May 9, 2008
- I preregistered for my c-section and my copay is the same as it was with NikkiZ which was two years ago and different insurance. It didn’t go up! SCORE ONE FOR US!
- I’m thinking about going back to being a vegetarian after AndyZ gets here. I did it for nine years and just kinda miss it and feel like I was healthier when I was one. Any thoughts?
- NikkiZ decided the other day that she does NOT want to share a room with her brother. So, we’re going to make him sleep outside.
- I asked a friend of mine if I could borrow her kids tomorrow to photograph because I’m sick of taking pictures of my own kids. Aren’t I sweet?
- My feet swell up so bad on the days I work at a desk that my flip-flops actually get too tight. It’s super sexy.
- This baby will be here in 12 days which is good because I had forgotten how much boobsweat I produce in a car without air-conditioning when I’m pregnant. It’s A LOT.
- I bought Pop Tarts this week, which I never do. Last night I ate TWO PACKS before going to bed. I’m going to miss that part of being pregnant. BUT ONLY THAT PART.
- I found out this week that our Barnes & Noble is having a Vampire Ball when Stephanie Meyer’s new book for the “Twilight” series comes out (Breaking Dawn is the title if you hadn’t heard) and I can’t WAIT.
- I am looking forward to Mother’s Day this weekend because I’m totally going to make my family (sans LilZ who will be spending Mother’s Day with his Dad…heh…) take me to breakfast that morning at Another Broken Egg. We can only justify eating there for special occasions because it’s expensive. Lucky for us - I’m very creative at defining special occasions. The last time we ate there it was because MrZ had to fast before a medical test. See? “Special Occasion.”
- Did you hear the Duggar Family is pregnant with their 18th child? I don’t know what else to say about that besides, “Wow.”
Twelve days! Is so soon! Except maybe it doesn’t feel that way for you, what with the boob sweat and all.
12 days? Holy Crap Zoot - thats like less than 2 weeks!
Will you be live blogging from the hospital again or is maternity leave in your future?
I soo get the vegetarian thing, but wonder how I would survive without an emergency double cheeseburger from time to time…..I have those for special occasions
The Duggar family seems to be going for some kind of record. I have to admit it, though — they all look healthy and happy.
I’m not going to say anything negative about the Duggars, because to each his own, but I just read an article that said she has been pregnant for 11 years of her life. To that I say, holy crap. I barely made it 32 weeks and I was miserable the whole time.
I wonder what J name the Duggers will have for the new addition. I can’t believe they’ve found that many names they like that are the same letter. (As if that’s the weirdest thing about them)
I was a vegetarian for just one year and I really do miss it… but I wasn’t very good at it! I can’t cook, and ended up living on rice and beans and cold cereal!
I am all for being vegetarian. I was for awhile after my last was born, but I wasn’t good about getting enough protein when nursing, so I stopped. I think after being one for 9 years, you would know what you’re doing so, more power to you.
About the Duggers?
Do not know WHAT to say about that except my hoo-hoo hurts for her hoo-hoo.
That is a lot of children. A whole lot. Uh huh. Wow, indeed.
I was checking out the Twilight book today - I’d never heard of it. Is it a children’s book? If so is it Harry Potter good?
The Duggars need to stop the maddness. Can you imagine 11 years of being pregnant?! Yuck
I’d wait on moving LilZ out in the cold. NikkiZ will probably change her mind next week, or tomorrow, and think sleeping with her big brother is the best thing. Because she’s a big kid, not a baby.
As for the Duggar’s? I just don’t know what to say. I’m having trouble making ends meet with two. I can’t imagine the grocery bill! And I liked being pregnant (except for the carpal tunnel with #1 and the sore feet with #2) but not so much that I’d do it for 11 YEARS!
Yeah I miss the eating without guilt part when pregnant. I also had a gopher, one of those pick things off the floor without bending over that I loved. It broke and now that I’m not pregnant I just feel plain lazy to replace it!
As far as the Duggars, I can’t imagine having that many kids. I’ll try not to be negative, too and just say that I would hate to be pregnant for years on end.
My 6 y/o girl decided she doesn’t want to share her room with her brother or sister to be come December. She just pointed in the hallway and said “Dad can build a room over there”—yeah we’ll get Dad right on that! LOL
Happy Mother’s Day Zoot & all her readers!
