Monday, April 25, 2011

IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG WEEK.....

*BABY NEWS:

My due date has changed! Chloe is now due on June 11th & not the 20th anymore. Which puts me at 33 weeks & 2 days today. I had an ultrasound on Thursday and this baby is HUGE! She measured out at a little bit over 18 inches in length and a tad bit over 5 & a half pounds. She is still fully head down and still expected to come early because of her huge size and because of how far down she is.
I already have a new doctor in Arizona. My first appointment is on May 5th at 1:30. This new office has all girls that work there, thank God! They will also do a 3D/4D ultrasound for me, free with insurance! My dad is going to try and get me on his work insurance, if not I will have to apply for state insurance.

*MOVING NEWS:

My dad has literally the WORST luck when it comes to moving! He picked up the moving truck Friday afternoon. Saturday was down poring freezing rain! Two of my uncles came over to help my dad move...in the rain. Wellllllll, my dad got a way to small of a moving truck. Yep, we had to leave things behind because a 16 foot truck was NOT big enough. Saturday morning my mom & I left the house around 9 in the morning with the car to come down to my nana's house for the day. My dad was going to just meet us here when he was done with the moving truck. Well around 3-3:30 I called my dad to see how things were going and I had to drive over an hour back to the house so he can stuff the car with as much as possible. My uncle also had his car stuffed with a ton of baby things. It was a big, huge mess! My dad finally got things to fit in the car...from the house, this is not including everything my uncle had in his car. Then it came time to put the car onto the tow dolly. Do you think that was an easy task? NOPE! Over an hour later, my dad finally got the damn thing to work. So I rode to my nana's house with him & my dog in the moving truck. SO NOT COMFORTABLE! My ass was killing by the time we made it to my nana's.
So we get to my nana's around 9:30 at night....FINALLY. Well remember how I said my uncles car was stuffed full with baby things!? My dads Jeep had to be emptied out to rearrange everything so everything will fit. That took about another hour, maybe 45 minutes. I had to sacrafice my TV for baby things to fit in the Jeep & things that my dad needed had to be left behind. My dad said he will buy me a new TV one when we get to Arizona. YAY! I want one of the cute like 20 something inch flat screens that go on the wall.
The next morning (Sunday, yesterday) my dad left around 6:30 in the morning with Charlie (dog) & the moving truck. I am SOOO nervous for him doing this long drive by himself. He claims he will be fine because he has Charlie....uhm, a dog is NO help driving to the other side of the country. That is just my opinion! He called me around 3 (take or leave about 30 minuets) to let me know things were fine and he made it into New York. His goal for testerday was to be in Ohio. He pretty much made it there by 7 at night, I think he was like an hour away from there. Today he will call me around lunch tim to let me know how things are going, and also when he gets to a hotel tonight. I'm still very, very, very, very, very, VERY scared something is going to happen. PRAYERS PLEASE!
OHHHHH! Best part of the day....my dad hit the house with the moving truck. UGH! Roof and side panaling damadge. Wait until my uncle see's that shit. He is going to FLIP! My dad isn't going to tell him until he is back from his vacation in Hawaii. *Note my uncle was the one renting us the house in Maine. The rich one, who is a relisate agent, who has tons of money, and properties, who is up my dads ass about the rent money for this month. Sory but my dad is fucking broke and hardly has the money for this move, you will get your damn money like he told you (sorry, i get mad when I talk about him). For the record my dad ALWAYS pays people back the money he ows or borrows. Just saying.

*BAD NEWS / BAD LUCK:

My dad spoke with my mom yesterday when he called around 3 (ish). Wellllll, come to find out someone stole his credit card numbers and there is around 700 bucks missing from his account. This whole move in totoal is costing over 5 grand to beging with. My dad only had about 5 grand (not even) for the move. Money was VERY tight to beging with...and now it's even tighter. Not even tighter, he is basically BROKE and has no clue what he is going to do for food, hotels and gas. I feel so bad for him. Why does this shit always happen to him!? I wish someone would just help him out for once. But nope, all his side of the family won't help him at all. AND THEY ALL HAVE MONEY! My moms side of the family can't because they just don't have it to help him with. But if they did, her family would help as much as possible. Did I mention before how my dad's new job won't pay for this move...not sure if I have or not, so I'm adding that part in here right now.

