Long and Challenging

[Poetgal]

 Wow, it's going to be a long and challenging time with everything.  I know I am not that far along to where it should be bothering me that much, but trying to take care of my 2 DDs that I have now it's proving to be challenging.  My 7yr old is not wanting to help out by doing the few little chores I have asked her to do. Aside from the usual hygene routine all I ask her to do is make her bed and keep the toys picked up around the house and put her dirty clothes in the laundry room instead of her bedroom floor.  But she hardly picks up the toys unless I get after her about it and the only time that she picks up her clothes is when I give her a shower or when she starts to run out of something. Now my 2yr old is providing the challenge right now.  I am trying to work with her on her potty training and she was doing good for a little bit there.  But now she seems like she is back-tracking.  She is sitting there on the couch or the chair and will soak herself and not say a word about it. She used to at least tell us when she was wet. But now she won't. I have her in undies during the day to try and motivate her. I know I have heard ppl say that I should put her in undies day and night and it should help.  But especially right now with me being pregnant I don't want to be getting up in the middle of the night all the time when she wets herself.  I have problems getting to sleep at night when my DH is gone all week. So to have her up several times through the night would make for an extremely tired mama durring the day.  With all the taking her to the bathroom and everything I am getting stomach cramps and stuff already. I am considered a high risk pregnancy as it is with my past history and I want to do what I can to make things go okay with this one. I had 2 born 5 weeks early, one miscarriage and one of the ones that was 5 weeks early was also born with several CHD and other defects and passed away after 4 months old. So I am trying to do what I can to stay healthy and take it easy. I will admit that it's not easy to do with it all. I don't smoke anymore, so that cuts out that risk. But I am usually an avid caffiene drinker so that is something that I am working on. I have not drank any caffinated beverages since I found out. So that in itself makes me feel more wore out and exhausted durring the day.  I just hope and pray that everything goes okay. Right now DH works driving gravel truck about 3 hour drive away.  He stays up there all week every week and then comes home either every weekend or every other weekend.  But he is going to talk to some guy this weekend about a job that will pay alot better.  The down side of it is that he will be furthur away then he is now.  That and I am not sure that it will work out either. It's with a guy that's just getting started with a trucking business up by the oil fields. What if he quits the job he has now to take that one and then it doesn't work out? Then we are sitting here with bills that need to be paid, 2 children, and one on the way and no income. We can't afford for that to happen. I am so worried about it and I haven't had time to talk to DH about it either. We talk for a little bit on the phone but then he has to get going or whatever and we don't have time to really talk about it. But I suppose it is past 10pm here and I should get some rest before the day tomorrow. I hope that everyone is doing well and I will write again another time.