so nervous to begin with and it was one thing after another. She was only suppose to have to small incisions on each hip and they ended up cutting her from one end to the other due the the doctor accidentally (isn't that like surgery 101) cutting an atery and having to give her 3 bags of blood. My true mom came out and so did every cuss word in the book when she came to and felt pain. Then she kept saying she was in pain in her lower stomache for 2 days......so they decided to take her catheter out and... walla! They had it in wrong and her poor bladder was so stinkin full!!! Then, they took her off IV meds and gave her some pill pain killers which made her throw up because she still wasn't allowed to eat. Throwing up after a major surgery like that is painful and luckily my sister Nickole stayed with her and when she pushed the nurse help button, nobody came. So she hunted one down and they simply said, "oh, yeah her nurse button is broke on her bed." Good thing someone was with her right??? RIDICULOUS. Then when you think things couldn't get any worse I came home from work on Saturday and checked on her and she said her incisions hurt. I asked if she had looked at them since she was released the day before and she said no. So I looked at them and HOLY SHIT! (I can swear because it was that bad....and no Sicilee did not learn her swearing from me, honestly) They were wide open and I could see her insides! Straight the ER she went and is now going to have to do some therapy daily until they can get them to heal shut. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED TO MY POOR MOMMA?? She is the strongest person I know and I am so proud of her for being such a good sport through all of this drama. The only down side that she can see is now she cannot go on our annual trip to Disney Land next week. She is pretty bummed but I am sure she will rest up while we are gone. Cheers to the best mom ever who I lean on probably way too much in life.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
We lost one....
We were just about to announce our big surprise that we are expecting in March......until I had appointment and they found no heartbeat. Most people keep these sort of things quiet, but emotionally and physically this is hard. My little ones would have only been 18 short months apart but we were still super excited. I did have some complications early on and was put on bed rest. I actually thought that I lost it then, but each ultra sound kept showing that is was still developing. I have a tilted back uterus and they think the placenta was having a hard time attaching causing a hemmorage.
I have on many occasions comforted girls that work for me that would have been first time mommies on how it didn't develope right and that it was better now then later. It is really hard when it happens to yourself. I am not an emotional girl and it hit pretty hard. I think that the hardest is the fact the we had an appointment at a fetal photo place in a few weeks (I would have been 16 weeks along) to find out what it is. We lost it a couple weeks ago and my body isn't responding. I have a D & C scheduled in the morning since it would be too painful to try and pass it on my own given how far along I was. I think the hardest part is the people that have neglected because I have been so sick, like my kids who we didn't tell and were wondering why I was constantly sick(although Jaycee is very smart and on more then one occasion has said "mom, you look like you are going to have another baby....good I really want a brother" (even though given our track record....it was more then likely a girl, even the doc said that), my job, and most of all my poor husband who got very used to kissing me on the forehead because I told him if he breathed on me I would puke. We are undecided whether we will actually TRY for another one, it's a bad note to leave on. I was showing quite a bit and I have gained 10 nasty pounds......so back to the treadmill I go. It is 4 in the morning and I can't sleep, I feel like I have bottled up my emotions and it is very hard for me to keep a secret...so maybe I can get some sleep now!
I have on many occasions comforted girls that work for me that would have been first time mommies on how it didn't develope right and that it was better now then later. It is really hard when it happens to yourself. I am not an emotional girl and it hit pretty hard. I think that the hardest is the fact the we had an appointment at a fetal photo place in a few weeks (I would have been 16 weeks along) to find out what it is. We lost it a couple weeks ago and my body isn't responding. I have a D & C scheduled in the morning since it would be too painful to try and pass it on my own given how far along I was. I think the hardest part is the people that have neglected because I have been so sick, like my kids who we didn't tell and were wondering why I was constantly sick(although Jaycee is very smart and on more then one occasion has said "mom, you look like you are going to have another baby....good I really want a brother" (even though given our track record....it was more then likely a girl, even the doc said that), my job, and most of all my poor husband who got very used to kissing me on the forehead because I told him if he breathed on me I would puke. We are undecided whether we will actually TRY for another one, it's a bad note to leave on. I was showing quite a bit and I have gained 10 nasty pounds......so back to the treadmill I go. It is 4 in the morning and I can't sleep, I feel like I have bottled up my emotions and it is very hard for me to keep a secret...so maybe I can get some sleep now!
