Let's Figure It Out : A quick blog before trying to catch a nap

Hello out there...hope you all are doing well in blog land. Things are going well here. Counting down the weeks...not quite days yet...although we are almost under 60 days? Is that possible?

Where were we when we last spoke. I believe I was discussing getting new appliances. Stove is here!!! And it's beautiful. I feel like such a big kid with a big kid stove. Molly is so cute, she says, "Mommy's stove. Hot." Guess you can tell who does most of the cooking in our house. Everything lately is defined by whose it is. Mommy's couch, Daddy's chair. Daddy's bed...what?? Fortunately I'm still allowed in it, but only on Mommy's side.

Dishwasher should be arriving tomorrow. Yay. Hmm...let's discuss more about this Customer Service issue. A friend of mine recently posted on another blog about her frustration in the lack of Customer Service. Add Sears to that list of places I am frustrated with. We planned to order the dishwasher and stove from them since we had heard good things about the Kenmore Dishwashers, as well as the ranges. Figured we would also take advantage of the discount when using the Sears credit card....So John and I went to Sears, picked out what we wanted but decided to wait until the weekend when there would be an additional discount. Salesperson told us, that's fine, just call and we'll take care of it! After being on the phone with them for 30 minutes to try to get a phone credit authorization I told them forget it and I would order it online. Felt bad for the sales lady not getting her commission, but I just didn't have the time. So in about 3 minutes I ordered online. Website said next available delivery for the stove would be in 2 days. Woohoo...start tearing out that stove top and call the electrician! So we did. Only to find out that the "website isn't always updated" and it's up to "delivery when they deliver." Um....what's the point of saying, next available delivery if that isn't really the day you can deliver to me? They scheduled delivery for both the stove and the washer for Nov. 21st, leaving me without a stove top or oven for over 10 days! I wasn't happy.

Fortunately, I did what I should have done to begin with. I called Marie at Gallo's Appliances in New Haven. LOVE HER!!!!! I tell her the situation, she says, "give me the product number for the Kenmore range and I will call back with a similar GE." 10 minutes later, she called. Placed the order. Had stove in LESS than 24 hours. Yay. Dishwasher wasn't in her inventory so she had to order it from the warehouse, so that will come tomorrow. Which is fine, I've lived without a decent dishwasher for a long time...I'm used to it. But I can't not cook for 10 days. That just doesn't work.

So the point? Go Local. Support your local businesses.

What else? Oh yeah, I had an ultrasound yesterday :). Everything looks good. Baby boy is growing, even if I'm not. The Endocrinologist actually seemed a little concern about my lack of weight gain (I actually lost 2 lbs last week.) But Baby Boy is 4 lbs 3 oz and is 66 percentile. I tried to tell her the baby was fine and I'm just losing it in my butt from chasing around a crazy child, but she seemed concerned.