I am totally falling apart at the seams.  due to some really ridiculous circumstances, I never got to be at the hospital today to see Jon after his surgery & thus also wasn't able to talk to the surgeon about what they found/did.  Jon's mom was there instead, and what she told me the surgeon said was totally confusing & scary & I'm pretty sure she ( Read more... )

my baby is not a baby anymore!  he's a TODDLER, OMG.  he took four steps by himself tonight and I totally cried.  I can't believe how fast he is growing up...every day he does more and more.  I am SO PROUD.

so the biggest thing in 2011 was the arrival of my wonderful baby boy!  in fact, since (i believe) he was conceived some time around Christmas 2010, i basically spent the entire year either pregnant with or getting to know my boy.  the pregnancy was hard (quite bad nausea throughout most of it, and a horrible and scary experience with kidney stones ( Read more... )

i'm probably going to totally jinx myself by saying this, but i'm not finding motherhood to be nearly as difficult as i expected it to be. granted, we have the world's easiest baby. he fusses only when he's got legitimate things to complain about like a wet diaper or hunger, but not much else -- and he sleeps quite well (already mostly sleeping ( Read more... )

this baby does not seem to want to exit the womb, which is making me go slightly insane.

sorry, i know i probably sound like a broken record lately, but it's really hard to focus on much else ( Read more... )

these past couple of weeks i've been exhausted, a lot.  there are times during the day when i can barely keep my eyes open, and lying down on the couch is just about all i can manage.  which stinks, because there's a lot of stuff i want to get done before mr. baby arrives.  luckily, the extreme exhaustion seems to come in fits and spurts, which ( Read more... )

highly amused to note that as of today (5 weeks 3 days from our due date), i have only gained 10 pounds this entire pregnancy.  surprising to me...i thought for sure i would have put on a lot more weight than that by now.

i was just talking to jon about this last night, so i've been thinking about it a lot today.  before i quit my job, i was pretty fearful about how we were going to manage (mostly financially, somewhat mentally) with just one income/one of us working.  now that we're a few months in, i've found that it's actually a more enjoyable state of existance ( Read more... )

tues/early morning wednesday i had been having some back pains.  i mostly felt like i'd pulled a muscle on the right side of my back, and had been treating it with heat packs, mostly.  wed. morning i had a weird feeling about it and told jon to make sure he had his phone on him that day so i could reach him if i needed to...and it was a good thing ( Read more... )