The Facebook Craze

I consider myself to be pretty tech savvy. Do I know more than everyone..no. Do I know less than everyone...no. So, two years ago when I gave in and made a profile on MySpace (which was strictly to spy on my younger siblings) I was surprised to find out that I liked it. I got in contact with a LOT of old friends that I hadn't talked to since high school and even some that I had not talked to since elementary school. It was nice to kinda keep up on other peoples lives and to see how they were doing and avoid that awkward moment at the grocery store. So, at the beginning of November I was out talking to my neighbor (who I also went to high school with) and she was asking about someones status change on Facebook. I told her that I had no idea, I didn't get on Facebook, so I really wasn't sure how any of it worked. She said, "Oh..you have to get on Facebook it's so much better than MySpace!"

So, I did it..I gave in and joined Facebook. And, within the first day of having it I had like 70 friends and she was right. I did think it was WAY better than MySpace. And, since I'm home on maternity leave I have the option to check my Facebook a million times a day, so it's became my new little obsession. I do the same thing that I'm sure many Facebook users do. They really pay attention to that infamous "status change".

"Oh my gosh, Suzie and so and so are having a baby." or "Oh that stinks, Jason lost his job." blah blah blah. But, I didn't know how much I had really started paying attention to the "status change" until Wednesday night when I'm checking my Facebook and I see this:

Rachael ***** and Nathan ***** have ended their relationship

Rachael is my 19 year old sister and Nathan (Nate) is her boyfriend of over a year and a half. We love him...he is the nicest guy she has ever dated (not that there is a lot considering she is still a teenager technically.) But, we love him..he is the best. He is nice, super sweet to her, deals with her crazy family (I'm not included in that of course) and loves Parker. And, Parker loves him. Actually he loves him so much that he told us the other day that he loves Nate more than me, Scott and grandma. We wouldn't have thought much of it until he said that he loves Nate more than his grandma....that is huge. Parker doesn't love anyone more than grandma, but apparently Nate has broken the mold and Parker has a whole new love for his Uncle Nate that none of us will ever top!

So, I panic over this whole "Rachael and Nate have ended their relationship" status change. It's like 11:45pm mind you, Scott is getting ready to head up to bed and that was my next stop as well..oh..but not now. I yell at Scott "Hand me the phone" He looks at me like I'm nuts because I'm in a full on panic. "Why?" he asks trowing me the phone. "Rachael's Facebook status says that her and Nate have ended their relationship....what the HELL is going on?!?!?" Now, Scott is so not on the whole MySpace/Facebook craze. One, he is a teacher and he wants his students to have no possible way of finding out anything more about him, especially over the internet. He makes fun of me for being on either one of these websites telling me that it's the stupidest thing he has ever seen! I tell him if he just got on there he would be hooked!

So, I grab the phone and call my mom's house. They are like me there..total night-owls. They don't go to bed until super late either so I never feel bad about calling them late at night because I know that they are awake. I get my sister Andrea. Here is how the conversation goes:

Me: Andrea..it's me. Where is Rachael??

Andrea: Oh my God, you totally seen her Facebook status change didn't you?!?

Me: YES!!! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?

Andrea: I have no idea. She has been at work so I have no talked to her, but I know that Nate has been talking about her being the one that he could see himself marrying and she just totally flipped out.

Me: What? Of course he seen himself marrying her....they are totally meant to be together!"

Andrea:: Call her cell phone. I would ask her what is wrong, but she hates me so she won't talk to me about it.

Right then Rachael comes in the door, see's Andrea on the phone and the first words out of her mouth are "Thats Nicki isn't it?" (my family calls me Nicki..my nickname my entire life).

Rachael calls me a couple of minutes later and tells me that they are on a "break" Like their names are Rachel Green and Ross Gellar or something. I ask her why, everything seems to be going so good, they are so cute together and they were just over here Saturday night to babysit the boys (and Nate brought Parker Christmas movies to watch..which just adds another reason to the list of why I love him and why Parker loves him so much). And, she tells me that he doesn't like her being friends with boys and that they just need a break for him to come to his senses about being so silly about some things and she doesn't think that it will last very long at all. She loves him very much but she doesn't want to keep going until it get's too out of hand and they are even further into their relationship and she never voiced her concerns with how he acts when she is out with her guy friends. Now, to be fair on both sides, Rachael is one of those girls who happens to get along with guys a lot better than she gets along with girls and these guy friends are friends that she had pre-Nate. But, to take Nate's side, I can see where this makes him a little uncomfortable.

