It's been over a year again since I've posted on this blog. In fact, it has been so long that I forgot my password! I've been browsing a lot of different blogs lately, and decided that I really need to get back in the habit of posting on my own blog. There are several blogs that I read on a semi-regular basis, and I like to go back and catch up on what's going on with those folks, so.....just in case anyone reads my blog, maybe they'd like reading an update about me.

Practice is humming along quite nicely now. Usually I have about 4-5 births a month, although this July and August coming up are busier than usual, for whatever reason. I have a nice balance of home births to birth center births. I haven't crunched the actual numbers, but the balance is about 40:60 to 50:50. Just about right. About 80% Amish. I just really enjoy working with Amish clients. Probably part of it is that it is my heritage--my grandfather grew up Amish, and I grew up (and still am) Mennonite. But I also think that part of it is that they accept that life happens. You get married, you get pregnant, you have babies. Pregnancy is sometimes uncomfortable, but it is a gift from God, and as well as the discomfort, there is joy in being pregnant and welcoming a new life into the world.

Other than being as busy as I care to be with being a midwife, I am struggling with getting a daily routine in place so that my house doesn't fall to pieces when I have a busy stretch, and my husband and I don't starve because neither of us is motivated to cook good meals. I'm blessed to have a husband who is willing to help put food on the table if I've had an especially busy day or if I just plain don't have any ideas for what to cook.

We've lived in this house for about 16 years now, and it shows in the amount of clutter that I've allowed to accumulate, so that's another issue I'm struggling with. I want to give every room of my house a very deep cleaning and purge a lot of my "stuff." I'm a packrat by nature, so it's been difficult. My sister is a lot like me, and we've been taking turns helping each other go through our stuff. It is so much easier to release things when someone is there giving you encouragement. I've really been enjoying our purging sessions.

More later (how long, who knows?) :-)