So I'm realizing it has been a LONG time since I have updated this blog. Sorry. I see others who are excellent bloggers and I am definitely lacking in this area. I am going to try to sum up the last several months on the happenings in our household.
*Terry is finishing up a class he is taking for his master's. This class has been more time consuming with more paperwork to do. He will be thankfully once it is over this coming Monday night! He also is busy with school this year for several reasons: he's teaching a new grade level again (4th grade) so he spends some extra time there working on things and goes back some evenings or weekends, too. He also is busy with a book study they are doing. Not thrilled about that one! He officially has his keys for the new school building which they will begin teaching in come January after Christmas break. Therefore, he has a lot of packing up and moving of things from one school to the other. Terry finally sold our Bonneville. Thank goodness! I was tired of having 3 vehicles in our small driveway! On top of all of this he has been a single parent a lot of evening due to me being sick and not feeling well.
*...which leads to me (Carissa) has had a rough time during this pregnancy. I have learned to be more compassionate to those who deal with chronic pain! I have had a terrible time controlling my gall bladder issues and finding foods that I can eat. These pains are aside from the nausea that I continued to feel through week 24! A couple weeks before Thanksgiving I had finally started to have more good days than bad days during the week and now it has started to lessen a bit again. Issues! A month ago my sciatic nerve really started to give me fits and has continued to worsen. It has brought me to tears recently in getting on the floor to play with Olivia, carrying Olivia places other than in the house, and even this morning tying my shoes! I have resorted to seeing a chiropractor for the first time in my life to try to find some relief in this pain. I continue to go 2 times a week and started to see a slight improvement. The pain isn't as constant as it was before. I am happy to report through all of this the baby continues to grow and get stronger (feeling lots of kicking!). My class of first graders this year is great! They are a really good group of kids. This helps out tremendously on all of my days of not feeling so well.
*Olivia will be 20 months on Monday! Time does fly. Olivia and I were watching videos of her when she was a baby last weekend and I could hardly remember her that small. (She was very upset with me when I turned off the videos after 20 minutes!) Her favorite things to do right now are puzzles, Play-Doh, coloring, hammering, animals, building with blocks, running, and reading books. Her vocabulary is so vast! It truly amazes me! She says new things each day. She has begun to put 2-3 words together. She had a 6 month check-up with her Ear specialist. He informed us that her tubes are no longer where they "should" be in her ears. They are beginning to come out so this means that they are no longer functioning the way that they should be. We need to be cautious of infections again. He did say that there is no sign of fluid or infection now, though.
*Terry is finishing up a class he is taking for his master's. This class has been more time consuming with more paperwork to do. He will be thankfully once it is over this coming Monday night! He also is busy with school this year for several reasons: he's teaching a new grade level again (4th grade) so he spends some extra time there working on things and goes back some evenings or weekends, too. He also is busy with a book study they are doing. Not thrilled about that one! He officially has his keys for the new school building which they will begin teaching in come January after Christmas break. Therefore, he has a lot of packing up and moving of things from one school to the other. Terry finally sold our Bonneville. Thank goodness! I was tired of having 3 vehicles in our small driveway! On top of all of this he has been a single parent a lot of evening due to me being sick and not feeling well.
*...which leads to me (Carissa) has had a rough time during this pregnancy. I have learned to be more compassionate to those who deal with chronic pain! I have had a terrible time controlling my gall bladder issues and finding foods that I can eat. These pains are aside from the nausea that I continued to feel through week 24! A couple weeks before Thanksgiving I had finally started to have more good days than bad days during the week and now it has started to lessen a bit again. Issues! A month ago my sciatic nerve really started to give me fits and has continued to worsen. It has brought me to tears recently in getting on the floor to play with Olivia, carrying Olivia places other than in the house, and even this morning tying my shoes! I have resorted to seeing a chiropractor for the first time in my life to try to find some relief in this pain. I continue to go 2 times a week and started to see a slight improvement. The pain isn't as constant as it was before. I am happy to report through all of this the baby continues to grow and get stronger (feeling lots of kicking!). My class of first graders this year is great! They are a really good group of kids. This helps out tremendously on all of my days of not feeling so well.
*Olivia will be 20 months on Monday! Time does fly. Olivia and I were watching videos of her when she was a baby last weekend and I could hardly remember her that small. (She was very upset with me when I turned off the videos after 20 minutes!) Her favorite things to do right now are puzzles, Play-Doh, coloring, hammering, animals, building with blocks, running, and reading books. Her vocabulary is so vast! It truly amazes me! She says new things each day. She has begun to put 2-3 words together. She had a 6 month check-up with her Ear specialist. He informed us that her tubes are no longer where they "should" be in her ears. They are beginning to come out so this means that they are no longer functioning the way that they should be. We need to be cautious of infections again. He did say that there is no sign of fluid or infection now, though.
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