Guilt, justice and midwives......

So I feel a little bad but after being with my OB Dr.'s office for over 6 years I think I am going to switch, that's right I'm doing a bad thing, I'm switching to a Midwife practice. I have my first MW appointment on the March 9th and depending on how it goes, it's kind of a little interview for me, I will switch. Don't get me wrong, I love my Dr. and the whole office but I don't like the protocol they have have for pregnant patients. I know it's her job to do what she does but i am looking for a more "free-spirited" if you will, approach to the whole birthing process. I wanted to switch when I was pregnant with Kaden, my second but I guess I was too chicken or something so I didn't. So, when it was my due date, she put a strict "Im only letting you go 1 week and then you're getting induced!" rule on me, which sounds fine to some people but to me, I really wanted to let my body do what it was suppose to do. Then getting to the hospital, you have to have all this unnecessary-for-the-moment stuff, which I just don't see any point in having, like having a hep-lock as soon as you get settled in, not necessary. Continuous fetal monitoring, not necessary. Just stuff like that. There is a time and a place for everything and I am not downtrodding modern-medicine, it's just it's not for me, although I will be advocating it in about 4 years when I get my RN degree, but that is also why after I get that I am becoming a certified midwife, so I can help other people like myself, who feel that medical intervention isnt always necessary.

I love mornings, sometimes, because I get to be creative and type out my blogs while my kids occupy themselves because they are in good moods because they just slept all night. I can sit and drink my tea and type my blogs or whatever while my kids play nicely with eachother and their toys, it's fun to watch them use their imaginations.

Avon anyone? And other interesting tidbits, I think.....

So, yesterday, I decided to take the plunge and become an Avon consultant. Why Avon you ask? Well, I have always really liked their makeup and other assorted products, it was only ten dollars to start up and I already had a slew of people I knew would buy from me. So after a very information packed meeting with the district manager, so much info I thought my head was going to explode, I had a huge tote bag full of stuff and a half sure grin on my face with the thought "If I just go to the meeting tonight, I will remember everything she told me." Well, that's partially true. I went to the meetingSo last night and there was so much to learn, everyone kept saying once you place your first order, you will totally get it. Ok. That sounds good. So, that is what I am going to do today, start filling out my first order form online. Luckily, I went over to my mom's last night to drop off some books for her to take with her to work and she ended up ordering a couple things. Cool!

Last night, I made taco soup and it was sooooo good! This pregnancy has me craving some really weird stuff-I want taco soup all the time, green olives and olive juice, sour patch kids, but just the sour powdery stuff that is on them, one I get to the sweet gummy part I just want to spit them out, hot sauce on EVERYTHING! Anyway, I really don't like sweets at all right now, and salty is my preference.

What to say?

Ok, this is my first entry in our family blog, what to say, what to talk about first? Well, obviously I'm pregnant, so that could be a topic, but we are also unemployed and "homeless", that could be another topic too. There are so many things that I could talk about right now. Well, I guess I will just touch on a little bit of everything. So, this pregnancy, which I still don't know how many weeks I am or my due date, has come at a very intersting time, good thing we have 8 months to figure out what we are doing before he/she gets here. I go back in to my Dr.'s office to have another ultrasound done on March 4th, so then we will be knowing a bit more. I woke up this morning feeling nice and nauseous, thinking to myself "I'm not far enough along to be getting sick yet!" But here I am, still feeling kind of blah, so I guess, here we go with this part, I thought I had more time.

The job thing is just taking longer than we expected, Joe has been applying to like 3 jobs a day and perfecting his resume, he is way too skilled for someone to not pick him up for a good job. So we are just taking it one day at a time for all this stuff and we pray all the time for good fortune to come our way. I really feel like we are hot on the trail to something good finally, it's close, I can feel it.

The kids are being pretty resilient with the situation, they have melt downs every now and again, but overall are handling it very well. We are trying to do as much as we can with them, finances allowing, to keep their little minds off of it.

Ok, so I guess I just blogged my first blog, I will be coming back for more, it feels good to type this stuff out!