Category: Rebecca

BABY # SIX!

Back in August I was awaiting my monthly cycle and when I felt like it was late I mentioned to Kyle that I was tempted to make a run to the store to get a test. Kyle looked me in the eyes and said “You are NOT pregnant”. I said “Fine but if I haven’t started by the time you get off work Monday will you get me a test?” He said he would, but he made me promise that I wouldn’t wake up in the middle of the night and take the test, he told me I had to wait until Tuesday morning. Fine!

So Monday still no cycle and Kyle got me a test and I woke up early Tuesday morning and took the test and it was POSITIVE! I went to wake Kyle up to tell him to take a shower and get ready for work, and then I said “And by the way, I took the test” and he said “And?” I said “It’s positive”. He sat up and had this look on his face like he was trying to figure out if he was still dreaming or if what I just said was reality. He was just SHOCKED.

Now I find that really funny because for the past few months before this we have been in a state of not trying to get pregnant, but we had also decided there was no reason to avoid a pregnancy either. I’m young, my body handles pregnancy and delivery very well. And financially we are doing better now than we’ve ever been at the time of conception. So either way having 5 kids was fine but there was no reason to be afraid of having another. He KNEW that we weren’t avoiding pregnancy so you’d think that he would have realized that that meant a pregnancy would be very likely, but he was still in complete shock. 😛

So now I’m 12 weeks along. Morning sickness is yucky, and I think it has hit harder this time than in past pregnancies. There have actually been a few days where I just could not get up to do anything, but had to get up to at least make sure the kids didn’t do anything dangerous. However I feel very lucky that even though I FEEL like throwing up, I never actually do throw up, so that is something to be happy about. And I’m getting to the point where morning sickness should be going away soon anyways, thankfully. My poor house (which was cluttered before getting pregnant) is just messy now because I haven’t been able to keep up with the daily messes. So when I say goodbye to morning sickness, I’ll be saying hello to getting the house back in order!

So excited to be having another baby. I have always enjoyed being pregnant. My due date is May 6th, so I’m hoping this one comes about 2 weeks early like the last 3 have, so that it will be born in April instead. 🙂

This weekend our ward had a sisters retreat. And Kyle was sweet enough to get the night off and make the necessary arrangements so that I could go. 🙂

It was a wonderful weekend. I left the house just before 1 in the afternoon, and headed down the street with my pillow, my sleeping bag, my camping chair, my jug of water and my backpack to load up my stuff on the trailer in front of my ride’s house. The drive to the Heber Valley Camp was beautiful. This was the PERFECT time of year to go, there was no snow although the weather is cooling off (so it wasn’t HOT either), and all the leaves are changing colors. The campground that we had was REALLY nice. There were three cabins (each had 16 bunks), 2 bathrooms (with flush toilets), 2 showers, and our own pavilion, which had storage closets to store our food, and there were even a couple of refrigerators. There was also a fire pit, with logs positioned all around it for sitting on. We didn’t get to have a campfire though. 🙁 The day had been considered a ‘no burn day’ issued by the State of Utah (so there were no campfires statewide). Oh well. We had a great time anyways. There weren’t any planned activities, so that everyone could just sit and do whatever. We could chat and visit, and get to know other sisters. There were a few baby quilts to tie and all but one of them got done. A few brethren from the ward came up to do the cooking, so that none of us sisters would have to cook or clean anything, which was just so nice. They made Navajo tacos (scone base, topped with chili, onions, olives, cheese, sour cream….), since there was so much scone dough left over from the Stake Harvest Festival that had been canceled (they made a whole bunch of scones for the impromptu ward activity that night but obviously they still had tons of dough left!). There was also watermelon, and also some honey butter for the scones.

After dinner there was a guest speaker, Sister Elmer who is a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir that lives right here in Eagle Mountain. She talked about her life and how being in the choir has supported her though the difficult situations in her life, and she told us all about how Heavenly Father speaks to her through good music. She talked of her travels with the Tabernacle Choir, and she told us how the audition process works. She has been in the Choir for 17 years now, which is just amazing. A comment that she made during her talk caught my attention. She said “Nothing is impossible with the Lord”. Now I KNOW I’ve heard that before, but that really caught my attention right then. Lately I’ve been feeling so overwhelmed. Kyle works two jobs five days a week, and so he’s never home to help with the kids or the house, or really anything, so everything is left to ME. I’ve been really tired lately, and I’m finding things are slipping. I’ve just been letting things go because I’m tired, or just don’t have the energy to keep up. I’ve been TRYING to get the kids involved with cleanup more, just to help myself out a bit. After all, I am mortal, and I am not perfect, and therefore I physically can NOT do everything for everyone. Some days I feel like what is required of me is simply ‘impossible’. So when she said “Nothing is impossible with the Lord” that really caught my attention. It reminded me of when I was a child, I remember my mom had this saying that she would quote every time we said something was impossible, she would say “Nothing’s impossible, except the impossible. But that’s impossible, because NOTHING’S impossible.” She drove us nuts saying that, but thinking of that reminds me of something my dad always said: “Whiners aren’t winners”. Which I totally and completely believe. If you are too busy whining, you aren’t doing what it takes to be a winner. So all of this just tells me that I need to rely more on my Heavenly Father, so that when things seem impossible I can continue on and be a winner. 🙂

After our main speaker, our ward’s high council member spoke for a few minutes, and then our bishop spoke for a few minutes, and after that our Relief Society president, opened the time up for testimonies. WOW! That was just awesome, we sat there and had a 3 1/2 hour testimony meeting. It was just so awesome to sit there and listen to everyone’s stories, and really get to know each other better. It was simply wonderful. And of course, since we were all women, there were times when we were all crying with each other, and other times when we were all laughing with each other.

