APRIL

Catching up with April…



This was a very busy month! We started the month with a week in Berlin. We were invited by the Fulbright Kommission for a weeklong conference. We had a wonderful time seeing the sights, walking the city, and sitting in on seminars. We were even addressed by the Mayor of the city.

Just after our return I was lucky enough to have my wisdom teeth removed. I have to admit that it was probably THE most terrifying thing I have ever done. I had all four removed (which by the way is absolutely unheard of in Germany), two were fine but two were impacted, I only had local anesthesia/ novacaine (so I was able to hear and see EVERYTHING), and when they started to take out the impacted ones I could feel it so they had to stop and give me more novacaine. Of course, to top it all off I couldn’t understand what was being said to me so my wonderful translator sat in the room the whole time to help me out.

Thankfully, I was back to normal soon after to read a positive on a pregnancy test. We weren’t sure what the procedure was in Germany so as soon as we had the positive at home we went to the doctor who confirmed the pregnancy with an ultrasound. We found that we were 5 weeks pregnant and the baby was only 2mm but even then we could see the baby’s heartbeat. It was amazing to say the least! We are very excited about our little one and will keep everyone up to date.