I'm a Working Mama

When Diego was born I absolutely knew that I wanted to stay at home with him and not go back to work. I was so thankful to Isaac for working so hard and making enough money so that I could stay at home with my baby. It would be so hard for me to go back to work and have someone else raise my baby. But with our little family outgrowing our little apartment, I knew that we needed to start saving for a place to buy and living in California is expensive and it hard to save.

But then I found something that was a such a blessing. I started to work from home. At first I was really skeptical about this company because I was afraid it was a scam. I did a lot of research and talked to other people who worked for this company and had success. It seemed ok so I decided to try it out. And it is great. I get to work from home whenever I want, set my own hours, and work how much I want to. It is commission based, so the harder I work, the more I get paid. I just wish I had known about this sooner and I would have done it while I was pregnant.

The more I work, the better and faster I get at it. I supposed that I take longer than other people would because I have a six month old baby who is constantly needing my attention. But I realized if I just get really organized and set goals for myself, it is pretty easy. Before I started this job I felt like I needed to contribute monetarily to my family so that we could progress and not live like college students anymore,and now I can do that and still be at home with my baby. Diego is and always be my first priority, but it gives me such peace of mind that I can help pay off our student loan and start saving for our little family.

It's Been Awhile

So I haven't felt much like blogging lately. Probably cause not much is going on. Well, actually there has been a lot of things happening, but I have always been bad at taking pictures and keeping in touch.

So since I blogged lasted, Diego turned 6 months! Hooray! He is still not sleeping through the night which used to cause me a lot of stress, but then I just decided I needed to relax. While I wish I got more sleep, its ok. He usually goes right back to sleep.

He is getting his first tooth! It is on the bottom and soooooo cute. He will be a little snaggletooth just like his mama was. And it is so amazing to watch him develop. He is such a little boy now and not so much a baby. The other day we were in Wendy's for lunch and he was so curious. Isaac and I didn't have a very peaceful lunch with Diego trying to grab our trays, hamburgers, drinks, fries, keys, hair, etc. He succeeded in grabbing Isaac's water and dumping it all over Isaac. Isaac had to go back to work looking like he wet his pants. HA!

Isaac is still working hard and I am just chilling with my boy. We still love living in San Clemente and are hoping that we can buy a condo here pretty soon. That would be absolutely great because we are quickly outgrowing out little apartment.

Date Night

Isaac came up with an idea for a game that we played the other night. We each came up with 5 different words that would be a theme. We put them all in a hat and took turns drawing a theme and we each had to write a love poem based on that theme. Here are some of the best ones. Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: Most of these poems are meant to be funny, sorry if you think they are inappropriate, we had fun.

Theme: Grass

People say the grass is always greener

But with you I am no wiener

I'm right where I want to be

You are like spiritual fertilizer to me

And I can't wait to continue to spread our seed

------ By Isaac

Your eyes are as green as grass

Your body, a large, toned mass

Your words I will heed

You make me feel like I am on weed

Your lips I want to kiss

You I never want to miss

-------By Kara

Theme: BYU

Baby I'm a fool for you

I gotta say,my real life began at BYU

My dreams may have always been as big as New York

But it wasn't til I was with you that I felt the best, real support

And now together we will achieve our dreams,

In a life that smells as sweet as potpourri

------ Isaac

Love is in the air at BYU

Millions of couples feel it too

The only place weddings happen overnight

Looking for love, find it you might

Come to BYU to get a degree,

Leave BYU with a family tree

------Kara

Theme:Bubbles

You are as cute as a bubble

My mom says you are trouble

But I don't care,

I like your cute butt and hair

You make me feel as light as air

Together we will have no cares

-------Kara

Theme: Mud

Without you I feel like crud

Be without you? I would rather eat mud

It's you that I choose

Cus baby you ain't no dud

------Isaac

Your name is mud

When you chew your food like a chud

You may be a slob

But it would take a mob

To drag me away from my man

Who is so tan,

Like mud

----- Kara

Theme: Chainsaws

My love is strong like a chainsaw

It will cut through adversity and unlucky draws

There is no tree of adversity

That can stand between you and me

Baby, I love you ARRRRRRRRRRR (chainsaw noise)

------Isaac

It was so much fun to write these poems, we had more but I just put the best ones up.

So Sweet

Diego Isaac Camacho

He is finally here. This post is a little late in coming, but I have a new baby to take care of and I am not getting much sleep these days.

Diego was due Dec 28th, which came and past with no signs of him showing up. Previously we had set an induction date so that I didn't go into my 42 week. It was set for Jan 5th, a Tuesday. The Sunday before we went to church and I wasn't feeling well. I was cramping and just felt blah. So after Sacrament meeting I went home to nap. I felt a little better after that. We had a pretty lazy day after Isaac got home from his meetings. Then we received a phone call from my doctor to make sure I was doing ok and let me know some things that I needed to do for my induction on Monday morning. WHAT?! The people who scheduled my induction told me wrong. So after we found out that it was going to be the next morning, we hurried and did some last minute chores (laundry, dishes, etc.)

We wanted to go to bed early so that we would have enough sleep to handle the oncoming day. Yeah that didn't happen. We both couldn't sleep for the life of us. Finally around 12:30 Isaac fell asleep, but no such luck for me. My cramps started to get worse so I decided to take a warm shower to relax. I got back in bed around 1:30. I tossed and turned for a while and then I began to drift off to sleep. I was half awake and half asleep when I felt like I wet my pants. That woke me up! I got up to see what was going on. No I hadn't wet myself, my water had broke! I woke Isaac up and within 10 or 15 minutes my contractions started. And they were HARD! Sorry if this is TMI, but I was throwing up and bent over. And I was MAD! Poor Isaac got yelled at many times for suggesting things like, "lets put on your pants so we can go to the hospital". When we finally got me all dressed and in the car, Isaac sped to the hospital. I was in a lot of pain and so tired! We got me all checked in and I decided I wanted an epidural.

Ahhhh, the power of drugs. Although I must say, the anesthiologist was a tool. He came into my room, didn't even introduce himself and barked, "you need to cooperate". Nice to meet you too. Isaac was a champ though all of this. Poor guy. I was in so much pain when they were putting in my epideral I nearly sawed off his fingers with my fingernails. I didn't want to be the only one in pain. But after I got the drugs in me, I was nice again.

By 7:00 I was ready to push. I pushed for about an hour and half. Diego was being stubborn and didn't want to come out. His head was in a weird position in the birth canal. I would push and he would move down, but once I stopped pushing he would move right back up. The epidural was great for getting me out of pain so I could rest, but when it came time to push, I could feel how to do it. I kinda regret getting it for that reason. Because Diego's head was in a weird position, it was putting a lot of stress on him. His heart rate would spike and drop too rapidly and he was stuck. So the doctor wanted to do a c section. Isaac and I felt that was the best option because we wanted him out safe.

So they prepped me for surgery and wheeled me away. This boy was big! They had a hard time get him out of me with a c section. The doctor had to lay on my stomach to push him out.

Diego was born at 12:12 on January 4th, 2010. He weighed 8lbs 15oz and was 20 inches long. He cried intally of course, but then calmed right down. He is such a peaceful, content baby. We stayed in the hospital for 5 days so that I could recover. It was a good time.

We love Diego so much and feel so blessed to have him in our family, but I gotta go now cause the little angel is waking up from his nap and wants to eat!