Hello...hello and hello again everybody!

I have some really wonderful news...well it is a little old but on Monday, May 25,2009 our newest little one arrived...She weighted 4lbs 12oz and has a head full of hair. Her name is LaNya and she actually was released from the hospital before I was. For most that have read my blog before, I was worried about the c-section (this was my 3rd one) and considering what happened on the operating table, I had just cause. But I can say at least this time the spinal didn't fail and I was not put under general and I got to see and kiss her before she was whisked away. But there were some other complications, very serious ones. For all that believe in prayer, I ask you to please pray for my healing. I truly do need it!

But I haven't been able to be on the computer because I was just released from the hospital on Sunday. And I haven't edited or added photos of her just yet. I will be doing this a little later this week when I get breaks here in there between pumping milk, changing diapers and all that new baby adjustment stuff...have a blessed day everyone. And thank you all in advance for your prayers and well wishes! Tracy

35 weeks

I am sitting here trying to figure out what to write about. I don't want to complain because I am thankful that I have made it this far but I am sooooo ready to be done. Now to be fair I have to say that I haven't been this far along in a pregnancy for a long time, and so it is hard to adjust to not being able to get up, but instead roll out of a sitting position. LOL...

I haven' t done anything creative at all this week for myself, except check out blogs of people that I love and pop in every once and awhile on twopeasinabucket to see the gallery. I haven't lost my creativity/inspiration, I just don't have the time to be creative right now, or at least not for my own personal scrapbooks or cards.

Yesterday I got the call from the hospital and my c-section is scheduled. I am honestly terrified of it but I am hoping that I don't have to have an emergency one and that scheduled ones are a lot more smoother than my previous two emergency ones. I also am so excited to be able to be this close to my actual due date which means if the baby does come early there would be a really short stay in the NICU or special care nursery. That to me is well worth the wait!! I can't imagine actually have a child come home with me after I deliver her/him but I am getting so close to that happening that it is both wonderful and scary all at once. But I wouldn't trade this for anything. I know that my last posts have been all about babies and birth but this is one way that I can share what I am going through and all the thousands of thoughts about it that I can't seem to get outta my head...like tonight I woke at midnight looking for our cellphones because I just had to make sure that they were charged so that we could get in touch with each other. And of course I haven't been able to get back to sleep no matter how hard I have tried so I decided to do my blog post now. Maybe I can get some sleep after this is no longer on my mind.

26 weeks and counting!!!

I am so excited! I know that making it to26 weeks (pregnant) might not be an accomplishment but to me it is. Almost 7 yrs ago I delivered my 2nd son at 25 weeks and 2 days gestation and I am so thankful that this isn't the case for the fourth.

I am so hoping that my next milestone which is 31 weeks (last pregnancy) is going to be moved past just as uneventful. I am truly believe that this one will go the distance. I really do pray that it will!!! NICU or ICC isn't really an option for our family this time around. (Not that it was then either.)

I have been so blessed because despite all the pain and side effects from the shots; I still feel pretty good for the most part.

Onto scrapbooking! I am so excited to be making a decision to either get the slice or save for a Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter. I want the Silhouette but am not sure that I am really ready to invest in getting one just yet. I then have to get another computer or the Silhouette that takes the SD card because our computer is so far away from my actual space (on another level of our house) that it wouldn't make sense to get one. Or at least not now. But whatever I decide I have to say that I just really am ready to move on to electronic. Not to replace the Big Shot, which right now there isn't a machine that can do it all out there but instead to enhance my current page time. Sometimes it takes me longer to pick a font then to actually put the page together.

So what would your dream machine do? That is a thread that I am off to add over at 2peas!

And to answer the blogger question of the day...one of the things that I have a hard time not adding to my stash even though I have a ton of them are stamps. I mean no matter how much of a spending freeze I am on...I somehow find a way to justify the spending of $5-$10 ever so often to get those darn Michael's Dollar section stamps. I think that considering just how much I use them justifies the purchase but I will admit that I am a sucker for them and pretty much any cheap stamp set. Do wait for most other set that I have to go on clearance (thank goodness for J's clearance stamps!) but I put them on my wishlist and wait until they are priced just right to get them! So stamps are my must have item, and patterned paper comes in as close second!

Have a great day!!