At home

It's been several days since I've last blogged. I'm staying at home today, due to Greg's persistence. I suppose he is right, though. It has been a tough week and 1/2 at work. I won't elaborate.Work becomes my life and I let it totally consume me. This can be a very bad thing though. I've got to learn that my job is "just a job".I worry too much what others will think of me. I don't want to let anyone down,but at the same time I DO NOT want to be run over.Greg thinks I need a break , my BP has been up more this week, it's even been up in the mornings. The bottom number was 97 this morning. My Doctor doesn't want that number to be over 85. SO I HAVE TO TAKE IT EASY. Greg over ruled me this morning.



I figure since most of my day I will have to spend in my bed I can BABY SHOP!!!! I just LOVE the Internet!!!! You don't have to go anywhere and you can buy ANYTHING YOUR HEART DESIRES.


ENJOY THE WEEKEND!!!!

The Weekend

Friday began as a normal day. I got up and got ready for work. Went to work and then I had a doctor's appointment. I felt great!! No headaches, in a great mood couldn't have asked for any better or so I thought. When I got into the Dr office the nurse checked my blood pressure as usual and then asked me if I was feeling ok. I of course said yea I feel great why? Lawanda(the nurse) looked at me with those eyes ( we all know that look) and said well your BP is 162/105. So, she had me lay on my left side, so after a few seconds of manuevering my pregnant self over I finally get to my left side and she leaves. A few minutes later she and my doctor come in and with the same look the nurse gave me and ask,"how are you feeling?" I am great! Well, at least I thought I was. He then takes my BP and then sends me to the hospital!! The good news is my bp had come down to 155/100, but that's not quite low enough to stay out of the hospital.
So , I call Greg and we go to NMMC in West Point and have a very expensive weekend in a hospital room. The good way to look at it is , meals in bed and no house work!!!!! WHOHOO!!!
I was released Saturday night around 6:30 and I got to come back to work today upon the promise I would do nothing more that sit at my desk and check emails. Seeing that's the main part of my job , I had no problem with this.
My diagnose is : I am predispositioned for chronic hypertension . so, in other words it is not Preeclamsia, but it is almost a given that I will have high Blood pressure at some point in my life. It's genetic, but with me being only 24 weeks pregnant I have to be VERY careful. I'm on BP medicine and I have to go back to my dr on Wednesday. So , please if anyone happens to read this please keep me and my baby boy in your prayers. We need them, please don't forget Greg and Emily Grace either. With this pretty much all of our household chores have been thrown onto Greg.

Aren't We Cute!

Every year our boat club has a halloween party and we all dress up. You should see some of the costumes! They are unbelievable!! Emily Grace and I decided to be something cute and simple this year. She wanted to be a MSU cheerleader. I let her decide what my costume was going to be, she decided on a cat, so being the good sport I am I dressed up as a cat. Greg thought his girls looked cute.

Emily Grace loves flowers , especially purple flowers. As soon as she saw these she just had to have her picture taken with them. I guess we could have skipped seeing the monkeys and went straight to the flowers!!

She took the closeup by herself!

Greg and I took Emily Grace to the Memphis Zoo in April.

This is one of my favorites of her and her daddy.

She is a total daddy's girl.

It's About Time

After several weeks of blog surfing I have finally decided it was about time to start a blog of my own for my family. I'm afraid I won't have a lot to tell as we pretty much just work and hang out. Yep, sounds boring doesn't it, but maybe this will inspire me to do more or get Greg to do more, besides work.

I plan to post some pics soon. I have to admit I am not the best mom when it comes to pictures. I should be ashamed of this , but I always forget my camera, then when I do take pics I forget to do anything with them. I will say this though, it must be genetic, because my mom to this day still finds rolls of film she has had since I was little. I promise she has rolls that are 20 years old!

At this moment in our lives we are remodeling our house. New floors , hopefully cabinets soon ( keeping my fingers crossed), paint and whatever else I can convince my sweet husband to do. He's really a great sport about it! Bless him. I am a very difficult person to please when it comes to my house and I LOVE , I can not emphasize this enough, LOVE change!!!!

I will try and post some pictures of before and after as we live and work through this process.

Well, that's enough for today. I'll get to work looking for pictures so everyone can see my family. Gita, sorry, but I still won't post any pregnant pictures of myself!!