The Good, The Bad, The Hospital!?

The Good:: 

We have some very exciting news! I will be opening up a shop with my good friend (and our photographer), Amber Joiner. I will be selling custom items that I make with my embroidery machine as well as hairbows, tutu's, and more! I am SO excited. Jesse and I decided to start out by doing a 3 month "trial" period... I guess that's what you would call it. We want to make sure that I will be bringing in more money than we put it. However, it is the perfect timing- since it is Holiday Season- and I'm so looking forward to it! We have prayed about this decision a lot and feel like taking this chance is the best way to go. Keep you fingers crossed and say lots of prayers for us! :) 

Also- we will be entering our 2nd trimester this Tuesday!! Can you believe it? Time is FLYING! Only about 6 more weeks until we can find out what we are having. And OH I can't wait to tell you all the plans we have for our reveal! It's going to be great! :)) 

The Bad:: 


Let me first start by saying that even though I find pregnancy to be a miraculous, beautiful thing... It is absolutely KILLING me this time around. I mean, seriously! If you all remember my last pregnancy, then you might remember all of that morning sickness that I had. It was miserable. Especially since I was working full time then... it wasn't easy being sick all day while working. I'm thankful that this time around I'm lucky enough to get to stay at home all day...However, I have been sick EVERY SINGLE DAY. I'm not lying... literally- every day!! At first it was all day, every day. Here lately, I've been mainly getting sick in the late afternoon/evening. Regardless, it's not fun... at all. It's definitely not easy, especially since I have my favorite little man to keep up with all day too! Needless to say, I'm EXHAUSTED by the end of the day. Like now for example, I could literally lay down right now and pass out. Pregnancy does not treat me well. With that said, I did see our doctor this week- so keep you fingers crossed that this pregnancy goes better than the last. He said that my chances of developing pre-eclampsia this time around  drastically decrease since this is my 2nd pregnancy. Though, I am at a much higher risk than most since I did develop it previously. Ugh! Can you say nervous? We definitely can't afford for me to be put on bedrest or in the hospital this time around!! So we're saying lots and lots of prayers that it will not happen!! 

The Hospital?:: 

Yep, you guessed it- we had to make a trip to the hospital this week! Let me tell you- it was NOT fun. My little man was playing at McDonald's on Thursday with his cousin, Emeri. They were heading up to go back down the slide (something they had done plenty of times before). Well, my little man was walking up the stairs when he slipped and fell. I ran over to them and picked him up. I thought he had just bumped his head- until I saw blood coming out all over my hands. He had a big cut right on the bone under his eyebrow! It was terrible. I got some cold, wet napkins and ice to put on it- but as you can imagine, keeping them on there was a whole other story. Gabe did not like it at all.   There was a lady in the playland area that was a nurse or something and she said that the doctor's would probably just glue it or put a butterfly band-aid on it with some neosporin. So, I walked over to Kmart and bought some bandaids and neosporin. We put it on- but it wasn't working. Gabe started playing again- but the cut would not stop bleeding. Mom and I decided that we better take him to the doctor. I took Gabe to the walk-in clinic in West Frankfort. The doctor came out and looked at it before we even signed in- and told me that I needed to take him to the hospital because he probably needed stitches and he didn't have the correct stitch there. So, we packed up and headed to the ER. Boy, was that fun! The doctor tried to tape his little cut so we could avoid stitches. That didn't work. So, we had 2 options after that. Stitches or not to anything. Both had risks. But not doing anything carried a greater risk for an infection and a bigger scar. So, stitches it was! I'm sure all of you mothers out there who have had to watch your children get stitches can agree with me that it is absolutely terrible. I hated every single minute of it. I think it's harder on me since I'll remember it and Gabe probably wont' remember it at all. Anyway, he did great. He screamed the entire time...but when they were done he blew the doctor and nurses a kiss and told them BYE! He was READY for them to leave him alone! haha. So now, we have 3 stitches and some really awesome Mickey Mouse Band-aids! His little eye is still bruised but it looks so much better. He doesn't even act like it bothers him at all...Thank Goodness! (I want to also say that accidents do happen all of the time with children. I almost didn't blog about this event- because I know that it will give some an advantage to talk badly about my parenting and to find some way to somehow use it against me. Sad, I know...but it is the truth.  However, I want to be honest in my blog and I want Gabe to have every memory recorded- the good and the bad. So please, don't judge my parenting...every child has accidents and when you have a baby boy as active and on the move as mine- you will see how these things can happen. That is all.) 

Anyway folks, that's the latest update in the Schiff household. Now, it's time for this Mommy to go to bed. I'm exhausted.