Sunny Sunday

It's only 46 degrees but the sun feels so good. Hurry up, Spring. We are getting a little impatient!

Our chicks are done with their brooding and are back in the egg business. Today, we're going to pick up two more babies that we'll keep in the laundry room nursery for a few more weeks. These chicks are supposed to lay pretty blue eggs. Very Martha Stewart like!

Happy Sunday!

Merry Christmas!

To you…and yours!

Amelia Rose

I have stared at this blank window for 37 minutes. I've written, erased, written, reworded, erased, written, erased. It is just so hard to transcribe my emotions.

You were due on the anniversary of my miscarriage. I was told you probably had Spina Bifida, that you'd be paralyzed and that I should prepare myself for anencephaly. We waited 23 days to see a genetic counselor. We waited 23 days for a diagnostic ultrasound. There was a mass on my placenta that we needed to hope would not become vascular and cause you to go into cardiac arrest. I spent 3 days in neuro ICU after pregnancy hormones triggered a migraine so severe that they thought I had a stroke. 3 CT scans and one MRI. Topped off with a Pitocin induction and an epidural that did not work.

All of that bad news meant nothing.

You are so smart. And seriously, so funny. You have a voice and you don't let people forget it. The three of us are wrapped around your finger and we don't even mind. We miss you when you're sleeping. You are an incredibly special little girl and you have been from the start.

Happy 1st Birthday, baby. Mama loves you.

My pumpkins with pumpkins!

Ahhhhh, October. The month that clogs your social media feeds with pictures of kids and pumpkins. Well, I'm not about to stop that shit. Here are a couple snaps of my babes. Seriously, its so hard to get two kids to sit, smile and look at you, all at the same time! Props to you photographers that make it look like cake.

My babies are the absolute best. Love.

Our Tour de Donuts has just begun. We try to visit as many orchards/patches as we can and then try to decide who has the best apple cider donuts. This weekend's farm was pretty good but one of the orchards closest to us has the best. I'm putting on my Winter weight, one dozen at a time.

Cross it Off the List!

One of my goals for 2013 was to run a 5K. And I finally accomplished that, yesterday!

I don't have a lot of time to myself so I run when I can and workout when I feel like it. Last year, when I was the size of a house, I promised myself that I would run one. I figured September was a realistic timeline after having a baby in December! I ran with two friends and we did it in about 30 mins. There were 1,000+ other people in our wave so we kind of ran...at a walking pace. But we did it! And it was so much fun.

Pre run selfie.

Um, I can't remember what we were sad about. Lol.

After. YAY!

We're doing it again next year, for sure!

Throwback Thursday: 1986

Just me, being the best big sister ever. ;) My brother was a couple of months old. I loved snuggling babies, even then!



(It's a picture of a picture. Sorry!)