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I found this site through a friend and I am really enjoying it. They pay you to click on ads - no you don’t have to buy anything, you don’t get cycled into any spam junk, and it is legit.I really love how easy it is - you are paid for your time; you click on ads and basically are directed to other websites. I viewed as many sites as I wanted and was paid around .10-.20 cents per page viewed. I’ve already earned around $2.50 for about 4 minutes of work.The money is directly deposited to your Paypal account every Friday.You have to have : a cell phone - they will send a one time text message with an activation code to prove that you exsist, an email address - again they will send you an activation code to prove that you exsist, and a Paypal account to receive your payments.They don’t spam you or your cell phone, but they do this so that you don’t sign up more than once. You can earn money through referals and so far I think it is really fun.You fill out a survey before you get started, so that they can show you ads that are talored to your intests. Most of the ads I’ve viewed so far have been for baby clothes, fashion clothes for myself and gifts. I had one food ad for a granola bar and if the ad doesn’t interest me, I just don’t click on it - I still get paid to read the ads before clicking on them - very cool! Here is the link if you are interested - http://www.youdata.com/join/cbooneThanks! 

Happy Easter to All - Have a great Sunday!  I haven’t been online much lately and it is evident here as I have not posted in some time.The morning sickness (all day sickness) has pretty much gone 100% now and I am eating like a champ again. LOL. I feel huge, but this is my second and I never really did get back into the swing of excercise, but was I ever in the swing?…Anyhow, I have felt the baby kick once, and feel the little whisper light movements other times. I love the feeling of the baby kicking and moving and look forward to feeling it more regularly. The only thing I don’t really look forward to is the hiccups - those drove me nuts and would keep me awake at night :PRobbie is dealing with another nasal thing- thick, green mucos running from his nose all the time. The poor kid has been having a hard time breathing and his cheeks and upper lip are getting red and sore from the dripping. Today his cheeks are so  bright red.I just placed an order for some more natural products for him - a natural childrens toothpaste and a natural hand sanitizer. I don’t like the purell since it has so many unsafe chemicles in it. I’ve been trying to slowly get rid of items that have caustic chemicles in them, but it is becoming difficult - replacing all our products is getting expensive, so I may have to slow down a bit. Overall, I feel like we’ve made some good changes and I know better what things I want to change once we have more funds available. Things that I didn’t think would be too bad, were actually really bad for our health and that made me sad - to think that we are still using such nasty items on our skin. There is a website for those interested that will show you what products contain and how they are rated for safety. My goal is to keep all our products in the 0-2 range. My shampoo that I currently use is rated somewhere around a 5-6 I think and I am anxious to try something new there - but I have such dry hair and I’ve tried to switch to a natural product before only to have my hair become very dry, heavy and hard to comb through. I just read today that if you have longer hair (longer than shoulder length) that it can be harder to switch over. I don’t think I will be cutting my hair short anytime soon, so I may have to play around with some other products to find what works…so here is the web link - http://www.cosmeticdatabase.com/.It really is a great resource for those who want to clean up their skin care or that of their children/baby. 

I took an inteligender test, that I purchased from Target.com. I was sure it was going to tell me that I was going to have a girl, but the test results showed boy.They say that results are around 90% accurate.  Now I have to wait to see at the Ultra Sound around 18-20 weeks. I am now 13 weeks pregnant.

