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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sick
I am still trying to figure out how this happened... I am sick and E is sick and Dan just left for 5 days in Cancun, Mexico. I suppose it is just all part of being a mom. I hate to fly, err, I don't fly anymore. It terrifies me and gives me those previously mentioned panic attacks. So when my wonderful husband asked last November if he could go to Mexico with a friend he works with I said sure. I feel bad that I don't go anywhere worth him and figured it would get him to stop begging about going to visit a friend in Australia. Oh, and this was a FREE trip so that helps. What I wasn't counting on was both E and I being sick and E needing to get shots while he was gone too. All I have to say is thank goodness for grandmas!
Monday, February 21, 2011
You & Me + E makes 3
My life has changed a lot in the last few of years. Four years ago I was a college student suffering from sever anxiety and panic attacks. I had a boyfriend that I had been dating since high school and he couldn't deal with my attacks anymore and the relationship came to an end. In all reality the actual panic attacks weren't what he couldn't deal with it was the way I had become due to the attacks. We had been together for a few years and lived together at college. He knew me before I started suffering from anxiety and saw the gradual change as my life became more and more secluded. In November I moved out of our apartment in our college town and went home. I then lived with my parents 3 hours away. We fought our way through this until June of 2007 and it just wasn't a healthy relationship anymore. The next night I was angry and annoyed. So annoyed that I put all my fears aside and went out for a girls night at a local bar. There I met the love of my life who is now my husband.
You wonder why I tell you so much about an ex-boyfriend? Because the last year of the relationship and how it ended really shaped who I am today. That night out with the girls changed my life! I met an amazing guy while I was drunk. His younger brother used to date a friend I was out with and like they say.. the rest is history. The following weekend we went out on our first real date to Shrek 3. Then we sat in a local park until 4am talking. At this little playground we shared our first kiss. We spent many more nights that summer sitting on the same tire swing just talking and laying in the grass looking at the stars. In all honesty at that point I thought "he's cute, it will be a fun summer fling". August came and summer was drawing to an end. I then realized that I had really fallen for him.
The following spring we made a huge commitment when we got our puppy Nala. This little (now huge) golden retriever really changed our lives. In the fall of 2008 we got engaged. Dan asked me to be his wife on the beach of the Mississippi River. Of course the beach was also in a dog park so Nala was there with us. We were married on July 4, 2009 in a beautiful outdoor lakeside ceremony in our home town. We then moved back to our hometown and into my parents home. In December 2009 we found out we were expecting our first child, a boy, in August 2010. In May we bought a house of our own and on July 28, 2010 after 3 weeks of bed rest and 10 hours of drug free labor our son Elias Daniel C was born. Most likely you will see him referred to as E in this blog since that is what we call him as long as he is behaving. E will be 7 months old next week and I can't believe how the time as flown by.
I am planning on keeping up on this blog. It will be ramblings about my life as a stay at home mom with a workaholic husband, in-laws in town who sometimes smother us with love, and my own parents just miles away. Also my adventures as a working at home mom (WAHM) selling my crafts online and at local craft fairs.
You wonder why I tell you so much about an ex-boyfriend? Because the last year of the relationship and how it ended really shaped who I am today. That night out with the girls changed my life! I met an amazing guy while I was drunk. His younger brother used to date a friend I was out with and like they say.. the rest is history. The following weekend we went out on our first real date to Shrek 3. Then we sat in a local park until 4am talking. At this little playground we shared our first kiss. We spent many more nights that summer sitting on the same tire swing just talking and laying in the grass looking at the stars. In all honesty at that point I thought "he's cute, it will be a fun summer fling". August came and summer was drawing to an end. I then realized that I had really fallen for him.
The following spring we made a huge commitment when we got our puppy Nala. This little (now huge) golden retriever really changed our lives. In the fall of 2008 we got engaged. Dan asked me to be his wife on the beach of the Mississippi River. Of course the beach was also in a dog park so Nala was there with us. We were married on July 4, 2009 in a beautiful outdoor lakeside ceremony in our home town. We then moved back to our hometown and into my parents home. In December 2009 we found out we were expecting our first child, a boy, in August 2010. In May we bought a house of our own and on July 28, 2010 after 3 weeks of bed rest and 10 hours of drug free labor our son Elias Daniel C was born. Most likely you will see him referred to as E in this blog since that is what we call him as long as he is behaving. E will be 7 months old next week and I can't believe how the time as flown by.
I am planning on keeping up on this blog. It will be ramblings about my life as a stay at home mom with a workaholic husband, in-laws in town who sometimes smother us with love, and my own parents just miles away. Also my adventures as a working at home mom (WAHM) selling my crafts online and at local craft fairs.
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