back on the horse.......

ok, well clearly i have fallen victim to 2 kids syndrome - one of the symptoms being that nothing gets done but taking care of the kids (including updating this blog!)......so rather than attempt now to fill in the blanks of what's been going on since my infrequent last posts, i think i'll continue on from here and fill in when i can......

we just found out this morning that baby #3 is a girl......it was actually really fun finding out.......gave us something different about this pregnancy.......i woke up anxious and nervous and excited about finding out.......of course steve was a bit disappointed with the news, but not overly so at all......he loves the girls so much that he knows his life will be just as happy and full with another girl as with a boy......plus i think we were both so convinced that molly was a boy that we were almost more surprised then that she was a girl, and we sort of dealt with those "never having a boy" feelings back then, so this wasn't as big of a deal........i'm just not sure i want to fast forward to when we have 3 teenage girls in the house.......hopefully we'll have more than one bathroom in the house by then!!.......

speaking of houses, we're still searching for a way to get ourselves into a bigger one.......we're pretty under water with our current house (thank you housing market crash) so between coming up with the difference and getting a down payment together for a new house, it's going to be pretty tough.......we've been looking at some foreclosures around quincy, but really not "seriously" looking until we put our house up hopefully at the end of next month........we still have some things to fix up here before it's showable.......once we start getting offers and whatnot we'll be able to better tell how close we can come to the amount remaining on our mortgage and better estimate how much money we'll need to come up with.......fingers crossed things come together in the next 5 months!......

this pregnancy hasn't been too bad........had some pretty crappy morning sickness early on, but some zofran helped with that.......then we had the infamous stomach bug pass through the house not once, but twice which was really awful.......but otherwise, things haven't been too bad.......the latest "symptom" is a recurrance of the varicose veins i had at the end of my pregnancy with molly........again, just on the left side of my body.......but this time they cropped up about a month ago (so way earlier this time) and the ones behind my knee have been really painful........when i get up from sitting for 10 or more min there's this awful squeezing/tightening sensation like having that blood pressure cuff thing on and it takes a minute or two for it to pass........then everything's fine.......but just very annoying, and worrisome - i'm looking forward to talking to my doctor about it at my next appt on monday........i'm hoping she doesn't tell me i have to stop teaching my gym class.......i've been doing really well with that lately - gotten really comfortable teaching and recently picked up another regular weekly class in addition to subbing a lot too - it's still not a huge addition to our income, but i at least feel like i'm contributing something........

anyway......both girls are napping so i should take advantage of this time and get the kids' stuff together for dad's trip to the mall with them later (while i'm teaching)........hopefully i'll be able to post more often here - i really want to have something for the girls to look back at when they're older about their "early days/years".......