I am home sick today. Using 8 hours of sick time. Ugh. I need to save as much of my sick/vacation time as possible for my maternity leave come September. We have a family vacation planned every year and that will eat up 40 hours of my vacation in July.
I am literally going to have less than 2 weeks paid time off by September. I am allowed 90 days off using my vacation/sick time up first... then the remainder without pay.
I feel the pressure of being behind on bills already and I HATE THAT FEELING. We've been doing so good for the past couple years now. I hate being behind and do not want that to happen.
Greg is picking up quite a few over time shifts in the next few months and we are trying to decide if he should take it in pay - then we put the extra $ in savings (we are SO BAD at saving) or if he should take it as comp time - a 12 hour shift then turns into 18 hours of comp time - then he can donate hours to me in September if I put out a request for hours at work. Ok, Greg just reminded me that if he takes in it pay he is paid time and a half... which is like more than double my pay... so yeah, we'll be taking it in pay right away. Please pray for us that we can save.
See this is what I do. I'm home sick and what am I doing? Resting and trying to get myself better? Oh of course not. I'm worrying about 5 months from now and how we will be doing financially. Seriously ridiculous. Jess - don't yell at me, I'm shutting this thing off now.
p.s. OB appt #3 was scheduled for tonight at 5:15... but since I'm home sick Greg rescheduled it for 10:30 this morning. Will let you know how it goes.
**UPDATED at 5:20 pm**
OB visit went fine. Heard baby's heartbeat... thank god. Got lots of my questions answered about heartburn (am starting a med for this), the ultrasound (scheduled 4/30!!), my achy knees (she thinks its due to my hips shifting and me walking differently), my eye twitching (stress)... hmm what else? Oh they changed my due date back to September 16th. Hopefully this will be the last switch!
My NP is concerned that I am not eating enough. I've lost on average 3 lbs between each of my appt's so far. Then after finding ketones in my urine she told me to eat, eat and eat. That the ketones mean my body is starting to break down fat for energy instead of using glucose. Hmm... I don't really mind this... but of course it isn't healthy for baby or me.
I don't have much interest in food lately. I can only eat small portions without feeling this disgusting full feeling. So I will try to eat many more small meals/snacks per day.
I am also going to make an effort to think about today (ok and maybe tomorrow) only. Not to worry about something that is 5 months away and I can do nothing about right now. We are going to make an effort to save money and do what we can. We can only do so much and from there we just have to go with it... I've always been taken care of whether it be by some strange instance (like a refund we weren't expecting in the mail), my family or extra hours being offered at my part time job. Things will work out. I just have to have a little faith.
1 comment:
i had to start prevacid when i was pregnant with codi. it stayed with me after. i still have it.
they say heartburn comes from kids with lots of hair, it's funny becasue my first baby had no hair and i had no heartburn, my second one came out with tons of hair and i had to take meds for it.
try not to take tums, it will make the heartburn come back worse at night.
glad to hear everything is going good with you!
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