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| We've moved and not to our tropical island. *sighs* One day though... We are now living in San Antonio. I'm typing this in the dark on Neal's laptop in our hotel room on base while Kaitlyn is trying to sleep a few feet away. I think she's play snoring. LOL... She's such a nut some times. I can hear Neal on the phone in the bedroom. These's walls are to thin. A few moments ago I was hearing the neighbor kids being a bit to loud. Anyway... Since being here we have found a house to buy and now just need to get a pre-approval letter from Wells Fargo. We did get pre-approved through USAA, but the house we want to buy was foreclosed by WF so we have to go through them. What stinks is they are our bank, we tried to get a pre-approval letter from them once before, but they wanted our life story up front so we gave up the hassle. If we had pressed on we would have an offer in on the house right now. The owner of the house lives in CA. He bought the house brand new three years ago to be a rental. The good news with that is a disgruntle owner didn't destroy the house when moving out. However it is really dirty. I don't think the people wiped their feet once when walking in and out of the house. Mind you we are a family who doesn't wear shoes in our house so the carpets will stay cleaner longer and we shampoo it 2-3 times a year. There's a few minor things that will need to be fixed (like two door frames) up front, but otherwise the house looks good. We had Kaitlyn's 2.5 birthday party last weekend. It went really well. We plan on having her a half birthday party every year rather then one on or around her birthday. For those puzzled as to why she had a half party she was born on Christmas Eve. Yes I know having a party on May 23rd really wasn't her half birthday, but it was as close to it as we could get before we had to head to San Antonio. You can check out more of what is going on with us at my other, more faithfully updated blog 4 Pure Joy. | | |
| I was just thinking of Antonio and wondering if anyone has heard from him. Antonio how are you and your wife doing? I'm supposed to drive to San Antonio this week or next to look at some houses. I'm now wondering if that is a good idea. I have to go though. We need a place to live when we move there in a month. | | |
| Yes, yes, I don't blog here anymore. If you want to find me just check out my blogger account 4PureJoy. Over the last 3.5 months we have moved out of the UK. Neal is in Georgia going to the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). While he is there Kaitlyn and I are staying with my parents in Texas. On January 19th Kaitlyn had hip surgery. She had a hot pink cast put on from her chest to the toes of her right foot and down to her left knee. Most of her body was covered by the cast. Five weeks later, on February 25th, she had her second surgery to remove pins from her right hip. Her new cast goes from her chest down to both knees. She has recently started getting around a lot. My parents bought a tricycle as a gift for someone else, but Kaitlyn quickly took it over. It became her second set of legs. Today she was so thrilled about walking. She got of the bed several times after I changed her diapers today and said, "I walk, I walk". LOL... One of our big changes, well our lives are going through a lot of change right now, but one change is where we will be living for the next few years. I know we said Guam before leaving England. However after meeting with Kaitlyn's doctor in January we learned we must stay here at least one year. He didn't say if the year starts with her first surgery or when she get her last cast off. I'm guessing it's when her cast comes off and her brace put on. He said she will be wearing a brace for a long time. If you want to know more about that you can head on over to my other blog. Oh, where we're going... I almost forgot. We are headed to Lackland AFB in San Antonio. We should be there until Kaitlyn is cleared by her doctor which will be in 2-6 years. I have to admit to being another year older this week. Yuck! I think I will just sleep the day away.  Actually I think the day calls for a mani/pedi, and a new haircut. | | |
| Yesterday, a pediatrician Kaitlyn saw on Wednesday called saying the x-ray shows she has DDH. You can read about it here. I'm still numb from the news. Sometimes I just have to ask if we will ever get a break. No you can't have more kids and by the way, the one you have is broken.  | | |
| I know I don't normally talk about this on here, but for now it seems like as good a place as any. I was talking with a friend yesterday and it brought back all the feelings I've worked so hard to suppress. Today I found myself swallowing hard as the familiar pressure in my chest threaten to suffocate me. I can feel it now. Don't worry, I don't have health problems; not exactly. The pain in my chest is caused by the knowledge that all the fertility treatments I have done since having Kaitlyn resulted in negative pregnancy tests and that we are done. The pain is triggered by emails saying "so in so" is pregnant or had their baby, by pregnant women waddling around me, or by the movie I watched today where the 16 year old mother gave her baby up for adoption to a family who had tried fertility treatments three times and failed (just like us). I'm not sure how long the pain will last this time, but just like after learning our last treatment failed, I feel like my body is grieving even when I don't realize I'm thinking about it. For those who are lost in what I am saying you can check out my long post on the subject here. I'm not sure which is worse being upset when someone has their baby or being happy when someone else doesn't get pregnant; both cases have happened. | | |
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