So this is my last weekend before I start working on my clinical hours to finish up my master's degree in counseling. While I am truly excited, I'm also a little scared and frustrated. I really don't know what I'm getting into and my site supervisor seems to be one of those people who is always crazy busy and is hard to nail down. I'm frustrated because the site that I'll be working at doesn't necessarily have "set" hours and Zech is one of those people who needs "organization" and by organization, I mean a regular schedule.
Today we helped an old family friend celebrate her graduation from high school!!! Congrats Jordan!! It was a great party! White's Chicken for dinner, with some awesome baked beans and cheesy potatoes for sides! They even had a huge slip-and-slide for the kids... definitely an idea I plan to pocket and use for a birthday party sometime!!! They used a huge piece of plastic and a sprinkler and then built a "pond" - puddle - at the end of the of the plastic using bales of hay underneath the plastic. Again, Congrats Jordan! May this only be the beginning of good things for you!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Catching Up - The Last 9 months
So, it's been awhile since I've posted - things have been crazy around here... here is a re-cap of the last nine months.
November 2009 - we traveled to Byron, MN to buy a wood furnace - yes, we are going to heat with wood this coming winter... We stayed with Zech's cousins - Jamie, Buddy and their son, Gabe while we were there, oh yeah, and Ripley too. We spent one day up at the Mall of America. It was a great time!
In December, we celebrated Abigail's first Christmas and her first 6 months of life. It was great! I can't wait for next year, when she really understands what to do with the wrapping paper. After Christmas, Zech and I started our own business - Zech is doing consulting for companies on the software he used to work with - and he started working for ISGN on a contractual basis again.
January 2010 - I (Becky) went back to Spring Arbor for my final semester before my clinical experience (Practicum/Internship). Zech continued working for ISGN as a consultant while I was often frustrated by the lack of options for rooms to be in with Abigail since he was working from the living room.
In February, Zech finished out his first contract with ISGN and then took a one week breather from working. While stressful, working with ISGN again brought him back into the viewfinders of some of the clients that he had worked with while there and many of them asked for his contact information for after his contract was up. At the end of February, he started a second contract with ISGN - this contract lasted through approximately the first week of April.
March 2010 - Zech began working on a long term contract with a client in Washington state and I continued to go to class and be a Mommy.
In April, Zech finished his second and last contract with ISGN and on April 15 left for a long term contract with a client in Walla Walla, WA.
Between April 15 and June 19 Abigail got 4 teeth, started crawling and also sleeping through the night in her own bed. I (Becky) renewed a past friendship with Makendra Klobuchar - who I used to babysit - and we started having play dates for Abigail and her daughter Bailey who is about 6 months older. Abigail has also enjoyed playing with her cousins Albin and Colin Fuller (their mom, Katie, is my cousin).
After 10 1/2 looooong weeks, Zech returned home on June 19. Just 6 days before Abigail's first birthday. We finished planning her first birthday party and cleaning the house and yard so we could have it here. It was a great success. She had about 45 guests including Albin, Colin, & Bailey along with her cousins, Ella, Amelia, & Nora (Steve & Paula's girls) and the respective parents and the Williams family (Manda, Jason, Luke (who she loves 'cause he's hilarious), Molly, Samuel, Teague, and Charlotte (who is her best friend at church - even though she's younger)). Also attending were Gary & Peggy Swartzlander, Nate & Sarah Swartzlander, Aunt Anna Ingiosi - who was up from Arizona, Aunt Sarah, Aunt Julia, & Uncle Isaac, Grandma Linda & Grandpa Doug Scott, Great Grandpa & Grandma Shaulis, Great Grandpa and Grandma Scott, Great Grandma Faraday, Uncle Tom & Elaine Faraday, Matt & Naomi Faraday, Susanna Faraday, & Mick and Ellie Forsyth. She received several toys - most of which make noise, but she loves them all and has even figured out how to take a picture with her "camera" and listen to music on her "mp3 player." She also received a ton of clothes - most of which have already been worn - especially the sundresses in all of this heat.
