I'm making homemade ice cream for an ice cream contest tomorrow after church. Being me, I can't do anything simply so I am making French Toast and Ginger Pineapple ice cream. Since I made both of these up on the spot I am curious to see how they come out, but I am excited. I veeeery rarely do any baking or anything involving sugar, so it's always fun when I decide to let loose from my post as the nutrition nazi.

Yesterday was Stephen's birthday. It had to the potential to be quite depressing, but we ended up at Amanda's folks, with MAC, ASH and even baby Jace. Tacos were eaten and fun was had so that was nice. Then Stephen and I went and turned the hot tub down to 97 so I could get in too. It was very relaxing for my back which was nice, since I can no longer lay on my stomach for Stephen to rub it for me. Kellan was feeling very active, which felt very bizarre since I was in the water myself. He flipped and rolled for a while, while we laughed at the way my stomach looked. Then we... had some fun of our own. : ) All in all, it was an evening for everyone to enjoy.

Today is lazy day. I watched "Little Mermaid" with Aidan this morning while enjoying my Lucky Charms. I love the excuse of eating fortified cereal!! : ) Then she "helped" make the ice cream. Which means that she whisked eggs and poured sugar for one batch before I was on my own to separate eggs and temper custards. It was still oddly fun, and she did get a big kick out of watching me separate 16 eggs. Now I have to do something with 16 egg white! An thoughts?

UM, I quit. I can't anymore, I just can't and I'm not going to. Enough is enough.

I woke up this morning and I am still having a boy!!! I kind of thought it might be a dream since the whole thing was so crazy. But no, Kellan is still in there. : ) IT seems so strange, but it's true.

And now I get to go shopping with my mother in law. Hi ho!

You know what kind of thing happens to me? I think I'm having a boy for a quite a while and then get told I'm having a girl. I get used to the idea, and even have a second ultrasound to confirm it. So I try to come up with a girl name. I rant a rave and plead with my husband. We pour over name book and I cry a little and we FINALLY come up with a name. Then the next day the dr says "Oops! Its a boy!"
BOYBOYBOYBOYBOYBOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, yeah. It's a boy. : )






There he is, spread eagle in all his glory.

May I present Kellan Paul Boswell.

Today was an oddish day. I guess mostly I had mood swings so that the day as a whole couldn't be considered good, though overall it was a fairly nice day. Lunch with my parents which has disaster potential but it went well. Then they took Aidan home with them so I could come home and take a nice pregnant nap(which I needed because this poor nameless baby beats the hell out of me all night long and if it isn't that it's my persistent bladder or stomach acid). Then it was some general wandering with my hubby, some Buffy dvds, and late night IHOP.
( TMI )
Good day.

Today is 20 weeks! Which means I am halfway through. I don't even really know what else to say.

I am freaking out. I'm not sure why I am freaking out today, as the situation hasn't really changed any but I am.

There is still some kind of delay on my unemployment so I am broke in the very worst way. I'm afraid my bosses are trying to stop it somehow, but the lady I talked to this morning didn't have any information to give me other than "A decision hasn't been made yet."

I have a new job now but it won't start until they get the grooming salon open in the end of July. I can't just sit and wait if the unemployment isn't even coming.

Plus, I am supposed to start paying my medical insurance in July. I can't really do that if I have no money coming in, but pregnant people find insurance helpful I'm told.

Like, I said I don't know why this all hit me so much today, but it did right about the time my dad decided to call me for a chat. I ended up crying on the phone with my dad, who is the last person on earth I would ever choose to show any kind of weakness to. So now he is bringing me groceries which is beyond humiliating and I am just sitting here freaking out and trying not to let Aidan see it. I hate this!

Well, she who must not be named decided to assault me during church this morning. I'm not sure what the nerve was that she got on top of but it hurt and she wouldn't get off. I tried to poke her until she moved but she just kicked me back.

Other than that just a lazy Sunday Father's Day lunch with our old pastor and his wife and 4 kids. His boys were in our youth group when Stephen was the youth pastor and I adore them so it's always fun. the boys were trying to name the baby for us. Surprisingly, my boys have pretty good taste in baby names and agree that Stephen is really difficult and doesn't like anything, LOL. It was a lot of fun for me to sick 3 teenage boys on him about baby names.

ASH and Jace


OK, I skipped the shower, but he's still cute


He's a cutie!



ASH is surrounded by boys! FMH and big boy Jordyn.

Aidan is 5. 5 I don't really see how that's possible but here she is. IT just seems so bizarre. I can still remember every moment of her birth like it was a few hours ago, not 5 years ago. And now not only is she grown into a kindergartner, but I have do it all over again. Somehow that is even stranger than the fact that she is 5. She's about to be a big sister. And I am going to have something to put into all those baby clothes I kept. Those tiny tiny baby clothes.


MY cat is bigger than my kid will be.




Still no progress with names.


How is everyone else?

ASH had her baby!!!! Baby Jace made his grand entrance (and i do mean grand) about 3 this morning... in the hospital parking lot. That's right, my friend is the one who had her baby in the back of an ambulance in the parking lot. Only the 2nd time in hospital history.
Anyway, I am thrilled, if crushed that I left my phone in the living room last night and so missed my 2 am phone call.

