Friday, August 15, 2014

Hi friends!

Howdy friends!

I hope I haven't been missing out too much...I was without a working computer for about 8 months, and I FINALLY got a new charger a couple weeks ago.

Let me just say, that being a mother is by far the best thing that has ever happened to me. Preston is the biggest blessing I could ever ask for, and I'm so happy that I'm his momma. He's growing super fast. Trying to crawl, a very happy baby; he's constantly smiling and laughing. He'll be 4 months in 2 weeks, and I can't believe it! These past 4 months have FLOWN by. I wish he'd slow down, and stop growing up so fast, but I just love watching him learn and grow every single day. 

He loves the outdoors. It's absolutely one of his favorite things. Anytime he is upset, I just take him outside and he calms down in like 2.5 seconds. No joke. He loves looking at himself in the mirror. Can you say #vanitylover? And he's already such a flirt at 3.5 months old. 

Anywho, all I ever do is take care of my baby boy, and try to work as much as possible. His dad still isn't really in the picture...he maybe comes to see Preston like twice a month. But oh well. I'm done trying to get him to grow up and be a father. I'm not his mom, and he's right at 26 years old, so he needs to act like it.

I'll also just leave this here...





Until next time --

Lola

Friday, May 9, 2014

Holy baby!

Hey guys! What's been going on?! I'll tell you what's been up with me, I had a baby!

My handsome baby boy, Preston Blake Mitchell was born on Tuesday, April 29th, at 11:06am!




He's my whole world! I love him to pieces, and he's definitely already a mommy's boy!

Rachael from The Rachael Way also sent me the cutest card!

Let's just say I'm having the time of my life, and being a mother is the best thing that's ever happened to be. 

Until next time,
--Lola




Wednesday, April 23, 2014

I'm still alive~

Hii everyone, 

I know I haven't posted in a HOT minute, not having a working laptop kind of sucks. It's not the easiest thing in the world to try to blog on my ipad/phone, so I'm borrowing my roommate's macbook to do this post!

Just to update you all, I'm having Preston on Monday! Yes, you read that correctly, MONDAY! I seriously can't believe it's already that time. I'm more than ready to meet my little man, but I hate that it has to be through a c-section. 

My last day of work was Thursday, so I haven't been doing much of anything, but sleeping, and doing baby related stuff. 

Thoughts and prayers would be appreciated for a smooth and safe delivery, and for a healthy baby, and I will definitely update with pictures and such as soon as I possibly can!

Until next time, 

-- Lola

Monday, March 17, 2014

Things are getting pretty cray!

So. It's been quite a while since I've posted..and I'm sorry! But my stupid ex/baby daddy decided to turn off our cable/internet without any notice at all! My roommate and I are still pretty livid about it, but it's whatever. We should be getting internet back within the next couple weeks! (Yay!!!)
 
 
Anyway! I'm linking up with Lisa and Rachael for this weeks Weekly Wrap Up! But it's gonna be more like a "Okay, this is what's been going on in the past month!" Just because I can. Haha.
 
 
Everything is going great with baby Preston. At the last ultrasound on the 12th, he was measuring about a week; week and a half ahead, and a rough weight of 4 pounds 12 ounces! Let's hope he decides to come on out to the world at the end of April.
 
 
Look at how cute he is! I also decided to splurge a little bit on him, since I've been refraining, but I was finally like, oh my god he will be here so soon, and I have like nothing for him yet! I ended up going to Ross, and spent a pretty penny, but I got so much! 9 different outfits, that come with 3 pieces, a baby blanket, and a set of bibs, all for like $85, which wasn't bad considering a couple of the outfits were originally from the Disney store!
 
 
Update with the boy: Things are going pretty great. He's still being super sweet, caring, and the best. Constantly compliments me, we're always on each other's minds, AND he wants to be there when I have Preston! When he told me that I was so excited! But as far as dating goes...we're just gonna have to play it by ear. He's worried that the baby daddy will get in the way, which is completely understandable, so I'm not pushing it. He also gave me this really cute owl necklace!
 