Zech has resumed playing softball with our church team and is slowly getting back into the swing of being home. Abigail is also slowly adjusting to having Daddy around all the time again, but she's coming around and starting to play with him again.
We went to Indian Lake Nazarene camp ground for the Fourth of July. It was fun, but not really what Zech expected and because he was feeling the need to be home to get some work done on a couple of new contracts, we came home early.
Last night we celebrated my mom's 50th birthday. We surprised her by having dinner planned and inviting Grandma MaryLou & Grandpa Paul and Aunt Rita & Uncle Fred. The only people missing were Thomas - he stayed in Arizona and Jonathan - he's off at Basic Training for the Marines. Her gift was money towards her ticket out to San Diego to see Jonathan graduate.
Well, we are now up to date on the lives of the Shaulis's. Hopefully, I will do better updating from here on out.
November 2009 - we traveled to Byron, MN to buy a wood furnace - yes, we are going to heat with wood this coming winter... We stayed with Zech's cousins - Jamie, Buddy and their son, Gabe while we were there, oh yeah, and Ripley too. We spent one day up at the Mall of America. It was a great time!
In December, we celebrated Abigail's first Christmas and her first 6 months of life. It was great! I can't wait for next year, when she really understands what to do with the wrapping paper. After Christmas, Zech and I started our own business - Zech is doing consulting for companies on the software he used to work with - and he started working for ISGN on a contractual basis again.
January 2010 - I (Becky) went back to Spring Arbor for my final semester before my clinical experience (Practicum/Internship). Zech continued working for ISGN as a consultant while I was often frustrated by the lack of options for rooms to be in with Abigail since he was working from the living room.
In February, Zech finished out his first contract with ISGN and then took a one week breather from working. While stressful, working with ISGN again brought him back into the viewfinders of some of the clients that he had worked with while there and many of them asked for his contact information for after his contract was up. At the end of February, he started a second contract with ISGN - this contract lasted through approximately the first week of April.
March 2010 - Zech began working on a long term contract with a client in Washington state and I continued to go to class and be a Mommy.
In April, Zech finished his second and last contract with ISGN and on April 15 left for a long term contract with a client in Walla Walla, WA.
Between April 15 and June 19 Abigail got 4 teeth, started crawling and also sleeping through the night in her own bed. I (Becky) renewed a past friendship with Makendra Klobuchar - who I used to babysit - and we started having play dates for Abigail and her daughter Bailey who is about 6 months older. Abigail has also enjoyed playing with her cousins Albin and Colin Fuller (their mom, Katie, is my cousin).
After 10 1/2 looooong weeks, Zech returned home on June 19. Just 6 days before Abigail's first birthday. We finished planning her first birthday party and cleaning the house and yard so we could have it here. It was a great success. She had about 45 guests including Albin, Colin, & Bailey along with her cousins, Ella, Amelia, & Nora (Steve & Paula's girls) and the respective parents and the Williams family (Manda, Jason, Luke (who she loves 'cause he's hilarious), Molly, Samuel, Teague, and Charlotte (who is her best friend at church - even though she's younger)). Also attending were Gary & Peggy Swartzlander, Nate & Sarah Swartzlander, Aunt Anna Ingiosi - who was up from Arizona, Aunt Sarah, Aunt Julia, & Uncle Isaac, Grandma Linda & Grandpa Doug Scott, Great Grandpa & Grandma Shaulis, Great Grandpa and Grandma Scott, Great Grandma Faraday, Uncle Tom & Elaine Faraday, Matt & Naomi Faraday, Susanna Faraday, & Mick and Ellie Forsyth. She received several toys - most of which make noise, but she loves them all and has even figured out how to take a picture with her "camera" and listen to music on her "mp3 player." She also received a ton of clothes - most of which have already been worn - especially the sundresses in all of this heat.
Zech has resumed playing softball with our church team and is slowly getting back into the swing of being home. Abigail is also slowly adjusting to having Daddy around all the time again, but she's coming around and starting to play with him again.
