Testing Flock for Windows

Can you hear me now? Good.

One of these days I gotta get organisized...

So I'm checking out the CBS Sunday Show and they have a bit about clutter and getting rid of it. I am running aboot a LOT today, this being Sunday, the day of rest and everything, so I have only a few seconds to jot this down before running off to C-Town for (ugh) 6 boxes of scoopable crystal kitty litter:

STEPS TO ELIMINATING CLUTTER
1) eliminate stuff
2) categorize what remains
3) designate where it will go

does it enhance my life or the lives of others?

get boxes and sort the things out

That is it. I just really really want to remember this. Ting is fine and so is Mike. Love them both completely. Peace out.

The Simpsons...Live!!!

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Back in Queensie today

Working on my Maple project. Buh. At this point, I have quite a few irons in the fire:

1) Ting
2) Work
3) Mom
4) Lehman
5) Maintaining the place in Queensie
6) Ting
7) Tax time

A long list, and this does not include trying to get some of the down payment back. OK, got that out of my system...back to work!

Well, spring at last...

...and we had a peaceful Sunday today, with me working and Ting lying on the bed beside me. Nice day. She is feeling a little bit of pain but otherwise she is OK. She is going to see Dr. Stein tomorrow and we should know a little better what our status is. I gotta get back to work now, because school awaits tomorrow.

So far, so good...

Well, we had a scare with the baby this week.

We had run a series of blood tests with Ting last week, and this week they came back with a finding that we had scored higher than normal for a possibility of the baby having a Spinal Tube Defect - spina bifida and similar ailments. Depending on the severity of the problem, this might have meant that the baby would not be able to walk, or would be severely retarded, or other problems.

Then we had to wait for 2 days to find out whether this actually would be the case, and if so, what would we choose to do about it? This was the most agonizing part: having lost Allison, were we prepared to do something like that again? This was apart from the cerclage issue, which made things even more distressing.

Fortunately, Dr. JAffe, who took a look at the Ultrasound, pronounced that Mike's spine seemed to be OK. That left one MAJOR issue resolved. I asked him how the cerclage was, and he said it appeared to be holding on. This was EXCELLENT news, and sorely needed. Later that evening, of course, Dr.Stein called us at home and told us that Dr. Jaffe had remarked that the cervix was in good shape as well, which while good news, still causes me worry.

How can that be? When this was the source of our previous sorrow? When they had mentioned the shortness of the cervix as recently as Monday?

Should I even be looking at this gift horse too closely? Does that make me an ingrate for what I guessis a real miracle for us? I am so worried that Ting's heart would break if it happened again, and I so want to be happy. I guess I just don't want to be so bitterly disappointed again.

And should we go ahead with the amniocentesis?

Well, well...

So it appears that Ting is pregnant again! This comes as a majopr shock, and that is the mildest way of putting it. After all these years of trying to conceive, then fertility treatments, then losing Alison, I had just about given up hope of trying have a baby...and then THIS.

OK. Deep breath. That's better.

Our baby is a boy this time. My little guy. Our little guy. I keep rolling the phrase aroound, testing it out. My son. Son. Our son. It feels so weird saying it. We're having a baby.

Wow.

I hope that we can hold on to this one this time. I miss Alison a lot some days. When a friend of moine showed me pictures of himself and his son together, the feeling was excrutiating. A day later, on the way out of Lehman, I get the word from Ting.

More to come. What a way to start March.