Three Day Weekend

Today is my Friday. Tomorrow, I will be celebrating my two year anniversary with Mr. Norry (actual anni is 6/8). I am so, so excited to spend some time, BABY FREE, with my husband! 

I am excited to sleep in, and eat breakfast slowly, and drink my coffee while it's still hot. I am ridiculously excited to go to a restaurant without having to wrestle my toddler, or keep her entertained during the inevitably long wait. I am over the moon excited to watch a movie in an actual movie theater. 

Sometimes I think that normal people do not get so excited over these types of things. 

Then again, I never claimed to be normal. 

Happy Weekend! 

Long time no see

Hi. So, I suck at blogging. You may have noticed that. I did warn you from the beginning, though!

A quick rundown on what's been going down in the Norry household the past few (several?) months:

1. Work. Enjoying work, being annoyed at work, and enjoying it again.
2. Mr. Norry got promoted. YAY to more money and more responsibility (not to mention the respect factor).
3. Ms. Cora is 10 MONTHS OLD. How the eff did that happen, and where is my baby?! She's now crawling everywhere, says, "dada", "mama", uh oh". Oh, and she has 2 1/2 teeth. You go girl!
4. Trying to lose this baby weight and get fit. I've been doing Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred DVD, and I'm about to start "Ripped in 30".
5. Dreading the 1 year anniversary of my mom's death coming up in November.

Not much else has been going down with us. I did start therapy last week. I've only done one session so I can't yet speak to how it helps/doesn't help me. But I sure as hell am looking forward to finding out.

I promise to come around more than once every 6 months. Life with a baby is just crazy! 

I got a job!

And not just any old job, a job that can easily turn into a career, doing something that I love, with people who respect me. Oh, and benefits, and sick leave, etc, etc. Bye bye, service industry! Hello, medical field!

Finally some good is happening to our family...'bout time, too. I was about to lose it.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Warning: this may be sappy. Deal with it.

Today is Thanksgiving and I have much to be thankful for this year. For one, I am thankful for my wonderful husband who has (so far) stood by my crazy ass through everything. I am also incredibly thankful for my family, but especially my mom who is not only a huge help but so supportive of every choice we make. I'm happy and thankful that we live in a house even if we rent, and we now have space for our dog to run and we live in a much quieter neighborhood now. Last but definitely not least, I'm thankful for my gorgeous, sweet baby girl, who we waited so long for. She was definitely worth the wait!

So, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there in the interwebz! May your day be happy and full of family (if you like 'em), friends (if you've got 'em), food and fun!

I leave you with a picture, because, why not?

One month old

Where has the time gone?! I cannot believe that a month ago today, I was in the hospital in labor. I can't believe that my baby is already a month old today! I can already see changes in how she looks and see changes in her personality. She's more alert and awake now (and NOT always crying while awake, yay!). She also smiles in her sleep more. I can't wait until we get a real, genuine social smile. I'm holding out for it! Here is my beautiful girl as of yesterday:

Halloween

So, we survived our first Halloween as a family of three. And really, how bad could it have been with a three week old? She slept most of the evening away, in her adorable skeleton sleeper. I mean, who can resist this?:

It was a chill night. We hung out, I made caramel apples and hot apple cider, and Matt cooked a roast on the grill (YUM!). My mom and cousin Sandra came to hang out and watch "Monster House" with us. Unfortunately (fortunately?) we didn't get any trick or treaters. Not ONE! I have to say, I was disappointed. For some reason, I was really looking forward to handing out candy. In my mind, that makes us 'real' grown ups (because, being married and having a baby doesn't count, lol. It's all about passing out Halloween candy!) Oh well, maybe next year.
All in all, it was a pretty good night! And hey, at least I got some cute pictures out of it!

Matt, Cora and I:
His pumpkin was a zombie crawling out of the grave or something, mine was two pumpkins stacked on top of each other, and C's was a baby jack o' lantern. 