We went to Indian Lake Nazarene camp ground for the Fourth of July. It was fun, but not really what Zech expected and because he was feeling the need to be home to get some work done on a couple of new contracts, we came home early.
Last night we celebrated my mom's 50th birthday. We surprised her by having dinner planned and inviting Grandma MaryLou & Grandpa Paul and Aunt Rita & Uncle Fred. The only people missing were Thomas - he stayed in Arizona and Jonathan - he's off at Basic Training for the Marines. Her gift was money towards her ticket out to San Diego to see Jonathan graduate.
Well, we are now up to date on the lives of the Shaulis's. Hopefully, I will do better updating from here on out.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Tenacious
Tenacious does indeed have a urinary tract infection - thankfully we caught it in time and he only has to be on antibiotics for 2 weeks... That should take care of the issue and hopefully no more finding him peeing in inappropriate places.
I've been busy
So, Abigail Grace was born two months ago on June 25 at 7:11 pm. She is absolutely beautiful...
We had some crazy circumstances befall us at that time. Zech was laid off on June 19, so I was induced a week early. After approximately 12 hours of labor and 2 of those being hard pushing, I couldn't push anymore and the doctor used suction to help me deliver her. I enjoyed the first 2 weeks of getting semi-waited on at home and then on July 9 at 3 am while I was feeding Abigail, I started hemorraging. 1 amublance ride and emergency surgery later, we thought all was ok and I was headed home again. That Sunday, I woke up with the chills - running a temp of 100.4 - and ended up back in the emergency room with an infection in my uterus. After 2 1/2 days of IV antibiotics I finally got to come home for good. Abigail was a trooper through it all. We have been home with no more ER visits and a clean bill of health from the doctor for 3 1/2 weeks thank Jesus.
Yesterday was Abigail's 2 month doctor's appt. so I had to watch the nurse stick my baby 3 times. Shots really suck. But thankfully she was again a trooper and the nurse let me be the good guy - I didn't have to hold her while she got her shots and I got to pick her up after and comfort. The hardest part about the rest of the day was that she didn't want to be put down at all - and she didn't really want Daddy either so I ended up holding her most of the day and I'm not entirely sure when I might actually get to go to sleep tonight since I was trying to get homework done earlier while she was actually sleeping in her bed.
We also figured out that our male cat, Tenacious, probably as a urinary tract infection. So this morning we have a vet appt to have him examined. I hope we caught it early, because apparently UTI's in cats are really bad and can cause a bunch of other problems, most of which require surgery to correct. If that's the case - I don't know what we'll do - we may have to put him down, since we can't afford to spend a lot of money on a cat right now. I don't want to have to do that - he's part of the family and is a great cat... but I don't want him to suffer either and I don't want him squatting all over my house and stuff.
Please pray that Zech and/or I find jobs - we are starting to get on each others nerves because we're together so much.
Well, I'm going to attempt to get some sleep.
We had some crazy circumstances befall us at that time. Zech was laid off on June 19, so I was induced a week early. After approximately 12 hours of labor and 2 of those being hard pushing, I couldn't push anymore and the doctor used suction to help me deliver her. I enjoyed the first 2 weeks of getting semi-waited on at home and then on July 9 at 3 am while I was feeding Abigail, I started hemorraging. 1 amublance ride and emergency surgery later, we thought all was ok and I was headed home again. That Sunday, I woke up with the chills - running a temp of 100.4 - and ended up back in the emergency room with an infection in my uterus. After 2 1/2 days of IV antibiotics I finally got to come home for good. Abigail was a trooper through it all. We have been home with no more ER visits and a clean bill of health from the doctor for 3 1/2 weeks thank Jesus.
Yesterday was Abigail's 2 month doctor's appt. so I had to watch the nurse stick my baby 3 times. Shots really suck. But thankfully she was again a trooper and the nurse let me be the good guy - I didn't have to hold her while she got her shots and I got to pick her up after and comfort. The hardest part about the rest of the day was that she didn't want to be put down at all - and she didn't really want Daddy either so I ended up holding her most of the day and I'm not entirely sure when I might actually get to go to sleep tonight since I was trying to get homework done earlier while she was actually sleeping in her bed.
