Up and Down Christmas break and Things are Feeling Bumpy!

What a rough and tumble couple of days! As holidays usually are in one way or another- but being pregnant put another spin on this year's Christmas celebration.

Thursday, December 23

Took the day off to prepare for Christmas. Now that Andrew's older and I'm pregnant, I wanted to take some time off to prepare for his Christmas in a less rushed fashion. All last minute things completed, prepare for whatever food we bring for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and possibly have time for a haircut and mani/pedi?? :D Awesome idea.

I sleep in until a whopping 8am. Get Andrew ready and take him to daycare. Then head to Kaiser to pick up some paperwork needed for hubby's FMLA papers which we called in the day before. They said it would be ready and waiting at the front desk, so I went directly to the desk they told me. Not there. Waited 15 min and the receptionist told me that the NP is coming soon and they will ask her. 30 more minutes pass and no one has told me anything about why I'm waiting and who I'm waiting for...Boo. Most irritating is that there was no one there so I felt like I was twiddling my thumbs. Finally they brought out the documentation- a very short note with the information we needed…so we thought.

Left Kaiser and called the hubby. He said the paperwork he received was at home and to double check for any other info we might need. Turns out there’s a whole other form to fill out. I wasn’t going to waste my time waiting for more papers because I had other important things to do- hello, long overdue haircut! I called around asking how to get these forms filled out and they tell me there’s a 11/2 week wait time with NO options to expedite. Can I pay something to make it go faster? Walk it over to the department? Make an appt with the doctor to fill it out in person?? For paperwork due in over a week, in the midst of the holidays, with the threat of termination (yea- don’t get me started on that one) if we don’t complete the paperwork- um I was freaking out. Being pregnant, this means I was bawling my eyes out.

So, I stopped freaking out long enough to get my butt in the car and drive. I drove to San Jose to have lunch with the hubby which was already planned. I knew it would cheer me up to see him and do something I can never do- take him to lunch on a weekday! After I got to his work and vented to him on the way to lunch, I began to feel better. Then a call from Kaiser came, shooting down another option to get this paperwork done brought me to tears AGAIN. Strike 2 for Kaiser. Boooo.

Lunch was great however, and I headed to the mall to finally pick up my necklace that needed adjustment. Finally because it took me a year to actually have the chain lengthened and another 3 weeks after they called to actually pick it up. But I have it now and it’s beautiful!! I got to shop for mom’s Christmas gift and that was pretty relaxing. And I got call from hubby that they were released early! Yay! So what do we do? Decide to go to Kaiser and settle this ish once and for all. Long story short, he got it done- in the nicest way ever. But boy once it was done, did he call the lady that helped us all kinda names raging from fatty witch to stupid robot. Haha- again not the smoothest experience, but we got it done. Strike 3 for Kaiser on the way they handled it in person (little apologies, more run around)- but they WILL NOT get the best of the Guerreros muhahaha.

After the triumphant Kaiser run, we were off to buy a Secret Santa gift for Andrew’s daycare holiday party. Longer than expected! You try finding a good toy for $10 these days. But once we got to the party all the kids were so excited! Running around everywhere like crazy- probably from all the sugary treats floating around. But that right there is what Christmas was all about. The kids were enjoying their friends and the looks of excitement when they opened their presents. Sometimes the excitement was in the wrapping paper and not the toy but- it was the best sight to see!

And that wasn't even Christmas Eve...

Falling

I fell twice yesterday. Ugh. I don't remember the last time I fell- like all the way to the ground. The first time was on my way to work. My foot stepped and kinda turned my heel and caused me to slip and lose my footing. I let myself fall all the way down. Call this motherly instinct but I didn't wanna try to prevent my fall because I was carrying heavy things, plus I didn't wanna fall on my stomach. Kinda like the idea in snowboarding to fall on your butt- not that I've been boarding before. But to be honest, I kinda blanked on exactly how I fell. I know my ankle turned, it hurt after, and so did my knees. I think I fell on my knees then got up on my knees. And I was wearing a skirt ugh. I didn't even tell anyone but the hubby maybe cuz I was embarrassed? Then the whole day I worried if that kinda fall could hurt the baby...let's hope not. But no weird pains or feelings in the baby area- just kinda caution cuz I've never fallen like that before.

Then when I got home, I was waiting for my two guys to get home to decide what we were doing for dinner. As I was cleaning up and trying to cook some meat we had defrosted (wasn't sure if that meat was going to be lunch for tomorrow or dinner, I fell again. Mind you our kitchen is pretty cluttered cuz we've been doing some rearranging. AND I tripped on Andrew's tiny little stool that he had in there cuz he wanted to see what I was doing at the kitchen sink one day. I just wasn't paying attention? Maybe my growing belly has made me lose some perception as well as peripheral vision? Or maybe I was just tired...either way now I'm paranoid.

So Andrew is now sick and was waking up coughing and crying every hour last night. This meant I got no more than 1 hour of continuous sleep. It freaked me out cuz I really wasn't trying to go to work half asleep the day after I fell. So I stayed home, tooke care of him, got some rest, and am trying to simplify my daily life. I think I've just been a step ahead of myself and my body isn't keeping up these days....SIGH

So tomorrow is a new day. I will take a sore ankle, sore lower back, and bruised knees as a reminder to be careful. And I will wear tennis shoes everywhere I go if I can help it :). Gotta do everything I can to keep this baby safe!