Life sort of got the better of me...

I know I haven't blogged in a long while. At first I was just too exhausted to do much of anything. Clay has reflux. It is under control now, but it took a long time to get here. He used to cry most of the the day and throw up repeatedly. He wasn't sleeping, and neither was I. I was still not doing well from the heart trouble I had during pregnancy and not sleeping was not helping it much. My mom came out for 3 weeks in April to help, and then my friend Dorothy came out for a week and a half at the end of April, beginning of May to help. I can't say enough how much I needed it. Just having another adult around to hold Clay for a while or to let me sleep was so wonderful. Then we had the Palmer Family Reunion. It was a great week and that was the turning point for Clay. We went to the specialist a few days before we left for North Carolina, and he changed the dosage of Zantac and put him on Mylanta too. It made all of the difference. He started sleeping through the night on that trip. Slowly, but surely, we have started to get to some form of normalcy. Clay now sleeps pretty well. He still has the reflux, and throws up regularly, but he doesn't cry near as much. He is not hurting all of the time anymore and is actually happy most of the time. I am starting to feel like a real person again, and my heart is starting to settle down finally.

Anyway, that is my excuse for not blogging. I've also been discouraged because we had pictures of Emma's 5th birthday and our family reunion, and our camera died. I can't get any of the pictures or video off of the memory card. I am afraid that they are all lost and I am very sad about it. Not having pictures of the last few months sort of took the wind out of my sails and gave me another reason not to blog. No one wants to just read words when they could be looking at pictures too. We do have the pictures that the professional photographer took at the reunion. I guess I'll post some of those. I'm also going to break up the posts so there won't be one monster one for everyone to read.

Thanks for listening to my rambling explanation and for your patience.