Hello again.

Remind me never to let anyone borrow my camera again. I am going on nearly four weeks without the use of it.

What's new is that ONE of the babies is pretty clearly a girl. And the other is less certain, so I won't say what they think it is just yet...

I am well past the daily sickness (THANK GOD!) and had my one month of feeling good, so I am now moving into the huge and uncomfortable phase. As you mothers know, it's generally the entire second trimester that you feel relatively good in pregnancy. If you were blessed enough to be made to carry babies, like me apparently, you may have even felt great up until the final 2-3 weeks when you just get uncomfortable no matter who you are. But not with twins, I tell you. As I said, I had my one month of relative comfort. It's kinda funny to be the size of a woman nearly ready to deliver ad yet know you are only halfway there. I have already gained nearly as much weight as I did in the entire pregnancy with Blake and Nadia each, even though I am "all baby". In fact I lost excess body weight in January when I couldn't eat (9 pounds lost) and last week when I had a cold (3 pounds lost).

Like you care about my weight...

Spring is in the air around here. And by that I mean we have finally crawled out of the freezing range in the afternoons. We had four days in a row this week of temps in the low 40's (following the 16 inches of snow last Friday night). Woo Hoo! This means I now have a mud driveway to park in instead of a snow packed one. I miss Spring as I know it, with trees budding and birds chirping. Spring here seems to be about MELTING. We had to come have the city remove the snow banks near our storefront early this week because, as the melt began, we had a 6 inch deep puddle that extended 6 feet out from our entrance and no one could get into the building without walking through it. There are drains in the street, but the melt couldn't get to it because of the six foot snowbanks piled up on either side of our storefront.

Summer was fabulous here last year, so I am looking forward to it. Now I understand, having been through an entire summer here, why people seem to lose their minds and not care about any responsibility or obligation on a nice day in summer here. People just DROP everything and get out on the lake or hit the beach or the woods on a beautiful day. They call in to work, they quit jobs, they back out of obligations - and no one seems to take offense. The response is always - "It's a beuatiful day!" You see, they are so very limited - we have about 6 weeks of temps above the 60's - that you simply MUST take advantage of it when it happens.

I am looking forward to this summer and hoping that I am mobile enough (pray for no bed rest for me!) to enjoy the nicest days. I envision myself beached, and it makes me smile. I am so very white, God knows I need a tan.

And if I get "good" babies, who knows? Maybe I'll be out and about in August, enjoying the warmest days we get all year.

We are starting to seriously shop for a home to buy. We still love "the blue house" and saw the owners this morning. They are eager to get back downstate to be with their kids and grandkids and reiterated what a great deal they will cut us! :0
We'll see, the market is such that I don't want to buy anything we aren't going to be pleased as punch to live in for the next ten years. We'll see....

Back to catching up on my mess at the office... I hope to have pictures to post soon. Illustrated life is so much more interesting.