What a crazy and emotional week it\u2019s been! It all started last week when my grandmother was admitted to the hospital after the folks at the home found her unresponsive. Sadly, it concluded this past Sunday when she passed away and with her funeral on Wednesday. Without airing too much dirty laundry, I hadn\u2019t talked to or seen my grandmother in over 10 years, yet at the funeral I was bawling along with the rest of my cousins. I\u2019d like to blame the walking hormone cocktail that I have become, but it probably wasn\u2019t that. Who knows what it was. Anyhow, it was a nice, private service with a nice Chinese luncheon afterwards (we\u2019re Filipino, so lord knows why we went Chinese). I took the three days bereavement my company allows\u2026Wednesday, for the funeral\u2026Thursday, for helping my mom and my uncle start to clean out my grandmother\u2019s house\u2026and today, Friday, for sleeping late and running errands.<\/p>\n
The Lab as my 2nd home<\/strong><\/p>\n Today I went in for my 2nd blood drawing, the AFP test. The woman at registration had asked if I had been here before\u2026ha! This place feels like my second home, I\u2019m here so often (or so it seems)! Unfortunately, Don couldn\u2019t tap into a vein the first try, so he had to draw the blood from my hand. \ud83d\ude41 This time it wasn\u2019t bad\u2026I had blood drawn last Fall from some guy who probably didn\u2019t pass his exam\u2026he poked my right arm \u2013 nothing\u2026my left \u2013 nothing\u2026finally, someone else had to come in and rescue me from being pin cushion, and drew the blood from my hand. Only one more test to go \u2013 the glucose test and hopefully the blood drawing will be done\u2026for now.<\/p>\n That stroller costs how much?!<\/strong><\/p>\n S and I started our baby window shopping last weekend. It\u2019s quite overwhelming if you don\u2019t have a game plan. <\/p>\n We started out with furniture \u2013 the cribs had either no price tags or hard-to-find price tags, so you know that\u2019s a bad sign. We saw some nice pieces\u2026but I think that we\u2019ll be checking out IKEA \u2013 I\u2019m not sure that the quality would be same, but at least we can say that we at least looked.<\/p>\n Then we ventured into strollers and carseats. Oy! Talk about a ga-zillion choices! At this point, I\u2019m glad that S bought the Consumer Reports book on baby stuff. Safe to say that we WON\u2019T be getting a Bugaboo<\/a>. Though cute and design friendly, they cost a pretty penny<\/a>. I just can\u2019t justify paying SO much for something that you\u2019re going to use only for a few months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a crazy and emotional week it\u2019s been! It all started last week when my grandmother was admitted to the hospital after the folks at the home found her unresponsive. Sadly, it concluded this past Sunday when she passed away and with her funeral on Wednesday. Without airing too much dirty laundry, I hadn\u2019t talked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}