*OTHER NEWS:

Can you tell I'm stressed for him & about everything going on!? Well if you can't....I'M STRESSED BEYOND BELIEFE! Just saying. May 3rd my mom & I are flying to AZ. We have a direct flight at 3:35. A 5 hour & 50 minute flight. NOT excited for this. I hate planes, I hate flying, I hate sitting for long periods, I'm going to be 34 weeks pregnant, I have bad gas now (I'll feel bad for the guy sitting next to me, hehehehe), I'll be hungry, cranky, you name it, I'll be it.
This week my mom & I are staying in Salem at my nana's / aunts house. My aunt has one of the houses with an inlaw apartment. We sleep at my aunts house & hang out at my nana's for the day. Well, I go back & forth between the two. My nana is a chain smoker, like SOOOO badly her walls are YELLOW! Yeah, nasty. All my clothes smell, I can hardly breath when I'm over here, she never opens the windows or door, she keeps the heat on like 70 all day. I CAN'T STAND IT! So I sometimes hang out at my aunts when I start to get dizy or can't breath anymore. My little cousin Kayla, who is almost 3, is the cutest thing in the world. So I don't mind hanging out at my aunts house. My uncle & I get along pretty good, so that's also a plus.
Easter was alright. Nothing to special. Family came over to my aunts house. we ate ham, had dessert, chatted, the usual. Every family holiday is spent with my moms side of the family besides Christmas Eve. My mom & I don't really like many of the people on my dads side...only a select few.
My birthday is next Monday (the 2nd!). I'm trying to get all of my moms family together one last time before we leave for dinner. My nana's birthday is May 5th & so is my mom and dads anniversary, so I want to have everything all in one dinner. I don't really even care it's my birthday, I just want the family to get together one last time!
OHHHH! I have a new love in my life! My new Blackberry Torch. It's my 3rd baby (Chloe, Charlie & now my Blackberry). I should name it! HA! I am in love with it. It is still hard to figure out because it didn't come with any direction booklet, just a quick start guide thing. But I have a whole week of doing nothing, so I'll just play around with it to figure it out.
Chloe has the hickups right now! Ha, she is so cute. Well, besides her foot in my rib. She gets so mad when I try to move her. She gives me one swift kick & punch when I do.

Well I guess that's all the news updates I have for now. I'm sure I'll be blogging again more this week & keep updating on my dad & everything going on.

Xo,
Courtney <3

Monday, April 18, 2011

QUICK UPDATE....

*31 weeks pregnant today & the start of my 8th month!

*My laptop is now a huge paper weight & I'm currently using my dad's computer.

*Packing, packing, packing!

*We found out the OFFICIAL answer on my dads job & we have one week to pack & move to Arizona.

*My dad is leaving this Saturday (the 23rd) with the moving truck...ALL BY HIMSELF! (very nervous about that)

*My mom & I will be staying at my Aunts house (hopefully) until my dad gets to Arizona.

*Drive with the moving truck will take about 5 days.

*May 2 is my birthday (19!) & I believe that will be the day my mom & I will be on a plane to Arizona. Also that is the new start date of my dad's job.

*I'll be 33 weeks pregnant the day we take flight (scared.as.shit!) about a 5 hour flight. For sure bringing a crap load of food in my carry on bag!

*Very tired from packing, and packing...OH & packing!

*Chloe's dad is a pain in the ass & I am SOOO happy I will be moving across the country far, far, FARRRR away from him. (that story is for a whole new post sometime in the near future!)

*I will miss family & friends---especially Ali Crawford & her huge family.

*Hopefully we will be taking a trip back up to New Hampshire sometime after the baby is born. Keeping my fingers crossed for Late summer and / or Christmas time. Hoping money will not be an issue then. Really want to come up before Christmas because aorund Christmas time Chloe will be 6 months & I really want her to meet family & friends before she is that old.

*I am scared about having no insurance right when we get to Arizona & no doctor. I hope I can get insurance VERY fast & find a doctor asap.

*My last weeks OB appointment went very good & the DR thinks this baby will be leaving the womb early. She has been head down for over 2 weeks & she keeps pushing down, further & further and basically is about 5 pounds & has no room to grow. So she is a big baby! I personally think I am further along then told, but the DR's will not give me another ultrasound. Praying I get one once I find a new OB in Arizona.

