KICKIN IT!

On Saturday Oct 16th Elatia finally felt the baby kick! How excited are we!? A. freakin very! Now she feels her kick all of the time. On Tuesday Nov 2nd as JR was getting ready to paint a turkey on Elatia's belly, oh yes, we have belly paintings. JR has to try and out do my nieces in Ireland with their preggo belly paintings! Quite the competitive and creative family we have here!

I too finally got to feel her kick! It was such an amazing feeling! I felt my granddaughter move! Right when I think I can't get anymore excited...BAM! I get hit with more excitement! AND there's more to come! Becoming a grandparent is like the best thing EVER! Maybe it is because you are older and wiser and can see the bigger picture, who knows, but it's AWESOME!

Since our cuz was here we had Fakesgiving before she left, hence the turkey belly painting, and we put up our Christmas tree. That was our tradition at Thanksgiving when Andrew was here. Andrew would put the tree up the night before and then we'd decorate it together on Thanksgiving Day while he helped me cook. I miss those days so much.

Since Andrew's friends aren't around here anymore we decided to do it while Chrissy was here. We went out to get more decorations for the tree since I re-did the tree last year & it needed a little more balls...that don't sound right but that's all I got for now. The tree is now a PureHeart tree with green & gold balls & bows with white lights. I saw these pretty glittery green stars. I bought 6, 1 for each of us. It was nice to have to get 2 more to add to our family. One for JR, and one for "She who must not be named," which brings me to the fact they still don't have a name picked! ugh! I don't get it! I had Elatia's name picked when I was 15yo! She did have names picked but she reneged on both of them. grrrrrrrrrr Oh well, she who must not be named will eventually have a name and hopefully we'll love it!

I also bought "She Who Must Not Be Named" a little Princess stocking for this year. I couldn't resist! I have to re-do our stockings now. I have to write Granda on Martin's that says Daddy, mine has got to say Grammy C under Mommy, Waish's (her nickname) has got to say Mommy now, "The Muck's" has got to say Uncle Muck, and we have to get JR one.

After Andrew left it was such a HUGE loss, and I didn't think my family would grow bigger. Family has meant everything to me my whole life but it has always eluded me. I was told at 8yo my family didn't love me anymore and I lost grandparents and uncles, aunts & cousins. I was left with only an abusive step father, a beaten down mother and a wounded sister. Not a mix for a happy family life or childhood. My mother and sister never recovered from it, which is why we don't have a relationship now. I chose to heal it, they chose to bury it, well try to, it just shows up in other ways until you do heal it. So I figured screw it I'll make my own family and I did and I was happy with it until one major player left and I didn't think my own personal family would ever feel right again. Now we have 2 new people in our family with the hope of more! My family won't ever feel complete without Andrew physically here, but there is a lot of healing going on with this little girl coming into our family and for that I am very grateful! She is coming into a happy, loving, healthy, functioning, family and that makes me very happy!

IT'S SO GOOD IN THE GRAMMY-HOOD!