Then March started and I was remembering last year, when my incredible book club friends started the tradition of doing dinner and a movie for birthdays, starting with my birthday. They gave me a gift certificate to an Aveda spa so I could get a pedicure to pamper my neglected feet (I couldn't reach them!). I was so surprised and touched.
In April, those same incredible friends threw me an amazing baby shower. From the handmade, gorgeous invitations, to the delicious food, the cutest ever favors, fabulous gifts... they made me feel so special and spoiled me rotten!
Jessie and I were pregnant at the same time. What an adventure that was. It was a once in a lifetime experience! My due date was in May, hers in June. We knew her baby would be delivered early, since our doctor didn't want to let her go as long as she did with Lola. So there was a possibility that Bella would be born before Eva, even though Jessie got pregnant about a month after me! I got high blood pressure right at the very end and they decided, to my great surprise, to induce me two weeks early and so I got an April baby (barely). Bella was born three weeks later on May 20.
Again, my friends & family were right there supporting me through the good times and bad. Eva got severely jaundiced within the first 12 hours of her life and had to be moved to the newborn nursery. She stayed there for 5 days under all the bilirubin lights they could gather. Even after we brought her home, she had to stay in a suitcase of lights for about a week!
It's so strange to me the way I experience the passage of time. How can it seem like all this happened just yesterday and simultaneously feel like such a long time ago? I guess it's the combination of vivid memories and all that has transpired since then... What a year this has been. Thanks to everyone who has been with me through it all!
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What a fun look back..I'm glad you had a visual for each event...The past is crazy. Especially with giving birth I am amazed at how intense and real it is and then two days later it is like you had an out of body experience and it was someone else.
I hope this spring will run much more smoothly than last. I had forgotten how sick you were pregnant...
Wow, reviewing all of that is crazy. It was a super long, hard pregnancy and I'm so glad you made it through it all so well. I remember feeling so helpless all the time, and wanting to be able to make things better for you.
It's so awesome to have the pictures and the feelings of gratitude and reflection so that you can look back on that time and feel the love of all your friends and family. Maybe that's one of the reasons for that tough time, especially since you always seem so surprised to find out that everyone loves you and finds you worthy of all we have to give.
Things like birthdays, Christmas, etc. get me thinking about "this time last year." I figure I'm in a pretty good place when I feel glad to be where I am now instead of where I was a year ago.
I know what you mean about time seeming at once both quick-in-passing and forever ago. I can't figure that one out either.
I'm glad to be where I am now vs. last year. I'm glad to be where I am vs. any other time in my life, actually. I guess that either means things are good now, or they have been really really bad in the past. (a little of both perhaps?)
I'm very glad you're where you are. I was afraid for you during your pregnancy. I didn't want anything to happen to further test you!
It's hard to believe that that all happened only a year ago. So much has happened since then. You've made me think and I can't remember much of what was happening a year ago. We were getting ready for our house to be finished, and that was pretty all consuming. I wonder, is it better to not be able to remember much (ie nothing terrible or terribly exciting must have been happening) or to be able to remember? Probably a little of both. One thing's for sure, we'll all be able to remember what was going on a year from now becasue we have these great blogs to record our actions.
what a roller coaster last year was! you don't always see it until you write it down and then it is so obvious- the ups and downs, the trials and blessings!!
i wish i would have been apart of last year. but next year when you write this, i will say hey i remember that.
I had a hard time reading this entry, Michelle, through the tears dripping into my lap. You went through alot last year and it was beautiful to read how your wonderful friends helped you through it. Won't someone write a book about you all and then make it into a movie? We would laugh, then we'd cry and remember it always.
oh my goodness! When I read things like that it just makes me so sensible...this blog business has a magic to it! it is wonderful to see all those pictures and read all those passages and experience them as if you were there! wow what great energy and love surround you!
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