Karlee,

Are you sure that your MIL is not my mother????

Sounds like your pregnant days are coming to and end. Here is wishing you
and the family all the best for Ellie's safe arrival.

As for the name change-- how about Karlee in Kold Alaska?

Debbi in SO CA


"Karlee in Kansas" wrote in message
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Ok, I'm back, posting my update as promised. Keep two things in mind when
reading this....1) I am nearly incapable of posting a short post so this
will be long and 2) like everything else in life, reading or deleting this
is a choice. That said, on with the update.


Hmmmmmmm, where to start. I think I'll do this by topic lest I confuse
myself.

The pregnancy:

(I'm sure this is the biggest question of them all LOL) According to one
doctor, I have 2 weeks and 3 days left. According to my regular doc, I
could go at any time. According to the midwife that I saw last night (was
having contractions and we thought it "was time" despite the fact that my
water is still intact), I'm in very early labor now, slowly, very slowly,
dilating. I was sent home until "your water breaks or you can't stand up
because of the pain with the contractions, and the contractions are less
than two minutes apart". sigh Like I said in a previous post, I feel
like I'm an elephant that has a gestation period of 22 months. I haven't
felt like sitting at the sewing machine and working on anything. The
curtains for her room still aren't done....but as you will see in a bit,
its probably a good thing right now.

I have arranged and rearranged her room about a zillion times, packed and
repacked her bag, and have spent a lot of time fondling all the neat home
made clothes, blankies, sheets, and towels that people have sent me. I
did
manage to weasel my way out of a baby shower sponsored by my mothers
office. (I already have one kid, I don't think that another baby shower
would be appropriate)

Much to my mothers protests, I'm still planning on having my tubes tied.
Pregnancy is hard on me, and right now I'm miserable. I really love kids,
but two is enough for me. If we change our minds in the future (about
having more kids) we will adopt.


The MILFH:

Not much has changed. If anything, she is more delusional and a lot more
crazy. When we went to PA for DH's uncles funeral, we didn't contact her.
She found out we were there anyway. I was so stressed about it that I
went
into preterm labor. Apparently, she thinks that she has some kind of
right
to be in the hospital when I am in labor. She went postal on her sister
because no one told her that I was in the hospital with p/t labor, and
stated that its her *right* to know and was her *right* to be there (ok,
does one really have a right to go into a labor room when her daughter in
law is desperately trying to NOT have a baby just so that she can berate
and yell and scream at what a horrible person she thinks the daughter in
law is?? I don't think so). (Now before any of you start hopping up and
down because I refuse to give her any rights to me or my kids, remember
that this is a woman that has tried her best to get her son to divorce me
after less than a year of marriage. This is a woman that doesn't ask
about
how I'm doing, how the pregnancy is doing, or about how her son is doing.
This is a woman that has called me every four letter curse word in the
english language (and a few of the 5 letter ones as well) because I asked
her to leave in April and she didn't want to go. This is a woman that
refused to go to her sisters husbands funeral because she would not be the
focus of attention. This is a woman that refuses to acknowledge over half
of her nieces and nephews because she doesn't like their parents, and the
kids, admittedly are a little hyper and a lot out of control. This is a
woman that has falsely accused me of sleeping with everything with a pulse
behind my husbands back. This is also a woman that tried to tell her son
that the baby that I'm pregnant with is not his (he knows damn better than
that). This is a woman that has a chip on her shoulder the size of Mount
Everest and thinks that everyone, everywhere, owes her something just
because she exists. In her mind, the universe revolves around her. This
is also a woman that beat her 3 year old son bloody with a crib slat cause
he had an accident and peed his pants.) She also informed her sister that
DH and I should not have stayed in her house, that we should have gotten a
hotel room. (We tried to, but you don't win if you try to argue with Aunt
Moose. We gave in and stayed at her house.) She refuses to apologize on
the grounds that she "has said or done nothing wrong" (calling your sons
wife a F****** B**** and a F****** Wh*** isn't wrong? Especially when you
say it to your son's face??? ok lady, whatever). This is a battle that
will probably last for years, and no, our relationship will never be the
way that it used to be.


Ok, The Big News.

DH is in the army, and his job is an Armor Crewman (he drives a tank).
The
army recently put out a request for Armor Crewman, ranking E4 and above to
transfer to Alaska for their new Striker Vehicles. DH is submitting the
paperwork today for a transfer. We will probably be in Alaska within 8
months. Very few people knew of this until now, as I asked them to keep
mum about it. He hadn't decided until a little while ago that we were
going. Since his chain of command doesn't have a problem with letting him
go, there is less red tape that we have to wander through. His 1st
sergeant sees no reason why they wouldn't transfer him, he has 6 years
active duty, has never had a disciplinary problem, has a clean record, top
secret clearance, is promotable, dependable, and has a lot of soldiers
that
look to him as a role model. To be perfectly honest, I'm looking forward
to it. Come to think of it, we all are.

Quilty/Crafty news

I haven't done much sewing lately due to lack of energy and how short my
arms seem to have gotten since the last time I sat at the sewing table. I
do have a few things in the works, but probably won't get to them for some
time because of Ellies impending arrival. I fondle all my favorite
fabrics
on a regular basis and wish that I had the energy to sew, but sigh it
just aint happenin. I joined the ornament swap, and my little guys are
nearly done. I'll be posting on their doneness (is that a word???) in
private emails to the rest of the swappers at a later time.


Hmmmmmm, I can't think of anything else right now. My next big post will
probably be about the arrival of Ellie, but I promise, I'll leave out the
really gory details (yes we are taking the digital camera, and I'll post
pictures on the net (place yet to be determined).

Hugs
Karlee in Kansas (hmmmmmm, Karlee in Alaska doesn't sound right....not
yet
anyway lol!!!)