Gina's Ramblings

A bit of paraphrasing but you get the point


The man: Hey hon I have to fill out my will so ummm it will say you get all my crap.

Me: Great just what I need more of your crap I take enough already :p Seriously though thanks for the stuff but you can keep the bills

My 2 year old has been carrying around a catalog as his "favorite book" for a few days. Carefully looking through each page SEVERALL times a day. Looking might be an understatement. More studying each page. The catalog? Birthday express haha. I guess he could have latched onto the Victoria Secret Catalog. That would be a touch more embarassing for him to bring everywhere.

DH emailed me with a picture of him that made the Navy.mil website. I should be burstin with pride right? Well instead I am laughing...why??? well because amidst all of these pictures of sailors being sailors, ships doing their at sea missions, humanitarian efforts in various countris is a picture of my lovely husband and two friends...playing a video game! LOL I know they do what they do to break the monotony but I think it is cute this picture made the website. But if he asks it wasn't cute....it is MANLY! hehehe

Ufortunately that is the order of events! Dh will be leavig and then our baby will be arriving soon there after.
I wish the sceduling was a bit better. But having a healthy baby and momma that is key in all of this. I now will have to figure out how to make it all work but it will :)

The other day DH was getting ready to leave. They haven't left on deployment YET this is only a few weeks. The 2 y/o, well he is such a daddy's boy. I mean he seriously jumps up and down and squeals with delight screaming "Daddy home!!!!!! daddy home!!!!!!!" whenever DH comes home.
DH tried this time to let him know that daddy would be gone for a little bit. That is when the little man started tugging at the heartstrings. Crying saying "no daddy stay" and "I go too Daddy. I be good I stay in car OK?" It was too cute and heartbreaking at the same time. None of the other kids were this bad. Poor litle guy was crying and crying and wanted to be held. UGH
DH says at that point that "This is why I cannot do this anymore" Talking of course about the sea duty and leaving the family behind etc. It has become harder on him every year to keep it up. If he gets advanced he willl be staying in I think 23 years so a few more years. The good news though, that would mostly be shore duty. I know dh is upset as much as I am about missing the babys birth (possibly) and missing more than half of her first year.
It is tearing him p to be honest. I mean he has not missed any of that with the others two we had he was on shore duty and was able to be there for all of that begining year/year and a half or more.
It just bites overall. I am highly emotional at the moment and thinking about it isn't helping so writing it out helps. If you made it through it congrats to you! haha

For my birthday is sleep. I am at the verge of tears here. About a week of screwy sleep patterns the past couple of days have about done me in though. I was up yeasterday morning a bit before 3am in enough time to wake DH up who had to go into work early. Last night I was finally able to get to sleep at about 1130 and I woke up at 1 am, Got back to speel at 5am just to shot up in bed at 630am realizing I had not heard my older children get up! ugh so here I am awake Tired but unable to sleep. Mother Natures cruel joke on me right now. Unisom is safe to take and I just might in order to take a nap with the little ones at nap time.

Well she is measuring a little big but the due date is right on. She is healthy. I will hopefully get the info on fluid levels etc too soon.
One stressor down.

We are getting underpaid this coming payday by about $300-400
Yeah heck we didn't need the money or anything! ugh The state isn't paying us for the 11 y/o the military decides to short us pay, Heck I will NOT ask "what's next?"

Well after measuring (external fundal height) 6 weeks ahead a couple of weeks in a row I was sent for another ultrasound last Thursday. The whole in depth detailed ultrasound. And you will love this I had to have a full bladder. At 29 weeks!! Yeah that was PAINFUL. But they did all of the measurements. Said "yup it is still a girl" and told me my cervix looks great no thinning. But did they say anything about baby girls size? About the fluid levels? Nope All of that stuff has to be evaluated by a radiologist. I wish the darn radiologists would simply do the ultrasounds so I wouldn't have to wait. POOEY
I called the doctor today considering I do not have an appointment again until next week (amazement abounds) to see if they had the results. Well the nurse said while the results were in front of her the doctor had to look at them first! ARRRRRGGGHHHH.
So I wait until tomorow Add to that my oldest has done a complete backslide even on medication. I am stressed out and I know it isn't good for me.
Gearing up for hubby's departure is not helping me either right now and I am normally fine with that stuff. But with everything it is something I am not even wanting to think about. But pushing it to the back burner will not help. I have to call my mother in law and find out what flight will work best for her to come up here to help with the kids after I go into the hospital.
Blech that is all I have to say blech