I Am My Mama

Mama and Me on my wedding day.

I love my Mama very much! She is a wonderful mother, friend, teacher and person I can laugh at! She’s amazing! People have always said that I look like her and act like her, but I never really believed it until my senior pictures. I took one look at my picture and nearly fell over. I do look just like her!

When I graduated from college, I was walking through our student center and heard over all the noise, “You have got to be Gayle Sue’s daughter.” Now I knew I had a distant cousin at school with me but I had never met his family. It was his dad (my mom’s first cousin). He had never seen me or even a picture of me and he picked me out of a crowd. I do look just like her!

My mama was an elementary school teacher for years (I don’t know how many but a bunch). She was very close friends with her coworkers and they would show up at work (very often) dressed alike or very similar. I just couldn’t understand that and would make fun of them relentlessly. When I started working my grown-up job with the State of Oklahoma, I became good friends with Lora. We started dressing alike…ALL THE TIME. We NEVER talked about it, it would just happen. We didn’t even go shopping together. People thought we were sisters, best friends, cousins and one person thought we were mother/daughter. Still haven’t figured that one out. I do act just like my Mama.

As any good woman, you find a shoe that you love and goes with many things, you buy it is in another color so it goes with everything! My Mama would do that with many pairs of shoes. She’s so smart! As smart as she was, occasionally in her sleepiness, she would put on the correct style of shoe, just in different colors. Sometimes she would go all day without noticing or some punk kid would point it out to her. This one I really couldn’t let go. I would make fun of her for days. Even now, just thinking about it makes me laugh. I arrived at work this morning with two different shoes and two different colors!

I am my Mama!

Twins

That's right folks. We are not longer just waiting patiently to see if it is a boy or a girl, it is now one of each? two of the same? TWINS!!

We went on last Monday for our first ultrasound. As soon as the tech made one swipe over my belly, I saw the two sacks and knew it was twins. I closed my eyes and prayed that I didn't just see that. Then I hear "Look there are your babies!" Yes babies not baby but babies. Matt almost yelled "I knew it." I was in shock and was for most of the week which is why I am just now blogging about this. I am super excited, just extremely terrified as well. We are just praying now that both stay very healthy and that I am able to carry them full-term. I will probably be big as a house but will love everyday that they are able to continue to grow and develop inside of me so they can have the best start to life. Just because I want them to stay in there as long as possible, does not mean that I will not complain or vent or stress about how I am feeling, looking and what I am becoming because as I see it, it all goes together!

I'm excited about the changes that will come our way in the next 7 months.

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I Can't Work My New Cell Phone

My husband loves the newest and most complicated electronic devices that come out on the market. We got him and iPhone in October and by December he wanted a new Android.

He calls me on Thursday last week with this "it will save money in the long run" pitch about switching cell carriers and phones. I knew what he was getting at, he just wanted the new Android (Droid) X. Now, I had no idea what this thing was. It has a weird red eye and sounds very Si-Fi (which of course is right up his alley). To make a long story short, we switched carriers, I got convinced to get this Droid thingy and now a week and a day later it lays here beside me and I have no idea what to do with it.

I tried to make a call from it early this morning and it wouldn't work. I was thinking I was really inept until I discovered I couldn't accept calls either...not my problem. My phone was not "activated" properly. So all the work my husband had done the night before was wiped clean and I had to start all over this morning on my own. Let me explain my electronic abilities...wait I have none. It has been a challenging day with this new contraption. I have finally been able to make calls. No one has called me (that I know of) so I don't know if it receives. It keeps saying "Droid" in this awful robotic voice anytime I do get an email or a text from my husband trying to convince me that I am going to like this phone. It sort of freaks me out. I want to make the creepy voice stop!

Needless to say, I have no idea what I am doing or even where to begin with this silly thing. Sometimes I think I wish I could go back to a phone that just makes and receives phone calls and is attached to the wall with a black curly cord. Life was much simpler back then!

(I actually had a phone like this growing up!)

