TVRodriguez
1-31-11, 7:15am
Hello! I used to be on the old board, but it's been quite a while since I visited, and I was sorry to see it gone when I went to log in over the weekend. I am glad to find the boards here, though! Thanks to the New Road Map Foundation!
Anyhow, when I last was active, I think I had just had my second child (a girl), who is now about to turn 2. My older one (a boy) will be 4 in a couple of months. And now I'm 34 weeks along in my third pregnancy (a surprise in every sense of the word), and my due date falls between my kids' birthdays.
I actually thought of you all when I started to think of what to do to celebrate my kids' birthdays, one a couple of weeks before my due date and one a couple of weeks after. If we had family nearby, we'd just celebrate with them, but we don't. And I flirted with doing a big double party after the baby is born at a rented space (gymboree) where they will do all the work for me. Thought that would keep things simpler for me as I'll be nursing a newborn. But when I saw the birthday party price list for the place, I decided it was not quite simple enough! So DH and I have decided that we can do something small and simple at home for DS's 4th birthday with just a few kids that DS likes best. And for DD's 2nd birthday, we'll just have a cake here at home with the 4 of us. It's actually what we did for DS's 2nd birthday, since he turned two when DD was in the hospital at age 6 weeks with an infection.
And in other news, I've been working part-time since DS was born, hanging on to my job by my fingernails (since law firms like mine really don't favor part-time attorneys who keep taking maternity leave) but not stressing about it. DH's medical practice has fluctuated with the economy, but it seems to be picking up again, which is great. And even though we are in South Florida and underwater on our mortgage, we can still make the payments and the house still works for us (since DH put in a 3rd bedroom by building a wall in the Florida room), so it's all good.
Anyhow, all that to say hey! Not sure how much time I'll have to contribute to the board in the near future, but I plan to try to lurk at least now and then. Nice to see old "faces" (screennames) and some new (to me) ones!
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Detect language » Spanish
Anyhow, when I last was active, I think I had just had my second child (a girl), who is now about to turn 2. My older one (a boy) will be 4 in a couple of months. And now I'm 34 weeks along in my third pregnancy (a surprise in every sense of the word), and my due date falls between my kids' birthdays.
I actually thought of you all when I started to think of what to do to celebrate my kids' birthdays, one a couple of weeks before my due date and one a couple of weeks after. If we had family nearby, we'd just celebrate with them, but we don't. And I flirted with doing a big double party after the baby is born at a rented space (gymboree) where they will do all the work for me. Thought that would keep things simpler for me as I'll be nursing a newborn. But when I saw the birthday party price list for the place, I decided it was not quite simple enough! So DH and I have decided that we can do something small and simple at home for DS's 4th birthday with just a few kids that DS likes best. And for DD's 2nd birthday, we'll just have a cake here at home with the 4 of us. It's actually what we did for DS's 2nd birthday, since he turned two when DD was in the hospital at age 6 weeks with an infection.
And in other news, I've been working part-time since DS was born, hanging on to my job by my fingernails (since law firms like mine really don't favor part-time attorneys who keep taking maternity leave) but not stressing about it. DH's medical practice has fluctuated with the economy, but it seems to be picking up again, which is great. And even though we are in South Florida and underwater on our mortgage, we can still make the payments and the house still works for us (since DH put in a 3rd bedroom by building a wall in the Florida room), so it's all good.
Anyhow, all that to say hey! Not sure how much time I'll have to contribute to the board in the near future, but I plan to try to lurk at least now and then. Nice to see old "faces" (screennames) and some new (to me) ones!
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