Get ready for a laugh!!

Sorry for the dramatic pause but this week has been CRAZY!!!! I have not had a moment to catch my breath!

I have to say thank you for the 4 comments I got to my announcement. I really had more but they contacted me through email.

I follow this girl's blog (she is linked to Jaime's blog)

http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/2010/08/message-from-harper.html

and she just made an "announcement" and got 1012 comments. Really!!!! Isn't that crazy??? It got my competitive juices flowing but I was happy with my four and really it was more!!!!!

Anyways, the details.......here is the story.

This summer has been anything but relaxing. With the end of school, the move, the kids, I have been going, going, going and tired all of the time. Nothing unusual.

I visited my OB/GYN at the beginning of June. I was concerned b/c I have not had any monthly visitors since having Rocco. She thought my hormones must be low and suggested I was in "possible early stages of menopause." Her exact words. Oh great, now I can spend the rest of the summer depressed b/c my body is OLD!!!!!! I peed in a cup and they told me it was negative although I never saw it.

During the last week of July, the kids were playing with the dress-up dolls on the floor and I was watching Oprah who had on the crazy Octomom. It started my wheels spinning at 100 mph. I am tired just like the Octomom. Maybe that stomach bug I felt was not a stomach bug but some nausea?? What?????

As crazy as this sounds, I knew I had an old pregnancy test in a box somewhere. I just had to find it. It took me a couple of days of hunting through the boxes in the garage but I found it. Ta-da!!! I saved $12.00. Victory!!!

Since you know the outcome of this story, you know that I saw this.




OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I freaked out!!!!! I didn't have the courage to tell Bryan until two days later. Of course he didn't freak out b/c he takes everything in stride. He said "Cool, we always wanted another." Me, "Yeah, but not right NOW!!!!!" (in a shrill, panicked voice)

But b/c I was just at the Dr.'s office in June, I thought I had caught the pregnancy very early. I thought I was 4-5 weeks. I called the doc, set up an appt. and on my way. Of course, at the appt. we could not date the pregnancy so she ordered an early sonogram. I was annoyed b/c I have had an early sonogram with Jillian and you can't see anything. It looks like a lima bean or just a little blob.

The next week, Bryan and I go to the sonogram and the tech asks how far along I am and I tell her I think 5-7 weeks. She gets out her "magic dildo wand" and I swear to you I screamed. On the screen is not a lima bean or a blob. On the screen is a full-blown baby with arms and legs and fingers and toes, waving at me and mocking me. How did this happen? I was 13 weeks, 1 day. The tech seriously thought I was crazy b/c I was acting like a lunatic. I just couldn't wrap my brain around it. How could I be this far along?????

I told her if this baby was due in January I was going to go postal on her. She very nervously laughed and consulted her wheel and declared with joyful glee: "Oh no, Mrs. P, you are not due in January, you are due in February!!!!!!" Me: Ohhhhhhhhh, b/c that is so different than January?????? Are you insane????? My children will be almost exactly two years apart!!!! She quickly ushered us out and called security.

Before you pass judment on my stupidity of missing my whole first trimester, let me remind you my doc said MENOPAUSE in June. I thought I was washed up. I was tired all summer, but I moved with two small children (and Bryan - that counts). I was tired from the moving, right? I have never had morning sickness with any of my pregnancies so that didn't help give me a clue. Bottom line: I was not looking for any clues.

So now I am almost 16 weeks and truly I am still in some shock and disbelief. How am I going to have 3 children 4 and under???? Who survives that? With a full-time job??


I am hoping and praying that in the next 24 weeks I will figure it out!!!!