Well, it has been many years since I posted anything here and in that time a lot has happened. I do hope to get to post here more often now, but I guess that will depend on life. So, please, life, let me do this!

Here are the bullet points of the past 5 years. I will probably try to get in some more posts with some more details as I go, but for now I will just share the highlights.

After my pituitary surgery in July 2018 my hormones returned to normal and the tumour was gone. I will be followed for that to ensure it does not return for 10 years. The follow ups include annual blood tests and MRIs. I found out at my 5 year appointment that I will be doing these tests every two years moving forward because everything has been stable since surgery. YAY!

In 2020, I found out that I was pregnant with my fourth child. Then, the world ended, essentially. Just over a month after finding out I was pregnant the whole world shut down due to Covid. It was a very difficult time, everyone struggled. For me, I was struggling to “homeschool” my 3 children at the same time as I was trying to come to terms with the reality of having a fourth baby. It took some time for me to get used to the idea that I would have another baby and for me to decide that I was happy about it. She was born in October of 2020 and I am so happy that she is a part of my life.

Throughout the pandemic we tried to keep our children on track with their schooling which proved to be more difficult than I could have imagined. With my children in immersion, learning in a second language as they were learning their second language, having them home was very detrimental to their learning. We spent the at home learning time just trying to navigate the schedules – three different classes with three different schedules which often overlapped online learning time as well as a new baby who needed all of Momma’s attention. This will be several posts in the coming weeks as there is a lot there that we all need to unload in order to move forward.

Now, we are trying to catch up on everything that sort of went awry during the pandemic as well as trying to potty train a three year old! It is never boring.