A trip home...

The last of the August adventures: A trip home...

I went to DH's high school reunion... oh boy. First off, I knew no one there. Secondly, I found out I have an uncanny resemblance to DH's ex-girlfriend in high school- they all thought I was her. Yikes! This really bothered me all night and I couldn't wait to leave.

I then got to spend 3 days with my wonderful family and my adorable 2 year old nephew. I really hate not being more of a part of his life. I miss my family! I want to be able to go to Sunday morning brunches after church, help my sister with babysitting, just going over to visit with family... And I just want a family of my own. I should be just starting my third trimester now...

August was busy, but filled with adventures. I miss my family and am aching for my baby more now than I have in a while. I don't know how to express this to DH. He's so adamant in waiting (especially with some unexpected home repair costs).

August adventures!

I'm back at my computer! We had a nice camping trip (not too relaxing though).


Sailboat & Kayaks

I got back & worked three 14-hour days, then left for NYC on Thursday! There was a storm, all flights were grounded into the airport, so we ended up landing in Albany to refuel and then headed to the correct airport hours later than we should have.

Friday, DH had to work, so I worked on my evals, then we headed downtown. Wow! NYC is so incredibly packed full of people! We found a place that had 50% off tickets for shows that night... I wanted to see Mary Poppins... DH wanted to see Spamalot... Spamalot was funny, a little crude. The old theater was beautiful!

Saturday we did the Statue of Liberty (didn't know you needed advance tickets to go in it), got some beautiful pictures, enjoyed the museum on Ellis Island, ate food in Little Italy, went to the "Bodies" exhibit.
















Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island

Little Italy

Sunday, we went to Mass at St. Patrick's (gorgeous church), walked around Central Park, ate in Little Italy again, and then headed to the airport.














St. Patrick's




















Central Park














My favorite parts: beautiful history and stories of the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island, St. Patrick's, Central Park and all of the culture and personality you see within, seeing the amazing diversity of that city

Not so favorite parts: cab rides (I felt like I was going to toss my cookies during every ride with the stench of old, stale smoke, air fresheners, and crazy driving); feeling claustrophobic with all of the buildings and masses of people

Another strange dream...

The other night, I had a vivid dream that I was at a work conference and 3 of my co-workers got BFPs at the same time... I bawled in the dream and was so sad and nobody understood.

Last night I dreamt I had a baby girl! I was so baffled in my dream that I was told I had a m/c, had an internal US, multiple BFNs, but was pregnant after all! Anther bizarre part was that DH was not there, but my parents and siblings were. Because he wasn't there, I wouldn't tell anyone her name because I wanted to make sure DH was okay with the name. She was beautiful though... dark brown hair, big dark eyes, cute pink outfit... Now I've been thinking about this dream all day. It's making me ache more for a baby. Holding her was so real in my dream.

August

This will be a busy month!
Trips:
*NYC
*DH's high school reunion
*Camping/Boating trip






Work:
*Employee evals ( I have to do 12)
*Working on credentialing portfolio
*Studying for my PCCN

Time to start being productive! Today is one of my only 2 days this month that I have nothing scheduled to do.

Baby Shower Internal Disaster

I put together a baby shower for a girl at work... it was today. I decided to just have it in the conference room to keep it simple. (Apparently a terrible idea.) I came a little early to set up. As soon as I walk in, I hear "there's an internal disaster, we need you to help, the manager is on line 2." Since I'm on the leadership team, I am blessed with the privilege of telling each person walking in that instead of a baby shower, we will all be working. (There was a fire and all of the computer, a/c, pagers, and portable phone systems were down). All of the medication lists are computerized so we had to transcribe medication sheets for each patient and look through their entire charts to be sure we had the most up to date medication lists for each patient based on the orders from their entire stay (months for some people). So even the mother-to-be is working. After 2 hours, things were under control, but most of the girls had to leave and couldn't stay for the shower. Only 4 of us enjoyed all of the food and watched present opening. Kind of a bummer! I felt really bad for the mom-to-be (at least she could stay for the actual shower!)