road trip!

My oldest sister moved to Ohio not too long ago because her husband got a big promotion that took him there. She's at "Further Up and Further In!" if you want to give her a read, she's a great writer. Anyways, we have lived in the same city before and enjoyed getting to know each other, something we missed out on growing up due to our 7 year age difference. Well my mom has been planning to go visit her and on a whim, I guess, she invited me along. I thought about it some and decided I'd go! It's a long drive which we'll take over two days but I think Lucca is at least at the place that the trip won't ruin the whole week. SHe used to be terrible in the casr, but she has since learned how to fall asleep if she's tired and entertain herself in the car. We also turned her seat around to forward facing the other day and she loves it. I was hoping to keep her rear facing for at least two years but we can't fit two rear facing seats in our car. I'm confident the trip will go well and I'm really excited to see the Meester family! My nephew, Tiernan (whose mom is here), will be coming with us to spend some time with his cousins and I think Lucca will enjoy him too. I'm leaving tonight after dinner to go to Rock Hill, and we'll all leave from there. We'll see how this goes!

i'm grounded

The other day we started having trouble with our internet. Since we have Comcast we automatically assumed it was their problem. Turns out it was our wireless router. It's broken. So now we have no wireless. This has changed my life already. Probably 95% of my internet usage has been on my iPod since that fateful day I held a baby in my arms. The room that houses the computer is the room we call "Daniel's room" and it also has the tv, record player and huge expedit, including all the accouterments, like a ps3, Wii, receiver and a crap ton of books and records. In other words, this is not a very kid-friendly room. Thus all the internetting in my hand. Without wireless my iPod is basically useless to me, especially since (of course!) the tape deck in the car is messed up. I broke mine a couple weeks ago so this one is fairly new and I was still getting it set up how I like and downloading apps when the router broke, which leaves me with exactly one game to play: Sudoku. I'm getting pretty good.

Iit's better than this though.

well we're having a baby!

On April 30 I felt an unmistakable baby kick in my womb. I took a pregnancy test the next morning and immediately went into shock. This was not what we were expecting! It turns out I got pregnant at the end of January, when Lucca was 8 months old. I was 17 weeks along (thereabouts) when I found out about the person inside of me, which is simultaneously awesome and scary. We have a lot of preparing to do! Daniel is very excited about Deuce, which is the baby's nickname for now, and is working a huge amount of overtime so we can pay the midwife and buy a car seat. Yes, we are having Deuce at home just as we did with Lucca. It wasn't even something we had to discuss. If you've had a planned homebirth I'm betting you know why. If you haven't had a planned homebirth it's because there is nothing in the world like giving your body the familiar space and supportive atmosphere it needs to do what it is built to do. Giving birth is absolutely incredible and as long as I don't think too much about what comes after that, I am really excited about the opportunity to bring another person into our family.
Obviously this means the house will not get the improvements I was planning for it. At least not for a year most likely. I'm most disappointed about the kitchen. It is so gloomy and unhappy as it is, I was really hoping and looking forward to bringing some color into it. Actually I already told Daniel that for my birthday I want paint, cabinet pulls and recessed lights. I think about that poor kitchen every day!
But I'm so excited to meet this little one and make room for him or her. All the house fun takes a back seat to the people God has entrusted me with. We'll see how our little place holds up to four Colemans!