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| Just a little bit of an update, since I haven't been on here in a year or so LOL.....
we are having another baby- a girl- in October sometime towards the end of the month (they say the 23rd, but I know how that works!)..... her name is going to be Addyson Vaughn......
Carter is doing great, he is getting to be such a big boy! I have a toddler now- and not a baby, it is kind of a scary realization..... he is not walking yet, but he is very 'talkative' and likes to eat LOL......
I am hoping to graduate either in May or August of next year, that all depends on how things work out in the next few months with Adam finding another job or not..... if I still have to work full time, then it will be August, but if I can go down to part time for the last few months of school, after I go back from maternity leave, then it will be May--- obviously, I am hoping he finds a good job soon :)
We just bought a new vehicle- a 2006 Kia Sportage- I love it! It is amazing.....
It seems that we have come so far in the past few years, I love looking back and seeing the progress..... we are that perfect middle class American family.... it is where I have been hoping to end up since we got married, and now we are here--- of course, things can always improve.... and with better jobs coming in the future, hopefully we can have everything we want LOL, but that is a *long* way in the future- and right now, things are just how they are meant to be....
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| HOW MUCH HAVE YOU CHANGED IN 15 YEARS
GO WAY BACK TO 1993
1) How old were you?
LOL 6.....
2) Where did you go to school?
Elmwood Elementary (which is now the school board building)
3) Where did you work?
Uhm other than my chores no where lol....
4) Where did you live?
Ohio
5) Where did you hang out?
lol.... uhm.... no where.....
6) Did you wear contacts?
no
7) Who was your best friend?
Uhm Kelley Queen? Erik Osenga? Rhett Butcher? I dunno, other random people that I rarely or never talk to anymore......
8) How many tattoos did you have?
NONE
9) How many piercings?
I think I got my ears pierced when I was 8 so none......
10) Did you drive a car?
no
11) Had you been to a real party?
a birthday party yes, a party party, no.....
12) Had you had your heart broken?
lol.... probably.... damn kindergarten heart breakers....
13) Were you Single/Taken/Married/Divorce?
I'm pretty sure single lol......
14) Any Kids?
I'm pretty sure I didn't even know how babies were made.....
***10 years ago today: 1998***
1) How old were you?
11.....
2) Where did you go to school?
Uhm..... Mt. Vernon Middle school... sixth grader......
3) Where did you work?
Dance studio student teaching.....
4) Where did you live?
same
5) Did you wear glasses?
nope
6) Who was your best friend?
Uhm.... Rick Dailey, some girls from dance probably.....
7) How many tattoos did you have?
O
8) How many piercings?
1 in each ear....
9) What car did you drive?
I couldn't drive yet.... sigh......
10) Had your heart broken?
probably a million times lol.....
11) Were you Single/Taken?
single.....
12) Any Kids?
hahaha......
*****5 Years Ago today: 2003****
1) How old were you?
16
2) What did you do?
went to school at both OSU and Mt. Vernon Sr. High.... and taught dance and worked at Kroger.....marching band lol.....
3) Where did you live?
same....
4) Did you wear glasses?
reading glasses......
5) Who were your closest friends?
Rick Dailey, Gus, Brittany Sutton, Adam Schehl, Erin Tess..... probably a whole bunch more people....
6) Did you talk to your old friends
most of them, just not very close with them anymore.....
7) How many piercings did you have?
none, I let my holes close over......
8) How many tattoos?
still none
9) What kind of car did you have?
Toyota Cressida
10) Single/taken/married/divorced?
taken, Adam
11) Any Children?
none....
*****Today: 2008*****
1) How old are you?
21
2) What do you do?
I'm an assistant customer service coordinator at Kroger.... I also go to school most of the time (not right now though)......
3) Where do you live?
same....
4) Do you wear glasses?
only to read but I don't usually wear them lol
5) Who are your closest friends?
Tamye, Shannon, Bonnie, Rick, Adam, Travis, my Mommy.....
