Black cloud

Virginia must have bad luck lurking about. We stopped for gas today. They only offer prepay. They don't even have a slot to put your card in. Ivy goes inside to tell the lady we are going to pay with credit and if she could turn it on. I have to bring in my credit cart. There is no way in hell I'm going to trust her to hold on to my card without me being there. I go inside. The lady takes one look at me, and walks to the other room to smoke. No greeting. No one moment please. She then comes back and walks past me to go outside, walks back in and ignores me! She then tells me that she doesn't have a changing table for Desmina. Um, Okay. That is not why I came in but anyways with that attitude I am not giving you my money.

I radio Fred and he tell him that I need to go to a different gas station. He tells me to come over where he is and of course when I drive over there I miss it and get on the interstate instead. They tell me to take the first exit I see. I end up getting back on after that exit because it goes on forever and I can't find the gas stations. I stop and wait on the shoulder and wait for my dad and Fred to radio me. They do but they are not listening. They just go right ahead and take the exit. I am yelling in the radio for them not to. And they tell me to stop on the shoulder. I am already in the damn shoulder but on 80! Finally they realize that I am not at the exit and go back to 80 while cars and trucks are flying past me.

We finally get gas. My dad now wants to drive my car because he doesn't think that I'm competent enough so I ride with Fred. We follow the directions given to us yahoo to get to the hotel. It's a long drive after we exit to get to Highway 55. I am thinking, "What kind of hotel is this place? It must be a dump." Our destination ends at a gravel road. No hotel. Fred calls the place and the directions are wrong. No shit Sherlock! He isn't able to understand the woman's direction. He is too frazzled and just wants to concentrate backing up. We tell my dad to back up first and we'll follow. Of course he doesn't listen so we have to turn the huge van instead of backing up. I call the hotel back and get the right directions. We finally find the hotel and of course miss the entrance. We are here now though. Tomorrow we leave to our new house!!!!

I have been feeling what I thought was light baby flutters. Last night I felt Blanket kick! I was on the computer, chatting with Adrianna. It was a series of short kicks. I am so excited! I have this constant worry that there is something wrong. I didn't worry as much with the first one as I do this one.

I was so excited with the first one. I took belly pictures every few weeks. Right now I only have one picture of me at seven weeks. I keep meaning to take another picture, but we have been so busy! I started a journal as soon as I found out I was pregnant last time. This time I don't even have a journal yet. I don't know if it's because I don't feel as attached or because I always have that worry setting in. I am in my second trimester though so I can breathe a sigh of relief. I guess I will feel better if I can hear the heartbeat again.

Toddler Magic

Only a toddler can manage to open the bottom of the salt container and have it all gushing out. I didn't even know that you could pop out the bottom of it. What was the company thinking? Why would I want the salt to come out of the bottom when there is a perfect spout on the top to pour? And of course my toddler decided to get a shovel to play in it.

Stow Away

"Do you think they will notice if I climb into the bag?"

Unmotivated

I am unmotivated to do anything today. I haven't even brushed my teeth yet. Well so far it's just Desi and Wasabi to smell my breath. Playgroup is coming so I need to get up and do something at least. I just wanted to post real quick. How sad is that? Computer time comes before hygiene. What am I teaching Desi?

I also need to finish packing. I should start by the shit on the table. Lots of breakables for little hands to break. We had a moving sale. Only three people came. Well at least we made money to cover the ad and then some. The left over items were given away at the potluck. Well at least that is less stuff to haul away to Goodwill.

Ten more minutes before playgroup starts...better get off my ass.

Been a while

So I'll post a picture.

Trick or Treat

Here are pictures from last night. We trick or treat for UNICEF since we still don't allow her pure sugar. She collected $11.66 from the neighbors yesterday and her Oma donated $10. We have a change bucket that we will probably just donate it to her. I think she did very well. She did get some candy. The nonvegan ones we handed it back out to the kids. We kept some vegan candy for ourselves. Are we hypocritical our what? Fred says that Mina would say thank you for money but not for the candy. He says she is money hungry. I think it's because he was holding the bag and she was holding the collection box.

She made one cute unicorn. She was saying "Trick or treat" all day yesterday. When we got to the houses, she didn't even say it. She did try to go into everyone's houses.