Getting my act together...

...one room at a time.

Let's see. Valentine's Day was pretty fun. Without really planning it, I ended up getting a pedicure and my hair cut on Friday the 13th (everything turned out, whew!). Then Saturday morning I got my nails done; well filled actually. They are the gel nails, and it had been about a month since the last time.

So I was all prettied up, and we went for a nice supper. Yummy food, cozy atmosphere, fire alarm blaring....what? Yeah, apparently someone pulled the alarm as a prank, and it went off for like 10 minutes. They couldn't turn it off until the fire dept actually got there and verified it was a false alarm. But other than that it was a good evening.

Monday was a holiday here (Louis Riel Day), so N had the day off with me. We spent the morning cleaning out closets and deciding what junk we could all get rid of. We had a nice pile of stuff, and advertised it on a local web page. Within two hours half of it had sold and we had made almost $100. So we went and filled the van with gas! Always nice to be driving on a full tank rather than below the quarter-full line.

Now I am just trying to get into the habit of my cleaning routine that I have found here: http://www.flylady.net/. It's fairly simple, and allows me to spread my cleaning throughout the week so I don't have to blow all my energy on one full day of full apartment cleaning. Anyone else heard of this/tried this/do this?

Oh, and here is a picture we took on Sunday, as I was 17 weeks.

Not alot to say

That's why I really haven't posted on here for a bit. Well that and the extreme tiredness that I'm trying to deal with.

My OB confirmed that having two pregnancies so close together is causing quite a bit of strain on my body, so sleep is very important. Other than that, everything is going fine. My most recent appointment was on Feb 3rd. All looking good. Got a good heartbeat again; 150 this time. The ultrasound I had in Jan was pretty good. My due date changed a little bit; got pushed back 10 days. So instead of July 15th, I'm due around July 26th. The only thing odd they picked up on was that between the amniotic sac and either the placenta or uterine wall there is a small bubble of blood. Just hanging out, not really doing anything. OB told me it was no reason to worry; it's not going to interfere with the pregnancy in anyway. He just wanted me to know so that if I had a bit of spotting sometime, that as long as it's old blood that it would just be that bubble draining.

Next appointment is March 3rd. Waiting for that because then I can hear the heartbeat again. Been feeling a few of the first tiny kicks and flutters that will ease some of my tension between visits, so that's good. I'm anxiously waiting the fetal assessment I have in Winnipeg on March 17th. Higher tech machines and such will hopefully give me a better look inside and maybe a bit more in-depth info.

Other than that, just dealing with the strange weather we always seem to get. It's been warmer here the last few days, so all the snow started to melt and make it very slushy. Then all day yesterday it rained; we got about 5-10mm. Then today, it snowed about 6 inches. Not a good couple of days for driving I'll tell you! The snow is supposed to let off some time tonight, and I'm hoping that we go back to the warmer temps so that the snow will continue to melt!