It's 9pm what is your husband doing?

So, we are attempting to have a nice quiet evening watching a movie and Husband decides to stop the movie right in the middle to talk to MIL about....what else.Work!

Needless to say that we are no longer watching the movie and husband is talking work at 8:54pm on Saturday night. I am trying not to be fussy but I cannot fathom why he would have chosen this moment to discuss business. I am frustrated at him and also at MIL as she doesn't say, finish your movie and we can talk about it after. NO. Lets.Talk.Now.

The joys of living with the same exact family that you work with. Well I don't work with them Baruch Hashem.

Food

Due to the fact that I am (to use my doctor's words) "over the idea body mass index" for my height I am supposed to gain only 15 pounds during this pregnancy. Even though I am starving. I have, therefore, decided to take pictures of what I eat all day and post them here each night. I guess I feel if I see what I am eating I will eat less. Or simply provide peple who are at work and bored something to look at.
Either way someone wins.

More later

Summertime Photo Dump

Questions for Mary Birch

I emailed the following questions to Mary Birch, the hospital I am supposed to deliver at. some of them I am really concerned about, other's I just asked to see if they would or how they would answer them. I will keep you posted. Here they are

What is the rate of caesarian births?
What is the rate of inductions via pitocin?
Is constant fetal monitoring required?
What percentage of mother's give birth unmedicated?
Are doctor's and nurse's receptive to unmedicated births?
Are iv's necessary or can I have a hep lock?
Am I able to wear my own birth gown or must I wear a hospital gown?
Is the treatment of the newborn able to be delayed for the first hour to allow for bonding with parents prior to being given eye ointment and vitamin k shot?

Read all about it

Read it here first. No, we do not yet know the sex of Jellybean West. When we do I will certainly share it. For know we will simply share the names we have choosen.

Judah Arnold West
Judah - Praised
Arnold - Eagle ruler

Hattie Kay West
Hattie - home ruler
Kay - pure

Either way we will be happy though secretly I am pulling for Judah

Long time no blog

I know I have been delinquent lately. This is for many reasons. The two main reasons are:



The girl is home! Only until August 2nd though which makes me sad. But she is home and we wanted to make the most of her being here. That means no blogy blogy. We have done basically all she wanted, she went to see Up; went to Wild Animal Park at night, ate Jack n the Box, In-N-Out, went to Fashion Valley, Comic Con, she went to LA, we hung out with Aunt Jesi. It has been a wonderful vacation and I am going to miss her terribly. I want to tell her to stay home yet she really wants to go back to Missouri and she does very well there. I am super emotional about it right now, but then again I am super emotional about everything.

That brings me to my second reason:



That's right it's the baby. Jellybean is taking a lot of my time already! There are a lot of things about being pregnant that you forget when it has been over 14 years. It is an exciting journey and I can't wait to tell you more about it.

love you all

Update to Blah

So husband came home when I finished that post. Also, he got up all on his own, let me sleep in and fed the cats! We went to the doctor today. No biggie...I am pregnant...we knew that.

Next week is the fun one

Blah

I should be asleep but it seems like that's not meant to be. Husband made a huge deal of going to bed early tonight and then promptly left the house, said he's be back in one hour and now four hours later is still gone. It's not that I care that he is gone it is that first he'd be home in one hour, then I talked to him and he was "on his way home" then one hour later he is still not here.

He says he is sharing the word, I have no reason to think he is lying I just think he sometimes uses this reason as a catch-all when he is doing something and I want him to be doing something else. It might not be so bad if he would be able to come home and go to bed and get up at the normal time without prodding but that won't happen. I will have to prod him to get out of bed in the morning which will put me more behind in what I need to do.

Nevermind the fact that I will not be able to fall asleep until he gets home so I will be behind tomorrow to start with. I only wish the consequences of his actions were obvious to him instead of it seeming like I am nagging. Oh well, I guess he is just going to do what he is going to do and I am going to "nag" him like always

Michael Jackson Memorial

So I watched the majority of the events leading up to the Michael Jackson tribute as well as most of the tribute itself. There are a few observations I would like to make. My first impression is that a lot of the people that were interviewed on their way into the memorial this morning (on KTLA) we very disrespectful in terms of the nature of the event. I understand that it was going to be a memorial the likes of which we have never seen. I also understand that it was part show and part memorial; my concern is that people were so "excited to see the show." This was a remembrance of a man's life and it deserves a certain bit of respect.
I also wonder how Michael Jackson, arguably one of the most private people in the world, would have felt about this huge spectacle?



Would it have been to much to ask for her to cover her boobies for a funeral?




Poor child! Was it just me or did this poor girl (who is adorable either way) look much darker at the memorial service? What did they do to those kids? Granted the kids might have looked really pale sitting next to the Jackson family, certainly more pale than they appeared when sitting next to their father but what did someone do to this child?
Who's idea was it exactly to parade this child out in front of the world? A child who had a father who refused to let her (or her siblings) be seen in the spotlight more than a handful of times in their short lives. His whole goal in life was to allow them to live normal childhoods. How was it a service to his memory to parade his child who he loved more than life itself in front of millions of people to share her pain. I am sure that anyone with half a brain could figure out that her father, her only parent, was the love of her life and that she is devastated and misses him. It seems like a shameless Joe Jackson stunt. What was with the grandmother holding (forcing?) the microphone in front of her face? Did Janet look upset (not like sad that her brother was dead but angry) that the poor girl was forced up on stage? It would be best for those children to be raised by Janet and Jermaine Dupre in my opinion.



Brooke Sheilds is my hero. I think that you could tell she was there purely out of love and loyalty to her good friend. I believe that she pretty much said fiddle sticks to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson. I believe that she and Michael truly loved one another and if it hadn't been the 1980's and if his parents hadn't forbidden it the two of them might have tried to make a life together. I am sure her pain is immeasurable and I feel so sad for her.



WTF(iddlesticks) is up with these two? If there has ever been a more annoying, despicable, disastrous pair I have yet to be introduced to them. I can't imagine what good could come from the two of these people. I also wonder who told them that anyone would take the two of them seriously. Taken one on one they are hard to take seriously combined they are a tour de farce.


Regardless of all of the above I think that this event made me realize that Michael Jackson had more of an impact on my life than I thought possible and I will miss him.



In the words of Liza Minelli earlier today. "When the dust settles on this all hell will break loose" I simply pray that this family doesn't fall apart now that their anchor, the only one who had control over Joe, and the only one to really stay relevant is gone. G-D bless those babies.

Birth Plan

So after a lot of research I have come up with a birth plan. Let me know if you are interested and I will shoot it to you. Lots of stuff....I find it fascinating