Giveaway winner...and an oops

Thank you to everyone who entered my scarf giveaway, and all of you who checked out Connected in Hope. It really is a great organization that helps so many people. And on top of all that, they sell beautiful scarves. And your money is going to a great cause. Win-win.

So without further ado, the winner is.......

TheCatholicScienceGeek!

Congratulations! You will be getting an email from me shortly with information on how to receive your beautiful scarf of your choice :)

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So... I just logged on to my blog email to send TheCatholicScienceGeek an email and realized that my blog email account hadn't been pushing messages to my phone for weeks. Weeks and weeks. It hadn't even occurred to me, and I barely ever check it on an actual computer, so tons of messages have sat in my inbox, unanswered. 

If you are someone wondering why you haven't heard back from me, well, that is why! I am so sorry! I will try to start returning emails soon, but with the back-up - and with the very rare occasion of simultaneous naps for all three children to allow me computer time - it might be a few more days before you hear from me. Maybe the weekend. But I promise I will answer you. 

Speaking of emails I just found in my inbox, there were two from a producer for HuffPost Live, the Huffington Post's online news network, asking if I could do an interview for a segment they were doing for National Infertility Week (which was, what? Last week?). 

Oops. 

I sent a message tonight apologizing that I never got back to them, and was secretly relieved I didn't have to do the webcam interview. Because I would have had to. You can't pass up the opportunity to talk about your journey as a Catholic woman who struggled with infertility. That issue is never, ever, ever discussed on mainstream media. At least I have never once seen it. It's as if we don't exist. Not that they would have wanted me to talk about that, but I definitely would have. I could have mentioned Church teaching, NaPro, that we treated my disease, how it can be isolating as a Catholic dealing with infertility... all that good stuff.

So, opportunity lost. Oh well. Maybe there will be another chance at some point. 

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And because I can't post without including a photo of one of my babies, here's my little chunker. All 14-and-a-half pounds of her.

I know what you're thinking. That doesn't sound like a lot for a four-month-old to weigh. But she's by far the biggest baby I've had. She's actually approaching the 50th percentile for weight! Clara and Luke barely ever cleared the 5th. No chubby baby thighs in this house until Essie and I'm loving it. Look at that belly. And those cheeks!

Two out of three of my kids are crying, so off I go. Congrats again to the giveaway winner!