1. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know it’s the 16th. I’m just proud of myself for getting this post written at all!!!
2. Whenever a friend starts a new exercise or diet program (especially CrossFit and Whole30 for some reason) I find myself praying that they’ll still retain the ability to talk about other things besides said program. I know, I know. Maybe it’s selfish. But I hate it when the obsession is so complete that they can’t talk about anything else!
3. I took the girls to see Cinderella last night. We loved it. Not only was it beautiful to look at (but why the Jose was her waist so small???) , I loved the Have Courage Be Kind piece. Sadie whispered “Mommy that’s kind of what like you always tell us!”
4. I’m listening to The Girl on the Train on Audible (I just signed up and chose it as my free book – I was number 2938402384 at the library). I’m super engaged but it’s just NOT FAST ENOUGH!! I need the real book in my hands so I can race ahead and read at the speed of light. Sigh.
5. I hate that I’m only blogging once a week, if I’m lucky. I just don’t have the energy or desire to write more. But I’m not the same when I don’t write here! I’m seeing the light at the end of the first trimester tunnel and I’m praying I’ll be back to myself soon.
6. Speaking of the first trimester, I’ve been so….WEIRD. I told Jimmy that I’d turned into an introvert. That I didn’t really like people and that all I wanted to do was sleep. And he said… “You’re turning into ME!” Hahahaha! I’d like old Stephanie back stat. This doesn’t suit me!
7. I’m in the midst of planning our Spring Break. I’m looking at Paris/Normandy, Krakow, and Prague. I know that I’ll never again in my life have Spring Break options like this. So I want to take advantage. Especially while its just the six of us.
8. I’m addicted to The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Some of it is seriously stupid humor. But what can I say, I’m not above that. HA!
9. I just ordered my very first Kikki K Planner. The pink one was on sale so I scooped it up. I have a feeling I’m going to be obsessed. I haven’t had a proper planner since my Filofax was stolen and my nerdy organizer heart is so excited.
10. I have been a disaster at math my entire life. Like really, truly, pathetically BAD. Y’all…Harper’s third grade math homework is so damn hard. What in the world would I do without Google? I honestly don’t even know what half of it means. Are all of you never going to come back now that I’ve admitted the depths on my Math issues???
11. Harper is auditioning for Aladdin tomorrow and I’m so nervous for her. It’s so nerve wracking watching your child, your heart make themselves vulnerable. Don’t you think so? I never get better at it.
12. I hate Italian food since I got pregnant. Despise. Pasta literally makes me retch. Pizza makes me gag. It’s horrible! But I’m so grateful that there hasn’t been morning sickness (I was SO sick with the other 3 pregnancies) that I’ll take it.
13. I’m very homesick (America-sick?) lately. I love it here, but I miss the comforts of the USA a lot. I wish it wasn’t so hard to get back home because I’d love a little visit right now. I need some Mexican food and a Target trip!
14. Whenever I tell people we aren’t finding out the baby’s gender they say WHY?? And I never know quite what to say. Ummm…because we want to be surprised? 🙂
15. I never know what to say for number 15. I feel like it needs to be interesting, and then I just get stuck. So I’ll just say I’m done. Yes, I’m a cheater.
xoxo
S
The baby’s sex is one of the few true surprises left ~ I’m with you on that score. Hope you’re back to loving Italian food soon!
For your math issues try Khan Academy! You can start at the beginning and do it together. Free on-line. Serious fun!
Your Spring Break…OMG so jealous! I can totally relate to so many of your comments. Not that I’m pregnant…just can totally relate.
In regards to number 14…GOOD FOR YOU. We never found out either. And neither did my two sisters. You only get so many happy surprises in life!!
Wishing you all the best! (And hope you find some comfort food stat! 😉
I would totally meet you at home for some good Mexican food and some great shopping! I need a TX fix, too. I can’t believe we have to wait to find out what you’re having!!????!! I respect your choice, of course, but OYE!
I could never eat pasta when I was pregnant either!!! The smell of noodles boiling sent me into fits of dry heaves. I have 2 boys, maybe it’s a sign??? I’m thrilled that you are waiting to find out the sex. Lately, all the showers that I’ve gone to have had everything monogrammed with the baby’s name. I mean, what do these people talk about during the throes of labor??? LOL???
I’m guessing it’s a boy! Change in momma’s personality and no morning sickness this time = different things from other pregnancies = different sex of child from other pregnancies = boy!! How fun either way, but a boy would be nice, right?
We went to see Cinderella and her tiny waist was totally distracting to me through the movie. I’m so glad you mentioned it, because I didn’t feel like I should say anything to my girls and make an ISSUE of it, but come on! Tiny, tiny. And I’m still wondering how she sat in that swing with all that skirt in the way.
We never found out the gender either. I didn’t even want to look at the ultrasound because I was convinced I would have figured it out. We didn’t even discuss names until the baby was born. I made a list and had my husband pick his favorites from my list. It was so hard for me to decide, I like so many names! With my third pregnancy, I couldn’t stand soda! I always loved soda. If found I was a little less social with my third, but probably because I was older and had 2 little kids keeping me busy. No time to socialize! I can’t imagine being so far from Target!
Prague is beautiful. I was living in England about 10 years ago, and took a long weekend trip to Prague – just because i could, LOL. (Can’t do that from Canada!). It was beautiful, one of my favorite places. A friend and her family lived in Krakow last summer, and some of the photos she had were beautiful as well. You can’t go wrong, whichever city you choose – it’s Europe, for crying out loud! 🙂
Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy! And I think it’s great that you’re waiting until the birth to find out the baby’s gender. As another person commented, we don’t get many of those life-changing happy surprises, so enjoy!
