Our Unexpected Blessing…

Sooooo, my daughter makes 4 weeks tomorrow and, obviously, I haven’t even been around posting updates.  Things can get quite hectic in the days and weeks following the birth of a child.  PLUS life was busy before baby was born and doesn’t seem to have slowed down much at all.  I really wanted to just hole up in the house with baby and the rest of my family in the first week or so, but turns out, that’s just not how things worked out.

We had a couple of commitments already planned in the weeks after baby was born.  Then there was wrapping up the last details of the sale of our house.  In addition to that there were daily blood tests for baby which required daily visits to the doctor’s office to monitor her jaundice.  Apparently, the insurance company now requires a daily blood draw in order to cover the blue light machine they sent home with us.   I sure hope they change that back to the way it was because having to take your newborn to the dr’s office EVERY day to draw blood is just not a fun thing and really doesn’t seem the least bit necessary for the dr’s to make their decisions about whether or not the baby still needs the blue light machine.

Anyway - I’m sure there were other things going on as well, but we were out doing something or running some errand just about every day in the first few weeks following baby’s birth.  My husband was off of work for two weeks and as much as I wanted to just relax, we had so much to get done that we both wanted to tackle as much of it as we could while he was home and available to help 24/7.  That way, I would have less to try to do on my own with all the kids once he went back to work.

So now, here we are.  Baby makes 4 weeks tomorrow and she’s probably been out of the house more than all our other kids put together in their first month.  Now it’s December and the holiday season is upon us.  We have soooo much Christmas shopping to do.  It’s a bit more challenging with a newborn, but you just have to accept that it will take longer than usual.

Oh yeah, and did I mention that my husband has been on jury duty this week?  This means he has to drive to town each day and he gets out of jury duty later than he would get out of work which means he’s home later than usual.  On top of all this, the weather recently has been nuts.  There has been so much wind and rain that some schools were closed the last few days.  The ground in our yard is saturated with water and yesterday we were without power for about 17 hours.

Yes, things have certainly been hectic…..and…..there’s more, but I’ll save that for next time.

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