Been a long time

My last post was pre-baby #1.  I ended up having Nathan early - 14 weeks early....  We had a long road in the NICU, but he made it and is now a happy healthy 3 year old!  The builder that I spoke of in the last post did end up building our new house, but it took a while and we ended up staying at my mother-in-laws house for nearly a year.  Not quite how I imagined things would go.

Fast forward to present - I'm now almost 22 weeks pregnant with baby #2 (another boy).  I've already had a few complications this pregnancy and am anticipating that my doctor will most likely put me on bedrest at some point to prevent preterm labor.  Definitely don't want to have another preemie and go through what we did last time.

I haven't been able to workout during this pregnancy, things have been pretty busy and I'm supposed to be taking it easy.  I did get back into running the past year and ran a 10K on the 4th of July - which felt pretty great to accomplish!  I had also dropped my weight down quite a bit.  My new years resolution this year is to get back down to pre-baby weight by the end of 2013.  Baby is due on May 12th, so that will give me plenty of time :)

The job has been very rocky since November - my company has made a lot of cutbacks, to include my hours.  I haven't worked at all this week - but I'm trying not to stress out too much about it.  Our caseload is next to nothing, but hopefully it will pick up really soon.  The unfortunate thing is that most places aren't going to want to hire a pregnant woman, even for PRN work.  So I think I'm pretty much stuck until this baby is born.  I've been praying quite a bit that we'll get through whatever financial bumps in the road are ahead.

Speaking of praying - this year I went back to church.  I'd been away from the Catholic church for years, for many reasons.  Although some of my spiritual beliefs aren't exactly what the catholic church teaches - I still think the church has a lot to offer and decided to take Nathan and introduce him to the church.  He goes to the catechism class and got baptized on Dec 29th. 

My plan is to continue posting - over 3 years has been too long!  Not sure anyone will read this, but it feels good to put things down in writing.