don't tell your mom anything

my advice to the lot of you is never tell your mom anything. at least, not if she's anything like my mom. which means she's a professional nay-sayer. this woman never has anything nice to say. she never practices what she preaches, either, but that's enough cliches. let's talk about her barrage of negativity questions earlier this week that prompted me to say "well, you're being so very negative right now that i'd just rather not even talk to you. so i'm going to go." to which she responded a very mature "FINE, then!" and we hung up on each other.

i don't understand why she can't ever be happy for me. she always has to say "but, what about this?" "but, what about THAT?" and this was in relation to the JOB news.

i am an adult. i make my own decisions. and i think i'm making the decision to never tell my mom anything any more.

especially because she took "i'm telling YOU now because it's too soon to tell people, but i wanted you to know," to mean "go tell everyone you know." (obviously this part was related to the baby.)

eating everything

okay i'm not really eating everything but i probably would if i had more laying around. today i was going to be so good. i mean, just because i'm pregnant doesn't mean i can eat everything i want. (trust me, i did that last time and i'm still paying for it).

so today for breakfast i had a bowl of cereal. for snack, 4 slices of provolone. for lunch a salad with homemade imitation japanese hibachi restaurant dressing (yum!), and a snack size animal crackers.

i just ate a snack size teddy grahams. now i'm eating peanut butter out of the jar with my fingers for lack of utensils or other peanut butter vehicle.

i need to invest in more snacks.

and? i can't wait until march so i can have shamrock shakes. that is bad news.

i got a big-girl job!

FINALLY! i am a teacher! a real, official teacher! i am going to be teaching chemistry and forensics. i am so very excited! it starts 01/22! and we are moving. lots of changes now with this news and the baby... and i have a 1st birthday to plan that is only about a month away. since we call her 'tink' i'm going to go with a tinkerbell theme (so original).

here is a picture of my little girl, soon to be "big sister tink" with my sister, her aunt (and godmother) jen. i'd give a diff pic but i don't have anything non-xmas. and i'm done with xmas.

sorry

it's been a while, so i figured i'd reward anyone who came over here with a bit of info... the question/gossip are: when is it okay to tell people you're pregnant?

discuss.