Missing family

I always miss and think about family, but it’s times like these (solo parenting at almost 29 weeks pregnant) that I miss them most.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m really enjoying our time here in Switzerland, it’s really like a prolonged vacation.

So last night Henry departed San Francisco at 5:15pm our time and these are the times that I get most nervous.  I mean I knew he’d be on an airplane for 13+ hours with no way of contacting him.  Our good friends here in Lausanne are on ‘holiday’ in Monoco and 2 of our babysitters have left and our other babysitter went to France for the weekend.  There are a few other contacts we have here, but 1 of them is a mother to 3 little girls and her hubby is in Russia for work.  GAH!  So around 6 pm I decided to put the boys in the bath so they could play and enjoy themselves (rather them rushing them out).  They’re in the bath and all of a sudden I get these horrible cramp/contractions/I’m not sure what they were.  It was so uncomfortable that I was sweating in pain/fear.  The thoughts going through my mind were: “How am I going to get these boys out and dressed,” and “Who can I call if I need help?”  Well I decided to let them play for a bit and I sat down and ‘rested’ for a bit, that didn’t help.  Eventually I got the boys out, lotioned, dressed and so on.  We came to the living room and I put my feet up for a bit while holding T and the pain subsided for the most part.  Gosh it was scary though.  This really has me thinking that we need to get our emergency plan in place.

I’m interviewing a potential nanny this Wednesday that can help out a bit when the baby arrives…let’s hope she’s a fit!

On another note I’m having these BH contractions that are crazy in that fact that my entire belly gets contorted into a soccer shaped mass – it’s insane!

Well on a better note; Henry had a great first week of school and daddy is on the train expected to arrive home in 1 1/2 hours – YAY!!!

Have a great weekend!