27 weeks

I moved over a block on the ticker! Yay! Progress!

Elijah's piano teacher (he's a little older than Zeke) had a youth orchestra concert yesterday so we had lunch in Bristol after church then headed over to that. Lovely day in high 70s and it was a great time. Today, it's about 40! What in the world!? I think we're supposed to be more seasonal by the end of the week.

I need to put my baby tomatoes and broccoli in larger containers this week. Lucien scoffed at the small seedling tray I bought for them to be planted in. What can I say? My brain is not right! I told him I would not be surprised if I have a fender bender with the mini-van before July. I'm just too foggy half the time and my decisions are often stupid. I can't believe some of the stuff I do! ick.

Lucien has Fri-Sun off for Resurrection Day. We are all VERY happy and thankful for this! 3 days off in a row sounds wondrous and of course there's a ton we want to get done. We've all been fairly healthy for a week except for Lucien who has a slight cold--nothing compared to the other things we've had but I'm totally hoping it skips the rest of us!

Most of you reading know that we had a vasectomy reversal in 2000. In a way, I expected that we'd continue to have children until I was no longer fertile. I admire those who can handle that--it takes a lot of faith and courage. I find this pregnancy has left me with no more courage. Faith--I still have, but it has been tried, I admit.

It's a hard thing to talk about. People can be so judgemental and I'm thankful for a merciful God. I know women with worse pregnancies than this has been and I know women with much easier pregnancies than this has been. I think it's important to remember that we each have different limits. And I think my limit has been reached. This time has been especially hard on my mind and I can't imagine dealing with it all if a future time was even worse physically.

Anyway, this is likely one reason I am not blogging much. It's heavy on my mind. I am thankful that my husband feels a need to protect my health at this point. Makes marriage so much better when you are on the same page concerning an issue.

Lucien has decided we must get a 9 passenger suburban for the bigger vehicle. Trying to find one that is not 300 miles away is a problem. ack! He also said I could get the pool like we had in Maine and even chose a place for it! I'm very excited about that. Much easier to take the weight off occasionally in the last couple months and just float. It made end of princess the first's pregnancy very nice.