Well, this is absolutely depressing. I can't believe it's been OVER A YEAR since my last post
and that the grand total of 2013 posts is 14. Fourteen?! Granted, there's been a downward trend from year to year - 410 posts in 2008, 293 in 2009, 144 in 2010, 94 in 2011, 23 in 2012 - but 14??? Oy. That is just too sad for words.
All of this emptiness has not been without thoughts of posting, however. I have written and rewritten posts in my head literally dozens of times while trying (and failing) to fall asleep. This started a long time ago, so at first my posts were about depression, then dementia, then dementia and depression, then isolation... Very uplifting stuff, sure, but very applicable to my life an that moment. Now I'm up to crappy bosses, dog fostering, pregnancy, and adoption. I don't even know where to begin! Wait... yes, I do.
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| Indeed I do. |
Hopefully, I will be able to get the word out that I am trying to be active in my blog posting you guys will start coming back! In the meantime, I will do a quick post on the a recent source excitement at Casa de McCauley - I'm pregnant!!!
Right now, I'm just shy of 4 months and am not due until March 1st. So everything is still very kind of vague-feeling and it still hasn't really sunk in that a baby will be arriving in the new year. I have had an ultrasound so that made things a little more real but I think Robert and I are still not 100% in pregnancy mode. He's mostly just stressed about cleaning out the office and how much childcare will cost and I'm mostly splayed out on the couch feeling sick or tired (or both). :-) We got several photos of the baby a couple of weeks ago via the ultrasound:
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| This is a front-facing view so the head looks a little alien-y! |
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| 3D version 1 |
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| 3D version 2 (Robert and I had gone to a NIN concert the night before the ultrasound so I think the baby was still covering his/her ears...!) |
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So now we're just waiting until October when we get to find out if the baby is a boy or a girl. But we already have a spreadsheet of name options (courtesy of Robert, of course) so we're prepared for either eventuality. ;-)
