"Springing" Ahead!

Baby

I had another appointment today and I finally found out my induction date: Wednesday April 23!!! So if I do not go into labor naturally before then, I will be induced on that date and hopefully we'll have the baby that day! I only have 3 more appointments until I go in to the hospital. We are SUPER excited and now I need to seriously finish the baby's room and finish all my shopping. I've been reading a lot about inductions and also I've been hearing a lot of stories from women who have had them and I've heard both sides of the story. Some say it was quick and easy and others say they had the pitosin (sp?) administered and nothing happened for a few days or they ended up having a c-section. But there is a new gel they use before the hormone is given that supposedly starts dissolving the membranes and can induce labor without anything else. Also, since this is my second, chances are my body is good and ready to do it's thing and it'll hopefully go okay. I think she said I will go in the morning, but the scheduler lady at my doctor's office has to call the hospital to schedule it, so I will find out for sure at my next appointment. We will keep you all updated via email as the details come in and the date gets closer. Yay!

Josh

In my last post, I wrote about how Josh and I were getting a little worries about the job "situation" (meaning how he doesn't have one yet!!!) Although, all we can do is take it day by day, since I still have my job and insurance and all that. However, he went up to Kohler with Mark today and got some really good feedback . He met a ceramic engineer and other people in the ceramics department and they seemed very interested in him working there. They said that with his Masters degree he should be able to get into a position as a product analyst or related to that. Also, he can always get a job in the production area until he moves intyo a higher position. He is supposed to meet the head of the graphics department next week so hopefully that will go as well as it did today. They are always looking for product designers, etc... and I guess it is very common for people to move around in the company based on their interests and skills. So that went really well and hopefully we'll possibly get something out of it. Keep your fingers crossed!!!!

After ALL the crap we've been through in the past couple of years with Zach being sick and passing away, and money issues, and moving around a lot, I REALLY hope that things are turning around for us now. I feel like with this new baby and spring coming and possible leads on a job for Josh , maybe we can actually have some luck for once in our lives. Not that we haven't been blessed with so many things, but it'd be nice to see something good happen for a change! And I really like my job now and I'm actually going to be taking on some other responsibilities after I go back that will definitely give me a nice pay increase. I guess we can't take it too seriously since you never know what is going to happen. Like what happened with Zach; I'm sure he had hopes and plans and goals and then he got sick and didn't get a chance to do any of it. It makes me think of watching someone make a house out of cards and they finally get it all to stay together; then somebody just walks by and a little breeze blows the whole thing down. That's how I picture life too; you work so hard to get everything stacked up in the right ways and then in a split second it can all be over. So in the big picture, I know we are really lucky to have what we have and I can't dwell on the what if's...