Waiting for the Twilight

When oh when will I be able to see it. This is a serious problem with living in der Schweiz. You never get the good movies on time. It still isn't out over here. The frustrating thing is hearing from all of you about how wonderful the movie is. Seriously give me a break. But don't, I love hearing about what everyone thinks. It just makes me a little bitter is all. The thing worst thing about it is I totally didn't think I could bear leaving Siena to watch it, but then I got my self all psyched up and decided I could do it since it would only be 2 hours. Then I found out it they delayed it coming out here. So it won't even be out until next month. AAAAHHHHHH. C'est la vie. Oh well, but please do tell me what you think and at least I can live vicariously through you until I can see it myself.

ObamAnnoying

Seriously, I thought that since I can't live in America right now, that I would at least have the benefit of not having to hear about Obama 24/7. WRONG. In fact I am pretty sure that the coverage of him here surpasses that of the coverage in America. It is borderline obsessive.
I will be curious to see if the media does it's job this time around and doesn't just give him a free pass. Unfortunately, so much of the world shapes it's opinions upon what is hand-fed to them, and not on any true factual study of the issues. The media is extremely powerful and very often only half truthful.
The world has crowned Obama as a savior, and nothing could qualify him as anything near that. Regardless that fact, he has done nothing as of yet other than winning a popularity contest. Now the hard part begins.
Despite the delusions of grandeur so many of my fellow Americans, ex-patriots, and members of human society may have concerning who he is or what he can possibly achieve, I do wish him the best and stand behind him. He is all we've got for the next 4---probably 8 years. (I'm not holding out any hope.) I grateful for his enthusiasm in jumping into the presidency. However, I am pretty sure that although the media depicts him as if he is the only new president to ever be anxious and excited to jump in with both feet, that in fact, that is how every presidency starts. After the promises he made today that he would live up to everything he said during the campaign I am highly skeptical, but all I can do is hope that at least he can live up to the good promises he made.

Not that the election matters anymore, here is one of the many reasons I didn't vote for him for any of you who care....

2 Sides of Siena

Since I know most of you won't even get to meet little Siena until she is almost a year old, I thought you should see her now. So here are a couple videos of her that show a bit of her personality. The quality on the first on is not the best because I was holding her and shooting it. On the second one I think I'm talking to someone on the phone in the background and Etienne didn't realize he was shooting a video at first. Enjoy!!!

My Life

I always swore I wasn't going to only blog about my baby once she was born, but now I realize I have no life other than her at the moment. So since this is the case and also because I keep getting requests for more piccies of the little one, here goes.

FOR JESSICA...

So a while ago, I got a cool surprise----- a comment from Jessica Lewis, a Sista that served in my singles ward who I became friends with. Anyway, I was really excited because I had lost touch with her. However, that excitement was quickly squashed when I went to look at her blog and found out she doesn't have one....SO, this is a post especially for Jessica. Here is my email address. Write me. j_3xe@hotmail.com Then get a blog, so I can spy on you too!!! And for anyone else who reads this blog (who I know), write me, or at least get a blog (so I can spy on you too)! Love Y'ALL!!

About time...

Well it seems I never have enough time these days, but really I can't complain. I have a good excuse now!!! Siena Maria Eggenberger was born on Saturday, Nov. 29th at 11:04 am after a bit of an ordeal.

For those who follow this blog, you know that I went in to the hospital on Thurs the 27th to be induced. At 7:00 pm that day they started a round of pills which continued every 4 hours through the night. This was supposed to start the contractions, but nothing came of it. That ended at 7:00 the next morning at which time the doctor came to check on me. I recieved the news that we couldn't continue with inducing until 24 hours had passed for fear of a there being a complication with the differents drugs they were using to induce me. Then they told me I had to wait in the hospital to be monitored during that time. Then next morning at 5:00 am they started me on an I.V. to try inducing me again. This time the contractions came, but after several hours nothing was happening and the doctor reccomended that we go ahead with a c-section.


So, after all is said and done, the c-section was not at all what I wanted, but I have no regrets. I look at Siena and can't help but feel happy for every day and every minute I get to spend with her.

Patience

So one thing everyone has been telling me over the last couple weeks is to have patience---which is easy to say when you don't have a bowling ball sitting on your bladder and your hoo hoo. Oh well the wait is soon to be over!!!
It's funny how your relationship to someone can change so dramatically when you see them everyday. I would of course be refering to my doctor. The aforementioned Dr. Dumb is actually quite smart--just extremely cautious and in my case I think a little suspicious. (ya know those crazy Americans!!) Anyway, over the last several visits--7 in the last two weeks-- we have gained a mutual understanding. It's either that or he is really sick of seeing me because yesterday he decided it is time to induce!! He apparently thinks I have been very patient--and yes he did say that. Really.
The long wait will be over starting today at 6:30 pm my time--that's 12:30 Ohio time and everyone else can do the math. Needless to say we are ecstatic, not to mention a little nervous, but mainly just incredibly excited to meet our little girl.
We'll keep everyone posted via my HOT Momma--don't be mad Mom--since I won't be out of the hospital for 5 days which is the standard stay here.
So as for patience, I guess it isn't all that over-rated and sometimes it works. Love you all. Wish me good luck and send some prayers our way.