6) Do you talk to your old friends?
most of them but not a lot, except for Rick......
7) How many piercings do you have?
none
8) How many tattoos?
still none, but adam is trying to convince me.....
9) What kind of car do you have?
A Toyota Camry was a Neon until a few months ago.....
10) Has your heart been broken
not really..... maybe once lol.......... but mostly crappy drama stuff not really....
11) Single/taken/married/divorced?
married
12) Any Children?
Carter......
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| So it is six in the morning, and Carter is still asleep and I woke up and can't go back to sleep because usually he is up by now..... of course, he did wake up at midnight and he doesn't usually do that so I guess that's why.... anyways..... I need to clean my house lol, that's why I decided not to go back to sleep and instead I am procrastinating on the internet, go figure..... but I thought, hey I haven't given a random life update lately so I thought I'd jump on and do that..... I decided to take another quarter off of school..... the mommy guilt is already killing me from having to work 40 hours a week, it would have been added onto 10 fold if every time I was home I had to be doing school work, so I decided to wait.... maybe if I'm lucky I can be a Stay at Home Mom soon, and then I will go back..... if not hopefully I'll feel better about going back in another quarter or so..... Adam got a new job.... he works as a corrections officer in a juvenile facility.... so far he likes it is just training for now, but for the entire training the hours are good, basically 8-4 everyday.... and after that he will be assigned either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd shift, so I'm really hoping for first, although not getting my hopes up because I know the chances are slim... but once he gets hired on fulltime (until they have actual fulltime positions, he's just temp.) he will have state insurance immediately so that will be nice, then maybe I'll have some options in my job, instead of having to work at Kroger just because I carry the insurance.... Moving on to my job (nice segway, huh? lol)...... I signed for the Sunbury store that is opening brand new, I realy want to be the CSC at a brand new Kroger.... but my sources (and no, not my mother surprisingly) reveal that a lot of very qualified people signed for the CSC job so there goes that little dream.... but I also signed for their ACSC posting, just because it is a lot closer..... of course, I'm only taking that if I don't get the other CSC job I signed for, in Mansfield.... I'm calling up there today because I know their CSC currently, and I'm wonder where the heck she is going lol.... and in case I get none of those, I signed Polaris, since it was posted for a 2nd time it just kind of seemed like a sign so I did it lol.... and of course, I'm on vacation this week with all these stores potentially calling me for interviews, so I'll be pissed if I miss out just because I'm not at work..... Carter is doing very good... he is now 14 weeks old, we're coming up the 4 month mark, how terrifying lol.... he is growing like a weed, I haven't heard numbers lately but I'm pretty sure he's almost 2 ft. long, and about 13-14 lbs by now....he just started eating cereal, and I think he likess it pretty well, he pretty much attacks the stuff of the spoon, and he tries to grab it and feed himself, like he does with the bottle.... does not go over so well lol..... he can entertain himself pretty well at this point lol, he likes to watch his baby einstein video (totally trippy for adults but it can hold his attention forever) so if I need a few seconds I just pop that in.... he has rolled over a few times, but I think he is just stubborn and only does it when he wants to lol, so he doesn't do it much..... he sleeps throgh the night for the most part.... he has been a little off lately, which I'm kind of hoping means he is learning to sleep even longer, he is also teething a bit and growing developmentally like crazy so that is messing his sleep up the past few weeks also..... he is such a character, we are going to have our hands full when he gets older, but I already knew that lol.... he smiles and laughs all the time, and he is in 3-6 months clothes, ack! lol..... I also stocked up on Christmas toys a few weeks ago, since my store marked down all of our like electronic stuff.... I got a vsmile (one of those video game things) even though he can't use it for like 3 years, but it was reduced to like 20 bucks, normally 70 something.... and all sorts of other stuff for bdays for a few years, Christmas for a few years, etc. lol.... I'm bad, but when the stuff is marked down 60-75% how can you not I got like 300 dollars worth of stuff for like 75..... it was insane lol.... okay, well I think that is about it, I need to start cleaning..... I'm going to the Lion King tonight! and then Monday I am leaving for Virginia with Carter to see Shannon... wish me luck, the trip scares me lol.... | | |
