No baby yet and no win for the Leafs yet!

I was thinking earlier that the baby will come when the Toronto Maple Leafs finally win a game, I was thinking tonight is that night! Well... I'd hate to say it but I was wrong! At some point this baby is going to have to come, wish I could say the same for the Leafs and a win.
Well I am hoping that tonight I get a better sleep than I did last night. I think I only sleep at most an hour and a half at a time. That is mainly due to the baby pushing on my bladder, but last night the little guy was crushing my ribs! I really don't see how some women love being pregnant! Don't get me wrong I love the baby!!! I just don't love what my body is going through... I still strongly believe that babies should come from storks!
Hopefully by this time next Saturday the leafs have their first win of the season and I will have my baby boy (or who knows they could have been wrong and it's a girl), we'll just have to wait and see... 

Waiting for baby is like watching grass grow in winter

Here we are the middle of the month and 10 long days away from my due date. Lately I've been going through what is called "nesting", going crazy with the cleaning of the house. I recently just learned about some new products called Green Works and am looking forward to trying them soon! There is nothing worse than worrying about the kinds of chemicals we bring into our homes with children and animals around, plus worrying about the effects they may have on the environment. Green Works Natural Laundry Detergent is suppose to be so gentle to the skin I may even be able to use it on my newborn baby's clothes! We'll have to wait and see! But how much easier would that make things if I didn't have to separate baby's clothes from the rest of ours? Oh soo much easier!
Well I am hoping that this will be the weekend baby decides to make his big appearance, all I ask is to get one good night of sleep before he shows up! The last few nights have been tough since every time I try to get rest the baby wakes up and kicks me for hours and hours. If I'm having sleepless nights already shouldn't the baby at least be born so I have something cute to look at while I am being deprived?

Is it them or is it me?

So I finally attempted to go out into the world today since I am feeling a little better and since we need food in our house pretty bad. Before I began my shopping I decided to pick myself up a sandwich at the food court and sit down and eat before I began my grocery shopping. The so called "mall" we have up here wasn't very busy but there were people in the food court sitting and chatting. I found myself a table and sat down and started to enjoy my lunch until some strange man came up and just randomly sat down beside me. So I tried to ignore it until his friend comes up and sits down as well and they start talking. So in a huff I packed up my lunch and I left.
Seriously all I wanted to do was eat my lunch and not be irritated by other peoples conversations in my ear! There were probably 15 or more other tables to choose from! I could understand if there were no where else to sit, but I think just sitting at someones table without asking is just plain rude and it totally through me into a bad mood. Maybe I have a totally different mentality than the locals do up here since I grew up around the Toronto area. I find everyone up here just takes their time and they don't seem to care if they are driving 60km/h in an 80km/h (which happens soooo often you have no idea!).
I'm just a little more high pace than this place and it can seriously bring out some anxiety in me. A really big adjustment that I've had to make is the fact that nothing is open late here. I'm use to 24 hr grocery stores, wal-marts, zellers, drug stores etc... Up here you are lucky if something is open until 9pm but many of the businesses are closed at 5 or 6!
It is funny how people around here talk trash about Toronto traffic considering up here it seems to be just as bad lately. The main road has been closed for construction for around 5 months now! What takes 5 months to complete? Do they have 4 people working on the project or something? I use to get mad driving on the 401 with all the constant repairs going on there but at least they are making some progress unlike the main street up here it seems.
While I was out I trying not to let other people get the better of me, I bought some Johnson's bedtime bath for the baby or should I say for me! I use to use it all the time when my oldest was a baby and I just loved it! It is a very relaxing product and with me being pregnant, sick and in a bad mood from the outside world I can't wait to lay in the tub tonight and de-stress. I'm sure the baby won't mind sharing his bathing products with me... not that he has a choice!

Sick of Sharing

One of the number one things we teach our children to do as they grow up is teach them how to share. Well I'm starting to have second thoughts on this theory that sharing is so important after my little boy decided to share his cold him me! I guess this baby is going to have to wait until I'm healthy again before he can be born, last thing I want is to give a cold to a newborn.
The last few days have been miserable, all I have done is watched the rain and wind out the window while curled up in a ball on the sofa with my Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup in my favorite giant mug. Being pregnant doesn't really give me many options for remedies to help me feel better but the Campbell's soups really do help provide some much needed relief for this sick, 37 week pregnant mama.
I just really hope that my husband is home in time tonight to take our six year old to Taekwondoe for me. I'm not sure I can sit in that freezing cold gym for an hour while he has his lesson. My husband was unfortunate enough to be sent out into the field today for training. The weather has been nothing but high winds, rain and cold temperatures up here for the last few days, I just hope he doesn't get sick too!
I can already see that this is going to be one long, cold, crazy winter for us. I guess like the squirrels who are stocking up on nuts it is time for me to stock up on my Carnation Hot Chocolate along with hand sanitizer and face masks to fight off my son's need for sharing! lol

