Hello Readers! Well, as you know I am coming to the end of my pregnancy. I now have four more days left until I get to officially meet my daughter for the first time.
Let me bring you up to speed on what has been going on. When I went to my 36th week appointment about three weeks ago we discovered that our baby was breeched. She has been breeched ever since. I know that she is still breeched because I can feel her little, round head right below my rib cage. Because she is a breeched baby, I can not give birth the natural way. So my doctor scheduled me to have a c-section on Thursday May 10th. I'm extremely nervous about having this surgery. I honestly didn't know that much about it until I started really doing a lot of research about it. I've talked to several other women who have had c-sections. Some of them told me it was a very painful recovery, others said it wasn't too bad. I guess it really depends on the person. Hopefully I won't be in too much pain afterwards. I do not have the best tolerance for pain, I will admit it. We also found out that we are having a very small baby. They assured me that she is still in the normal range, just on the small side. I've been dying to see what her face looks like, but because she's in a bad position and her head is literally right next to the placenta, I have not been able to get a good picture through ultrasound. Ultrasounds are great in a lot of ways, but they can also be very misleading. Half of the time I'm not even sure exactly what I'm looking at. We had our shower at the end of March and my co-workers also surprised me with a second shower the week before I left for maternity leave. I couldn't believe how much baby supplies we received. It was so sweet and thoughtful of everyone! Kevin and I have spent the last few weeks getting ready for the baby to come. We set up all of her furniture and got her nursery ready. I washed all of her clothes, blankets, towels, socks, hats and newborn mittens. We went for a tour of the hospital and took a basic baby class. I got both of our bags packed, we got our car seats in both of our cars, and I washed all of her bottles, pacifiers and teethers in the dish washer. I'm pretty sure everything is ready for her. I just need to get through this surgery on Thursday. Please say a little prayer that everything goes well! I look forward to writing all about my new adventures with my little side kick.:)
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Hello Readers! Happy March! I'm super excited because I'm super close to the end of my pregnancy and Spring is almost here! I'm so over the winter weather and being inconvenienced by the snow.
I know it's been a while since I wrote about my pregnancy but to be completely honest I have not had an easy one. I have been feeling really crappy for the last six months. If I had to decide what being pregnant felt like in one word I would say UNCOMFORTABLE!!!! I have felt extremely UNCOMFORTABLE in many, many ways since I've been pregnant. In the very beginning I hardly had any symptoms but by the fourth week I started having really bad morning sickness. I would throw up every morning as soon as I woke up and then continued to feel nauseous for most of the day. This went on for a while. I still have morning sickness here and there but it's not as bad. I've also experienced nose bleeds, restless legs symptom, back pain, feeling like I'm starving even after I just ate, and just feeling extremely tired all the time. I've spend most of my days off laying on the couch with my legs up on a pillow because I'm too tired to go out and do anything. We found out we are having a girl back in January. To be honest I was really surprised when I heard the words "It's a girl". I don't have anything against girls it's just that I really thought I was having a boy. Every time I pictured holding my baby in my arms, feeding him, rocking him, pushing him in his stroller, I also imagined a baby boy. I even had his name picked out. I remember waiting in the waiting room in the hospital to be taken back to find out the sex. I was flipping through a magazine and I saw this picture that caught my attention. I think it was an ad for Tide or some other laundry detergent. It was a picture of a mother and young daughter sitting at a table having a tea party. They were dressed up in really cute dresses and wearing pearl necklaces. I don't know if seeing that picture was a sign but as I sat there staring at it I Knew. On the way home Kevin pointed out that I was really quiet and asked me if I was disappointed. It's not that I was disappointed, I was scared. I was prepared to take care of a baby girl, a toddler even a young child but I was absolutely terrified of having to handle a teenage girl. I had a hard time during my teenage years. I was really depressed, insecure, immature and just angry at the world. Being a teenage girl is hard, and I didn't want to relive it again. I don't want my daughter to ever feel like I had felt. I don't want anyone to make fun of her or break her heart or make her feel bad about herself. I talked to my mom and husband about my fears and they both said "Do you think teenage boys never feel bad or get their hearts broken?" "Do you think they're not hard to handle in a different way?" I honestly never really thought about it before. I always thought boys were stronger and didn't care about stuff like that. Then my mom went on to tell me how great having a daughter was and how she was so happy to have me and my sister because we are so close and that she was really happy I was having a girl. The more I thought about it the more excited I got. I can't wait to meet my daughter in May! I can't wait to teach her things and take her places and share things with her. I want to give her a great life. I want her to know that she is loved and most of all I want her to be happy. Hello Readers!
