Sorry about the website thing and baby news

I haven't had time to be around here in awhile. I just realized my website expired about 2 months ago. I'm in the midst of updating it and will have the tutorial information back on in the next few days, just need to point the DNS servers the right way. Sorry!!

Oh and....the baby is a girl! She likes to clap too, lol. We had my big sonogram about a month ago and she kept clapping her hands in utero. It was quite weird, lol. I think I have a video I can upload here of her clapping. Her first name will be Molly....I'm not sure we have a middle name yet, we were both leaning toward Anastasia, but it wasn't definitive.



Life is great with my wonderful new husband, I love nothing more than waking up snuggled to him...if only we could stay that way til the afternoon, lol. He's very excited as he wanted a girl. Now if I could just make sure she came out with red hair and fair skin (which there is a huge chance genetically from moi of both of those, lol), he'd be over the moon, lol.

Wedding Dress Plan

So here is my wedding dress. The long version on the right. Empire waist and I love the sleeves and it has this nice little pleat for my growing baby belly. I chose a claret stretch velvet. I figured the "stretch" will fit nicely with the belly as this has back darts and boob darts.

And wow have my boobs grown, I just measured for sizing purposes...5 inches...my boobs have grown 5 inches since August. But I'm down a net total of 2 lbs from where I began. All that puking I suppose. Today was a great one too...the morning sickness combo along with a gushing bloody nose at the same time. Such a lovely sight to see in the toilet as you're dry heaving.

Anyway, I am never for going with the flow, and I blame Queen Victoria for her hideous choice of white for a wedding dress. Did you know prior to her, women just wore their best dress? Geez...and white is so not attractive on everyone. So...in other cultures they wear red, I thought why not me too?

I'm about halfway done with it right now. I love how the sleeves are coming out. So far I have not had the desire to throw it across the room...yet. I'm just worried about the zipper. Zippers and stretchy knits...I'm a wee bit scared.

Oh and I figured out the coolest wedding favor. It's my altered art version of those Hershey Bars. I love it, I'll put up pics as soon as I get a couple samples made up.

Going to the chapel and we're.....

Gonna Get Married!!

Yep, my birthday weekend, he proposed. So...my birthday was Sept 25th, a Friday. My ex had the kids that weekend. And N wanted to take me to his hometown (where we met) for Saturday. It was lots of fun. We went to the "square" (you know those fun little downtowns in small towns?) and shopped and went to our favorite little ice cream place and antique stores, etc.

Anyway, they have this amazing old bookstore on the square that was originally an opera house. How cool is that? It has all kinds of nooks and crannies and upstairs and downstairs, so much fun to get lost in. This was where we had our first date, cuz we are both such bookworms. It's also where we had our first kiss on that date...standing in front of the physics section, both of us looking for his favorite author, Richard Feynman, and I look up at him, and his looking at me and it was magic, and we kissed and it was amazing!!

There is nothing better than getting homemade cake batter ice cream and sitting outside the storefront while he reads to me from a book we picked up there. We do this about once a month. The time before this it was raining and felt so wonderful to be outside, our table was perfectly positioned under the awning so we stayed dry. He read a Steven King story to me that was frightening about a plan to stop smoking.

So I had my suspicions (more like wishes, lol) as he was being so cuddly and kissing me all through the bookstore, but I just assumed we were book shopping and he was in a mood. We wind our way back to that same physics section, and I'm looking for a replacement copy of his favorite book by, you guessed it, Dr. Feynman, as the cover is completely ripped off and pages are coming off now, and he needs a new one. I turn around to tell him there is not one Feynman book to be had when I look at him, and he smiles and starts pulling a ring out of his pocket and gets down on one knee...in the middle of the bookstore, and asks me to be his wife. Isn't that lovely? Of course I said yes, then let him put the ring on my finger and kissed him fiercely.


Our birthdays are both in September, so I requested a sapphire ring to symbolize both of us. It has four little diamonds on either side and it looks vintage. I love it. I found this picture online. I love it so much, we've decided to use it as my wedding ring too. You can't really see in the picture the designs on the sides that make it look so beautifully vintage.


Tonight I bought his wedding ring. He wanted a sapphire too, so I got him this titanium one with a tension mount. He has already seen it online and loved it.

