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  • The Results Are In

    So, I think I got about three hours of sleep.  I was just too anxious to see what the results of the pregnancy test were going to be.  (See why here) Plus, I made myself eat dinner and again I felt really uncomfortable.  At one point, I almost did vomit, but something was blocking the food from coming back up.  I ended up just pretty much gagging over the toilet for ten minutes.  And that increased saliva and salty taste you get when you’re about to throw up?  I had that too.
    I was already up when the Mr got in from work. He stopped by the store and picked up a couple of pregnancy tests.  The first words out of his mouth when I saw that I was already up were “Let’s do this.” LOL. Men, I tell yall. 
    Into the bathroom I went with one of the tests.  At first, I wasn’t going to look at until the full two minutes were up.  However, I ended up just standing there staring at it waiting for the results to come in.  I felt surprising calm waiting for the results to pop up.  And then the results came…..
    Yep, the results were negative.  We’re not pregnant.  And I can’t say that I’m feeling relieved.  If anything, I feel the opposite.  I have morning sickness symptoms with no pregnancy.  That can’t be a good thing.  
    I didn’t learn myself and took Google again after the kids got up to do more digging on this Mirena.  At this point, I’ve ruled food poison and pregnancy.  So, it has to either be the birth control or maybe a stomach virus.  Only I’ve had stomach viruses and diarrhea usually accompanies those and I don’t/haven’t had that.
    What I did find out though is that Mirena can cause morning sickness and other pregnancy symptoms in its users.  Now, you won’t find this information their site specifically.  The best they put was the if you suspect you’re pregnant you’ll probably have to your device removed and your pregnancy will most likely end in miscarriage.  Kind of scary.  But I did find this information on other medical sites and even a few legal sites since a lot of women seem to be suing Mirena due a number of complications and unlisted side effects.
    Where do I go from here?  Well, I’m waiting to hear if I can get an earlier appointment in with my OBGYN.  She works at two practices and has tons of patients. Needless to say the wait list for an appointment is long, but hopefully I can something sooner rather than later.  In the meanwhile, I just need monitor myself and if I have any severe cramping and/or bleeding, go to the emergency room. 

    It sucks being sick and not having knowing what’s going on with your own body.  I’m just glad the Mr has been supportive, attentive and concerned.  He went in for a half shift and called and texted me to see how I was feeling.  He even got me some ginger ale to help with the nausea.  Love that man!  Anyways, hopefully this is nothing serious.  Maybe, it is a stomach virus….

    Do you have Mirena or an IUD?  Have you ever had any of pregnancy like side effects?

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  • Are We Ready Yet?