Well I have waited and waited and waited but finally the big day is almost here! Tomorrow at exactly 2:00pm I will be going to my OB to find out if my baby is going to be a boy or a girl! I'm so excited! I've have been dying to know the gender of my baby since the day I first found out I was pregnant. Now, because this is something that has been on my mind constantly I have taken the liberty to make a little chart of old wives tales just for fun. Just to see what the results are. So without any more delay here are the results that I got: 1. Ring Test: basically you take your wedding band and loop a string through it and dangle it over your belly trying very hard not to move it. If the ring swings back and forth or left to right that means you are having a boy. If the ring swings in circles it means you are having a girl. I have done this test several times and I always get the same results. The ring swung left to right which means that is a point for the blue team. 2. Baking Soda Test: you take 2 teaspoons of baking soda in a glass jar then pour your urine into it. If it fizzes up like beer or soda that means you are having a boy. If it stays flat that means you are having a girl. When I did this it almost immediately started fizzing up so that is another point for the blue team. 3. Chinese Calender: Now this one is a little bit tricky. You google "Chinese gender prediction calendar" and a chart will show up telling you if you're having a boy or a girl based on your age at the time you conceived along with the numbered month you conceived. The first time I charted this I got a boy results but then someone told me that you have to go by your Lunar age which is basically just one year older. After I added a year to my age I got a girl result. So that is a point for the pink team. 4. Cravings: salty/sour foods=boy sweets=girl. I've definitely been eating a lot of chips, pretzels, peanut butter etc. So that is another point for the blue team. 5. Heart beat: under 140=boy over 140=girl. Last time I checked the doctor told me that the heart beat was 160. So that is another point for the pink team. 6. Mayan tale: basically you that the age you were when you conceived and add that to the year that you conceived. If you get an odd number you are having a boy. If you get an even number you are having a girl. My result was 2047 which is an odd number which means that is another point for the blue team. 7. Color of urine: sorry if this is too much tmi! But they say if your urine is bright yellow that means you are having a boy. If it is dull yellow then you are having a girl. Mine is bright yellow so that is another point for the blue team. 8. Morning sickness: if you have bad morning sickness that means you are having a girl. If you feel great and aren't sick, then you are having a boy. I've had very bad morning almost the whole time so far. That is another point for the pink team. 9. Stressed: if you are really stressed that means you are having a girl. If you're not that stressed it means you are having a boy. I'm always stressed so that would be another point for the pink team. 10. Emotions: happy=boy moody=girl to be fair I asked my husband and he said "moody". That is another point for the pink team. 11. Carrying: If you are carrying low that means boy. If you are carrying high that means girl. I definitely seem to be carrying low so that is another point for the blue team. 12. Clumsy or Graceful: If you are more clumsy then normal that means you are having a boy. If you are more graceful you are having a girl. I'm so clumsy it's not even funny so we will give that point to the blue team. Total: Team Blue= 7 Team Pink= 5 In the end it really comes down to a coin toss. It could go either way. I guess we will find out tomorrow!:) Good morning my readers! If you couldn't already tell from the title of this post I'm here to announce that I am officially pregnant with baby number 1! It feels so good to finally get it out in the open! I have been keeping it a secret for so long but now I can share my experience with you guys. So basically I always knew that I wanted to be a mom, even way back when I was a little girl playing with my dolls. I knew at the time that I was just playing pretend, but I remember thinking to myself "someday I'll have real kids of my own". Someday always seemed so far away to me. When I was a kid I used to think that people in their 20's were old. Years went by and before I knew it I was a teenager and I was convinced that I knew exactly how my life was going to go. I had it all planned out. I was going to meet someone within the next year or two, fall in love, get married and start having kids in my early twenties. My husband would go out to work and I would be a stay at home Mom/writer of best selling fiction. It was the perfect plan. For or those of you who have been keeping up with my blog or who know me personally, you know that's not exactly how my life turned out. First of all I didn't meet my husband until I was 25 almost 26! Sure I dated a lot of guys, but none of them really gave me what I really needed, what I was really looking for. I wanted a guy who was confident and funny. Someone I could trust completely. Someone who had my back and who was on my team. I didn't think it would take so long to find someone like that, but it did. At first I was angry that I had to wait so long. For years I felt like I had to sit back and watch everyone else move on with their lives while I was stuck in the same spot. I watched so many people get married before me, have kids before me and Although I was happy for them. I couldn't help but wonder... when was it going to be my