December 14th, 2011

It feels good to know that in one week, Tyler, Kitten and I will be driving down Vancouver Island on our way home for Christmas.  That's assuming the ferry does come in that morning and our car doesn't break down due to lack of gas.  But we are hopeful we will make it and so looking forward to the trip.  Our short stop over in Port Hardy will be exciting as we are going to Subway for lunch, which is a place that calls Tyler's name, and then we are heading to the grocery store to get some food for the road.  I have every intention on eating healthy along the way, plus I plan on bringing cut up carrots.  I don't want to eat a ton of junk food because I'm sure my stomach can't handle it.  Since junk food is so expensive out here, we hardly buy it so we've been mostly eating healthy since moving out here...  I don't want to be trapped in a car as I find out how my stomach deals with junk.

Today has been a good day.  I was able to sleep in but I think I tossed and turned for about an hour and a half before Tyler got out of bed, meaning he didn't have as great of a morning.  I got out of bed to find the weather gloomy and rainy.  Days like this make me want to head right on back to bed.  It's like the clouds suck up all motivation I might have had to get things done through out the day.  Kitten soon joined me and to my surprise, she had a note taped to her cone.  She jumped up on the couch and I took the note off.  It was a note from her saying, "Hi Mom.  Please leave my cone on so my wounds can heal for Christmas".  I guess she wants to look good for family Christmas pictures in front of the tree.  I can't blame her for that.

I ate my breakfast while playing on the computer and watching a bit of tv.  Since I slept in, it wasn't long before I had to think about making Tyler's lunch and doing the dishes.  I did my chores and Tyler came home for lunch.  It's super awesome to spend time together at lunch.  It's going to be strange when we don't live 30 seconds away from Tyler's work and we can't spend that extra time together.

I went to the store after Tyler headed back to work.  I still haven't gotten all the grocery list items yet and I knew that today wasn't going to bring much success.  We still needed chicken, tortilla shells and carpet cleaner.  I figured that if they didn't have those items unpacked by yesterday, then they probably wont be on the shelves this week.  I wasn't able to find real chicken but I bought some chicken fillets that will do the trick I need it to.  I also bought Mandarin oranges because they are always so so good.

After coming home, I worked on my cross stitch pretty much all afternoon.  It's getting close to being done but I'm still concerned I'll run out of thread.  We will see.  I guess if I can't complete it, we will be home soon enough that I can just go buy some more thread.  It will be strange to have that luxury again - the ability to buy anything we could possibly need without having to order it online or go without.

Our plans for this evening are as follows - Tyler will be studying as his last final exam is tomorrow.  He will be studying until about 9pm or as late as his brain will function.  I probably will play with Kitten and cross stitch.  Maybe I'll do the dishes tonight so that tomorrow I can have the treat of not doing them.

Baby J has been squirming a lot today.  I've been paying attention to the times that he does move and I'm hoping that will give me some idea as to when he might be awake after he is born.  I'm thinking it wont help at all because with him out in the world, he wont have the constant food supply he has now and there is the small problem of changing the diaper I will have to deal with.... but I'm trying to learn what this baby might be teaching.

Sonja