Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was not quite what I'd imagined it to be. Poor Steven, first year resident that he is, was on call the entire day so he couldn't join in any of the family festivities. Not only that, but my most wonderful brother, Joey, had to work on Thanksgiving as well...so my two most favorite men in the world weren't there to share in the fun. Nonetheless, the food was amazing and it was great to see some family members who rarely get to visit anymore. I celebrated at lunch time with my side of the family and dinner time with Steven's maternal grandmother's side of the family. Almost all of the 13 people present for the Thanksgiving dinner at grandma Penny's caught a stomach virus and I ended up sick the rest of the weekend and have thankfully been recuperating well. Talk about the pits - it's no fun being pregnant and having a stomach bug on top of it. My wonderful husband took off two days of work to care for me and our babies only to catch it himself - now he's in bed and I'm waiting on him. Hopefully the bug will run it's course and Steven will be up and running by Thursday, but I hate that he's missed now 4 days of work - especially a new rotation. It's definitely humbled me though. I told Steven that when I was feeling the worst I would sing hymns and tell myself "God is so good" and it truly made me feel better. Praise God the doctors said that the virus couldn't hurt the babies - only dehydration, so I've been doing my best to stay hydrated. It's a shame, my husband and I have had 4 whole days together and haven't been able to do a bit of preparations for Christmas - I don't when I'll get this much time with him. Praise God that he can take the time though and so can I so that we can take care of ourselves.

I go to the doctor on Dec. 16th for the ultrasound to find out the sex of the babies. It stinks that I've lost 8 lbs since I found out I was pregnant, but most of that was just in the last few days with this bug. Oh well, I've got plenty of extra for the babies to live off of and I'm not worried about quickly putting it back on. We can't wait to have some happy news to share as to the sex of the babies. WE'll keep you posted.