Happy St. Patty's Day!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!








I wish I could bottle up some of this beautiful weather here and send it to New England. It's 75 degrees, with a slight breeze. Just absolutely perfect for a walk, or lounging on the hammock reading a book. The dogs are very excited to be back outside running around.


I spent the whole morning on the phone with our insurance company trying to find a midwife in the area that could preform a home birth. Every single person they gave me that was "in-network" no longer practiced in TX!!! UGH! I was able to get the vaguest information possible on out of network coverages, so whichever midwife we go with will have to jump through hoops with our insurance. Hopefully I've found one place willing to do it - only problem is that we are 2 miles outside their area of coverage for home births...so they have to discuss it among themselves and get back to me later. It's SO frustrating! You think it would be EASIER to have a home birth...but NO...everyone makes it out to be this big thing. I really don't want to give birth in a dirty hospital room with all those machines and nurses I don't know. I just want to be in a place where I can relax and let nature take it's course. GEEZ!

I finished the pink and white baby blanket and am now working on a yellow and blue one. Here's a picture of what it looks like today.
When we first moved in Aurelio did his best to mend our fence. It's really a hopeless cause at this point. I got an estimate the other day for tearing this one down and putting up a new one - $2500!!! GEEZ! So, we're trying to figure something out. We're even thinking of just doing it ourselves or something - but $2500 is highway robbery!! Here's a picture of the worst part of the fence...which we share with our neighbors who don't seem to care that part of the fence is laying on their lawn!! They are obligated to pay for half of the cost to repair that side of the fence...but we're not so sure they actually will.
Gosh, it seems like I'm just complaining the day away...sorry!

I'm going to go read a little and wait for these pregnancy hormones to calm down before writing more :)

I hope everyone is having a great St. Patty's Day!! Any special plans for tonight? Come on, share them with me and let me live through you!! :)

(Later the same day) "Fence War Day One"
Another piece of the fence just fell down!! I couldn't help but laugh, it's in such bad shape we are lucky it stayed up this long. Aurelio has decided it has now become a game to see who will break first - us or the neighbors! They didn't seem to care when one section of the fence was laying on their yard - what about two sections!! Haha, it will probably take the whole fence falling down before they say something to us...but you know we'll break before that happens.




I finally made my way to Starbucks to get one of those Caramel Apple Spices I've been craving only to find out it's made of Cinnamon, Apple Juice, Caramel and Whip Cream....could have made that at home yesterday! LOL Aurelio and I had a nice visit out of it anyway.