packages and bellys

this is a response i was sending to amy's mom in an email and thought a little time management never hurt:) an update is and update.

some men's packages hang to the right or left well let me tell you my belly is starting to "hang left" i didn't go to bed til 1 am last night as was up from 3-7:30 sick as hell. i almost puked but i wallered around to go puke and when i finally got up i belched and farted and the urge went away. thank god. i was gonna have to get amy up if i was gonna puke. i was a little concerned that the boy wasn't moving yesterday. we tried everything to arouse him. he finally moved this morning. i am still not having contractions. this is just as much as a mental game as it is a physical one. my physical state is becoming more and more like a beached whale. especially difficult to move now that my belly is uneven and hanging left. I guess i'll post this as my blog for the day= time management:)

body changes

post by mandy
ok let me just say my body has done some funky changes
i would show you guys more pics of my belly but this is
what my boobs look like:) Can't see my belly cuz my
boobs cover it. Ha i'm kidding. They have grown and i don't wear a bra. I decided i was going to make a list of all the stuff I am going to do once i deliver these babies.
I know i will be taking care of babies. That's given

1. go for a golf cart ride with amy and the kids in the country
2. bike ride outside
3. exercise
4. pick up sticks and have a camp fire
5. go out and admire the barn that only our stuff is in it now. we are no longer housing anyone's stuff!!!!
6. do something really butch
7. catch a kids soccer game or baseball game before the season ends
8. defend my title as the camby champ at P.I.G.
9. play volleyball in the pool
10. clean out the trunk of my car
11. get my haircut
12. get my whole face threaded
13. shave my toes
14. go to walmart and walk around
15. take a bath
16. flip our mattress
17. clean out my closet
18. pedicure
19. pet grace and vancouver
20. pet amy:)

new day, gonna see my life a new way

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i am a much happier camper that i got to spend more than 30 seconds with the kids and amy today. my love tank was EMPTY! It is full again. Kids and Amy have lots of hot plans this week for spring break. Should be fun for them. As long as i can see them for at least 10 min. a day i will be happy. I am still not having contractions. I am soooo excited to get to 30 weeks on Friday. I decided tonight I am going to go between 34 and 35 weeks. I did some research online and they'll be cooked enough to come out of the oven at 34 weeks. I absolutely am not going to lay around for 4 more weeks to break the world record. @#*& that. I will be crazy by then. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel as long as my love tank stays at least at half:) When they stay in there 34 weeks their hospital stay will be very minimal if at all. I am for sure 100% having May babies. No April babies for us. There are a ton of May birthdays I could aim for. Renee's birthday falls on a weekend (friend of ours) not sure if doc schedules stuff on the weekend. It will be fun having May birthday's. All our birthdays are in the winter.

OUR FINAL FINAL HURRAH

This week is Spring Break for Amanda and Bradley. We have a long list of activities to accomplish this week in our final final hurrah without babies. Here is our list of activities...

Friday..... Monsters Vs. Aliens check
Saturday..Shopping with Nana and Trish check
Sunday.....Lay in bed w/ mom all day and
watch movies check

Monday....go to state museum
Tuesday...go to splash island
Wednesday...go to children's museum
Thursday...meet up with our cousins
Friday...go to butterfly garden at the zoo
Saturday...walk a dog at the human society
Sunday...lay in bed with mom all day and watch movies again

These are in no particular order, just what we have on our to do list. This is the last week the I will have Amanda and Bradley completely and utterly to MYSELF. Selfish? No way! I'm loving the time with them. It is amazing how much time school takes away from family time. It is crazy. She wakes up in the morning and I see her for 30 minutes. She comes home from school and I have her for 4 hours until it's time for bed and it starts all over again. Bah Humbug. I don't like it. I'm eating spring break up.
Mandy is doing well today. She woke up in a really fowl mood. Bedrest had gotten the best of her. It is hard to know her needs all the time. She told me today that she has been isolated in her room and that she needed more time with us. So this morning we layed in bed with her until 1:30 and wore her butt out. She told us she needed a nap and that she would call us when she woke up. It is hard to know...did that mean stay away till I call you? LOL. I took the kids to town to rent movies so we could all watch movies together. We came home with 12 movies.