Anyways...moving on. I just hope that they can work things out because honestly...I see them getting married. I know that it is strange to think of them getting married when they are only 19 and 20 years old, but it's one of those things where you just know. You know he is the one for her and she is the one for him. So, it's sad to see them taking a Ross and Rachel break. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they get back together soon and that it only lasts a couple of days.

So, the funniest part of this whole deal is that she put this on Facebook almost immediately after they decided on taking the break. He told her that he would prefer that she didn't put it on Facebook because he thought that it was nobody's business. And, she tells him yes. It would be a good thing for people to know.

I find this hysterical that now when people want you to know about their life that they put it on Facebook for the whole world to see. It's like anything important they want you to know goes on there...screw calling your friends and family..just put it on Facebook!

So, here is to keeping our fingers crossed that Rachael and Nate have the same wonderful , reunion that Ross and Rachel did...but that it doesn't take years for it to happen! Oh and for Parker's sake. I mean, the kid loves him more than he loves his Grandma! Now that my friends, is love.

I forgot to mention....

Beckett had his 2 month appointment yesterday and he is growing so big! He now weighs 12lbs 11oz and is 23 inches. He's getting so big. He got his shots yesterday and his Rotovirus vaccine (wish Parker would have had to get that because let me tell you...it's not something you want to watch your poor baby...and husband go through). I hate the shots, but at least this time I didn't almost punch the nurse for hurting my baby like I did with Parker!

Time fly's...when your having fun.

Just a little warning to begin this post.....there might be a lot of mistakes in this blog. We just got a new laptop..a little mini-laptop. We needed another computer in the house since it's like Scott and I (he is a total Internet whore) are fighting over the laptop. And, since he is in school and I'm in school we thought that it would be a good investment to purchase another computer. He decided he wanted this little mini-laptop. It's pretty neat, I call it cute. It's the size of a portable DVD player, which is nice for when you have to take it somewhere, but getting used to the tiny little keyboard is something that takes a lot of getting used to. So, if there is some mistakes...I apologize in advance. The Internet whore himself has the regular laptop right now looking up more pointless crap!

So, the other day I looked at the calendar (Scott's a Internet whore...I'm a calendar/planner whore) and realized that I only have a short couple of weeks left of maternity leave and then I will be heading back to work. I hate it. It literally makes me sick to my stomach to think that this time next month I'm going to be back in my office, my babies with my mother-in-law and back to not getting home until 5:30 and leaving the house at 6 in the morning. I'm dreading it. And, I remember dreading it with Parker as well, but it became nice to fall into a routine. But, it sucked that I had to be away from my baby. And, now, I have to be away from two babies. And, this time, one of them knows that I'm leaving him. Yesterday, Parker asked me if we were going to grandma's and I told him no, but in a couple of weeks he would be going there everyday to play with Grandma and Hunter. He got excited until I told him that he was going there because I had to go back to work. His reaction was "No!!! Your gonna leave me?!?!?" So, of course, I immediately get teary eyed and he says, "Please don't leave me." Now, if your a parent then you know how awful it is to see your child watching you leave, whether it be for an hour or ten..it's one of the most heart wrenching things that I've ever had to go through. And, now, I have a little man who tells me he doesn't want me to leave him. It's going to be such and adjustment. And adjustment that I'm not looking forward to at all.
AND..to make matters worse, one month from today Parker is going to be THREE YEARS OLD! THREE!!!!!!!! I cannot believe that it has been three years since he was born, it feels like it was just yesterday. I hate that he has grown up so fast and he went from this baby to this grown up little boy in such a quick amount of time. I hate it, Scott loves it. Scott has been waiting for the day when he can take him up to the baseball field with him for practice and now he's there and Scott is counting down the days until baseball practice starts. Three..Parker is going to be three. I hate it. I hate it that time is going so fast.

