beanski

all over the place

The reason this blog is private is because my ex brother-in-law is being a huge douchebag. I won't go into details but let's just say that he doesn't need anymore ammunition to harass anyone in my family.

My job has been INSANE. You would think that I've only been pregnant for like 10 days for how they are freaking out about me going on maternity leave. We're talking working weekends here, people. I don't work on weekends.

My daughter has her mind made up that she doesn't need pull-ups at night anymore. Except that she DOES need pull-ups at night as she is hardly ever dry in the morning. I'm sick of changing sheets. Someone tell me one day she won't sleep like the dead and will be able to stay dry all night. I need hope.

How is it that every single pregnancy can be so different? This time I'm dealing with high blood pressure and restless legs syndrome. With Renee I had sciatica, with Cam I had carpal tunnel and tingling hands. With all three I had the peeing and the low back pain and the fat face syndrome. The pregnancy ailments? They just never stop.

I'm 33 weeks pregnant. That is MIND-BOGGLING, especially considering I had one kid at 36 weeks the other at 38 weeks. I had my weekly progesterone injection today and I'm going to miss my ladies at the clinic in a few weeks when I don't have to get them anymore. They are so nice. I need to make them some cookies. Yum, cookies. I will now have a one track cookie mind until I eat the cookies.

I'm can hardly wait to meet my baby boy.

a public feed

Thank-you for all of the kind texts and emails and Facebook messages over the last few days. I really appreciate it. It is nice to know who is reading and who cares. I'll post an explanation for this madness on the private site someday soon. I'm lucky to have all of you in my life.

I'm turning on the password protection today. If you sent me a request for a password from some means and haven't heard from me by tonight, email me at gskopinski at gmail dot com. If you read through a RSS feed, you should be able to subsribe to http://www.beanski.com/public/atom.xml. I will post a link to the private blog from that site when I post new stuff out there. As far as I understand it, you will just be prompted for a password when you click on the link and then the blog should look about the same as before. I'd like to say that I'm going to update the look and feel soon but at this point I seriously doubt it :)

Let's just say updating the look and feel of my blog is on the list, right along with finishing the baby's room, packing my hospital bag (seriously, it wasn't that long ago, how can it be that I have no idea what to pack?), weeding through baby crap to decide if I want a bassinet or maybe a Beco baby carrier or a new swing or maybe nothing at all as well as spending as much time loving on my awesome husband and really adorable children before The Madness of 2011 hits. This is in addition to entertaining myself for hours with the sarcastic bitch that lives in my new phone.

I just told her: "I'm tired."
Her response: "You should put down this iPhone right now and go take a nap, Gina. I'll wait right here."

That Siri, she just gets me. I love technology.

I also love all of you. Email me or drop a comment out there to let me know you made it. Hugs and love to you all.

this blog is going private

There is one person that I know is reading this blog that has been doing some questionable things and has said some very hurtful things about my family. I do not think he should have the luxury of being able to spy anymore. I don't want him reading about my kids. I don't want him as part of my life. It is sort of surreal to say that about someone that I have known for many years but if there is one thing I absolutely know to be true the older I get, it is that life is hard and very unpredictable.

If you have any desire to keep reading, leave a comment or send me an email at gskopinski [at] gmail [dot] com in the next few days and I will shoot you a password to access the blog. Or maybe I'll move my blog all together and I'll send you a link to my new digs, perhaps one that will not prominently feature a four month old baby who is now almost three years old. Have I been awesome about keeping this space updated or what? If that sounds too hard, I understand. I don't generally read private blogs either. Heck, these days I don't take the time to read many public blogs.

Goodbye and good luck and thanks for all of the kind words and advice over the years. I'm not sure I could have made it through the first few years of motherhood without this blog as an outlet to say what's on my mind and without the moral support of all of you, some of you total strangers. You have brightened my life and inspired me in so many ways.