Welcome Home Meredith!
Sorry for the delay since our last post as we really haven’t had much go on since last time.
The Tille Family had a little reunion late on Friday night. Meredith came home after being at G-ma Pansegrau’s house in Tama for more than a week, including Easter Sunday. Becky and Katherine (Angela’s Mother and Grandmother, respectfully) drove up to River Falls late on Friday night after work. The trip from Tama to River Falls is about 5 hours when Meredith is on board. Thank you so much to Becky, Katherine, Debbie, and anyone else who helped out with Meredith during the week. Meredith learned a few words while at G-ma’s. “No.” and “No?” have been popular. Other favorites include: “cheese,” “cookie,” “dirt,” and we’re working on “please.” “Yeah” has been her favorite. She had started screaming when she didn’t get her way just prior to going to G-ma’s. She seemed to perfect that “skill/habit” while she was there. G-ma says that Angela didn’t do that when she was little, so I’m not even questioning that she’s getting that spirited attitude from me. Even with the screaming, we’re so excited to have Meredith home for a week or two.
Angela and I really had mixed feelings and emotions during the week. We really hate leaving Meredith behind. With our “free” time, Angela had a great chance to get some rest and I had a chance to get some things done around the house. Now that we have the carpet in the basement, I’ve been trying to move everything back in to the basement from the garage during the week. Our basement has been stored on one side of our garage for more than a year. It feels like forever. I made some real progress this week. John (a neighbor from the sac (cul de sac)) gave me a hand and helped me move my desk and bookcase back inside. I finally have my home office back. I needed that so bad.
The weather was also really nice here this past week. We finally have some of our plants in our garden coming in. We really spend a lot of time and effort on our yard and it’s good to see it start to come in. That will be referenced in our new website graphics when they get updated. I’m told it will be very soon. We did a ton of planting last year for the first time as our house is new and all the landscaping is new too. We’re really excited to see what comes in. It’s been really dry here and today is the first time it’s rained in weeks. The grass turned green overnight. Ang and I grilled out a couple times this week and we sat outside for dinner. That was really nice. It was good to get a little time for the two of us.
Angela has had a little trouble resting as its getting difficult to roll over and she’s starting to have hip pain from laying on her side so much. She also feels that she’s having a little insomnia on top of the other issues. A little good news…the nausea that took over her life for several months and led to several hospitalizations has seemed to finally subside. I hope I just didn’t jinx it…
Angela and I go back for another ultrasound on Tuesday for more baby measurements. Based on what they see compared to two weeks ago and how she’s generally feeling, they will either give her one more week at home or keep her there until she delivers. We should have another post up in a couple days once we’ve learned what the next step is on this journey.
Until then…