2007 really?

OK I started this blog on June 25Th 2007 which I might add is over 4 years ago?

So I have included a page from July 20, 2007 done in a 8x8 versus the page I last did July 27 2011 in 12x12.

So if I looked at my life in 2007 and compared it to my life today what is different?

In 2007 I had three kids. Andrew who was 17, Tyler who was 11 and Quinn who was six. Today Andrew is on his own with a two year old son. Tyler is 15 and back after a really rough 18 months and the an addition six months away. Quinn is ten and lives with her father after a pretty nasty custody battle which not only did I lose I lost in a very big way.

What I didn't have in 2007 what the hope of ever having any more children in August 2007 Wayne and I gave up on fertility treatment as we had invested all the money we were willing to into that rabbit hole.

On February 26 2008 I found out I was pregnant and on October 29Th we welcomes Scarlett into out family. However when she arrived she was the only child we had at home. When she was five months old I got pregnant again only to have a miscarriage in the end of May. Before Christmas when "Scout" would have been born I got pregnant twice more only to have early losses. Each loss was diagnosed as something non repeatable and my doctor actually said I had a combination of bad luck and old eggs.

After 2009 dealing with my loss of custody and the loss of three babies 2010 started off with another positive pregnancy test and my son Tyler coming home. In early September Bla Bla Bla the Third joined our family, under the Nick Name Beau because really who needs two Waynes?

This year 2011 again started with a big surprise ANOTHER positive pregnancy test? OK after ten years infertility before Quinn was born and seven years before Scarlett coming around this hyper fertility was blowing my mind. Especially since Beau was exclusively breastfed and I wasn't supposed to have to worry about getting pregnant. I can honestly say that I finally got pregnant sharing soap with my husband! So here we are waiting to welcome a new baby girl to our family in early November this year.

Things that are the same as before? My husband, my house, me, our lack of money, my love of scrap booking. When I think about then versus now it is always the kids that come up. When I made my scrapbooks for them I always thought it was for them in case something happened to be me after all Aunt died when she was 39 years old, I never imagined they would be the ones gone.

Coming soon the life of a crabby pregnant scrapbooker...