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I’m back… well, sort of.

Posted October 6, 2006 * Comments(4)

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Hey Y’all!!  I’m back… kinda.  We’re officially on vacation and we’re going camping tomorrow, so I have a bunch of stuff to do before we head out tonight to our church to meet up with our other Buddies.    But I wanted to stop in real quick and shout hello to you.
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That “other thing” that shut me down for three weeks turns out to have been a pregnacy “fake out”… that’s what I call it when my body decides to exhibit all the early symptoms of pregnancy  and then it turns out I’m not expecting after all.   I can almost say that these past 2-3 weeks were THE MOST EXHAUSTED  I’ve been in a real long time… if not in all my life!  I was literally at the brink of tears last Thursday.    My precious daughters weren’t so accomodating when Mommy needed a nap.  Next time, (if there is one) I’m just going to tell them of my suspicions, and we’ll all get through this together.
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So my weight loss goals weren’t derailed, but we’re slightly detained.    I haven’t been able to cleanse in 3 weeks.  In fact, yesterday and today is the first time I’ve cleansed in nearly a month… at least it feels like a month.  I haven’t checked my measurements, and my weight has only fluctuated a pound or two during this time, so I’m glad I haven’t started packin’ it back on, you know what I mean? 
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The really, REALLY good news is that I’ve talked to my midwife and apparently this “fake out” thing is not all that uncommon.  In fact, in the absence of blood tests to compare my hormone levels, I’m VERY RELIEVED to say, that I may not have experienced as many losses as I previously believed.  Well, the first one was unquestionable, but since 1998, I’ve had 5 more experiences like these past 3 weeks, (two of them just last year) so I was under the impression that I had 6 miscarriages   … which dealt me a mighty blow, and is partially the reason I got as big I did.  So, since I can’t prove it one way or another, I’m much more comfortable with concluding they were “fake outs” over repeated baby losses, any day. 
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So here I am, finally getting back to “normal” and we’re about to head out for our 9 day celebration of Sukkot, or The Feast of Tabernacles.  We will build temporary dwelling places outdoors and have lots of food and fellowship, worship and studying the Bible together.
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The girls and I are completely stoked about it!  I spent 10 1/2 hours braiding the older girls’ hair so we won’t have to worry about that, and now we’ve got to braid the little one’s hair (that should only take about an hour and a half), then it’s on to some house cleaning, cooking, and packing to do. 
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I’ll officially be back after next Sunday, and I’m SO looking forward to getting back on track with my goals. 
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I hope you all are doing well.  I’m very sorry but I absolutely have had no time to keep up with everyone’s blogs.  To try to catch up now seems to be an insurmountable task with the camping and planning for homeschooling after vacation ends.  Please forgive me, but I will try to just jump in and pick up from there.
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A few of you have sent me messages to check up on me and I really appreciated that.  I’m really feelin’ the love. 
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OK gotta go pack.  See you all when we get back.
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