Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

Well I thought that I had made a post but I guess it didn't take. This just goes to show that I need to do this more often. Here's what I had written:

I'm home after a painful week at the hospital. I now have three weeks of doing nothing but put my foot in the air. I already feel awful about all the stuff Kim now has to do while all I can do is sit on my ass.

I'm sorry, Sweetheart. I wish I could do more.

Dad was here today and did an excellent job of getting me the few things I needed and also corralling the quickly building fury that is Asher. Thanks for your help, Dad, and I look forward to more quality help in the very near future. Angie will be here for the next two days and I know Kim is looking forward to some more femininity in the house.

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The Old Rocker

This little red rocker may not look like much, but it has a lot of sentimental value. It was originally my grandfather's chair when he was little, then was my mom's, then mine, and now it's Asher's. It had been sitting in my garage for the past couple of years - I think since I was pregnant or since Asher was newly born - in dire need of some major TLC, as one of the runners was broken. Stephen finally took it to his dad, who is far more talented than Bob Villa, and in no time at all, he had it back in perfect working order. Is it any wonder I love my father-in-law so much??

Asher is so excited to have a little chair that's his size. This evening, he wanted to watch "Brown" - which is what he calls Charlie Brown, with whom he's developed a strange obsession since we first watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" this year - so we placed his chair in front of the TV, and there he sat for at least ten minutes without moving. (That's like two hours in toddler years.)

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Yes - I'm a Big, Fat Slacker

Yes, I'm well aware - it's been a ridiculous amount of time since I've posted. I could blame it on the early pregnancy nausea - how, there for an amount of time that seemed like an eternity or two, I felt like I was dying and couldn't stand even the thought of touching the computer after being on it all day at work. I could also blame it on the fact that, just as I was starting to emerge from the horrible first trimester crud, we moved. Moving requires packing and unpacking and who do you think did the majority of that grunt work? I wish I could say it was Stephen! Then came the holidays...first, Thanksgiving, which we had at our house a mere three weeks after we moved in. So between the move and Thanksgiving, there was a buttload of unpacking and organizing and painting that had to be done. Christmas came next quickly, after hours of shopping, wrapping, visits with family and friends, card making and addressing (the mailing of them, unfortunately, didn't occur until NEW YEARS). New Years and Asher's birthday wrapped up the busy season, and surprisingly, I'M GLAD IT'S ALL OVER. I'm usually so depressed when the holiday season ends, but I'm so thankful to be able to breathe a little again. In the mess of all that, Stephen worked almost every weeknight and weekend for a month, and...did I mention I'm pregnant? Even with all the motivation I've been feeling to go-go-go, I just can't-can't-can't. 9:30-10:00 rolls around and I'm ready to call it quits.

Anyway, long story short, something had to give. And that something was the blog. And everyone else's blogs. And FaceBook. And e-mail. And photography. And pretty much anything that I used to do in my spare time that I enjoyed. There's only so much time in the day, and only so much energy to go around, and the list of to-do's only seems to grow.

But! It's a new year and what do you do at the start of a new year? That's right - make resolutions you probably can't or won't keep! One of my resolutions is to start doing some of those things again that I enjoy, now that life isn't so hectic. Of course, there are still 20,000 things that need to be done around the house...not to mention, there will be a new BABY joining our crew in just three months. Gee, that won't make life more hectic or anything...

I hope to post both a pregnancy update soon as well as a belated happy second birthday post for Asher Bug. No promises, but I'll try...In the meantime, here's a sneak peek of my Retus-the-Fetus belly and my little birthday bug...

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