January 28, 2008 at 2:55 pm · Filed under Actual posts about being moms, Rants
I’ve been stalking a few websites lately. One is Flotsam and I’ve been visiting her website ever since I did a search on “pregnancy symptoms” and realized I was having the same ones as her. She did IVF, had miscarriages, and was two weeks ahead of me.
So her website has been somewhat of a guide to “what to expect next” during my pregnancy journey.
Last week she posted that she lost her son Ames at 22 weeks and 3 days gestation. They found this out by going for a routine ultrasound and saw that Ames had stopped growing and no longer had a heartbeat. Of course, it was heartbreaking to say the least. Anytime someone loses a baby, much less, one that has been so long in the making…
Since that time her goal was to reach 24 weeks so that her other twin (daughter) Simone could grow and develop. She was able to make it to the 24 week mark last week which gives the chance of “viability” at 85%.
However, this morning she started having contractions, her water broke and now she’s in the hospital giving birth to both of her children - one a live, one not.
Hearing this news was quite upsetting this morning as I read it before we were off to Rochester for our level II ultrasound. All I could think of was how scared she must be and how I wish her daughter is strong and survives. Please send your prayers and thoughts to their family.
As we were leaving our street I realized that the trashy guy (who is maybe 25), lives two houses down, drinks, parties, has the cops at his house weekly, kills neighborhood cats, has two kids already (2 different mothers) - has a pink, blue, and white balloon on his mailbox. I’m guessing once again - he’s procreated.
It’s horrible to know that people who so badly want to be parents and do everything to have a healthy child are having such a hard time and others that don’t take the responsibility seriously can mass produce.
Life is really unfair.
December 20, 2007 at 5:44 pm · Filed under Actual posts about being moms, Rants
The social worker just came out a few minutes ago and finished doing the homestudy needed for me to adopt Graem. It’s so bizarre that we have to get so much in place in order for the adoption to occur.
I’m constantly shocked that straight people can pop out kids every 9 months and not have to go through any of this bullshit.
Okay - rant over.
September 28, 2007 at 9:33 pm · Filed under Random stuff from the Information Superhighway, Rants, Things I really shouldn't talk about, but do anyway...
To this webpage, I mean. I get on MyBlogLog every now and then to stalk our stalkers. Yesterday’s searches (some of which are disturbing):
- two year old crying for an hour and a half (we have one of those)
- evaporation lines (sure, we’ll talk about these)
- pictures of old horrible houses (we have one of these, though not technically ‘old’)
- january 2006 stale (we probably have some of this…but we haven’t found it yet!)
- enchilada clip art (interesting…)
And most disturbing of all:
- po_op hole pics (I hope to god we don’t have any of these!)
I hope our pagerank goes up in any case… and that all of you out there searching for something find it. Except for the last one. That’s just gross.
September 28, 2007 at 9:12 pm · Filed under Rants
From the NY Times:
The White House pulled out all stops today to reinforce the message that, as Mr. Bush put it, the United States will be “good stewards of the environment” while also meeting ever-increasing energy needs. A White House “fact sheet” declared, for instance, that the United States has invested more than $2.5 billion in clean-coal technology since 2001, and that the administration is committed to helping to build more nuclear power plants without compromising safety.
With latest increase request, the 2008 spending on war is going to reach $190 billion. For one year. And we’re supposed to be proud of having spent $2.5 billion on clean-coal technology in the last six years?
September 11, 2007 at 12:14 pm · Filed under Rants
Margot was in the basement last night and realized that one of the pipes was leaking. I think that’s why our basement might have started smelling funky. Come to find out we ended up losing a few games and even a few books of ours got wet.
I called the plumber and he was able to make it out this afternoon.
Who would have guessed that plumbers make a good $90/hour?
Yowzers. Maybe I’ll be a plumber when I grow up.
