Wow, I haven’t blogged in so long! It’s not that there hasn’t been anything to write about. I’ve just been busy and let the time get away from me. I’m sure you know how that goes.

The Internet tools I’ve been using to help monitor my dietary intake and exercise have been very helpful. So I decided to share these tools with my clients. Most of my clients have found them very helpful, too. I will post some links to these tools in the near future, but I want to write up some guidelines on how to use them first because the sites are not specifically geared towards pregnancy. So there are a few things I need to explain before recommending them for use during pregnancy.

Yesterday was my husband’s birthday. We had planned only a simple celebration. We were going to attend church with our daughter Jessica and her family and then all meet at our house for a Sunday dinner. Larry is also a huge Dallas Cowboys fan, so he planned to watch Dallas play the New York Giants later in the afternoon.

I woke up early Sunday morning, and I had just put a roast in the oven when my apprentice Mercy called me with the news that her client Susan was in labor. We had made a trip to the valley just the day before for a false alarm with this same client. Usually when we get called out for false labor, we don’t get called back for at least a couple of days. So, I had figured that this meant Larry’s birthday celebration would not be interrupted this year. Larry had told me that he thought it would. I told him he was just being pessimistic, but he said he was just being realistic. As it turned out, Larry was right after all. I’m thankful that my husband takes these kinds of interruptions in stride. He is always flexible about when we celebrate family events. And that’s a good thing, since a midwife’s life is subject to such interruptions almost all the time. So when Larry heard what was going on, he just smiled and said, “I told you so.”