Maternity leave has been great…for those of you that know me know that I’m kinda a planner! I had this baby around when we’d have time off…our disability insurance, mom being retired, etc. etc. Well this week has been the most stressful week in a while…I found out that my disability insurance made a policy change, and my school district ALLOWED that change as of July 1st (a month after we had open enrollment) and without notifying its members. So without getting into TOO much boring details…I’ll save ALL those for the attorney that my teachers union is sending me to next week (yes its THAT serious that we are possibly getting into a lawsuit!)…all my planning went out the window and we are now SCREWED!! Doesn’t that sound awesome….NOT! BUT I know we’ll get through this, as we always do but man its upsetting!
I’m 38 weeks pregnant now…and we are 6 days away from our scheduled c-section date! Weird to think that this day week our little Lady will be 1 day old. I wonder everyday, what will she look like?!? Will she come out looking and acting like our little Owen did?
Owen and I spend most of our days together…hanging out at home or running errands. People have asked me “What have you been doing?” and I know they are assuming my lazy butt has probably stayed in pj’s most days doing nothing BUT that’s TOTALLY NOT the case. Between doctors appts, shopping, etc. we have kept ourselves pretty busy around here. Since Owen still goes to Martha’s 2 days a week…I get 2 days to either rest (which I did ONCE) or shop with Mother! I told ya….her being retired and me on leave can be deadly! haha But its been extremely nice…and I feel blessed to have been able to get to spend the past 3 weeks with my little man. I get a little emotional thinking about how different it will be once we are a family of 4 and he’s not the center of our world…he’ll have to share that spot with his baby sister.
Speaking of staying busy…
My pregnant friend Heather ended up having her little man early…yes after our beach fun last weekend she ended up have Baby Carter on Monday Jan. 21st by c-section because of her HELLP syndrome and platelet levels. Both Mommy and Carter are doing great and now we ALL sit and wait around for our girl Ella to show up!
Little Carter aka Ella’s future prom date!
7lb 9oz
This is Carter giving Ella a pep talk on how to evacuate the facility…but don’t think it worked…she hasn’t made any moments to make her exit just yet!
I cried when we were saying goodbye to Kaydin on our way to the hospital to have Kamryn. And I am NOT a crier! Just thinking about how the next time I saw him he wouldn't be my only baby, and would never be my only baby after that. But he had 3 1/2 good years being the only baby. And now he loves his little sister :)
ReplyDeleteI love all of your pics - especially you holding Owen on your belly. Can't wait to see pics of the new little lady!!