Battle Group Stands Up = I Break Down

No matter how hard I try to come to terms with it all I just can't seem to grasp the concept of what is to come. Some days I do a pretty good job at fooling myself that everything is going to be okay and then other days, like today, the reality sets in. Today was understandable why my stress levels were up, the battle group standing up and all (for those who don't understand it means that the soldiers in 1RCR are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan this coming spring).
I just don't know how I am going to manage, especially once this baby arrives. My husband may be leaving in the spring but he still has a lot of uncertain hours between now and then including 5 weeks in California for training. Tomorrow he is sleeping out in the field and won't be home until Wednesday night. Again, thanks for the notice! Got to love how the military is so considerate of the families. I understand that they are soldiers and all but seriously they are people too, not robots!
I just hate how we can't plan absolutely anything in advanced right now due to the fact that some higher up may decided last minute not to send them home that night or the following day. I get that they need to train at night and during the day etc but can't you organize your schedule for the week so that the rest of us can too?
I worry that everything I am trying to work towards right now is going to crumble; I hate the instability. I may just have to cut back on my sons sports to ensure that his education doesn't suffer due to a lack of time in the evenings to get some homework done! Most people say there just aren't enough hours in a day, but I think there just aren't enough hours in an evening!!! I just feel like once this baby gets here things are going to be extremely rough, rougher than originally expected. I guess the stress wouldn't feel so big if I had a stronger support system in the area but both of our families are too far away to really help out, which really sucks!
I feel pretty bad for my husband and I'm trying to hide my stress from him (good thing he doesn't go online much!), but I know he can see through me. We both wish that all of this was going on at a different time, like we had originally thought it would be when we decided to get pregnant, but this is the way the cards were dealt so I guess we are going to have to deal with it.

Are we there yet?

You would think with today's technology that is available to children for long car rides they wouldn't be so tempted to say "Are we there yet?" "How much longer?" "The dog keeps breathing on me!", but I guess that is just wishful thinking! I will give my son credit that he doesn't say he needs to stop and go pee every five minutes, currently that phrase belongs to me! I'm just not sure what is worse right now, the pain in my back from sitting in the car or the pain in my head from the moans and groans from the back seat!
The baby shower this weekend went very well which is helping me ease my mind now that we have more of the essentials that we need for the arrival of the baby. My son appeared to have a great time taking on his first role as a big brother by opening up the gifts for me! My husband's family did a fantastic job planning and organizing the event for me, I am very lucky to have married into such a kind loving family.
Now that I am home and finally getting a chance to relax I am starting to feel like a bit of a hypocrite, I am feeling like my son does on the long drive. All I find myself thinking and saying is "Am I in labor yet?" "Is it my due date yet?" "The baby won't stop kicking me!". Maybe I should start feeling sorry for my husband since he is the one who has to listen to me and our son moan and groan... remember, I said maybe!

Over and out!

It is kind of funny how on a Friday afternoon half the population up here packs up and heads home! Many of our friends in the military are from all over Ontario, and others come from different ends of the country. Those who are lucky enough only have a 2 to 8 hour drive to their home town. You would think the drive would be agonizing doing it that often but it's not, it is rather freeing.
Before my husband and I were married he would drive down to see me every Friday and head back up to base on Sunday nights. That's four hours in one direction and not cheap on gas! Now that we are married and I am living up here with him we don't head down as often anymore but still manage to go a couple of times a month. I guess there is something about Lake Ontario that keeps me coming back.
The reason for our trip this weekend is tomorrow our families are throwing us a baby shower. We decided to have the shower in a town just outside of Toronto so it would be a half way point for the two families (I don't think anyone would have driven up to Pembroke for it!). My husbands family will be coming from as far as Windsor and there was no way my body would have been able to handle a drive that far from Pembroke and then back again within 48 hours, Ekk! I'm still curious to see how we manage to get everything from the shower back home to Pembroke, should prove to be interesting.
My son and my niece will be at the shower as well. I'm going to use this as an opportunity to get him to start helping me with the baby. I can't really think of a better way to start the help off than to have him open the gifts for me! I think tonight when he is at his Grandma's I am going to go out and buy him a little something so that he has a gift for him too, I don't want him to start getting jealous though I know it will more than likely happen. I'm sure his jealously will be nothing compared the how jealous our dog is going to be! lol