Category: Rebecca

Closer and closer we get to having our new little bundle. Every day we are just one day closer! Today at my appointment my midwife checked my progress from last week. This week I am dialated to 4 cm, about 80% effaced, and the baby is head down at -1 station (right there in the pelvis). So it’s looking like the baby may come sometime in this next week or so! They also told me that I tested positive for Group B Strep. 🙁 So that means I have no choice but to have IV antibiotics while I’m in labor so that the baby doesn’t catch it on the way out. BUMMER! But that’s nothing new, I had to have the IV antibiotics with Jeremy and Dinah’s pregnancies too. So we’ll see how the next week plays out. 😉

I am getting this feeling that my computer/printer just doesn’t want me to go visiting teaching. My printer seems to work fine every time I use it, EXCEPT when I try to print out the visiting teaching message! I don’t get it, what is up with that????

Well it’s time to be finishing up the preparations for baby’s arrival. I’m 36 1/2 weeks and had my appointment today and I’m already dialated to 3 cm! So I need to finish packing for the hospital, and make up some bags of stuff for the kids in case they need to go to cousin’s house or Granny’s house while I’m in the hospital. I’ve got to finish clearing off my recliner so I have a place to nurse the baby during the night (that has been a 2 day project already and my room looks like a bomb exploded). We still need to go and have maternity pictures taken for the baby book…..the list goes on. But we registered at the hospital today so that’s taken care of. 😀 The lady asked me for my birthdate to verify who I was, and so I told her but Kyle (being silly as always) said “we don’t know the birthdate yet” 😛 At least she laughed. I get so embarrassed when Kyle tries to be silly and the other person doesn’t get it.

So the anxious awaiting begins…..STRESS!

Well today is Mother’s day, and I have spent most of the day wondering if this holiday was invented by some naughty children that just wanted a specific day to torture their mothers???? My kids just don’t seem to like me at all. I’m mean, remember? I make them do all kinds of things they don’t want to. And Kyle is gone ALL the time working the two jobs, so they only get me. But they only want ‘daddy’. I hear a lot of “I don’t like you” “I don’t ever want to see you again” “I never want you to talk to me again” “Just leave me alone” and the one I LOVE “I’m not allowed to do what you say” Where do they get that idea? I’m the one that makes most of the rules around here, and it’s not like I’m asking them to do something naughty! That one totally confuses me.

I feel as though Kyle doesn’t teach the kids about respecting me, or doing something special for mother’s day. How are the kids supposed to make, or buy cards if he doesn’t help them? I guess I could say “well mother’s day is coming up, let’s go shopping and you guys can pick out cards to buy me” But I personally feel that sounds selfish. I don’t want them to just love me and honor me on mother’s day. I want them to respect me and love me all the time.

Today for the most part has been like any other day. I woke up at my usual time, read my scriptures, got up and got dressed. Then I had to wake up Kyle and tell him to get out of bed and get ready for church so we wouldn’t be late. Then I moved onto waking up the kids and getting them dressed so we wouldn’t be late. We weren’t late for church, thank goodness. But we had to leave without eating breakfast, so the kids all grabbed a roll on the way out the door and I grabbed a banana. I got chocolate covered strawberries from the kids, because that’s what they made for the mommies in primary. (Kyle gave me a box of See’s yesterday.) We got home and the bed hadn’t been made, because I didn’t have time to make it before leaving. The dishes from the past couple of days were still piled high, because I got tired last night and didn’t have the energy to do them. I was hungry because we didn’t have time to eat before leaving. Nothing has been done because I personally have not done it. Kyle did a few dishes, because I asked him to. I went to lay down for awhile today, because I insisted. So today has been like any other day, not a special day. And just being told that it’s mother’s day, the day we honor our mother’s has just made this ordinary day a torture filled day. I love my family, and it hurts to feel that my kids don’t love me.

Sorry if this post seems selfish or depressing, I just needed to vent.

Happy Mother’s Day!  Here it is, the start of this special day when we celebrate those women who give so much to be our mothers.  Rebecca is a mother of 4 (usually) wonderful children, as troublesome as they might be, and she’s expecting another one due next month.  It’s amasing how much she goes through, dealing with my absense due to working two jobs, and still being able to get Ethan to school every day, and keep the kids from completely destroying the house.  I’m always amased at how much she puts up with.

It’s interesting for me to look at the past three generations of Andelin men, that I am a proud part of.  From my understanding, my grandmother Helena joined the LDS Church in Sweden when she was a teenager, and she left her family and life to come to Utah to be with people who believed the same that she does, where she eventually met my grandfather.  My mother left New York along with her mother and sister (leaving behind some bittersweet experiences) for California,  where they encountered the LDS missionaries and joined the church in her mid teens, and where she eventually met my father.  Rebecca grew up in Fullerton with her family, and moved to Yorba Linda for a larger house, where they lost the youngest family member, which led them to meeting members of the LDS Church and eventually joining it, in her mid teens.  And of course, she eventually met and married me. 🙂

 

I often wonder if that’s a coincidence, that three Andelin men married three converts from their teens.  I’m sure their experiences were essential for leading them to meeting such wonderful husbands.  Right darling? 😉  I love you!