Flooded

Friday night DH and I decided that we would wait and go up north to our boat on Saturday morning. It was supposed to storm so we thought we'd just have a lazy night. We went out for fish fry and when we came home our power was out. It was pourin rain pretty bad and the dogs were wiggin out with all the thunder. So I lit some candles, DH grabbed a beer and we sat in front of our big living room window and watched it rain. We also watched all the commotion in front of our house because the roads were getting flooded and they were having to direct traffic. DH says to me, "I'm so glad we live up as high as we do so we don't have to worry about flooding." I agreed. A half hour later he went to our basement to get another beer and then I hear, "Honey, can you come here?" Our whole basement was under about 4 in of water. Our carpeted rec room completely furnished, the laundry room, and a bathroom. Since the power had been out so long our sump pump obviously stopped working and we took on TONS of water! It was over the top of my foot throughout the whole basement.

We spent from 9 am until 10 pm on Saturday using a r.ug doc.t.or on the rec room. It's still damp today. So much for a nice relaxing saturday on the boat. Everything had to be moved out of the room and cleaned and dried. I'm absolutely exhausted today. I can't wait to get home and crawl back into bed. I didn't sleep well at all last night. As usual. And now when I turn from one side to the other I get a little pain in my lower ab. Nothing intense or anything but enough to make it uncomfortable to roll over.

The good news is we start our vacation on Wednesday. Yah!!! I took wed off to get the house cleaned up and finish packing, (which I'm so glad I did now since I got nothing done this weekend) then we leave Wed after DH gets home from work. We'll be spending Wed-Sun at Co.unt.ry U.SA in Os.hkos.h, WI. We do it every year. We usually camp at the site with a bunch of friends but this year we opted to stay at DH"s moms and just drive over everyday. It's only a 5 min drive and I didn't know how well I'd do with the heat all day long out there. Then we'll spend Mon-Wed chillin on our boat and fishing. Then next Thurs we rented a cabin for 4 days on La.ke Pe.ten.w.ell. We're going to fish and relax over the 4th. I cannot wait! DH is a big fisherman and I don't mind relaxin lakeside and readin a book. We're going with his aunt and uncle and they're bringin their new ba.ss tra.cke.r fis.hin bo.at. DH is like a little kid with all of his excitement! We went to Ba.ss P.ro yesterday to get stocked up on lures and hooks and whatnot.

I have a dr. appt tomorrow morning to discuss the terms of my bed rest. Which is supposed to start in 4 weeks. I'll let ya'll know how it goes.

My Sister

So as you may or may not know my sister is due in July. 3 weeks from tomorrow actually. She hasn't had one single u/s throughout her entire preg.nancy. She believes it's harmful to the baby's ears. I've done my research on it and I think she's overreacting but, fine. It's her baby not mine. She is also not seeing a dr. and not giving birth in a hospital. She is having a mid wife only and giving birth in her home. That's just a little background info on her and her pre.gna.ncy. Well, today she is going in for an u/s against her best wishes. Her mid wife believes she may have pl.ace.nta pr.evi.a. I thought she was going to have this u/s to make sure baby was head down. She said she already knows the baby is head down. How do they tell this without an u/s??? Anyone know? Anyway, I'm pretty worried about her. She wants NO medical intervention whatsoever with this birth so i'm worried about what she's going to do if she does have pla.cen.ta pre.via. Any research I've done, and it hasn't been much, suggests a c-se.c.ti.on for this. I'm worried she'll fight this and insist on a natural birth. We'll know more this afternoon after her appointment. Please keep her in your prayers today and her LO too of course. If anyone knows more about this, please let me know!

Where's the Damn San.dman???

So basically I can't sleep. And I'm not complaining one bit about being pg just the fact that I can't sleep. I toss and turn and get so restless. I don't mind sleeping on my sides but my hips get really really sore and all my limbs have a tendency to fall asleep before I do! I get leg cramps frequently as well. I eat at least 2 banana's a day and tons of H2O to try and help this but nothing works. I'm out of options here. I don't necessarily have trouble always falling asleep but it's staying asleep that's the problem. Because I get so uncomfortable. I'm going to bring it up with my dr. next visit. Anyone I tell this to tells me to "get used to it" because I won't be getting any sleep when my LO's are here. Ok people, I get it. But I'd like to sleep now while I can! Too bad you can't bank sleep like how you can have rollover minutes with your cell phones. That would be nice. Anyway, if anyone sees the Sa.ndma.n out there send him my way please!

On a more exciting note, I go in tomorrow to my 2nd Le.ve.l II U/S. We're hoping baby girl moved positions so the tech and dr. can get a better view of her tiny little heart. It's always exciting for me to get to see them on u/s. So wish the 3 of us luck! And I'll take some "flip your ass over little girl" vibes. I'm sure she's just fine but it will be nice to know for sure.

New pic

I updated my family blog and put a new pic on there. Just in case anyone wants to see.


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