    I’m just going to come right out and say this.  No use in trying to rip this band-aid off slowly.  So here goes.
    I could be PREGGERS! Again.
    Yes, you read right!  Crazy isn’t it?  Well, for me and the Mr it is.  I paid good money to have this Mirena inserted in my cervix.  And to think that after only 2.5 years this sucker has stopped working, makes me want to demand a refund.
    Ok, I might be getting a little ahead of myself because I haven’t actually taken a pregnancy test, but I just have this feeling that I probably already know there’s a 60% chance the test is going to be positive.  Let me start the beginning.  Two weeks ago, I started craving all my favorite foods-sesame chicken, Twizzlers, Slim Jims, chicken wings, etc.  Now, I love to eat.  So, there are times when I’m in the mood to eat a certain dish.
    But I’ve been legitimately craving these foods like around the clock.  And I didn’t think anything of it because I thought it was just from stress.  I’m a stress eater by nature.  And I have been a little stressed about this whole search for a bigger place.
     Sunday night I sent the Mr out for a salad. It was almost midnight and all I could think about was a grilled chicken salad with buttermilk ranch and a little chopped egg.  So, I got the salad and immediately the salad dressing tasted off.  That was strange because the salad and dressing are made fresh.  I knew it wasn’t spoiled, but I changed it out for some ranch we had in the fridge.  Y’all that salad tasted like a million bucks.  And when I’m pregnant certain foods always taste so much better to me even though they’re very simple like salad and fried chicken.
    Monday morning rolls around and I wake up with the worst feeling of nausea and a slight headache.  My first thought was “Oh no, the salad was spoiled and I have food poison again!”  But Moo had some of the lettuce and chicken before I put on the dressing and the Mr had some of the dressing and the bacon.  Neither of them were feeling the least bit sick.  I ate a piece of toast just to be on the safe side.
    The Mr headed off to work and I started to notice that my nausea wasn’t getting better, but worst.  On top of that my lunch felt like it was backed up in my esophagus.  Not a good feeling at all. Monday night I made spaghetti.  Y’all that spaghetti tasted off (to me) too.  That’s when it hit me that I might be preggers.  However, I didn’t want to rush to conclusions and decided I’d see how I felt today.
    Well, today is here and I feel slightly preggers. The nausea is worst, food is still stuck in esophagus, my head still hurts on and off faintly, I’m dead tired and I feel like I want to vomit.  It’s all the symptoms of pre- morning sickness that I came to know and tolerate in my pregnancies with Moo and JJ.  I thought I could wait this week out before taking a pregnancy test but the Mr noticed this morning that I looked a little off.  
    And as of an hour ago, I finally texted him at work that I wasn’t feeling so hot.  Of course, his response was that he thinks I’m pregnant too.  So, this time tomorrow I will have peed on a stick and will know for sure.  The biggest question running through my mind is are we ready yet?  We’d planned on waiting until late 2014 or early 2015 before trying for our third baby.  
    In fact, that’s why I got the Mirena.  It would be a birth control I wouldn’t have to think about and that I couldn’t screw up by missing a dose.  I don’t want to feel sad or negative about this because I had felt this way throughout my first pregnancy thanks to people raining on my parade and in the beginning of my pregnancy with JJ.  If there is in fact a little one growing inside of this tummy of mine, I want to start this journey feeling positive about it.
    So, ready or not I’m choosing to believe that if I am pregnant this is part of a bigger plan that God has for us.  Maybe, my uterus will be closed for business by 2015 and that’s why this is happening now.  I don’t know. But I do know that after I texted the Mr, he called to see how I was feeling about this possible new addition to our family coming sooner rather than later.  And I could hear a little glimmer of excitement, almost joy, in his voice.
    As much as he’s been back and forth on having a third child this year, ultimately I know he’s going crazy wanting to have another baby boy.  I think the issue is that if we end up having a girl, he’ll want to keep trying and trying until we get that next boy.  No worries though because since I’m the one doing all the hard work, I’ll definitely be the one to put the foot down.  (5 kids is my absolute max!)  I have to admit just writing all this out right now is making me a little excited about the possibilities that may be to come in the next few months.  I don’t want to get too excited because then I’ll be let down tomorrow if the test comes back negative.
    Life is unpredictable and for this moment, I’m choosing to roll the flow.  Be sure to stop by the blog tomorrow and see if we’ll becoming a family of 5 or remaining a family of 4.  And btw if I’m NOT preggers, I’m going to be worried because I googled illnesses with pregnancy related symptoms and y’all I wish I hadn’t.

    Have you ever gotten pregnant while on birth control? How did you find out that you were?
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  • Bible 365: Week 36

