Lazy Sunday (or not)

It seems that each day passes and I have one or two things I could wrote in here but not enough to make me want to sit down and type it out on my phone. It’s much easier for me to read entries and leave some notes, mostly because I can leave and come back to that at any time. Terry tries to give me privacy about my diary so he usually closes the screen if he uses my phone. Anyways, this entry might be jumbled and each paragraph a different topic that doesn’t match the last, sorry.

Today I hope to be able to go get pictures done in the mall to finish up my maternity/postpartum session, we need to go to the store and I would like to go see terry’s parents for a little bit as well. Also I want to drop off some food at my moms and get the rest of the wic if there are any more coupons. Terry has “off” today because the pizza place is closed. They have been picking up in deliveries and he is making a bit more money but not enough to justify him working there. Next Monday I go back to work and he will be at home with the kids, he wants to get some of his family to watch the kids while he “works” but I don’t think the money he will make will be worth it. He got some people telling him where places are hiring and such but he won’t go fill out any more applications. So whatever on that, I can only do so much and I’m not his mom so I am not filling out applications and turning them in for him.

In kinda related news, yesterday I got papers in the mail to start child support payments from him. Our caseworker was sneaky, she had him sign the papers when I was busy with the baby. I’m not sure how that is going to work out but we can get help with childcare if he is working too.

In talking about the caseworker, we still haven’t gotten our foodstamp card yet. Two Fridays ago the caseworker said 3 days. I called her Thursday and she goes 5-10 business days. Really if she had said that I wouldn’t have had to call her back. I’ve already bothered her enough with medical that she didn’t retro from eli’s birth that she said will take 3 months to fix. So essentially there is like $1,000 on this card that is in the mail and after we get it, within a week or so there will

be about $600 more on it. It will help but we want it now darnit. Since that is a totally insane amount of money we are planning on helping his parents out with groceries as they watch Avery for us sometimes and won’t take money. Terry said they were too broke to buy anything last week. When we go out there we will take them some food we have here to help them out. We have stuff here, it’s just not a huge variety as I have been trying not to buy anything in anticipation of the card.

So Eli is getting really big. He had a dr appontment this week and he weighed 11lbs, 11oz. He was in like the 25 percentile before and now he is like 75th or something. He is doing great. His little legs are starting to get little chub rolls. The last couple days he wasn’t eating a lot because he hadn’t pooped but last night he pooped a lot and he is back to eating 4oz about every 4 hours.

Avery loves Eli and it is so cute. He loves to give him hugs and kisses and sometimes he tells him “shush shush baby” when he is crying. This morning Avery found this little babydoll that was cheyenne’s and brought it up on the bed while I was feeding Eli. Then he was saying “burp baby” and “change diaper” and he made them hug and hugged them both and he patted Eli on the head really light and said “good baby.” it was so cute. I’m going to have to get Avery a new babydoll as that one is kinda icky and he also kept trying to give the doll eli’s binky. He doesn’t have any actual babydolls, he has some stuffed animals he calls baby sometimes.

It’s been kinda humid and sticky this past week. The last couple days and nights we have had rain. I love rainstorms and thunder. It makes me think of back when i was younger and my room was under the awning on the patio and the rain would just bounce off the aluminum and that would lull me to sleep. I miss that. Two nights ago we had huge storms roll through here, it made me realize I needed to update my insurance as I never added flood insurance or renters insurance and this place flooded before. I have to remember to do that.

I’m finally getting over this sickness that ive been ignoring that I have. Terry declared it was the flu when he got it a couple days ago and decided he was dying. The kids have it too even though I’m not sure how the baby does because I am breastfeeding and he should be getting antibodies. I just want us all healthy again.

I didn’t realize this was going to be so long. But I have one more thing. I am thinking about getting an iud put in. Does any one have any experiences with thisbor thoughts? It kinda makes me nervous but it will cost LOTS less then taking pills each month after about a year and a half. I need some feedback. I did research on the web, talked with my doctor and also a couple people I know including a nurse. So any opinions, advice, experiences would greatly be apreciated.

Have a good week!