I am not typical.

I saw a week full of posts that made me think "I could never write that" and I realize that is not a bad thing. Here's my story:




I was born in Fort Worth Texas on June 20, 1986. I was premature weighing 4 lbs and 14 oz. I did not go home with my Mom or Dad, I instead went home with my Great Grandmother, Great Aunt, and Great Uncle, All the way to Missouri. I grew up living in the same house as my older brother but neither parent. My parents weren't married, but that was for the best.

my sister, my brother and me

 

I am one of three children from my mother. I have a brother 3 years older and a sister 1 year younger. I called my Great Aunt and Uncle MawMaw and PawPaw, but they were more like parents. I am not sure if my friends ever knew that I didn't live with my parents. I never really mentioned it. I was never sure how to say I lived with my mother's aunt and uncle. It just seemed strange to me.

I dropped out of high school after I failed to accumulate enough credits to graduate. I got my GED in 2006 and went to SouthEast Missouri State University. I left after a month because I had been ill, later I found out it was ulcerative colitis.

I spent a lot of time at the "band house" for my brother's band. I got to be good friends with all the members. Through that I met Jeff, the brother of the bass player. We started dating on December 16, 2006 the day after our first conversation. We moved in together one week later.

We found out I was pregnant in July of 2007. The due date was March 20, 2008. We had a baby boy on October 20, 2007 he has almost 20 weeks along. His name was Gabryel, he weighed almost 3 ounces and was 5 inches long. He was born sleeping.

Gabryel's Ultrasound

 

We decided to try for another baby, it took 8 long months of trying before we found out we were pregnant again. The due date was March 13, 2009. We got married on October 8, 2008 in my sister in law's parent's house. It was the same day we found out the gender of our little bubbs. Another boy was on his way.

 Our "wedding" day.

Aedan Luther was born via emergency c-section on March 5, 2009 at 6:30pm after 12 hours of labor. He was 10 pounds and 22 inches long. He was amazing, he was so big they had to find size 1 diapers instead of newborn and they struggled to find a hat that would fit his head.

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Meeting my baby boy

In March 2009 we found out Jeff had stage 3 colon cancer. He went in for surgery on April 23, 2009 and I was essentially a single parent. Jeff had his large intestine removed. He had to be rushed back to the hospital on April 29 after he had a rupture and went septic. I almost lost him that day. I raised Aedan by myself for the second month of his life.

 After Jeff's second surgery. He was sedated for 24 hours.

Today Jeff is at the hospital getting pre-surgery testing done because Thursday he is getting his *hopefully* last surgery. They will remove his ostomy bag and reattach his small intestine to his rectum. We are never going to live the normal life but that's okay with us, as long as we are together.

I will be home with Aedan for the nearly two weeks Jeff is in the hospital, so there may not be any updates here. I will try to keep everyone updated, but Facebook is the best place to check.

Wordless Wednesday "before and after"

What did I do this weekend? (Well my hubby helped)

There are NO good pictures of me from the last few months.

Pretty good for two people and some hair clippers.

Starting Seeds *edited*

Today I started seeds.

• 5 Pumpkin
• 5 Watermelon
• 10  Homestead Tomato
• 5 Purple Dragon Carrots
• 5 Nantes II Carrots
• 5 Greek Basil
• 5 Bouquet Dill
• 10 Yellow Pear Tomato

Jeff bought me a Seed Starting Kit., it's like a mini greenhouse. I planned on planting in the garden last Monday but we haven't had rain (until last night) in over a week so digging was impossible. We are going to head out in a bit and see what kind of change we have after rain last night.

I do plan on planting seeds directly into the soil to compare to the ones in the seed starter. We have tons more stuff to plant. You might ask where the extra seeds came from, in the last post I didn't have half that many. Well I am reviewing some Organic seeds from Cubits Organics. They sent 7 packs and I am hoping to get everything planted. If you want to win 7 packs of seeds for yourself enter at In the Mommy Business HERE and I will pick a winner Wednesday.

Hopefully I will be here later posting about how well planting went, but lets not hold our breath.

**It is now nearly 2 hours later and we are all finished making the garden plot. Now I just have to get out an plant the seeds I am putting out there. Jeff is off with his step-dad fixing our car, so I have to wait until he gets back to go out. (unless I feel like chasing Aedan instead of planting) I am using my time to map out what gets planted where and hoping all this works out for us. I am excited to see how it goes.

***and another few hours later we are done planting what we are going to plant for now. The rest of what we have to plant is in the seed starter.

Now time for pictures of the best gardening team. ( I promise there will be a better entry and pictures of me later)

Spring/Summer Project

I am starting a garden. This was decided today while at Lowes with my husband. We took his mother to buy some topsoil and I was drawn to the seeds. I picked some Tomatoes, Pumpkins, and Watermelons because 1) I love tomatoes 2) pumpkins will be nice for Halloween and Thanksgiving and 3) watermelon and Summer to hand in hand. We also got a cute little Grow Your Own Garden Kit for a "mid-summer edible garden" that includes Garlic, Onions, Potatoes, and Strawberries. Jeff's step-dad gave us some garden tools, we didn't have any since this is our first planting season in our own home.

I was raised by my Great-Aunt and Uncle and Great Grandmother, they had a garden every year, they grew tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, strawberries and okra. I miss going out to the garden and eating fresh picked strawberries, so we are going to have that for Aedan.

Tomorrow we are going to clean up the soon-to-be garden and do our planting, all of the seeds are April-June planting season in may area. I am very excited to start this project and I am going to do my best to keep track of things on this blog.

Our Easter

We had a long day yesterday, I just want to share a few pictures of my Aedan.

Our day started with a small egg hunt in our house.

A trail of eggs led to Aedan's Easter Basket.

He got a nice little basket from us.

He got to munch on a chocolate bunny.

Then we went to Grandma's with the cousins.

He got another basket there.

Then we had an egg hunt outside Grandma's house.

After that we went home and had family and friends over.

It was a good day.