    Happy Monday y’all!!  What did y’all get into this weekend?  This weekend was all about cleaning and doing hair.  Speaking of hair, I gave JJ his first trim.  He’s not a big fan of the brush or the comb, but his hair was long and needed to be combed at least once a day.  So, I took some of the length off it and it makes combing and detangling go faster.
    Anyways, here we are just wrapping up Week 36.  It seems like now that the end of the year is almost here, the weeks are going by faster.  But what better way to pass them than growing stronger in my faith and completing a challenge?  
    So, we started off with the book of Habakkuk.  He was prophet who kind of had a Job situation.  He was faithful to God and living his life right but unfortunate things always seemed to still happen to him.  In his mind, Habakkuk felt like bad things shouldn’t happen to those of us who live right and acknowledge God as our one and only true God.
    His frustration is very evident in the very first verse where he cries out to God saying, “O Lord, how long shall I cry; and You will not hear?  Even cry out to You, ‘Violence!’ And You will not save” (Habakkuk 1:1).  I know that many of us can relate to how Habakkuk is feeling right here.  We go about our lives doing right, but still seem to experience hard times.  But like Habakkuk, we have to learn that we aren’t exempt from that evils of this world just because we’re Christians and we live right.
    At the end of the day, God points out to Habakkuk that as long as there are evil people in this world then bad things can happen to anybody.  It’s just a part of the territory of being humans and having free will.  Our reward for living right comes in the After Life.  And of course, let’s not forget that we’re not down and out 100% of the time.  God rewards us with miracles and blessings here on Earth all the time too, but we often take those for granted like waking up, having good health, jobs, etc.
    God tells Habakkuk that we just need to focus on walking by faith.  Don’t live your life thinking of all the negative that could happen, but just have faith in God’s plan and trust that everything will work out the way it is suppose to.  Now, this was something the Israelites had trouble doing and I’m sure that’s why they couldn’t stay focused on the Promise Land.  So, in the book Zephaniah (I almost named Moo that), we learn about how God has planned to punished His chosen people for their disobedience and disrespect.
    He sends Zephaniah to get them to see that they have caused this wrath on themselves.  But of course, they don’t want to take personal responsibility.  And why should they when it’s so easy to blame God or the other nations leading them astray?  Placing the blame on others is always easier for us to swallow than the acknowledging the truth.  But alas, God gives them another chance and in the books of Haggai and Zephaniah God orders them to rebuild the temples and to repent so that they can get back to the practices of making sacrifices and offerings.
    But y’all already should know that by the end of the book of Malachi, they are back to complaining again (Malachi 3:13-15).  I just don’t get why they can’t be happy?  The Israelites have to have been the most depressed and demanding people in the history of the Bible!  Seriously, they had it all given to them on a silver platter and despite messing up every chance God gave them to come back into His grace, they pretty much spit in His face or stabbed Him in the back. Crazy!!!
    In the first couple of chapters of Matthew we read about the birth of Christ, His visit from the wise men and Satan and we read about his cousin, John the Baptist and how he started preparing the way for people to receive Jesus.  I’m telling you it was action packed in Week 36!
    Week 37 Readings
    9/09: Matthew 5
    9/10:  Matthew 6
    9/11:  Matthew 7
    9/12:  Matthew 8-10
    9/13:  Matthew 11-13
    9/14:  Matthew 14-15
    9/15:  Matthew 16-18
    Why do you think it was so hard for the Chosen Ones to be obedient?

