Adventures in Marriages, Military, South Jersey and now Parenthood.
When I found out I was pregnant with Jack, I had a lot of concerns: added expenses, how this would affect my new job, would I be able to lose the baby weight again, and how would I manage two kids. With Tim in the Army, he’s guaranteed to be away from home at least… [Read More...]
My biggest concern with adding a new member to our family wasn’t how I was going to manage two kids but how those two kids were going to interact with one another. I was really worried that Sophia would become jealous and resentful once we brought Jack home and she realized he wasn’t just some… [Read More...]
It took me about six months after Sophia was born to realize breastfeeding was not going to take me all the way back to my pre-pregnancy weight and shape like I had hoped it would. I came to the sad realization I was going to have to put actual effort into losing the remaining pounds… [Read More...]
Do you know what happens when you deliver a ten pound baby in under fifteen minutes? Your tailbone suffers the consequences. Seriously. I haven’t been able to sit down correctly in two weeks. When I woke up the morning after delivering and tried to get back in bed after a trip to the bathroom, I… [Read More...]
I almost can’t believe it’s taken me ten days to write this post but then I remind myself I have two kids now and that actually keeps one pretty busy. When I last left posted I was completely flabbergasted that I was 5 centimeters dilated and not in active labor. I was really worried that… [Read More...]
So yesterday I was all “woe’s is me I’m still pregnant and I’ll have to have the induction talk with the OB tomorrow”. Sure enough I woke up pregnant again this morning and headed out for my appointment. I’ll spare you all the details but I had my exam and sure enough I’m 5 cm… [Read More...]
So this is still going on. And I feel like I’m repeating history all over again; a history that I would really like to avoid. Last time I took it all in stride and tried to laugh about it but when I woke up this morning still hugely pregnant I just felt so defeated. Like… [Read More...]
Any day now. At least that’s what the OB’s office has been telling me since last week and my OB’s shock was apparent when she saw that I was even there for my appointment today; she had assumed with the progress I had made I would have had delivered already. I know better though…apparently my… [Read More...]
Like I said in my last post about the nursery, I had a really difficult time coming up with inspiration for Jack’s room. You would think with the gift of Pinterest I would have been drowning in ideas and I think that was just it…there was too much inspiration out there…my brain just overloaded. I’m… [Read More...]
Wheee!!! Today is Wednesday #3 that I have been kid-free for the entire day. It has also been by far the best of those three Wednesdays. I’m thoroughly enjoying my time off and getting to spend it with Sophia every day. We’ve fallen into a nice little routine and I haven’t had crazy expectations that… [Read More...]
