In Vain

Well it looks like my goal is in vain.... I have failed already. I blame Pinterest.... I spend way too much time just looking at stuff on there... CUTE, ADORABLE, CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE, AMAZING STUFF... but never the less I need to start sharing that STUFF.. at least the things Pinterst inspires me to do. I'm not going to blog every week for those I promised in my last blog.. That proved to be a little much for me.. (since I never did it), I have many ideas to post... They will come eventually.

Here is a sneak peek at a project I completed last week.......

there's a whole lot more than just this... this is just a taste of what i did.

Question for you experienced bloggers... how do i get cute fonts and headers and change all that stuff on here? The basic options are so boring.... help!!

Peeves

I find it sad when people start something and don't finish it. It's one of my pet peeves actually. So I find it very disturbing that I have violated my own pet peeve... How did I do this?  Well most of you probably have noticed that I started a blog and only posted like, what 3 posts? I started blogging because it was something new, it would be an insight into our new Schaefer family, and most of all because EVERYONE is DOING IT.  From the looks of it, blogging hasn't turned into a hobby of mine, I mean Seriously NO ONE can say that 3 posts counts for a blog.  So I've got a plan... more like a goal. ready for it?...

wait for it....

 DA Da Na DUH!!!! I will be posting at least something ONCE A WEEK. AHHHH A-MAZ-ING!!!  Blogging queens I know what you are thinking... "that's not a big deal" ohhh.. but to me, it is! 

When I first started I thought I'd be one of you frequent users but then started to think "What do I do I have to talk about?"  I mean I'm just a young married girl, working at a place I've been since I was 16, doing the same things I do all the time. No new plans, no babies on the way, no new jobs or life changing plans. 

My days seem to run together most the days, some may say I'm stuck in a rut. It's time to change that! I think most of time I generalize my life and don't give credit to the small and simple things. It's about time I started to do just that. I've realized by reading others blogs people don't want to hear just about the big things that happen in your life, its the day to day experiences and how we react to them that they wanna read about. It's the little joys, AH HA moments and daily opps's that create and define us that they are looking for.

Now how could I pass of the opportunity to share with those who I love and care about me? I CAN'T!  Just thought I'd let you all know.. there is more to come from the Schaefer Family of Two!!! 

A LOT more. 

I got him and I got him good

 April fools day has never been a holiday I really ever celebrated but this year I decided that would come to an end and this year change April Fools forever. I would play the April Fools of April Fools jokes on my poor innocent husband. This is how the story begins....

My plan started on Monday March 28th, well before the actual April fools joke would happen. Monday I was not feeling so good, having some unusual cramping. Both Kevin and I thought it was weird since I'm so regular with my cycle, and I wasn't supposed to start till after Friday. Tuesday rolled around and I was talking to my Mother-in law about somethings and she mentioned something about April Fools Day on Friday... Light bulb!... my mind started thinking... April Fools huh?... hmmm I could totally play a good joke on Kevin, if I started playing it up now I thought...

I'll walk you through my well devised plan ...

Day one: Wednesday night I mentioned to Kevin that I had been so sick the last two mornings, and that I had even been throwing up. I acted all worried about it and I told him I just feel so weird. I tried to get some sympathy from him, and tried tp plant the idea in his mind that we might possibly be pregnant. He suggested it's a flu bug and that he hasn't been feeling very good himself, "and plus" he says, "you always feel sick like you are going to throw up, it's probably nothing."  He was right I thought, I do always complain about being nauseous,  so I proceeded to remind him that was true but I had never thrown up, especially two mornings in a row. 

We left it at that and we carried on with our night...

Day two: I text Kevin Thursday morning while he's at work, complaining about being so sick and that I'm on the verge of throwing up again. He texts back how he wishes he could be there to hold my hair back and that he feels so bad for me... 

He seriously thinks I'm sick and is feeling bad for me. I just chuckle to myself and go on with my day.. off to work for me..

I come rolling in from work around 9:30 with a "sick" look on my face. I didn't really have to play that up very much, I was quite  tired and I was feeling shaky from not eating anything all day.

I dramatically laid on the living room floor and wined that I was so exhausted and felt like crap. Kev asked, " do you think you are pregnant?" ....SEED PLANTED... Obviously I knew I wasn't pregnant, but Kev didn't know that, so I continued to wine about being sick and talked to myself out loud about how I couldn't be.. I just couldn't. I did this so he thought I was freaked out about the idea of having a baby. I also wanted to make him think that what would happen tomorrow was "really" what it was.  We continue to talk for a few minutes about the possibility, and came to the conclusion that I was probably fine, and this was just another one of my several baby scares.

Day of the Fool:

Kevin text me and asked how I felt.... I text back, "I'm nauseous but haven't thrown up yet... key work YET" We text back and forth for a bit and decide we'd do lunch around noon since it is my day off and we love doing lunch whenever we can. 

This was my plan all along.. take him to lunch and break the news. 

First I had to make a few stops to make it as convincing as possible. I had contacted Kevin's cousin, Brittani, for a much needed prop, a few days earlier. Brittani is pregnant, and almost ready to have her baby, so I asked her to take a pregnancy test for me.. and of course Brittani was all for the idea.  I think her reply was "I'll Pee for you!" This very positive pregnancy test was going to erase all doubt, or skepticism that Kev might have. My plan was going so smoothly.

