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Wow, long period of silence. Not deliberate….. just necessary. I haven’t spoken about things in my personal life because I still haven’t managed to convince my husband that giving away details of my real life persona won’t send a bunch of crazy stalkers to knock on my door. I admire my husband for many things – his love to for me and our kids, his work ethic, his willingness to talk through any issue I might have, regardless of how hormonal I’m being – but he is a bit naive when it comes to the number of blogs on the internet and how much traffic little ones like mine don’t receive. No one cares enough to hunt me down. But I love him so much I have made certain promises and one of them is not last name and the other is no pictures. Small price to pay.
So, some personal life details to explain the silence… I am pregnant. This came as a huge surprise as I started school in September and finished the last week of April and was supposed to be job-hunting for a position in my field: 911 emergency operator. Instead, I dragged myself through my last two months of school, suffered through the worst group project of my life and happily slept for 14 straight hours after my final exam. I have a sex of twins – 6 years old. I remember that pregnancy. This is kicking my butt far worse.
We also have a living situation that needs addressing… for the duration of my course, we moved into a home that had been divided into three apartments, owned by my dear husband’s great-aunt, J. She was sweet and took the top floor and left us the main floor and the basement. Having three girls meant that bedrooms were easy to figure out and we didn’t need to use the bedroom in the basement… well, with Peanut arriving at the end of July, we have no more room. I don’t want to move to the basement apartment and be that far away from my children, even if we keep Peanut with us for a while… so it looks like our second move in a year will take place shortly. We would like to stay in the area we are in because the girls have made good friends at school and we’d like to try our middle daughter in French Immersion at that school but there is significant pressure from my DH’s family to move back to SV, where we started once we sold our house in MK in preparation for me returning to school. We had the most awesome house in SV until our landlords sold it from under us – right around the corner from the inlaws and in a neighbourhood with trees, lawns and lots of small children. I like this house simply because the elementary school is kitty-corner to us but in other ways, I don’t like the neighbourhood.
So, in a nutshell, this is why an entire month went by without me being around but I vow to do better. DH is encouraging me to take it easy with this (hopefully) last pregnancy and so I want to spend my time until the girls get out of school, reading, writing letters to my penpals, journaling and frying my brain on TV.
**I signed up via this journal for a read-a-thon. I’m so sorry that my health did not permit me to participate. I did offer a prize for people to pick from and someone did. I mailed it off last week to The Burrows in DC (if someone is checking).
Watching HouseMD last night. Laughed out loud when Chase, Foreman and House were singing karaoke. Chase actually has a decent voice – but House and Foreman has back-up singers/dancers were sad. So awkward and so hilarious!
