What do you do when your father in law is visiting and the power goes out?
Pray for the power to come back on of course... fortunately my prayer was answered as my bladder was really beginning to protest my lack of wanting to go to the bathroom, but it was nice the power came on. I doubt it had anything to do with prayer but we'll give this one over to God and say -"Thanks a million!"
Ultimately my fil is here visiting until I think Monday. He came on Wednesday. Jodi his weim is with him and a more devoted pup you will not find. She adores my fil. She used to adore me, but that's okay that she is all about her owner. It's what we hoped for. It's brought a side of my fil out that we hadn't seen - a very very devoted one. He loves this dog and she goes everywhere with him.
In other news I apparently have hit my own power outage. As someone who is generally fairly active I have slammed head on into the wall of fatigue and let me just say it sucks. I hate it. I'm tired of being tired. That's my biggest complaint. I'm used to occasional fatigue, but this is bone crushing I could nap for 2 weeks and not be awake kind of thing. I've been told this is normal. In the hopes that this is normal and not because I haven't taken prenatal vitamins with iron - instead going for a different vitamin with low iron I've switched to the ones with iron.
In other news - this baby is still breech. He apparently has no sense of direction and does not appear to want to move anywhere. I believe the term - "I'm comfy" comes to mind. At my next appt if he is still breech we'll schedule an u/s and from there a version and well you get the idea.
I've also kind of hit panic mode. Panic as in... what the hell were we thinking having 6 dogs and a baby. I know this too shall pass and my fatigue is not helping with this thought process. If anyone wants to boost my spirits about 6 dogs and a baby - go for. If people want to point out it is ludicrious to have 6 dogs and a baby keep it to yourself PLEASE... discuss amongst yourself if you feel this way. I need support now, not any not so helpful points of - who in their right mind has 6 dogs and a baby. If anyone has $4000 laying around to help out with a fence for the 6 dogs then hell send it my way :) I'm good that way. I'll even send a thank you card. D doesn't seem to realize constantly harping about a fence to someone looking at the idea that my STD decreases my wages to 70% of my normal take home pay just isn't helpful. I hate to harp back at him that he's no millionaire.
In other news - he fell in love with a kirby vacuum cleaner. He stupidly let the sales people in. I had to go to work. We fortunately already have a kirby of my mother's from the mid 1990's. I firmly left to go to work stating "WE WILL NOT BE PURCHASING A KIRBY!" They of course did the whole presentation including vacuuming our mattress and most of the living room, the baby's room, and well anywhere else D could get them to vacuum. So at least he got some extra use out of them. He also had them take a look at my kirby and we found that for $30 we can have it back in tip top shape, so for now... he's quit mentioning buying a kirby, but has become quite the vacuum user. Everytime I turn around he's got the kirby out. No - I'm not kidding. It's quite comical as he hardly ever vacuumed before. The Hoover now has a RIP sign on it. He's sold on the kirby.
That's what's been going on for the last 9 days - fun fun fun.
3 comments:
I think (hopefully) in your case, that because you have six dogs, they'll have each other for company. I'll tell you, I mean, the sad truth is, your everyday loving on the dog(s) changes. It's really made my lab suffer, but, at the same time, he has our chih for company and they play and still have a good time. Have the BB methods helped you out at all? And it was a huge concern for us, especially with our chih, who HATES children, and now hell, she practically makes out with the baby. I never thought I'd say that my son and anxiety ridden, child hating chih, are friends, but surprisingly, they are.
I do not think you are crazy having so many dogs. But then, I'm closing in on having 6 myself! :D
Hope that the baby turns head down. That kid, already trying to control things! LOL
I'm a long-time lurker, but I wanted to say don't worry about the dogs! When my little boy was born in October 2005, I was doing dog boarding (professionally) in my home. We came home to...taadaa...9 dogs! For the first six months of his life, I had anywhere from 3 to 15 dogs. It was great entertainment: I'd set up his exersaucer in front of the sliding glass door, and he loved watching them play in the backyard. It's kind of crazy, and the dogs may not all be fed breakfast before noon, but they don't care. You'll be fine!
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