hmm

A few days ago A and I were taking a walk and all of the sudden I got this shooting pain in my back. Sciatic nerve! Ever since then I seriously can barely walk. I think I need a wheelchair.
How in the HECK am I going to make it until the end of Feb? Someone please tell me!

Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart

Thanksgiving Day 2009 (27 weeks)

Ah, Thanksgiving. AKA the holiday I´ve come to dread since it´s non-existent here and I miss being with my family. Someday! In the meantime I thought I´d make a list of a few of the things I´m thankful for. Pretty standard really.

I´m Thankful for:

1. My Precious Lord and Savior for dying on the cross for me and giving me eternal life with Him. What an amazing gift. I can´t ask for much more.

2 . Antonio Luque Guijarro, whom without I´m not sure I could survive. It was fate that we met and since that moment I´ve never been the same. He brings a smile to my face on a daily basis and has the biggest, kindest heart of anyone I know. I´m SO thankful to be married to such a wonderful man and there is no doubt in my mind he´ll be an amazing daddy.

3.The beautiful little girl that´s growing inside of me. I´m so thankful to be able to feel her moving around and experience pregnancy. To feel your child within is unexplainable. Many women spend a lifetime wondering just what that feels like and we were lucky enough to get pregnant in five days. I´m looking forward to squeezing her and loving her for the rest of her life.

4. Family/friends. Parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents. They are ALL totally crazy whack jobs........but I love them anyways and without them I wouldn´t be who I am today:O)

5. Our beautiful flat decorated exactly how we love it. It´s so cozy and I love coming home everyday.

6. Animals. I wish I could have one here, but my inlaws boxer Chiqui will have to do. She is the funniest dog around and she always makes me laugh. Dogs are the best.

7. Laughter. What would the world be like without it? There is no better feeling than laughing until you are in stitches and tears are streaming down your face. Now THAT is heavenly.

8. Hugs. I miss hugs. We do the double kiss thing here and it´s not the same.

9. Jobs. I like my jobs and I enjoy the people I meet on a daily basis.

10. Starbucks coffee in Sevilla. Tall mochas. Need I say more?

bus

I KEEP having this dream where I miss the school bus. What does this mean? It's starting to freak me out.

I'm on Thanksgiving and Christmas strike this year. Thanksgiving doesn't even exist here and I have to work. Awesome. And as far as Christmas. It's like a trillion degrees and there aren't even any lights up etc. and I'm not going home.......so I'm on strike. Ba humbug!

really?

I just had a ¨Meet the Parents¨ moment. Remember when Ben Stiller was the ONLY one on the plane and he had to wait until his row was called?

So, I just went to the post office to mail an envelope and there was NO ONE there......so I walked up to the lady and she´s like, ¨You have to get a number.¨ Seriously? But there is no one in line.....So, I had to walk all the way to the front of the post office to get a number...and then my number showed up on the screen. Hilarious. I was laughing hysterically.

On another note...26 weeks preggers today. I went to the Midwife and heard the heartbeat. I even teared up a bit. She´s doing well. I won´t tell you how many lbs. I´ve gained. Lets just say the 25-30 range will not be happening for moi. SO SHOVE IT!

public transport

I hate taking the bus. Today a gypsy lady was sitting near me and she hacked and then spit on the floor...not once, but twice. SICK! Would you like a side of swine flu with that saliva?

yikes

I have an outtie!!!!!!!!!!!! Advantage: I can finally clean out all of that lint that's been forming in there.

Disadvantage:Weird!

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Last week I was sick with diarrhea and today I am throwing up with diarrhea. I don´t know if it´s because of baby or something else?

I ate oatmeal only to throw up the oatmeal and only to almost suffocate while throwing up the oatmeal since I couldn´t breathe. I don´t like oatmeal anymore.

I don´t like throwing up either. I feel like my eyeballs are going to pop right out of my head and that all the veins in my face might burst.

Is it Feb yet?

Tommy Boy

Guess who's in town? You'll never guess. Go on...just try....... did you guess?

It's Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz! They are filming a movie downtown Seville. I wonder if I'll run into them at some point or see Suri with her bottle. YES!

break-down

We just went to see some friends of ours who had their 2nd baby girl. Congrats! Her name is Blanca and they already have a daughter Lucia who will be two in Feb. Cuties!

I kind of had a break-down in the car. Hormones? Probably.

