The Summer Comes To A Close

I'm not gonna lie. I DO feel a tad bit guilty about taking the ENTIRE summer off from blogging. It was busy. And emotional. I honestly just didn't have it in me to update until now. I thought about it often. I just couldn't do it. I've noticed this about myself. This is apparently what I do when I go through tough times. I didn't get around to announcing it on here, but I was pregnant at the start of the summer. I'd planned on using an ultrasound picture to announce it... but that just wasn't meant to be. As it turned out I never got one I could share b/c I had a blighted ovum. For those of you who have no experience in this area it's when an egg is fertilized, implants, and starts growing, but the fetus fails to develop. The entire experience was VERY stressful since I am a high-risk patient and they wanted to see me right away... it was alot holding our breath for hormones to rise, ultrasounds, blood work and doctor's appointments. Ultimately, my body seemingly refused to believe there was a problem so I had to have a d&c to remove the sac.... All and all a pretty unpleasant experience. I don't even want to go into my feelings about what I've experienced with pregnancies at this time. I just want to move on and hopefully have a successful, normal, term pregnancy next time.

With that ugly news out of the way I hope to catch up rather quickly over the next few weeks. We had a super busy summer filled with travel, swim lessons, trips to the beach and so on... It was really great in that regard! I have lots of pictures of the fun we've shared so I'm looking forward to getting those online soon. Tomorrow Mason goes back to school... and he's quite looking forward to it! So I'm leaving you with the picture of Joseph and Mason at Mason's Meet The Teacher Night! Have a great week and check back soon. I WILL be posting again!

This is the face...

This is the face that holds me down when I should be up doing laundry, the dishes, sweeping, mopping, cooking, scrubbing, working out and generally doing anything other than laying in bed. I came *this* close to falling asleep this morning after pleas of "SNUGGLE! SNUGGLE!" lulled me back into bed.... I would have fallen blissfully asleep to Mason's little quiet little chatter had it not been for the looming deadline of school ahead. And I really could have been convinced that on this cold, rainy day Mason didn't really *need* to go to school. He's had a little cough. This is pre-school, for cryin' out loud! But then I remembered how much he DOES truly love school. In spite of my desire to soak up every second of fleeting snuggliness it was really in both our best interests for me to break it off and blow dry my hair. After all, Mason loves going to school. It's a good routine and he learns alot. And, besides, I really wouldn't have made it to the gym today if I didn't have to drive half way there to drop Mase off at school!