One week down... till mid May to go!

So the first week of school has come and gone and I made it. Lucky for me it was only a four day week. Now lets see if I can make it through the 5 day week. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are by far my hardest days. I work a six hour shift which is broken down into 2.5 hours in the morning and 3.5 hours in the afternoon. In between working, I have class. My math class doesn't meet on Wednesdays so that is an earlier day for me. I do get tired very easily, but I am attributing alot of that to the fact that I was not working for 5 weeks and now I am working again so I have to get used to it. I am glad that it is a form of exercise because walking is really good for you during pregnancy and believe me, I am walking ALOT!
Last Friday I hit the 14 weeks mark and I am getting excited. Things are going well and I have another appointment on February 10th. Remind me that I have to see about rescheduling that appointment so its not counted against me for having to leave my art class early. Apparently my professor doesnt make exceptions. Oh well. I am really going to enjoy that class. I am hoping that I can find something that I can turn into an art project for the baby's room. I will have to send a message to my online friend who is an artist so that I can order some more of her art. Its great for a baby's room!
Other than that, I am starting a new/old venture and this time around I feel more of a need to start out this time. The Lord is blessing me and Michael with a baby and I dont feel right about working. I need to take care of this baby, so Michael has a greed to support me in my endeavor to work my Mary Kay business. I have looked at it and found that just one class a week with at least 200.00 in sales will break even with what I am making now. I am only looking for enough to pay my cell phone bill and internet bill. I am still going to grow the business simply because in the next few years, I am going to have to pay off student loans and what better way to make the money I need and take care of my baby than to work my business which is a business that has been proven to work. I have met the women who have done it and all it takes is determination, hard work, and consistency. I am really looking forward to the new friendships that I can make as well. Speaking of working my business, remind me to order some new business cards. I am almost out of the pretty ones. I like to keep up to date with things and if something new comes out, I like to make sure I have the newest. I think this time I may just order the tent cards. Why? Because each time I pull out a card, it will remind me to have the person I am giving a card to, to fill it out for me. I have to remind myself that its up to me to call them, not expect them to call me. That is one of my fears that I need to get past and I will!

Ok well I am off here for now. Be sure to check out my website at www.marykay.com/eblickenstaff !!!!!

Dr. Appointment Update

I promised you an update after my doctor appointment so here is goes.

Things went great. The end. Ok, so I am just kidding!

Things went really well. This appointment had all the internal stuff (yuck!) but it was amusing watching Michael's fascination with certain parts of the examining table.

After the uncomfortable part, I was told to put a robe on over my top but no bottoms (EEK!) because the next part of this appointment was the ultrasound. By this point I really had butterflies in my stomach. They weren't fluttering lightly either. As we were getting ready to open the exam room door for the short walk down the hall, Michael, being quite the charmer, opens his mouth and "BBBEEELLLCCCHHH!!!!!" Lovely. Thankfully the nurses right outside the door didn't hear him.

We got to the ultrasound room and of course my doctor doesn't do abdominal ultrasounds till after 12 weeks and I was only 11 wks 6 days. Is now a good time to say that I am getting pretty comfortable with a male doctor?

My doctor soon comes in and Michael is texting on his phone and I am eagerly and anxiously waiting for the baby to come in view on the screen.

I nearly cried when I saw a perfectly formed head, body, arms, and legs. We saw the little arms and legs moving around and waving. It was the coolest thing! Doctor took measurments and Baby Blickenstaff is measuring ahead at 12 wks 1 day. I also got some great pictures of my little Cupcake!

Here she (yes I am biased! If I keep calling it a she, I will have a boy for sure!) is waving at us. If you look closely, it looks like she is sucking her thumb.

In this one, she just seems to be relaxing. I think she realized we were taking pictures.

This one is my favorite. She decided to show off a leg for us. This baby is going to have long legs. she will get that from both me and Daddy because we are both tall and have long legs. Now if you look closely at her foot, that is from me. My feet are longer than her Daddy's. Does this mean she wont fit into those cute newborn shoes and socks??

We won't be finding out the gender until early March when I reach 20 wks. Yes, you can find out earlier, but the doctor doesn't like to do gender ultrasounds earlier as 20 wks is when things are more pronounced and there is less chance for error.

I have been given the ok to go back to helping clean bathrooms at work which is great because just doing stairs and vacuuming was getting really old.

I am nervous about the upcoming semester because I dont know how tired I am going to be or how much of a school workload I have. I do know that I am happy to just stay home for the evening which means I should have plenty of time to get all my schoolwork done. My best friend is now in Denver so there is less chance for the both of us to get really bored and head off to Pizza Hut which is good. Yes I should be able to make it through just fine.

Overall, I know that God is taking care of both me and Baby and I have nothing to fear.

So I am off for now and my next post will most likely be after my first week back at school. Then I can tell you how the week went!

Happy New Year

Well the past couple of weeks seem to have flown by but in a sense they have kinda dragged for me. I promise soon I will have some pictures up here. In fact, I think I have one that I can post for you. I finally talked Michael into taking a belly pic. Its not that good but at least you will see my baby bump at 10 wks 6 days. I need to start doing a belly pic at each new week. I have a doc appt on the 8th. Once I get the ultrasound pic from that appointment, I will post it!



Christmas was really fun. I got Michael Guitar Hero World Tour and he absolutely loves it. He has played it almost everyday. Now I know it seems odd that I would get him that but I wanted to get something that would help with hand/eye coordination and this does that. I personally do not listen to rock music. It makes me depressed, gives me a headache, and its not God honoring. However, when he plays the game, I put on my headphones and crochet. Works out great. I sing along to my music too. Hehehe.



Michael got me a few things of which my favorite is a photo printer so I can print out pics and send to family. One of these days I will have to figure out how to size pics to wallet size and then arrange them on a 4x6 space, save it to my memory card, and then print them out. Viola! Four wallets in about 45 seconds!



Not really much to say. I have been really tired lately and battling morning sickness and I have not had much of an appetite. I have discovered that if I eat anything at all when I first get up in the morning, I am nauseated the rest of the day so I pretty much take my vitamin and drink milk or juice. Then when I finally do eat it is well after noon.



That is about all I have the energy for right now but I will update you more later. Most likely after my doctor appointment on the 8th. Enjoy the belly pic!