Just popping in for a little Life Update
Soooo.... it's obviously been ages since I last blogged, and I'm soooorrrry.
I mean my goodness. It looks like the last blog was back in October 2014, when the boys were about 9 months old. A lot has happened since then...A lot
In December of 2014 my job title changed drastically and I began to work really, really long hours... booooo. Operations manager of a busy downtown hotel was not very friendly when it came to family life.I was only seeing the boys for about an hour to an hour and a half before they went to bed for the evening. It was really hard to only have that much time with them, especially considering how hard we tried to have children. It also made vlogging and blogging pretty much impossible with two little ones on top of crazy work hours.
Armor and Ronin, are now two years old and crazy as ever... We lovingly call them our tiny little tornadoes of velociraptors, ah aha... that one is actually more fitting. They talk so much and it's been so amazing to watch them grow into toddlers vs. infants. They make me crazy and amaze me every single day.
Also. . .
I had another BABY!!!!
What?
Oh my gosh!
How'd that happen?!?
Aren't you infertile!?!
Yep...
Sometimes... life throws you a well deserved surprise!
Sometimes... life throws you a well deserved surprise!
We were shocked, beyond shocked, and it honestly took us a little bit to get use to the idea that we were adding another baby to the family. It was so weird to know my body did what it was supposed to do all on its own... such a strange feeling.
Right after the boys turned oneis when it happened... NO we were not trying, and to be honest we never thought we'd have anymore children. I thought for sure we'd have to bust into our frozen embryo storage.. It was pretty much a surprise and what I like to call our "valentines love baby" haha. I found out at the beginning of March right after our sweet Roxy passed away... She gave us 14 fantastic years of being the most awesome dog we'll ever have in our lifetime. Josh graduated with his Associate Degree in Applied Science in May and we found out the very same day we were having a GIRL!!!! How incredibly lucky are we???
We also decided to donate our 13 remaining embryos. We donated them to our fertility clinic so that other couples could adopt them. We both feel really good about our decision, and it's a little hard to believe that someone will be having our children... CRAZY!!!
Josh took the summer off from school and stayed home with the boys while I worked, then returned to school in September to continue with his Bachelor degree... I have an relatively uneventful pregnancy, but did wind up dealing with Gestational Diabetes. Luckily, I was able to keep it under control with diet restriction - yay, go me!!
I gave birth to Olivia Rose Bernard on November 9th, 2015, ironically it was the same date that I had my last miscarriage back in 2011. We defiantly came full circle.
Olivia was born at 5:19 pm
weighted 8lbs 5oz.
Her birth was fantastic and I delivered with the midwives
just like I did with the boys. I made a birth vlog video, so I'll share the link with y'all Birth Vlog
I took 3 months off for maternity leave and wound up finding a new job the same week I returned to work. I put my notice in and bam... I have a new job in a completely different industry with a M-F 8/5 kinda hours. I could not be more happy for this change in employment and having more time with my family. Obviously I'd love to stay home, but that is just not the season of our life right now. Josh is seriously an amazing dad, he is so great... I could not ask for a better husband, friend and father for our children. I truly love him more than I could ever appropriately articulate into words.
So for now that is it. I'm going to start blogging a bit more since I don't have time to Vlog. I totally miss vlogging, but it takes so much time to edit, blah...
I feel like I'm in a part of my life where if feels right to blog again!
Right now...overall, life is good, I'm blessed in more was than I can count and I'm incredibly lucky for all that I have.
Good to see you back, congratulations on the latest addition! Little Olivia is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteLove this -- all of it. Congrats on your beautiful family! (we have one of those "surprise" babies too!)
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful update to hear! Glad to have you back in blogland.
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming back!!! I was wondering how you were doing and wanted badly to reconnect with you because I found out in a horrible way that I have endo and I wanted to talk to you about it because you were the blogger I had followed the most when I was blogging before that had it.
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