It has been 840 days since I decided to change MY life!

HOLY MOLY!!

I don't really believe that it's been 840 days... not only that, but that means its been 122 days since I last blogged on here.  In 840 days a ton of things have happened including a few New Years resolutions that have come and gone... HA.  Right now I am on a "fast" with the new church I am attending.  Its amazing actually.  I noticed tonight, during a cheat meal, because I'm sickly ill, that I actually don't enjoy the 'junk' food anymore.  The Pepsi tasted funny, as did the white bread that I ate with my shrimp bisque.. which was heavenly.  

In other news.

Mommy is sick.

Dylan is huge, going to be six in a few short weeks, and loves going to school... well most of the time!

Maya is almost 17 months, and runs everywhere, climbs on everything, and still likes to put random items in her mouth, which is not so very fun for mommy and daddy.

Daddy & I are good, we are very blessed and are thankful each morning for another day in the life, whether we act like it or not, this really is the perfect life.

We are living the dream.

[I really promise to write more, especially while I am fasting from my daily FB use as well!]

Day 106 [10 Weeks 1 Day]

Finally got my chalk board painted and am just waiting for Rafal to get home from a quick WalMart run so that we can take my FIRST official prenatal picture!!

I was craving a jelly doughnut and frosted flakes, and what a man!  Off to the store he went!  I am SO blessed.

Life is good today, and every day for that matter, but I haven't been AS sick as I was a few days ago.  Thank GOD.  Just certain foods making me barfy, but thats kind of normal even for non-pregnant Sara.  We went and had Long John Silver's for dinner, and wow, it was amazing, but can you say indegestion?!  Holy cow.  I am still dying and that was 3 hours ago!

I have TONS of procrastinated homework to do right now, so I had better get off of this blog, but just wanted to fill everyone in on my chalk board and how good I have been feeling lately!

Day 103 [Week 9 Day 5]

Can NOT believe how sick this little grape baby has been making me!!!

I have been

MISERABLE

I know, hard to believe, considering my first 3 weeks I was doing so great.  I have been severely bed ridden with this ridiculous thing they call "morning sickness" which doesn't strike in the morning, it is an evil, evil demon that can hit you any time, any where.  It is relentless!  Embarrassing, horrifyingly disgusting, and a diet all in one.  

So far in my pregnancy of this sweet little grape I have LOST 10 pounds!!  Yes, I said "lost" and not "gained".  This is a big problem, well not exactly, I mean, I am not harming said grape baby by losing this weight.  Little baby grape is still getting the nutrients he/she needs, I however, am not.  So the vitamins have been increased as well as the water consumption.

Yesterday we went to our first Baby Doctor appointment, and met Dr Ancheta, our baby doctor.  He is just like Ken Jeong, the goofy doctor at the end of Knocked Up::

In fact, the doctor said yesterday, "So this little baby will be around the beginning of August, is that going to work for you?" Well, let me check my calendar quick sir.  

[haha]

I loved him, he cracked me up.  Anyone who can make me laugh through a pap smear is a trooper and a great doctor in MY book!  So I look forward to our journey with this crazy doc.

I follow a great mommy blog about her and her pregnancy with her baby girl Garvin.  I stole this little group of questions from her, because I love them so much:

How Far Along:

9 Weeks 5 Days

Total Weight Gain:

Lost 10pounds, so will I consider my weight gain from my original 140lbs or from my 130lbs where I am now?

Maternity Clothes:

No way girlfriend, not yet at least... I hope I get to last a few more months.

Stretch Marks:

Not at all, but I am taking much better care of myself this time around.  I got quite a few on my hips with Dylan, and I learned my lesson, don't scratch the itch!

Sleep:

Well, I hadn't been sleeping at all.  Now thanks to my doctor and my new medicine, I am sleeping much better!

Best Moment This Week:

Feeling like dancing today!!

Miss Anything?

Being able to have a drink, going out and shaking my booty, and well... SUSHI <3

Movement:

Not yet, with Dylan I didn't feel it until about 5 months.

