Maternity leave

As I begin to create my first blog post, I suppose I will elaborate on my intentions first.

Everyday I log onto my Facebook with intentions of catching up with everyone else's business. Some may call me nosy however, I have plenty of status updates to read where people obviously want nosy people to keep up with them. I have no guilt or hesitation after my snooping to then call the appropriately related people associated with the juiciest status updates to discuss the publicly displayed and jaw dropping material I have just read (usually my mother or fiance). I however, finish my daily snooping and gossiping without posting anything that would give anyone else a rush of satisfaction enough to pick up their phone and discuss my latest audacious post. I will occasional post a cute picture or phrase from one of my children or a proud moment. No politics, no religion, even though I have strong feelings on both. This blog probably won't divulge any political or religious information either although I do aspire to be a little more open with the public display of jaw dropping material.

With that said, I will allow my first blog post to be some background information.

I am currently 29 and as far as fairy tales go, I have everything my dreams imagined. My fiance and I just bought our first home in September of 2012 after conceiving our first child together. I have two other children from previous relationships and if there was ever a model step-parent, it most certainly would have to be Josh. He has never been anything less than a "Daddy" to my children. They adore him and that speaks volumes! After giving birth to our son on February 10th of 2013, we discovered the carrier did not fit in my little Rav 4 so the day after leaving the hospital, I was upgraded to soccer mom. We purchased my first ever new car and damned if I finally ended up with a God forsaken mini van. I have grown to love it but it was not in my fairy tale.

My oldest child is 8. Eva Diva will always be unlike any child. There will never be any comparison. I will undoubtedly have plenty of follow up posts explaining that comment. My middle son is 5. Jayden will be starting Kindergarten next year with Eva hopefully going into 3rd. Tyler Anthony is now 6 weeks old which leads me to my title selection. I am currently on maternity leave and finally feeling well enough to allow cabin fever to set it. They say every pregnancy is different and Lord have mercy are they right. I always wanted gobs of children but Tyler may have cured me. After bleeding during the pregnancy starting at 10 weeks with a subchorionic hemmorhage and the doctors telling me I was having a miscarriage and sent me to bed rest, I continued with the pregnancy with multiple other bleeds, plenty of time out of work, and lots or worried family.

Josh is 36 and this is his first child. He has always been amazing with children but he hides his stress, worries, general feelings very well.  I made the comment the other day to someone that you would be SOL on knowing how he's feeling unless your sleeping with him. After delivery, I hemmorhaged again with a very high fever. Long story short...multiple ER visits and doctor visits leading to a UTI (twice) and I still had placenta in my uterus so I had to go in for a D & C. Very intense trying to get this child into the world and survive myself. Our next bundle of joy will come after a good while.