Midnight Trip to McDonalds

Okay, so the other night after everybody went to sleep, I decided to stay up and watch a few missed tv shows. About halfway into Dawson's Creek, I started getting hungry. At first the craving was for Spaghettios and Meatballs, but it quickly went to a good old McDonalds hamburger and fries. So I get my happy tail up at 11:50p.m. and decide to sneak out of the house to satisfy my incredible need for that healthy food my baby needs. I must add that it was raining and I was wearing mismatched pajamas and no bra--but I didn't care as long as I didn't have a wreck! I just knew that McDonalds was open all night so I headed off to the McDonalds on Cloverdale road. I saw a big sign that said "OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT." I swear y'all that I pulled up at 11:55. They'd already cut the lights off of the menu but I waited at the speaker for somebody to say "Welcome to McDonalds. Can I take your order?" NOBODY! As if they could hear me (maybe they could..the workers were still in there.), I said, "You have got to be kidding me. FINE, I'll just go to another McDonalds." Oooooh, Scarlett. That will show them! So I drove off and went to the one in North Florence. THAT one is the one open all night. So I was so excited. I promise you that when I pulled up in the drivethrough I was the 10th car---AT MIDNIGHT and NOT on a weekend! Who knows! I got to the speaker and the guy said, "Welcome to McDonalds. Will this be cash or credit?" Okay, so a little different than the traditional greeting but whatever. I said, "Actually it's a debit card." Would you believe he then said, "I'm sorry mam but our credit card machine is down right now." I said, "How long will it be down?" He said, "about an hour". I said, "Um.....I guess I'll have to do something else." I almost cried my eyes out. I didn't have ANY cash with me. I knew the other day at Wal-Mart that I should have selected 'cash back' and gotten a 20, but I thought, nah, I won't need it. I always try to keep a little cash in my wallet for emergencies. I pulled over into a parking space and looked for change in my car only to see a little bit. I scrounged around (is that a word?) and got every coin I could find in my car. I had a total of $2.16 and one Canadian penny---which I was gonna sneak in there and hope they didn't notice if needed. I got BACK in line and waited all over again and my total came to "$2.14!" I really believe that God helped me out that night--even over a little pregnancy craving. I just don't know what I would've done without my McDonalds that night. I put my extra 2 pennies into the Ronald McDonald House fund to express my gratitude. Needlesstosay, it was an eventful night!

Another Baby Thompson on the Way

Just in case you didn't know or for the sake of making a public internet announcement, I'm pregnant! I'm 7-8 weeks. My due date is June 27th. The ultrasound says I'm due a week after that, the 4th of July, but Dr. Woodford said we'd just go by the regular old due date unless the measurements are way off later.

Anyway, we are very excited about it all. We saw and heard the heartbeat and decided to go ahead and announce the good news. I'm on natural progesterone supplements again this time because my progesterone is never high enough on its own. It needs to be 13 during pregnancy to hold the pregnancy and mine got down to 11 this time before I started the supplements. It was 7.1 with Bonnie and she's here. I am a firm believer that it works. Also, my hcg levels increased when they checked them but they didn't double like they were supposed to. Knowing all of that made me crazy up until we had the ultrasound about a week ago. I've tried to forget about hormone levels because God is bigger and more powerful than hormone levels. I've had to remind myself of that often. I almost wish they hadn't checked all of that b/c I was so upset and nervous after I knew that things weren't doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing. We waited 13 weeks to tell that we were pregnant with Bonnie and I was a nervous wreck the entire time and I just can't do that again. I feel so much more peaceful now about this pregnancy since we've heard the heartbeat. The prayers we've gotten from people and the ones we've said ourselves have really worked in letting me be calm now. We've been praying a lot....so much that at times I have felt like I'm getting on God's nerves! HA! Please keep us in your prayers that everything will go well this time and that we'll have a healthy pregnancy and a healthy full-term baby.

I also have a strong feeling it's a boy. I just knew we were having a girl with Bonnie. It's also so neat to know that so many of my close friends are pregnant at the same time. I think we're gonna repopulate the church nursery. Besides everyone from church, I also have 3 more of my good friends that are pregnant right now. Talk about something being in the water!

Bonnie's Fall Pictures

This year Bonnie's been obsessed with "kitty cats Meow" (that's what she says when she sees them). Since I am deathly allergic, she can't go near one, and last week we discovered, she's allergic to them too. So, I let her be a kitty cat for Halloween. Notice her sticking out her little tongue in the first one. I didn't tell her to do that but it makes the effect so much better! :) And, I did good to get whiskers on her at all. She kept saying "No mam Mommy". I should've had her in front of a mirror while I drew them on with black eyeliner, but I was in such a hurry I didn't think of that. She probably would've understood what I was doing better if I had!