32 days to go

So I quit counting what day we were on because I lost track and so now it's how many days u till our goal of putting our house on the market. June 1st. 

I think a lot has gone on since I last posted, or so I would like to believe. I'm waiting to go to target and half price books (date night) with Rick. He's currently swearing and deeming the fan we bought for the master bed room a piece of junk. When in reality it's probably something to do with the fact that we're wiring it to an electrician box we unburied from the ceiling. So, pause right here again, he just dragged me over to the fan. The wiring indeed works, he plugged light into it and it works but the fan will not work. So ricks theory of it being a piece of junk is currently in the running to be truth.

And now I'm off to find Peggy, or maybe me, the illustrated version of Harry Potter. 

Okay a whole day later I'm back.

Here are the things we have done since I last wrote...

.. Dinning room..

. Painted the border in the dinning room

. Painting the panels in the dinning room

. Put a second coat of bronze paint on the dinning room ceiling

. Cleaned most of the woodwork in the dinning room. Let me tell you that room is a real bitch to clean.

. Replaced the wall sconces 

  .. We still need to do in the dinning room..

. Replace a few missing parts of the wood paneling

. Add one more length of lights to light up around the border

. Replace the chandelier, whenever Amazon desires to deliver it. Come on Amazon, I pay to buy prime things to get them in two days not two weeks! 

. Paint the dinning room chairs. They're light wood colored and we're gonna paint them to be dark brown. They're cheap chairs and we don't want to buy new ones to make the room look nice for a photo. 

. Stage and take a picture

..2nd floor office.. 

. Patching the ceiling

..need to do..

. Paint the ceiling

. Clean the room

. Stage the room

..master bathroom..

. Ripped out all the flooring

. Got an HVAC guy who has gone missing to come give us a bid on installing new HVAC duct work for us. Looks like we're stuck doing it ourselves. Which makes me nervous. 

. Bought a claw foot tub

. Bought a vanity

.bought a shower floor pan

.got a quote and said okay to hiring a guy to make and tile a custom built shower in the bathroom

. Replaced a bunch of the sub floor in the bathroom that had gotten wet and rotted.

.pulled out all the nails in the walls from the lath

.installed lights

.need to do..

.backer board the floor

.tile the floor

. Green board the walls

. Bead board the walls

Install the vanity, and tub and toilet.

. Install a new ceiling

.new window and door trim

. Paint the doors

. Finish the shower

.. Master bedroom..

. Finished patching and smoothing the ceiling

. Painted the ceiling

. Painted the walls

. Painted the woodwork, which turned out to be a little bit of a struggle. 

. Scaped the Windows from over spray

. Installed a ceiling fan

..need to do..

Put the hardware back on the Windows 

. Install blinds

.hang curtains

.install a ceiling light

. Install a smoke detector

. Clean the floor

. Put a quick coat of polyurethane on the floor

. Hide a wire on the fire place

. Stage and take a picture 

..other random things we have been working on..

.fixing the built in glass and wood doors in the library

. Cleaning everything

. Planting plants on the second floor porch

.mowing our lawn all the damn time

. Ricks working on a grant

.were still trying to get Medicaid 

. Online house hunting 

. Cheering on the Penguins

I'll try to get a post up next about my experience with a paint sprayer. I know a few folks are curious if they're worth buying. For now I leave you with a few pictures of our lives right now. 

First floor, guest bathroom, aka "tiny bathroom" is done. I think I'll work on writing a blog post dedicated to each room and what it has gone through for each finished room. 

The almighty shower pan for the master bathroom. It feels so good to pay someone to tile it for us. 

Fact. I hate painting ceilings. They are the worst. I don't mind painting, it blows my mind that people pay people to paint for the, it's soooooo easy! But painting ceilings. I really hate. 

Master bedroom before

Master bedroom as of last night. 

Peggy, being Peggy.

This is Rick a few minutes ago. We keep it real classy watching the Penguins. (This is the guest bedroom right now.) 

Also, another post I'm not going to edit so sorry for typos!

Peggy's First Day

I'm really reluctant to share these because I'm deeply enraged by how ripped off I was. So before you skip to the photos read this if you're about to be a new parent or know a new parent.

DON'T GET RIPPED OFF AT THE HOSPITAL.
They will send in a photographer that will try and sell you the pictures they take. Only buy into it if you make sure you're prepared for their visit and you make them take ALL of the pictures you want. Get them to take pictures with you and the baby. Get them to take pictures of your baby all dolled up in whatever outfit you want them to be wearing in the pictures.

The amount of money I paid for these 8 pictures on a USB drive is embarrassing. I wish I wasn't mega drugged up and hormonal when the girl came to sell me on them. To my defense, I would have never bought them if I knew there would  only be 8 pictures. I wasn't that drugged up, but I was too drugged up to ask. :(

So, BOO on Mom365, I want more for my money.

Go spend your money on a birth photographer or some one that does lifestyles photo shoots and will come take way more pictures that are way better, and creative and worth every penny!


So, with further ado, the 8 pictures I could have taken with my Iphone.

Two Weeks On The Job

We did it! We have survived the first two weeks of parenthood! It's everything we did and didn't expect. It's mostly easier than we thought but with a thick layer of exhausted icing. Here's fourteen thingsI've  learned while earning the new title of Mom.

