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So...over a year after my last journal, I'm finally updating! I know it's long over-due!

So...delivery of my second child went well. He was born healthy and well. I got through everything better than I did my FIRST child's birth! But after I came home...well...things went downhill for a bit. My kitty, who I had had since he was 4 weeks old, got into some poison and died my first full day home from the hospital. That ROYALLY sucked. He was my baby before I had human babies. Between this stock account, and my main stock account, you can see him in random pictures...he liked to join me while photographing. A year later, and I still miss him a great deal.

After THAT, my computer DIED on me! One piece at a time! By the time I got it back, about a YEAR after the first failures started (about 3 months ago now, admittedly, life's been busy!) the only things that were still original were the tower casing...the CD and DVD drives...and the USB ports! EVERYTHING else has been replaced. Thankfully, the friend who did all the repairs and replacements backed up everything 4 DAYS before the Hard Drive failed. So...as soon as I can get back to sorting through things and making packs, I've still got stock to upload! From over a year ago. Haven't really had the TIME to do new shoots yet, though. I figure I'll work on that once I have the old stuff up...or when serious inspiration hits!

Other than that...life has been life. Hubby's been going from temp job to temp job. I've been working with my dad, cleaning houses after re-modeling jobs on them are done. The kids are growing. Now 3 1/2 and 14 months old. They're great little guys, though, and great brothers, who love eachother a lot.

Anyway...that's the update I've been meaning to get around to for the last 3 months!
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Any day now...

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I could vanish for a little while any day now. The new little one is due in a week. It's hard to believe it's snuck up on us so fast! So if I totally vanish for a few weeks, this baby is definitely the reason! We know he'll be coming soon. He's dropped, and I've had a few sets of false contractions the last few days as we've had some SERIOUS low pressure set in with nearly constant rain storms. I can feel that we're getting close...even if close could still be another two weeks. *laughs* I'm excited, and scared, and nervous, and happy, all at once. We've nearly got the house done, and I've gotten through 2 of 4-5 boxes of Nicolai's old clothes pulling out the things that will fit the new little one when he arrives, so we're nearly completely prepared. Really...all I've got left to do that will need to be done by the time he gets here is to get the baby's carseat into the car properly, and get the bassinet set up. Really, we're pretty much as ready as you can be to add to the family. And this go round, while it's bad that the hubby hasn't found another job yet, at least he's home when he's not at class or job hunting, and there'll be no need for him to call INTO a job and tell them he can't make it in today because I'm having the baby. That's one less phone call he has to worry about making once we get to the hospital! I'll try to remind the hubby to log into my accounts and update my journals once the baby is born, so that everyone knows that everything is going well. ^-^
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Well

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Today was a fair waste of time. *laughs* I spent time today doing a 2-part stock shoot...the first using the timer myself, the second telling my husband when to take the photos...and only just now, after downloading all 157 photos, found that the last time my son was playing with my camera he changed the image size setting on me...so all the images are useless as stock, they're too small. So I get to do it all again tomorrow and the next day with the hubby, and hopefully in two weeks with :iconrldstock: Ah well...I had fun getting ideas and fiddling with things, so tomorrow should go MUCH smoother...and I should at least have the help of my husband the whole morning and part of the early afternoon.

I am going to upload what I did today in my scraps here, though, so if anyone wants to, feel free to look at them there, and tell me what poses or things you'd like me to try and get again at a usable size, ok? If I get any from the re-shoots tomorrow that are close to the ones in scraps, I'll link to them in the scrap deviation once I get them uploaded (hopefully this weekend for the stuff I'll be taking this week).

Ideas, suggestions, and requests are still very much open, too, from now until the baby is born!
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Update. ^-^

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Well, it would appear we're having a boy. ^-^ And our official due date is June 18th. ^-^ I am going to force the hubby to help me take tons of pregnant stock from now until the baby is born. I am NOT wasting this opportunity this time! So...any suggestions, ideas, or requests let me know! I'm open to pretty much anything people can come up with so long as I don't need to buy anything to make it work! I've a few ideas myself, that I'll be working out more fully in writing tomorrow when I'm more awake, lol, and starting on at least some of them over the next 2 weeks. I'm not very big yet, but showing enough you can tell I AM pregnant, so I figure I'll start now, and re-do the ones I, or you guys, want with me showing more once I am...or re-doing what I can until I run out of time anyway. ^-^

Just some general info here, I will be doing solo stock of just myself, 'mommy' stock with my son (when I can get him to agree to it, lol), and couple stock with my hubby.
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Isn't it? Earlier this year my husband and I were hoping for him to get a 'permanent' job with health insurance so we could start trying for our second child. As things went, we're still waiting for that while he moves from one temp job to the next as soon as they end, just to keep money in the house. Because of this, we decide that even though we wanted a second child before now, we'll wait, and see how things go after his current temp job.

We're careful, not wanting to add to a family we can barely support living like this, paycheck to paycheck, job to job, borrowing money from my in-laws to be sure that bills are payed, and there's food and diapers in the house, and that our son has season appropriate clothes to wear that fit.

And yet...we are now officially expecting our second child. I'm beyond sick...pretty much all the time. Some days it's so bad that if I try to move from either sitting, or laying down, I spend the next 15-20 minutes in the bathroom dry heaving. I was never this sick with Nicolai...I'm exhausted, trying to keep up with a 2 year old, not eating enough because of the nausea, and just the normal tired that starts to set in with the hormone changes. I just don't remember being THIS tired with Nicolai, either, until much later in the pregnancy.

I find myself often wishing I had listened better to my mother, and her sisters, when they warned that once you have your first (in our family at least) all it takes is your husband LOOKING at you to get pregnant again. *laughs* Obviously that's an exaggeration, but not much of one. When my parents got pregnant with my baby sister, they were using 3 forms of birth control, and nothing had happened to affect any one, let alone all three. I know I've at least 2 cousins that were conceived through strict birth control, too. So, yeah, I should have taken those warnings more seriously. Given that with my baby sister through 3 forms...well...obviously the only 100% sure thing is to not have sex at all...

My husband and I are both feeling blessed, and worried. We want this baby...we just didn't want it yet. So we're doing all we can to be ready, applying for aid for at least the medical end of things so that we aren't only going in for checkups when we happen to have the 'extra' cash to afford it. Pregnancy is too important to treat that way. And we're hoping that Bran will get good news on a job, and soon.

What does this mean for my DA accounts? Well...until I can work on something for more than a few minutes without feeling like I am going to vomit, my art will come even slower than it already is. For my stock accounts, it means that there will be much pregnant stock coming in as soon as I am 1: showing, and 2: feeling well enough to do the running back and forth to the camera to set the timer, and pose and all that lovely stuff...or just well enough to pose if :iconrldstock: or another friend who has offered to photograph me, or my husband, are available to be my photographers. So...if there are any pregnant stock requests, please feel free to make them. I'll see what I can do about doing photoshoots to fulfill those requests.

It also means that once I finish my current 'to do' list I'll be re-opening my commissions, with slightly altered rules, and prices, and such. And no, I'm not asking for donations. There are plenty of other people here on DA alone that need money more than I do from those willing to just give it to them. I'd rather you help them while things are still remotely stable for my family. Afterall, we do have other family members who are helping us stay afloat so to speak.

It also means a great likely hood of many fairly random journal updates as things change, in our life, and with the pregnancy because I know I have at least 1 or 2 watchers who are friends, and who care, that are more likely to get such news through my journals here than through the limited contact I have with them otherwise.
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