Mommathon

I will spare you the gory details, but let's just say I had some fairly serious complications from the surgery I had on Friday and this morning started with an ambulance and more blood than you ever want to see come out of one person all at the same time. I am fine now and am at home resting, but I never ever want to go to a hospital again. I never want a catheter. I never want a nurse to tell me that she blew my vein. I never want to hear a doctor tell me that I may have to have surgery again even though I just had that surgery four days ago. I never want to have two sonograms in a row after they have deliberately filled my bladder to capacity and then clamped my catheter so I can't pee. Oh, and I never want to have to hear that those sonograms, after all that trouble, were inconclusive. And yes, I have still spared you the gory details.

Monday-Pastina Soup, Salad
Tuesday-Turkey Rueben Sandwiches, Chips
Wednesday-Sean's Birthday...out to dinner
Thursday-Chicken Pot Pie, Salad
Friday-Pesto with Farfelle
Saturday-Baked Chicken, Roasted Potatoes, Green Beans

Our book club has chosen John Steinbeck's East of Eden as our next read. We decided we wanted to read something that might be considered an American classic, so we looked over some high school reading lists that we found on-line and decided on this one. I need to get going on it. We are meeting right after Thanksgiving and I haven't even started yet. It is not a short book.

Colm came home today from school and was a little upset that he had "unjustly" gotten in trouble today at school. Luke had cut in front of him in line, so Colm pushed him and Colm got in trouble. He couldn't understand why he got in trouble when Luke was the one that cut in front of him. We talked about it and how to better handle similar situations in the future, but it was just too cute. I could tell that he really felt an injustice had taken place. It's hard being four.

My blog has been quiet for the past week because we have been going through a lot here. About six weeks ago we found out we were expecting. I am not a good pregnant person. It involves a lot of throwing up, trying not to throw up, sleeping and then trying not to throw up some more. I am so glad the boys are at school all day because I would spend most of that time sleeping. Our house has been a wreck, the laundry is everywhere and don't even look at the kitchen. Two weeks ago we had a sonogram that was not good. At six weeks they could not see a baby. (Click here for more details.) They reassured us that it was early and sometimes you can't see a baby that early and we should come back in two weeks. So we went back on Wednesday and there was still no baby. It's hard to be so sick and have nothing to show for it. It's hard to get into the mindset of "we're going to have a baby" and then not. Your mind has already gone through some names, thought about how this new baby will fit into the family we already have and what we will have to do to make room for this new baby. Where will the baby sleep? How will the boys react? All that stuff. Technically, we did not lose a baby; we did lose a pregnancy though. So this morning we got up at the crack of dawn (while my dear mother came over to stay with the boys, get them ready for school and take them to school) and went to the hospital so I could have my surgery. The doctors and nurses were so kind and it was over in a flash. I don't remember anything...that sleepy stuff really works. I am under doctor's orders to pamper myself for the next week. I think I can do that.

Wolverine

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Spidey

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Parade at School

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First Grade Party Craft

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Montessori Covered in Orange Icing (By the way, there were four Spideys in Colm's class)

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All the Loot

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Colm's Frankenstein

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Liam's Alien

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