doc appt

post by mandy
i am 29 weeks and counting. HOT DAMN SAM. and no hospital for me. amy got freaked out today when i showered cuz my hands turned purple. she was wishing they'd keep me. i passed today with flying colors no issues at all.

massage

post by mandy
i'm 29 weeks tomorrow. i am laying in bed typing this with my left hand. amy arranged for me to get a massage last night (she now gets the nomination for the best camby wife ever) the sugar babies went WILD when the therapist started because they were getting more blood flow. they loved it. i was a little uncertain, this type of massage isn't like u'd get if u weren't preggo. i had a pillow talk with amy afterwards and told her that i felt like it benefitted the babies more than me. things are not always what they seem. i slept like a baby last night and slept until 1:30 p.m. today. she only touched my back and calves and it had that much affect on me.
now for the funny part there's no way i could comfortably lay on a massage table. it was a bit odd to have someone other than amy crawling around in the bed with me touching me. i quickly got over it once the 4 ring circus started in my uterus. i also talked the therapist ear off cuz i dont get much outside interaction, by choice. no visitor rule is still in affect. i am very thankful for me and the babies to have gotten a massage last night by an expert in how to massage big amazon pregnant women in the bed!

bedrest and class

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here are the kids at their siblings class. amy took them to class to learn how to change diapers, hold their necks etc. they had fun!

The next pic is me and Bradley in the "bedrest bed". i'm on the phone and he's playing his DS. He has become quite the Little House on the Prairie fan with me. i can always trick him into staying with me if i put in on. i can't go to the hospital they don't have DVR or TIVO. I will have to make spreadsheet of all my shows and times so i don't miss one episode. amanda has no interest in wallering in the bed with me. she's interested in whatever amy is doing. sometimes if amy agrees to lay down too i can trick amanda with a Dirty Jobs episode to stay with me. i do get to help her with her homework at night. That's fun. Except for when i can't figure out the answers. both amanda and bradley have very engineering type brains. well guess what. amy and i don't. especially me. amy can at least read directions and put something together. i'm good at hiding when it's time to put stuff together. amy has an older brother that is really handy. manda and bradley need to go spend some time with him to learn what we can't teach them. he can build things from scratch and has lots of tools. he's fancy.

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these were the good ole days when i could still go downstairs and lay on the couch. here's bradley doing my hair. he wants to be a chef when he grows up. but he can do hair too! he did a pretty good job with what he had to work with.

our celebrity girlfriends

post by mandy

now i must say we have both had the same girlfriends since we met. Amy's is Jodi Foster and mine is Sandra Bernhard. I know, I know Sandra is a little spicey but i don't like em boring. Now I am not coming right out and saying Amy's girlfriend is boring. Buuuuuutttttt, i think she is. Maybe Sandra and Jodi should date! Maybe we should name our kids

1. Sandra

2. Jodi

3. Adam

4. Gokey (what the hell is his first name)

after our celebrity crushes.

ok this is hard

post by mandy
i was laying here in pain and misery this morning at 6a.m. thinking ok this is OFFICIALLY harder than having the lapband. Up until this point i had been telling Amy that the lapband surgery was my bootcamp to get ready for this pregnancy. I am officially hurtin for certain. I am beyond just complaining and whining. I have been keeping the bedroom really really cold. It was 54 degrees in here yesterday. I think it helps keep my blood pressure down and my swelling down. I feel better when it's cold. Bradley, Amanda and Amy show up in coats, gloves, hats and scarves to visit me in bed. HA So I don't go downstairs anymore. I am confined TO THE BED. Do not pass go do not collect $200. The test came back from my most recent urine test for pre eclamsia and i passed with flying colors. (must have been those private talks i had with myself) Vision is still good. Yesterday i was showering and starting seeing millions of little silver dots. I quickly sat down and it went away. I don't shower unless Amy is right there. The nurse said a couple of weeks ago she couldn't believe I was able to still stand and shower. I have given up baths. Those are my favorite. There's no way in hell i could get out of the tub once i was down there. I am too heavy for amy to get me out so the only other option is calling the Fire Dept. Uh think I'll shower.

amy's new boyfriend

post by mandy

here's amy's new boyfriend from this seasons American Idol. Gokey.

