I hit 10 weeks!

I haven't' been feeling the best, plus thursday, friday, and saturday I was helping to run a garage sale. We didn't do too bad, and may even throw another one next year. (probably earlier in the year though, it was too dang hot most days to even move.) But I should have updated Friday, due to that being my official 10 week mark!
In lieu of my disgraceful forgetfulness I am updating now.

How far along? 10 Weeks, 3 days

Total weight gain/loss: loss = 15lbs

Sleep: much better than last week, although still getting some tossing and turning. 

Best moment this week: Husband and I have picked out full names for both sexes, so now we just need to wait another 8 weeks or so until we know for sure. 

Movement: I hope soon, but not so far.

Symptoms: nausea, hiccups, little bit of hormonal crazy and bitchiness. 

Symptoms I don't have: I haven't thrown up this week, which is nice.

Food Cravings: Mostly ice water, although I'm craving sweets more than I normally would. 

Food Aversions: Still not a fan of the egg smell, although I'm getting over it.

Gender: Kinda hoping for another girl, but wouldn't be unhappy with a boy.

Labor Signs: thank God, no.

Belly Button in or out? still normal.

What I miss: no nausea.....

What I'm looking forward to: baby's first kick.

Weekly Wisdom: Enjoy dancing in the rain. (yes I did that on Saturday when we got that evening rain)

Milestones: Baby is starting to move in the womb, and is now the size of a kumquat. 

What you have all been waiting for!

Here is the little peanut, my adorable little Dragon baby.

At the time this was taken I was 8 weeks and 5 days. Here is a closer look without the heartbeat

Dragon is an adorably tiny little sucker, but they told me I'll be due around February 13, 2014. 

But, in true pregnant fashion, I am going to put up one of those awesome pregnancy question answer things every week, starting today! (Aren't you all so luck)

How far along? I am 9 weeks 3 days

Total weight gain/loss: I've lost 9 lbs. So kind of on par with my last pregnancy.

Sleep: Nightmares lately, but I'm getting naps in the middle of the morning when loki takes hers. 

Best moment this week: No further spotting! And the cramping seems to be slowing down by a lot. 

Movement: Dragon's moving (we saw an arm wave on the sono) but I just can't feel it yet.

Symptoms: Nausea, morning sickness lasting till lunch, including losing everything I ate, and some I didn't. And Hiccups (weird symptom, I know.)

Symptoms I don't have: No more spotting for me!

Food Cravings: None really so far. 

Food Aversions: Eggs, I hate the smell of eggs. 

Gender: No idea yet, although I keep thinking of the baby as male.

Labor Signs: Good Lord I hope not.

Belly Button in or out? Still normal, probably will stay that way for a while. 

What I miss: Not being nauseous

What I'm looking forward to: Not being nauseous. And also the first movements. 

Weekly Wisdom: Husband thinks this child is not a ginger, due to all the pain and how much harder this first few months have been. He says I'm in so much pain because this child is growing a soul, and me being a kind of ginger myself it's hurting me since I don't have a soul myself.

Milestones: Morning sickness is a definite check. Getting to see Dragon and hear the heartbeat at the first Doctors apt was amazing. 

This is what Loki has to say about it all so far 14/;kl,l;];\];/'.;,l;556j n n 

For-ev-Ver

I know it's been awhile since I wrote. Sorry, life tends to get me busy and I kind of forget about everything else. But I promise, tomorrow I'll post some pictures of the sonogram and details about my pregnancy. Tonight though, we'll play a little bit of catch up.

Good news: I have a job. Right now I'm working part time minimum wage at a video store. It kinds sucks at times, but it's something, the plan is for me to work until we have caught up with bills and pulled a little ahead and then I'll be enrolling in phlebotomy classes.
Husband is attending job fairs and trying extremely hard to find a permanent job. I'm very proud of how hard he's looking and trying for this family.

In not so fun news, our relationship with Sweetheart ended. I don't really want to talk about it much yet, but we are going to try to remain friends. At the beginning of August Sweetheart will be moving back to her hometown. As sad as the parting is, I do believe it's for the better.
We just didn't all want the same things.

Not the best news in the world

Warning : This post may be too much information for some people.
We will be talking about the not pretty parts of pregnancy.

I started with very light spotting yesterday. Not very much, just a few blood specks here, a little bit of pink there. I'm a little terrified to be honest. But this is close to when my normal period would come, and I haven't really had any cramps involved with the spotting, so I'm trying my best not to worry. Mostly failing miserably, but trying not to worry. 

I'm also trying not to change much of my behavior, because if it's going to happen, there really isn't much I can do to prevent it from happening. Although I'm hoping I'm just going to bleed every month for the first four like I did with Loki. 

So just keep your fingers crossed and keep us in your prayers. 

One of those days

It's only 9:30 and I'm unable to concentrate, it's just going to be one of those days where I don't really get anything done in one sitting, which means everything will take over twice as long. Gotta love hormones.