*New OB appointment this Wednesday because now I go every 2 weeks, but will be missing my next weeks appointment so it had to be changed to this week.

*My poor dog, Charlie, has a poop infection & has been sick for almost 2 weeks. He is on  an all rice & chicken diet and on meds that are now making him constipated & in more pain. He has a vet appointment this Thursday to find out what is going on with him.

*I get a new phone upgrade tomorrow! YAY! Hopefully I can get another iphone & my dad can have his phone back. My old phone (phone number like 8 from at&t) broke a few weeks ago, so my dad gave me his to use & he has a cheap p.o.s phone until I get a new one.

*Very mad my tax check in NOT in yet. GRRRR! I want my 100 bucks NOW!

*I have really bad heartburn right now, just thought I'd add that in here :)

*Nothing else really to update you about, so for now I will be going. I'll probably be posting again once I am all settled in Arizona. Or maybe when I'm at my Aunts house next week....if I can get on her computer. Bye :)

Thursday, March 31, 2011

TWO WORDS....

STRESSED OUT!

I am so stressed out it's not even funny! So you know how I've been talking about the move to Arizona thing. Yeah, well my dad found out yesterday that he needs to get a credit check by this company before he gets the job. They already told him he had the job....until this came up. I am so stressed because my dad has shitty credit. Hello, foreclosed house says it all. He passed the drug test & the crimnal backround check. Then BAHM they hit him with a "oh you have to be checked for credit" thing now. Is this even legal? Could they do this? His offer letter says NOTHING about doing a credit check. There are tons of Indians working for this company who are over seas, did they do all this for them? DOUBT IT! This company feels that if an employee has bad credit they will be a bad worker. MY DAD WORKED FOR YOU GUYS FOR 12 DAMN YEARS THEN WAS LAID OFF 3 YEARS AGO! Of course he's a good employee. My dad's head is spinning right now. I just feel so bad for him. I have a huge headache from all this. My dad's situation, my pregnancy insurance situation, my mom being sick again...oh yeah didn't tell you about that one did I!?
So my dad finally told my uncle today how he won't know for sure until Monday or Tuesday next week if we're going to Arizona now. Well my uncle went mental! We're renting this house out from my uncle and my dad of course had to tell him we're leaving. Now, we might not be. Ughhhh! So stressful! My dad already found a place to live in AZ, put a hold on a moving truck, spent tons of money on apartment application fees for a new place in AZ. OH AND THE BEST PART IS.....HE PUT IN HIS TWO WEEKS FOR THE COMPANY HE IS WORKING FOR NOW! Gahhhhh! I'm PRAYING if the whole AZ thing doesn't work out the company he is working for now will just forget about the whole two week thing and let my dad keep his job. He can't afford to go with out one. He finally has a job again and everything is (or should I say was) going great for him....until yesterday! I feel so bad for him. The whole family already knows were moving, we started packing, everything is all set in stone....besides his job now. I just want to cry.
I have no insurance any more & I'm 7 months pregnant. So all my doctor appointments are being paid out of pocket until we leave & so are my prenatil pills. So I'm hoping my dad will know asap about this job because I need to do something about insurance...fast! I have one more doctors appointment up here on April 13. That appointment alone is going to be over 200 bucks. Plus I got a bill in the mail for my blood work // glucose test I had a couple weeks ago. 60 bucks. My prenatils cost 15 yesterday when I went & picked them up. I can't take over the counter prenatils because the ones I'm taking are special ones with extra stuff in them because of all my severe constipation probles I have.
Ugghhhh, I'm just so stressed. Some one please just send us some good news for once! PLEASE! Is that so hard to ask!? Just something good to happen for once.