Her old boyfriend was Bozo.

boyfriend switch

post by mandy

i have dumped matt damon. adam lambert from this season of american idol is now my new boyfriend. matt has been my boyfriend a long long time. amy on the other hand changes boyfriends every 5 min. she's as fickle with boyfriends as she is baby names. she wants to change the names again......

TGIF

Amanda and I have this thing...every thursday night during bed time we talk about TGIF.... and here we are it's FRIDAY!

So, here is what happened on our big FRIDAY.

Mandy had her weekly Dr's appt. They thought about keeping her. They sent her home. She is good to go still, babies weigh 2.5 lbs each. Right on target.

Amanda received an award today at school. She did not know that Bradley and I attended, and when she saw us, her eyes lit up. She was awarded for giving 100 % every day all day long! What a great atribute!
She lost a tooth as soon as we got in the car from her award ceremony. She is excited for the tooth fairy to visit tonight.
I took the 3 kids to hummel park after school. They rode their bikes and played in the creek. They were freezing by the time it was all over...so we went to the gas station and got compachinos. (cappuccino)

HERE IS WHERE MY (AMY) BLOGGING TAKES A TURN!

I am a control freak. REALLY you say? Yes, Hello, my name is Amy. I am a control freak.
"hello Amy"

Our time on bedrest is coming quickly to a close. We are at 28 weeks now. WHEW! We made it to our first goal. It is official that I have started to loose it. I am forgetting things...ie. Amanda's field trip, going to the bank, bringing in the mail with checks to be deposited....you know. Daily stuff. My brain is on overload. I usually do "MY" jobs, and Mandy does "HER" jobs. We do not cross train in this house. Mandy makes money, I change diapers. Mandy does Math homework, I teach manners. You get my point.
I emailed a quad mom in town and asked her advice. What can I be doing now to prepare for the quads coming home?
She responded with....
Make a list of the names, phone numbers, and duties that people are willing to help with. Do it now, because when the babies are here, and they are in need, and the older kids need taken to soccer or baseball, you'll say out loud "who said they could help us" .
So I am asking for anyone that would be willing to help us when the quads come, what you would be willing to help do and what time of the week you would like to do it? I am completely out of my box in asking this. You can email me or respond to the comment section on the blog. I just appreciate all help in any way! Thank you for all your support in our journey, and keep us in your thoughts during the last stretch of our pregnancy.
XOXOX
Amy

tomorrow is the big day

post by mandy
i'm doing the dance right now. the 28 week dance. I will be 28 weeks tomorrow. YIPPEEEEE!!!! 90% percent chance of survival. Now i have been having talks with myself about what my real goal is. Do i still want to break the world record of 38 weeks? I am pleading with the doc tomorrow if he tries to admit me to the hospital. i do not want to be admitted. I am doing great. i have felt relatively decent the past 2 days. All things considered. I actually picked up a book tonight and started reading again while amy played the DS and both kids were on computers playing webkinz while they talked on the phone with Karley. i am very excited to get to the next phase of this journey however, not wanting or wishing babies too early. STILL TOO EARLY!! I did have a contraction yesterday. Damn the luck. Only one though:). I'm allowed to have 4 an hour before there's trouble in paradise. I just asked amy if she was blogging on the other couch and she smiled and said you won't believe what i'm doing. i said, "looking at sex toys" she said, "no, i'm on bradley's webkinz account getting him enough money so he can get a backyard, he was so sad that he didn't get one" I guess when Amy put the kids to bed he actually explained to her how the game works and how to do it. He's 5. It's really important to me that our kids can be as well versed in technology as possible and i'm glad they enjoy the computer. As they get older we will have strict rules for their safety. i'm technically challenged and wouldn't wish that short coming on anybody. i apparently have some unlearned lessons in this life, since I'm an owner in a technology company. HA I have learned that business is really about people and relationships not really what you are selling or doing for money. People are always first. We find out tomorrow how big the babies are. Those appts are soooooo uncomfortable for me. We will take some pics tomorrow of me at the doc and post them. My belly is gettin big.

short lived movie star

We have been talking to a network about a television show documenting the lives of 3 families with multiples. We were expecting them of Friday to tape Mandy's doctor appointment. The hospital Mandy is delivering at declined to allow them taping rights during delivery. So, today the producer called Mandy and said "thanks anyway". I would like to extend a warm and fuzzy thank you to TINA MILLER for staying late Tuesday night and cutting my hair for my very short lived television career. Tina, I enjoyed my time in the chair. Great company and great conversation. :) xoxoxox