Food Cravings:

Fruit, preferably watermelon and strawberries... OH and red grapes <3

Anything Making You Queasy or Sick:

Everything meaty.

Gender:

unknown yet, I truly feel it is my baby girl... BUT if it isn't I won't be disappointed at all!

Labor Signs:

thank God not yet.

Symptoms:

Nausea, Indigestion, Low Fever, Insomnia, Food Aversions and Cravings.

Belly Button In or Out:

Still my cute little innie, with my belly button ring still in.  I will keep it in until it starts poking out.

Happy or Moody Lately:

A little bit of both.

Looking Forward To:

Being over with all the first trimester funkies, ready to get back into my Yoga routine, and playing some tennis.  I miss being active and I can't wait to get back outdoors!

Beach here we come!!

Day 88 [Week 7 Day 4]

As I sit here and sip on my steaming hot cup of raspberry DECAF tea and honey, I can't help but think of how amazing the life I lead really truly is.  Ahhh... finally, the heat clicked on, I can feel it on my face, what a wonderful surprise, thank you God!  Its like 60 in the house tonight due to no AC or heat being left on while we were gone all day today.

My throat is sore from the cold air today out on the pontoon boat, but it is totally worth it, what a wonderful day with the Szmyglewsczy family!  We rented a pontoon boat and enjoyed a little fishing, it was delightful.

Now our beautiful little boy is off with Ms Crystal as we so dearly call her.... She sure has been a blessing, and is becoming a close family friend, I love it!  She has taken him off of my hands for the evening, while Kamil has taken Rafal off my hands as well.  I have a night free of distractions, just me tonight!! Woohoo!!

Had apple cider with my mommy at Starbucks until 11pm when they kicked us out, thats right, we closed Bux down tonight!  [haha]

Now I am home in my pregnancy pj's... you know the super NOT sexy ones, the ones I will never wear around Rafal but are RIDICULOUSLY comfy!!  Yep, those are what I am wearing tonight, along with those hideous panties that I would never normally be caught dead in, but they're comfy and i'm alone! SO BAM!

I sprayed the pillows with... mmmm... Rafal's nautica cologne, and now... mmmm... it smells like my sexy man in here [hehe]  I will have sweet dreams tonight in my big bed all alone!  Can't wait to hop in and watch a quick show before a full nights sleep!

Speaking of which, I am off you all.  Happy dreams tonight!

Day 83 [Week 6 Day 3]

Can't believe Christmas is only a few more days away... It got here so fast this year.  I am still in denial!

Here I am, well underway into my second month of pregnancy.  Cravings are at an all time HIGH but appetite is an all time low.  When I do eat, I maybe ingest 7 bites before I feel entirely too full to even think of consuming another.  In fact, I have lost a pound since my Friday doctors visit in week 5.  Which isn't uncommon, I remember I lost almost 10 pounds in my first 5 months with Dylan.  Although a plus side is my stomach isn't as upset as it was through Dylan's pregnancy.  I get dizzy, and light headed a lot.  I also am achey, I told Rafal last night they feel like 14 year old growing pains, I am just achey all over.  Even my fingers!!  I pee every 15 minutes which was fun on our 12 hour long road trip last weekend!! haha  NOT!

I am going to be painting my chalk board today and I couldn't be more excited to finally be getting it done.  I am going to splurge and get the chalk markers at Micheal's and not let Dylan use them, they are for me only!!

I wanted to sit down and blog about how we told my parents last weekend, but I am not feeling so up to par right now, I want to go lay down... So maybe next time.  Let's just say, it went wonderfully!  Everyone is very excited for our little girl to come in to this big world!

Day 76 [Week 5 Day 3]

Really? Has it only been 4 days?

A lot has happened in 4 days.. my body is changing so much, and I feel so weird all of the time, almost like I am drunk, my hormones are going so crazy I just feel loopy twenty four seven.

