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Welcome, Baby A.

  On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...

Lunch Date at Famous Toastery

I finally got the time, no, actually, real motivation to upload pictures from my phone to my PC. I also finally took the time to organize them (so get ready for more posts haha). So here's today's post. There aren't many dining options in the town we live in, though quite a collection of eateries in the city where hubby's company is in. Last month, March 2nd to be exact, we went to visit one of the newer establishments in Fort Collins - Famous Toastery. Hubby has already been there once or twice with coworkers before. It was my first time. I was in town doing my once per month pet grocery. On my way back toward the West side of the freeway, I called hubby (I really enjoy today's smartphone/sync with car technology) and asked him out on a spontaneous lunch date. What can I say? Sometimes I'm spontaneous like that.  From the outside of the building, I thought it was more like a quick grab-n-go sandwich type of eatery. I was wrong. This is a sit-down style res...

Swiss chard update April 5

So my chard plants started out pretty well (germination rate was very high) but I thinned down to only 3 plants (also lost many due to damping off). Currently, I would say I only have two plants with one of them going strong and the other, well, let's say I hope the other one will catch up soon. The third Swiss chard plant suffered from an unknown cause of near-damping off signs so I try not to have too much hope for it. This third plant, I nicknamed it "little red" (for red chard) has suffered from stunted growth, stalk occasionally fell over, and I actually gave up on it by about the third week in March. Each time the stalk fell over, I added more soil because it always seemed like there wasn't enough to hold it. I think it was by the third time it fell over, I decided that was it. I dug it up and noticed one part of the stalk under soil was soft and actually was bent over. No signs of pest or disease. I'm not sure why and how this happened but I'm sure...