Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have

Becky — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:00:58 +0000

I want for Ryan and I to be able to buy a house in the next 5 years. I want it to have at least a small yard, and I would LOVE if it was next door to our friends Chris & Serina. We currently live next door to them, and I can’t speak highly enough of living right next door to good friends (especially if they have a baby about the same age as yours). If, for some reason, the person living next door to them doesn’t want to sell when we are ready to buy (they better want to!!), I hope we like our neighbors. I want the house to have 4 bedrooms and at least 2 bathrooms. Obviously we could and would get by with less (God knows my family did growing up, and we had 4 girls in the house plus my parents!), but if we are talking dreams, this is it; more than one bathroom.

I want to take a sewing class at some point. I know the basics on how to sew, and I have a sewing machine. I even hand sewed Ryan and my halloween costumes the last couple years (more like altering stuff, but whatever. I made sleeves for one of them!). But I would love to know how to do some of the fancier stuff, or just to get instruction so that I’m not so afraid of messing things up. I will be sewing a vest, skirt, and adding ruffles to a dress shirt this year, so that will get me started on learning… (ps…I should probably get on that, since there’s only one weekend between now and Halloween, huh?)

I would love to take a week long vacation up to my hometown next summer, rather than a couple hurried weekends. I don’t know if this is going to work out, but both Ryan and I would like to get to this point, and so I’m hoping it will.

I want to have more children. Almost as soon as I was home with James I knew that I wanted more. Really, I’ve known always, but I didn’t know what the day-to-day of being a parent was like, so it was hard to say definitively. But now I know (at least for this child), and I love it. I would like at least 3 kids…Ryan isn’t so sure about it. We’ll see. Before we have any more children we need to get some bills and stuff paid down.

That leads me to my last goal. I would like to have all of our credit card debt paid off within the next 2 years. I think it should be pretty easy to do within 2 years, but I don’t want to make more of an aggressive goal because I want it to feel achievable. And also we aren’t willing to completely give up eating out/traveling to get it done. Big trips, sure (other than our cruise, which is mostly paid for), but not the traveling to see family and friends in-state.

Well…it feels good to get those written out. Motivating, really, to start working on the ones I can (*cough*debt*cough*) and talking more in depth to Ryan about the ones that aren’t filled in yet.

What the heck was that? Also, a game!

Becky — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:11:52 +0000

I just had the weirdest dream, and since I so rarely remember them I thought I should mark this down for posterity.
I was sitting on a bench by the window in the kitchen of an older farmhouse. There was a paper bag of underwear next to me for Goodwill (sidenote: gross!). I was talking to my friend Adrienne, and this old woman suddenly showed up right outside the window. She was talking to me, and had a creepy old woman voice (think disguised witch from Snow White).
Suddenly, when I had stood up to get away from her, she stole the bag of underwear! Then, she was trying to get in the house, but mostly through open windows. Adrienne ran off to close some, and then I ran into another room to do the same. Except her hand was already over the sill grasping. Then she said that I “dance a pretty jig,” right before we got the window shut.
In the meantime, a friend from college had shown up randomly. Then I heard someone coming down the stairs. There was a door at the bottom, so I tried to slam it shut until I realized it was another college friend. I do not know where these people kept coming from, but they were giving me a heart attack and that crazy woman was still out there, talking to me. I sat on the floor to catch my breath (I wasn’t pregnant in the dream), and then I woke up.
So weird!
In other news, Ryan and I bought the rest of the stuff we need to be ready for baby. Other than stockpiles of sleep. They don’t sell that at Target or on Amazon. The ladies from my work threw us a shower on Thursday, so now all the parties are done and we are just waiting. We also got the stuff we need for the hospital, which is kind of crazy. Now we just need to get it all packed/put away. I am pretty sure I’ll make it to my due date, but who knows.
Speaking of, let’s have a little contest; you guess baby’s birthdate, length and weight, and whoever is closest wins. Probably they just win the satisfaction of being right, though. I’m not good at mailing things NORMALLY, much less after I’ve given birth.
To even the playing field, here are my stats:
As of 36 weeks I was not dialated at all, but I was 25% effaced. I haven’t been (and probably won’t be) checked again.
I was born about 3 days after my due date and weighed 8 lbs plus some ozs. I don’t remember the specific amount or my length at birth.
Ryan was 7 lbs 13 ozs, I believe. I don’t know his length at birth or where he was in relation to his due date, although I think he was close.
Personally, I think I’ll make it to my due date and that he will be right around 8 lbs and 20 inches. We shall see!
Go ahead; take a guess. There’s no penalty for being wrong!

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Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have

What the heck was that? Also, a game!