Now I don't need to clean the house. I did clean Bradley's room today. Not for tv, but because it needed it really bad. He was mad at me for working. Bradley got his kindergarted shots this morning. He was so brave, and so charming at the doctors office. He would have been great on tv. Well, you can imagine...you've all seen him on big mammas.
Amanda participated in "jump rope for heart" after school. She called her family and raised $95.00 for jumping. When I went in the gym to pick her up, she was SERIOUS and jumping her butt off. It was the first time I had seen her sweaty in a long time! GO AMANDA.
Every night Mandy rolls over in the bed to go to sleep, and half way through the turn she stops on her back to take a breath. At the moment she stops I always scream out "OMG"!!!! Like I have forgotten that she is pregnant. I think she is growing by the minute. Guess that is a good thing. Tonight she had the video camera out and we taped Mandy's belly and the kids. Then she said " come over here so I can get you". I politely decline, She has a reason for her big fat belly, and all I have is 10 more pounds than I started with , and don't need that on any video!
So, maybe it is a good thing that the network isn't coming.

hormones

post by mandy
my hormones have definatley been changing. I cried twice today on Little House on The Prairie and once on the Baby Story. Amy and Bradley's faces were priceless when I started crying about Little House. These hormones are so strong you just can't control those tears. i wonder what my body is doing that it's changing its hormone levels. better not be getting ready for you know what.
i was watching tv the other day and came across professional poker playing. i think i could do that too. my dad horsed laughed at me. i tend to have lots of Big Ideas. Problem is I have never even played poker and think i might be better suited as the next top model.
When i was little, like 7 or 8 i was at a horse racing park with my parents. I informed them that I was going to be a jockey when i grew up. I have never seen my mom laugh so hard and so long. hell i was already 5'9" when i was 7 and weighed 250 lbs. How was i supposed to know jockey's were only 5 foot tall and weighed 84 lbs soaking wet. I was 7. So my dream of becoming a jockey was quickly squashed, but has given us many laughs over the years.

quickie

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i'm gonna write real fast. i just sent amy on a run for the border. got a text saying she had ordered. Answering a few emails, laying on the couch. i just had amy take me for a ride around the driveway in the wheelchair. I"M GOING CRAZY!!! It's 10:30 p.m. yes we were out there at dark. i had her stop so i could just sit and breathe fresh air. i said to her, "only 2 more months out of my life then i'll be back in action" i could only make one lap then back to the couch. The pressure is just unbelievable when i sit and stand. i am wishing time away. I never do that. i look at the clock throughout the day and think thank god it's 2p.m. thank god it's 6pm thank god it's 8 pm i have almost made it another day. the sugar babies get measured on friday. they better weigh at least 3lbs each. my mom was shocked at my belly today. both my parents came over today to visit. amy went to get her haircut so my dad stayed here and watched the kids. good thing cuz manda crashed on her bike. he had to go out and peel her off the driveway. she's fine:) i hear amy coming with my Taco Bell. CHOW DOWN LARD ASS

OCTO MOM

If you can't laugh at yourself.....

Found this on the internet today. I laughed out loud, so I thought I would share it with everyone. This will be Mandy soon....(well, not to soon I hope)
Enjoy.
Amy



http://maniacworld.com/OctoMom-Giving-Birth.html

99 bottles of beer on the wall 99 bottles of beer

post by mandy
i'm damn near 28 weeks. I am still not having contractions:) I'm a good patient. My fun meter is pegged out. The only visitors i will have now our, our parents. Visitors really take it out of me. Besides when our parents come (except my dad) they all do a really great job helping out Amy. My dad just runs his mouth. But him and i have the kind of relationship that i can kick him out when i'm tired of his motor mouth running. Which has happened twice so far. Him and I can be so mad at each other and then 5 min. later be best friends again. So that's why I have put in place the "only parents" rule.
The pressure I feel in my abdomen is unbelievable. Sitting is Extremely Extremely uncomfortable for me. Laying is where it's at. After my horrible hospital stay I am keeping my ass down so i don't have to go there any sooner than i have to. That place is not good place for a princess like me. I really have been on bedrest for 7 weeks. Now i am just on "oh my god i'm uncomfortable" bedrest. Amy's mom bought me six feet under for my birthday so Amy and I have been watching that. It's fun to have something to look forward to.