We didn’t get back to our cabins until about 1 in the morning. And I don’t know about the other cabin full of women but our cabin didn’t stop talking and turn lights out until 3 something!

I woke up about 8 in the morning, and breakfast was supposed to be at 9 so I was excited that I hadn’t woken up WAY to early (when I get super hungry I start to just feel sick). Bishop and his buddies, made pancakes, eggs, and bacon for breakfast. There was also honeydew melon, oranges, hot chocolate and orange juice.

After breakfast we had a morning devotional, where a couple of sisters spoke, and we raised the flag on the flag pole that our campsite had. We said the pledge of allegiance, a few of the sisters sang a beautiful song about being a daughter of God, and our Relief Society President spoke to us a bit.

It was a great retreat, and I got home between 2 and 3 in the afternoon. Everybody missed me, but things went back to normal soon after that….. 🙂

I hate going to the dentist. I don’t mind taking the kids to their appointments, but I just hate going to mine. I don’t mind the cleanings, or the x-rays or any of that, but I hate finding out what condition my teeth are in. I just have bad teeth. It’s inherited I’m sure of it. My parents have bad teeth, most of my siblings have bad teeth, and I remember my dad telling me that my grandpa had bad teeth as well. It’s just genetic. Usually every time I go in for a check-up something is wrong with my teeth and that means having another appointment (or two) scheduled shortly after the check-up to get those other issues fixed. That was no different today.

I went in and they hygienist took some digital x-rays, then she probed my teeth to see how the pockets in my gums are doing. I have four crowns IN A ROW in my mouth and the gums up there have issues, sometimes the pockets up there have been 6 or 7 mm deep, this time the deepest pocket was 5mm, so YAY some improvement! Not a lot, but some. Then she polished my teeth and proceeded to scrape plaque off. Now I have to say, I don’t have bad teeth because I don’t take care of them. I do brush, floss and rinse with flouride (to help my teeth) in the morning and I brush, floss and rinse with listerine (to help keep my gums healthy) before bed. And I admit that I’m not perfect about it, but more often than not, that is my routine. But really it just feels like it doesn’t matter HOW much I brush or floss, or even rinse my mouth out….my teeth STILL have issues. In fact as the hygienist was scraping plaque off my teeth she told me that there was actually a lot less plaque there than she would usually find on someones teeth. So YAY, again my brushing my teeth is actually doing something and I’m not completely wasting my time. 🙂

After she flossed my teeth it was time for the dentist to come in, and this is the part of the appointment that I always dread. After looking at my teeth, then at the x-rays and then back at my teeth he determined that I have two new cavities, and one area on watch because it looks like it could turn into a cavity. At my last appointment he told me I needed another crown, but we decided to wait on it because our insurance won’t cover crowns. So we’ll wait until open enrollment Kyle will change to a plan that cover crowns and we’ll take care of it next year, so the dentist had patched it up for me so that I can get by until then. This time, I’m up to needing TWO crowns, the one that had been patched last time, and I had a tooth break (slowly because I didn’t even notice it breaking I just noticed the hole) and that one needs to be crowned as well. Dang it! And when I was pregnant with Chloe he had told me that I need to have my wisdom teeth out, but they don’t like doing that when you’re pregnant so that got put on hold too. And really I remember what Kyle went through when he had HIS wisdom teeth pulled out, and I REALLY don’t look forward to having mine out. But they haven’t finished coming up through the gums. They just seem to be stuck half covered by gum tissue and half exposed, so really they just need to be pulled out. Also if they were to finish coming up on their own I doubt that I would even be able to shut my jaw, there isn’t enough space back there for the wisdom teeth, and when I’m “teething” (which happens occasionally) my gums are so swollen back there that I can’t shut my jaw without major pain, so those teeth need to just come out, but that terrifies me.

So my end conclusion, going to the dentist is depressing. And my oral hygiene habits can’t really get much better than they are unless I brush each time I munch on anything, but really how am I supposed to remember to do that? And that might mean me being in the bathroom to brush my teeth for a good part of every day (what can I say? I like to munch!) So maybe I just need to increase my calcium intake…. Because maybe if I increase my calcium intake, my body won’t be robbing my teeth for calcium, and MAYBE that will help slow down the deterioration of my teeth….

But I can’t stand the aftertaste that milk leaves in my mouth (but maybe that would be a good incentive to brush afterward???) So more smoothies made with milk and more ice cream shakes on the menu please? Thank you! 😀