I hate that my parents were right. You know when they say, "Don't wish your time away...it goes too fast, enjoy the moment that you are in." I hate it that they were right. I feel like I was just in high school yesterday. I cannot believe that this time 10 years ago I was a freshman in college with not a care in the world. I was just going to school and going to Nashville to see Scott on the weekends. I lived for those weekends. Going to Western was only an option because I wanted to be close to him. I had planned on going to UK until Scott decided that he was going to go to Aquinas to play baseball (which was better than his other alternative of going to Florida to play baseball..that would have been yuck!). And, I'm so glad that I did go there because I loved Western and had some really good times there. Times that I feel like just happened last weekend. And, I've met some awesome people along the way. Mostly through Scott because I spent a lot of my extra time with him, but I've made some pretty good friends through him. It sucked to always be away from each other, but the people I got to meet and the great times that we both had are priceless. I wouldn't give that away for anything.

i feel like I'm getting old. In just a short three months I'm going to be 29 years old. I can remember laying in bed the morning of my first day of school in the 4th grade thinking that there was no way that I was already in the 4th grade, my life was going to fast (and yes, I did think that as a 9 year old!) And, now I'm almost 30. I cannot imagine what my parents are thinking. All I know is that I'm thinking that my life just seems to be flying right past me. One minute I was a teenager and the next I'm a mom of two beautiful boys and married to my high school sweetheart. I always wondered where I was going to be five, ten years after high school and here we are. The next thing I know, Parker is going to be 10 and Beckett will be 7. And, I won't be able to snuggle them in my arms anymore and kiss them 500 times a day. That makes me sad. And, one day, they really won't care if I'm there or not and they won't need me to kiss their boo-boo's and hug them when they get hurt. They will have girlfriends (although tonight I did make Parker promise that I would be his girlfriend until he was at least 30.) and they will be too busy with their friends and sports and going out. And, I will be lucky to get my entire family to sit down at the dinner table at the same time for a meal. I will be lucky to have them home everyday and every night. They will have more important things to do than sit and snuggle on the couch with mom. Mom won't be so important anymore.

Sorry to be so depressing but there are things that bother me about time going too fast. I couldn't wait to get out of high school and get off to college. I went off to college and then wished my weeks away for my weekends. I couldn't wait to get out of school and get a job and start making some money. I couldn't wait to move out of my parents house and get a place with Scott and get married. Now we are married (4 years ) and have children, a house, two cars and a dog. We're playing Santa, kissing boo-boo's, watching Caillou. We're not staying out until 4 in the morning anymore and sleeping our weekends away. We're actual grown-ups...which is so cool in so many ways, yet so depressing in many ways as well.

My three younger siblings are 19, 17 and 16. They are sooo me when it comes to wishing their time away and I keep telling them not to do it because it goes to fast to begin with. They will look back and WISH they could get one more day in high school, one more day in college and one more day without a mortgage payment. They will realize that our parents were really NOT THAT BAD and that they really were making our lives miserable out of love and that there really was a point to it other than making us pissed off for the time being. They will realize that those years and those friends are literally some of the best times and some of the best friends that they will ever have. And, time goes to fast to wish it away. Because before they know it, they will finally be a grown up and wishing they were a kid again!

I love Christmas time!

I think I'm obsessed with Christmas. And, I mean, totally obsessed with Christmas. I'm DVRing EVERY Christmas movie that is on the 600 channels we have and I intend to watch every single one of them.....even the crappy ones. Because, when it's Christmas themed...the movie is never crappy! My favorite Christmas movies

1. Home Alone - Actually this is one of my favorite movies of ALL time. Sounds silly, but I love this movie and could watch it a million times in a row and still not be sick of it!


2. Elf - I love Will Farrell and this movie is a crack up!


3. Polar Express - Kinda makes you want to believe in Santa again


4. The Grinch - the original...although I'm not sure you would consider this to be a movie.


5. Just Friends - with Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart....it's not about Christmas, but it takes place during Christmas time and it's one of my favorites!