Anne of Green Gables

LOVE the story of "Anne of Green Gables" by L. M. Montgomery! I don't know exactly when I was first introduced to it, but I fell in love with it and it feels like it has always been apart of my life. (I feel like I'm a little like Anne!!) My mom was given the VHS (yes I know I'm old) a long time ago of "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea" and I probably watched them 100 times, if not more. I loved to put in one of the four tapes and just fall into the world of Anne, Matthew, Marilla, Diana and Gilbert. I would pop in a tape when I had had a bad day, when I was sick, or when I just needed to get out of the real world and be encompassed by the adventures, mishaps and "highfalutin mumbo-jumbo" of Anne.

My confession...as much as I love the story, I have NEVER actually read the stories. I have only ever seen them as a movie. Seriously, what is wrong with me?

All of this brings me to my new discovery today. I have a Kindle (which I love so much!) and I needed something to read today at lunch. Kindle offers free books all of the time. "Anne of Green Gables" was one. I started reading it. Wow, it is so well written and an amazing story! I am so looking forward to encompassing myself in the world of Anne through written word! (Probably won't get much of anything else done either!)

Food Cravings

I wouldn't say that I am having the cravings like pickles and ice cream (not sure those really exist) but I am getting suck on a certain food each week. At the beginning of July it was Frito Chili Cheese Wraps with mustard from Sonic! I could not get enough of them. I would eat one for lunch and for a snack (or two) and sometimes even for breakfast! Now the thought of one of them makes me so sick.

A few weeks before that I think it was just chips a cheese or maybe it was fruit, but I can't really remember since I just noticed my pattern this week.

For two weeks, nothing sounded good. I really was having a difficult time eating. When food did sound even remotely good or I knew that I should try to eat, it was only Mexican food. Even then only nachos with beans, cheese and jalapeños! I never ate all of it, but it sure tasted good when I did eat.

This week has been pasta. I've only had it twice, but that is what I want. I rarely if ever get Alfredo sauce and interestingly enough that is what I have ended up eating and ordering. Matt picked up dinner from Fazoli's and I thought that cheesy lasagna sounded good. But as soon as I opened it up, the smell hit me and I could not eat it. My sweet husband had some Alfredo and he gave it to me and ate my lasagna even though I know he really wanted to eat the Alfredo. I kind of like that guy!

The one thing (or many things) that does not sound good is meat. Yuck. I am not a person that has to have meat all the time anyway, but boy it has not sounded good at all during the last two months. I have forced myself to eat some chicken, knowing that I need to protein but it was difficult to get down. I did eat one hamburger one night, but felt very sick afterwards. My family is having a cookout this weekend, hamburgers and hot dogs, not sure how that is going go. I may have to pretend that I am not hungry and go get Mexican!

Wow, as I read back over this to see if I like how I have worded things, I see a very distinct pattern... CHEESE! Man do I love cheese so this is not shocking news, but to look at how much I have eaten over the last month, it is sort of impressive or disturbing (depending on how you look at it)! This baby will love cheese, I'm sure of it (even if it doesn't, he/she won't have much of a choice because Mama loves it and loves to cook with it).

It is anybody's guess to see what I will be eating next week!

Can't Take Him Anywhere

Yesterday was my first appointment at my doctor's office to begin prenatal care! Matt decided he would go with me so I could ask questions and he could listen and maybe ask a few himself. We just saw the nurse this time and will have the first appointment with the doctor on August 2nd.

The nurse came in and she asked some questions about my medical history and then gave me some information. She left the room to see if some test results had been received and while she was gone Matt went crazy. The room is not very big and he was pacing around it. He started playing with the curtain that sections off the area where women change for exams. AND he started investigating the model for the NuvaRing. Seriously!

When it was time for the nurse to take my blood (remember the room is small) he stood up and kept getting in her way because he wanted to watch. Watch? It's just blood. Nothing exciting. Surprisingly I didn't get embarrassed, I just decided I can't take him anywhere! I am grateful the nurse Lisa, just laughed about it. I think I am really going to like her! If she can put up with Matt, she's a good woman.

Matt is going to go to my next appointment with me when we meet the doctor. I don't know what he is going to behave like then. I'm sure I'll report.