Today I'm not cooking diner in the crock pot, however I am making something yummy and delicious and I can't wait to see how it turns out. Apple Crisp I am so excited. I've been craving something a little sweet, and I think this will hit the spot just right.
I haven't really had many cravings to be honest, I've been drinking a lot of orange juice, because I tend to be anemic while pregnant (also I had been donating plasma, but the last few times they had to turn me away because my iron was too low, which made us really believe I was pregnant) I've been wanting a lot of water, like having 4-6 of the 32 oz QT cups full of water every day. Peanut butter tastes excellent once again, but I don't want to make food specifically so I can put peanut butter on it like last time.

Next topic because I'm bored with the previous one.....I dislike my wandering mind.

I'm waiting for the server to be updated and back online for Neverwinter, it has fast become one of my favorite games. It's close enough to WoW that I really enjoy it like that, but has a lot that reminds me of Neverwinter Nights which I used to play all the freaking time. And the biggest awesomeness, is the game is free to play. The few things I don't really like are:
1) can only have 2 characters unless you buy slots for more (with real money) I dislike this because I tend to want to play different characters depending on my mood.
2) no ranger class yet. The only 'ranged' classes are the wizard and the cleric, and I have one of both of those right now.
See, not that many things I don't like about the game.

I've been browsing around the internet a lot lately, due to my mind not being able to settle on anything. And I somehow made it back to Etsy. I do have a shop there, but right now it has nothing for sale, and really needs an overhaul before I start posting again.
Which I do think I'm going to do, probably in the next few months. I have a bunch of scarves that are made and needing to find new homes, and that is what I always planned on my store mostly selling. And then when I get my reuseable plastic bags stocked

I'll go ahead and post those. I think they're pretty cool, mostly because I've finally found a use for all those tons of plastic bags you get from the grocery store. (aside from using them as small trash bags, which works well too)  I am very careful not to use the bags that carried meat or anything else that may have leaked, cause that's kind of gross.

Ugh! Random mind! Now I've just started rambling. I suppose I will finish my breakfast and drift from one project to another. Thank goodness for my list to keep track of what I need to do.

Updates

Well I still haven't heard from the nursing home, and am starting to loose hope. I have called some days 2-4 times and never reached her, and have not received any calls in response to my messages. So I've started applying at other places. Husband and I both have applied at the local school bus barn, and were both told that we were offered tentative jobs after we take the CDL class they offer for 3 weeks and pass the test. However, if we do that neither of us will be paid until August, which really doesn't work for us. So we're thinking Husband will go ahead and get the training, and even though I am very mentally suited to being a school bus driver, physically it would be better for me to have a job where I moved around more. So I'm trying to find a 3rd shift CNA job right now, although I'm applying other places as well. Well, we're just very hopeful that things will turn around in our favor very soon.
We dearly need them to.

On to more tasty subjects -yes, I am aware just how awesomely clever I am- tonight we're having sloppy joes which is awesome, cause I freaking love sloppy joes. It's actually the first time I've ever really made it from scratch, normally I would just brown some meat and then add the canned 'sloppy joe mix' in and eat it that way. However Husband has never been a big fan of that, and hopefully he'll like it better this way. (I have high hopes considering that he has already been begging me to let him have some of the yummy smelling food already)

My crazy mood swings are getting a little better, now it's not just switching from one emotion to another with no real reason between it. Instead the hormones are just amplifying my moods, which is actually easier for me to deal with and calm down from rather than my 'mood meter' being set on random. The other fun thing about this pregnancy so far is heartburn. Like seriously, I think I'm going to start breathing fire any moment. As such I have decided that the little ball of cells that is growing into my next child needs a nickname. And so I have hereby declared that from henceforth until gender is known -and maybe after- this child shall be called Dragon.
Yes, I do realize it's a bit odd, but let's be honest, everyone who knows me even the slightest knows I'm nothing if not a little bit odd. Besides, Loki was nicknamed that after only a month of pregnancy, and I'll be honest, this time around I'm not going to turn the nickname into the middle name of my child, unless I come up with a better one than Dragon, so I guess I can't honestly 100% promise that, but I can say I'm pretty sure I won't be doing that.

I feel special

I've gotten so many views recently, it's quite nice. Even if people aren't reading a lot, at least they're visiting.

I personally did NOT like the Orange Chicken, but I think I have figured out as to why the chicken was dry for this occasion ( and for when I did my first crock pot meal) those were the only meals I have cooked on high. So I just need to make sure that I keep it on low, and make sure that I have enough time to get it in the pot and cooking for the low time. So that's good to figure out.
I just really wish that I had liked it better, I miss Promise Thai orange chicken, it was just so good! And I was hoping that this would kind of imitate that for me, but not at all.
If this pregnancy is anything like with Loki, I think I'm about to hit the phase where nothing sounds appealing to eat, and I just don't feel hungry. It's not a very fun phase to be honest, because Husband makes me eat, and it never tastes very good. HOwever, if I don't get much morning sickness again I'll be very happy.

For dinner tonight I'm being 'lazy' and we're having an oven baked pizza, It seems like we do an average of 2-4 crock pot meals during the week, and then leftovers one night and just average meals during the rest of the week. It seems to be working really well for us so far.
But anyways, I actually have a questions for you guys today:

What is your favorite recipe, crock pot or other, What is your favorite thing to make that everyone loves?

For the record, mine is Lasagna, I love making it, eating it, everything. (Plus everyone else likes it pretty well too.)