Happy New Year

No, we still don't have a baby!! We have an induction scheduled for Tuesday, Jan 5 unless the baby decides to come on his own before then. I do not foresee that happening so I am planning on getting up bright and early Tuesday morning to head to the hospital. My doctor just did not feel comfortable doing it before now because I had not made any progress. We had to go in yesterday to have a non-stress test (NST) done on the baby and everything looked good, so they felt comfortable holding off on the induction until Tuesday.

I think we had a nice Christmas. I say "think" because I never really realized that Christmas had come and gone. Once we knew we weren't going to have a baby by then, we concentrated more on the girls and making Christmas memorable for them. Kevin and I had as much fun preparing for Santa as they did.

We have definitely had an adventurous holiday season. We had planned a while back for the girls to go visit with my mom and sister for a few days after Christmas thinking that the baby would be here. I developed a fever, bad headache and chills late the night of the 23rd and ending up going to the ER just to get everything checked out. The baby was fine but I felt really bad on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, so my parents went ahead and took the girls for a visit so I could get some rest. They were able to take them to see my grandmother, whom we only get to see once or twice a year, so that worked out good. They were also able to spend some time at my sister's house, which they loved.

The night before they were to come home, my mom fell (while holding Cassie) and twisted her leg and ending up breaking a bone in her knee and doing some cartilage damage. Somehow Cassie (and Katie, who was on the couch right beside Mom) managed to sleep through the whole ordeal. So, Mom will be going in for surgery on the same morning that I am being induced. I will really miss her being here, but hopefully it won't take her long to rebound.

2010 is definitely starting out as an interesting year and I can't wait to see what else the year holds. Just say a prayer for all of us on Tuesday that Mom's surgery will go well and my induction will go smoothly.

I will try to get some Christmas pictures on here soon.

Happy New Year!