Monday, September 7, 2009
Kiddo Stats
First of all I must say that having your kids go back to school has its pros and cons. I forgot about all the little germs they pick up and bring home to share with the rest of the family! We all caught a cold 1 week after Jaycee started school, we handled it okay. Then Aynslee and I caught this stomache flu for about a week and had many sleepless nights full of bodily fluid messes (Aynslee not me!) And now Sicilee has two ear infections. So since Aynslee is up all night, dad snuggled her and she went out. It is the first time she has ever let anyone snuggle her to sleep because this little fart DOES NOT LIKE TO SNUGGLE and it drives me crazy.
Here are my kids school days pictures and yes they both strike quite the pose when the camera is brought out!!
Since I mostly blog for the easy way out of scrapbooking (one day I will get to) but for now I just turn the blog to a book and call THAT my scrapbook. I have decided to get all the girls' stats at the beginning and end of the school year so we can see their progress.
Here are my kids school days pictures and yes they both strike quite the pose when the camera is brought out!!
Since I mostly blog for the easy way out of scrapbooking (one day I will get to) but for now I just turn the blog to a book and call THAT my scrapbook. I have decided to get all the girls' stats at the beginning and end of the school year so we can see their progress.Jaycee: Height: 43 inches
Weight: 38.2 lbs
Sicilee: Height: 42 inches
Weight: 38.2 lbs
Aynslee: Height 3o inches = 75%
Weight: 25.8 lbs = 90%
As you can tell the two older weigh the exact same with Jayc being only 1 inch taller, and Sicilee actually having a bigger shoe size!! Guess that is what they get for having a very short mom and a very tall dad.....we will just never know how they will turn out except for I am going to end up the runt of the family when it is all said and done!!!!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Back in Rountine!!
Yaay for school starting. You know....I always thought that I would be that cry baby mom when my cute little babies started school.....not so much. I need people to help me wear these kids out. It is so funny cuz on Monday Jaycers had school ALL DAY and then went to cheer for an hour and it pretty much beat all the sassy right out of her and she was such an angel the rest of the day!! It was incredible and boy am I grateful!! My kids are on totally opposite schedules though it is hard on them but okay for me. Wednesdays are my favorite #1 it is my day off #2 jaycee has this new thing this summer of running off whenever she wants and I am always searching the neighbors houses for her and she has school all day so no worrying about her #3 Aynslee goes down for her nap around noon and I turn on a LONG cartoon for Sicilee and YES you got it.......I have a scheduled family nap!!!!!!
Sicilee just started school today and very funny story!!! First let me explain my wonderful angelic daughter Sissy. She is Jaycee's worst nightmare, she tells on her when she is naughty EVERY TIME. If I tell Sissy to not go leave the yard, she won't. She is just a sweet little innocent girl!! Anyways, we are on the way to her first day of 3 year old school again this year since she has an early b-day, and I said ahh crap bud I forgot a picture of you! (they learn to say their names with it) Anyway she goes "ahh shit mom." I looked and her and said what did you just say?? Then she says it again! Then I said where did you learn to say that naughty word. She says "daddy says it all the time!" Like I said my little tattle tail. I did however laugh even though I shouldn't have.
I did have it pretty easy again this year because the girls are still in the same size clothes, however, Sissy just passed Jaycee in shoe size. So poor Jayc got my terrible genes and Sissy is taking after her daddy!! Aynslee in following very close so they both better watch out for my little football player!!
My camera is randomly working but I will post pics of the girlies first days of school later! Also their new school year stats!!
Sicilee just started school today and very funny story!!! First let me explain my wonderful angelic daughter Sissy. She is Jaycee's worst nightmare, she tells on her when she is naughty EVERY TIME. If I tell Sissy to not go leave the yard, she won't. She is just a sweet little innocent girl!! Anyways, we are on the way to her first day of 3 year old school again this year since she has an early b-day, and I said ahh crap bud I forgot a picture of you! (they learn to say their names with it) Anyway she goes "ahh shit mom." I looked and her and said what did you just say?? Then she says it again! Then I said where did you learn to say that naughty word. She says "daddy says it all the time!" Like I said my little tattle tail. I did however laugh even though I shouldn't have.
I did have it pretty easy again this year because the girls are still in the same size clothes, however, Sissy just passed Jaycee in shoe size. So poor Jayc got my terrible genes and Sissy is taking after her daddy!! Aynslee in following very close so they both better watch out for my little football player!!
My camera is randomly working but I will post pics of the girlies first days of school later! Also their new school year stats!!
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