Well, I guess my chances of having a little girl are just as good as having a little boy - 50/50. But my gut is telling me girl and the test I just took online said girl. I purchased two tests to tell me what I am having and I am anxiously waiting for results. One test I paid a lady on e-bay to send me a list of questions which I answered and she will send me back the results within 24 hours. I know what you thinking…scam right? I figured for the cheap price, it was worth some fun while waiting for baby to come. The other test was a bit on the expensive side, but it is supposed to be 90% accurate…which still leaves 10% chance it will be wrong, but again this was more for fun than anything. I am excited to finally get it in the mail and see if the answers match those of the lady on e-bay. The one that is coming in the mail works a bit like a pregnancy test in that I have to pee in a cup and add it to the test cup. If the color changes to pink/purple color I will have a girl, but it if it blue/green color it will be a boy.I am not sure if we are going to find out or not since my husband really would like to keep it a suprise again and in a way it does seem like it will be fun to wait and see once the baby is born. It was fun to hear them say “It’s a boy!” when our son was born, even though we both felt we were going to have a boy and only chose one name - Robert James. We never discussed girl names at all, and my husband didn’t want to because he was so sure we were going to have a boy. This time I can’t get him to talk about names at all yet. Maybe as it becomes more real to him (like when I am really showing and getting huge as the house) then he will be interested in getting things ready for the new little one. 

Well, it is Wednesday already. DH is at a manditory training at work (his day off normally) and has to pay for something (he sent me a text message to let me know he needed money). Sometimes his work can be such a pain, but we are still very thankful that he has a job.DS is having a tough day so far, he has had a few melt-downs and I’ve come very close. I felt really stressed when I decided to take a quick walk-through a store that a friend of mine told me about. Apparantly I went into the wrong store, but didn’t know until I had finished browsing and by that point I was moving pretty quickly for the car. The store I was looking for has a mix of antiques and clothes and other misc stuff. It sounded fun, this store however was all antiques. My DS was very active and didn’t want to stay in my arms. I figured it would do ok, and he did until it was time to leave when I had to pick him up to go outside (major road right there and he runs ahead of me). I picked him up and he started struggling to get away. I told him as quietly as I could to stop and tried to hold him more firmly. Instead he wiggled harder and then in in his attempt to get free smacked his head into my right temple. Oh the pain! I was really angry then and spoke a bit harsher to him and got out to the car. I removed all his toys from reach and buckled him into his car seat. I told him he was in time out until I got an appology for the bad behavior. He didn’t appologise right away and I had to work it out of him.He is becoming a bit more stubborn lately and it is trying me. Also, my DH has been working with some teens who have very foul language, he sometimes brings it home without really meaning to. So this afternoon I told my DS that he couldn’t do something to which he replied “Oh J**** C*****!”. I asked him to repeat what he had said because I didn’t think I had heard him clearly and when I heard it again I was shocked. There is only one place that he has heard that! I will have to talk to DH when he finally gets home from work this afternoon about the language in the house because our DS is just to apt to pick it up at this age. I just got him to stop saying “Oh my God” and “Stupid” so I felt really frustrated that he has a new one.  

So, I lost my voice the other day…urgh, what a hassle. Trying to deal with a toddler with no voice. My nose is like a faucet…and my throat hurts. I started to get a bit of a fever the other day, but thankfully it went down pretty quickly. My voice made it’s return today…but is still rough sounding. I finally feel a little better today though. I got a lot accomplished for how I am feeling too. I went out with my son for gymnastics this morning, then to a playground for a little bit. Before gymnastics I went to WalMart to get a key made, but they didn’t have the right one. They told me to go to K-Mart because Lowes was too expensive. I went to K-Mart but they also didn’t have the right key. After the park I went to Lowes and they made a key for me, but when I got home it was the wrong one. I had to go back later - I got my husband ready for work and then tried to nap a little. I was tired and cranky and my son just wouldn’t nap. Finally I got up and got him ready to go - we went out and got the right key. I took him out to eat at Cici’s Pizza and then we went to WalMart where I got quite a few items that we needed- a new laundry basket, new juice cups that are a bit heavier than the last ones (the others ones broke way to easily), candy and toys for easter baskets, and a few groceries.I got home, fed the doggies, cleaned the floors, washed counters, did some laundry, and picked up toys. I did little things that I had been neglecting for the past week where I haven’t been feeling all that great.Today has been really nice as far as the temperature goes - it was around 63 today. It is supposed to be warmer tomorrow, but it has been overcast all day. I would love to see some sun, but I will take the warmer weather! I took the blankets off the kitchen windows, it was nice to have more light in the kitchen and it feels so much more open. I know that we have to be careful since it could stil get cold again and then we will loose a lot of heat that way.I am really starting to show now, I am 9 weeks into the pregnancy and I get really anxious about it since I have been so sick and have to take quite a bit of tylenol this time around - I took very little when preggo with my son. I sure hope that things get better from here on out, I don’t want to have to take any more meds.  

