And she's back! Spring is here and so am I.

It's been a long time since I've posted on here. Too long. Months. Okay my whole pregnancy plus the last 5 weeks. I totally owe this blog an explanation since I barely wrote many posts in my brand new baby blog before I got pregnant with a real baby. But yes, for anyone who was reading (anyone?) I do still exist.

It is now May and so much has changed since I last posted back in August.

It was basically a nightmare pregnancy and I stopped posting because let's face it, I was merely just trying to survive through it. But I won't bore you with the pregnancy details.

Just kidding. You're gonna hear it ALL.

I ended up getting severe  Hyperemisis Gravidarum. Hyper-what you ask? Basically the sickness that Princess Kate Middleton gets while preggo. The one where you vomit ten times a day? That's the one. For a few days I couldn't even keep down water. I could not manage my boys at all let alone write in a blog. My one mission became just to make sure they were fed and didn't kill each other. I laid on the couch in helpless isolated misery for weeks, vomiting and going in and out of fevers.  If I had them partially dressed for the day it was a bonus.

The nausea started to lift at around 23 weeks. Ironically, this is when my symptoms for Choleostasis of the the liver began. I developed a pregnancy-induced liver disorder with tormenting itching. Also known as ICP. I was jaundice for a bit and had no energy. And it was like things were under my skin. The worst of it happens at night, y'know, so you don't get to sleep before having to wake up with quarreling toddlers. I scraped myself with metal objects just to get to that horrible itch. I had open sores on my palms and my feet. I am so grateful for my beautiful baby. But I am so, SO glad that pregnancy is over.  There I am below, about a week before I gave birth..... so over being pregnant.

37 weeks

So there you go, my horrific pregnancy in a nut-shell! Oddly, I still want maybe one more baby. But way, way down the road. Maybe in 5 years. To be continued on that one.

What else is new with our family?

For starters, we did not move to Texas. Instead, when I was 3 months pregnant we found a really good deal on a house in the country that had 1.5 acres and 3 outbuildings (barn, extra garage, and chicken coop). Since our townhouse lease was up in October and we were expecting another child, we decided it was time for more room. And somewhere for our boys to run around freely like the little wild Amazon men they truly are.


Here it is, the day we got it.  Finally some elbow room! Living in 900 square feet was getting cramped.















The boys can do "country" things now like play under the neighbor's tractor across the dirt road. Formerly, tractors only existed on TV and in books, so the boys are pretty much in heaven these days.  My husband bought six chickens a week after I gave birth. We don't know anything about raising chickens, or living in the country for that matter, so we are winging it (excuse the pun) and thanking God for you-tube tutorials.

 
 
 

 

 To add to our country move, I started teaching piano at a music shop and now have 6 students. We do still want to go to Texas (for a number of reasons) one day, but for now we are here.

And the biggest news of course is that I had my baby! She was born April 7th at 2:16 pm and is absolute sweet baby perfection!