new webisode is up

http://www.bigmammas.tv
check it out.

home sweet home

post by mandy
man am i glad to be home. that hospital stay sucked. i was hooked up to a contraction belt across my stomach, blood pressure cuff, two things that went from my ankles to my thighs to help prevent blood clots that pumped up every 5 seconds that were hot as hell, a pulse monitor on my finger, an IV and a partridge in a pear tree. HOLY COW. Now don't forget when you are prego you pee every 5 mins. So i had to unhook all this stuff when i had to pee. They have me a shot to quiet my uterus that in turn made my heart rate 140 beats per min. My hands tremble, my insides jumbled, and my teeth chatter. I didn't sleep wink. They offered me a sleeping aid Ambien but i politely declined. I opted to just sleep today drug free not to hurt the sugar babies. I am feeling much better today than yesterday. I am thrilled to have my eyebrows done and after tomorrow my taxes will be signed sealed and delivered so life is good. I was so upset to go to the hospital last night at the thought of not coming home until delivery because my taxes weren't done and my toner never arrived in the mail. I tend to get caught up in the little things:) I did not puke after eating the blizzard. I couldn't stand the thought of giving up those calories for the babies. It was a close call though. very close.
so what was wrong with me yesterday? i was cramping really bad, like menstrual cramps. so amy called the doc and to be safe had me come in. After observing me my doc decided i was a whiner and i needed to get my ass back home and grow babies:) trust me i 'm fine with that. i have to make it 7 more days. Everyone in the hospital was pleasantly surprised i haven't had any problems to speak of yet! so my hair has been a topic of blogs and this morning the nurse came in and was getting me prepared to go over to my doc appt. Hospital is connected with my Doc. So she was like, "ok can i get you soap, toothbruth?" i said, "yes please" she took one look at my hair and said "um how about a comb?" i said with a very serious face without smiling, "oh heavens no, I wouldn't want to over do it!" I was really LOFL inside of me. My hair is funny. I caught Amy staring at it in the doc appt today. I have really gone gray too. She asked me if i was gonna dye it after the babies came. I said, "i think i have enough to worry bout right now" like toner and taxes.

Well thank goodness I got those eyebrows done. Mandy is spending the night in the hospital tonight for observation. She wasn't feeling well. She looked to be in some discomfort...ok, how do you explain a pregnant lady with quads is more uncomfortable from one moment to the next? Well, my strong Mandy had tears in her eyes. So I called the Dr. She went to the hospital around 8 and they decided to keep her and watch her for the night.

Trish met me at the hospital to take Amanda and Bradley back home. They basically took a car ride. Trish cleaned my entire house while I was gone. If I could go back and get in a different line, I would get in the ocd line. I was in the a.d.d. line when I was born. Darn the luck.
Thank You Trish for all your support. You are the best ever! And, Im enjoying my clean family room tonight. YOU ROCK.
I will update tomorrow as soon as Mandy has news from the Dr. Hopefully she will come home...But please o please, I hope she is as bossy to those nurses as she is at home.
Sleep well Mandy and the Sugar Babies.

before and afters

AFTER

Well, I heated the wax....put the cloth strip over it...and what a ya know...your just suppose to pull the wax off. Yeah right. five bucks down the drain from Sally's beauty supply.

I ended up tweezing her eyebrows, and although they aren't like Min Shues's....They look a lot better for all the nurses at the hospital.

BEFORE

On Call

My mom has been calling me everytime she has a trip planned. She just made her last trip, well, I think her last pleasure trip anyway. She is going out of town this weekend to see a friend. So, she called again and said.... "now , don't have those babies while Im gone."

Funny...babies come when they're ready. Don't they. We know from experience. However, we do not need babies this weekend...So we won't!