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  • Thankful Thursday

    This week has been very low key.  That’s if you don’t count the loud neighbors and the fact that they tried to steal our trash and recycling cans.  Otherwise, I’ve been focusing on some blog related things and working with the kids still on educational stuff. We didn’t venture out anywhere because I was expecting a few packages.  
    And I’m thankful that almost all of them have arrived safely.  I think that one package got shipped to our old address my accident.  So, hopefully I can get that straightened out and reshipped.  I’m thankful that something positive is going on with the Mr that could have a really positive affect on our family.  I don’t want to put too much out there, but just lift him up in prayer that everything works out.
    Speaking of the Mr, I’m thankful that he didn’t burn the apartment down the other day.  He was to heat up some mini pancakes in the microwave and forget they were in there.  I smelt something burning and thought ‘Great the neighbors are about to burn the place down!’  But nope it was the Mr about to burn us down.  Thank goodness for windows and fans because when I opened that microwave door to douse those pancakes, I was greeted by the biggest cloud of smoke I’ve ever come across in my life.
    I’m also thankful and excited that we maybe leaving behind our mystery neighbors sooner rather than later!  Yep, the YUMMommy family is moving yet again.  We’re not in too much of a rush this time around.  Our property manager understands that this apartment has just not been a good fit for us.  It’s too small and crapped for starters.  And I just can’t live with the boxes that still haven’t been unpacked in the kitchen and our bedrooms.  Plus, we really want a place with washer and dryer hookups.
    At the end of the day, we are thankful to have a roof over our head, but still we’re uncomfortable and stumbling around over each other almost.  Now if it was just the Mr and I this place would be a good size, but we have two very busy kids.  And there’s no yard here.
    Not to mention, I already told you all about how we found out there is some illegal activity that takes place at the park down the street from us.  I just can’t risk exposing my kids to that.  So, I’m hoping we’ll be moving either back to the first neighborhood we lived in when I was college or that we find something else here in Uptown.  Our first neighborhood was great.  It was upper middle to upper class, had security, multiple maintenance men, free carpet cleaning every 6 months, a fireplace, a lake front view and it was close to everything!  It was around the corner from the big park I wrote about in my last Thankful Thursday post.
    So, pray that we find something available and family friendly.  This time around we’ll have a moving plan though.  I have the double stroller already unpacked and we’ll be enlisting my baby sister to be entertainment for the kids!
    What are you all thankful for this week?
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  • Things That Make Me Say Hmmm…

    Can’t believe I haven’t done one of these since last year!!  I probably have a list a mile long of things that have left me saying “Hmmm…”  I’m going to try to keep it short and sweet though.
    1-No Sleep Campaign: Forget ‘No New Friends.’  Drake should have made a song called ‘No Sleep Friends’ because that is exactly what’s been going on around these parts.  Moo and JJ have officially launched a No Sleep campaign against me.  Moo is beyond the napping stage and I’ve cut out JJ taking naps in the evenings.  However, when it’s time to go to bed neither are tired.
    And when I do finally get them to go to sleep, one of them wakes up a hour or two later.  Then, of course the other one senses that we are up and decides to get up too.  Now I will say that Moo is good about falling back to sleep once she sees that it’s still too early to be up.  Y’all if you didn’t know, I’m about my sleep!  For real, I don’t do well when I’m running on E.  Pray for me that these kiddies will get it together.
    2-Ghost Neighbors:  So, it seems like the apartment next to us has officially been leased out.  The problem is that I have yet to see my neighbors.  I mean I hear them over because they are LOUD!  But for some reason, they don’t use the front door.  And I don’t use our back door.  I’ve caught a glimpse of what I thought was his lady friend and thought she lived there with him, but I was mistaken because I haven’t seen the mystery woman since that one day.
    And speaking of my ghost neighbor(s), they tried to jack us for our trash and recycling cans!  No boo.  You just moved in and you already done tried it.  There is no free trash collection here in the Queen City.  We’re paying almost $20 a month for the city to empty those cans.  And they had the nerve to chuck their beer bottles and stuff in my trash can.  Like first off, glass and aluminium go in the recycling can.  Secondly, you can’t put anything in my trash can without asking.  Let’s hope this doesn’t become a repeat habit.
    3-Finding Jesus:  Did y’all see the season finale of Kris Jenner’s talk show?  I almost missed it too because one I didn’t even know I could catch her show.  And two, I thought it hadn’t even premiered yet.  I was way off.  Anyways, Kanye West was her guest and of course he debuted a picture of North.  She’s a cutie.
    But then he said that becoming a father made him want to “do more of God’s work.”  Now, I’m not sure how these celebrities define doing God’s work, but I do know that some of them should start by finding Jesus first!  Kanye West has done some very questionable and not so Christ-like things over these past few years. The prime example being getting his girlfriend pregnant while she was still MARRIED!!  So, I hope that he is serious about getting his life right.
    If you say you’re going to do something for God or turn your life around then you need to follow through.  I hope he wasn’t just saying all that stuff to just say it.  I think it would be great if he could be a role model for North on how we as Christians need to carry ourselves.  I know Kanye made that song ‘Jesus Walks’ but we all know that song is not a gospel track.  I never took him to be a person to be serious about religion, but he talked a good while about Jesus on Kris’ show.  I guess time will tell.