1. Breastfeeding is really hard. I couldn't understand how it could be until I had to do it. 

2. Humor is key. Laugh a lot. Laugh at every blast that comes out of your little blast ended screwt. Don't groan about another diaper change in less than five minutes.

3. Be prepared. Slide a new diaper right under her butt before you slide off the old one. 

4. Baby clothes. Adorable, but what a joke. The cuter the outfit the more swear words that are required to put them on! 

5. Postpartum hormones are more insane than all nine months of pregnant hormones combined. I cried today driving Peggy to her check up because right after the new Missy Elliott song came The White Stripes, Seven Army Nation. Insert crying, driving through Brookside at 8am me, "Peggy these songs make me so h-h-happy"! 

6. The 30-second rule. Peggy likes to sleep talk, or so I like to think that's what she's doing. I've learned to wait just a little bit before I decide to get up and start the process of feeding and changing her when she makes one of her many varied noises. 

7. I certainly will miss nine months without a period. I also remember why I hate pads so much. 

8. People love babies. People do great things when you have a baby. Like surprise you and babe with gifts and amazing food or find people who have leads for jobs for your husband to keep us in Kansas City. 

9. Driving is scary. Okay maybe it's a little more scary that I drive a Mini Cooper but suddenly i feel really tiny and surrounded by gigantic tank like cars ready to run us off the road now that I have this tiny human with me.

10. It takes a lot of work to not strangle, kill, scream at, laugh insanely, or cry when Rick tells me he's tired. I gotta count to ten, fight every urge to snap at him and ask him how badly do his boobs hurt. I pumped and gave him a night shift and he learned quickly, his tired isn't like my tired. I am cutting him some slack now that he's decided to move out of the guest room and back with us. I take it as a sign my pregnancy snoring is getting better. AMEN!

11. Taking a shower feels better than any "need to shower" moment ever before in my life.

12. Sleeping on my stomach again.... Weird. 

13. Leaving the house takes serious planning and coordination. So long are the days of jumping out of bed last minute.

24. Being a mom feels so good and so right. No matter how tired I get, how sore my body is, how creeped out I am when Peggy goes all poltergeist and roller her eyes around learning how to use them, or how sore my boobs are, she's worth every bit of it! 

Oh! Also! Tomorrow, December 22ns is Peggy's official due date! I can't believe she's two weeks old. I'm so thankful I'm not still waiting for her! Clocking in at almost 8 pounds two weeks early, she would have been quite the Christmas ham. 

We had another doctors appointment today, mostly a weight check because we had a rough time starting off breastfeeding and things are going well! Peggy is back to her birth weight! Yay! 

Welcome Home Peggy

,

     Margaret "Peggy" Madeline Suminski

     Born December 7th 2015

     At 6:38pm

     Weighing 7 pounds 12.75 ounces

     Stretching out to 21 inches long

I'm quickly realizing I'm going to have a lot of spare time on my hands, well, sort of. My days are now going to be filled with waddling to the bathroom, crying out "my ass! My ass it hurts so much!", feedings and laying around with Peggy snoozing on me!

I'm switching back over to this blog, on blogspot because I can't post to my other blog from my iPad so keep coming back here! Rickandallie.blogspot.com

As I type this, I immediately think my dad telling me like he has so many times, "you know a lot of people follow you on Facebook, a lot, more than you think." I know it's his way to constantly remind me to not write things that could make me or anyone look bad or regret, which I get, and thanks dad! But fair warning dad, I'm going to be super candid about my pregnancy, labor and being a first time mom. There's a lot I went through I had no idea could or would happen, I also learned a lot from asking other moms and especially from the moms who told me exactly how it is and I've had numerous folks, well, ladies, who have thanked me for being so opened and honest about my experiences. Truly that's what my goal is, to say something here to inspire or prepare any future mom for what is or could be in store for them.

I also have to stress, that I am not a professional I am just a regular lady who had a baby. All babies and moms are different only your doctor or midwife knows what truely is best for you and you need to know you can and must always maintain an open and honest conversation with them about how you feel with all the changes your body is going through. They have seen and heard it all!

I'm planning on writing a bunch of blogs to break up my experiences... labor, life at the hospital, hiring a doula, breast feeding, epidurals, pre-eclampsia, and what not!

So keep checking back! I'll also post pictures here that I won't post anywhere else!

With Love,

Allie and Peggy!

Ps. Rick and I were so excited to see how our pets, fur-babies, react to Peggy. Our doula suggested we bring home the orginal receiving blanket Peggy was "caught in" before we came home to have them all become familiar with her smell. Which we did!

We got home, our 8-9 year old lab, Cosmo 2.0 gave her lots of wet noses kisses, Henry our about to turn 5 year old corgi, wasn't very interested he was more stoked for me to be home after being away, he did give her kisses, licks. Once we were settled in he decided he was scared of her! He wanted to be curious but when we would get near her he would be so scared and nervous around her. It's really adorable, it's really like he knows she's fragile and he's a little wild child that needs to be careful!

Suzy, my 8 year old cat, who was super In love with my baby bump just isn't sure about her. She has warmed up and rubbed her face all over Peggy, but she's also in the boat, of being stoked moms home more than anything. Then there's Helga. Helga my about to turn 8 years old cat who is also known as Helga The Hell Cat, is the most interested in her! She, as soon as we came in wanted to see her, sniff her and stare at her! It's adorable! She's been our shadow and when she's not she finds her way to us as soon as Peggy starts crying. Melts my heart!