Home at last

We came back yesterday from our two week vacation and we were finally able to move back into our house after 7 long weeks away. I guess I never realized how important having a routine is for our family until now. We are back home, R is back to school and we’re both back to work, things are exactly the way they should be and it feels so good.

The trip to Azores was great. It was actually much better than I expected and I’m so glad that the doctor let me go. The island (we only visited S. Miguel, one of Azores’ nine islands) is absolutely stunning, the weather was beautiful, the food was delicious and the company was great. I will be going back to Azores for sure.

On the pregnancy front things are also good. I’ve managed not to gain too much weight during our trip and am now up a total of 15.5 lbs, which sounds quite reasonable. This is helping a lot with making this pregnancy more manageable than the first one, and I’m still feeling pretty well, at almost 31 weeks. We’ve decided to start unpacking R’s baby stuff this weekend to try and have everything ready before the surgery.

Speaking of which, there is still no definite date for the surgery and we were pretty successful in our determination not to stress about it during our vacation. We’ll start thinking about it once the doctor comes back from his own vacation and decides to set a date.

That’s all. Here is a belly picture, as requested.