My Birth Story by Ryan

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My Birth Story

Since my recollection of one week ago today is much different than Mommy and Daddy's, I thought I'd let Mommy do a guest post. *** Here is the story of how Della Jolee Rau came into the world, from her mommy's eyes... Last Saturday night I went to bed around 11:30 and started getting really sharp pains in my very lower back. I'd been having a sore back while sleeping for the past couple weeks, so thought nothing of it, especially since it still went away when I got up, went to the bathroom, and went back to sleep. But I was up a lot more that night than usual, and the pains were worse than usual. I finally got up again at 5:30 Sunday morning and just stayed up because I was annoyed with waking all the time, and by then the pains had moved around to the front to be super low cramps. It almost felt like even my hip bones were sore they were that low. So I showered, threw in some laundry, and did a little cleaning, all the while thinking I could just take a nap and catch up on sleep once the cramps subsided. Good thing I shaved my legs in that shower too, ha! ;) The cramps got more intense, but stayed very randomly spaced, so the last thing I was thinking was labor pains - I just thought I was going to have diarrhea at some point that morning (sorry, gross I know). By about 8 I woke Ryan and just said I feel like crap with these cramps and didn't get any sleep last night, so I might have to call the doctor this morning to see what's going on. Of course right away he thinks baby is coming, but I was still not even considering that and just thought I was about to poop any second. I finally called the doctor at 9 (I had to get my chores done first!), and the on-call doctor called me back at 9:15; my regular doctor was on vacation last week and into this week, of course. So I explained to her what I'd been feeling, and how now I'd started having some bloody mucous. That had tipped me off that I *might* be having some labor signs with all this, but I was still totally thinking it's just cramps, nothing more. So she said if the contractions get stronger and are about 3-5 minutes apart for an hour to go ahead and go in to labor & delivery, or if I start having heavy bleeding to go in. As soon as she said "contractions" I thought wait a minute, I said I'm having cramps, not contractions! Anyway, I told Ryan what she said, he said, "I bet this is the start of it", and he went to shower up and continue to snooze on the couch while we waited. At 9:45 I was sitting on our futon, since it was the only…

Back on My Pulpit

Please please please people.  There is a time and place for brain dead television vegging but things have gotten way out of control. I can't believe what passes for TV these days.  The brain dead, no talent fools that are famous only because we, no you, are the ones telling lack of creation Hollywood execs that this is what passes for entertainment because you watch it. Please don't do it anymore! I've made my point a thousand times that the world started swirling down the toilet with 24 hour TV.  24 hour sports.  24 hour news.  24 pet shitting.  COME ON!!!  I will guarantee that if people would get out more and interact on a human level things would get better immediately.   Watch TV, it's fine.  Just watch more history and learn about our country and the people that gave their lives to give us what we have.  They didn't sit on a couch all day to make their mark on history... they sat on the couch NEVER!  Granted there was no TV for most of them but their down time was spent debating and thinking with friends and FOES!  Often the friend WAS the foe, and it was fine! Everyone's time now is spent watching people on TV that... well I don't even know what they are.  No talent, no brains, with no reason to be acknowledged.  I'm starting to relearn all I forgot in history class, please do the same so we can be the awesome country we were in those history books.  If not we are going to turn out like the movie Idiocracy. The last 10 years we have taken a drastic turn toward it.  My one voice will do nothing, we are on our way to Idiocracy if we all don't act. We are no longer a nation of innovators and thinkers. We're a nation of regurgitaters and followers.

I’m Gonna Try

I've said I'm back to blogging before but that really didn't happen.  Life has been busy and blogging wasn't really on my list of priorities the last three years.  Well I see a mini light at the end of the tunnel.  I'll have less projects that involve required weekends and nights after work and more time to enjoy some of my many hobbies.  I can get back to cooking more, tinkering without care for the final result and most, MOST important, time with my new baby girl.  I'll try to get at least one post in a week to remind me and my baby of the life that I'm living and share the happiness that she will undoubtedly bring me.  I'll start by trying to get a new theme for the blog some time soon.  So, hopefully, iRau.com is back!  I missed you.