Really must get around to installing that script so that the last seven days I posted on are displayed even if they are not consecutive rather than just the posts made within the last week. I don’t like coming back after a hiatus to see an empty blog!

Not that I’m back. I’m still offline for a few more days.

Mom went back home yesterday. Dad is still here until Wednesday (he just came up last Thursday). I’m tired but otherwise good, so is M. Morgan the Munchkin is unbelievably cute and growing at what seems like an insane rate.

I have more pictures, but they will have to wait until I’m back from hiatus.

She’s here!

My little munchkin has been here for almost two weeks, actually. Morgan Dee was born at 8:56 pm on Monday, September 8th. She was six pounds and eleven ounces, twenty inches long. The expected due date turned out to be the day that we brought her home.

For some reason, I had this idea that I would post here when I went into labor and keep posting periodically until I went to the hospital just to let people know how things were going. I could have too. The computer was on and for most of the time I would have been perfectly capable of typing. I just never happened to actually think of it.

I also intended to post the day we got home. Somehow that didn’t happen either. My apologies for keeping everyone waiting. She’s just so wonderful that I have been spending every second with her, and I haven’t quite figured out how to type with a baby in my arms. Also, there was a period there where sitting at all was just something that I would not do, much less sitting on my super-hard computer chair.

She’s here and I’ve gone from not being able to believe that she is here to not being able to believe that there was a time when she wasn’t. She is the most wonderful baby ever and it’s amazing just how much I love her - I didn’t imagine that such things were possible.

Don’t expect to hear to much from me until October or so. I’m too busy with the new baby. Also, my mother is here helping out for a little while - my father is coming up to see the baby next week - and the office doubles as a guest room so it is a little crowded in here. It will be even more crowded soon. We just bought a new bed so the old one will be coming in here for the duration of the visit. It’s not a very good bed, but it’s much better than the air matress that my poor mom has been sleeping on, but we might have to dismantle my desk and computer to fit it in here.

There are more pictures of her online, but at the moment I’m not sure how much I want to put out there for random strangers to see right, so I put them in a password protected directory. I’ve sent the password to my notify list for the journal already (see, if you were on it you’d have it already) and am about to send it to a bunch of other people whose email addresses I happen to have handy.

Since I’m not going to be online much to send out individual emails for a little while, I made a new notify list just for this. I only plan to send two notes to it. In a few days, I will check in and send out the password to for the pictures. Sometime in early October after my parents have left, I will send out a note to let you know that my hiatus is over and I am back to blogging and journalling.

If you want on, use the form below

It is on notify-list, so if you don’t like giving your email to sites like that, just use the contact link in the side bar to email me directly, and I’ll respond to those emails when I get a chance.

You could leave a comment here as well. They make me feel good.

Until then, I’m off to enjoy my baby.

I’m a mommy to a perfect little girl now!

No doctor’s appointment for me today after all. About thirty-five minutes before the appointed time, the office called to say that the doctor was running way behind due to having to deliver two babies this morning, and could they please move my appointment to tomorrow?

Being the nice person that I am, and not wanting to wait for hours in the waiting room, I of course agreed.

Normally I wouldn’t have minded in the least. It actually would be sort of a relief as I had just gotten out of the tub and would have had to rush to get ready on time.

I just wish that they had let me know a little sooner.

M was taking a long lunch to go with me to my appointment today. As soon as I hung up the phone I tried to call him at work. When he wasn’t there, I tried to call the cell in the hopes that he hadn’t made it far from work yet. Alas, he was just about home.

Still, it was good. We spent an hour or so just lying around talking about everything and nothing. We’d just had a three day weekend together, but between his need to feel productive that had him running all sorts of errands and fixing things and my crankiness I felt that I’d barely seen him at all.

Unfortunately, he says he can’t go with me tomorrow, so I’m on my own. That kind of sucks.
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I’ve somehow - through sleeping in a funny position or something - managed to put my back out in about twenty different places.

I tried to take a hot bath earlier to soak some of the pain out, but lying prone in the tub made my heartburn act up, so I had to get out. Now my heartburn is not acting up, but I don’t feel like another bath.

My lower back is out. It makes it very painful to sit at the computer, which is why I haven’t been on much the past few days (it’s been hurting for a few days, but is far worse today). It is a bit better when I lie down.

My neck hurts. It hurts all the time, sitting or lying, but is a bit worse when lying down.

My choices: lie down and torture my neck or sit up and torture my lower back.

There are also at least two places in my upper back that feel like they are out.

I wonder if chiropractors will treat women who are nine months pregnant? I have to wait all the way until Tuesday to find out. Stupid holiday tomorrow. I want my back fixed, damnit!

Pity me.