28 Weeks

As of today, I am 28 weeks pregnant and am starting the third and final trimester!  I can't believe I'm already in the third trimester.  I will have a baby in 3 months.  Where has the time gone?  But at the same time, I feel like I've been pregnant forever.  The sickness of the first trimester seems so long ago.

I have to go do the glucose test to find out if I am a gestational diabetic today.  Boo.  I've been putting it off.  I got the lab request for it, at my last doctor appointment.  Like over 3 weeks ago.  Whoops.  I'm supposed to get it done between 26 and 28 weeks.  And seeing how today marks 28 weeks, and I get off work at 2, I figured today would be the day to do it.  I'm supposed to fast for 3-4 hours before the test. Its only been 2 hours and I am already starving.  At least I only have one hour of work left.  I have been procrastinating this test, since I kind of don't want to know the results.  My mom was a gestational diabetic for all 4 of us and apparently genetics is one of the risk factors for gestational diabetes.  And so is being Asian.  Yay.

On a lighter note, Josh figured out how to work Twitter last night.  It was funny to watch.  Both of his sisters are very into social media and have all sorts of accounts on like Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc.  He wanted to show them he was cool too.  He was asking me last night how to write on their wall.  "Wife, how do I tweet something?  Oh, wait, new tweet.  There it is."  And he was so proud of himself for tagging both of them in his tweet and for using a hashtag.

Sooo Tired

This is just me whining, be forewarned.  I am soo tired this morning, I do not want to be awake.  But Wednesday is the day I work the morning shift at work, so I have to be here by 8am.  Which is fine when I'm not pregnant, or at least get a decent night's sleep.  But last night, between the acid reflux and baby waking up at 5am kicking my bladder, I did not sleep very well.  And there has been some back tracking in the fight against morning sickness this week.  So I'm back to taking the zofran at night again.

I pulled up Everything is Awesome from the Lego Movie to wake me up.  And because it was stuck in my head last night.  You should watch it.  Its awesome.

Random Quotes 5/8

So last night we went out for dinner with Josh's cousin and his girlfriend.  I was heating up my leftovers later (since I'm always hungry now) and I was asking if the microwave was the best way to heat up the steak.  Josh's response: steak yes, foil no.  They had lined the takeout box with foil when they boxed up my leftovers.  Me: Really?  I'm putting it on a plate.  Josh:  I didn't know, you can't blame me.  With your pregnancy brain, who knows.

And these are from today.

Me: We're past the point of no return, babe.
Josh: Why?
Me: Baby bump sticks out of a loose t-shirt even now.
Josh: Not really, you look like you could just be a fatty.

I'm walking around getting ready, patting my belly.
Josh: Are you hitting him?
Me: No.  And I can't feel him squirming around, so he can't be that upset about it.
Josh: You're going to make him go deaf.

That husband of mine sure makes me laugh.

Easter Surprise

Swan Lake

Last night we got to see BYU's ballet performance of Swan Lake for free by being guest ushers.  I had never heard of being a guest usher before.  One of Josh's friends and his wife had signed up, but couldn't do it.  So we took their place.  It is not a bad gig.  You are required to wear a white shirt and black pants or skirt and black shoes.  We got there maybe an hour before and wrote our names on our name tags.  All we had to do was pass out programs once the house doors opened at 7 (the show started at 7:30).  Josh was at the main lobby and had the busiest door.  I was upstairs chilling with 2 other guest ushers since they apparently overbooked.  They were 2 girls who were high school juniors in high school.  They were refreshing and entertaining.  We didn't have too many people walk through our door.  A few minutes before the show started, we got our tickets scanned and went to sit down.  And we actually had pretty good seats.  Especially since we didn't pay anything for them.  I have never seen Swan Lake performed before.  The closest I got was the Swan Princess movie.  It was a very good show.  It always amazes me how they are able to tell a whole story with just music and ballet, no words or dialogue.

Chicken Parmesan

I've never made Chicken Parmesan before, but thought I'd give it a try.  I've been looking for new recipes to try to find ones that both Josh and I like to start a recipe book for our family, instead of just using recipes that I have just because I know how to make them.  I wanted to branch out.  And I've always liked Chicken Parmesan at restaurants so I thought I'd give it a try at home.  And since we have morning church, I'd have plenty of time to make it for dinner.  I used a combination of these two recipes from food.com and Favorite Family Recipes.  I didn't make the sauce and just used the Prego I had in the fridge.  But I did follow the second recipe in the fact that I just browned the breaded chicken in some olive oil and finished baking them in the oven and let the oven melt the mozzarella cheese on top.  I was pretty impressed with the finished result, quite tasty, if I say so myself.

