Sunday 7 February 2010

Preparing for baby ...

wow, I think this is the longest I've gone between blog postings, but I'm back. I have been decidedly unmotivated about taking photos or doing anything creative since Christmas. The start to the new year wasn't exactly stellar. Sadly my father-in-law passed away on December 27 and Andy flew to England on December 30th to be with his mom. He came home January 16th and I have to say, the 17 days he was gone felt much longer. During the time Andy was away, the pain I had been experiencing for months in my right shoulder/arm escalated, making for many sleepless nights. Thankfully, I returned to a work on January 4 to a voicemail message from the sports medicine doctor's office, confirming my first appointment on January 26. Finally, hope was on the horizon! After reading the results of my shoulder arthrogram and undergoing some strength and resistant tests, Dr. Babins gave me his diagnosis: I had a frozen shoulder complicated by a 1 - 1.3 cm full thickness tear in my surpraspinatus muscle (one of the 4 rotator cuff muscles). To relieve the pain, he administered a cortisone shot, and gave me some light stretching exercises to do. My follow up appointment is Feb 25 and we'll see where we go from there. So that explains where I've been for the past 5 weeks!



Now for 2 pieces of most excellent news!



1. Lyden and Erin have set the date for the wedding - August 28, 2010. They have the church and the reception venue booked. Erin accepted my offer to make the wedding invitations; last weekend Erin decided on the design, and she and I worked up a prototype. We plan to go shopping for the supplies soon.


2. Rachel and Tyler are having a baby in June and just this week, the sex was confirmed - the baby is a girl!! I'm just a little more than thrilled .... I had been cruising all kinds of baby related websites for months now and saw so many cute ideas that I could make for a girl. One of the ideas I came across, was to embellish store bought baby standards, like these "onsies". Today I went through my fabric scraps and added the little bunny and the bird to the onsies my mom picked up for Rachel in December. What a simple way to kick up the cuteness factor!

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