Hospitals are just scary. period. It´s going to be so scary having the baby here where it´s not my language and the hospitals are just different. I´m not concerned about medical care or that they don´t know what they are doing....it´s not that. It´s just that it seems like the hospitals are mad houses. You don´t get your own room and so there is a curtain separating you and the person next to you. Not to mention the 20+ guests that each woman has and it´s SO freaking loud and EVERYONE is talking. It´s just way too much.

I also got sad thinking that NONE of my family is going to be there and none of my friends or family are going to visit her at the hospital. Sometimes it´s just hard to talk about what I´m feeling because people might just say, ¨well, that was your choice to live in Spain¨ and they are right......but that doesn´t make it any easier. It doesn´t make it EASY that this will be my 5th Thanksgiving that I´ve missed or the first Christmas away from home...it´s not EASY and fun sometimes.........but in the end I know all that matters is that we have a healthy beautiful little girl and the Lord will be our Rock. He´s the one who helps me get through!

Fri the 13th

Scary-town!

When I was about 5 or 6 years old I thought I would be awesome and hang out with my brother and his friend. They ended up watching ¨Nightmare on elmstreet¨ and I was terrified (to say the least). I actually had to go to a psychiatrist at the age of 6 because I WOULD NOT sleep in my own bed. I really only remember just playing games with him so did he really do anything? Not sure.

I was convinced that Freddy was under my bed or in my closet. I slept on my parents floor or with my brother for a good year (or possibly more?) You could even leave the lights on and put a lion at my door to protect me during the night and I still wasn´t convinced........

Tonight we are supposed to watch scary movies with A´s brother and girlfriend and I´m beginning to wonder if that´s such a good idea.....I don´t have any money to pay for psychiatrist visits!

bah humbug

They are already putting X mas lights up etc. in the city and it just doesn´t feel like holiday time. I´m still wearing short sleeves and skirts in November! This will be my fifth Thanksgiving in Spain and first X mas here (not by choice I might add!) I might possibly die. I´ve actually kind of gotten ¨used to¨ being here for Thanksgiving but now Christmas........yikes

Today I was waiting for the bus and a girl had a grasshopper on her back and I didn´t even tell her....I wanted to watch her scream. YES! How awesome is that???? Just trying to get into the Christmas spirit early. Scrooge!

So, awhile ago I started a new job (so now I have two) and I work from 8am to 930pm most days. Talk about tired dawg. It´s hilarious though because I teach English at a University. Me. Really? Am I qualified for that? So, today I basically had to rip them a new one in Spanish. Awesome. Who would have thought I would have been yelling at a Univ class in Spanish one day? I´m so proud (tear). haha. Another class I have to prepare them for a police exam and basically I just have to speak in Spanish the whole time while teaching them English words. Again...weird. I used to get nervous for my Spanish oral exams in highschool and we basically had to talk about what we ate for breakfast. In Feb I will have been here for FIVE years! I can´t believe it!

While I was waiting for the bus to go back home (where I saw the grasshopper) Americans came to the bus-stop. There are TONS of Americans studying here.........and I want to smack them all in the face. They are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying and say ¨like¨ way too many times! No wonder everyone thinks we are idiots........have you listened to American college kids lately? It´s kind of embarrassing! Oh well, I suppose we were all there at one point in time. I might just smack someone soon though...just to make me feel better!!!!! BAH Humbug!

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Stacey and Cindy... what are your blog addresses?

ps. i´m glad that all of my shoes give me blisters. sweet!

hmm

I think I just gave my baby a heart attack because I screamed so loudly. I just saw............a cockroach..........in our house........in NOVEMBER. What. The. Heck. Ok, I´m aware that we have more of them in summer months July and Aug but Nov?! Never. BIG setback for living in Spain!

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Any MUST READ pregnancy books/feeding/sleeping books out there you new moms reccomend?

6 months

Today! yipee! Can´t wait to meet my little princess!

yak attack

I was peacefully asleep by 11pm last night and at 1230am I woke up with the worst stomach pains of my life! A fun night of vomiting and diarrhea was ahead. What the heck? I think I got food poisoning or something. And then I was thinking.....this is NOTHING compared to labor pains. CANT WAIT! (enter sarcasm here)


The high is 70º today! How happy does that make me??

I had the WEIRDEST dreams yesterday....I kept missing my school bus, and A kept peeing in the bed....on purpose. Awesometown!

chuck in a tux

how cute is charles? he was recently in a wedding.......and he dressed as bamm bamm for halloween!