This has been a very strange month.

We started out pretty rough, with Audie’s tumor removal needing new stitches and it just got crazier from there.

Thankfully, he is all healed now and acts like nothing ever happened. Unfortunately, I think he might have another growth that will need to be removed in the near future (if anything, to ease my mind) — we’ll be monitoring it to see if it grows etc… Dang Staffie genes!

In addition to dealing with his extra stitches, my Dart decided to act up again. This time, it wouldn’t start without another car to jump it every morning. Turns out it was some sort of electrical module that didn’t tell the battery that the car was off, so it would drain it every night. This same module was the culprit behind my Bluetooth not working either! (That problem had been going on for about a year prior and since it wasn’t detrimental to it’s daily use, I didn’t want to fix it before–Dart is paid off and 7 years old, it was bound to have some issues).

Miraculously, we only had to pay a small deductable to have it fixed at the dealership, thanks to a Mopar warranty we didn’t realize we still had. Truly, it was a blessing that it didn’t cost us more since we drained any sembalence of our tax return for Audie’s surgery.

But the crazy didn’t stop there.

We had spring break at the University so I enjoyed a week of relaxing at home, but then the Corona virus came to town and the University has gone to only online classes. Since I am considered to be more “at risk” than others with this pregnancy, my bosses thought it was best to have me remain off campus until further notice.

I am still currently furloughed without pay from work. It’s been a challenging couple of weeks to say the least. We wanted to see how one income would be anyway, in case I decide not to go back to work after Baby Waid is born… I just expected a couple more months of a paycheck to cushion that choice!

The Mister has also started working from home four days/week so it’s nice to see him during the day. At least his income won’t be affected (go Army!).

We are currently still on the house hunt so that weighs on my mind too. It’s a very frustrating process. We have put in a couple of different offers, but because of the super competitive market, we haven’t been able to land anything.

Now with PCSing in/out being halted by COVID, I’m anxious to be done with this whole process. Sadly, nothing in our price range recently has screamed “buy me!”. However, it is still a little early in our timeline. Hopefully, something pops up soon that feels right.

We made our very best offer for a place we really liked that was $10k over asking and the seller still countered someone else’s offer. Our realtor doesn’t understand why either. We really don’t know what more we could have done. It was a very depressing blow.

In other, less depressing news: Baby Waid has reached the third trimester. I can’t believe how fast this pregnancy seems to be going. I swear, it feels like I just found out. He’ll be here in less than 3 months!

This month we did labs, had a glucose test, and got to see his 28 week growth ultrasound. His heart rate was 140 (further proving that old wives’ tale wrong). He’s been kicking away regularly and likes to keep his hands by his face.

We’re to the point where we’ll be having appointments every two weeks from here on out. With this virus going around like wildfire, I’ve been told some appointments will be done over the phone. I’m not sure how that will work, but we’ll see.

The Mister can’t come to our appointments now either, per hospital precautions. I am really nervous that if this continues, they’ll keep him away from the delivery room. Truly hope this virus peters out by then.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we will be having a baby shower any time soon. Not only are stores low on supplies, but only those considered essential are remaining open.

Social distancing is also being encouraged, so no groups over 10 people and a six foot breadth between each person has been recommended to “flatten the curve”. This Corona thing is pretty scary, but with a little common sense, it should fizzle out quickly.

April hopefully will bring some semblance of normal. Fingers crossed.

Until then,

Cheers!

-A. xoxo