So about my mom. I'll shorten it all up because everything is just to long to explain. A few years ago she had her right leg amputated, she has tons of medial problems, over 16 major surgeries, half deff, wheel chair bound, no feeling in her hands at all, very bad diabetes, almost no circulation in her body, in & out of Mass General hospital for the past 6 years, vascular problems, wound vacs on her huge open wounds from surgeries, iv's all the time, on tons of meds, hard of hearing, strokes, heart attacks, heart problems, need I say more!? You get the jist of it...right!? She has been through hell & back.
So she always has problems with her amputated leg because of circulation problems. Well a couple weeks ago she noticed a red blotch I guess you can call it on the stump of her leg. She didn't think anything of it. Well it was getting worse over the past week // week & a half. Finally went to the vascualr // amputation dr and they told her not to wear her fake leg. They thought it was causing just a little heat rash or something. Well then a hole opened up on her leg. My dad took her into Mass General (as usual). They are the only hospital with the right doctors and equipment to help my mom out. So they decided to keep her, run tests, basically trying to figure out what is wrong with her. She had a cat scan done and it came out negitive. The doctors really don't know what is wrong. They put her on tons of iv's and antibiotics for this weird infection. The infection kind of went away, then they discharged her. So she is home now, on antibiotics and meds to help heal this infection. So yeah, that's what's going on with her.

I need a brownie! & a nap!!

Xo

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

&....

THE PACKING BEGINS!

For the past few days I've been packing, cleaning, doing laundry, more packing & oh yeah, MORE PACKING! I scored a whole bunch of boxes from Target & tomorrow I have to go to K-Mart and get all their shipment boxes they are holding for me. Thank God I use to work at Target & know for a fact they do nothing with their boxes besides crush them. The girl who I spoke to at the Target near me was trying to tell me they rip the boxes up & blah blah blah. Well I gave her a piece of my mind when she was arguing with me over how they don't even keep them. Finally I asked for the MOD & funny thing is, the MOD at the Target near me use to be my old manager at the Target I worked at. So he knew who I was and helped me out so much!
My little pooch, Charlie, seems to think he can help pack. He constantly tries to get in the boxes and when there is nothing in a box he jumps in it and lays down. I'm pretty sure he knows what's going on. He's a smart little fella. I keep talking to him & telling him how we're moving to a nice warm place & he gets to ride in the moving truck for 5 longgg days. He looks at me like I'm crazy when I talk to him. Ha, Oh well!
With each day that passes I'm getting more & more excited to move. My dad has to leave with the moving truck on April 22, so my mom & I are probably going to stay at a family members house for a week or so just until my dad has everything settled in our new place. The drive is going to be about 4-5 days & he starts his new job on May 2. So I'm hoping he makes it there on time. My birthday is on May 2, so I kind of want to stay here to spend that time with my family but I'll be pushing the cut off time to fly. My mom & I are flying down on a Southwest flight and I was told that I would be needing a doctors note saying I'm allowed to fly and S.W won't let you fly if you're over 33 weeks. I'll be I believe 33 or 34 weeks around my birthday.
Once I get down to Arizona I'll have so much to do before Chloe is here. I'll have to get insurance, set up her room, find a new doctor, get familar with the area around me, take a tour of the hospital, etc. It's all stressing me out, but I know everything will work out...I hope. As of right now I no longer have insurance so I have to pay out of pocket for my prenatil pills and my last doctors appointment I'm going to have on April 13. I'm hoping I can get approved quickly for Arizona state insurance once I apply. The lady who I spoke to that works for AHCCCS (the insurance) said I'll be approved with in 23 days but I can back date the insurance if I have an appointment before I get approved. I'm nervous to get a new doctor and a new hospital because I'm so confortable with the doctors I'm seeing now & I love the hospital up here. I'm happy that this is a fresh new start and there will be warm weather, a pool, tons of shopping places, resturants, different enviornment, just how it's going to be a different experiance. Just everything will be new and it's kind of exciting. I personally hate New Englad, the weather, the people, the time changes, everything up here. LOL! I am going to miss family & friends, but I will be coming back up here after Chloe is born so everyone can meet her & so I can spend time with family and hang out with my friends.
I'm dreading un-packing once I get down there. I get so tired as it is now trying to pack things. I'm dreading setting everything up & organizing my room & Chloe's. I am happy I get my own bathroom and I won't have to share a room with Chloe. If we were staying up here we would be in the same room. She will be in her bassinet for a couple months which is going to be in my room, but once I feel more comfortable with her sleeping alone I'll put her in her crib in her room. I'm just glad she gets her own room and my room wont hve to have all my furniture plus hers.

I told myself I'll only sit & blog for about 10 mins...I think I went over my relaxation time. LOL. Time to go do more packing & laundry!

Until next time bloggers :D

xoxo