Today I woke up early and I dozed for a bit before finally getting up to feed the dogs. My sweet little boy is still sleeping, thankfully, so that leaves me with some time to myself so I can get a few things acomplished.So far I have moved some of his toys into the great room which is currently closed for the cold weather and pulled out some toys he hasn’t played with in quite a long time. Then I put clothes in the washer, moved towels to the dryer and fed the dogs. Started my husbands coffee, put away clean dishes and then poured husbands coffee into his thermos. I ate a bowl of cereal and now I am sitting here at the computer. I feel like I am more with it today, and hopefully I will be able to keep up the momentum as I have so much to do today.I am really behind on laundry, and I haven’t really cleaned much in the past few days - I’ve just been so exhausted. I took my son to the library yesterday and almost fell asleep sitting there - I just had nothing. Finally I got him home and I kept dozing on the couch - the poor kid just wanted to play and I wasn’t much fun at all.Today I take my son to story time at the library and it looks like I will have to sign him up for the spring session (which I think is a wonderful sign that spring is finally on it’s way!) but I don’t know if that means there will be a week or two off or if it will just continue right through. After story time I will bring him home, make lunch and continue to clean where I can. Then I have an appointment at the chiropractors for an adjustment. I am excited about this - my neck has been bothering me just a bit and I look forward to the relief I get from the adjustments.After that appointment I don’t have anything else planned for the day. I will continue to clean up and catch up. My husband goes back to work tomorrow and he needs clean laundry and I need to get my act together as far as meals and making things ready for him. I haven’t really wanted to cook lately due to the morning sickness, but I am feeling a bit better and I am forcing myself to eat, which makes me want to eat more….sometimes I still feel a little ill, but most times I am plugging away at food.My biggest cravings this time around: salad with wild Maine blueberry dressing, broccoli, turkey sandwich with pickles, homemade mac n cheese with pickles, fish, veggie subs (subway), and oranges. I can’t seem to get enough oranges. I drink orange juice and eat one or two oranges a day. I also love ice cold water with a slice of lemon or lime in it. These cravings are so different from the first time  when all I could stand to eat was sweets (donuts, iced coffee, chocolate, soda) and meats. I loved burgers and chicken wings but couldn’t stand anything green during my first pregnancy. This time it is like the opposite. Interesting…. 

My morning responsibility is to wake up at 6am and feed our two large dogs. They sleep in the upstairs hallway and if they are not fed on time will whine and pace the hallway, waking everyone up. For the past 3-4 days my son has woken up at 5:30-5:45am to start nursing. He nurses right through until 6:20am. I try to pull away to go and feed the dogs and instead of him just rolling over and going back to sleep he starts screaming and crying, thus waking up my husband, which is what I am trying to avoid.So, what am I to do? I have a toddler who will scream if I get up to feed the dogs, and dogs that will pace and whine if I don’t get up and feed them!This morning I get up at 6:15, toddler starts screaming and crying (I want to scream and cry -I haven’t slept well, had a migraine yesterday, my breasts are sore from pregnancy hormones), I grab the child, go downstairs and put the dogs outside. I set the kid down while I put away dishes in the dish strainer that are really annoying me since I am really tired and sore. He screams and cries the whole time I am doing this small task. Finally I go and get the dogs to feed them. I bring them in and take them to the entrance way to feed them. I have them sit and pour their food. I release them to eat, and take the child to the couch to lay him back down. He lies down with me but wants to nurse again, OMG the pain! I nurse for as long as I possibly can - the dogs are now whining to come back inside the warm house and are starting to really annoy me.  I get up to let the dogs in and the child starts screaming again. I want to run away…Before, when I would get up in the morning I would be able to leave me son in bed while I came down took care of the dogs, cleaned up a bit, made coffee for my husband, brought down some clean clothes for me and the kiddo, then took the child from bed and transfered him to the couch, where he would sleep until 8-9am. I would usually lie back down myself and snooze until he woke up, which made up for all the time lost through the night nursing and having to get up to feed the dogs.Now, I am over tired, cranky and just not a nice person to be around and I don’t like it. My son is also more cranky - he needs his sleep and it is not working. I can’t move the time of feeding the dog, but somehow I have to change how the kiddo nurses or when he nurses.So, now I have to somehow get through the day….tired and my head aching (hopefully I won’t have a repeat of yesterday - a nasty migraine) with a cranky toddler and a lot of house cleaning to do. 

