What does your birthday say about you

***Your Birthdate: November 18***
You are a cohesive force - able to bring many people together for a common cause.You tend to excel in work situations, but you also facilitate a lot of social gatherings too.Beyond being a good leader, you are good at inspiring others.You also keep your powerful emotions in check - you know when to emote and when to repress.
Your strength: Emotional maturity beyond your years
Your weakness: Wearing yourself down with too many responsibilities
Your power color: Crimson red
Your power symbol: Snowflake
Your power month: September
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Maternal One

Who would have thought that I would ever be a mother. In 3 months.. yes 3 months I will be. Funny thing is I have never seen myself as the "maternal one". The panic attacks have now set in. Never mind the fact that he has to come "out" in 3 months --- I have no idea what do do with a baby. All of my friends who are mothers reassure me that some kind of instinct will kick in but I have yet to believe this theory.

I have one more ultrasound coming up in April. We are looking forward to it as we booked the 4D one. So we should be able to see him and I guess confirm one more time that it is a him.. I think this will assist me in picking another name as we only have one at this stage of the game.

I just got back from Houston, my last trip until he comes. I went to go and buy some maternity pants, in black of course as they are so much cheaper down there. My main mission was to find a dress for my friends wedding as I can not imagine paying $200.00 for a dress I will only wear once. I managed to get a great dress in Houston (see pic) for $35.00 now that is more like it.. I will mention that I ended up spending 150.00 as I also bought 3 other dresses and 2 pairs of Capri pants but that is okay all of that for the same price as a dress here!!

I have been lucky so far and only at this last stage of pregnancy I now am having to wear maternity pants. I must say they are pretty comfy! This has been a very easy pregnancy so far (knock on wood) as I never got sick and have been very healthy- I am now showing I have a nice little bump and have only gained 15lbs.. Aside from my low lying placenta every thing looks good. This may require me to have a C-Section but we will deal with that news if need be after the ultrasound. Baby is healthy and looks good, he is becoming more and more active daily.

Although I am kind of sad that there are only three more months left. This could be because I still have another blood test and the ever scary presence of birth looming ahead. Before it seemed like forever away and I could just ignore that fact. But now I have no choice we are in the home stretch. This is going to be a wonderful journey and I am looking forward to every moment of it. Scary stuff and all. Well maybe except for the needle and gory parts.

Day Dreaming

So after becoming addicted to reading my friends blog I have decided what a great idea and have decided to start my own.

I was told today to stop dreaming and live in reality so that is where the idea for the blog started. Just a way to express my random thoughts dreams!!

I live in a dream world where I live in a climate with sunshine all year round. The subject has come up many times with anyone who knows me. I want to live where there are beaches, palm trees, sun, sun oh and did I mention sun. The plan was always to retire somewhere hot but that is still 25 years away. Can I wait that long???

If my husband and I were smart we would consider living in our house (which is still currently being built) for a few years, sell and move somewhere cheaper and be mortgage free. But my thoughts on this is where else in Canada can I go that offers me better weather and no snow!!

Don't get me wrong Calgary has been a wonderful city and I am a rare born and raised Calgarian but do we really need to have weather that reaches -30 without factoring in a windchill.

I am one of the fortunate ones to have owned property before the big boom so as most people we are cashing in and building a dream house.. Then this is where I start to dream about being mortgage free. We could cash in again after a few years move to ??? where we could just work at jobs that are interesting not jobs because we have to. Like working at a pet store or opening a pet health food store. Playing with dogs all day in a city where the weather is good. This sounds like fun!

As I sit here and stare out my office window with the snow falling down I can't help but think 25 more years of this. Why??? There has to be another way!

But I guess no more day dreaming. It is back to reality as I should be doing some work so I can pay for my mortgage!! I guess I should also stop staring at my calendar of beaches .. Mind you who says that just because I am married, 6 months pregnant and building another new house I can not think about what could also be...