Schabahn Day Designs

For my birthday my sister Erin got me a gift certificate for a charm necklace that a friend of her's custom designs.  So far this is the design that we have come up with and I love it.  The copper circle has the initials of our kids with the last one still in question and then Josh and my wedding year.  Then the silver circle has Josh and my initials.  Of course this image is just photoshopped and she will actually stamp the letters and numbers into the charms when it is complete.

Month 6 is an Eggplant

The past week has been hard on the whole family.  All 5 of us got the stomach flu and really took its toll on us.  I had my 25 week check up today with my midwife and discovered that I have kidney stones, I'm dehydrated, and I have low blood pressure.  Its nothing to be concerned with but she recommended that I drink and eat more to compensate.  She told me that now is the time to build up my calorie reserves because the baby is building her blood supply which takes away from mine so to listen to my body and eat more often.  This I can do!  I just have to drink a gallon of water a day and eat every 2.5 hours.  No problem, right:)  


Seer got to lay on me while they examined my belly and the heartbeat.  The heartbeat monitor still makes her cry but the soothing voices of Colleen and her assistant helped calm her down and she managed to say bye bye to them with a smile when they left.  


Tonight we will get to have a family birthday dinner and get to go away for a night with Josh with no kids over the weekend.  I am very much looking forward to this!


Yesterday we signed the lease to our new shop, our cnc water jet machine was delivered, and set-up of the shop has begun.  Its very excited to finally have this part of the business pinned down.  Although it also means Josh will be gone all day like with a "normal" job.  No more breakfasts and lunches together or midday talks which I will miss.  We've been together every day all day since 2004 so this will be an adjustment for me to not be around him all day.


Seer and I will have to come up with some creative ways to spend our days now.

Pregnancy Week 24

Nothing too exciting has happened in the past four weeks. I finally can't hide the fact that I'm pregnant now. It got pretty obvious this past month. I met with the midwife and it went great. I will be seeing her again on my birthday in two weeks.

No changes with the placenta previa and I will be getting another ultrasound probably at 32 weeks or so to see if its moved. I'm hoping for the best.

Strangely enough morning sickness has came about again this week. Its not as bad as before but I don't feel very good. I'm assuming its stress from the business start-up. This business is exciting to me and Josh has a lot of passion in it so its been fun to do this again. We've begun purchasing equipment, we're very close to signing a shop lease, website will be done in about a month, and we have some of the CAD drawings ready for Josh's designs. The businesses that Josh has been trying to get quotes from are not being responsive so we've decided that he will be manufacturing his parts himself. He's the one we can trust to do the best work anyway so we are in the process of purchasing major equipment, tools, etc. Although its exciting-its very stressful to buy all of this stuff without any income coming in for a while as well as the back and forth between pricing, seller's, quality, etc. This is the third time we've had a start-up begin while I was pregnant. We've always liked to cram everything into one. Why not have a baby and a new business in the same year? That's Josh for you-never stopping and never boring. It's fun to watch the Joshie a show:)

Your Pregnancy: Week 24