Pure Water Hollow Homestead

Surgery

How things work out some times is such a pain in the tush!  On Monday I got in the mail the ok from our insurance company to have more surgery on my still broken leg , I was so happy.  The key word is WAS.    Why was? 

Well...... last night Shannon brought home the paper work for the up coming year on our medical insurance.  Guess what ?  They changed insurance companies.     UUGGHHH.  I am glad we went back to our old insurance company, but did it have to start on 12-01-08???

Now we have to start all over with getting the insurance to approve for my new surgery.   I want this over and done with.  My leg has been broken for a year on the 27th of December. 

God Bless, mj

Cute saying from my grand-babies

We went to Disneyland on the 2nd with the grand-babies.  We had so much fun with them.  We took them to carry on the annual tradition we have of going to see Santa.  We have done this with our girls and Marty.  It is the 1st time in 12 years that Marty is not in the picture.  That was very hard on us all, we miss him so much. 

So on the way home I ask Shayna if Jeffie is in a pull up or panties??  Jeffie told me he is" wearing underwear and he is keeping them safe in his pants" .  We all laughed so hard.  How cute he is!!

While we were taking pictures of things Shayna is taking pictures of her purse who is a stuffed lion (don't ask) .  Maddie said " no pictures of the bear take pictures of MEEE".  

They are so cute.  What a blessing they are to us.   I will post pictures of Disneyland with the grand-babies soon.

God Bless, mj

The latest . . . .

What a Thursday . . . .

My SIL is in labor. I’m so excited!!! I can’t wait to hear how things go for her! I want to call and pester her on the phone all the time . . . she’s in Florida and I’m in Kansas . . . . but that would bug me. Maybe not if my labors tended to move slower, but I don’t know what’s going on, so . . . I’m just trying to be respectful. But it’s sooooo hard!

In the wide world that centers around me, my goals look like this:

• Make it until Saturday morning
• Make it until December
• Make it until December 15^th
• Make it until December 21^st, my 27^th birthday
• Make it until the first of the year

And somewhere in there is:

• For Clare to have her baby first

Her due date was the 15^th of December, mine is Jan 20^th, so it makes sense, right? So far, I’ve made it half way!

The second half is the long distance portion, though!

So far, Sunday and Monday were good days. Few contractions. Tuesday was a bit scary simply because I had contractions all day long. Some were very hard, and one woke me up from a nap! I usually don’t wake up until they are 5 minutes apart – yes, I sleep like a rock. So I took Benadryl and went to our midwife’s appointment that night.

The baby has moved up!

Well, or technically I think I was in our Jacuzzi tub and playing around and manipulated the baby back up . . . but regardless of how it happened (and I’m pretty sure it was me playing around) God has really answered a prayer here!

My midwife said she was pleased with how "in-tune" I was with my body and that I have to keep paying attention. I like it that she takes me seriously - I feel less like a paranoid, jumping-at-shadows mommy. *smile*

That’s the good news. The bad news is that I still have what seems like a long, long ways to go. So I need to keep being careful.

But then it was followed by good news again as Wednesday and today have been really good, low contraction days. Surprising, the way things went Friday and Saturday right after the baby dropped. But very, very encouraging!

I really don’t want to be waited on hand and foot for the next ump-teen days. I don’t really care if my house falls apart around me at this point, if I can just be “mommy” and change diapers and re-heat food, that’s enough for me.

So, that’s my goal. To a function a tiny bit carefully, if possible.

Jonathan is going to observe me this weekend and pass his verdict. He is a hard jury to please, let me tell you. And ya'll thought *I* was the paranoid one?

Thank you for your prayers and for thinking of us!

~Ashley~