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Name: Becky
Country: United States
State: Michigan
Metro: Grand Rapids
Birthday: 9/27/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: i am spending my life with my two favorite men...jeff my hubby and samuel my son. i have the best sister ever, sarah. i like to camp, find cool rocks, ride my bike, play the piano, jog, read, garden, do yoga, make chocolate chip cookies and eat them. i love being active outside and trying new things. we have 2 dogs, 3 cats, fish, and 5 chickens. i am a follower of Christ. i am a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit. i would love to visit many 3rd world countries and help struggling families with healthcare.
Expertise: absent mindedness, not keeping a schedule, letting the dishes pile up, long showers, balancing the checkbook, letting the pooches behave badly.
Occupation: NICU R.N.
Message: message me
Member Since:
7/26/2004
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| i am typing with samo napping on my lap. he is breathing through his stuffy little nose and i am trying to stifle my coughing so as not to wake him. it is a gloriously sunny day although the ground is now covered with snow. i have now been back at work for about 3 weeks and life has gone from a bit crazy to what seems to be careening out of control with frequent bouts of tantrum (from all 3 of us) and our home which i used to take semi-good care of is now something i am ashamed of...in the biological hazard sort of way. who knows what is on the countertops. yay for working and school and baby and the blessings that they all are...they are all just happening at the same and mom has little moments where she explodes like a little poof of confetti before taking form for the next thing. so. now we don't feel so good physically, which is a good excuse to slow down and quit thinking about things that don't matter. it is a good time to look at my drooling son and watch him smile in his sleep through his stuffy little breaths and thank the Lord for a new day (that i get to spend with him and my goodgood friend homework) and pray that a spirit of joy would return to our home as we have much to be joyful about. so that is where we are at, praise God for his grace.  this is where squirt lives since sam came. this is his spot. | | |
| So it has been quite some time since I updated on this site! The summer absolutely flew by and now the fall is going and going into winter. Our little blessing was born on August 28 and has kept us busy and slowed life down all at the same time. He brings so much joy and excitement to our lives! I know every parent feels this way about their kid, but I could just sit with him for hours. My grad school classes started the same day my labor did...hehe....but it actually has been nice to just have my maternity leave to get back into the swing of school and taking care of Sam and our home and what not. I am enjoying my classes and excited about where I am hoping they will lead in a few years! I am hoping to be done a few months before Sam's 3rd birthday. We'll see what happens. Today is my last day of maternity leave. I will be so sad to leave my little guy tomorrow, but he will be with his dad and grandma and that is a blessing. He doesn't take a bottle until he has cried for a few hours about not being able to nurse so I am praying that he will do okay tomorrow. 14 hours is a long time to be gone from him, but I will do it. It is just another way to help him and Jeff and I will just look at it that way. Time to get the day started! Much to do! | | |
| this morning the dogs and i are making cookies and puttering. it is a great thing to eat cookie dough first thing in the morning. after finishing my most loathed chores (putting clothes away and doing the dishes), we will be headed outside to water the new shrubberies and play rope tug.
this morning i scheduled squirt (our chesapeake bay retriever, 4 years old) to be neutered. i feel badly about this so i keep feeding him bones. he knows something is up, because he won't touch them. hopefully this will tone him down a little. he just lays under my feet and sighs.
tomorrow i am back to work. i am not thrilled. inside for 3 days straight. i feel a bit out of energy for this job.
the baby is kicking a lot these days, and growing fast. this makes my clothes not fit and for some reason, my patience has checked out as of late. we are very excited for him to be here though. i don't know that you can ever feel ready to have a child, so we have just resolved to be thrilled.
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this is our little guy on april 1. he weighs about 11 oz (300 grams). he is hungry all the flippin time, mostly for swedish fish.
at work, there are several of us who are prego. usually at lunch someone will come in with ice cream or a cinnamon roll and you hear chuckles around the table and it is said, "Enjoy it! You're pregnant." meanwhile, i eat yogurt and fruit or veggies and a turkey sandwich. 5pm rolls around and everyone is eating dinner, but usually i snack because i eat with jeff when i get home. this is the time of day i always want swedish fish, or sour patch kids, or gummys...you get the idea. so i stroll down to the cafeteria and get a small bag of whatever i'm craving and bring it up to the break room. the second i walk in the room with my bag of goodies and sit down, a smile on my face, someone says...."Hey! Maybe that baby of yours would like some fruits and veggies! A baby can't survive on gummy worms." (sarcastic, but at the same time serious). i get a little defensive, knowing i have eaten healthy all day. then i sit there and eat the whole bag in front of this person and make comments about how delicious they are. :)
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| the best part about having the day off are all the distractions that i have the option of indulging in. i will start to clean, only to find an old book that i love, which turns into reading a few pages, and then searching for another book. i came across 2 of my favorites this morning while cleaning the bathroom....Sailing Around the Room by Billy Collins and My Voyage Around the World by Francesco Carletti. The second no one has ever heard of, but it is beautiful. Written by a 16th century merchant, struggling with the ethics of slavery, and seeing the new world or islands of Africa before anyone had ever heard of a banana. It is wonderful to hear him describe chocolate, monkeys, and the like. Billy Collins is a famous poet who composes poems that make me feel small and free again. so i place these books someplace familiar, so as to be distracted again another day.
it is at this point i seriously start to feel foolish for the amount of tv i watch when i have piles and piles of books like this from over the years.
it is the perfect cloudy day for puttering around the house and i will continue to enjoy it before heading back to work tomorrow.
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