My Crazy, Beautiful Life

I know I just posted an entry and it was already about Anabeth's birthday, but I'd like to do another going into detail about her birth day. I had a relatively easy pregnancy, but for the last 4 weeks or so, I had contractions every day that would get minutes apart and then stop. I went to the doctor a few times to be told nothing is happening and went to the hospital once. Finally 4 days after my Christmas due date on December 29th, I was going to be induced. I was told to call at 5:30 or 6 in the morning and they'd let me know when to come in. As you'd likely expect, I didn't sleep much at all in anticipation of having a baby and when I called, they told me to come right in. We arrived around 6:30 I believe and between 7 and 7:30 they'd started the pitocin. The contractions got more and more intense and I was progressing very well. About 11 hours later, I made it to 7 cm and stayed there for 3 hours. The nurse came back in after the 3rd check and told me I was

So, it's been quite a while since I've done a blog entry, but felt compelled with Anabeth's 3rd birthday to reflect. It's so hard to believe that she's 3 now and come from the top picture to the bottom picture! Even harder to believe is how much I love that little girl! She has sincerely taken me through more emotions than I ever knew possible and taken my heart out of my body! So, at this time 3 years ago, Matt and I had only been parents for 12 and 1/2 hours. It was still quite a surreal thing for me to be a mom and I was still very unsure of what to do. I have to say that the unsure part doesn't seem to ever go away, but I am more confident in my parenting ability today than 3 years ago! I must be doing something right to have such a beautiful, sweet, and smart girl. Granted she can give Matt and I a hard time, but she is a great kid overall and most people have still never seen her bad side. So her birthday went a little like this... She went to school as