I'm a Finalist - Vote for Me!

We've had an insanely rough year, and while I'm not alone in this, I took the opportunity to make lemonade out of lemons and enter this contest-

Please take a moment to read my story and click a vote for me! Thanks!!

http://alifeunexpected-jtm.blogspot.com/

In Other Baby News...

I'm just so excited I have to share. My fellow pregnant co-worker had her girl last night. Her name is Sabrina Jane and her and Elizabeth are exactly 7 weeks a part! When my co-worker comes back from maternity leave she'll be bringing Sabrina with her so my daughter will have an in-office first friend. We're so lucky to be able to have our girls here with us!

Dumb

I just answered the door with Elizabeth and it was the annoying Verizon Fios salespeople. The woman says, "Is your mom or dad home?" I said, "No... I AM the mom and I'm not a teenager either, I'm 30." She apologized and I basically sent them on their way, that it wasn't a good time.

I said we didn't want to switch from Optimum because we want Howard Stern On Demand. They claimed Fios does. I just looked online and nope, they don't.
They were also confused because supposedly, they thought we were already Verizon customers at first. I'm so sick of them coming around! It's like the 4th time!

BIG 3-0!

It's hard to believe a lot of things these days - that Christmas is around the corner, 2008 is almost over, and my baby's almost here! Even more unbelievable? I'm a whopping 30 years old today! It isn't that being 30 is so bad, it's that I know how fast age 20 to age 30 went so that could only mean that 40 will get here even faster!

Britney Spears is also celebrating her birthday today only she's 27. She's having a big performance on Good Morning America to celebrate. Go her! I think this is finally the comeback we've been waiting for.

Tonight Jay and I are going to The Melting Pot for dinner - can't wait. I hope my sore throat feels better by then. I'm literally on my 4th cold in 2 months time!

Shower of Happiness

Even though I was extremely nervous at first, it was a really great time. SO many gifts, great food, and most of my family and friends were there. Jay was great when we finally lugged everything home. He right away hung things up and ran out for baby-friendly laundry detergent. We went through all the clothes, bedding and blankets and started washing them. So right now, we just have the biggest boxes stacked around the living room.

Everyone was so generous and we received many of the items on our registry but there's still more to get. My main priority is my glider :-) We have the perfect place for it in the room. We may go to Babies 'R' Us tonight to exchange some duplicate gifts in order to get it.

I should have some pictures to share soon!

Just wanted to give a shout-out to Kristine and Diana. Two of the greatest friends anyone could ever have. They did SO much to make the shower beautiful and fun! And the theme, "A Star is Born" was genius!

And of course a huge THANK YOU to my mom for insisting on the place and for picking up the tab. It was a wonderful, wonderful day.