32 weeks and Ron Paul

 I asked Camille to take some photos of me at 32 weeks so we could document bump #6 for Kashann.  Most of the pictures were just bump- not much Kashann.

 I finally made it to the heavily anticipated 30 week mark. That is when they said they would ultrasound and re evaluate the bed rest. My ultrasound showed a healthy baby but of course still an abruption of the placenta. Just a small blood clot remained but there was also some fresh bleeding in the uterus. No idea how that could've been caused at my activity level. I went home pretty disappointed after having my fingers crossed that I would just get to live it up the last two months.

So I am still pretty much on bed rest. . .now until the end. Or I would say 37.5 weeks should be far enough along to not worry about getting things moving. I don't think I will start any running program until postpartum but I would love to just not worry anymore every single time I am on my feet.
Starting at 29 weeks I've had contractions. In the five other pregnancies I never had ANY early contractions/braxton hicks so it was pretty scary and got me back in bed for a couple days. But it's easy to get relaxed again after a couple good days that all is well and have a day or two where I overdue it again. It's so hard not to.

 In some ways I have gotten pretty good at just watching others work. Brent backed his car into the woods the other day in our back yard after a rainfall and then couldn't get out. He had all the kids out pushing him out. I felt bad for him but couldn't help laughing and thinking that would be a great place to retire the old Buick.

We finally got to see Ron Paul live at a Town Hall Meeting in Nashua, NH. He doesn't stick around to shake hands like Mitt does and we were disappointed. 

His audience has a lot of wackos in it. I found one of the craziest (I missed getting her blue lycra spandex in the picture) and asked if Brent could get a photo with her. 

Brent had his third paid vacation week of the year. Paid means we pay employees all week for not working and we make Zero. Besides going backward financially, we loved the week. All the girls were in school and for the first time a week vacation really felt like a week vacation.  Brent got involved in so many projects around the house. He is planning his deck, fixing some siding, installing a new wood stove, packaging up over 500 lbs of wheat, beans and oats that he decided we need in our food storage. Lots was started but little was finished (he didn't get much help from me)  but we had a good time also sneaking in some lunches, a little shopping for furniture and a vehicle for 8 -(no luck still on the vehicle but we did find a couch), and even a town hall meeting. For now Brent is supporting Ron Paul and I am on Team Mitt. I loved what Ron Paul had to say but it just makes more sense to me to support the one who is most likely to win. Plus, he kind of won me over the last time when he greeted me like an old friend.