Hand-me-down love

My wonderful sister has given me tons of baby books for me and baby alike.

Two of them were my nieces books. I remember reading these books to my niece when she was younger... She is only six after all. I did spend an awful lot of time with her for at least the first two years of her life, when my mom watched her. I remember watching her and sayin "nope, not yet." I probably said that up until about a year ago.

Now its completely flipped. My hormones have got me upside and crying at commercials. I don't cry. I'm very excited for this little person. I am in extreme nesting mode.I think Rob is more excited than I am. He even went out and bought the first pink "I love my daddy" thing he could find. I couldn't do this without a supportive husband.

People keep coming out of the woodwork with things for me... clothes, furniture, books, toys, blankets. Apparently four people are making me baby blankets. I'm digging all this hand me down love. Its really a good show of how excited people really get about family and babies.

Half way there. My family will be one little Pollock bigger.

Blue skies

Up and At 'em.

Up early today working on my garden. Raking, weeding, raking ,weeding... One  more roto-till and its ready. Happiness is playing in the dirt.

One benefit to living in the middle of no-where is the birds. I can hear them almost all day. Uninterrupted chirps and songs makes the day seem a bit lighter.

I thoroughly believe you have to be a special kind of crazy to love birds. Its goiug to be a long time before I have another bird. Its a good thing. It would be selfish of me to put a bird in a home with many animals, a new baby and not enough attention to go around. Poor guys are so sensitive. Its not fair what people do to them.

I am so excited to move forward with baby stuff... I dont even know where to start.

Running in high gear.

<3

Lyla Mae Baird

Its a girl Its a girl!
Truthfully Ive known its a girl... but thats just me.

Lyla Mae

Now to start enhancing my baby pile!

Applaud... or be destroyed.

My first larger test as a beginner couponer has been a raving success..

Today I got a little over $100 in groceries for $6. Success!!

While couponing sounds painfully domestic, and well it is, it also requires a decent amount of logic. An item will only go on sale every 3-6 months. Grocery stores all have different sales, prices, coupon policies, and sales events. This means knowing the average price of items to know whether or not the "sale" is actually a sale. Most stores will periodically raise prices before a sale then drop them back to the original price and call it a sale. It has been developed into a skill oddly enough.

I paid less than 75 cents for all the things that I actually had to pay for. On the free side I got 12 boxes of pasta, 2 cartons of silk milk, 4 big bottles of body wash, 2 big bottles of Sunny D, 4 Jello Temptations, 4 bottles of propel water, 2 boxes of frozen soft pretzels, and 3 large tubes of toothpaste. All absolutely free. I also got  bottles of J&J baby bubble bath, cheezits, rice cakes, shave gel and a few other things...
Awesome. That was merely my first attempt. It had taken a bit longer than I'd liked because I had miscounted and miscalculated. Still...

At this point I dont much care how domestic couponing is. I feel like it is a vehement protest to how expensive it is to merely survive. Not to mention once I work up a decent stock pile I can start donating excess food to a food bank. Too cool.

I dont for see myself giving up couponing anytime soon.

Baby glider photo dump

Selfish

   I keep thinking "if we did things my way, life would be so much easier".

But of course my way involves moving closer to home, which isn't an easy option. I have a house. I am soon to have two.
I dont want two houses.  Not here
It is best for Rob's Grandma I suppose. seeing as she tends to fall on a weekly basis and lives in the middle of no where.
This is where the selfish part comes in. His family makes life difficult. His grandma can't help it but the rest of them can. Honestly i dont understand what is  so hard to understand about stress induced seizures...
There is a good chance I will have Bob arrested next time he shows up on our doorstep. Joy.

I'm very excited about the prospect of a brand new home. I am sure it will make a hell of a difference. Big bathrooms, dishwasher, kitchen with and island, big tubs, etc...
Truthfully the only I really dont like about down here is... the company. Selfish?
Bright side...

Jinx had her babies! woot. Ill be able to handle them soon!

Rant...

I need to rant just a bit... I need to say it.


VAMPIRES DON'T FUCKING SPARKLE.

When I was in school you were a freak if you were interested in the supernatural. Trust me, I was a freak. I still am but I had real vampires. I read books by people who could actually create a coherent sentence. The twilight is quite possibly the worst series ever made. Poorly written as a book (and thats being generous) and terribly put together on the big screen. I have no respect for anyone in love with a sparkly vampire. Vomit.

It does say quite a bit about our masses obsessed with such drivel. Vampire are supposed to burst into flames violently, its part of their lament. Its the biggest part of the damn myth. Fucking emo vampires.
Seriously, you sparkle, have eternal life, and have all the super abilities of a normal fucking vampire. All the down fall is what? Looking pretty in the light.Their balls must fall off too, thats the only other explanation. If I had those powers with no downfall I would rule the world... easily.