I’ve been so out of the loop this week I didn’t know this week is the murder trial of our family friend who was murdered last year on Valentine’s Day.  Missy was a great woman, and I’ll be interested to see what happens to her husband as he stands trial.  He not only murdered his wife, he shot her in the back with their 8 year old son watching, so I hope they throw the book at him.

Normally I’d be all for the death penalty in this situation, but our friendship with Missy has me thinking in another direction.  The death penalty would be the easy way out for him.  I want him to rot in jail forever. Hubby and I agreed if he could get off work and I didn’t have the baby we’d be sitting there in the court room, but I’ll have to deal with reading the news stories and waiting on info from friends and family.

I do have a good bit of stuff to do today.  For starters I’ve got to figure out where the heck I’m going to come up with the cash to pay this horribly high power bill.  I just don’t get how they can get away with gouging people like this!  I mean my power bill is almost $300, and we have wood heat!  I know people who have bills well over $500, and it’s all over the news about it.

Then I’m going to try to get the baby outside again for a bit.  As long as the weather is nice I can postpone my search for diets that work. We’re going to get out and walk everyday and enjoy the weather. Tomorrow is supposed to be cold and rainy, so I definitely want to get out today while we can. We’ll probably venture over to see my Grandparents again, and I may leave Elliana there for a bit while I run back home and get some housework done. I know I have a baby, so I have an excuse for a messy house, but this week it’s driving me crazy. If I don’t do that I’ll end up scrubbing what I can during her next nap.

Speaking of naps this one didn’t last long.  She’s starting to stir, so I better get off here before she decides to wake up!

We’ve been waiting patiently to find out what my sister’s baby is, and this morning I found out my prediction was correct.  She’s having a boy!  Boys have been few and far between in our family.  This is the first boy amongst the great grand kids (3 girls already), and on my Mom’s side of the family it’s only the second boy out of all the grands and great grands.

I can’t wait to plan this baby shower, and I’ve already got a whole list of stuff to do.  She’s not due until June, but I’m going to have the shower at the end of April.  I don’t want her to end up like me in the hospital missing her own shower.

I’m worried that she won’t make it full term for a few reasons.  First of all my mom and I both had our first babies early.  I know that doesn’t mean anything, but my gut instinct tells me she needs to watch out. On top of that she’s got health problems of her own, Hashimoto’s Hyperthyroidism.  Plus she’s having issues with her weight gain, and I’m seriously worried about her.

The rate she’s going she won’t have to worry about thermogenic fat burners after she delivers because she’s not gaining the weight she needs. In fact she’s lost close to 20lbs instead of gaining it. She’s constantly sick, and her doctor doesn’t seem to be too worried. She keeps telling her the baby is growing, so that’s all that matters.  I think she needs to get a second opinion on that because I don’t see how losing nearly 20lbs when you’re 20 weeks pregnant can be okay!

I just hope both my sister and the baby, who she’ll be naming Alexander, make it through the pregnancy ok.  I can’t believe she’s already 20 weeks, but time sure is flying.  This 3 month old little girl sitting here kicking away in her bouncy seat is proof of that!