    4-Disney:  Moo is all about anything related to the Disney princesses.  It’s no surprise that Princess Jasmine and Princess Tiana are her favorites.  They do look the most like her after all.  The problem is that Princess Jasmine and Princess Tiana don’t appear to be favorites of Disney.  And Moo has been noticing that.  We have a Disney princess storybook and Tiana only has one story while the other princesses have at least three.

    We got her the Princess Pet app on the iPad and guess which princesses didn’t have pets?  Tiana and Jasmine.  Spotted a Disney princesses backpack in Walmart and guess what?  Tiana and Jasmine were missing again.  What good does it do to add diversity when you’re not going to include the diversity in all of your products?  I just feel like Disney could do a better job and incorporating Jasmine and Tiana into more of their Disney Princesses merchandise.

    Girls of color need to see characters that look like them.  And it’s not just Disney who could improve on this.  How many books have or backpacks have you seen with Barbie’s African American friend, Nikki?  I have seen none. Zip. Zero.  We’re living in a melting pot.  It’s time for these companies to quit their separate but equal ways behind them.

    Anything have you saying hmmm… these days?

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  • Bible 365: Week 35

    Happy Labor Day!!  Hope everyone had a great weekend.  We stayed inside this weekend due to the rain we got.  Can’t believe that we have just over 15 more weeks to go before we will have completed this Bible 365 Challenge!!  I’m very proud of myself for not throwing in the towel and being determined to read the Bible in its entirety. 
    Honestly, I didn’t expect to make it this far in the challenge.  I’m grateful for those of you who stuck it out with me too.  Continue to hang in there as we get ready to cross the finish line.  In Week 35, we read the books of Obadiah, Jonah, Micah and Nahum.  
    Of course, I’m sure that we’ve heard the story of Jonah and the whale before.  God had commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh and tell them about themselves but Jonah got scared.  So, he thought he’s run to Tarshish instead.  However, as this story proved, there is no running away from God.  The ship that Jonah was on got caught up in a terrible storm that God caused and when his shipmates found out that it was Jonah who was causing their ship to almost go down, they threw him into the ocean and he was swallowed up by whale.
    After three days and a much needed prayer, the whale deposited Jonah back on dry land.  This time around he didn’t chance it and try to run away from God again.  He did as he was instructed.  I just would have did as God had told me from the beginning.  I can imagine that Jonah felt like God was sending him on a suicide mission, but as pointed out in Nahum 1:7 “The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble;..”  God never sends us into dangerous situations without protection or having our backs.
    He’s always with us.  And even though, we don’t always know His plans or reasoning, we still need to trust Him.  Micah 6:8 tells us the God “has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”  And part of walking humbly with God is not running away from the responsibilities He gives to us.
    Week 36 Readings
    9/02:  Habakkuk 1-3
    9/03:  Zephaniah 1-3
    9/04:  Haggai 1-2
    9/05:  Zechariah 1-8
    9/06:  Zechariah 9-14
    9/07:  Malachi 1-4
    9/08:  Matthew 1-4
    What would you have done for three days if you were stuck inside a whale like Jonah?
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  • Thankful Thursday