 
Not much else has really been going on. Just mainly working and sleeping, and the occasional hating my ex. I've seriously only heard from him once within the past month. And that seriously is not cool. The closer it gets to Preston getting here, the more I'm beginning to seriously think he wants absolutely nothing to do with us. He already practically moved out, never comes by, never calls/texts to ask how we're doing, and back right after I broke up with him, he told me he'd like to be there when I deliver. I honestly don't want him at the hospital at all. I don't care if that makes me sound like a bad person, but when someone doesn't show any support or anything like that, and just causes me an extreme amount of stress, why would I want them there when I'm in labor? If he wants to be there, fine. But he can sit his ass in the waiting room, while the people who have supported me the entire time, is in the room with me while I'm in labor, because I'm gonna need a complete stress-free zone!
 
Well, that's all for now! I'll try to be around more soon. I miss reading everyone's blogs!
 
Until next time,
 
--Lola
 


Tuesday, February 18, 2014

When you think things can't get any better...

I'm sure most of you know by now, that I'm expecting a baby boy in May, and I couldn't be any more excited about him; you may have also read in a previous post that I absolutely can not stand his father. 

Now, in my opinion, I think that if a father wants to be included in a child's life after the child is born, he should take the time to actually care about said child when he is developing in the womb. Actually ask how the baby is, how he's growing, if there's been any complications, attend doctors visits/sonograms, etcetera. But according to him, he still cares about his child, but he doesn't know how to actually ask me about him, which if you ask me, is complete bullshit. 

I'm not going to lie. I honestly think I made the biggest mistake ever dating him. I, however, do not regret Preston one bit. A child is a 100% miracle. And I would never say they are a mistake. 

I've been through a lot in the past 10 months. I moved towns, changed jobs, moved in with someone way too fast, got pregnant, and got severely hurt, mentally and emotionally. But with all that has happened, all I can really do is try to move forward, keep my head up, and know that I am a strong woman, with a good head on my shoulders. 

They say that the people that have been hurt the most, are some of the strongest people in the world, and I finally have come to agree with that. It has taken me almost 23 years, but I finally agree, and I think I have finally found someone who is worth my time and effort, and I'm taking things slowly, not wanting to do anything completely stupid. 

It truly does take a million mistakes in the wrong direction to finally stumble and fall in the right direction into something amazing. I seriously can't wait to see how things go. 

--Lola


(Sorry if this is kinda ramblely. It's been a rough day...)

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Valentine's box swap!

I know I'm getting around to posting this kinda late, but I've been swamped from work! Anywho, I joined in on this cute V-day box swap thing that RachaelMandee, and Ashleigh hosted!

My partner was this really chill gal Lisa from Ohio, and I loved getting to know her! She was very fun to talk to and very outgoing! She's got this lovely blog called Améliorer la Vie. If you haven't checked her out yet, I suggest you hop, skip, click, whatever you fancy, on over and read what she's got to say! I think you'd enjoy. :)




I love everything she sent me, I was def not expecting the adorable onesies! They're so cute, and Lisa knows I'm expecting a baby boy here in just a couple short months! Those B&BW candles smell so amazing I could just eat them up, but that's not very safe, so I decided against it. Haha. I've also already been using the cute little mug for some much needed chocolate milk, and those Reese's...well I'm shocked that I still have some left! All in all everything she sent was very sweet. Thank you again!

Monday, February 3, 2014

Weekly Wrap Up: Hecticness!

 
This past week has in all honestly been probably one of the worst, and best weeks of this year so far. It was the last week of the business year at work, (Wal-Mart), and so they decided to cut everyone's hours. So I only worked for 14 hours, and had Monday-Friday off. So what did I really do with my time? Not much of anything really.
 
Spent a couple days at my dad's house, and while I was there Mother Nature decided to blanket the south in some of that lovely awful white stuff people call snow. Now granted I'm not a huge fan of snow, it was probably the best thing ever to watch my dogs play around in it. They hate the cold, but they rarely wanted to come inside because they would have rather been out playing. Which if I was a dog, I'd want to do the exact same thing. Haha.
 