turn? I didn't realize this until recently but it is so much better to wait until you're a little older to get married. When you are in your 30's you are so much smarter and mature and you have so much more wisdom of the world then when you were in you're 20's still trying to figure everything out. All the people I know who got married in their early 20's, they're not married anymore. It's because no one is really ready at that time of their life. I have worked full time since I was 18 years old. Part of me loves working because I'm so good at my job and I know that no one can do it better than me. It's nice to feel needed, but on the other hand sometimes I worry too much about the job, sometimes I just very tired, and sometimes I wish I could just take a break. A long 6 month break lol. Mostly though I wish I just had more time to myself. I wish I had more time to write, more time to relax and more time with my family. During my 20's the idea of having kids seemed impossible. Partly because it took so long to find the right guy, but even after I found him and we moved in together there was still something else I wanted. I wanted to be married. Right after we got married I had really bad baby fever. I had just turned 30 and I was now a married woman, it finally seemed like the right time but then I would look around at my one bedroom apartment I knew there was still one more thing I needed before the baby could come. So my husband and I after five months of looking finally found our house. We got settled in and now it was finally time to start trying. I went to every doctor to ask questions and make sure I was healthy and ready to conceive. When I spoke to my OBGYN he told me that because I was on birth control for so long that it might take me a little longer to get pregnant. This scared me because I never really thought that I would have a problem getting pregnant. This made me want to try as soon as possible because I didn't want to waste any time. I talked to friends, family members and co-workers and asked them their pregnancy experiences and was it hard for them to conceive after birth control. No two stories were the same. Some said they got pregnant right away, others said it took a few months and some said it took years! I didn't know what to expect. I got an ovulation kit and started tracking when I was ovulating. After the first month I was so excited to take a pregnancy test because I really thought I had a good shot of being pregnant, but after I saw the big, fat negative flash over the tiny screen I was more disappointed then ever. I tried again the second month. This time I told myself not to get my hopes up and to prepare to see another negative reading. At this point I was convinced it was going to take some time to get pregnant. A day day before my period was due my stomach felt very weird. Almost like it was flip, flopping around. I had never had that feeling. I trying so hard to wait until after my period was due to take a test, but I just had to know! I told myself "don't get too excited, it's probably going to be negative again." This time I used the test with the lines. Almost immediately after I peed on the stick and place it on the counter of the sink two lines appeared! I stared at it for a long time. I took a picture of it with my phone. I knew I saw two lines but I didn't believe it! I decided I needed more proof. I drank a ton of water and took another test. Two lines showed up again! I still didn't believe it. "This whole box must be defected I need to go get more." I made a trip to the store and got a box of the digital pregnancy tests. Took a third pregnancy test and sure enough it said "pregnant". I was so happy! The next day I went to the bakery and got a giant chocolate chip cookie awith the words "you're going to be a dad " written on it. He was very excited too!
Hello Readers! So I was just reading through my last post and realize that half of it got cut off some how so I guess I'll rewrite it now. I think it stopped right around Easter. I had an Easter egg hunt with the toddlers in my classroom which they really enjoyed even though the eggs were empty. They didn't care they just had fun running around looking for the eggs and putting them into their baggies. I also dyed plastic eggs with them. Yes, plastic eggs that I bought at Walmart for like $1.49 because I have an egg allergy in my room and I wanted to be on the safe side. Kevin's 32nd birthday with on May 5th and we celebrated by going to a local bar where everyone was celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a live band. His friend Justin came out with us too. It was a fun night! My mom and I walked around New Hope on a hot May Day. It was so hot I had to get ice cream. The end of May was Teacher Appreciation week at work so I got showered by treats and gifts from my boss and parents in my room. I'm such a sucker for cute little puns that go along with the gift.:) At the beginning of June we celebrated my friend Robin's birthday by doing a special Beauty and the Beast themed painting with a twist. We painted the famous enchanted rose from the movie. Here is my attempt at painting the rose. At the end of June Kevin and I became official home owners. We are now the proud owners of a 3 bedroom cape cod. We closed on our home on June 26th at 11:00am.:) Right after we closed on the house we headed off to Wild Wood for a few days for a much needed vacation. We rode bikes on the boardwalk, walked on the sea wall, and went to the Cape May Zoo. As soon as we got back from vacation we moved into our new home. It took a few days to get everything set up but we are now completely settled in.
