Where have I been?

Where on earth have I been? Wow. I can't believe my last update was in September. That is pretty sad. The truth is, life has just been very busy. I was forced to reduce computer time, and my blog is one of the things that had to take the back-burner. I'm not quite ready to say, "I'm back," but at least I'm here for today.

For the fall I was teaching two classes at the local university, and that kept me very very busy. I was also teaching childbirth classes (for which I have my certification exam TOMORROW), attending doula births, raising 2 kids, and of course, gestating a third. In mid-November I was in a car accident that tore things up a bit. I have "minor" injuries I guess, though it is now almost 2 months later and I'm still seeing the chiropractor, acupuncturist, and massage therapist. The accident was caused my an insurance-less fuck who plowed at 35 mph into a stopped car (and that stopped car then plowed into me). Three people, including myself, were taken to the hospital. I was sent straight to L&D because of frequent contractions (at 27 weeks), but things settled down with rest and hydration. And we had another ultrasound, but resisted finding out the gender again. The at-fault driver's car was totaled. My car wasn't too far from totaled. And come to find out he had no insurance, no driver's license, no car registration, AND he had 2 kids in the car who were not his kids and who were not in proper child restraints. How can people be so clueless?

Anyway, that accident has left me with even less time for blogging because of the HOURS of weekly appointments. Things are considerably better now. Then in December I got REALLY sick. It has been about 5 weeks now and I'm still sick. The holidays were non-existent because I could barely drag my ass out of bed. Finally now, things are starting to look up. I'm nearly 35 weeks pregnant - exactly 3 weeks away from when my son was born. The house is almost ready for baby. We even had a house cleaner come visit yesterday. I just bought a new nursing bra, which makes me sooo excited. And my birthday is in just a few days.

It is hard to imagine I'm going to have another newborn soon. My oldest is really excited about it. It has been a completely new journey to have her so aware of her new sibling this time. I'm very excited to meet this little person. I would sure like it if he/she would lay off my SI joints.

Car insurance update

Turns out when that insurance agent said I was "involved" in an accident, she meant as a witness. Whew! I didn't think she could possibly be asking about that, because it was 6 weeks ago that the accident happened. But I guess the drivers in the accident didn't report it until this week, so I didn't get the call until then. I'm so relieved it wasn't something bad for me, like someone claiming I hit them. I offered my name and number to both drivers of this accident I witnessed because of an accident I was in a year ago. A very VERY very old man hit my car, and while I was busy calling the police, he was out in the street getting witnesses. Long story short, I had no witnesses and he had several who spouted a modified version of the truth...and I was found at fault (even though he HIT me while I was completely stopped...and he drove away without realizing he hit me...and then his story included the completely wrong part of his van too). So I learned the lesson that witnesses are more important than just about anything else. Next time I won't move the cars out of traffic either, until I have taken pictures at least.

Anyway, I was glad to do my duty and help these drivers settle their accident.