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Thank-Full

We have a lot to be thankful for this year. So many changes have occurred. This time last year we were just getting the electricity working again after two months without! Things were starting to come back to life, but the shock waves were still pulsing.

Walking on a “beach” this time last year (2017)

Beach sunset with Baby Aeden this year

In the year that followed we continued to clean up from the mess of the hurricane and then I became pregnant for the first time ever after many years of trying! It was a wonderful gift but also very taxing on me, and Britton. He had to take care of the whole property and also help me. During this time, Britton’s father became sick and died and that was very hard on us because we are so far from the rest of the family. Additionally we started the flower business and continued to push forward.

My sweet baby!

When Baby Aeden was born right around the anniversary of Hurricane Maria, we experienced a sigh of relief that was short lived. Only 5 days after he was born I became very sick and was hospitalized for nearly 2 weeks out of the first 3 of his life. In a very short period of time I came to understand how precious and yet fragile life really is. I am so grateful to still be here in this realm with these two loves: Britton and Aeden.

Britton and Aeden at the beach

We spent Thanksgiving with our friends Missy and Ben and their family as well as other great friends who have helped us through this very tough year. We are so grateful to them. I don’t know how we could have managed that without them.

Thanksgiving dinner

Delicious food on fancy china!

Baby’s got to eat too!

A visit to a neighbor’s tortoise

So beautiful!

Climbing palm trees!

Baby hanging with the big kids

I love Thanksgiving because it gives us the opportunity to step back and reflect on what we are truly thankful for in our lives: our family, our friends, and our beautiful, precious and fleeting lives. Our life is full of thanks!

PS: Baby Aeden is now over 2 months old and doing great!

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Out and About with Baby

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Out to a Mexican Restaurant in Aguada…he is not so sure of the whole thing!

Life with baby can be somewhat exhausting. He’s a good boy, but he still needs to eat every 2-4 hours even in the middle of the night which leaves us pretty worn out. We are starting to get the hang of it, though and have started to take him out and about with us around town. We are getting much better. We’ve had a few diaper blow-outs and had to find strange places to breastfeed, but overall, he is just sort of our tag-along and it has been fun to have a new sidekick in our adventures.

With friends Frank and Rosa at our first time back to Art Walk

At the beach

With our friend Tom in Isabela (on the table)

With friends Bill, Jenn and Liam

With our neighbor Julio at the farmer’s market

At a photoshoot on the property with friend Laura

Of course it’s not always easy!!

At Rincon of the Seas

At beach parties

Halloween (with our little magician!)

Silly Mommy and baby!

Me and the bebecito

Overall, he just sort of is with us pretty much everywhere we go and we love him so!

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Re-establishing a New Normal with Baby!

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Not long after my discharge from the hospital (about one week), I began to feel very sick again. I soon felt weak and faint, could hardly breathe or walk and started to develop another fever. We ended up going back to the emergency room at Mayaguez Medical Center and I spent another week in the hospital with major hemorrhaging from placenta that was still retained even after having a D+C the week before. I lost so much blood that I needed 6 more units transfused for a total of 8 (the human body only has about 10!). Suffice it to say that it was a very scary time for us.

I am not sure we have fully processed that ordeal, but we are now looking forward to re-establishing a new normal as a family of three.

Britton and Aeden

Now we are happily trying to deal with the lack of sleep, feeding and changing schedules and the sheer confusion that comes with an infant instead of worrying about life and death issues. Thankfully, I am recovering quickly and am beginning to enjoy going outside and even working a little more in the gardens -something I hadn’t been able to do much of at all throughout the pregnancy.

“Hey, Momma, more boob!”

“Ok, enough with the pictures!”

We have mostly just been recuperating and settling in at home, but we have made a few voyages off the compound and we’re getting better at it.

A visit to the ocean

Enjoying our new normal at the finca -Aeden’s 1st month picture

And poor Kitty feels like he’s playing second fiddle, but we still love him! 🙂

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Catching Up: Baby Shower and Out and About

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Boqueron for my Birthday

Life sometimes just sweeps you down the river and you hardly have a chance to pop your head up out of the water. Life events (and death) and mostly this pregnancy has taken us down all sorts of strange and stressful paths that has led us to dropping some of the balls, including keeping this blog up. While I have a moment I thought I had better at least share a few catch up photos from the last month or so.

Near Wilderness in Aguadilla