    So, we have about two weeks before Moo’s preschool screening.  I’m a little worried that she’s going to test out of Pre-k.  That would be a good thing if they were going to push her own to kindergarten but they don’t do that because her birthday comes 4 months after the age deadline.  I’ve been thinking about putting her on a homeschooling schedule if she does and today we had our first rough run through!
    I will admit it was a challenge because I had to chase after and take breaks to entertain JJ but I am thankful to say it went well for the most part.  And my playgroup actually has recess dates at one of the local parks not too far from us.  So, we’ll make it work as Tim Gun would say in this situation.
    I am thankful that my speech therapy exercises with JJ are going well.  He’s making the effort to try to say words.  I’ve replaced his Mickey Mouse time with watching My Baby Can Read and videos about letters and how to sound them out.  And it’s all free thanks to YouTube.  I’ll be doing a post soon with links to the channels we like.  I also make more of an effort to not give him things until he tries to ask for them using sound instead of just pointing at them.
    These last few weeks I am thankful that I have taken the time to really focus on me, myself and I.  I feel like I’ve been putting other people first so much that I forgot to take my needs and I felt like I was about to spiral into a dark cloud.  I decided to turn off my phone and dial back on my social media for about a month and take time to smell the roses and be present in my family life at home more.  A few people are not too pleased with this choice but I did this for me and not them.  We all need a break every so often from the outside world.
    I feel refreshed and have had the opportunity to refocus on some things.  It’s been nice to be sort of MIA.
    What are y’all thankful for this week? 

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  • Bible 365: Week 34

    Happy Monday!!  How was y’all’s weekends?  We did make it out the house and to the park.  Not the one on our block, but a different park with a bigger jungle gym.  Anyways, I got so caught up cooking dinner, cleaning, dealing with the kids and stuff that I almost forgot about my Bible 365 post.
    This week we finished up the books of Hosea, Joel and Amos.  As has been the case with most of the Old Testament, these books talk about the Israelites and how they continued to wander from God’s grace.  In these books, at times it appears that God is torn between punishing the Israelites and turning a blind eye to them for good or blessing them and giving them the land of milk and honey.  He’s tried for many generations to give the Israelites chances to redeem themselves, but for some reason they keep going back to worshiping idols, human sacrifices, adultery and other bad habits. Below are a few scriptures that stood out for me in Week 34.
    1-“Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done marvelous things!” (Joel 2:21)  This is exactly why I do my Thankful Thursday posts.  It’s so easy for to get like the Israelites and forget that God does and has done marvelous things for us and our loved ones.
    2-“And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Joel 2:32)  Often times we’re waiting on God to rescue us from our current circumstances.  However, we have yet to call on Him for help.  While He is a mind reader, we still need to call on Him directly and let Him know His help is needed.
    3-“They hate the one who rebukes in the gate, and they abhor the one who speaks uprightly.” (Amos 5:10)  When you’re trying to live right and do the right thing, you’ll find that not everyone is going to like you.  You’re going to have people who will hate on you for no reason other than you’re trying to do the right thing and live positively.  It’s just part of the territory that comes with being a good person.
    Again thank you to everyone who continues to read, share and comment on my Bible 365 posts!  I have just a little over 500 pages left of reading before I will have read the entire Bible!!  Yes, it’s getting close.  I’m sure that if I really wanted to I could knock out these 500 pages in two weeks, but I’m sticking to the plan and stretching it out until the end of December.
    Week 35 Readings
    8/26: Obadiah 1
    8/27:  Jonah 1-2
    8/28:  Jonah 3-4
    8/29:  Micah 1-2
    8/30:  Micah 3-5
    8/31:  Micah 6-7
    9/01:  Nahum 1-3
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  • Thankful Thursday