| So while waiting for Carter to get over his gassy issue so we can go back to sleep, I got rather nostalgic and started looking at pics. and such.... first of all, I just have to say, man I was a hot little pregnant woman lol.... I always thought that I would be one of those huge bellied, huge ass, huge hips, not so cute women, but man my baby bump was cute! lol.... moving on..... I still cannot believe that Carter is finally here.... and I cannot believe how fast he is growing and developing.... everyday is something new..... I can't believe just months ago he was a little alien to me lol, living in my belly, stealing my food (haha, knocked up), kicking me.... he was just this abstract thought 'the baby'..... and just months before that he was like the most vicious stomach flu I have ever had lol.... (of course, thanks to him making me so sick, I only gained 12 pounds and therefore, am now less than when I started, so looking back thank you Carter).... I remember feeling him move for the first time while watching 'Juno' (that movie now has a special place in my heart, kind of like the first movie you see with your significant other)... I can't believe that I was ever disappointed that he was a boy, he is so perfect, my little heartbreaker, but in the words of Monica on Friends "I'm going to love you so much that no girl will ever be good enough for you!".... labor and delivery is already like this distant memory.... when people tell you that you quickly forget just how bad it was, you don't believe them, but it is so true.... I only focus on the good parts of my labor, and the parts that were 'bad' just did not seem that bad..... I think my labor experience was amazing, and I would not have changed it for the world (except maybe I wouldn't have wanted to tear so badly lol, but ya know, you get the good with the bad).... I made it through something that at a certain point I thought I was going to die doing, I think I can now handle anything..... Carter is so amazing... he's like this little person, and he just gets bigger everyday..... yesterday, he started producing tears when he cries (mommy can't handle him crying anyways, now that he has tears when he does it man, breaks my heart).... he has so many faces, and such a little personality.... well, here's hoping that I get that job that I applied for yesterday, it would be so nice to work in town again..... time for me to get off of here for now! | | |
| Sometimes, I can't wait for him to grow up.... other times, I wish that he could stay this way forever because I know that in a few years, I will look fondly back on these times and remember just how adorable he was.... just FYI for those of you who don't know yet, when you have a baby the post-partum time is a million times more hormonal than the time when you were pregnant.... I am getting bored.... don't get me wrong, I love being here with Carter, and I wouldn't have it any other way.... but not having a car to do things, and even if I did, I can't 'really' do anything because the kid eats all the time.... I just want to go out and enjoy this nice evening of the summer solstice but I can't..... of course, if I didn't have the baby, I'd either be working or probably sitting here just doing the same thing (esp. since if it weren't for Carter, I would probably have a roommate so....) but for some reason the past few days I have just felt so tied down..... like I never get to do anything anymore.... and part of me thinks it has to do with Shannon leaving.... the past few months she has been my go-to person about pregnancy and becoming a parent.... and now she's gone, I don't have her to go visit anymore or to talk to about my hormones and such..... all my other friends live an hour away, or are busy with school and such, so I really don't have any one else to visit or to have over.... the only person I see anymore is my mother-in-law.... not that I mind that but I'd like to feel like I have people my own age to see...... I want life to be semi-normal again.... it just feels like too much changed at once.... having a baby, losing one of my best friends, I can't handle all this.... and I want Adam to have a job that makes him happy, and where he is home more often, I think that that would help things to feel a little more normal.... I hate that he only has one full day off, and one half day off, and the rest of the time he works 11-8 (and an hour away, so its more like 10-9).... I never get to see him, Carter never gets to see him, and when he is home he's tired for working such crappy hours.... he's such a great daddy, I just wish he got to spend more time with us.... when I go back to work Carter will never get to see either of us... the poor kid is going to grow up just like me, never seeing either of his parents..... why does everything seem so bad right now? I have everything, and life is great but life just seems like such a bummer.... | | |
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