Wow, it's almost been a year...

I can't believe it's been so long since I have updated this! This year has been the busiest, craziest, most challenging, most intense year of my life and I pray that it remains the hardest year of my life. I khow that if that is true, that I am blessed because I know things could be a lot worse. But, for me, this has been an INTENSE year, to say the least. No matter what people told me, I really didn't expect this for an intern year...maybe that is a good thing, though. Would I have done it had I known what to expect...I'm really not sure. But, here I am, 7 months into it and I'm surviving! Jeremy and the boys have experienced a good amount of stress as well secondary to my schedule but hopefully no unrepairable damage has occurred. It's funny how a field that supposedly puts so much emphasis on being compassionate and empathetic can treat it's tranees so horribly. I would love to be part of a radical change to hopefully do away with this unecessary hardship one day. But anywho....in the midst of all this chaos, somehow we have managed to create another life to bring to this world!! I am now 16 weeks pregnant with our third baby. We are really, really excited about it. We have always wanted a big family...this may be a little sooner than we had originally planned for our third baby but we are excited nonetheless. We have decided to wait until the birth (like we did with Jude) to find out what the sex of the baby is. I have the nicest and smartest OB ever and he is a big time expert in maternal fetal medicine so I am looking forward to the birth and I trust that things will be managed well during the birth. I am due July 20th and I am praying that I carry to term this time. It's funny because I want this intern year to fly by but I don't want the pregnancy to fly by...but I think intern year ending fast wins out. ;) I will post some pics of the baby at 7 weeks gestational age soon...and on 3/1 I will have my long US so I will post those too. Keep the prayers coming....I am taking it day by day and by the grace of God, I am making it through.