Today I’ve been going back n forth between cravings and adversions. I want anything with creamy sauces/dressings. I actually ordered a salad at McDonalds. I never eat salads when I go out if it doesn’t come with the meal. Yet here I was ordering a salad with ranch dressing. It was so good! Then I get home and I want potato chips with a homemade french onion dip I made. I just finished an egg salad sandwich, so creamy and good. I am overly full, but I just can’t seem to stop once I find something that taste good. My son seems to be doing a lot better today compared to the last few days. His nose isn’t running as bad and his diaper rash is getting better. I am feeling a little bad about my poor meal planing lately - I can’t stand to cook foods and once I am in the kitchen I just get a bit grossed out.My husband on the other hand is still really sick and is sleeping now. He had school work that was due last night, so he stayed up to 3am working on it and by then he was too awake to sleep so he stayed up the rest of the night. He forgot to wake me up at 7am and instead was watching a show or something, and I forgot to set my alarm so I was late for an appointment I had at 8:15am. I raced out so my husband had to watch our son.I got home from the appointment then took a shower. I went out with my son to pick up a few items and got home to find my husband was in bed trying to get some sleep. He is sleeping now and probably will have a really messed up schedule for the next few days if he doesn’t try to fix it soon.He has a doctors appointment tomorrow to see how he is doing with the pneumonia. Hopefully it is getting better.So, I am sitting here tired, very full, and with a toddler son who is distroying the house. I haven’t the energy to chase after him and clean behind him. I tried to organize a bit around my desk, but I don’t know if it was enough. I still haven’t washed the floors or finished the laundry. I did do dishes, which is one of my least favorite chores. I have a church meeting at 6:30pm and I will probably go. I didn’t go last week and I feel bad if I miss too often. I would love to go to a pool and take a swim, but I hate the chlorine.Boy…this post really is random.  

My husband has been feeling really sick so today I took his temp - 105.7!!! I told him that he had to go see the doctor because that was way too high. By the time we got to the ER (it was only 17* outside this AM) his temp had gone down to 101.8*. They took him in and listened to his lungs and asked about his symptoms. He was then diagnosed with Pneumonia. He is now on antibiotics, an inhaler, and motrin for the fever. He is feeling really crummy right now and I am trying super hard not to get this stuff myself since I am 7 weeks pregnant and high temps can be so dangerous. My son is feeling better after his round of antibiotics with the exception of having a nasty diaper rash thanks to the antibiotics. He won’t even let me wipe him after a bm and it is frustrating to me since that only makes it worse when I can’t get him really clean. I tried using water only and he still screams, I feel so bad for the little bugger. So, that is what is going on here. Oh, and my husbands sister also has pneumonia, I just talked to her this morning and she sounded awful. She is out of work for up to one week. She doesn’t have the temp, but has the really nasty cough. This stuff is so yucky!