My house is decorated with all of our Christmas stuff (which I have way more stuff to get out, but I didn't want to over-do it in my house....plus, with little hands that HAVE to touch everything that they see, I'm keeping most of it put away) Here are some pics.

Our tree -- I love it!

Our stockings This is our Bengals wreath...not sure if I should be proud of it or not !!!!!!!!

Our house all lit up.....I would keep it like this all year long if we wouldn't look like total rednecks!

So,. there are just a few pics, I'm sure we will have a bunch more on here throughout the month. This is my favorite time of year, I wish it never ended!

Although...I do not have any Christmas shopping done so far this year. Well, I've bought a few things for Beckett, but, I've got nothing for anyone else and I really need to get on the ball. Scott and I like to go shopping together for Parker so we have to wait for a time when someone can come over and babysit the boys so we can both go out. We like to make an evening out of it...dinner, shopping, etc. Scott got something for Beckett and it came the other day. It is the cutest thing ever.

It is a rocker that is a baseball glove for a seat and then the baseball in the front. It sings "Take me out to the ballgame" It's so cute and Scott is so proud of himself for finding it!

Parker is not going to be hard to buy for and I cannot wait for this year with him. This is the first year where he kinda "gets" it and he asks every night if it's Christmas yet and if Santa is coming. Plus, this will be the first year that we do not have to open his gifts for him! This year he will do it himself. We are going to try to cut back though on the amount of stuff he get's though. He just get's so much for Christmas and then his birthday is just 2 weeks after, so we have way too many toys than we know and than what he knows what to do with!

Tonight we are going to buy another computer. Scott and I are both in school right now, and although we have a computer downstairs, we both like to have the laptop. And, I wanted one that I can bring back and forth to work since I'm going to have to be working on a lot of my school stuff during my lunch breaks when I get back to work. So, we are buying a mini-laptop, like our pediatricians office has. I'm so excited to go get it tonight. And, there will be no more fighting over the computer. Finally!!!

Well, off to get some laundry done. Only a couple more weeks until I go back to work :( I so don't even want to think about it!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I know it's the Tuesday after, but I never got the chance to get on here and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! So...Happy Thanksgiving. I have a LOT to be thanksful for this year. So, here is what I'm thankful for:

• My husband who I cannot live without. He is my rock, and he makes me laugh and realize that you just cannot take things to seriously. I'm so very proud of him and everything that he has accomplished in his life. He has the most drive out of anyone I know and he doesn't let anything get in his way. He is such a hard worker and he would do anything for me and the boys. It's hard to believe that we started dating this time 11 years ago!!!! I still see so much of that 17 year old boy that I started dating our senior year of high school....but I'm so in love with the man that he has become.



• My Parker....my first baby boy, the love of my life. He is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. I love to watch him learning new things, and defenitley love that I can hold a conversation with him now! Sometimes he drives me to the point of insanity, but then all he has to do is come over and give me a hug and I forget all about it!



• Baby Beckett...our newest addition. He is the cutest, and by far the best baby ever. We are so blessed to have this little man in our lives. I cannot wait to see the boy/man he becomes....(and I also cannot wait until he starts sleeping through the night!)



• My family. Scott and I are blessed to have wonderful parents. They would do anything for us and we truly appreciate everything that they do for us. I love my sisters and my brothers. I love my sister in laws ~ we are just very very blessed.



• Our friends - we have the best group of friends EVER! I wish that every person in this world had as great a group of friends as we have because we are very blessed to have the group we have.



• My doggy Chompers. He drives me insane most of the time, but he is my first baby....and I couldn't imagine what it would be like not having to fight over space and covers in the bed at night.



• My house....I love it. It's small and just cozy and I love it. We are so lucky to have a home over our heads!



• My job---I'm very lucky to have made it through the layoff's they did a couple weeks before Beckett was born. I was so sad to see people go, but at the same time, so happy that I kept my job.



• Im most thankful to have God in my life. I don't think that any of the above things would have happened or be possible without him and without believing in him. He has blessed me in so many ways, I just pray that he continues to bless me throughout the years to come!