C and her side-kick, Betty:
They matched! We found the dog costume at Target, and the skeleton sleeper at Carter's.

The way I hoped to end my night:
She stayed this way for approximately...10 minutes. And then? She woke up and screamed for about 3 hours. Fun stuff!

Pumpkin Patch

Finally, it's my favorite time of year. I love, love, LOVE the time between Halloween and New Year's. I love each of the holidays, the food, the weather, and especially the fun activities!

I am doubly excited this year, because I have an adorable little cuddly baby to share everything with. Granted, she has no idea what the hell is going on at any given time, but it's fun (for me at least!).

So, last weekend we decided to take C to the pumpkin patch in Clayton. We went with my in laws, who were nice enough to man the camera while M and I posed awkwardly in front of pumpkins and giant pumpkin cut-outs. We had a pretty awesome time, if I do say so myself. Bonus? C was an angel who slept through everything, even lunch afterward.

Aforementioned giant pumpkin cut-out:

 The fruits of our labor:

What C did during said pumpkin carving:

Welcome Cora Grace :)

Sorry it's been so long! I know you are all dying to know where I've been...Well, I've been having a baby! I won't bore you with the details, the story gets quite long winded, but Cora Grace entered the world on October 9th, 2012 at 7:20 pm. She weighed 6lbs, 2oz and was 19 inches long. She is pure baby perfection. I never thought I could feel so much love for such a little person, but there it is. Everything is going well so far, she eats, sleeps and poops, lol, so we're right on track. We couldn't be happier. 

 Now, for the goods:

Is this thing (still) on?

WOW! It's been a long time. I'm kind of ashamed to even be writing this post because it's been 7 months (7 months!) since I've written in this blog. I know, I kind of suck at blogging. I can accept that. But in my defense...life has been so crazy! So much has been going on lately...Where do I start? In the last seven months I have:

1. Moved
2. Gotten married
3. Graduated
4. Been hugely pregnant
5. Worked my butt off

!!! Between getting ready for this baby, getting settled in our new home, getting married, and working, I've been BEAT! I never thought I could feel soverytired in my life...and I know the best of that is to come, in a about 4 weeks!

I'm gonna have a baby in 4 weeks. EEK. I never thought I'd be saying (er, typing) that. It feels insane. But I'm so happy, and I wouldn't change anything. And now...Some pictures!

Life.Is.INSANE!

So I haven't written in a while and I have to admit I feel pretty guilty...but there's been so much going on! Between school two days a week, working full time, and doing my new internship two days a week as well, I'm lucky to have time to catch up on my book club book, not to even mention keeping up with homework!

I'm happy to report that all is going well (for the most part)....School is school, lol it's going good but it's hard! Work just kinda sucks like always but there that is...and my internship is so awesome, what would make it perfect would be if it were only paid! But I keep telling myself this mantra: It will all be worth it in the end. I have to believe that.

Or I'd lose my damn mind.

Amen...Finals are OVER!

You read that right...Finals are over! Thank you sweet baby Jesus! I made it through. This has been by far one of the hardest quarters of school I've ever gone through (and it was only two classes!) I can't honestly imagine how I'd have made it through the last three months if I had more than two classes. I am so happy, I'm literally breathing a sigh of relief (as much as I can breathe through my very congested nose)

I'm so excited to start the next quarter, if only because it's my LAST ONE! That's right, in just about three months time, I will be a college graduate! I'm so, so excited, and more than a little proud of myself. Through all of the struggles I've had in the last 4 years, I am still managing to graduate. And I'm actually contemplating staying on to finish my AA, so I can have a dual degree. I figure, I might as well while I'm still motivated! It's only six more classes, that's nothing. And having that extra degree will open me up to so many other opportunities. It's exciting.

So that's my exciting news for the day. Other than that, I'm still sick, currently got my butt parked on the couch in PJs waiting on M to get home in a few hours for an evening of dinner, movies and cuddling. Sounds like heaven to me!