40 week recap

I was preoccupied during the late winter and early spring with unrelenting nausea that interfered with my motivation to blog. The fog of morning sickness finally lifted and I enjoyed an energetic and productive late spring and early summer. I was able to resume all my daily activities and we made several treks to Busch Gardens and daily visits to the neighborhood pool where my little Rose became quite the dolphin swimmer and where my legs enjoyed a buoyant respite from gravity. We made our annual pilgrimage to Catholic familyland where we stayed in rugged cabins and slept in bunk beds.

Having never been a girl scout nor one who was equipped with the pioneer woman genes, I was proud of my ability to tolerate and enjoy the simplicity of camping. I think I deserve an honorary merit badge for roughing it while being 7 months pregnant with 3 kids to look after. I couldn't have survived without my Bill. He did all the heavy lifting and made the phone calls to take care of the mice. He set the traps and checked them and emptied them and disappeared with the kids at just the times when I needed a break. We will definitely be back next July. Before I knew it, summer break was over and Chloe and Ethan were heading back to school. We are up and out the door by 7:25 everday now. They are having a great start to the school year. Ethan is playing soccer and Chloe is awaiting the start of Irish dance and girl scouts. Rose started pre-K and is making new friends and getting up to her elbows in glue, finger paint, and construction paint every Tuesday and Thursday. We dove into a kitchen remodeling project and hope to have that wrapped up in time to greet our new baby girl who is due any day now. And now, it is time for me to slow down and put my feet up and brace myself for the big changes coming. I am very excited, as are the kids. And there you have it...40 weeks in a nutshell.