Love hearing these tidbits from your life! Hope Spring break is great. 🙂
You’re awesome!
Enjoy your spring break:)
I ♥ you. Seriously.
I have Kimmy Schmidt on my Netflix list — I’ll have to check it out. I’ve never been a math person and Gabi’s fifth grade math has been super hard. Things are just taught differently. I have to Google stuff all.the.time. Excited for your fun spring break plans! You are definitely making the most of your Italy years. 🙂 Hugs! ~ Laura
yay for keeping the baby’s gender a surprise! that will be soooo exciting!!! I don’t know if I have ever been so excited for someone else to have a baby!!!
tara
I agree-Khan Academy is great-definitely worth checking out (I am not so great at math either!)
so i don’t know if you’ve already discovered this but I listen to my audible books on 1.5x or 2x the speed which the audible app allows you to do. it’s still not as fast as reading but it helps a lot 🙂
and i stared at that pink kikki-k for a long time but i had just gotten the gold one so i couldn’t justify buying another. and now it’s off the site 🙂 i hope you enjoy it as much as i’ve been enjoying mine 🙂
You always make me smile Stephanie. I hope you’re feeling yourself very soon. Love the sound of a new planner, I’m off to check it out. It might be exactly what I’m missing… CJ xx
You’ll love your planner! I have an Erin Condren one and I love it. I’m a dork and still like having things on paper. Glad you’re feeling well, despite hating Italian food and not wanting to be around people. Good luck with planning Spring Break! Definitely take advantage of it while you’re there. So fun! xo
So happy to “see” you today! We are heading to Normandy for Spring Break too. Send me a message if you decide to head there. If you don’t end up in Normandy, I would highly recommend Prague. On Saturday I was shopping at an amazing antique store in Hungerford (about an hour from my house in Middle Wallop) and found a beautiful brass plaque with the number “7” on it … immediately thought of YOU and your family! Also, I literally cried when trying to help my son with math, particularly in middle school. In order to help him, I would ask the teacher for an extra copy of the textbook so I could keep it at home, study ahead in the lessons and help him at night (remember, I only have one kid). Now, thank god, he’s REALLY good at math and I no longer have to help him. He’s doing calculus now. He clearly inherited his math brains from both my father and father-in-law. Thank god the “can’t do math in public” gene skipped a generation. Interestingly, my son tells me that the key to his success in math is because I MADE HIM MEMORIZE his times tables in the second grade. He used to crawl into bed with me at 6am each morning (he would have been 7 years old … Dad was in Iraq that year) and we would review two or three numbers at a time. He had to memorize up to 12×12. I made up a different little tune for each song (remember the “inchworm” song from Sesame Street?) Every M-F for an entire year, until I was sure he knew them. Now he swears that knowing them by heart changed everything for him. Oh, and even though it’s not real pasta AT ALL, pregnancy forever ruined my ability to eat Kraft mac & cheese. Forever. Sigh.
You will never, ever have as wonderful of a surprise! I loved it both times and wouldn’t change that surprise for anything!
Hold the phone… your filofax was stolen?! So not cool! Hope you are back to loving Italian food soon and how exciting to wait until your baby is born to find out… for number 5, I would think it would be awesome to save that for the moment you give birth! 🙂
There has been a lot of discussion about that tiny waist, and not complimentary. She was wearing a tightly laced corset and could not swallow food, just liquids. I think that was kind of a silly and unnecessary thing to do. I guess they wanted her to look like a cartoon character!
I finished but hated GIRL ON A TRAIN. It was disorganized and those 3 unreliable narrators made me nuts. And it was waaaay too long, so I am not surprised you are finding it to be slow. I skimmed a lot!
Try A MAN CALLED OVE and/or ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE.
Not finding out the sex of the baby is so, so fun. I didn’t know for my first two and did find out for my last one. I loved the not knowing for sure. 🙂 a good friend of mine is from Prague so that’s where I’ll vote for you to go for spring break. 😉 Great to see you back this week!
I love The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt! Just found it on Netflix! The sex of the baby is one of the last few surprises left! I don’t blame you!
Loved Girl on the Train — the book. Also enjoying The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. We should all have Kimmy’s upbeat attitude even on the most horrible day! As for finding out — or not finding out — your little peanut’s gender, I am with you. There are so few surprises left in life. Your due date will be here soon enough. Hope you are feeling better and regaining some of your energy!
I am so glad you are waiting to know what sex the baby will be, a truly wonderful surprise. Hope you are feeling better soon. I never had any sickness in all 3 of my pregnancies, but the first 3 months I was sooooo tired, I could have slept 24/7.
I’ve know many people love their Kikki-K planners. I have a Plum Paper (Etsy) and I LOVE it. Some people get their Plum Paper unbound and put it into a Kikki-k binder. I think this time it is a boy! God bless!
1) I agree with you on the exercise program thing. I have a friend who is quite into it… good for her, but I don’t need to see it at every moment.
2) Kimmy Schmidt is awesome! I binge watched it in one weekend. Wham done.
3) Cinderella was good. Great messages for little people who attend… and us old folks too. I love that Disney is changing up their messaging to more than just girl meets boy and needs boy who happens to be a prince.
that is all 🙂
I always watch for your book recommendations…then rarely get to read them. I just clicked through to order The Girl on the Train and was pleasantly surprised that I already purchased the book some time ago. I know what I’m starting tonight!!
I hope your extroverted-ness and tastebuds return soon!