We love the house and can't wait to spend many happy years here. We can't wait to celebrate Holidays and Birthdays, Barbecues and picnics, family dinners, game days and rising our children. I'm so excited for the next chapter in my life to begin!:) have a great weekend everyone!:) Good morning my wonderful readers! It's Sunday morning and normally I dread Sundays because by late afternoon you start to realize that the weekend is coming to an end and it's back to work tomorrow. Not that my job is horrible or anything it just feels like the weekends go by way too fast. This Sunday is different because it's Memorial Day weekend so I have another day off tomorrow! Woohoo! And there's something else! Kevin and I found our house and we will be moving in in about a month! The house is beautiful! It's a brick cape cod with 3 bedrooms, 2 and a half baths, fenced in yard, deck, huge kitchen and nice finished basement. The couple who are selling it are super nice too and they have really helped the process go smoothly for us. I've had to sign so many papers, find so many documents, call so many people about the mortgage, home insurance etc. I had no idea it was such a long process to buy a house but I know it will all be worth it in the end. Kevin and I have also talked about our future and when we should try to start a family. We are going to try very soon once we get settled into our new house and all. I'm not sure how long it's going to take but we will see. I feel like the older I get the faster time seems to go. When I was a kid everything seems like it was happening in slow motion and now I feel like I never have enough time to do everything I want. The days, the weeks, the months and even years are flying by. The last two months seemed to fly by just like the ones before them. April was a beautiful month for the most part. I did a lot of walking around different parks just enjoying the weather. Being outside on a nice Spring day just puts me in a really good mood. Of course I had to treat myself to some yummy frozen yogurt from Yogurtland which I haven't done in a while.
Happy Friday to all my readers which I think may only include my mother and maybe....I don't know like 3 other people? lol. It's Friday night and I'm feeling pretty good. The months are flying by and I'm getting more and more excited for the Summer. I look forward to the Summer time every year because I love tanning in the sun by the pool, I love going down to Wild Wood and I love celebrating my birthday. This year is even more exciting because if all goes well Kevin and I will have our own house by then! I've been looking for houses non-stop. I've been searching on Google, going to open houses and setting up appointments with my mom who happens to be a realtor. So far we haven't had the best of luck. The houses are either already taken, in bad condition, overpriced, in bad locations, on busy roads or just not what we're looking for. I'm going out again tomorrow so hopefully something will turn up if not tomorrow then sometime very soon. I surprised Kevin with a yummy 3 course Valentine's Day dinner. We had mozzarella sticks for an appetizer, penne ravioli for the main course and for dessert a Valentine's Day parfait. On actual Valentine's Day Kevin took me out to dinner at Outback. We had a yummy meal complete with my favorite blooming onion. Last week we celebrated my friend Kelly's birthday by going to the amazing escape room. This time we did the Wild West room and made it out with 4 minutes to spare! Afterwards we went out to dinner and then saw the new Beauty and the Beast movie which was very cute! It's getting late now so I'm off to cuddle on the couch with my hubby and watch TV like I do every night. Have a fantastic weekend everyone! Xoxo!
Hello readers! I know it's been a long time since you last heard from me. The Holidays were crazy and after the Honeymoon I had to work on changing my last name and getting a joined bank account with my new hubby. I'm no longer Justine Serratore. I am now officially Mrs. Justine Veisz. I'm no longer That Girl Justine. I'm now That Wife Justine. Kevin and I have now been married for three months and thirteen days so far. I'm loving married life. I used to think everything would be pretty much the same as before, but it's really not. It's better! It's so much better to share his last name, to look down at your left hand and see two beautiful rings sparkle in the light, to share a bank account and have checks with both your names on them. It really makes a difference. Getting married was a huge step for both of us. It was something that I had been looking forward to since I was a little girl. I'm very happy that it went so well and that we had such a nice day and that we got to go to beautiful Mexico together but now that it's all over what's next? Kevin and I have big plans for our future. It's a new year and time for new changes. We have already been pre-approved to buy a house. We just have to find the right one. We have been house hunting on the weekends to find our new home. We are hoping to move in no later than June or July. After we get settled in our house the next step is to try to start our family. But one step at a time. The holidays were great! I spend Thanksgiving at my moms house because Kevin had to work so I made him pies to take in so he and his co-workers could have their own little Thanksgiving dinner. I enjoyed spending time with my family and seeing my nephew and nieces. Before I knew it it was December. Kevin, my mom and I all went to the Holiday Chocolate Walk in Bordentown which is just like the Valentine's Day chocolate walk only Christmas themed. I spend most of December baking cookies, buying Christmas presents, wrapping gifts and getting gifts ready for the parents in my classroom. I also had a special elf visitor in my classroom this year. His name was Ernie. New Years Eve was spent at home cuddling on the couch and watching TV. I made Champagne Cookies but other than that it was pretty uneventful. We took my niece Lena ice skating for the first time which she loved! Kevin's friend and co-worker got married in the beginning of January. The wedding was at the Lambertville Inn. We got a room and stayed over night to celebrate with them. we got the rest of our wedding pictures back from the photographer. Here are a few of my personal favorites.... I hope everyone has a great weekend and a happy Valentines Day!:)