I was there Monday-Wednesday, but when I got home Wednesday night, my roommate and I watched the season finale of American Horror Story: Coven and I for one enjoyed it, but was still a little disappointed with who the new supreme was. It was a little too predictable and just redundant in a way. I dunno how to really explain it, but all-in-all it was my favorite season so far.
 
On Thursday, it was a very long, awful day. It started off with me being in a great mood, but since my roommate worked a double shift, I was stuck at home by myself bored all damn day. Which then resulted in me feeling lonely, and just wallowing, and crying and all that fun stuff.
 
But when I woke up Friday morning, everything turned around, and it turned out to be a fabulous day. After Eddie had gotten out of school, he came to visit me, mainly to help cheer me up, which just him being around makes me feel better. But we had a short visit because I had a doctor's appointment that I had to go to; which I don't mind going to the scheduled ones I've been having on Friday's. It's actually called "Centering Pregnancy", which is a pregnancy group meeting, where you legit learn more about pregnancy, get more time with your doctor, learn how to take your own vitals, etc, all with 8-12 other women who are due around the same time you are. It's probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had, and I recommend it to anyone and everyone if it's offered in your area, when/if you are pregnant! We also did a guided relaxation near the very end of the group and it felt amazing. Something I extremely needed. After group was over I ended up driving back up to my hometown to visit my mom, because she was back in town for the day before she and my stepdad had to head out for their next job assignment. Spent a few hours with them, got them updated with the latest gossip in my life, and they bought me dinner! That's always a plus. Haha.
 
Finally on Saturday I got to go back to work, because our work weeks for Wal-Mart run Saturday-Friday, and Saturday started our new work week. After being gone for 5 days, I felt like it had been decades since I had worked. It was pretty awful, but at least I was back, making money, and joking around with my coworkers. It was a pretty slow day, hell the entire weekend was slow, except for our TV sales. I don't know why people feel the need to come out and buy huge ass TV's for the "big, bad, superbowl" and then return said TV. It's like, really? Please get a life, thanks. Sunday wasn't much better. We had a few spurts here and there, but for the most part it was completely dead, but at least Eddie always makes work that much better. We also decided to pass the time playing with a slinky. Like, who knew slinky's could be so damn fun.
 
 
 
Honestly, the best time of the entire week was literally right after I got off work last night. When I clocked out, it was time for Eddie's lunch break. Instead of me going straight home, I decided to spend his lunch with him, and we had quite the conversation. I updated him with how much of a living hell my life has been since I moved down to Winston, and just how disrespectful my ex is being about everything. He also asked if my ex has ever thought about getting back together with me, and I flat out said that it's NEVER happening. Not in this lifetime, not ever. So then he was curious as to why I broke up with him in the first place, etc, which I didn't mind explaining to him.
 
Now here's where it gets better. He finally straight up asked me to tell him in person that I've been crushing on him. He's heard it in texts, and from fellow coworkers, and he was ready to hear it from me; and me being the person I am, I can never find the correct words, wording, etc to ever tell someone how I feel about them. I don't know why I'm that way, but I just am. Anywho finally it came out of my mouth that I am obviously crushing on him, and he admitted to me that he's got a crush on me as well! He's honestly the sweetest guy I've ever been interested in. He's very sweet, caring, a great listener, and gives the best hugs ever. I think I have finally found a keeper. He also said he wants to take me to dinner sometime. Which makes me very happy; but sadly after we had gotten done with that, his lunch break was over, and it was time for him to go back to work, but before he went back in, he gave me the longest, most amazing hug ever, and kissed me on the forehead. I've been on "cloud 9" ever since last night. I just can't believe we have finally made progress and getting somewhere!
 
 
Hopefully this week brings some more fun, smiles, happiness, and much much more!
 
 
 
Until next time,
--Lola
 
 
 
 
Linking up with Rachael and Lisa!