Adding to a ring...

Posted by Susan , Wednesday, June 5, 2013 8:30 AM

This blog is a place for me to reflect on the variety of my life.  The three rings are: family, work, and personal.  I'm committed to keeping the three moving and grooving in equal measures, but perhaps not in equal times.

One of the parts of life that Marty and I are working on right now is family.  As history, we will celebrate our 4th Anniversary this August.  We've been together for 6 years.  We parent three lovely children that are the product of his first marriage which ended with the illness and death of his wife.  Sometimes I call her my predecessor because it feels weird to refer to her as his first wife and me as his second... but that's just words. 

The children aren't my "step" kids; they are my kids.  Sure, they call me Susan; and sure there are some things I don't get as a parent that come when you raise a child from day one (my patience is a bit thin, etc), but the world knows I am their mom.  And, if you ever doubt it you should witness what happens when one of them is wronged.  Full. On. Mama. Bear.

I say we are working on family because we are.  We had an unplanned, but so very wanted pregnancy in January.  It ended as a missed miscarriage and was devastating.  I don't think I've every cried so much as I did that month.  Even now, tears well in my eyes.  The emotional fall out is something that signaled to us that we really did want to add to the family ring of life; a baby would be a blessing in our lives.

It seems that now the monitoring of my body and the processes therein as well as the preparedness that I feel I need to achieve are nosing to the forefront of my focus.  My new hobby is obsessing on my uterus.  Weird and too bad for my school work... Baby.... Comps....Baby....Comps....Baby.... Comps...

Baby.

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