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal .

We seem to be having a girl. Who has no name and apparently never will because Stephen and I can't agree on anything even when I burst into tears. So yeah, poor nameless girl.

She said there was some chance that it was a little too early and we just couldn't see it, but I saw actual labia so I am not holding my breath. It's pink time.

Holy Crap am I tired! I don't know that I really did that much, but being pregnant makes walking across the living room exhausting for me. I did unpack half a dozen boxes and get Aidan's books on her shelf, which was rough just from having to carry them up the stairs. Stairs and I are not getting along right now. I also did 2 loads of laundry and made enchiladas from scratch. Now I am trying to rest and wait for my Zantac to kick to see if I can even eat them. Heartburn sucks!
At least I can honestly say I was productive today. Now I just need to get some Mary Kay stuff done this week. Part of my desire to not have a job was to get this business going full time, not just when I feel like it and I need to kick it into gear now. Things need to be pretty well flowing before the baby gets here.

MY "baby" turns 5 next Saturday. *sigh* How does that happen? She got a cute new bikini for a birthday party. I'm wondering how old she will be before I put my foot down on that. switchamacallit I thought of you, when I saw her chioce.

My iTouch has come along. My "birthday present" has arrived at last. I've been fighting with itunes to sync the stupid thing for the last hour. I finally found all the music scattered to the 4 winds after we upgraded our computer a few months ago (and by I , I mean I whined until my husband found it for me)and got all that synced but for some reason it has decided that I am not authorized to play 25 of the song I purchased legally through iTunes on a different computer... and it won't tell me which ones! Interestingly, it has no problems whatever with the hundreds of illegal downloads from my college days.
Anyway, how is everyone?

For my switchamacallit but all are welcome.


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Ok... I made a list of girls names. http://www.babynames.com/namelist/9714490. Go and let me know what we think, please? E spent 3 hours helping me with this today.

A few have meaning beyond what they are: Ava ( a story that preciso_dizer wrote for me) and Harlan (my grandfather's name that I didn't care for as a boy's name) but most are just things i like for one reason or another at this moment.
Feel free to comment with thoughts, but no alternate spellings. I hate that.

HI! I need 2 things. 1- To know if my posts are working. I have gotten one comment back in the last several entries and I need to know if they aren't showing up or people are just quiet.
2- Baby names.

I have had my boy's name picked out for a long time but I am having trouble with girls names. And I know that my little pee test said it was a boy but the closer I get to finding out the more paranoid I get that the test was wrong since all the false results they discussed were false boy results. I have a long list of girls names that I like and nothing seems quite right. Or perhaps I'm over thinking it but please please PLEASE throw some girls names at me. Even if you think it is a weird name it might point me to another name and I just something besides the 100,000+ baby name book because now when I look at it it feels like my brain is melting.
So, please. Names. thanks.

It's been ages since I gave the update, so here goes.
After weeks and weeks of begging I FINALLY got laid off on Sunday. I will now be getting unemployment while I do Mary Kay parties on the side to get that all set up before the baby gets here. To sum up a long story I finally snapped and called my bosses the idiots they are more or less. I was nice within reason (just to make sure they couldn't contest my unemployment) but told them that they were full of crap and they treated us like dirt and if they thought the others all quit because of the excuses they offered up then the 2 of them were even more delusional than I thought. I also told them I was tired of being dragged along and that their schedules and financial issues were not my problem, as I never suggested that they start a business. Anyway, now I am free to enjoy my summer with my little girl and not have to worry too much about working while pregnant. I'm relieved, and at peace at last. The job came at a time when I needed it very much and for that I am grateful. That's about all I can say for it. IT brought me tremendous misery since then, and I feel about 100 lbs lighter since i got that text. (BTW_ who lays someone off in a text?? Classy right?)
Anyway, other than that things are ok. I am arriving in the heartburn phase of the pregnancy, but it's a nice change from the vomiting until I pop blood vessels phase so I will pop Zantac and smile. I have also been having major issues with my sciatic nerve, but it has already been better since I haven't been on my feet 9+ hours a day. It's still an issue but what can I do?
We are still trying to get the house in some kind of order. All the crazy work hours since we moved have been preventative, but that issue is taken care of so it should come together now. At least we have enough space for our stuff here.

Stephen took me to see Lucky Stiff on Saturday night. Has anyone here ever seen it? Probably not, since it is kind of obscure, but it is my favorite musical of all time and I hadn't sen it in 10 years. A very old friend of mine was playing the lead, which was both fun (since I got to talk to her) and sad because it my dream role and I know that I am a better singer than her. I ended up crying on the way home, which I felt awful about since Stephen was taking me to see something that was so important to me. I felt a little ridiculous too, but it's hard to see someone do something you wanted to badly when you know you could do it better. I also realize that sounds obnoxious, and I don't mean it that way. Anyway, it's all beside the point. And if you ever get the chance to see the show in any venue, I recommend it. It's hilarious and brilliant.