Hello Readers! I'm so excited to share one of the most wonderful days of my life with you! Kevin and I got married on Saturday October 29th. It was a beautiful Fall day. Nice and sunny out and everything went smoothly. Even though at the ceremony I was having a hard time putting Kevin's ring on his chubby finger and during the hand fasting my flower crown almost fell into my eyes lol. I was way too happy to even care. To me everything was perfect because I had Kevin by my side. It felt like a blur. It was a short daytime wedding. Started at 11:00am and ended at 4:00pm. We had our ceremony outside by the gazebo in Peddlers Village. Then we took pictures outside around the gazebo, water wheel, bridge, in the street and of course on and around the carousel at giggleberry. We walked into our reception to the song "Welcome to the Jungle" as Mr. and Mrs. Kevin and Justine Veisz! We danced, ate our meals, toasted, kissed, fed each other cake and took a ton of pictures! Special Thanks to Ashley Halas Photography for taking these beautiful pictures! I can't wait to see the rest!:) The next day we got on an airplane and headed off to Mexico! We stayed at an all encursive resort. The first day We went zip lining through the jungle, rappeled down a rope, went snorkeling in caves had a nice Mexican lunch and visited the ruins of Tulum. The second day day we went swimming with dolphins and fed the manatees. The thrid day we went to Xcaret Park which is basically a zoo/aquarium/nature center/ water park all together. We saw different animals, went swimming in the river, went on a boat ride, went on the beach, walked through the butterfly pavaillon and took pictures all throughout the park. The fourth day we went to the beach, hung out in the water and I collected all these beautiful shells that were easy pickings. Our hotel room was huge! It had a stand up shower, giant tub, king size bed, living room, two rooms for the bathroom, dining room and a hot tub on the balcony. Everyday the cleaning people would clean up after us, give us clean towels and stock our mini fridge with snacks and drinks. One time we came back and there was a bottle of champagne and two chocolate covered strawberries waiting for us. We ate dinner out at a different restaurant every night at the resort. We had habacki, sushi, Italian, steak and of course Mexican. We had no cable in our room and one of the only stations that was in English was Fox so we watched The Simspons every night. Just when I was starting to get used to everything it was time to leave. I loved my honeymoon just wished it lasted a little bit longer. I miss Mexico but there's really no place like home. When we got back to our apartment we got to open all our wedding cards and gifts which was fun too!
I'm just so happy to be Mrs. Veisz!:) Good Morning readers! I'm so freaking excited because I'm getting married in 3 days! Then after we get married it's off to Mexico for a week where we will be swimming with dolphins, snorkeling in caves, zip lining into water and seeing the ruins of Tulum. I have not been on a vacation like an actual vacation where you're away for more than two days and it reguires a cruise ship or an airplane ride to get to the place in over 10 years! I took this this week off to get everything ready for the wedding and next week off for the honeymoon. I have had so much fun leading up to the wedding in the last month so let me bring you up to speed. Every year on Labor Day my Dad's side of the family has an annual clam bake where we all get together and have a BBQ picnic with lots of clams!:) Around September 12th our wedding bands that we ordered online came in the mail. I loved the way they packaged mine.:) On September 17th Kevin and I took my future in-laws out to Peddlers Village to show them around since they had never been there before. We showed them where we will be having the ceremony and where the reception will be. It also happened to be the scarecrow festival that day so we walked around and saw all the different scarecrows and had a nice lunch at the Buttonwood Grill. My mom and I went to Shady Brook Farm to get pumpkins for the center pieces and the place cards. One of my best friends Robin got engaged on September 11th and shortly after she brought over a special gift for me. Of course I said yes! lol On October 8th we celebrated my bachelorette party by going to a murder mystery dinner in Peddlers village. It was so much fun and really funny! I would love to do it again sometime. We saw a show called Once Bitten, Twice Dead. It was all about vampires. This past Thursday everyone at work threw me a surprise wedding shower. We had a nice potluck lunch and they all chipped in and got me gift cards too! It was so nice of everyone! I was really surprised and wasn't expecting anything. All this week I've just been preparing for the wedding and honeymoon. My mom and I have made the center pieces, I put the favors together and got everything I need for the trip. I wrapped all the gifts for the bridal party and today I'm going to call and bunch of people to confirm times and such.
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