As Normal As It Gets

As it turns out, blogging is a fairly accurate representation of the state of my life. Today I return to my blog, two years and a few months after my last post. My god, I think, has it really been that long. And then the significance of my last post, March 2009, hits me. It was shortly after that post that not only did my blog go offline, my whole life went kind of sideways. I was about 3 weeks after that post that my husband was admitted to ICU, rendered 100% paralyzed and unable to breath on his own due to Guillian Barre Syndrome. And thus for the next 4 gruelling months my existance became tending to him in ICU (3 months) and then rehab, as well as taking care of my 3 year old and 5 month old daughters on my own (well actually with the amazing help of our families). Two months after my husband came home from being hospitalized for 4 months, I found out I was pregnant. Go figure! So I returned to work from my maternity leave pregnant in October 2009, leaving my still recovering husband at home with our two daughters. When our third daughter was born last May, we took upon the monumental task of building a house and making an interim move for the winter. This April, we took possession of our new home and now as I type this I marvel that I have made it through the last two years, sanity relatively in tact (relatively being a key word here). Could all this really have happpened in 2 years!!
And so I return to blogging because I suppose I am feeling some sense of normalcy returning to my roller coaster life of the past 2 years. I need a venue to once again vent, to ponder, and to have some record of my experiences in this amazing journey called motherhood. I guess some of what I have been through over the past 2 years may surface in some of my posts. I wanted to start a blog just about my experiences with my husbands illness. Who knows, maybe I'll become just SO normal I will have time for that too. So here I am, back, at least for today. Hopefully it wont be another 2 years before I get to this page again.