I have been kind of hesitant to blog about this but I think it is time. Tom and I are expecting another baby! I am currently 20 weeks along. The reason I was hesitant is because my pregnancies are considered high risk. With my autoimune condition - Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder, my overactive immune system tries to reject my pregnancies and I start having lots of contractions early on. They actually started at 7 weeks with this one. With my other two I went into preterm labor and was on meds and bedrest but fortunately made it to 36 weeks. So far with this one my doctor is trying to keep me off the meds and he just told me to listen to my body and take it easy. Walking around a store can set me off so I have been good and keeping my feet up as much as I can.
Anyway, even though we were content with our 2 girls we believed and it has been prophecied over us that God had more children for us so we never used birth control and it took 9 years to conceive this one. Today we had an ultrasound and found out we are having another girl! We are excited. Tom loves his little ladies. The name we are probably going to go with is Clare Elizabeth.
Keep us in your prayers that the rest of this pregnancy will go smoothly.
Lisa
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Sunday, August 14, 2005
computers suck & i'm a fool
my wonderful, three year old dell computer died on me this week. without warning the hard drive crashed taking with it our digital family photos, my mp3's, our checkbook & matthew's house's checkbook, matthew's house's website and many other things. the definite lesson to be learned here is to regularly back-up your data. that's where the fool part comes in. my last back-up was done in september of 2004. at least i have that much. i took the hard drive to an IT friend and the geek squad and best buy. they couldn't get any thing from it.
on another note, if you haven't noticed already, we've moved our blog from typepad to blogger. considering how inconsistant we are at blogging i couldn't justify paying for a blog site ($80/yr) when i could get a perfectly fine free site. typepad was great but blogger has made some serious improvements to narrow the gap.
tom
on another note, if you haven't noticed already, we've moved our blog from typepad to blogger. considering how inconsistant we are at blogging i couldn't justify paying for a blog site ($80/yr) when i could get a perfectly fine free site. typepad was great but blogger has made some serious improvements to narrow the gap.
tom
