Time flies and I stay behind

Where have I been? I should've been posting about my attempts to follow through with my resolutions, and complaining about this and that and how I can't believe we are practically half way through the third month of this year, blah blah, blah. (which is true, time is flying-but I digress). Unfortunately, I was in the hospital last month. It all "started" late January, little pain here, little pain there. Extreme pain here, soreness there. Then, pain will not cease,  I start throwing up one night, and bam end up in the emergency room. I'm thinking they'll give me something for the pain, follow-up with primary doctor, and life goes on. NOPE, I need surgery. My gallbladder is swollen, I have gallstones. Ok, easy surgery no big deal, will be home in a day or same day. But like anything with me, it's not so simple. I end up with an infection, blocked ducts and liver issues. My one day stay turns into 8 days, two surgical procedures and a very SLOW recovery. If my life were a movie, the tagline would be "why does it have to be so complicated?" The worst part of it all I  miss time away from my son. I miss his first Valentine's day, his six month birthday, I miss many firsts, his first fruit, etc. Eight days of not being with my son, and then once home, two more weeks of not caring for him. Not being able to hold and comfort him after getting his immunizations... February pretty much sucked.
I'm still recovering physically, emotionally and mentally (not to mention we are recovering financially) and February is a distant memory... and I can't help but think "it's only March?!" Ah perception, it's a funny thing..
Until next time, "deuces y'all" ;)

How long has it been?

So much has happened since the last time I posted, and not only has time passed but major events that make the previous posts on this blog feel like a lifetime ago have occurred. I meant to write about all these major events but of course these events got in the way and I never got to write about the experiences. So what am I talking about? Well. in January I found out the "impossible" had happened. I was pregnant. After discussing fertility issues with my partner and deciding to try treatments after our wedding- it happened before we had even announced our engagement; and so in January I became engaged and pregnant. We decided to move up the wedding before the due date since I knew I would want to focus on the baby once he would be here and so the crazy, stressful, memorable, hectic (shall I go on?) wedding planning began. Fast forward to May and the love of my life and I became husband and wife. Fast forward a few more months more and in August we met our little miracle baby.
Anyway, a summary of what has happened in the last 8 months is not the purpose of me blogging again, but it is to share my feelings and experiences that I am now embarking on.  Being a wife and a mother was never really in my book. It was just something I never saw myself doing, too busy with future plans that involved school, finishing and getting my dream job. The idea of being a mother went completely out the window when in 2010 my doctor confirmed what I always suspected- I had fertility issues. By then I was with my love and was liking the idea of having a family of my own, just to have that dream pretty much torn down. But I digress- God gave me what I secretly always wanted but publicly and very vocally always denied and rejected. And so now a wife and a mother I encounter what I've never really been good at "real life." I've always been great at being a student, a book-learner,  but always (in my opinion) been socially awkward, and not so good at being a "student" of life. I'm used to calendars,  schedules, lesson plans, books, Straight As and perfectionism, which "real" life (and a newborn) has no room for apparently.  Thus, I figured that it was time to get this blog started again and share this new path I am traveling on.

Enjoy!