So, It has been several months since I've updated this journal. Its actually been that long since I was on this site. Oh well, real life takes precedence over anything online.

So, life is going well. My daughter is under going a series of development assessments and that has been quite the challenge for me. I know in my heart that she is doing fine and that nothing is wrong with her but to have so many people come to evaluate her even if it is only as a precaution, I can't help but worry. I guess that is what being a mom is all about.

My next frustration is not knowing how to cope with the issues of my current pregnancy. It is so different from the first one its weird. I normally suffer from eczema. This pregnancy it has gotten drastically worse and there is nothing I know of that I can do to help. The doctors can't give me anything cause the usually solution is steroids. Those are off limits due to the pregnancy. The other course of action is loads of lotions and creams. Those are not seeming to work anymore and I'm running out of options. I am scared that the dry skin will continue to get worse and worse through the pregnancy (which has 28 more weeks to go) until there is nothing left of my face and arms but scars. I'm not vain but I don't think I could live with myself if I was horribly maimed, especially if it is my face. The next course of action is to try photo-therapy (tanning regularly) and then on to acupuncture (did I mention how much I hate needles).

So onto other things. We currently have living with us, two twenty-something girls who really are more like teenagers, and a mopey thirty-something man who needs to grow up. I will say that the house is never boring and almost always has something going on.

I planted trees in my front yard and it seems I am the only one that can water them so when I forget, they go thirsty. I really hope they have taken good enough root to survive this winter. If they die I will never hear the end of it and may not be allowed to get new ones.