The Size of Four Navel Oranges!

I should have posted this picture Saturday when we turned 31 weeks. The average baby weighs about the same as four navel oranges when they are 31 weeks.

Just got off the phone with my mom for the second time today. The first time we spoke my mom acted as if our conversation never happened last night. So, when we were about to get off the phone in our second conversation today and I decided to mention how badly it bothered me that she called me last night on behalf of my sister. We are all adults and my relationship with my sister is not any of her business. My mom didn't see it that way. She told me that I don't have a right to tell her how to parent. She told me that I am obviously way over reacting because of my pregnancy hormones and if I continue to act the way I do we won't have a relationship. We got off the phone even more angry with each other than we did last night. Part of me knows that my mother will never change, but I still feel that by pointing out the behavior that I'm uncomfortable with she will one day understand or see what she does and stop doing it.

Its only been the last few years that I have had the courage to tell her when she's over stepping my boundaries and we've had some really terrible arguments about it and of course my mom blames Tina for my courage because I met Tina during the last year and a half I was going through school. It was really school that helped me grow up. I would discuss things I learned in school with my mom who is a retired teacher and she started telling me that I had become opinionated. I was proud of that because for the first time I actually had an opinion of my own! School was SO inspiring. I could be a student for LIFE. I LOVE learning. If I didn't need to get a job so badly, I would have stayed in school at least until I finished my masters.

I fell deeply in love with Tina instantly. I had never met someone like her before. We had so many things in common and there were so many things about Tina that inspired me. When I met Tina for the first time on May 6, 2005 her biggest concern was that she was 7 inches too short and 11 years too old. She was such a charmer. She invited me to go with her on the Olivia Cruise "as friends" to see my favorite band the Indigo Girls. I laughed that she suggested we go as friends. Then she asked me how short my shortest relationship was and I just got the best laugh out of that too. When I said, "uh let me think one night?" She looked so innocent..like she had never done such a thing in her whole life. I think she meant to ask what what the longest relationship I had ever been in..of course my answer for that wasn't much better. My longest relationship before Tina was only a year and a half. In fact, I had a few relationships that lasted that long, but they seemed to end right after that. So, when Tina and I had made it to a year and a half Tina looked me in the eyes and said, "Is this going to be it for us?" She had a big warm smile on her face and knew that we were going to make it. :) Tina's longest relationship was eight years. I believe when someone can stay in a relationship long term, that says a lot about them. Most importantly it says they are dedicated and loyal. My excuse for never making it passed a year and a half was that I realized they were not THE ONE. :)

On a total different topic...something really gross happened. Two nights ago, I had a sore throat and sniffly nose. I was sure that I was catching Tina's cold. I told Tina, even water doesn't taste right to me! Two days later, my throat didn't really hurt anymore...did I skip getting sick? Anyway, Tina needed to borrow my night stand water to take her allergy pills before we went to sleep. She looked at me and told me that the water didn't taste right. She said it tasted like there was some sort of chemical in it...I took the water back and could actually smell again and got a wiff of the GROSSEST chemical plastic smell EVER! Is it possible that this brand new water bottle had gotten really hot at one time? OR..? I don't know, but I immediately thought of Carly and hoped she was okay! I felt like I had poisoned her without even knowing it!!! Luckily she's been moving today. I am SO grossed out! We pay for pure water and instead got something that tasted like glue or ick and I was too stupid to notice!

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