Well, thats it right there. Maybe not EVERYTHING that I'm thankful for in life, but, the major ones anyways.!

We had a pretty good Thanksgiving (except for my nice little "episode" on Thanksgiving night. We went to my grandma's first (although we didn't start out as early as we usually do because Scott wasn't feeling too well) and then we headed over to his parents house and we played games all night long. It was a good one! I didn't do any Black Friday shopping like I LOVE to do, but I really just didn't feel up to it this year and there wasn't anything that I was really looking for.

The Gravy Guzzle was a success...or so I think so. Getting ready for it the entire day was a little stressful, but it went off without a hitch!

Scott was very proud of his turkey, as he should have been. He had never made one before, but this one was awesome! He is such a good cook, he is very gifted in that respect! I would not have had the sightest idea of what to do!






So, here are some pics from the night. Everyone had a good time. This was our 5th year doing this Thanksgiving dinner/party and I hope that we do it forever. I know that most groups of friends don't stay that way forever, but, I REALLY hope that all of us do! We are just as good of friends now than we were when we were 16 years old!

Parker's new girlfriend, Ella. Ella is my best friend Julia's neice and they were in from Texas! She is too cute and I think Parker has fell in love!

All and all, the evening was great. The food was awesome and just being with friends is enough for me! It was a VERY exausting day, but its always worth it! This Thanksgiving was a good one and I hate to see that it has already come and gone. I feel like this entire year has just flown by in the blink of an eye and it kinda makes me sad! I hate that time goes so quick. I feel like I was in high school just yesterday and it's already been 10 years! I just pray that God gives us just as many blessings for all of the years to come.

So, Friday we got the boys Christmas pictures taken. The place we like to go books up VERY quick for the Christmas holiday and the only time they had open was Friday night. So, we went. It was a total madhouse. They were running 2 hours behind and the place was jam packed! But, luckily, Parker was an angel and was really good as we waited and they sped through the pics (which they don't normally do, they usually take like 200 pictures and this time they only took 59), but it made it easier on them, easier on us in terms of picking out the pictures and easier on the boys who were already antsy to begin with! Here are some of my favorites!

Well, that was our Thanksgiving! It went very well and now we are on the countdown to Christmas! We've got our outside lights up, the tree and all of the Christmas decorations up and right now it's snowing outside, so it's a perfect little winter wonderland! I love Christmas time, it's my favorite time of year! I wish December was 60 days instead of 31!

So, happy late Thanksgiving everyone!

Just a follow-up

So, I looked up some info on the BC pills and their side effects. I found this blog with people who had been taking it, and everything I went through with this pill had happened to a LOT of other women! Everything, and it explains so much of what I went through tonight. Now, I know to read up the next time anyone prescribes me something! I cannot believe I didn't do it before I took it because then I wouldn't have taken it to begin with!

Scary night

It's 3:30 in the morning. I'm wide away, although I'm completely exhausted. I couldn't wait to get home tonight and go to sleep because it's honestly been a really long week. And, even though we had a pretty low-key Thanksgiving day, which is something that we normally do not have, it just seemed like it was SO long and took a lot of energy!

