Losing My Mind & My Cell Phone

We spent the weekend in the city. I needed to get some things there for the baby that I can't get here in my smallish town. It was exhausting. I literally shopped all weekend. From Friday to Sunday. I have never been so tired of malls in my life. A 9 month pregnant woman walking for miles through malls is not a pretty sight and needless to say not very comfortable either. Especially with my back aching and gravity not on my side. My friend offered to push me around in a wheelchair. I opted to just sit some stores out.

Yesterday while I was sitting a store out, Colton and I were playing with my cell phone. He was calling Daddy, John Deere, and Thomas Tank, well playing like he was, then they wanted to talk to mommy. Between the bench and the end of the mall the phone was gone. Of course I did not notice until we went to a couple more stores away from the mall. So back to the mall we went and retaced every step and asked at every store I had been in. No phone. I called this morning and no phone. I am sick over this. A replacement is at the cheapest $150. So, I've been looking on eBay. Yes, I am still an eBayer even after my previous post.

I have got so much to do before the baby gets here. It is overwhelming. Mostly nursery things. I have not even packed for the hospital yet. Heath still has to finish painting the crib, changing table, rocker, toy box, and small table. All of these are keeping me from finishing the nursery. I have more clothes to wash. General house cleaning. My sister in law is having a shower for Ava on Saturday. I've been trying to get meals prepared and frozen for after she is born.

When I went for my ultrasound last week the doc said that the baby is measuring small. She is around 5lbs. I'm not sure how big she should be but they are going by percentiles. She should be in at least the 10th and she is in the 9th. Not too far off but far enough that they are going to do a series of tests this Friday to make sure that everything is fine. She may just genetically small or there is a slight possibility that the placenta is not working properly and she is not getting the nourishment needed, if that is the case, they will go ahead and induce. So I may have less than a week to get everything done. But of course it is pouring rain today so another day will go by without everything getting painted. Tomorrow is meeting night so the earliest will be Wednesday, then it will need to sit out so it can air out. Hopefully it can be in there by the end of the week. Who knows?

Gettin on My Soapbox About eBay

I recently purchased on eBay a lampshade for Ava's room. I just got it in the mail yesterday. It is a pleated shade and not only were many of the pleats crushed but the metal frame is so bent on the bottom it is a oval instead of a circle. The lady I bought it from charged much more for shipping than it actually cost to ship it. So I expected it to be packaged very well. I wrote her yesterday and she said that since I did not purchase insurance she is not responsible. Well, she did not offer me insurance. I thought, oh well I can still dispute it with Paypal. No. When I went to do that, I found out that there is a $25 dispute resolution charge to use them to resolve a dispute. The lampshade was $17.50 with shipping, much more than it was new at Target. So, I went to dispute it on eBay, same thing, if you paid with Paypal, they send you to Paypal to dispute it. I am so mad because they offer no protection against things being damaged. How do I know that this was not damaged before she even sent it and when it was discovered by me, it's the post office's fault, you should have bought insurance. I think it is ridiculous, people could sell damaged things on there all day long and use this excuse and the buyer's hands are tied if it is under $25.00, or if they don't want to pay them $25.00 to help resolve it. Well, there you have it, my gripe of the day.

Hooray!! Fall is Here

Ahh, the crisp smell of fall. The beautiful changing leaves. The apples. The pumpkins. The mums. What is not to love about fall?
In honor of today being October 1st, some friends and I got together after service and took a little trip to one of the local orchards this afternoon. We spent a few hours picking out miniature pumpkins, mums, and odd varieties of apples and pears, sampling pumpkin butter and drinking apple cider. We had a great time and made some nice memories.