Saturday, February 11, 2012

Life Lately Post

Sometimes I have to dish it out to keep myself up-to-date and "journal" my/ our family's life for a sec.  I am NOT good at writing in a journal, this is more or less what I use to record life.  I do write some more "personal" things in a journal but again, not often enough.  I enjoy blogging, and I love my blog.  I REALLY need to start publishing it though...

I love that I can punch out a blog post cuddled up on the couch next Brooklynn (she is right beside me at this moment) and Alivia is stomping around eating a snack, while both are very attentively watching Sesame Street :)

It's Saturday morning, and it's one of the laziest we've had in a while. It's 11:30am, Liv just woke up from a nap and we are all still in our jammies :)  I DID clean the kitchen when I woke up, and have good intentions to wash our bedding today but I'm not stressing about right now.

Last Saturday we went to the zoo.  It was really nice to just go out as a family for the morning and lunch.  Jason and I are both pretty busy it seems and we don't get to do fun things as a family on a whim very often.  However, on Sunday we did get to go to his parent's house and watch the Superbowl with Austin and Lisa - very fun!  Lisa and I got creative with the food/ snacks for the evening and I think the guys really appreciated out efforts.

 As for the rest of the week: Monday I had Liliya, Tuesday we had Music Makers, I had a ton of stuff to do around the house and enjoyed my girl's night out at Earls with Jen, Lisa and Amy - something that was a lot of fun and NEEDS to be done more often!  Wednesday I had to get groceries, go to the gym AND had Hot Yoga, Thursday I had my appointment with Dr. Barr and Lindsay watched the girls for me that morning (thanks again Lindsay :)) and Friday we had Brooklynn's gymnastics, and immunizations for Alivia. Brooklynn was a very helpful big sister (normally I dread having to drag both girls to any appointments but this went fine!)  Alivia is doing great, the only things I have to change is to cut back some of her milk.

Our weeks have a lot going on and I love the activities we looks forward to each week.  It's really broken up the winter and we have simply enjoyed the cold months more so than I am used too.

To back track a little with doctor appointments...  I was diagnosed to have a very large ovarian cyst during my pregnancy with Brooklynn.  I even wrote a post not to long after I had her that it had cleared up, to which I believed that a miracle had taken place in my body... not quite.  Anyways, I STILL have a cyst. It was there through my whole pregnancy with Alivia too, and it is huge.  I'm seeing Dr. Barr at the Centre for Urology @ Rockyview.  He is great but I'm about to be referred back to my Ob gyn because what they thought was a urachal cyst, is now what they believe to be a cystic disease of my uterus.  I'm a mystery case, one that continues to mystify the doctors that see me.  I was able to have a look at the images from my CT scan (which deserves a post- such a traumatic experience!!) which were actually a bit graphic for me to look at at first but on the other hand it was amazing to see such a clear view with so much depth of my insides!  This little "hitchhiker" I carry around is taking up approx 70% of my pelvic interior. My Other organs are squished under or around it.  It is HUGE, I want it out and my doctor cannot believe I had two pregnancies without it rupturing.  Oh, and the only reason they thought it had disappeared a couple years ago was because I accidentally emptied my bladder before an ultrasound :S  I tried to drink a ton to fill it back up but there wasn't enough time for it to fill so we thought my cyst was my full bladder... crazy!

So there's some updating for everyone.  I'll be eager to have some news or info regarding surgery.  Until then it's just more of a waiting game :)

Other than that Jason is plugging away at school still and is approaching midterms.  I can't believe we almost have 1 year under our belts.  We just need to find him get a good internship!  If anyone has some connections in the finance or oil & gas world we would love to know :D








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