Some Good News....

First, almost everyone is better now. I feel better today and all the kids are fine except Monkey1, who stayed healthy the whole time we were all sick and then came down with our flu-like virus starting yesterday. Poor thing!

Second, DH got a promotion at work! Like a really huge deal big wig promotion. He is very excited - they are finally putting him exactly into the kind of position he is *perfect* for and it is something he is really interested in. Now, he works for a bank, so the pay increase wasn't quite as dramatic as the promotion was LOL! But still - it will mean more money each month, enough that I can cut back a bit on my hours at work I hope! I'm very excited for him!

Third, I had another OB appt yesterday and Gamma Ray is doing FINE. Heart still just beating away. I am amazed. I have to admit that this pregnancy really does NOT seem real to me. I haven't felt this way about any of my other pregnancies before, but I just really didn't expect little Gamma Ray to make it. In spite of feeling so sick and nauseous and exhausted, I just keep expecting them to tell me the baby didn't make it.

Truly, this baby has survived in a way that can really only be called miraculous - I mean, let's not even talk about the fact that it shouldn't be possible that I am pregnant at all right now based on the timing of things, but the mere fact that the baby survived without progesterone in the beginning is amazing - when none of my other babies could do that. Then, the baby survived the lithotripsy. And the general anesthesia. And the X-rays. And the narcotics. And my blood loss since then due to bleeding kidneys. And the flu bug from Hell and the high fever... I mean seriously.

I think this baby really MUST have Super Powers - or definitely friends in very high places! [Thank you St. Benedict!]

Hopefully Gamma Ray will start to feel real to me soon.... I guess it better! Because he/she is coming regardless of whether I think the baby is real or not LOL!