So, I started taking my horomones to lactate. Mandy has been on my nerves for the past week. I have done really well ignoring her, and trying to go on with my business. This trend hit rock bottom yesterday when we had a major miscommunication and I'm sure horomones had a lot to do with it. Hers and mine. When you have this many women in a house, there is gonna be trouble sometime. Right? Today Mandy admitted to me that she was "over it". I told her there was only one person who knew exactly what she meant. "ME". I was over it too. With all things concidered, we are good now. Sitting on the same couch watching idol. WHEW......

no camera

post by mandy
i'm sorry there have been so many posts with no pictures. i didn't have the energy to find the camera. I have a box that Amy put by my couch with all my shit in it. It has books, papers, cameras, notebooks and pens in it. Basically all of my picnic got thrown in the box. I had a huge mess going. So anyway Amy was working on some pictures of the kids with some frames she bought at a garage sale last summer and she moved the camera. When i tell you i can't stand for more than 30 seconds that is not a mandy lie. I am in total survival mode at this point. Uh what the hell was i thinking saying i was gonna break a world record 38 weeks my ass? That's 11 weeks away. I think Amy and i will kill each other before that. I am to the point that i really don't feel much like visitors now. All they seem to do is boss me around. I'm supposed to be the bossy one. So now i have lost 6 lbs since my last appt. still no word on stinky pee test. What the hell? On friday they had me dying and it's a week later with no results. What if I really was dying? Not an option! I um got the bright idea i needed Dairy Queen tonight because i have lost 6 lbs. I'm supposed to gain 3 lbs a week not lose 6 lbs. So Amy being the great partner she is loads up all 3 kids goes to DQ and brings me my large blizzard. I ate it and was inches from puking. Ok Mandy the point of this is to gain weight not to puke it up. Blizzards are officially marked off my list now. Other things marked off my list include:
Big Macs
Frostys
Gatorade
Chick-Fila Lemonade
Blizzards
Salt
I get ready every Friday now to go to the doc and for them not to let me leave. This week has been tax week and eyebrow waxing. I don't have either done. Damn it!!!! I'm relying on Amy and my Accountant to come through for me by Friday:) Amy did go to town and buy the waxing stuff. I decided not to cut my hair. I wouldn't be able to sit in a chair anyway for that long. When it's dinner time we always sit and eat as a family. I can sit with everyone for about um 3 min. then back to the couch for Big Mamma. Too uncomfortable. I'm starting to feel vomitous from the blizzard i think i might puke afterall. Gotta Go

huh

post by mandy
well i am assuming no news is good news. doc didn't call me today with any results. the pee in that jug smelled so bad i bet when they opened it to test it the lab tech passed out and they are just to emberrassed to call and tell me i have to pee in an orange jug for another 24 hours.

i'm getting pretty restless. i can't sit in a chair anymore. i have to be lying down or really reclined. I am almost 27 weeks. I am really really tired, prolly cuz i'm almost in my 3rd trimester. The sugar babies are sucking it out of me. I am really thankful i'm not in the hospital yet. OMG i'd be going crazy. I'm going crazy now. Blood pressure is good, weight is good, life is good.

1/2 news

post by mandy
so my blood test came back and i passed everything on that test with flying colors.
However, my urine test isn't back yet. i should find out tomorrow if i'm developing/have
pre-eclampsia. i just went and weighed myself and i have lost 4 lbs since my appt on friday. i have been eating and drinking so i guess i'm losing bad fluids which is good. Last week my hands were sooo swollen and hurt soo bad that i ran a cold bath. not fun. I am sure with proper diet and drink modifications i'll be good.

i owe you this post

post by mandy
it's been awhile since i have posted it feels like. everyday gets harder and harder for me. as you read from amy's last post things could take a turn for the worse and i have been in complete breakdown over this. if i have pre eclampsia it could be devistating for me. Literally. The doc explained it that my body will do everything it can to "protect" me and really doesn't care about the babies. It's like it's too smart for it's own good. Two symptoms of the symptoms are high blood pressure and excessive rapid weight gain. I was very excited to have gotten on the scale today and i lost a pound from yesterday. It's a double edge sword because i need to gain good weight not bad weight. Well the scales doesn't have a swivel that moves from good weight to bad weight. My blood pressure has been great. I find out tomorrow if my blood test and urine test say i have it. There are 2 types. mean kind= deliver within 2 weeks. Nice Kind= we can sneak 4 -6 more weeks out of my pregnancy. i'm counting on a clean bill of health. I am 26 weeks pregnant now. I HAVE to make it to 28.

