I am alive!  I know it seems as though I fell off the face of the earth, but I haven’t.  I have just had a child.  That’s all!  So as you have probably heard, Maisie Rae arrived on December 3rd!  She was bigger than expected at 7.98 pounds and 20.47 inches long!  She is a mini Justin and is the most precious thing I have ever seen. The birth was…interesting.  Yes, painful.  I had an epidural (the kind that they re-administer every time it begins to wear off).  You can also walk around with the epidural I had.  I could feel a bit of the contractions, but I could feel the pressure of Maisie wanting to join the world even more!  It was quite painful, but an amazing experience that I wouldn’t trade for anything.   Maisie was wide awake and ready to explore the world right when she came out. …

Ha ha.  I tricked you.  You thought I was going to say that our new arrival is a baby, but it isn’t!  She is still cooking.  But what did arrive today is our internet!  We have internet after a lonely long two months of waiting.  We can finally communicate, whenever our little hearts desire, with our family and friends!  YAY!  I guess everything is going to come all at once for us! So you want an update about the baby?  I will give it to you.  She is as healthy as can be.  I have had two doctors appointments in the last four days where they thoroughly checked and monitored all that could be checked and monitored.  The ultrasound showed her being somewhere around 2.8 kilos (just above six pounds) and we are praying that they are right with how little she is (for obvious reasons that I won’t go…

Today I, Jennifer Rae Powell, broke my tooth while eating Lebanese food.  Honestly.  Why was there a seed in my hummus?  I don’t know.  Seeds don’t belong in hummus, yet there was one in this batch.  Sometimes, I just have to ask, "Why?"  I mean, as if I don’t have enough to stress about, this has to go and happen. I have been patient with the water leaks in our apartment, which are going to cause someone to come and rip the walls out, leaving a tore up home for probably months.  Not to mention that Justin will need to do all the French translation and insurance dealings to get this fixed. I have been semi-patient with not having internet service during a time in my life where it is very important for me to be in touch with family and friends. I was finally feeling okay and content with…

I went for a walk the other day with Justin.  Well, we pretty much walked around the corner to a restaurant.  As I walked in, I was applauded by the bartender.  I don’t know if it was because I was the hugest pregnant person he had ever seen, or if he could tell I had just accomplished the huge task of walking around the corner with a sciatic nerve problem.  Either way, it felt good.  Tonight Justin and I needed to check our email, so we walked around the corner again (really only about four blocks) to go to a little cafe right by the restaurant we had been the other day.  The walk there was fine.  It took us about 15 minutes to walk there.  I am sloooooooow these days.  As I was getting up to leave, I realized the pain had just tripled what it had been.  I…

Yes, here I am, five days PAST the little princess’ due date.  I can’t believe she is already pulling this princess attitude.  Serves me right.  I can see that she is already following in my footsteps, wanting things her way without the care or concern for other people.  It is true.  I used to be more selfish.  Don’t worry people, she has hope.  I do finally believe the world doesn’t revolve around me.  It was hard to grasp, but I now know the truth. I was really hoping that my next blog post would be pictures of the baby, but oh well.  Instead, you get to hear what I have been up to for the last couple weeks. 1. I have something called sciatica.  This is where I have an awful pain in my sciatic nerve that makes it near impossible to walk even to the bathroom.  This is not…