Football is here

So yes, football season has arrived and while it is an exciting time for the Hubinero, it is also an annoying time for him as we do not have cable television. How will he make it through the season? Just barely, I'm sure.

Now, don't go thinking I'm some cruel wife who got rid of cable two years ago just for the heck of it. It is around this time of year when I do wish we had it because I, for one, do not like to watch people suffer. But it was actually a mutual choice and we really couldn't justify paying over a hundred dollars a month anymore for shows we never watched anyway. Also, we had a tremendously horrible experience with the customer service at Verizon Fios and I vowed to never do business with them ever again. A lady even stopped by our house a while back asking me if I was interested in Verizon Fios and I immediately felt my heart start racing as I had flashbacks to the terrible experience I had with people at Fios. She asked me how they could ever provide their service to us again and I told her only if the bill every month was going to be zero dollars. She laughed at me and said, "oh come on." It was then that I may have hypothetically crossed the line by saying my experience was so bad, I felt like finding my way to their corporate office and showing them how awful I thought their customer service was. She quickly walked away. I'm sure she knew I was only joking as I would never do such a thing but the words just sort of flew out of my mouth very quickly. Plus, I also felt very ashamed as soon as I said it since our "As For Me And My House, We Will Serve The Lord" flag was flying right by the front door. I was definitely not a good witness that day at all. So, to sum it up, we are an Internet only family who still needs to work on being Christ-like.

So, if you want to hang out here in our home hoping to catch a game, you have come to the wrong place. And if you do mistakenly show up because you are unaware that we will not have a football game on, I completely understand if you have to leave. Tony may follow you though so be ready for a buddy. But who knows - we may one day get cable again if the Fios people decide to install it and give us free service or if we start making a ton of money somehow and decide, what the heck?! But until then, my manly man has to find alternative ways to zone out to football. Can you tell I'm not a sportsfan? (only some of you will get that last sentence)

-Emily

What a difference a pregnancy makes

Well, to say this pregnancy is just like my first one is an untrue statement. This pregnancy is completely different.

I'm definitely not as tired like I was with Ava. I'm not as close to throwing up like I was with Ava. But the morning sickness does start around 4pm like clockwork everyday so I don't tend to have much for dinner. But I've really just been praying and leaving it in God's hands that He is taking care of everything going on in my uterus because I can't get in there to see how everything's going.

So far, I've been sick twice this pregnancy - once in the beginning with a high temp and strep throat. Then again last week I had another temp. This of course caused me to google high-temps-in-pregnancy and the results freaked me out so I have vowed not to return to google to ask about anything pregnancy related. I was also in a car accident a few weeks ago. My doctor had me come in recently because they thought I may be leaking amniotic fluid but apparently I wasn't, so they sent me on my way. So part of me is wondering how our baby is doing in there while all of these things are happening around me. Another part of me just thinks there's nothing I can do about it so stop wondering. Life is quite interesting at times, that's for sure.

I am really looking forward to cleaning out our garage before the baby comes! Once we find out if we are having a girl or boy, then I will know what to do with the loads of plastic bins that are piled to the ceiling. I am also looking forward to getting the baby's room ready because this means taking out the eliptical machine that takes up the majority of the space.

But I'm also looking forward to this pregnancy going by slowly. I want to just take everything in because children grow up so quickly. Ava's going to be in college soon (at least it feels like it). The other day she asked me what a compound word was and as I went to answer ( after consulting with google first quickly on my phone) she stopped me and told me herself what it was. And she even threw in a little fancy phrase of "they don't resist each other." Who is this child of mine?!

So we will see what else comes my way for the rest of this pregnancy. And I can't wait to hold both of my children at the same time in about six months.

-Emily