So on a lighter note. My mom comes over yesterday and she hadn't been here 3 min. she comes over sits down on the couch across from me and i can tell she's getting ready to have some sort of serious talk with me. So she says, "ya know, Mandy your great grandma believed in mind over body, have you been doing yoga?" i started laughing my ass off and said, "with this fat body, i am on complete bedrest" she replied, "oh, i really meant meditating, have you been meditating that you don't have pre eclampsia? you need to have lots of talks with yourself." i said with a smile, "oh i was blessed with her talent of mind over body and that's how i ended up with 4 babies in me." Thoughts are Things

Fun times at Ridgemont High

This week was interesting. We'll start with the beginning...


Stomp. Mandy was tooooo pregnant to go. Garrett (my nephew) took her seat at the show. He enjoyed himself. Bradley and Garrett farted through the entire show, and giggled under their breaths the entire time. I was EMBARRASSED.

On Wednesday I took Mandy for a wheel chair ride around the driveway. Her hair got washed the next day, because it was so dirty looking down on it.

Thursday Mandy tells me twice that she can't see out of one of her eyes. Then a few seconds later she poo poo'd it, and said "oh I think it was because I have been laying down so much." Yeah right.

Thursday after school Amanda learned to ride a bike. Huge milestone.... She wanted to wait until she was 9 !


Thursday morning Mandy started a 24 hour urine sample. Every time she had to go, (you know) she had to put it in this big orange container. One of the patients at our dr's office called it "Biohazard Bob". LOL. So, Mandy was aggrevated about the "pee" test. The doctor was testing her urine for protein. Mandy has been having some small signs of Pre eclampsia.


The doctors will know on Monday if the urine and blood work prove that she has pre eclampsia.

Dr scared Mandy REALLY BIG about going to the hospital. If she does have pre eclampsia the best place for her is the hospital. Mandy was devastated at the thought of going to the hospital. Even more devastated about her body not being so nice. I think that if she is going to the hospital, I will get bossed even MORE. God help me.

Kim and Steph Sheckles are here tonight. They have been running around doing chores for Mandy and me. They just rang the gate to get in with Taco Bell. Steph couldn't go another minute without a snack attack....If you all know Steph, she is skinny and gorgeous, and eats more than all the Sheckles put together. Kim brought Mandy her favorite drink, and helped me unload my new strollers. Lot's of help today....Kim sells premier designs jewelry, so I went through all her stuff, and my wish list is long, but there are car seats to buy, and I picked out the cutest car seat today. So I had to focus. Hate that....lol

This morning Tricia and I went to the multiples garage sale. We had planned on meeting at 7 am to go to the 8 am sale. We had never been. SO I was thinking we would be the 3rd or 4th person in line that early. We pulled in to a line 30 to 40 people deep....We couldn't believe it.


I was standing there in line oblivious (as usual) and Tricia says "hey if you have pics of the quads they'll let us in early" . I ran to the car and got the ultra sound pictures. We were so excited.

I actually yelled out..."this is like a lottery ticket." When we walked in, I had to show our picture. When we checked out some strange lady approached me and asked ... "are you the quad mom?" I was shocked that the news had traveled that fast. It was very welcoming.

I also had a great day shopping with my best friend. I had not been out "shopping" in a long time without kids. It was like a holiday!

Happy Anniversary Mandy. 11 years of a wonderful life with you. Thank you for your support, love, great humor, and the best life I could ask for .... you ROCK!!

no combs only perfume

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i had gotten out of the shower the other day i was huffing and puffing getting ready. now i have to tell you what getting ready is for me now. i do not wash my hair very often (it's very dry) so that means i don't comb my hair either:) So i was putting on deodorant (i use non aluminum Tom's of Maine) and perfume. I got so tickled that i put on perfume everyday when i don't even comb my hair and i wear the same clothes everyday. And to make the perfume story even better. It's my dead grandma's perfume. Amy says it smells like it too. I ran out of my own so i rooted around in Amanda's stash. When my grandma died we gave Amanda and Karley all of her perfumes from the 1980's. I am super cheap!

typical day for Mandy

There isn't really anything that needs to be said about this picture. Is there?