So, tonight we came home, Parker was already asleep by the time we got out of Scott's parent's street. We got him to bed, I fed Beckett and while I was feeding him I started feeling really bad. Which, over the past two weeks is nothing unusual for me. I have been feeling not so well over the past couple of weeks and have not had any clue why. I just kinda figured that my stomach had been torn up for any given reason, sometimes that happens to people. And, with Parker getting sick last week I kinda assumed that it's probably what I've been dealing with. Monday and Tuesday I felt horrible all day and then yesterday I started feeling better. Then last night after our party I started feeling bad again, but went to bed and woke up and felt fine. All throughout the day I've felt awful off and on, which on Thanksgiving, the biggest "eat all you can" day of the year (which is why it is my 2nd favorite holiday of the year!) it's not good to have no appetite. But, like it has been for the past two weeks, it's been off and on, so I would feel bad and then feel good and then feel bad again. We went to bed and I was feeling REALLY bad, like I was going to get sick at any moment and I was almost asleep when I had this really weird wave of something come over me that made me wake up instantly. I don't even really know how to explain it, but it was the strangest feeling I've ever had. So, I kinda sat up and let it pass and then tried to lay back down again. A couple of minutes later it happened again and I felt like I was going to get sick so I went into the bathroom. It felt worse than it did the first time and I felt really light-headed and dizzy and it REALLY scared me. I'm one of those people who think the worst about everything, so instantly my mind goes to, "OMG, something is wrong with me, I'm going to die" I woke Scott up because I thought, if I pass out in the bathroom I don't want him to not know and for me to be laying on the bathroom floor passed out. I told him that I felt really weird and that it was scaring me because I felt so bad and so "odd". Odd is really the only way that I can explain it. It's just a wave of weirdness that rushed over me. I told Scott that I wanted him to come in the bathroom and sit with me because I was really scared and I thought that I was going to get sick.

And, this brings me to why I think I'm sick. I don't take birth control pills, well, I have before in the past, but I'm one of those people who is an awful medicine taker. I don't take Tylenol unless my headache is close to migraine status, when I have a cold I don't take medicine to make it better unless I feel like I'm not able to function. I'm one of those people who just thinks that everything will run it's course and that I'm not going to take medicine to make it runs it's course faster than it is supposed to because it's probably not natural. AND, with birth control, I never remember to take it. I always screw it up and it's makes more sense for me not to take it and take other "precautions". So, when I went in for my 6 week post pardum check-up, Dr. Lum wanted to put me on birth control until Scott get's "snipped". So, I thought that I would give it a go.

Last night when I was feeling so bad it occurred to me that I've been feeling like this every since I started taking my birth control pills. So, I got out the little pamphlet that comes with it explaining all of the side effects, what to do when you miss a pill and all that jazz. Well, some of the side effects are, nausea, vomiting, nervousness, dizziness, depression, and many other things. I thought, well, obviously I'm getting the whole nausea part, that has to be why I've felt so bad for the past two weeks. While I was thinking I was going to be sick Scott wanted to know where i had read this info about the birth control and I told him so here I'm, head in the toilet and here is Scott sitting on the bathtub reading about my birth control...what a pair!

So, I started to feel better, came back to bed and then started feeling that "weirdness" again. So, Scott wanted me to call Dr. Lum, my doc, the best doc in the world, so I called him and asked him if it could be the pills. He told me YES! To stop taking them and see if I started feeling better and that estrogen is known to make you sick (then why give the shit out!) and the feelings I was having was probably along the lines of an anxiety attack, which is part of the estrogen and all of the changes the pill is doing to my hormones and OBVIOUSLY this is not the fit for me. Okay, I've had an anxiety attack before, while I was pregnant with Beckett, on the way to work on I-75, which is already a death trap to begin with, and it was literally one of the scariest things that I've ever gone through. It apparently was a "pregnancy induced" anxiety attack (who knew you could have those!) and this was kinda like the feeling that I was having tonight.

I don't know why I decided to get on here and write about this, but I think it has made me feel better (plus I got myself sooo worked up before I cannot even imagine going to bed yet) but I did. I just know tonight was a scary night and I think I scared the crap out of Scott (who is now sawing logs next to me). Not how I really wanted to end my Thanksgiving night. Hopefully this crap will get out of my system soon and I start to feel better and this doesn't happen again. I was VERY scared......to the point where I went back into Parkers room, climbed in his bed, gave him another kiss and a squeeze and the same to Beckett and Scott.....just in case, because we all know that tomorrow is never a guarantee. Reminding me, on one of the most important days of all, what it is I'm truely thankful for. It was THAT kind of scary. I know that I never want to feel that again.

So, now my dramatic story is done.....it's almost 4 in the morning. I wasn't going to go shopping tomorrow morning because tonight I decided I was just too tired and there was nothing I really wanted to go out and get, but now that I'm up I think I might just go out and check some sales out..........maybe!

Happy Thanksgiving all.....hope to see you again soon.