We also figured out that our male cat, Tenacious, probably as a urinary tract infection. So this morning we have a vet appt to have him examined. I hope we caught it early, because apparently UTI's in cats are really bad and can cause a bunch of other problems, most of which require surgery to correct. If that's the case - I don't know what we'll do - we may have to put him down, since we can't afford to spend a lot of money on a cat right now. I don't want to have to do that - he's part of the family and is a great cat... but I don't want him to suffer either and I don't want him squatting all over my house and stuff.
Please pray that Zech and/or I find jobs - we are starting to get on each others nerves because we're together so much.
Well, I'm going to attempt to get some sleep.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
20 Days left- and only a little frustration
I woke up yesterday at 4 am with pretty strong contractions - I couldn't go back to sleep so I decided to read hoping they would either go away or get stronger. It took about 3 1/2 hours but they started to get faster and stronger - about 10 minutes apart - by the time we left to head to the hospital for our childbirth class they were about 7 minutes apart, so we decided that we weren't going to go to class because getting the house ready and all of the bags ready was more important. We got breakfast and came back to my parents' house. After we ate, Zech went to our house to start cleaning and get the bathroom ready and mom and I went to Meijer to get the needed supplies for the snack back, my go bag, and to bring the baby home. After we finished the bags, mom and I went to the house to help clean - I took a nap while everyone worked on the house. At 3 I woke up and ate a taco for lunch and started paying closer attention to the contractions. They were much closer together and still pretty strong - under 3 minutes for about 45 minutes when Zech's dad really started pushing him to take me in to get checked, hoping that this was really labor and Abigail was coming. After being hooked up to the monitor for a couple of hours they drew some blood because my blood pressure was high while I was sitting up. Everything was good with my labs except that my potassium was a little low. They gave me some oral potassium and by that time - the contractions had pretty much stopped and since there was no change in my cervix - they sent us home. It's getting really frustrating and I'm getting really impatient - I just want to meet this little girl and bring her home and be mommy.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
50 days and counting
One month and 20 days left until the big day, although I'm not sure we'll make it that long since we spent the early morning hours of yesterday in the labor and delivery ward making sure I wasn't going into pre-term labor. I woke up with pretty strong contractions around 5 am. They didn't stop until late last night and I've had a couple of contractions today.
We're hoping to be back in our house no later than Sunday night, which would be a very, very good thing since I need to be in my own bed.
We're hoping to be back in our house no later than Sunday night, which would be a very, very good thing since I need to be in my own bed.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
62 days and counting
Only 62 days left until Abigail is due. I can't wait to meet her and I'm really ready to not be pregnant any more. I feel really bad for Zech - my hormones are going crazy and I'm getting incredibly forgetful and really emotional - I think mostly because I'm exhausted all the time, because I'm not sleeping well at night.
Last night we had a surprise party for my dad and I overdid it and today I feel aweful. It hurt to move most of the day and I can't seem to get any energy going... Zech and his dad got the bathtub installed yesterday and today he's working on getting the shower walls up and all of the plumbing with my dad.
School board elections are Tuesday. We're praying that Zech pulls out a win. I think we're making lots of phone calls and tomorrow we are going to canvas houses in the district to encourage people to get out and vote both for the two trustee spots that are open and also to hopefully pass the much needed bond proposal.
Last night we had a surprise party for my dad and I overdid it and today I feel aweful. It hurt to move most of the day and I can't seem to get any energy going... Zech and his dad got the bathtub installed yesterday and today he's working on getting the shower walls up and all of the plumbing with my dad.
School board elections are Tuesday. We're praying that Zech pulls out a win. I think we're making lots of phone calls and tomorrow we are going to canvas houses in the district to encourage people to get out and vote both for the two trustee spots that are open and also to hopefully pass the much needed bond proposal.
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