Worst part of growing a baby?  You can not take any medication when you are sick, and guess what?  I am getting sick.  Dylan has been sick all through last weekend, and I was up all night with him every night, so I guess it would seem pretty obvious that I would get sick. I feel like poop today, my nose is so stuffed AND running at the same time.  My throat is so sore it hurts to just swallow.  I am still cramping today, and was off and on all night.  The cramps kept waking me up. I just wish I could take some Nyquil and go back to bed!!

Rafal will hopefully have a shorter day at work today and we are supposed to go see Monique and Kamil tonight and enjoy some Christmas festivities, but I am not sure thats going to work out at this point.  I hurt just sitting here at the computer and I have to finish my Power Point presentation for my critical thinking class.... 

*sigh*

I am just sick and I am tired and I just want to lay in bed and drink hot tea and be snuggled.  I guess I am a big baby!

Two more days until I tell my family!! Speaking of which, Dylan's book should be getting delivered today!! Woohoo!!

"I'm a BIG brother!"

Day 74 [Week 5 Day 1]

Can't believe there is a baby in my belly.... Well at this point still a little ball of cells that are quickly forming IN TO said baby... Wow.  SO glad I took all those medical science classes in Massage School, I feel so smart about what is happening with and to my body!  Amazing miracles are happening as I type!

So we have decided to tell everyone on Thursday night in Tennessee, I bought Dylan a book called "I am a BIG Brother!" And I am going to wrap it up and have him "open" it with the family when every one is opening presents!  Then because my sister will be there, I am for certain he will take it either straight to her OR my mom to read it to him... and then let the excitement begin!!  I am so excited and nervous and happy and and and... wow, flood of emotions, I will probably cry!

I would like to take a trip down memory lane, and my pregnancy with Dylan... I had a pregnancy journal that I wrote in for him throughout the whole 9 months, but somewhere in the past 5years I lost it... Right after I gave birth I wasn't ever able to find it again.  SO I will try to remember a little bit about it.

I remember the day I found out I was pregnant, August 15th 2007.

I took a pee test at home and when it was positive I sat on our bedroom floor and cried while Rafal held me.  I immediately called and scheduled an appointment that day to go into Planned Parenthood.  Then I called my childhood friend Laura Martis, to confide my secret... I was in denial the whole way to the doctors.  And once I got there it really hit home.  I pee'd on another stick and yep, I was pregnant.  I was told there that I was 5 weeks along.  I called my mom crying and told her, and she too began to cry with me, and told me it was going to be OK and that she loved me so much.  She was going to call and tell my dad quick and then call me back.  That night they both came over with big hugs and lots of love telling me that every thing was going to turn out fine!

Two weeks before....

I was very ill, throwing up daily and just yuckie all around.  So Rafal took me to the Walk-In Clinic and they told me they thought I had strep-throat and that it was going around and they immediately put me on meds.  After I found out I was pregnant I was told we would have to wait until I was 8 weeks before a real OBGYN doctor would see us, so we went back to the same Walk-In Clinic to let them know and see if I really was sick or not.  Sure enough they looked at my paper work and said, "Oh these are all pregnancy symptoms! You probably weren't sick at all!!"

My Pregnancy with Dylan...

