Christina's World

Dogs, Food, Me.

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Hi guys

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Bumping along at 25 weeks 🦄💕 (at Bentonville, Arkansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3CZ_FDHQvv/?igshid=1noyh7d1szwlc

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Oh hey! #17weeks

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Science

We are trying for a baby and I cannot believe how scientific it is for us. Some people get pregnant without trying. I am taking my temperature, counting days, documenting cervical mucus, testing for my LH surge, etc. I am almost 36 years old and have a 10% chance of getting pregnant naturally(per the specialist and the books). I am not willing to go broke to have a baby (fertility stuff is expensive) so I have decided that if it doesn’t happen before I turn 37, I am having my iud reinserted and moving on. I don’t want to be sending off a kid to prom when I’m 60 and if I can’t have a baby by 37 I want to close the door on it. There is so much life and world for us, outside of being parents. As much as I desperately hope and pray to become a mother, if I cannot be, that will not define me. Honestly I’m just thankful to have a husband who is willing to ride this scary and insane wave with me.

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I need to document this

I am willingly accompanying my husband on this frigid, wet pre-dawn Saturday for a duck hunting excursion on a secret, not oft-used channel of an unnamed river. He built the blind designed to keep us from being swept away by the wind and I am tasked with navigating the trolling motor through the stumpy bog. I am sucking down this Irish coffee whilst he educates me on hunting etiquette and inspite of my aversion to killing, I am just happy to be with him, even in this cold, dark place.

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Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate with us, I loved being a bride and am so thankful. 🖤 #finallykelly @stacey.kelly.50 @sjnorton2012 @ja9gunn (at The Hive) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsDANLnHcDl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13gcqh60b7jr8

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GPOY

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I’m getting married this month!!!!

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💕 | engagement | 💕 📷 @blisshappensphotography (at Tanyard Creek Nature Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpR-sFVh5it/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ccq9o0zs1ex6

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I said yes 💍 (at Bentonville, Arkansas)

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The Jewish Museum remembers artist Robert Indiana, creator of the iconic Love sculpture, one of the most recognizable artworks of the 20th century. His work in the Jewish Museum collection Ahava means love in Hebrew 💔

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The north face of Mt St Helens collapses at 8:32 a.m. on Sunday, May 18, 1980, creating the largest landslide ever recorded and signalling the start of a VEI 5 eruption, considered the most disastrous in US history.

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I close on my house at the end of the month, my boss is pleased with my work, and there is a handsome man (very unexpectedly) calling me “sweetie” so I guess everything’s coming up Millhouse!

🏡💸💖

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Love letter to myself-

Some days you forget to move dishes from the sink to the dishwasher or take out your contacts or reply to messages. Maybe you go to bed wearing mascara from two days ago. You might get really low on gas before you fill up. You don’t file your papers or organize the bills.

If you find yourself having several of those days in a row, remember you don’t have to beat yourself up or throw out the baby with the bath water.

Drink a glass of water and take your meds. If that’s all you can do in the way of self care, do it. The vitamins and face masks and organized linen closet and vacuumed car and swept porch will all follow. But for now do those two thing: meds and water.

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Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.

Xan Oku (via i-kka-s)

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Me, house hunting-

1. Ugh that house is a piece of- ohhh a hot tub that conveys!!! 😬

2. This is the one I want, only $190k over budget. 🙃

3. A garage is a non-negotiable. Sees cute house with a carport and texts agent “why didn’t we look at this one?”😐

4. It HAS to be close to work but I’m zillowing homes that are a 45 minute commute🤦🏻‍♀️

5. Near the gym is ideal so I don’t have to transfer my membership! Agent says “in the end wouldn’t you rather have the perfect home even if it’s not near the” me, interrupting “hahahaha no😺”

In summation I am not ready yet and will just save my pesos until the market cools off 🤯