Where Does the Time Go?

I just got an email with a subject line of Can you believe it's been 2 years, Lydia A with a link to the proofs of when I graduated from BYU.  Well really when I walked.  I finished classes December of 2010 and walked April 2011.  Has it really been 2 years since I graduated college?  Where has the time gone?  It doesn't seem very long ago, but at the same time feels like a different life.  After I finished in December, I started working at an elementary school as an aide, back when I was planning to go to grad school for Speech Pathology.  I was just taking a year off to get experience and work for a bit before going back to school.  After the school year ended, I started working as a summer camp director at a daycare, which wasn't bad.  I enjoyed taking the kids on field trips and just playing all day.  When school started in the fall is another story.  They had me teaching kindergarten with no experience and or resources.  But that's a rant for another time.  I quickly learned that I did not want to be a teacher and be responsible for these kids education.  Maybe it would have been different if I had gotten a degree in Elementary Ed.  And that feeling of inadequacy started to extend to Speech Pathology as well.  Would I be a good Speech Pathologist?  Did I have what it took?  Could I help these kids?  Or would it just stress me out since there wasn't a guaranteed outcome.  Each child and case is different and requires something different.  Looking back on my time as a speech aide and watching the SLP work, I could be an SLP with the training and experience from grad school.  But is that what I wanted?  I wasn't sure anymore.  After thinking about it and talking to friends and roommates I decided that Sign Language was what I wanted to do.  Speech Pathology just didn't have that same appeal to me anymore.  I absolutely LOVED my sign language classes at BYU.  I've always liked sign language since they had us take it in middle school.  It was something that was fun, and that felt I was good at (when I was actually practicing, I've lost a lot of my sign language now).  I decided that I wanted to go back to school to study ASL and become an interpreter.  I looked into UVU and their program (since BYU doesn't have more than a few ASL classes) and their prices for tuition and was starting to look into loans to go back to school.  My roommate was going to go back for Special Ed and we were going to go to UVU together.  But then I started dating my husband and that got put on the back burner, especially when things started getting more serious.  And that roommate that was going to go back to school with me is now on a mission.  Funny how things don't work out as we plan.  After we got engaged, I decided that I didn't need the experience of working at the daycare anymore since I wasn't going back to school anytime soon and not for Speech.  So I found a new job, the same job I have now at Ingram Medical.  Its been good to me.  I'm able to work full time and make decent money, especially compared to what I was getting at the daycare, with a lot less stress and outside preparation.  This last weekend all of my dad's family got together for my grandpa's 80th birthday party.  My aunt who got me interested in Speech Pathology was asking me if I was going to go back to school.  She and everyone else was saying to go back while you're still young and its less likely you'll go back when you're older.  I don't want to go back to school.  I don't have that desire anymore.  Would it be fun to study sign language?  Sure.  But I can do that on my own.  I still have all my old books and am way below the level I was at.  I can do that on my own time.  I don't need to go back to school for that.  The main reason I was going to go back for an advanced degree is so I would be able to support myself and live on my own and be a grown up outside the Provo bubble.  Getting married has changed that.  Josh just graduated with his Bachelor's and is starting his Master's in the fall.  I've always wanted to be a mom.  That's part of the reason I didn't want to go to grad school.  I had always expected and was told by everyone else that I would get married young.  I don't think anyone expected me to graduate from BYU single.  I'm saying that to sound conceited or anything, that's just how it was and its what the expectation was.  In my parents generation, not many women graduated from BYU, and not as many as do now.  I think that's due to society and culture expectations.  Not as many women were in the workforce as there are now.  And that's another tangent for another time.  Where was I going with this?  Being a mom.  That was always the plan.  That's just it, it was always the plan for the future.  It was always off in the distance.  But its not so far in the distance anymore.  Especially now that we know we are going to stay here for the next 2 years, and that Josh got in with funding for his master's degree.  And its terrifying.  And exhilarating.  The terrifying part is that I like to plan and control things.  You can't really do that with having a baby.  It happens when it happens in the Lord's time.  I don't really like things that are out of my control.  And I have a feeling that when the time comes and we decide we want to start trying to get pregnant, that it is going to be one of those things that will be out of my control.  And that's going to be the hardest part, is to let go of that control I like to hold onto.