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Name: Liz
Birthday: 12/4/1979
Gender: Female
Interests: Tim, Claire, reading, movies, camping, hiking, cooking, poetry, photograpy, theatre
Expertise: Explosive Detonation
Occupation: Domestic Engineer
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Member Since:
11/5/2006
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| wow. it's been almost five months since my last post. combonation of having a newborn and a toddler, moving into a new house (yea!) and not having internet so...
anyway, things are finally starting to settle down. tim is enjoying being the pastor at the leesburg gbc. we're settled into our very first for real grown up house. margot is approaching her five month birthday and is just the sweetest little thing. the holidays are coming. i'm in one of those times in life where pretty much every day is good. i'm aware of and thankful for all the blessings in my life and also wondering when and how it will all come crashing down. ...maybe it won't.
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| well, she's finally here. our little margot arrived this morning
(Monday, June 18) after a violent and rather discouraging labor.
i started laboring saturday afternoon and by 11:00 that night we called
our midwife thinking we were on our way. long, long story short i
labored all the next day without making progress. we tried
everything...i won't go into all the gross details. by about midnight
on sunday i was absolutely exhausted with no end in sight. we packed a
few things and headed for the hospital. when we arrived i was checked
by a doctor who imediately ordered a c-section. apparently my body is
just not that condusive to releasing babies. i have to admit, i
actually felt a sense of relief about the c-section. my work was done
and we would finally, finally have margot.
it turns out it was a good thing he ordered the c. when they opened me
up they found that my contractions, instead of pushing margot down,
were just making my uterus beat itself up. way to go, uterus. i
literally had bruises on my uterus. apparently there was chance of
rupture and internal bleeding if i had not gotten the c.
we're at the hospital now hanging out in our room and enjoying our
beautiful and very healthy new little girl. praise God that we're both
healthy, that the wait and labor are over, and that we have this
wonderful new baby. it was a discouraging experience to come through,
but in the end God brought us through and that's all that really
matters right now.
i'll try to have a picture up soon but no promises. we'll be back at my parents' house by wednesday. yea, margot! | | |
| top five possible reasons i haven't written for a month:
1. andy called it. as soon as tim arrived and found out i'd been blogging he threw a holy fit of righteous anger (and the computer) and i've been made to repent and spend most of my free time baking casseroles for sick people in the church.
2. i sold out like everybody else and switched to a my-space account.
3. remember when you were a kid and the checkout lady at the grocery store told you horror stories about children losing their fingers because they touched the conveyer belt? well, apparently it was all true and i've only just mastered the art of typing with my tounge.
4. i've been so caught up in the nba playoffs that nothing else holds an ounce of signifigance. go cubbies! er....
5. i'm super mega-prego and taking care of a 1 1/2 year old all day and whenever i get a minute to myself i pass out cold on the floor before i can reach the computer.
additional notes: margot has yet to make an appearance in the world. we eagerly await her arrival. i'm due this saturday (the 16th) but we've been expecting her any day for the last three weeks. my water started leaking (no danger, i get checked regularly by my awesome midwife) and i've sort of been going in and out of labor ever since. nothing seems to last though. anyway, i will of course make an announcement whenever the day and the girl finally arrive. prayers are appreciated. | | |
| tim has arrived. my life is complete once more. the nice thing about being apart for so long is that i so appreciate being together again. it's nice to have someone to miss so much. what an amazing husband i have. what an amazing father claire (and soon margot) have. thank God for my beautiful family. | | |
| my gosh. it's been a long time since i posted. you'd think after all that time i'd have something really creative and intelligent to talk about. ha.
ok, here's a top five.
top five observations since being back in warsaw:
1) everybody is really really really friendly. heck, i have intimate conversations with the drive through lady at penguin point. (sub-observation: it is worth moving back to warsaw for the penguin point breaded tenderloin alone.)
2) there are as many democrats as there are black people, that is to say, about 12-15.
3) most people do not seem quite as health focused in warsaw as in denver. in denver if your friend lives five blocks away you walk. in warsaw if you go to church two blocks away you drive. in denver we shopped at sunflower natural (and actually affordable) market. in warsaw there's a corner of owens devoted to natural foods. in denver people were excited when i told them i was planning a home birth. in warsaw people ask me if i'm sure that's safe and can a midwife administer an epidural? on the flip side it is nice to not be constantly hearing words like "wholistic living" and "homeopathic healing" and to not get dirty looks when you mention that your daughter has been vaccinated for polio.
4) you will always feel like a bit of a kid when you're living with your parents. (especially if your husband is still four days away)
5) it is so very green and lovely here. i am loving the rain, the soft spring evenings and grass, trees, birds, wooded areas, fields, big yards, more muted sunlight, green, green, and green!!
that's it for now. welcome home liz! | | |
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