Happy New Year!

Since about the age of five, losing weight has always been at the top of my list of resolutions...not this year!

As the new year rings in I hope for the happiest and healthiest babies in the world. I hope to be a wonderful, understanding, and patient mother and wife. I hope that God gives me all the energy that I need to keep up with two little munchkins! I intend to believe that there is no such thing as being super-mom, and if laundry needs to be put off for one day, or there are dishes left in the sink, it's nothing to beat myself up about. I have to let some of my OCDs go, and this will be the year to do it!

And of course after all of these things are said and done...I hope to lose the baby weight! : )

Happy 2009!

Let there be light!

After an evening of searching and searching, my designer at heart sister found this for us from Shades of Light. I haven't ordered it just yet, but I'm pretty sure that this is the light fixture that we're set on. I love it!

Thank you!

I would like to give a special thank you to my sister and brother-in-law for their artistic talents in painting! The pictures posted below show some of their amazing work! Love ya, guys! Also, thank you to my wonderful Hubby who is spending all of his free time in putting the Twinkies' room together. I have the best Hubby ever!

Before and During

Here's our work in progress!



These are the before shots. Good-bye butterflies!


So we're finally seeing some progress in the Twinkies' room! There's still a lot of trim work to be done, followed by a little more painting. Hubby promises to have it complete by our shower date!

Phinely Phinished (sort of)

The glider has been ordered! Woohoo! Now it's just the painting and the setting up that needs to get started. And the accessorizing, of course. There's still so much to do! Anybody bored??

Long ago

Growing up in the "Bible Belt" was never an easy task. Every morning of Christmas Eve I am taken back to a memory from long ago. When I was about 5ish, I remember getting out of bed after being tucked in. I would sit on this table that stood in front of my bedroom window and watch for Santa. I never saw him, and always woke up disappointed because I didn't get diddly squat!

I only hope that as a new mother I can help my twinkies understand who we are and where we come from, and why we don't celebrate Christmas. Gotta love the South!

phew...

Things looked much better at our ultrasound yesterday! The babies are still doing great and I am no longer showing signs of effacement. I'm telling you, I think that last week's ultrasound tech really screwed up. I'm still supposed to take it easy, and we should have the test results back on Monday. I must go for one more fetal fibronectin swab on January 2nd, just to make sure that everything is a-okay. I'm feeling so much more relieved!

Yesterday also marked the beginning of a two week vacation from work...I LOVE IT!

I almost forgot...

Our long awaited crib bedding set arrived today. Yay! Thanks to my awesome sister, we got the canary set from a drawing that she won off of a blog. And, thanks to her as well for finding the pumpkin set on sale for me to order! Love ya, sis! I can't wait to see the twinkies dozing (hopefully) on their super- cute organic cotton sheets! I wonder which color each of them will prefer??

Odds and Ends

Here's the cool dresser that we ordered from Pottery Barn Kids! Unlike the crib bedding, hopefully it will come in just a couple of weeks. It's exciting to see everything slowly coming together. All we need now for the final big nursery purchase is a chair/glider.

Oh, the things you'll discuss in an elevator

Mark and I went on our hospital tour at Northside today. I've been there a million times, but we were able to get something new out of it. I'd say the most important thing we got out of the whole tour was learning which entrance was the correct one to come through when the big day arrives!

On the way out, Mark and I were in the elevator with a man who was about to check out of the hospital with his new family. We saw him with bags and gifts and told him congratulations. He responded with a tired thank you and told us that he just had a boy. He then proceeded to ask us what we were having. When we told him two boys his eyes got really wide and he responded with an exasperated, "Jesus!" I have to say that this is definitely the best reaction that we've gotten so far. This poor man was exhausted with the one that he just had. I think knowing that we were having two secretly made him think that maybe one wasn't that bad! I guess you had to be there. I just keep telling myself that since we don't have any kids at all, we won't know the difference between having twins from a singleton.

Awake

It's 6:40 a.m. on a Saturday morning and I've been awake since 5:30. We had our 25 week ultrasound yesterday and it didn't quite go as smoothly as all the others. The babies are doing just fine, which we are very thankful for, but my cervix is another story. It's measuring short. Basically that means that I need to get off my feet and go in for another test on Friday. It could be a potential sign of the babies coming early, but it didn't measure short enough to be in the danger zone. After our ultrasound the doctor hooked me up to a machine to measure for contractions. I don't believe that I've had any at all, but at the same time I had no idea what they are supposed to feel like. Anywho, thankfully no contractions. I just keep telling myself that all will be well!

I'm starting to get a little worried about what is going to happen work-wise. I'm hoping not to have to go on bed-rest, which is what will happen if things still haven't changed by next Friday. Oy!

On a brighter note, something truly wonderful happened yesterday morning. As many of you know I have been freaking out (no way!) a little about my work situation for next year. There is a brand new elementary school that will be opening down the road next fall. I have been driving to Peachtree Elementary for 4 years now, but next year the 40 minute drive would be very difficult with two little munchkins in the picture. Our principal called an emergency staff meeting yesterday morning to tell us that she will be transferring to White Oak Elementary next year!!! Woohoo! So next year my commute to work will change from 40 minutes to 5!

I have truly been blessed this year! My dream of becoming a mother is on its way to fulfillment. I have finally finished graduate school, and now everything for work next year has fallen into the right track. I couldn't be more thankful!

Pomp and Circumstance

So I am now officially done with graduate school, yay! It's weird sitting here tonight knowing that there is nothing else that I need to do. I have to say that I am very proud of myself, especially for not putting my degree off. I've accomplished a lot for my young age. Life is good.