...was full of many up's and many down's, but I only want to talk about and remember the good parts today!  I remember KNOWING with out a doubt that my little pea pod was a boy from the moment we saw the two pink lines.  Rafal knew too, we just knew.  We were so excited, and very very nervous too.  I was sick every day, all day long until I was about 6months.  I actually lost about 10pounds in my first 6months due to lack of appetite.  I didn't start craving any thing that I can remember until that 6th month and ALL I wanted was foot long philly cheese steaks, all day, every day!!  As my pregnancy progressed we had about 4 false alarms, and I hear that is normal in a first pregnancy, I had no idea what anything was going to feel like.  BUT I will never forget the night I started to bleed, in January of 2008.  I went to pee and blood was every where! I was sure I had killed my baby, sounds awful I know, but that was the only thought in my head, oh my God, what did I do wrong?? How did I kill my beautiful baby?!  I was MORTIFIED! I called my mother hysterical, and she was in Tampa, about 45minutes away.  Rafal wasn't answering his phone and was no where to be found, so I called my best friend Holly.  Then it was a race against the clock to see who would get to me first Holly or my mom.  I honestly can't remember who picked me up, or even going to the hospital... All I remember next is being in the ER with a GIANT ultrasound wand INSIDE of me and then seeing his little body moving fine, his heart beat was fine, and everything was just perfect!  They told me that bleeding can be common throughout the whole pregnancy and not to worry.  I couldn't believe it, Thank you GOD!!!  Rafal showed up just at the end, and was able to see Dylan on the big screen too, it was amazing.  Then on March 14th he made his way into the world.  I only had to push about 3 times, and has a really easy and simple labor and delivery.  My sister was able to come to town to be in the room with me, and she was so mad that I had such an easy time!  :)  I believe I was just born to make babies! haha

So here I am, blogging about THIS pregnancy.  I am already craving things and thankfully it is all healthy... Strawberries, Grapes, Cantaloupe, Bagels and Yogurt!  Last night I had yummy spinach alfredo pizza, oh man was it good!  Bad news is, I am already suffering from getting sick at thoughts or sight of certain foods... in fact, all meats, ugh, I am gagging just typing that.  Walking through Publix last night, woooo that was interesting.  But, I made it through just fine and dandy, thankfully!

Now I am going to go fix Dylan and I a bagel with strawberry cream cheese and some yummy grapes!

We really believe we are having a girl, just like we knew Dylan was a boy... We both really like the name Sopheya, which means "wisdom".  Perfect!  We both see her being a beautiful blonde baby :)  How exciting!

Sopheya Alicia

Day 40

Hectic lately? Oh yes.

I am in a funk today, and I just don't want to do anything... I think there's a lot of negative energy attacking me or something?  This is SO not like me.  I want to go lay in bed and not even read a fun book, I just want to lay there.  I feel so bad for Dylan today, because, well, I suck. [haha] I don't want to do my school work, I don't want to workout, I don't want to even blog... BUT I felt that I had to do something productive, so here I am, explaining to all of you how bummed out I am today.

Maybe I should fill you in on the last 6 days??

Lots of little frustrations in our household, not with each other, just about monies, which I hear is super common these days.  I read in a book the other day the number one cause of divorce these days is the economical worries.  Well that is NOT going to happen to us.  I read through a few Dave Ramsey books over the weekend, and Rafal and I came up with a simple and hopefully very effective plan.  I think I need to go get a job, like the midnight shift at McDonalds or something, so that I can be helping to save.  Maybe 3 nights a week?  I don't think that would be so consuming?  I could be very wrong though, considering I am still a full time mom from like 7am-9pm.  Then I would go to a job from 11pm-5am?  Hmph.  Maybe that is an awful idea, but hey, I am glad I wrote it out so that I could think about it better.

My body feels so, blah today... *sigh*

Usually I am Miss Motivator, but not feeling it right now.. Some one share some motivation with me?

Day 19

Ugh, talk about a long weekend.  Not to mention an even longer week.  Rafal and I woke up today thinking it was Wednesday... when did that happen?  It's only Tuesday, Sara, geeze.

We had a rough weekend, to say the least.  With food poisoning and losing my cell phone at the top of the crappy list, we were glad when Monday rolled around.

Monday brought rejuvenation and rearranging.  Lots of cleaning got done at the Ski house as well as lots of moving things around.  Our whole house has got a fresh new look and it sure makes us feel "peppy"!

Today, which is Tuesday, brought about more cleaning and a need for exercise, so Rafal and I have decided to start the Insanity workout by Beachbody, the people who came up the P90X workout.

Tonight I will post our dorky before pictures for you to all giggle at.  BUT come Day 63 when we finish the whole program you won't be giggling at our after pictures ;)  hehe