Post lots of pics of AndyZ for us when you get some time after he’s born. Some of us will have to enjoy #3 vicariously through you
I wouldn’t have minded having a fourth kid but no way would I consider 18. I agree with ladybug about the grocery bill. I came home today complaining about having to buy 3 loaves of bread for one week and the article says they go through 3 loaves in one day! Talk about perspective!
I don’t understand how that Duggar woman’s uterus is still intact. Mine tries to run away from me when I just menstruate!
Well, going vegetarian does not make one healthy, in fact unless you are doing a lot of cooking and taking a lot of supplements, you will not be as healthy as the moderate meat eater. The healthiest way to eat is to cut out processed foods, and nothing that has hydrogenated oils. Most of your snack foods and all “diet foods,” are made with the worst oils and are just awful for you. That includes the “healthy” snacks like granola bars.
seriously? veggie in the south is HARD!! My housemate is veggie and dang it it is tough…even to those around her. Gotta find places she can eat. Other than french fries. she doesn’t eat salads. anyway…18 kids..home schooled? I feel for them….
I eat way more fruits & veggies than I do meat, but will never go vegetarian. That seems just damn hard to do. I need that big o’ slab of meat sometimes.
My ex’s daughter was a vegetarian. When we would go for fast food, she would order a “cheese burger without the burger”. However, she did eat bacon.
Have you checked out Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food”? It’s a quick read and makes a lot of sense–it’s pro-organic veggies and fruit, and pro-animal/fish protein, in much more moderation than most Americans eat. The main lesson is: if your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize it as food, don’t eat it. And so go the pop tarts
Anyway…I can’t believe you’ve only got 12 days to go! It must be so interesting to know the date of your delivery.
And Happy Mother’s Day. Isn’t it especially neat to be pregnant on Mother’s Day? It doesn’t get more maternal that that…
I went vegetarian for lent a few years back that was very hard. I guess if you’re in charge of shopping and cooking and stuff like that it probably makes it a little easier.
Happy Mother’s Day!
First things first, those Duggar people are, quite obviously, a little off their rockers. I will sit here and judge because they have too many kids to be giving them all the individual love and parenting that they need. Th4y even say that each day and older child takes responsibility for a younger child for the day. I’m sorry but, no. Your kid didn’t sign on to raise a kid, you decided that God and the discovery network wanted you to keep popping out babies at some insane rate. Not to mention, she homeschools them all. All of them. All 18 of them. And then? The kids don’t really leave home. It’s just kind of creepy and I think that the kids are going to be a little socially “off” from being raised in that situation. I mean, I hope to hell each of their kids doesn’t think they need to grow up and have 18 kids. (It reminds me of those posters, with the unspayed and nuetered cats? How many kittens 2 cats can produce?) It’s just environmentally irresponsible besides. UGH.
All of that aside (wow that made me sound totally crazy) (and this may not help) I’m a vegetarian. I was in high school, quit in college because it was too expensive to be a healthy vegetarian (mashed potatoes don’t give me all the nutrients I need, what?) but since I’ve graduated I’ve been back on the bus for 8 years. I love it and I would have it no other way. It’s not “hard” to be a healthy lacto-ovo vegetarian, it’s incredibly easy. (It is hard to be a healthy vegan because your social life is in the toilet unless you live in California or another progressive place and there are places you can go out to eat with friends.) The prices on soy “meats” and alternate proteins have come way down in recent years as people have started eating less and less beef and pork.
My reasons for being a vegetarian are kind of three-fold. I know it’s better for me, and I know I’m helping animals and the environment. I never, ever feel bad at a petting zoo now and that alone is worth it.
I’m a pretty easy going veg, very to each is own. I won’t tell you how to eat if you don’t tell me.
I think that militants in any group kind of ruin it for the whole, people won’t listen if you’re screaming and using scare tactics.
I believe nursing is equal to the amount of boob sweat that pregnancy gives us.
Does it really ever stop?
I’ve been doing the mostly vegetarian (I do eat seafood) thing for about six years. I immediately felt better when I stopped eating red meat. And when I phased out chicken and turkey, all the better. It’s definitely one way to force yourself to pay attention to what you’re eating.
1. We vegetarians would welcome you back to the team with open arms
2. As an infertile, the Duggars just make me bitter.
3. I just bought that Stephanie Meyer book Twilight. Have you read it? Is it good? I don’t know how I missed hearing about these books before, because they seem pretty popular.