    It is almost the weekend again!  Not sure what we’re going to do yet though.  There’s a park literally at the end of our street and around the corner.  So, if the weather holds up we might venture to check it out.  Notice anything different?  Well for starters the Thankful Thursday logo is different.  And I also got rid of the Blogger navigation bar that’s usually at the top of every page.
    There are more changes to come as I learn how to redesign my blog.  That brings me to the first thing that I am thankful for this week-DIY blog tutorials.  It’s a blessing to have other bloggers and graphic designers out there who don’t mind sharing a few of their tricks.  Sure it would be easier to hire a blog designer to revamp, but then I wouldn’t be learning anything.  And if anything went wrong with the design I’d have to be dependent the designer and spend more money to have the problem fixed.  I don’t want to be dependent on anyone when it comes to YUMMommy.
    I’m thankful that so far August hasn’t been nearly as rainy as July was.  There have definitely been more opportunities for us to get out and explore.  I’m thankful that we live up the street from one of our favorite restaurants-Chicken King!!  If y’all ever come to the Queen City, check out one of their locations.  The food is so yummy.
    We’re still waiting for Moo’s screening appointment for Pre-K, but in the meanwhile she’s been voluntarily asking me to go over her ABCs, numbers and more with her!  It’s one thing for me to initiate learning.  But now that she does it, my heart just swells even more with mommy joy!  I think every parent wants their child to love learning and have a proactive role in building their education.  I’m thankful for every extra step that have and will continue to take to shape my children into better people!

    What are you thankful for this week?


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  • YGM2: DIY Vow Renewal Series

    A about a week ago, I announced that the Mr and I have decided that we want to renew our vows.  If you didn’t see that post you can check out the re-proposal here!  Anyways, it got me to thinking that maybe I should chronicle this journey here on YUMMommy.  Now I had already planned to write about the important stuff like finding my dress, what our new wedding bands will look like and all that other good stuff.  But then I saw from the comments and a few tweets that a few you wanted me to do a whole series.  And I thought ‘why not?’
    Behold YUMMommy Getting Married: DIY Vow Renewal Series!  I’m really excited about this series because for starters I love all things wedding and love related.  I’m a hopeless romantic at heart and when the Mr and I decided to elope instead of having a wedding, I was a little bit heartbroken about it.  Every woman has dreamed since she was probably 4 or 6 about what her wedding day would be like.  I was no different.
    But when we first tried trying to plan a wedding after we got engaged there was just way too much going on in our lives.  Then I got pregnant with Moo.  And from there y’all know stuff kind of fell apart and we ended our relationship for a year.  But when we decided to get back together, we were so determined to make it ‘official’ that we just kind of skipped over the idea of planning wedding and just eloped.   Not to mention, I had found out that I was pregnant with JJ.  So, I wasn’t really going to be in the mood or shape to plan some huge affair.
    This time around though is different.  We’re in a good place.  Our third wedding anniversary is coming up next month.  And the best part of all is that I’m not pregnant and don’t plan on being pregnant until the end of 2014 or early 2015.  So, no worries there.
    However, the one worry that I do have is budget.  Weddings, even vow renewals, are known to be a bit on the expensive end.  And we’re not ballin’.  Not yet anyway.  It’s like as soon as you mention the word wedding prices for flowers, cakes and clothes doubles and in some cases triples.  So, I’ve decided diy and hustle as much stuff for this vow renewal as I can.  
    Part of the reason is because I really want to be able to splurge on the reception location and food.  At the end of the day if nothing else goes right on the day of, I want to be comfortable (not too hot, not too cold) and I want to be able to eat my share of delicious food.  We’re keeping it kind of small and intimate in terms of the guest list.  So, I’m really confident that things are going to fall into place.  
    I will be using my blogging/networking connections to get deals and hookups anyway and anywhere I can.  There is no shame in my planning.  And speaking of networking, if you’re currently blogging (or have blogged) about your wedding/vow renewal ceremony be sure to let me know here.  I’d love to show you some love and spotlight your posts in the YUMMommy Getting Married Facebook and Google+ albums.  I’ll also be giving out retweets and blog shoutouts.  Think of it as my way of spreading the bloggy love!
    Whelp see ya next week for another YGM2 post!
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