Slivers and Silver Linings

Today is one of those days that I would have rather avoided, and hoped didn't happen.Though it could be worse. We took Lincoln to the vet to get his hip checked out since he has been favoring it for a while. We started to notice him favoring his hip right after he got his Rabies booster shots, and attributed the limping to the shots. When it didn't go away within a few days, and he was meowing when he'd try to get up from a laying down position, we figured he may have pulled a ligament or strained a muscle from climbing and jumping my moms 6 foot tall fence, it made sense that this could have happened, so we were kind of waiting to see if it would get better, and then with the move, and waiting on Marks student loans to come in more time passed, and here we are, just now getting our cat into the vet.  I have known for a while now in my heart that something was wrong, more wrong than just a sore muscle. I feel like i'm naturally kind of intuitive in this way, I've ...

 We live in a tucked away two complex town home that has a dirt road leading back into a dead end. It’s pretty private, there’s one other unit that we can see from our front room window. Both the town homes have two town homes per unit. So total we have 3 neighbors. We didn't know if we should go and introduce ourselves or not. It’s hard moving to a new place, and meeting new people. The times we'd seen our neighbors they didn't seem interested in chatting with us, so we just exchanged a wave or a hello once in a while when our paths crossed. That is until one Friday night mark and I were living it up, watching a Netflix marathon of Malcom in the Middle, when there was a knock on our door. Both of us looked at each other a little surprised. We don't know anyone, so you know... we opened the door with caution. A collage aged girl stood there, and introduced herself to us, she was one of our neighbors! Mark and I were thrilled to meet her, and to have someone...

Hey little man, Today marks a significant life changing moment in mine and dad’s lives. A year ago today mom took a test, two little lines showed up, very, very faintly. Those lines let me know we would be expecting you. See, I had been anticipating that it would take us much longer to get a positive test, because when I was younger, around 13 years old, I had an emergency surgery after finding out my appendix had been ruptured for three days. The doctors told me the infection was pretty bad, and had spread into my reproductive organs, they said I would have around a 70% chance of being able to have a baby. I hadn't given this much thought until dad and I had started thinking about having a baby. I decided to ask google, which is usually not a good idea, because Dr. Google usually has a lot of scary things and all that I found from other people who had similar surgery’s from having ruptured appendix were pretty negative. I feared I wouldn't be able to have babies at all ...