So as soon as I can find an wedding officiant, we are going to elope on November 20th with my kids, then have our immediate families come that night to have a private party at a restaurant. Now I'm on to make plans for a cake and some little wedding favors and elopement announcements for the rest of our families and friends.


Sigh...It is amazing how much my life has changed in a year. I'm so very happy :)

Oh we had the ultrasound for the baby about 3 weeks ago. Everything is great aside from the morning pukings. I'm currently 11 weeks 2 days. Sometime in December we'll have the next ultrasound for the sex. I'm dying to know...I have suspicions it's a girl, and last time I was dead on with Mr. E. I knew he was a boy from the get go, but this time I don't feel so sure.

Hey...

Well I think life has somewhat settled down for me to find time to blog. So many things have changed. I met the man of my dreams a few days before I quit blogging back in February. We have been inseparable ever since. This is him...and an original song he wrote:



My divorce was done and final way back in April. I moved out of my parents home. Now my love and I live together with my children. We are all very happy. I could not ask for a better guy, he fits in so well with my children and I, it's like he's been here from the beginning. We have plans to run off to Vegas in a few months to get married.

I'm almost finished with my bachelor's degree. I will "probably" graduate in the spring. Probably being the operative word because of some news down further in my post.

I was promoted and became the boss of the lab, and I've increased production and efficiency so they are very happy with me. The girl who was there before me went a little crazy and quit her job and behaved so disrespectful to me, they asked her to leave when she gave her 2 weeks' notice.

And the biggest news of all.....WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!! I'm not due til April, we just found a couple days ago. After all the infertility crap I had to go through with my ex, this surprise was absolutely wonderful. My love is thrilled, and it will be his first time being a father from the very beginning (he's already a wonderful parent to my children). Though I have to admit, I'm a tad worried....morning sickness and twinges of pain in my boobs and uterus have already started which make me wonder at only 3 weeks pregnant if I'm having more than one, lol. Both times before that didn't hit til 8 weeks.

Now the fun part....telling my boss...yikes!! And then telling my parents and the ex. We told the kids last night. They are beyond thrilled about having a new little one, and since they are going to their dad's tonight, I'm guessing I won't be the one telling him.

So hopefully I'll have some sew and shows of maternity stuff. This nausea is already forcing me into elastic waist pants, lol, and I feel like I'm wearing pajamas, so some skirts will be made this weekend....on another note...have you tried the Angry Chicken 5-minute skirt? I am totally addicted.

OMG...Wow!!

Well, well, well...I don't know what to say. Last night in the midst of studying for my biology test (which I think I did ok on this morning...), someone contacted me through my blog...someone who opened my eyes to what my ex really is. It wasn't all my imagination...I wasn't delusional...she saw it years ago and ran from him. So I think my suspicions are just now even more confirmed about what he's been doing for years....nice, just nice. Isn't it great when the first year of your marriage, your husband is already cheating with internet affairs? And me, the f'ing perfectionist that I am...wanted to fix it and kept trying for 12 years...god damn, sometimes you need to just give up and listen to your intuition...I think that's what I took away from this, my intuition is always right. I have tendencies to want to prove it wrong when it tells me something negative, now I'm much better at accepting those "stay away" vibes about people.

Anyway...still kissing a lot of toads to find my prince...I hope he shows up soon (and he might have recently). Could someone tell him to stand up and show his face, so I know who I'm waiting on, lol? It would really make this a lot easier.

Ok so this friend I spoke of earlier also mentioned Jack's Mannequin. I'm hooked...love, love, love it. I just love indie music. So here is one of my faves, Dark Blue.

I need to face the fact that...

I am a hopeless romantic. I believe in love and meant to be and soulmates and the whole crapload of it, and I just need to quit pretending I don't, cuz i know I do. I want to believe there is that one person for everyone that makes it all magical and worth it. Whatever...Anyway, I've been singing along to this song, Wedding Dress, by Matt Nathanson all day long. I love it and wanted to share...doesn't he have a great voice? Ok...i can't keep my eyes open, going to nap for 30 minutes before I get kidlets....someone has been keeping me on the phone late at night and I haven't been sleeping much *giggle*. Met him today and he took me to lunch...sigh...I want more...