Where to begin?

It has been a while since I posted, but life happened. I guess life happened before my last post, I just didn't feel like writing about the insane life we were living at the time, which has continued of course. Sleepless nights, never ending homework and studying, working, cooking, cleaning, caring for your child and being pregnant. It just gets overwhelming thinking about it. The thing is when you are married you are in it together. You feel each other's stress, heartache, disappointment and excitement. My sweet hubby has had some rough months and that has been hard on all of us. School is crazy and very demanding, but when you herniate a disc and can't move it is impossible to even do school work. Then you fall behind, and playing catch up is so fun when you are still in pain and drugged up (NOT). Yep, that was our life the last few months. It meant that I did everything by myself including taking care of Tristan, in addition to my work schedule, home demands, and Everett demands (who is one demanding child). Which resulted in my bleeding for weeks and in and out of urgent care, doctors visits, and freaking out most of the time that I was having another miscarriage (which is more scary at 17 weeks than with the last 2 I've had at 6 weeks). Of course when it rains it pours. Tristan's back had been out only 5 days when I started spotting one night after arriving home from work. Luckily that phase is over and everything was fine with baby when we went to the 20 week ultrasound. Tristan is still rehabing his back. We found out this week from the back specialist that he herniated a disc that pinched his sciatic nerve and that was why he was unable to move for 5 hours on the floor. We had to have him medically transported in an ambulance to the ER. Oh what a day. Then came the withdrawl symptoms from all the medications they had him on. After only 5 days his body went nuts when he stopped using the pain meds so he could study. He had to postpone 2 test due to all this. SO of course we have been playing catch up. What does that mean? IT means I help him with his homework since I already have done nursing school so it can get done faster and he can study for these tests. When do I have time to help him with his homework? At night after Everett is asleep, so I stay up all night helping him. Oh exhausting so glad I am done with school. We had one colossal disaster when he missed passing a test by 1 point. That set us back even more. But after last night, we are finally past those 2 tests. Now he has lab tests this weekend. I can't wait for this semester to be over at the end of January. I can't wait for his back to be better. I am still rehabing my ankle and foot that I tore all my ligaments in back in July. I can't wait to exercise again and not have a deformed foot. Boy we are a pathetic family. I am so lucky we have good insurance because one of us is in a doctor's appointment or physical therapy appointment or picking up a prescription constantly. But the important thing is we keep on going. We have just kept out noses to the grind. Sometimes the stress is overwhelming but for the most part we just take it one day at a time.

Looking forward to the holidays. I worked Thanksgiving so it hasn't really felt like the holidays yet for me. Can't wait for Christmas this year where Everett will hopefully be interested in opening presents and I can be at home with the fam. We had a few small parties for Everett for his birthday as he just turned 3. I plan on posting separately about that soon. He is such a joy and his hilarious personality is what kept us laughing these last 2 months. They were not bad times, just busy and sometime stressful times. But that little boy just knows how to make you laugh and keep you going.