Next stop, the store for one more prop... or gift. I picked up a unisex outfit for a gift for Kev... I then text him and said "I have a surprise for you, I'll see you in a bit" and headed to his work..

I set the pregnancy test and outfit out for display and So when Kev got in the car he saw them. His response was, "I guess we are pregnant?", he was cool about it all, and made me feel so good about "being Pregnant".  I leaned over and kissed him and my eyes  filled with tears... who knew I was such a good actor?  it even surprised me but I acted like it was natural.I guess all this talk was really getting to me.

He couldn't stop smiling, but was kinda quite. I think he was absorbing the news. He then said, "what a day to take a pregnancy test Hun." I replied with, "why". He came back with, "it's April Fools Day". He was testing me to see if I'd cave. I didn't and all doubt was erase from his mind by a reassuring glance at the date on my car dash, a surprised look, a simple shrug and a, "oh my gosh, really? That's crazy". 

 He totally fell for the bate. I mean how insensitive would he be to deny the whole thing with all the hard evidence I had presented?

We went to lunch planning out what we would need to do from here. We talked about when we'd talk to our parents, and family, about when to go to the doctors and what I needed to be careful about. We also talked about the possibility of complications, and what we'd do. We pretty much talked about everything that might arise as a problem or change we'd need to make with a little one on the way. 

Now it was back to work for Kev and a very distracting 3 hours of work, that was for sure. 

To make this story a bit shorter, I'll skip all the planning of how I'd tell him and skip right to what happened when he got home.

Kev walked through the door and I was in the living room working on the computer. He peeked around the corner and with a big smile, he said "how's my baby, and how's my other baby?". I couldn't help but smile. He made a few small remarks about the news he received just a few hours earlier and I then gave him a card that read "Daddy" on the envelop. He opened it up and there on the front was a baby with a funny look on its face, inside read "OH NO SHE DIDN'T, HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY! Love, your not so pregnant wife". 

His response was everything I hoped for... 

"That was a good one Hun, I really thought we had a little one on the way!  Wow you got me good!"  

We laughed about it for hours after.. literally hours. It was so much fun to plan and carry out, I made this joke so convincing I ended up going to the store for a pregnancy test of my own, I had almost convinced myself I was pregnant, and had to reassure myself it was just a joke on Kevin. I definitely put the spirit of April Fools into our day and I'm sure it'll be a Holiday we always celebrate or at least remember.















 

Sunday Adventures- graphic content

I woke up to a text message from my sister early early Sunday morning. She needed my help with her computer... I rounded up the things she needed and headed down my stairs and through the door that connected my place to hers. After I did what I could to help her I headed back to catch up on my ZZZZ's.  About 45 minutes pass, and at this point I'm dreaming quiet nicely, I wake up to Kevin saying your sister needs you.. She's cut her hand open. I scurry run down stairs again to see she is standing in my living room bleeding all over... luckily no blood got on the carpet. 

She came over for some bandages... I took one look at the cut and said get your stuff we need to take your to insta care. She then discourages the idea and the idea that I'll be taking her. How does she think she'll drive a manual with a hand gushing blood? 

This is a picture of her hand after it stopped bleeding.

 

 I ended up talking her into going and that I would take her. 

Can I just say that Insta Care's most busy day of the week is Sunday so we ended up spending about two hours there. 

It took four pokes of numming needles and six stitches to get it all sealed up.. ohh and one strawberry kiwi juice box... She almost passed out on several occasions. 

I must say it wasn't the Sunday morning I was expecting, but I can say it was entertaining.. I love my sister and her dramatic accident.

I fear we'll freeze

I think most of us can agree that we've had a pretty warm fall this year, but with winter setting in I fear that Kev and I might freeze to death in our apartment. We moved into our new place in the middle of the summer, so not till the last few weeks did we realize that the heat doesn't work. We voiced our need for heat with our landlord (my brother) but for some reason he thinks it's not a pressing matter.... They say the squeaky wheel gets the oil, but we say we've squeaked and squeaked.. and squeaked and all we're getting is frost bitten...

I can't say he hasn't done anything but pretty close. The only "oil" we've gotten is a small space heater that has the capacity heat one room and takes at least an hour to do so. This heater is not a solution to our problem, that's for sure. 

Shouldn't the plate in the cupboard be warmer than the water bottle just taken from the fridge? - fridge is working...  We're pretty sure that isn't an unreasonable request, are we wrong?  We don't know when the heat will get fixed, and with the progress we've seen, it probably won't happen for a while... all we know is we're just about done with layered sweatshirts, blankets, socks, and slippers in hopes we won't get hypothermia.

Virgin Blogger

I've decided that I'm done being a Virgin... at blogging that it is.... Blogging never seemed like something I would find myself doing. I've always wanted to write all my experiences in a journal but I've never been able to do it more than a few months, so hopefully this will help me to do it more often. I figured what better time to start then just being married and hopefully starting a family soon. 

Please if anyone has any suggestions on what to blog about or what I should post let me know... I'm not sure what I'm doing with this quite yet..