Back from the dead

Why hello there. It’s been a few weeks since my last update over at Baby Stanley.

Week 24 left very little to be desired. Despite my best efforts (obsessive hand hygiene, copious vitamin C intake, and R&R despite the holiday madness), I came down with a cold during my holiday vacation. I was in the thick of it on Thursday when I had to participate in interdisciplinary rounds at the hospital at 5:30 am (see also: the ass crack of dawn). On a good day, rounding at the ungodly hour of 5:30 in the morning is akin to having your wisdom teeth surgically removed without anesthesia or passing a kidney stone without the aid of mind-altering narcotics, so you can only imagine how much fun it was to round with a cold and zero decongestants. It was so bad that I actually called out on Friday, which was ultimately the best decision I could have made. By the weekend I felt 75% restored to my usual state of health.

Unfortunately having a cold meant that we missed a visit to my mom’s house in South Florida over New Years but we managed to squeeze in a visit over the weekend. It was nice to catch up with my mom. It’s always tough missing holidays with family. Although I enjoyed spending time with my in laws for Thanksgiving and Christmas, it’s nice to spend some time with the people who you grew up with.

Week 25 was a definite improvement. We bought a new car (it’s so nice having two cars again! even if it meant dealing with car salesmen), we visited my mom and step-family in South Florida, two of my friends booked venues for their weddings, I switched providers from an OB to a group of midwives, we started our birth classes and I’m officially 14 weeks and some change away from my guess date! I will follow this post up with a standard pregnancy update, but I figured it was worth mentioning week 24 and 25 together to explain my absence from the blogosphere.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas (if you celebrate!) and a wonderful New Year! 2012 is going to be a doozy, that’s for sure. Keep your eyes open for a pregnancy update. It should be up soon especially because it will distract me from this awful game against Alabama (ouch).